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inside it ; the amphipod was somewhat imperfect, no doubt due to 

 it having been partly digested. I have never seen more than one 

 organism in a Sagitta, nor have I been successful in observing the 

 manner in which it attacks its prey. THOMAS SCOTT, Leith. 



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Linaria minor, Z., in Stirlingshire. Replying to Dr. F. 

 Buchanan White's note in the October number of the Scottish 

 Naturalist, p. 193, as to the occurrence of Linaria minor in other parts 

 of Scotland, this plant has suddenly appeared at Gargunnock Station 

 in considerable quantity. It has also been reported to us as having 

 been found on the railway near Kippen, about three miles west of 

 Gargunnock. These are the first occurrences of the plant in the 

 county as far as we know. Is it not the case that in England it is 

 also very partial to railway banks ? R. KIDSTON and F. S. STIRLING. 



Mr. James M 'Andrew has favoured us with reprints of papers 

 published recently by himself in the "Transactions of the Dumfries- 

 shire and Gallow r ay Nat. Hist, and Antiquarian Society," on the 

 Mosses, Hepaticas, and Lichens of S.W. Scotland. Mr. M'Andrew's 

 researches have added largely to what was on record previously ; 

 and in these papers he sums up the results of his own labours and 

 of those of other botanists in the same district. Excluding varieties, 

 of which many are recorded in these lists, the species reach the 

 following numbers; From Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbright, - 

 Mosses 234, Hepatica? 102. (To these should be added Dicramun 

 spurium, from Moffat, Barbnla vinealis from Kenmure Castle, 

 Cephalozia multiflora, from Dumfries, Harpantlms Flotovianus, from 

 Glenlee and Glenkens, Scapania itinbrosa from Dairy and Moffat, 

 Nardia densiflora from Black Craig, New Galloway, and Ancura 

 latifrons from Bennan Hill, discovered in the district by Mr. M'A. 

 since the publication of the above lists.) The Lichens collected 

 in the S.W. counties of Scotland (mostly by himself in the Glenkens), 

 including some from Rerrick collected by the Rev. G. M'Conachie, 

 reach the number of 217 species, with very many varieties. The 

 papers will be found very helpful to all local students of the groups 

 treated of, and they should be consulted by all who interest them- 

 selves in the Cryptogamic Botany of Scotland. 



In Grevillea, for March, is a paragraph which will be read with 

 regret by all British botanists, announcing that Dr. M. C. Cooke 

 has resolved, because of " fickle health, increasing years, and 

 diminished vigour," to withdraw from the editorship after the issue 

 of the next number, which will complete the twentieth volume. 

 He adds " Whether some more enterprising proprietor can be found 



