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him, and therefore no reference is made in the " Revision " to any 

 Scotch locality for this species. The specific characters of D. castor, 

 like those of most other Copepoda, can only be satisfactorily made 

 out by dissection, but when that is done, and the parts carefully 

 mounted, there is comparatively little difficulty in distinguishing this 

 from the other Diaptomids. In the " Revision " six species of 

 Diaptomus are recorded and there are Scotch records for four of 

 these, viz. Diaptomus gracilis (a moderately common species), 

 Diaptomus batillifer, Diaptomus hircus, and Diaptomus serricornis. 

 Diaptomus castor, now recorded, makes the fifth. The sixth the 

 species not yet represented in the Scotch fresh- water fauna is 

 Diaptomus sancti-patricii, Brady, a species which has only as yet 

 been obtained " in two small tarns in Connemara." THOMAS SCOTT, 

 Edinburgh. 



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Faseiation in Austrian Pine (Pinus austriaca}. Eight or nine 

 years ago I purchased two very healthy young Austrian Pines from a 

 nursery at the foot of Inverleith Row, in Edinburgh. They were 

 planted, one at each corner of the ground in front of my house at 

 Rahane in the parish of Roseneath, on the west side of the Gareloch. 

 The soil is rather poor, being of the mica-schist formation. The 

 two trees were freely exposed to sunshine from the east and south ; 

 but a ridge of hills to the west partially shut off sunshine in the 

 after part of the day. For a time they showed equal vigour, 

 sending out long and strong branches from within a foot of the 

 ground and upwards, so much so that want of space required the re- 

 moval of some branches. One of the trees, when about eight feet 

 high, began to develop strong fasciation in its top. A strong broad 

 band, about two inches thick, began at the top, about eight feet from 

 the ground. It grew to about eighteen inches long ; and next year 

 there shot out from its tip over a dozen shoots or false tops. These 

 also began to become fasciated, giving the whole top a very confused 

 and strange appearance. The broad fasciated band had a spiral 

 twist in the direction of the movement of the sun, i.e. the same as 

 the hands of a watch. I regret much that I did not allow the tree 

 to remain ; but, as it was getting somewhat too big for its position, I 

 cut it down last September. When cut down. the rings in the stump 

 were nine or ten in number. Not having personally met with a case 

 of this kind before, I thought it might interest readers of the 

 "Annals."- W. FORGAN, Edinburgh. 



Linaria minor, L. In reply to Messrs. Kidston and Stirling's 

 query as to the occurrence of the above species on railway banks, 



