278 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Species, Varieties, etc., described OP observed in Great Britain 

 and Ireland since the publication of Babington's Manual, Ed. 8. 

 (1881) and Hooker's "Student's Flora," Ed. 3 (1884). By 



ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S. This is a veryjvaluable enumeration of the 

 above additions to our flora, with brief notes of the characteristic feat- 

 ures, and references to the original notices of their records as British. 

 The arrangement is that of the "London Catalogue," Ed. 8, and 

 the list extends to Potamogeton coriaceus. The many new records 

 under Rubus, Epilobium, Hieracium, and Salix, are not detailed, as 

 of interest to few save specialists, but the sources of information are 

 stated. ("Science Gossip," Sept.) 



First Records of British Flowering Plants (Continued). Com- 

 piled by WILLIAM A. CLARKE, F.L.S. (Journ. Hot., July-September). 

 The numerous records include several for Scotland (see this Journal 

 p. 272). We are informed that this series of records is to be pub- 

 lished in separate form. 



On Coehlearia grcenlandiea, L. By the Rev. EDWARD S. 

 MARSHALL, M.A., F.L.S. The true species is here illustrated on 

 plate 326 A, and is distinguished from C. alpina, formerly re- 

 garded as C. grcenlandica in British floras. It was first discovered 

 in Shetland in 1886 by Mr. W. Beeby, and afterwards at Lochinver 

 in 1890, and at Tain in East Ross in 1891, by Rev. E. S. Marshall, 

 all on the sea coast. (Journ. Bot., Aug.) 



Sagina Boydii. This plant, named and described by Dr. 

 BUCHANAN WHITE (Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1887, xvii. pp. 32-35). 

 from a plant found by Mr. W. B. Boyd in Braemar (? on Ben A'an), 

 is here illustrated, on plate 326 B), from a specimen supplied by Mr. 

 Boyd ; and Dr. White's description is quoted in full. (Jonrn. Bot., 

 Aug.) 



Key to British Rubi. By Rev. W. MOYLE ROGERS. In the 

 continuation of this valuable key the only direct reference to Scottish 

 plants is the remark under "28 R. latifolius, Bab.," that "Professor 

 Babington's own specimen (Cramond Bridge, near Edinburgh, July 

 30, 1850), in the Borrer Herb. Kew, looks to me very corylifolian." 

 (Journ. Bot., July-Sept.) 



Further Notes on Hieraeia New to Britain (Continued}. By 

 FREDERICK J. HANBURY, F.L.S. Five "species" and one variety 

 from Scotland are recorded as new, and two varieties of H. murornin 

 from Scotland are noted as new to Britain, as are also several other 

 " species " and varieties from other parts of the British Islands. The 

 new forms are fully described. (Journ. Bot., July and Sept.) 

 See p. 274 of this Journal. 



Strathearn Hieraeia. By JAMES COSMO MELVILL, M.A. 

 F.L.S. This is an enumeration (with localities, of the Hieraeia 

 found by the author since 1875, chiefly on ^and near Ben Chonzie 



