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that A. a/pina also reproduces by. seed, but sparingly ; that among 

 the seedlings I have not found a single intermediate form ; and that 

 both plants retain their distinctive characters ; and that a slightly 

 more luxuriant growth is the only feature in which A. alpina differs 

 from the plant brought to the garden by me from a shingly sand- 

 bank by the river Dee. A. conjitncta was given to me by the late 

 Dr. Buchanan White from his garden, and I do not know whence 

 he got it. The soil in which the plants grow in my garden is a 

 naturally poor loam about nine inches deep over a bed of sand, and 

 it is never manured or dug over. JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



Alchemilla vulgaris, L. segregates. Additional to the list 

 given on p. 38 of this volume and those I published in the "Journal 

 of Botany" (1895, II0 ) are the following records which have come 

 under my notice 



A. vulgaris, L., sensu stricto = A pratensis, Schmidt, 84 (A. 

 Somerville), 90 (H. J. Riddellsdell), ioo(A. Somerville). 



A. alpestris, Schmidt, 84 (A. Somerville), 98 (fide C. E. Salmon), 

 100 (A. Somerville), 101 (///>. C. E. Salmon). 



A. filicaiilis, Buser, 84 (A. Somerville), 100 (A. Somerville), 

 100 (E. S. Marshall), in (Hb. Boswell Syme). E. F. LINTON. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural 

 History which have appeared during the Quarter January-March 1906. 



[The Editors desire assistance to enable them to make this Section as complete as 

 possible. Contributions on the lines indicated will be most acceptable and 

 will bear the initials of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



BIRD NOTES FROM SHETLAND (MAY TO NOVEMBER, 1905). 

 T. Edmonston Saxby, Zoologist, January 1906, pp. 35-36. Notes 

 on various species, including the Scops Owl. 



WHOOPERS IN ISLAY. Flora Russell, Zoologist, February 1906, 

 p. 74. Ninety-eight birds seen on Ardnave on 6th December 1905. 



ALBINOS IN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. R. L., The Field, 

 loth March 1906, p. 389. Refers, among other things, to a 

 partially albino wood-pigeon from Ardmeallie, recently presented by 

 Sir Arthur Clay, Bart. 



LANDRAILS IN DECEMBER. H. B. M., The Field, 6th January 

 1906, p. 36. Several killed at Balavil, Kingussie, during a snow- 

 storm in the month indicated. 



THE VENDACES OF LOCHMABEN AND OF DERWENTWATER AND 

 BASSENTHWAITE LAKES, COREGONUS VANDESIUS AND COREGONUS 

 GRACILIOR. C. Tate Regan, B.A., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 



