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iEchium vulgare, Z., except 7Jj, 7->'t (?), ^t (?), 78, 79, 91 j (?), 

 57, 56', 5-9, 7W, 7tfJ, ^ 105, 107, 108, 



CONVOLVULACE^E. 



' 2 Volvulus svpm\\\, Jnnger (Calystegia sepiiim, R. Br.), 72-77, 8ij, 82, 

 83, 8st, 86, 871, SSf, 8 9 f, got, 92!, 95!, 971, g8t, 99-i3 

 109!. 



V. Soldanella, Junger (C. Soldanella, R. Br.), 727, 73 1 ( ? )> 74t (?), 

 75, 8 2 (?), 87, 90, 97(?), 100-103, no. 



3 Convolvulus arvensis, Z., except T2\, 78, 79, 80, 92 j, 93, 94, 97, 



101, 103, 105, 108, 110, 111, 112. 



4 Ciiscuta Epilinum, Weihe, 727, SSf. 



C. europffa, L., 72 (?), 77 (?), Sof, 83 (?), 89 cas., 90 (?). 

 C. Epithymum, Murr., 73!, 75, 77!, 83 (?). 



C. Trifolii, Bab., 75, 76 (?), 80-83, 85, 86, 88 cas., 89 cas., 90, 927, 

 93 1> (t probably in all these). 



(To be continued?) 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



An Obscure Point in the History of the Cadzow Herd of 

 White Cattle. Not a little uncertainty surrounds the break in the 

 continuity of the Cadzow herd of White Cattle in the end of the last 

 and the beginning of the present century. Pretty full details of the 

 evidence of contemporary writers on the subject may be found in 

 the late Robert Turner's article on this herd in the " Transactions of 

 the Natural History Society of Glasgow" (vol. ii., N.S., pp. 222-244). 

 Mr. Turner laid considerable stress on the note of Sir Walter Scott 

 in the introduction to his ballad " Cadzow Castle," wherein he states 

 that they were extirpated "about forty years ago," say 1760. Scott's 

 evidence is, however, conflicting a fact of which Mr. Turner was 

 apparently unaware. There is first in order of dates the above 

 quoted statement. The ballad was completed, Lockhart tells us, 

 before the appearance of vols. i. and ii. of the " Border Minstrelsy " 

 in 1802. In "The Bride of Lammermoor " (1819), chap, iv., there 



1 Echiiim vulgare, L. In the north-east of Scotland, at least, this plant is so 

 often a weed of cultivated ground or of roadsides as to point to its distribution 

 by man. 



2 Volvulus septum, Junger, should probably have t after a good many more 

 vice-county numbers. 



3 Convolvulus arvensis, L. , is extremely local in north-east Scotland ; indeed, 

 it occurs near Aberdeen, where not evidently introduced by man, only by one 

 roadside, where it is rare and does not increase. 



4 Cusciita, L. No Ciiscuta (except perhaps C. Epithymum) appears to be 

 indigenous in Scotland. 



