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around the shore of the Dhu Loch in June last. Streblocerus is not 

 unlike a Macrot/irix, and some familiarity with the group is necessary 

 to enable one to discriminate between them. This is the second 

 time I have taken Streblocerus in Scotland. It was obtained the 

 first time in Loch Morar in 1892, but was erroneously described in 

 the Fishery Board's Report for 1893 as Macrothrix laticornis, Jurine. 

 It seems to be widely distributed, but on account of its habitat and 

 small size it is easily overlooked. T. SCOTT, Leith. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



" Flora of Perthshire." May I ask a little of your space in order 

 to correct a serious blunder in the recent "Flora of Perthshire." 

 Very much to my surprise, I learn that I have seen Hymenophyllum 

 unilaterak at Kilmadock. Now I never saw the plant there, and I 

 have a firm conviction that no other botanist will ! The same 

 blunder has been made in regard to Carex vesicaria, etc. Many 

 years ago I was asked to furnish a full list of the flora of the Parish 

 of Kilmadock, and I did so by marking a copy of the London 

 Catalogue. This was sent to Dr. B. White, and as there were some 

 plants new to the county we had some correspondence in regard to 

 the matter, so that Dr. B. White knew very well that the list was a 

 parish flora and not a place one. If I remember right, the parish 

 covers about sixty-four square miles. I shall feel obliged if you 

 would correct a blunder for which I am not in any way responsible. 

 A. CRAIG CHRISTIE, Edinburgh. 



[To supplement this, we quote the following from the "Journal 

 of Botany " for August. Our readers will from it see that Mr. 

 Christie's objection is taken to the name being used for the parish 

 of Kilmadock instead of being restricted to the church and its 

 precincts : 



" A PERTHSHIRE NOTE. In the recently published ' Flora of 

 Perthshire ' I read with some astonishment that I have observed a 

 number of plants at ' Kilmadock.' As a matter of fact, I never got 

 one of the plants in question there, but I did get all of them in the 

 parish of that name. I think it is to be regretted that Dr. White 

 and his editor should have known so little of their ground as to 

 confound an old church and its precincts with a parish which covers 

 sixty-four square miles. In every instance the entry ought to read 

 ' parish of Kilmadock.' I was asked to furnish Dr. White with a 

 complete flora of the parish ; I did my best to do so, but Kilmadock 

 as a 'station' was never referred to. A. CRAIG CHRISTIE."- -Eo.] 



" The Flora of Perthshire." I was rather surprised to find that 

 no notice was taken in this work of the fact that I was the discoverer 

 of Calawagrostis boreal is (Deyenxia neglecta, var. borealis\ and I 



