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believe the only gatherer of it in Strathtay, since I am afraid it is 

 now destroyed in its original station near Killin. Nor is there any 

 reference to my gathering of Saxifraga grcenlandica, L., var. decipiens 

 (Ehrh.), on Ben Lawers, although Professor Engler verifies my 

 specimen. The name 6". grain/inidica, L., is included in the Flora, 

 but no locality or collector's name is mentioned. So far as I am 

 aware, these were the first records of these plants not only for 

 Perthshire, but for Scotland. I failed to find the Saxifrage this 

 year, but I only saw two or three specimens when I first gathered 

 it near the summit of the mountain. G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



Carex xanthoearpa, Diseg. I have this from Portree, Skye. 

 G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



Agrostis pumila, L. I have this from Quiraing, Skye ; Dal- 

 mally, Argyle ; Glen Lyon, Mid Perth ; and Torrs, Wigtown. G. 

 CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



Colours of Flowers and Moisture. In walking along the 

 Slug Road to-night after a day of rain, the harebells (Campanula 

 rotundifolia) on the dry banks by the wayside showed their beautiful 

 characteristic blue. We had been along the same route last night 

 at the same hour (7.30), and had remarked how nearly all the 

 "bells" were of a purple-red colour. Those on the driest soils 

 were redder than the ones on a soil a little damper, but all of them 

 showed a tendency to red. To-night they are all as near as may be 

 of the same shade. Of course the light is much less bright to- 

 night than it was last night, but the main difference must lie in the 

 different amounts of moisture present. Could this be the cause of 

 the decided change in colour ? A. MACDONALD, Durris. 



Moss new to Britain. Dr. Braithwaite has informed us that a 

 moss collected on 3rd July 1895 near Cowie Moss, or Craig Moss 

 as it is occasionally called, about three miles south-east of Stirling, 

 is the Tortilla inermis, Brid., which has not previously been met with 

 in Britain. R. KIDSTON ; J. S. STIRLING. 



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ZOOLOGY. 



CAPTURE OF A GOLDEN EAGLE. F. F. L. The Field, 3rd 

 September 1898, p. 440. A specimen captured alive on 



