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ammophila, D. and M. In a similar situation on the coast north of 

 Aberdeen it is abundant every autumn. JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



Species of Lithothamnion new to Scotland. Mr. E. A. Batters, 

 in "New or Critical British Marine Algag" ("Journ. Bot.," September), 

 notes the following from Scotland, identified for him by Mr. M. Foslie 

 of Trondhjem, and mostly described in " Norwegian Forms of 

 Lithothamnia," by Mr. Foslie (" Det. Kgl. Norske Vidensk. Selsk. 

 Skr., 1894"). 



L. incrustans, Foslie, I.e. 94, pi. 18. Cumbrae, E. A. B. 



f. Harveyi, Foslie, I.e. pi. 18, figs. 12-15. Cumbrae, E. A. B. 

 L. Sonderi, Hauck. (" Meeresalgen," p. 273, pi. 3). Cumbrae, 



E. A. B. 

 L. orbiculatum, Foslie, I.e. 143, pi. 22, figs. 10-11. Arran, 



E. A. B. ; Sea Mill, E. M. Holmes. 



L. flab ell atum, Rosenvinge ("Gronl," Havalz., 772, figs. 1-2). 

 f. Granii, Foslie, I.e. Port Bannatyne, Bute, D. Robertson. 

 L. Lenormandi (Aresch.), f. sublavis, Foslie, I.e. 151. Berwick, 



E. A. B. 

 L. Battersii, Foslie (" New or Critical Lithothamnia," i, figs. 1-5). 



-Cumbrae, E. A. B. 

 L. corallioides, Crouan ("Fl. Finist.," 152, pi. 20). 



f. australis, Foslie, I.e. 62, pi. 16, figs. 24-31. Cumbrae 



E. A. B. 



f. flabelligera, Foslie, I.e. figs. 32-37. Cumbrae, E. A. B.; 

 Port Bannatyne, D. Robertson. 



Scrophularia Ehrharti, Ster. Several beds of this plant were 

 discovered by the Edinburgh Field Naturalists on 1 7th June last on 

 the side of the river Esk above Musselburgh. It has not been before 

 recorded from this locality. A. B. STEELE, Edinburgh. 



Additions to the known Flora of the South Ebudes. In 



the Journal of Botany (October, p. 433), A. Somerville records from 



Islay the following : Bnda marina, Dum., var. neglecta (Kindb.) ; 



Potentilla procumbens, Sebth. ; Erythrcea pnlehella, Fr., form or 



variety ; Polygonum Raii, Bab. ; Rnmex conglomeratus, Murr. ; 



Juneus ctlpinus, Vill., new to the Hebrides as a whole ; Spar- 



ganiitm minimum, Fr. (?) ; Potamogeton decipiens, Nolte ; Cladiiim 



Jamaicense, Crantz ( = C. Mariscus, R. Br.) ; Deschampsia discolor, R. 



and S. ; Festuca rubra, L. 



First Records of Scottish Plants. In the concluding part and 

 the " Additions " to the list of " First Records of British Flowering 

 Plants" compiled by W. A. Clarke, F.L.S. (Journ. Bot., Nov. and 

 Dec.) the following Scottish records are included : 



Poa alpina, L., 1777. "On the sides of Craigchalleach, above 

 Finlarig, in Breadalbane. Mr. Stuart." Lightfoot, "Fl. Scot.," i. 96. 



