134 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



in 1896 of Callander and other localities in West Perth, Knock of 

 Crieff, and near Killin and Loch Tay in Mid Perth, and brief visits 

 to Oban, Balloch, and Stirlingshire. 



SET OF BRITISH RUBI. A supplementary fascicle (Nos. 106-134) 

 has just been issued by Messrs. Ley, E. F. Linton, W. R. Linton, and 

 Rogers. It contains seven forms that, " so far as is known at 

 present, are endemic." The specimens are excellent, as in the 

 previously issued fascicles. None are from Scotch localities. 



BRITISH HIERACIA. Second fascicle, issued by Messrs. E. F. 



and W. L. Linton. Many of the examples are Scottish. 



CAREX AQUATILIS Wahlb. IN LAKE LANCASHIRE, by Arthur 

 Bennett, F.L.S. (Naturalist, March 1897, pp. 77-80). The 

 distribution of the species in Great Britain and Ireland is fully 

 discussed under the vice-counties. These amount to three in North 

 England, twenty-one in Scotland, and seven in Ireland. 



HYMENOPHYLLUM TUNBRIDGENSE, SM., IN S. EBUDES, v.c. 102. 

 By A. Somerville. Journ. Bot., January, p. 21. In Kildalton 

 Woods, Islay. 



Moss EXCHANGE CLUB MS. REPORT FOR 1896. Journ. Sot., 

 January, pp. 30-31. In this brief notice the following are mentioned 

 from Scotland : Hypninn procerrimum from Perthshire (R. H. 

 Meldrum), and P. eochleariforme, Weis., from Moidart (S. M. 

 Macvicar). 



THUIDIUM PHILIBERTI, LIMPR., A NEW BRITISH Moss. By 

 H. N. Dixon, M.A., F.L.S. Journ. Bot., January 1897, pp. 16-17). 

 Found sterile near summit of Craig Chailleach in Perthshire in 

 1893. Described and distinguished from its nearest allies (T. 

 ddicatulum, Mitt., and T. recognitum, Lindb.) most readily by stem 

 leaves drawn out into fine hyaline hair of a single row of linear cells. 



MICROSCOPIC FUNGI NEW TO, OR RARE IN, BRITAIN. BY Annie 

 Lorrain Smith. Journ. Bot., January 1887. Several of the species 

 are from localities in Scotland (see p. 129). 



FUNGI OBSERVED IN GLEN URQUHART, INVERNESS-SHIRE (at the 

 meeting of the Scottish Cryptogamic Society in 1895). By Rev. 

 David Paul. Trans, and Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part iii. pp. 

 468-471. Polyporus ciliatus, Fr., new to Britain, and various rare 

 species. 



ALG/E AT LOSSIEMOUTH. Journ. Bot., January, p. 31. Mr. E. 

 M. Holmes exhibited at the Linnean Society's meeting of 3rd Dec. 

 1896, Liebmannia major, new to Britain, found by himself in 

 August 1896. 



THE GENUS GLOIOPELTIS. By Professor Fr. Schmitz, Greifswald. 

 Trans, and Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part iii. pp. 554 -57- 



