24 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



It is perhaps a fitting opportunity to record a few other 

 rare captures, though perhaps of less interest than the fore- 

 going. These are the following : 



NEMOTELUS NOTATUS, Ztt. Male, Luffness Links, near 

 Aberlady, loth July 1895 (Mr. Wm. Evans). 



SYRPHUS LATIFASCIATUS, Mcq. This very distinct and 

 interesting species was taken by me at Slateford, near 

 Edinburgh, on the I 2th May 1896. 



SYRPHUS BARBIFRONS, Fin. Inverdruie, Strathspey, 

 May 1895 (Mr. W. Eagle Clarke). 



SYRPHUS GROSSULARI^E, Mg. Taken in large numbers 

 in Dalmeny Park, near Edinburgh, ist September 1896, by 

 the Rev. Alfred Thornley. 



ARCTOPHILA MUSSITANS, Fab. Falkland, Fife, i4th 

 August 1895 (Mr. Wm. Evans). 



SPHEGINA CLUNIPES, Fin. Gosford Park, Aberlady, 

 4th June 1896. 



PsiLOSOMA LEFEBVREI, Ztt. Male and female taken 

 near Perth in August 1896 by Mr. W. Willie. 



FLORULA OF A PIECE OF WASTE GROUND 



AT ABERDEEN. 



By JAMES W. H. TRAIL, A.M., M.D., F.R.S. 

 (Continued from Vol. K, 1896, /. 245.) 



Conhim maculatuin, L. The distribution of the Common Hemlock 

 in the north-east of Scotland is very suggestive of its being an 

 immigrant through man's agency in this district, where it has 

 become much more common within recent years. Only a few 

 plants occurred on the enclosed ground in 1893 ; but year by 

 year their number has increased, until in 1896 they formed a 

 very conspicuous part of the vegetation. 



Apiuin graveolens, L. (Celery), Carum Petroselinum, Benth. and Hook. 

 (Parsley), and Peucedanum sativum, Benth. and Hook. (Parsnip), 

 of which a few specimens were met with, doubtless owed their 

 origin to the sweepings of shops. 



