CURRENT LITERATURE 133 



XANTHOLINUS DISTANS, KR., IN CAITHNESS. Alfred Thornley. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. viii. p. 19 (January 1897). A few ex- 

 amples taken near Thurso in August 1892. 



LlMNOPHILUS ELEGANS, C., AT RANNOCH. James J. F. X. 



King. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. viii. p. 14 (January 1897). A 

 specimen taken in Currie Wood during May 1896. 



BOTANY. 



ON ROBERT BROWN. Presidential Address to Edinburgh 

 Botanical Society, by Professor F. O. Bower, F.R.S. Trans, and 

 Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part iii. pp. 459-468. 



THE GERMINATION OF BARLEY WITH RESTRICTED MOISTURE. 



By T. Cuthbert Day. Trans, and Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part iii. 

 PP- 49 2 -5 01 - 



AN ATTEMPT TO CLASSIFY COMMON PLANT PlGMENTS, WITH SOME 

 OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEANING OF COLOUR IN PLANTS. By Miss 



M. J. Newbiggin, B.Sc., Trans, and Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part iii. 

 PP- 5 34-5 5 - 



NOTES FROM THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH- 

 Being, I, Report on Vegetation from July to December 1895, by 

 ROBERT LINDSAY ; II, Meteorological Observations for same 

 months ; III, Notes on Plants in the Plant Houses, by R. L. 

 HARROW. Trans, and Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part iii. pp. 472- 

 479, 487-489, 5 2 -5 6 - 



AUSTRALIAN AND OTHER FOREIGN TREES AND PLANTS IN ARRAN, 

 ALL UNPROTECTED. By Rev. David Landsborough. Trans, and 

 Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part iii. pp. 508-531. 



EXCURSION OF THE SCOTTISH ALPINE BOTANICAL CLUB TO 

 TYNDRUM IN 1895. By William Craig, M.D. Trans, and Proc. 

 Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part iii. pp. 481-486. 



PLANTS OF TIREE AND COLL. By Symers M. Macvicar. Journ. 

 Bot., February, pp. 54-57. Ranunculus marinus, Fries, from 

 Tiree, is the first " satisfactory " record from Scotland known to 

 Mr. A. Bennett; Potamogelon coloratus, Hornem., is new county 

 record from Coll ; and Plantago Coronopus, var. maritima, Gren. and 

 Godr., is new record of variety from Britain. 



HIGHLAND PLANTS COLLECTED IN 1896. By Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall, M.A., F.L.S., and W. A. Shoolbred, F.R.C.S. Journ. Bot., 

 March, pp. 65-71. Chiefly in Glen Spean, in Corrie Ardran, and 

 Glen Falloch (Mid Perth), and at Ardlui in Dumbarton. 



ON SOME SCOTTISH RUBI. By Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.L.S. 

 Journ. Bot., February, pp. 42-50. Records full results of exploration 



