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BOTANY. 



NOTES ON THE DRAWINGS FOR ENGLISH BOTANY. By F. N. 

 Garry, M.A. (as a supplement to Journ. Bot., 1904, pp. 137, 184), 

 extends from Mentha sativa to Salix phylicifolia, var. Borreriana, 

 Syme. 



NORTH-EAST HIGHLAND PLANTS, 1903. By the Rev. W. Moyle 

 Rogers (Journ. Bot., 1904, pp. 12-21). Notes on plants in Banff 

 (94), Elgin (95), and Easterness (96). Several new records from 

 Speyside. 



EPILOBIUM COLLINUM, Gmel. By C. E. SALMON (Journ. Bot., 

 1904, pp. iio-iu), calls attention to existence in Holmesdale 

 N.H. Club's Museum at Reigate of two sheets of this species labelled 

 " Epilobium roseum ? . . . Scotland, Dr. Power," probably collected 

 about sixty years ago, and quotes Haussknecht's descriptions ot 

 it, and of E. montanum and E. lanceolatum. 



NEW BRITISH HEPATIC^:. By Symers M. Macvicar (Journ. Bot., 

 1904, p. 88). Lophozia guttulata (Lindb. and Arnell), Evans, dis- 

 covered by Mr. George Stabler on wood in Ballochbuie, S. Aberdeen, 

 July 1894; Odontoschisma Macounii (Aust.), Underw., discovered 

 by Mr. P. Ewing on bare soil on Ben Heasgarnich, Perth, in July 

 1900. 



FURTHER RESEARCHES ON THE SPECIALISATION OF PARASITISM 

 IN THE ERYSIPHACE^E (Journ. Bot., 1904, p. 94-95). Notice of a 

 report read to Linnean Society by C. E. Salmon, on 4th February, on 

 many experiments upon the infective power of the fungi on different 

 host-plants, proving existence of " biologic forms " of Erysiphe 

 graminis (on species of Bromus), of E. Cichoracearum, and of 

 Sphccrotheca. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. By 

 J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. Vol. iv. (London : Swan, Sonennschein and Co., 

 April 1904). 



Within two years of the publication of the third volume of this 

 exhaustive and masterly work a fourth is now issued, and it is 

 difficult to speak of it without appearing to be guilty of exaggerated 

 language. We can only say that the sterling quality of the previous 

 volumes is again kept up, and some idea of the thoroughness with 

 which the work is done may be gathered from the fact that in over 

 500 closely printed pages only a dozen species are dealt with. Every- 

 thing that is known about these species appears to have been given 

 in this volume, so that the working entomologist, possessed of Mr. 



