126 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Both by S. M. Macvicar, 

 Jo urn. Bot. 1902, p. 

 42. 



ACROBOLBUS WlLSONI (TAYL.), NEES, 



IN SCOTLAND, at Sunart, W. Inverness, 

 in November 1901. 



LEJEUNEA ROSETTIANA, MASSAL., IN 

 SCOTLAND, in Pease Dene, Berwickshire. 



ON THE FIRST RECORDED OCCURRENCE OF CHARA BALTICA IN 

 SCOTLAND. By F. C. Crawford. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xxii. p. 13. 

 Found, on 3ist August 1900, in Loch of Stennis, Orkney. 



NOTE ON THE STAG'S FUNGUS. By William Forsyth, D.D. 

 journ. Cairngorm Club, 1902, pp. 373, 374. Refers to occurrence 

 of Elaphomyees granulatus in the forests of Upper Speyside, and to 

 the local name, " Buntata-nan-earb," meaning " roe-deer's potatoes," 

 in allusion to roe-deer digging it up as food. 



THE CHANGES THAT TAKE PLACE IN PLANTS IN WILD AND 

 CULTIVATED STATES. By Dr. Stuart. Hist. Berw. Nat. Club, xvii. 

 pp. 275-282. Largely a discussion of hybrids and other plants 

 reared by Dr. Stuart at Chirnside. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



FAUNA, FLORA, AND GEOLOGY OF THE CLYDE AREA. Edited 

 by G. F. Scott Elliot, Malcolm Laurie, and J. Barclay Murdoch. 

 (Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1901.) 55. net. 



This handbook on the natural history of Glasgow and the west 

 of Scotland was prepared for last year's meeting of the British 

 Association. Its contents, so far as the flora is concerned, were 

 alluded to in our last number. That portion which deals with the 

 fauna now demands our attention. The zoological section com- 

 prises no less than 230 pages, and contains a marvellous amount of 

 valuable information on all classes of animals, prepared with most 

 painstaking and conscientious care which wins our admiration and 

 reflects the greatest credit upon Professor Laurie and all concerned. 



The Mammals, 5 1 in number, are by Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt ; 

 the extensive list of Birds, 233 species, by Mr. John Paterson ; the 

 Reptiles and Amphibians, 9 species, by Mr. Alfred Brown ; the 

 Fishes, 138 species, by Mr. Thomas Scott and Mr. A. Brown. 



We mention the Vertebrates in particular because the number 

 of species treated of in each class conveys some idea of the com- 

 pleteness of the work accomplished by the respective authors. It 

 must be mentioned, however, that certain species which have been 

 recorded on doubtful evidence are also included, though they have 

 been omitted from our census. 



As to the very extensive portion devoted to the Invertebrates, it 

 is impossible to enter here into details. It is sufficient to state that 



