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NOTE. In the "Journal of Botany" (July 1902, pp. 257-260), 

 Mr. Fred. N. Williams discusses H. anglicum, Fr., and allied 

 forms, and states the following conclusions that modify the 

 names in the list : As varieties of H. anglicum in Scotland, he 

 gives a, genuinum, Syme, which ascends to 810 m. in S. 

 Aberdeen ; /?, acutifolium, Backh. ; 8, longibracteatum, F. J. 

 Hanb. ; (", amplexicaule, Backh., Scottish Highlands ; 0, brevi- 

 furcatiim, F. N. Williams ( = H. Lcyi, F. J. Hanb., of above 

 list). To H. anglicum he also refers (with reasons for doing so) 

 H. langivellense, F. J. Hanb., and H. Carenorum, F. J. Hanb., 

 both of the above list. 



Mr. Williams also discusses (" Journal of Botany," August 

 1902, pp. 291-293) " Hierarium murorum and H. casiitm of 

 British Floras," and gives reasons for the following changes : 

 " H. murorum" Brit, auct., must stand as H. silvaticum, Gouan, 

 (being " H. murorum, var. /3. silvaticum" of Linnaeus). H. 

 stenolepis, Lindeb., of the above list has been reduced to rank 

 as a variety of H. silvaticum by Almquist, with the concurrence 

 of Dahlstedt. 



" H. coesium" Brit, auct., non Fries., must bear name H 



flocculosum, Backh. var., Mr. Williams suggesting that Mr. 



J. G. Baker's name might be associated with it. H. ccesium, 



Fr., = " H. murorum, var. a," of Linnaeus, and has not been 



found in Britain. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Bank Voles as Garden Pests. We have been considerably 

 bothered by a visitation of " mice " in and around the garden here 

 this summer, and I cannot say that our feelings of annoyance are 

 lessened by the fact that Mr. Service has identified our visitors to 

 belong to the comparatively scarce species, the Bank Vole or Red 

 Field Vole (Microtus glareolus). However, it may be worth record- 

 ing their presence here in numbers. Their chief resort is my rock 

 garden, where they do continual damage among my alpine and 

 choice herbaceous plants, and are very difficult to entrap. In the 

 kitchen-garden perhaps their worst depredations have been among 

 the cauliflowers ; they have almost ruined our crop. On the other 

 hand, they have scarcely touched strawberries, which sometimes have 

 suffered from common mice. W. D. R. DOUGLAS, Orchardton, 

 Castle-Douglas. 



Black Mountain Hare in Caithness -shire. A Black Hare 

 (Lepus varialnlis), a female, was shot by Hector Urquhart, one of 

 the under-keepers to His Grace the Duke of Portland, at Braemore, 

 Langwell, Caithness, on the 3rd of February this year, and sent 



