262 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



BOTANY. 



RECORDS OF EXCURSIONS IN AYRSHIRE. By John Smith. Ann. 

 Anders. Nat. Soc., ii. pp. 22-45. Scattered through these are a 

 good many notes of more or less botanical interest. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. Compiled by 

 W. A. Clarke, F. L.S. Continued in Jonrn. Bot. (1896), August, pp. 

 362-365. From Panicum glabrum, Gaud., to Avena fatna, L. 



PLANTS OF THE KENMUIR DISTRICT OF THE CLYDE. By John 

 R. Lee. Ann. Anders. Nat. Soc., ii. pp. 8-15. Enumerates the 

 more interesting species. 



MONESES GRANDIFLORA IN ARGYLE. By Edward S. Marshall. 

 Journ. Bot., September, p. 400. At Lochgilphead. 



THE POLLOK WYCH ELMS (ULMUS MONTANA). By John Boyd. 

 Ann. Anders. Nat. Soc., ii. pp. 4-6. 



CLYDESDALE MOSSES. By James Murray. Ann. Anders. Nat. 

 Soc., ii. pp. 1 6-2 1. 



HYPNUM MICANS, WILS., IN INVERNESS-SHIRE. By Symers M. 

 Macvicar. Journ. Bot. (1896), August, p. 367. 



NEW OR CRITICAL BRITISH MARINE ALG^E. By E. A. L. 

 Batters, B.A., etc. Journ. Bot., September, pp. 384-390. Besides 

 describing numerous novelties, mostly found by G. Brebner near 

 Plymouth, enumerates several Lit/wthainnta, new to the British flora, 

 from Scotland. 



REVIEW. 



EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR 

 BREEDING -HABITS. LIMICOL/E. With 54 Coloured Plates. By 

 Frank Poynting. (London: R. H. Porter, 1895-96.) 



Mr. Poynting's book on the eggs of the British Limicolas 

 (Plovers, Snipes, Sandpipers, etc.) is in every way a most handsome 

 volume, and in our opinion the plates are worthy of the highest 

 praise. In truthfulness of delineation and colour, as well as in beauty 

 of finish, the figures could not well be excelled. Though occasionally 

 the ground-colour is, perhaps, rather bright in tone, they are, we 

 think, nevertheless, the best that have yet been issued in this country, 

 Hewitson's classic illustrations not excepted. Indeed, we even 

 prefer them to the beautiful pictures of Baedeker's " Eier der 

 europaeischen Voegel," or those in Bendire's admirable work on the 

 " Life Histories of North American Birds." Artist and lithographer 

 alike are to be congratulated on the uniform excellence of their work. 

 We say " and lithographer " advisedly, for without such high-class 

 reproductions as Greve of Berlin has here supplied, the public would 

 probably never have had it in their power to possess these beautiful 

 and " life-like " pictures. 



