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obtained on the gills of a Striped Wrasse (Labrus mixtus} captured 

 in Ayr Bay on 3oth January 1900. Clavella labracis is a small 

 copepod parasitic on fish ; full grown females with ovisacs scarcely 

 reach a millimeter (or ^ of an inch) in length, but though minute 

 it carries moderately large ova shaped like small cylinders, the length 

 of which is about one and a half times longer than the diameter. 

 These ova are arranged end to end inside a very thin transparent 

 sac. The ovisacs appear to be moderately elongated, but any 

 specimens I have seen and they are not uncommon on the gills of 

 the Striped Wrasse have had the ovisacs more or less incomplete ; 

 probably the enclosing membrane is very delicate and easily ruptured. 

 A figure of the Copepod a female will be found in P. J. van 

 Beneden's work " Les poissons des cotes de Belgique," Mem. Acad. 

 Roy. Belg. vol. xxxviii. PI. I. (1870). I have not yet seen any 

 males. They are probably smaller than the females, and will there- 

 fore be easily missed. T. SCOTT, Aberdeen. 



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Notes on the Flora of Argyllshire. Rub us daniais, Focke, 

 near Dalmally ; Taraxacum palustre, L., Ben Dothaidh ; Euphrasia 

 foiilaensis, Towns., Ben Laoigh ; E. gracilis, Fries., near Dalmally ; 

 E. brevipila, Burn, and Gremli., near Tyndrum, but in Argyll ; 

 Mentha piperita, Huds., near Dalmally ; Sparganium ercctum, L., 

 var. microcarpum (Neuman), near Dalmally ; Carex Goodetwwii, 

 Gay, var. elatior, Lange, forma angiistifolia (Kiikenthal), by the 

 river near Dalmally. G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



Notes on the Flora of Kineardineshire. Viola tricolor, L., V. 

 saxatilis, Schmidt, var. Sagoti (Jord.), * Rubus Rogers ii, Linton, R. 

 Selineri, Lindeb., R. mucronatus, Blox., Alchemilla vitlgaris, L., var. 

 alpestris (Schmidt), Salix Smithiana, Willd., and * Arrhenathernm 

 precatorium, Beauv., were all noticed near Banchory. G. CLARIDGE 

 DRUCE. 



Spergula arvensis, Z., in Scotland. In January 1900, in this 

 Journal, I stated the results of my search in the north-east of Scot- 

 land for the forms included under this name. During 1900 I have 

 observed sativa in fields in every part of the district called Buchan, 

 in Watson's v.c. 93, between the rivers Ythan and Deveron, usually 

 plentiful, though seldom so abundant as near Aberdeen. In 

 September and October I found vulgaris in the same district not 

 rare in a few fields in the parishes of Lonmay, Rathen, and Strichen 

 in the north-eastern part of Buchan, and in Fyvie and Auchterless in 

 the south-western part, in localities a good many miles apart. It 

 also occurred in a sandy field near the coast six or seven miles north 

 of Aberdeen ; it is evidently better established in the north-east of 



