126 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACE.E (AFTER WARNSTORFF). By E. 

 Charles Horrell, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., 1900, pp. 469-480. Concludes 

 this important paper, and gives a full index of the numerous forms 

 described in it. 



INTRODUCTIONS. By W. F. Miller. Jonrn. Hot., 1900, p. 496. 

 Melilotus sukata, Desf., in a potato-field near Edinburgh. 



NOTES FROM GARDEN AND FIELD. By Charles Stuart, M.D. 

 Hist. Berw. Nat. Club, xvii., 1900, p. 1 13. Gives information about 

 a number of winter and spring flowers in cultivation. 



LlST OF RARER PLANTS FOUND WITHIN PARISH OF BUNKLE AND 



PRESTON, BERWICKSHIRE. In Historical and Descriptive Account of 

 Bunkle and Preston, a supplement to Hist. Benv. Nat. Club, 1900, 

 note on pp. 54-55. The following are marked as now extinct in the 

 p ar ish . Trollius europceus, Ly thrum Salicaria, Sedum villosum, 

 Trieutalis europcea, Goodyera repens. The list includes Silene 

 noctiflora, queried for the county in Watson's "Top. Bot.," and 

 Cusciita Epithymum, not previously noted for Berwickshire. Con- 

 firmation of both records is desirable. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



THE WILDFOWLER IN SCOTLAND. By John Guille Millais, 

 F.Z.S., etc. With a frontispiece in photogravure after a drawing by 

 Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A., and photogravure plates, two coloured 

 plates and fifty illustrations from the author's drawings and from 

 photographs. (London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901.) 305. net. 



Mr. Millais' new volume is a valuable contribution to the 

 literature of sport and natural history, and is, moreover, the first 

 work ever devoted to Scottish wildfowl and wildfowling. There 

 is no one more competent to handle this subject than Mr. 

 Millais ; for it has been, as he tells us, his special study from 

 very early years. " When I first began wildfowling along the coasts 

 of Scotland," he writes, " I was but a small boy of eleven, with an 

 insatiable craze for natural history. I must find out for myself 

 the haunts and habits of every wild animal in the country, beginning 

 with sea-fowl ; must shoot and collect specimens, and must dissect 

 them in order to learn their anatomy." Taking as a starting-point 

 the south-east corner of Scotland, Mr. Millais worked steadily north- 

 ward, and for years afterwards holidays were devoted to continuing 

 the exploration ; so that by the time he was sixteen he had three 

 times walked over the whole distance from Dunbar in the south to 

 Thurso in the north, omitting only such portions of the coast-line 

 as consisted of inaccessible cliffs. In the course of these rambles, 

 specimens of most of the British wildfowl were collected, in their 



