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this magazine for January last (p. 53) I have now the pleasure of 

 adding the following : 



Chthonius tetrachelatus (Preyss.). On 26th April last I discovered 

 two examples of this species under a piece of wood in an old orchard 

 at Culross ; and on i yth August, I found half-a-dozen under stones 

 on a bank at Kinneil near Bo'ness. It is an addition to the Scottish 

 list. 



Chthonius rayi, L. K. Six specimens found by me on 2yth 

 April under pieces of wood on the banks of a muddy ditch at 

 Kincardine-on-Forth. Mr. R. Godfrey has shown me what seems 

 to be a young example of this form taken at Bo'ness on 24th June. 



Chernes phaleratus, Sim. About a dozen examples of a false 

 scorpion which agrees well with the description of this species, were 

 found by Mr. Godfrey under stones in a field near Bo'ness during 

 April and May (see p. 216). The only previously recorded British 

 locality for the species appears to be the New Forest. 



Chiridium museorum, Leach.- An example of this unmistakable 

 little species was got by Mr. Godfrey in a house in Bo'ness on 

 2oth June (see p. 217). Mr. Macnaught Campbell informs me 

 that he has a note of having found " Chelifer museorum " in a 

 press in the Glasgow Museum, but he is not positive about the 

 identification. 



Specimens of the above, with the exception of the Chiridium^ 

 have been submitted to the Rev. O. P. Cambridge who confirms my 

 identifications. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Sagina esespitosa, J. Lange.--lr\ the year 1847 Mr. J. 

 Backhouse found in the courses of the mountain streams on 

 Glas Maol, "in small solitary tufts," a Sagina that Professor 

 Babington was inclined to refer to " S. nivalis, Fr.," x to which he 

 also places "A. ccespitosa, ' Fl. Dan.' tab. 2289." Mr. Backhouse 

 himself seems to have considered the specimens to be Sagina 

 saxatilis, var. macrocarpa, Reich. 2 Unfortunately Mr. Backhouse's 

 specimens could not be found in his herbarium (Mr. J. Back- 

 house, 1893, *' n titt,\ They may be in that of the late Professor 

 Babington. 



My object in writing this note is to ask botanists to re-gather this 

 plant if possible, as I quite believe it was S. ctzspitosa, Lange = 

 Spergula ccespitosa, J. Vahl. The plant is usually referred to S. 



1 "Man. Brit. Bot.," p. 48, 1851. 

 2 " Botanical Gazette," vol. Hi., p. 49, 1851. 



