246 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



GREAT CRESTED GREBE NESTING IN SCOTLAND. By K. and R. 

 Buchanan. The Field, i3th July 1901, p. 83. A nest with four 

 eggs found on the banks of the Brother Loch, near Newton Mearns, 

 on i yth May last. 



NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BREADALBANE DISTRICT 

 OF PERTHSHIRE. By H. Goss. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. xii. p. 227 

 (September 1901). About thirty species are recorded. 



VANESSA ANTIOPA IN SHETLAND. By James J. F. X. King. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. xii. p. 226 (September 1901). Specimen 

 seen, but not captured, on the sands of Burrafrith, North Unst, on 

 1 5th August. 



A LIST OF THE TORTRICID^ AND TlNEINA OF THE PARISH OF 



BONHILL, DUMBARTONSHIRE. By J. R. Malloch. Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 (2), vol. xii. pp. 185-188 (August 1901). Concluded from p. 36 

 and devoted to the Tineina, of which one hundred and sixty-eight 

 species are recorded. 



BOTANY. 



PLANTS OF NORTH SCOTLAND, 1900. By Rev. E. S. Marshall, 

 M.A., F.L.S. Journ. Bot. 1901, pp. 266-275. Enumerates plants 

 observed in East Ross, East Sutherland, West Sutherland, Caithness, 

 and Orkney. Among them are numerous new records for vice- 

 counties, as well as of hybrids not previously noted as British. 



THE BOTANY OF THE ELLON DISTRICT. By James W. H. Trail, 

 M.D., F.R.S. In The Book of El/on, published at Ellon, 1901.- 

 Contains notes on the more interesting plants. 



SOME BRITISH VIOLETS, II. By Edmund G. Baker. Journ. 

 Bot. 1901, pp. 220-227. Treats of the forms and distribution in 

 Britain of the Violets related to V. lutea, Hudson, and V. saxatilis, 

 Schmidt. 



TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE, var. PARVIFLORUM. By I. K. Burkill, 

 M.A., F.L.S. Journ. Bot. 1901, pp. 235-236. Points out that the 

 so-called variety is an abnormal state with small crumpled corolla 

 and ovary foliaceus. 



ANTENNARIA DIOICA, var. HYPERBOREA, CAND. By Frederic N. 

 Williams, F.L.S. Journ. Bot. 1901, pp. 217-220, plate 423. 

 Discusses the characters and distribution of the variety in Britain, 

 and also var. congesta, Cand., is described, and a specimen in Kew 

 Herbarium, labelled " The Highlands," is referred to it. 



JUNGERMANNIA SAXicoLA, SCHRAD. By G. Stabler. Journ. Bot. 

 1901, p. 279. Records identification of a specimen gathered in 

 1894 "near Braemar" as this species, previously known as British 

 only from a gathering made by Dr. Greville in Shetland. 



SCAPANIA CRASSIRETIS, BRYHN, IN BRITAIN. By Symers M. 

 Macvicar. Journ. Bot. 1901, p. 210. On a wet rock, at 3200 

 feet, on Ben Heasgarnich, found by Mr. P. Ewing in July 1900. 



