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BOTANY. 



ON THE ALPINE FLORA OF CLOVA. By Miss M. Thomas. 

 Trans, of Perthshire Soc. N. S. iii., 1900, pp. 60-69. I s a good 

 sketch of this most interesting flora. 



PLANT ASSOCIATIONS OF THE TAY BASIN, Part II. By Robert 

 Smith, B.Sc. Trans, of P. S. N. S. iii., 1 900, pp. 69-87, with a map. 

 This, the last work of its author's brief life, is a very valuable con- 

 tribution to our knowledge of plant-distribution in Scotland. 



THE WOODLANDS OF PERTHSHIRE. By' Henry Coates, F.R.S.E. 

 Proc. of P. S. N. S. iii., 1900, pp. 59-64. 



BOTANICAL NOTES ON THE SELKIRK MEETING (OF THE BER- 

 WICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB). By Rev. David Paul. Hist. 

 Berw. Nat. Club, xvii., 1900, pp. 49-50. 



ON THE CULTIVATION OF MYCETOZOA FROM SPORES. By Arthur 

 Lister, F.R.S. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 5-8. 



SOME BRITISH VIOLETS. By Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. 

 Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 9-12. Discusses and describes the forms 

 into which Viola tricolor, L. (Sensu latiori] may be divided in 

 Britain. 



ROBERT SMITH (1873-1900). Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 30-32. Is 

 a reproduction, with a portrait of the obituary by Prof. D'Arcy 

 Thompson in College Echoes for gth November 1900. 



A DISEASE IN TURNIPS CAUSED BY BACTERIA. By W. Car- 

 ruthers, F.R.S., and A. Lorrain Smith. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 

 33-36, and Journ. of Roy. Agric. Soc., 1901. Describes and figures 

 a serious disease very prevalent in parts of Yorkshire, and observed 

 in two localities in Dumfriesshire, most hurtful to Swedish turnips, 

 less so to yellow turnips and to cabbages, caused by an organism 

 named by Prof. Potter Pseudomonas destructans. 



NEW BRITISH HEPATIC/E. By Symers M. Macvicar. Journ. 

 Bot., 1901, pp. 36-37. Enumerates five species new to British 

 records, as the result of a fortnight's visit in June 1900 to the Ben 

 Lawers district. 



ON CERTAIN GALLS IN FURCELLARIA AND CHONDRUS. By 

 Ethel S. Barton. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 49-51, t. vii. figs. 1-6.- 

 Describes and figures irregular swellings, caused by a nematode 

 worm, found at Lyme Regis. 



MOOS-STUDIEN IN ScHOTTLAND. By O. Burchard. Hedwigia, 

 1900, pp. 149-159. Gives a brief account of a visit in autumn 1899 

 to the Highlands of Perthshire, and enumerates eighty-eight species 

 of mosses, with localities, and usually with details of elevations and 

 habitats. 



