48 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Skye, F. B. W. ; Ramularia Malvce Fckl., from Forres, Rev. J. Keith ; 

 Thecaphora Trailii Cooke, on Carduus heterophyllus in capitula, from Brae- 

 mar, J. W. H. T. ; Ramularia Cocklearite Cooke, on Cochlearia officinalis, 

 near Aberdeen, J. W. H. T. M. C. Cooke, Cryptosphaeria millepunctata, 

 Grew; On Xylaria and its allies (pp. 81-94) ; Hypoxylon and its allies 

 (pp. 121-140) ; Classification of the Uredines (pp. 151-152); Rev. J. M. 

 Crombie, Enumeration of the British Cladoniei (with their arrangement, 

 general distribution in Great Britain and Ireland, and reference to British 

 published Exsiccati), includes numerous species from Scotland ; E. M. Holmes, 

 New British Marine Algae, and Algae Britannicae rariores exsiccatse. 

 Many of the species noted are from Scottish localities ; these are as follows: — 

 Phyllitis Fascia Ktz., from Elie, E. M. H., and Berwick-on-Tweed, E. 

 Batters ; Dictyosiphon fceniculaceus Grev., snbsp. hispidus Kjellm., near 

 Edinburgh, G. W. Traill ; D. hippuroides Aresch., along the south coast of 

 the Firth of Forth, G. W. T., and at Berwick-on-Tweed, E.B. ; D. Mesogloia 

 Aresch., Elie, E. M. H., Longniddry, G. W. T. ; Phlceospora tortiiis Aresch., 

 Joppa, near Edinburgh, G. W. T., Berwick-on-Tweed, E. B. ; Sphacelaria 

 plumigera Holmes, Joppa, G. W. T. ; S. ccespitula Lyngb. , Berwick-on-Tweed, 

 E.B. ; S. plumosa Lyngb., Kinghorn, G. W. T., Ardrossan and Portincross, 

 Rev. D. Landsborough ; Elachista Grevilhi Am. ; Nitophyllum reptans Crn., 

 Berwick-on-Tweed, E. B. ; Prasiola marina Cm., Joppa, G. W. T. 



(Note. — In this connection it may be mentioned^hat Mr. G. W. Traill has 

 published the following papers : — The Algae of the Firth of Forth, read 

 before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh on 17th December, 1879 '■> 

 Additional Notes on the Algae of the Firth of Forth, read on 19th Jan- 

 uary, 1 88 1 ; and an Alphabetical List of the parasitical Algae of the Firth 

 of Forth, read, on 17th April, 1882, before the Royal Dublin Society, and 

 published in the Scientific Proceedings, Vol. III., Part V. ; in this list the 

 host-plants on which each species has been observed are enumerated.) 



The Geological Magazine. Since the beginning of the present year, the 

 following papers have appeared in this journal : — Thomas Davidson, LL.D. , 

 F.R.S., On Scottish Silurian Brachiopoda; Part II. of a review of The 

 Palaeozoic Conchology of Scotland delivered by R. Etheridge, Jun., as his 

 address to the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, published 1882 ; Prof. 

 Charles Lapworth, The Secret of the Highlands, in which he deals with 

 the age of the strata that form the Scottish Highlands, as determined by the 

 fossiliferous strata at Durness and Eriboll in north-west Sutherland ; and 

 arrives at a conclusion opposed to that of Murchison, and supported since 

 Murchison's time by the members of the Geological Survey ; Dr. C. Callaway, 

 The Highland Problem, stating shortly the conclusions arrived at by himself 

 on the same subject as the former. 



NEW BOOKS ON BRITISH CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY. 



In at least some departments, the study of the Cryptogamic Flora of Great 

 Britain, including of course Scotland, ought to be very much more easy to 

 beginners, and certainty in the determinations of the species discovered in any 

 district by the monographers of local floras (of whom there are now so many), 

 ought to be attainable to a degree formerly beyond even the limits of hope. 

 The publication of such works as Dr. Cooke's Illustrations of British 

 Fungi (Hymenomycetes), at so moderate a price as to put them within the 

 reach, if not of all individual botanists, at least of all societies, places in the 

 hands of all a means of accurate work formerly unattainable. We are glad to 

 see that this work has already reached its 17th part. Another work by the 

 same author, of a similar kind, British Fresh-Water Algae, exclusive of 

 Desmidieae and Diatomaceae, has now reached its 5th part — the groups 

 already treated of in it being the Palmellacece, Protococcacece and VolvocinecE. 

 Zygnemacece, Vaucheriacecz, Ulvacea, and Confei-vacece, and the QZdogoniacece, 



Dr. Braithwaite's British Mossflora is also progressing, though more 

 slowly, and has now reached its 6th part. It keeps well up to the high 

 standard of excellence of the earlier parts. 



