The Scottish Naturalist. 51 



been printed, and will be supplied to all who have the volume. 

 Though the list of the Marine Mollusca includes most of the 

 species of the west coast of Scotland, in the list of Land and Fresh- 

 water species, by Mr. F. G. Binnie, localites are restricted to 

 lower Clydesdale. The latter list contains seventy-two species, of 

 which two are doubtful inhabitants, and six have been more or 

 less certainly introduced. Helix concinna Jeffreys, is not men- 

 tioned, probable because it has been overlooked. In our 

 experience it is a species of wide distribution, and easily distin- 

 guished when living from H. hispida. 



Lists of the Actinozoa (24 species, all from Cumbrae) and of 

 the Foraminifera of the Firth, by Mr David Robertson, bring 

 the animals to a conclusion. 



With the exception of the Algae, (and of these a list of the 

 larger marine species is given), all the plants are catalogued. 

 ]\[r. James Ramsay writes the introduction to the Vascular 

 Flora, taking as his district the west of Scotland in the " wide " 

 sense, and chiefly noticing the rarer plants, as well as the 

 absence or rarity in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, of certain 

 plants usually common in cultivated ground. Mr Ramsay points 

 out that certain common weeds {Scandix, &c.,) even when they 

 manage to reach the Glasgow district, fail to establish themselves 

 there, and suggests that there is yet a great deal to learn about 

 the laws which regulate the distribution of plants over 

 even so small a country as Britain. The list of flowering plants is 

 compiled by Mr. R. M'Kay, chiefly from Mr. Kennedy's (whose 

 loss we have had recently to deplore), "Clydesdale Flora," 

 and is restricted to the Clydesdale s^Decies. Certain species 

 whose claims to nativity are, to say the least, doubtful, might 

 we think have been advantageously relegated to the list of 

 naturalized species which is given at the end; as it is they are in- 

 cluded in the principal list, without any remark to indicate their 

 doubtful nativity. The list is extensive, and probably tolerably 

 complete. That it is not quite so, the following plants which 

 we noticed on the rocks above Loch Oss, near Loch Lomond, 

 during a visit of about half an hour's duration show : — 

 Draba incana, Saxifraga nivalis, Vtronica saxatilis; and what 

 appeared to be Sparganium fiatans in the Loch. We recom- 

 mend the Field Naturalists to make an excursion to Loch Oss. 



To Dr. Stirton we are indebted not only for several lists but 

 for some highly interesting introductory remarks on the crypto- 

 gamic botany of the "West of Scotland." Dr. Stirton includes 



