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Id. — In September last I found, near Forres, in company with the Rev. 

 Messrs. Keith & Fergusson, Dothidea angelica; Fr. on Angelica sylvestris. I 

 do not remember having seen any record of this fungus (for whose name I 

 am indebted to Mr. C. B. Plowright) having been previously found in 

 Britain. — F. Buchanan White. 



Kobresia caricina Willd., in Argyleshire. — Last summer I found this 

 local sedge on a hill in this county, for which I think it has not been pre- 

 viously recorded. — F. Buchanan White. 



The Botanical Locality Record Club— Report of the Recorder for 

 1873.— This Club — of which the first report is now before us — was formed 

 "to collect, record, and publish the localities of rare local and other 

 British plants, with the view of ascertaining more correctly the special 

 circumstances as to soil, altitudinal range, &c, attending their geographical 

 distribution, and limiting or favouring their existence." "Moreover, one 

 of the main purposes of the Record Club is to assist in helping on to 

 symmetry and completion that edifice of Topographical Botany, towards 

 which far more than the foundation and the scaffolding has been contributed 

 by one hand alone." 



At the formation of the Club we were not quite satisfied as to either its 

 probable utility or indeed of the expediency of publishing the localities of 

 rare and local plants. . Now, however, we begin to think that a certain 

 amount (and we hope a good deal) of good work will be done by the Club, 

 and our fears regarding the possible extinction of local species are to a great 

 extent allayed by the regulations as to publication adopted by the Club. 

 "At the end of every year the locality-list shall be arranged and printed, 

 together with notes upon them, and a summary of the season's work. A 

 copy of this Report shall be the right of every member, and some few 

 others, who are eminent botanists, who would not be likely to abuse know- 

 ledge of locality ; and the chief Botanical Societies and Journals shall have 

 a copy sent them ; but none shall be offered for sale to the public, and no 

 member shall be allowed to subscribe for more than one copy." 



Further, it appears that in the case of very rare species the locality is 

 only given in general terms, though (we suppose) any member who is 

 desirous may get a more definite indication. Another great object of the 

 Club is to form a general herbarium of British plants (of the species recorded 

 — each member recording being bound to verify his record by a specimen 

 of the plant), which, when "worthy of acceptance," shall be presented to 

 the nation. In the meantime the herbarium belongs to the members, and 

 can be inspected by them at any time. 



Space will not permit us to enter at greater length into the objects of the 

 Club since we must devote a few words to the Report. 



In the summary, the Recorder after alluding to the objects of the Club, 

 points out that lists of the common plants of nine counties (as mentioned in 

 Mr. H. C. Watson's Topographical Botany) are still wanting, while the plants 

 of four others are but very imperfectly recorded. Amongst these we notice 

 Wigtown, Peebles, Selkirk, Stirling, Mull, and Western Ross. He sug- 

 gests to members who may visit any of these counties the propriety of pre- 

 paring a list by ticking off on a "London Catalogue" all the species 

 observed — the commonest as well as the rarest — and promises to such lists 



