30 The Scottish Naturalist. 



There are hundreds of things done in the worst taste, which 

 people would be ashamed to do if they were botanists. 



And botany is intimately connected with Theology. As 

 Shelley says, — 



" Nothing in this world is single, 

 All things by a law divine, 

 In one another's being mingle." 



So even the grass of the field or the moss on the wall speak 

 not only of themselves, but of the God who made them, and 

 declare His power and goodness in words easily read. From 

 nature we cannot help turning to nature's God. Well did the 

 great German poet make the spirit of nature say — 



" Still at the roaring loom of time I ply, 

 And weave for God the garment that thou seast Him by. '' 



Glasgow, November, 1872. 



SCOTTISH GALLS. 



By J. W. H. TRAILL, M. A. 



TOURING the past summer I have obtained numerous 

 ■*-^ additions to my collection of Scottish Galls, for a good 

 many of which I have to thank friends ; and I now lay the 

 result of my summer's work before the readers of this magazine 

 in the hope that they may be of some use to fellow-workers. 

 My observations have extended over a somewhat wider sphere 

 than was included in the former list, ranging over the greater partof 

 Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, and part of Perthshire 

 and Forfarshire. Any species of interest of those previously 

 described which I have met with in the two latter counties is 

 included in its proper place in this list, as are also those of 

 which I have been able to ascertain the makers. Some of the 

 additions are on plants on which I had previously found other 

 kinds of galls, but the majority are on plants on which I had 

 not previously found any. 



Brassica sikapistrum Boiss. (Sinapis arvensis L.) 



Raphanus raphanistrum L. — On these plants I have 

 found galls so similar in every way that one description 

 will serve for both. The galls are situated on the root, 



