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In October the gall falls, leaving the valves projecting from 

 the vein or midrib, (n) Last autumn, in Perthshire, I 

 found in great abundance the galls of Dryophanta Scutellaria 

 Oliv. (= Cynips folii Hartig.), and have reared the insects 

 from them during the winter. They are attached to the 

 midrib or chief veins, below the leaf. They are spherical, 

 and vary in diameter from ± to j-inch. Externally, they are 

 naked, nearly smooth, and red, or green mottled with white 

 spots. They are monothalamous. The walls are excessively 

 thick and fleshy, and contain much sap. (o) Galls of An. 

 dricus ramuli L. occurred to me rear Ballater and Banchory, 

 both last and this summer. They are attached to the male 

 catkins in masses averaging f-inch across, which look very 

 like rolled-up balls of whitish cotton. Each mass is made 

 up of a number of small galls about the size of a whin-seed; 

 which are monothalamous, and have hard compact walls ; 

 but are covered externally with long, flat, dry hairs, resem- 

 bling those of cotton, (p) Galls of Spathegaster baccarum 

 L., or " Currant Galls," are abundant in Aberdeenshire and 

 Kincardineshire in June. Dr. Buchanan White sent me 

 specimens from Perthshire also. They are globular and vary 

 from -j 1 ^ to J-inch in diameter. They are attached to the 

 lower surface of the blade of the leaf, in which case they 

 project slightly on the upper surface also, or to the catkin. 



(To be continued. J 



Poa sudetica.— In " The Scottish Naturalist,''' II. p. 32, I mentioned 

 having found Poa sudetica, but that the locality was not satisfactory. I have 

 since (13th May 1873,) fo und Jt m plenty, and apparently truly wild, in Spring- 

 wood Park woods, especially in one part of them, on a steep bank, under old 

 trees, which never could have been under cultivation, owing to the steepness of 

 it. Mr. Wemyss — who has been gardener upwards of twenty years— went with 

 me to examine the station, and he could not see any means by which it could 

 have been introduced. About a week afterwards Dr. F. Douglas visited it, and 

 he also is of opinion that it is truly wild there, especially as we could not detect it 

 in the park adjoining, although there are many suitable places under the trees 

 that are scattered about ; which shows that by whatever means it came there 

 at first, it would not be amongst the grass seeds with which the park was sown. 

 — Andrew Brotherston, Kelso. 



New British Oak-Galls.— 1 have recently found in Aberdeenshire galls of 

 Andricus amend Gir and A. quadri lincai us Hartig. which I believe have not 

 been observed in Britain before. Full description will lie given in the next 

 number of the Scottish Naturalist.— J. W. H. TRAILL, Old Aberdeen. 



