3$ 6 The Scottish Naturalist. 



365. Sylvaticum Sm. 



ii. Sub-species tridentatum Fr. Aberuchill 1875 (J. 

 Cosmo Melvill). 



219. Saxifraga rivularis L. Mr W. West has sent me a 

 specimen gathered by himself on Ben Lawers in 1 880. 



386. Pyrola rotundifolia L. Having had an opportunity of 

 consulting the late Mr H. C. Watson's herbarium, now 

 at Kew, I find that the entry in Topographical Botany 

 of Mid Perth for the species is based on a specimen 

 collected at "Dunkeld" by J. G. Lyon, and sent 

 out by the Botanical Society of London in 1840. I 

 hope some one may rediscover it at Dunkeld. 



From the list just concluded, it appears that in Perthshire 

 there are 792 species of flowering-plants and. ferns, representing 

 348 genera. If, however, for the sake of comparison with the 

 London Catalogue of British Plants, we count the sub-species 

 as species, we arrive at a total of 876 species out of 1665 enu- 

 merated in the London Catalogue. 



The Flora of Arbroath and its Neighbourhood. — The little book, of 

 which the above is the title, and which in its " get-up " is extremely credit- 

 able to Arbroath, has been prepared by a Committee of the Arbroath Horti- 

 cultural and Natural History Association, and while (as we learn from 

 the preface) not professing to have any very high scientific value, will yet, 

 we are persuaded, amply fulfil the objects for which it has been compiled. 

 The district embraced by the flora is the space included by the triangle 

 that would be formed by a line drawn from Montrose to Forfar and from 

 Forfar to Dundee, the sea-coast making the third side. As the species 

 are not numbered, nor any census given, we are unable to say how many 

 plants are grown within these boundaries ; but from a rough calculation, 

 we judge that about 500 flowering-plants and ferns are enumerated, from 

 which we imagine that the list is not very far from complete. That it is not 

 absolutely complete, may be gathered from the fact that such plants as 

 Cardamine sylvatica, Cerastium semidecandrum, Myosolis collina, &c. , are 

 not enumerated. In addition to the flowering - plants, lists of mosses, 

 lichens, and sea-weeds are given. As regards these, and in some measure 

 but not to the same extent as regards the flowering-plants, we think it 

 a great mistake to coin, or at least endeavour to perpetuate, what are 

 known as "English names." The young botanist, however ignorant he 

 may be of Latin, will find it quite as easy to remember the scientific names 

 (which sooner or later he must make himself acquainted with), as to 

 endeavour to get up the grotesque combination of English and Latin, fa- 

 cetiously called " popular names." 



