No. XLVIII. 



OCTOBER 1882. 



THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



A QUARTERLY 



paga^int of |tatural |3isfar|^/i ^ # ^ < 



Edited by F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D.,\f3lS. ^ 





CONTENTS. 



Zoology— 



The Lepidoptera of Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer Hebrides, 



Editor, 



Endromis versicolor, — L. D. Dunbar, ..... 



Phytology— 



Rediscovery of Caltha radicans, — Walter Graham, . 



The Gaelic Names of Plants {concluded), — J. Cameron, 



A New List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Orkney {continued), — ■ 



W. Irvine Fortescue, ....... 



The Flora of the South-west of Scotland, ..... 



Sphagnum Austini, &c, in the South-west of Scotland,— James 



M 'Andrew, 



Notes on some Perthshire Plants, — Editor, .... 



Title-page and Index to Volume VI. 



Page 



337 

 344 



345 

 347 



362 

 375 



378 

 378 



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