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Almq., Polygala calcarea F. Sch. from limestone hillocks at Durness. Mr. 

 Hanbury also records Carex rigida var. inferalpina Lcest. from Little Kil- 

 rannoch in Forfarshire, and a Ceraslitcm, probably C. arciiatm Lange from the 

 Cairngorms. Carex helvola Blytt in Britain, by Ar. Bennett (see 

 Scot. Nat., April, 1886). (July.) Notes on the Flora of St. Kilda, 

 by R. M. Barrington, is an enumeration of all the Flowering Plants found by 

 him in June, 1885. Notes on British Rubi, by Prof. C. C. Babington 

 (notes some Scottish forms). (August.) -Notes on British Rubi, con- 

 tinued. (September.) The Mosses of RoSS-shire, by H. N. Dixon. 



(October.) Flora of Colonsay and Oransay, by W. F. Miller 



(enumerates additions to earlier lists of Flowering Plants). (November.) 



Caithness and West Sutherland Plants, by F. J. Hanbury 

 (new records for both counties). (December. ) The Distribution of 

 Potamogeton in Britain, by Ar. Bennett (gives a few new Scotch 

 records). New Records, by Rev. W. R. Linton (enumerates a few plants 

 not in earlier records for Caithness, West Sutherland, Orkney and Shetland. 



1887 January.) Carex atrata in Easterness (in the Larig Pass), by 

 H. & J. Groves. 



{February.) Webera cucullata Schwaegr. in Britain (on Ben At- 

 tow, Ross-shire, at from 3,500 to 4,000 ft. above sea level), by H. N. Dixon. 

 Agropyrum violaceum Hornem. in Scotland (on Ben Lawyers, 

 about 1,000 ft. below the summit, on 30th July, 1878), by J. Cosmo Melvill. 



{May.) Notes on British Characese for 1886, by H. & J. Groves, 

 records from Scotland: Chara fragilis from Shetland, C. contraria from 

 Caithness (Western Loch, J. Grant), C. vulgaris, Elgin, and var. melanopy- 

 reua, Caithness (Ben Dorrery, A. Davidson), Nitetta opaca Kg. Dumfries 

 Sutherland W. , Shetland. 



GREVIL.L.EA (1885, March). British Sphseropsideae, by M. C. 



Cooke, records the following from Scotch localities not noted in "Mycologia 

 Scotica." Septoria Unedonis Desm. on Arbutus Unedd, Glasgow ; S. Cerastii 

 Desm. on Cerastium, Menmuir ; S. Hydrocotyles Desm., Aboyne ; S. lamiicola 

 Sacc, on Lamium. Glamis ; S. scabioscerola Desm., on Scabiosa, Glasgow ; S. 

 gracillima Cooke, on Carex, near Edinburgh ; S. Traillii Cooke, on Scirpus 

 lacustris, "Aberdeen (Prof. Traill)" (this seems to be only S. dolichospora 

 Trail, renamed, without reason assigned) ; Leptostroma scirpinum Fr., on 

 Scirpus, &c, Berwick ; L. herbarum Link, on herb stems, Kinross, Berwick 

 Discosia artocreas (Tode) Sacc, on leaves of Fagus, &c. , Perth. (June.) 

 British Sphseropsideae, by M. C. Cooke, records from Scotland certain 

 species not included in " Mycologia Scotica" or its supplements, viz.: 

 Gloeosporium paradoxum De Not., on Ivy leaves ; Libertella betulinaDesm., 

 on Birch bark, at Glamis; Didymosporium profusum Grev., and Stilbospora 

 macrosperma Pers., on Oak branches. New British Fungi enumerate*, 

 and describes three from Forres, found by Rev. J. Keith, viz., Ovularia 

 Doronici Sacc, Ramularia Adoxcz Fckl., and Septoria Adoxce Fckl. 

 (September.) British Pyrenomycetes, by G. Massee, is a revision of 



