146 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, Vol. xi. Part i. pp. 68-120. With fourteen plates. — Informa- 

 tion concerning many species from various districts in Scotland has 

 been contributed by Mr. Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



[Reophax seottii {Chaster) in the Firth of Forth.] Mr. G. W. 



Chaster in his Report upon the Foraminifera of Southport District 

 (1st Rep. Southport Soc. Nat. Sci. 1890-91), at p. 57 describes 

 Reophax seottii, a new species, and mentions the Firth of Forth as 

 a habitat. The species is figured on Plate I. Fig 1. 



BOTANY. 



In Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, December 189 1. 



On Temperature and Vegetation in the Royal Botanic Garden 

 (Edinburgh), during July, August, September, and October, 1891. 

 By Robert Lindsay. 



On Temperature and Vegetation in the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Glasgow, during July, August, September, and October, 1891. By 

 Robert Bullen. 



The Roots of Grasses in relation to their upper growth. By 



Andrew P. Aitken, D. Sc. (with plates II. and III.) ; illustrates the 

 root growth between June 1889 and June 1890, of 14 pasture- 

 grasses ; and gives a table of the weights of the hay and stubble and 

 of the roots, distinguishing the quantity produced in the upper 8 

 inches from that produced in the 16 inches below. 



New Zealand Veronicas fit to be grown out-of-doors in 

 Scotland. (In the Presidential Address to the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh, November 1891, by Robert Lindsay), enumerates 

 18 hardy species that can stand the climate of Edinburgh, and 11 

 half hardy, and gives hints with regard to their cultivation and value 

 as ornamental plants. 



Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Tyndrum in 

 1891. By William Craig, M.D. The localities visited were Beinn 

 Laoigh on west, north, and east sides (very rich in Alpine plants) ; 

 Crom Allt on Beinn Odhar ; Lochan Bhe (in which a " very remark- 

 able variety " of Scirpus fluitans was found growing entirely under 

 water at a considerable distance from the edge) ; and the Corrie in 

 Cruach Ardran. 



(In Journal of Botany, January, February, and March 1892.) 



First Records of British Flowering Plants. Compiled by 

 William A. Clarke, F.L.S. "An attempt to extract from printed 

 botanical works published in Great Britain the earliest notice of 

 each distinct species of our native and naturalised flowering plants. 

 The following are noted from Scotland : R. reptans, L., 1777, at the 



