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Notes on the Flora of Moffat District for 1891. By 

 John T. Johnstone. Trans. D. a?id G. N. H. and A. Soc, 1893. 

 — Includes four species confirmed for the district and numerous 

 local species, many being new to Dumfriesshire. 



A Contribution to the Cryptogamic Botany of the Moffat 

 District. By James M f Andrew. Trans. D. and G. N. H. 

 and A. Soc, 1893. — Refers chiefly to Mosses and Hepaticse, and 

 to some Lichens. 



Flora of Dumfriesshire and Dumfries District. Part II. 

 From Reseda luteola to end of Rhamnacece. Edited by G. F. Scott- 

 Elliott, assisted by various botanists and entomologists. Trans. D. 

 and G. N. H. a?id A. Soc, 1893. — In this are included, in addition 

 to the localities for the several species, a record of the insects 

 observed visiting the flowers in the district. 



An Essay at a Key to British Rubi. By Rev. W. Moyle 

 Rogers, F.L.S. Is concluded in Jonrn. Bot., February, and a full 

 index is given to all the numerous names. — No forms are referred to 

 as Scottish in the two last instalments. 



Rubus ammobius, Focke, in East Ross. By Edward S. 

 Marshall. Journ. Bot., March. — A few bushes on shingle by the 

 Carron river. 



Further Notes on Hieracia new to Britain. By Frederick 

 J. Hanbury, F.L.S. Concluded Journ. Bot, January. — Two doubt 

 ful forms from Scotland are described, but not named. 



Ajuga pyramidalis in Scotland. By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 

 Journ. Bot., February. — Discusses localities and effects of cultivation. 

 "The Old," in Caithness, is surely a misprint for " The Ord." 



Alisma Ranunculoides, var. zosterifolium, Fries, in 

 Britain. By Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. Journ. Bot., 

 February. Found in small pits near Beauly, East Inverness. The 

 form is described and full synonymy given. 



New British Fungi. By M. C. Cooke. Grcvillca, March. — 

 This paper includes and describes, among others, two species from 

 Scotland, viz. Geopyxis majalis, Fries, "on the ground, Scotland,'' 

 and Neotticlla <<ri/ia, Peck, vzx. flavodisca, Cooke and Massee, "on 

 the ground, among moss, lien Lawers, 2500 feet." 



Algological Notes. By T. II. Buffham, A.L.S. GrevilUa 

 March. — In this paper, and in the accompanying plate, are de 

 scribed and figured the plurilocular sporangia of Chorda Filum, 

 Giffordia Padina, sp. n., conjugation of zoogametes in Cladophora 



lanosa, and antheridia and spores of Trasiola stipitata. 



