The Scottish Naturalist. 197 



botularia, Winn. On Salix fragilis L., by Nematus salicdi 

 Fallen. 



In conclusion, I would refer students of this subject to a 

 paper on " British Gall-Insects " in the Entomologists' Annual 

 for 1872, by Mr. A. Miiller, both on account of the information 

 about galls in the paper itself, and of the references given by 

 him. Let us hope he will soon find himself able to begin his 

 promised descriptive list of British galls. 



Betula.— I have three specimens of a Betula from Ben Avon, Braemar, and 

 Ben Vachart near Struy (J. Hall), which do not well accord with our recog- 

 nized species, and I have long since labelled them B. intermedia or B. kumilis. 

 Colonel Brown of Thun, Switzerland, an excellent authority, named a plant of 

 Dr. Balfour's from Clova, B. intermedia (Mag. Xat. Hist., ser. 2. i. 447) ; and 

 I have long expected that in some of the mountain excursions of the Edinburgh 

 professor, we should hear again of the plant. I am as unable as ever to name 

 my specimens, which I have had since 1839 and 1842, and wish to direct the 

 special attention of botanists who visit the Scottish Highlands to the small 

 shrubby forms of Betula to be found there. Mr. H. C. Watson (Comp. Cyb 

 Brit. 560) speaks of the plants as "error " but does not give his reasons either 

 there or in Cyb. ii. 382, or iii. 507. The plants have nothing to do with my 

 attempted split of B. nana adverted to in the same place. — C. C. Babing ton 

 (in Journal of Botany, new series, vol. I., March, 1872.) 



VARIOUS NOTES. 



Mr. M. C. Cooke, the accomplished mycologist, announces his intention, 

 should he meet with sufficient support, of publishing a monthly magazine entirely 

 devoted to cryptogamic botany. In conducting this magazine— for which the 

 appropriate name " Grevillea" is proposed- -Mr. Cooke will be assisted by 

 various specialists — Dr Lauder Lindsay, Dr Braithwaite. «.vc. It is to be hoped 

 that Mr. Cooke will be enabled to carry out his laudable plan. 



Of Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser's work on the " Birds of Europe," several 

 numbers have appeared since we last noticed it. The articles on the Hoopoe 

 and Little Stint are especially noteworthy for their elaborateness and the amount 

 of careful study that they display. 



Entomologists, whose range of ideas extends beyond the confines of Britain, 

 will find all the latest intelligence regarding their favourite science duly chronicled 

 in the " Petites Nouvclles Entomologiqucs' 1 ' which, under the editorship of M. E. 

 Deyrolle (19 Rue de la Monnaie, Paris), appears on the 1st and 15th of each 

 month. French entomologists are at present laudably engaged in raising funds 

 to assist in " la liberation du territoire" from the occupation of the Germans. 



Another French periodical which may interest some of our readers is the 

 " Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistcs" edited by M. E Dollfus, (29 Avenue Mon- 

 taigne, Paris). This contains articles in various branches of natural history. 



