The Scottish Naturalist. 9 1 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 



JOURNAL OF BOTANY {August) Marsupella sparsifolia Lindb. by 

 W. H. Pearson, describes and figures a liverwort from Loch-na-gar in Aber- 

 deenshire ; Scottish Plants and Topographical Botany, by Prof. J. W. H. 

 Trail and John Roy, is a list of additions and corrections to the records in 

 H. C. Watson's Topographical Botany, ed. II. (Baker and Newbould) for the 

 counties of Forfar, Kincardine, Aberdeen, S. and N. Banff, and Elgin ; 

 Petasites officinalis Moench,, by G. Nicholson, calls attention to dioecism 

 in this plant, and indicates the differences between the male plants and the much 

 less common female plants. The female plants are recorded from Glasgow, 

 Edinburgh, and Aberdeen ; male plants alone were sent the writer from 

 Orkney. {September) Perthshire Plants and Topographical Botany by 

 Dr. F. Buchanan White, gives additions and corrections to the records for 

 Perthshire in its various divisions of east, mid, and west Perth. {October) 

 Shetland Plants, by H. N. Ridley, records Eryngium maritimum from 

 Fitful Head, and also a variety of Veronica officinalis approaching V. 

 hirsuta Hopkirk. {December, 1884) Additions to the Recorded Flora 

 of Skye and Plants Recorded in Westerness additional to "Topo 

 graphical Botany by the Revs. W. R. Linton and E. F. Linton. 

 {January, 1885.) Myosotis alpestris in Forfarshire, by F. Buchanan 

 White, M.D., notes the record in the report of the Botanical Record Club for 

 1883 of M. alpestris in Canlochan by Revs. H. E. Fox and E. F. Linton ; and 

 accounts for its occurrence by the fact that the seeds of this plant, as also of 

 various other alpines, were shown in Canlochan and on Ben Lawers, by a 

 horticulturist, with the result that Erinus alpinus, Primula auricula, and other 

 strangers were found in the former locality in 1880 by the Edinburgh Botanical 

 Society. None of the introduced species have appeared on Ben Lawers. It is 

 believed that the only seeds sown were those of showy species in common 

 cultivation. {February) New British and Irish Carices, by Arthur Ben- 

 nett, notes as Scotch C. salina Wahl. , var. kattegatensis Fries ; C. Goodenovii 

 Gay, var. juncella Fr. r rom Isle of Skye ; C. vesicaria L., var. ciichroa Anders. 

 (See earlier Nos. of Scottish Naturalist.) 



GREVILLEA {December, 1884.) On Fries' Nomenclature of Colours, 

 by Henry T. Wharton ; New British Fungi, by M. C. ' Cooke, notes from 

 Scotland only Entorhiza cypericola (Magn) Weber, and Melanotanium endo- 

 genum Unger, both extracted from the last number of the Scottish Naturalist, 

 but with the latter fungus erroneously referred to Galium Mollugo instead of 

 G. verum as its host in Scotland ; New and Rare British Fungi, by W. 

 Phillips and Charles B. Plowright, describes from Scotland (from Rev. Dr. 

 Keith of Forres) Agaricus {Cliiocybe) vermicularis Fr. A. {Hypholoma) hypox- 

 anthus sp. n., Nidularii confluens Fr, and Nordh. , Septoria Stellarice Rob. 

 and Desm., (common near Aberdeen also, J, W. H. T.) ; ALcidiiun Jacobaa 

 Grev. {Scot. Nat., 1884, p. 284), is referred to Puccinia Schroeteriana Plow, 

 and Magn. instead of to P. dioica Magn., to which Mr. Plowright originally 

 was inclined to refer it. (In Quarterly 'Journal of Microscopical Science for January, 

 Mr. Plowright describes it as new under name of P. Schczleriana). {March) 

 New British Fungi, by Dr. M. C. Cooke, notes Agaricus {Collybia) velutipes 



