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the establishment of a liepiibHc. This coup cVHat in two 



years all but ruined the country ; and now, when too late, 



Brazil sees that the usurpation was not only a crime, but a 

 blunder. 



The following papers were read : — 



Supplementary Notes on the Marine Alg.e of the 

 Orkney Islands. By George William Traill. 



Notes on the PiEcords of Scottish Plants for 1891. 

 By Arthur Bennett. 



As year by year these records are made up from corre- 

 spondents, the fact of the large number they amount to, 

 cannot but be noticed by anyone who follows their 

 publication. 



No doubt to some extent they are expanded (outside the 

 names of " Topographical Botany," 2nd ed.) by the numerous 

 segregates of some of the critical genera ; yet still with this 

 in view, it seems that the commoner species are very far from 

 yet being fully recorded ; rarieties are sure to be named — 

 not so the common species. 



The second edition of " Topographical Botany " bears the 

 date of 1883. By 1893 we may be able to say and show 

 what counties in Scotland the British types of Watson are 

 absent from with some degree of safety — (though in this, 

 as in local floras, finality is impossible) — and if not by 

 counties, at least by sub-provinces. It will then be an 

 easy matter for any botanist in any one county to jot down 

 these wanted species, and keep a " look out " for them in 

 his walks. 



Though these records have, here and there, scattered 

 among them, altitudes of species above those hitherto 

 known, still they are by no means so numerous as I could 

 wish. Equally so is it desirable to ascertain the lower 

 limits of many of the boreal species, and put them on 

 record. 



I would suggest to Scottish botanists the need of careful 

 searching of the two groups of islands, the Outer and Inner 



