14-4 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lxiii. 



would hold good ; but our physiological rationale would 

 have to be reduced to a suggestion that the interpolated 

 nuclear division permitted the development from a sexual 

 or asexual spore of an offspring differing widely from 

 that which the spore originally produced in more primitive 

 types. 



LITERATURE. 



For the literature cited see — 



1. Zimmerman. — Die Morphologie des Pflanzlichen Zellkernes. 



1896. 



2. C. ^lacMillan. — Some Considerations on the Alternation of Genera- 



tions on Plants. — Lincoln, Nebraska. 189G. 



3. E. Strasburger. — Ueber Befruchtung. — Pringsli. Jalirb., p. 406 



Bd.oO. 1897. 



4. A. MoUer. — Protobasidiomyceten. — Schimper, Bot. Mittheil. aus- 



den Tropen. 1895. 

 0. Thaxter. — Contribution towards a Monograph of the Laboul- 

 beniacefe. — Mem. Amer. Acad, of Arts and Sc, Boston. 1896. 



6. G. de Lagerheim. — Dijwda.scns albidns. — Jahrb. f. wissensch. 



Bot. xxiv. Berlin. 1892. 



7. F. Oltmanns. — Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Florideen. — 



Bot. Zeit., p. 99 Bd. 56. 1898. 



8. D. H. Scott. — Address to the Botanical Section, British Associa- 



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9. G. Massee. — A Monograph of tlie Geoglossese. — Annals of Bot., 



vol. xi. p. 2;)U. 



Some Notes on Andromeda Polifolia, Linn., with 

 Special Eeference to a New Station in the Liddesuale 

 District of Eoxiu;i;ghsiiire. T.y Symington CIrieve. 



(Read 12th -January 1.S99.) 



Andromeda iiuiij'otdi, Linn., is a plant that 1 have been 

 able to obtain very little information al)0ut. It is, how- 

 ever, not very common in Scotland, as it is only noted in 

 the second edition of Watson's " Topographical Botany " 

 as being found in the following Watsonian vice-counties, 

 viz. : — Dumfries, Kirkcudljright, Ayr, Eenfrew, Lanark, and 

 West Perth. The West Perth station is given by Watson 

 from a specimen from a herbarium sent liim by Dr. 

 Stevenson Bushnan, Init whetlier collected by Dr. Bushnan 

 himself does not seem clear. The station referred to is 

 probably Blairdrummond Moss, on the north bank of the 

 Forth, and which is mentioned as a station for this plant by 

 the late Dr. I>uchanan Wliite, at p. 234 of tlie " Scotti-sh 



