Il8 THE SCOTTISH BOTANICAL REVIEW 



Petasites alhis, Gaertn., in Fife. — A specimen of this plant was 

 brought to me in February ; it was found growing near a burn in the 

 Chapel district, and was first noticed in flower at the beginning of 

 February. This species seems to be spreading in Scotland, and is 

 well established in several places in the counties of Edinburgh and 

 Linlithgow. I am not aware of it having been recorded before for 

 this side of the Forth. N. Miller Johnson. 



Notes from Current Literature. 



"Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh " (No. xxii., 

 November 191 1), deals with Scheuchzeria palustris, L. — This was 

 discovered in fair quantity on Rannoch Moor in July 19 10 by 

 G. W. Scarth, growing in a very wet peaty marsh associated with 

 Carex limosa. In these notes Mr. Scarth gives a summary of the 

 British localities where the plant has been observed. Four of these 

 are in or near the Vale of York, four in Shropshire, and one in 

 Northampton. The only known Scottish station was the White 

 Myre of Methven, but Perthshire botanists have failed to find it in 

 recent years, probably as a result of the change of vegetation due 

 to the nesting of a colony of black-headed gulls. It is therefore 

 of interest to have the record of the occurrence in Scotland of this 

 rare plant. 



In the December number of the " New Phytologist " is an interest- 

 ing account of the "floristic results" of the International Phytogeo- 

 graphical excursion in the British Isles which was so successfully 

 undertaken last summer. A considerable number of additions to the 

 British Flora were noted, chiefly owing to the wider knowledge of 

 our Continental friends, and of these a considerable number are 

 from Scotland. This should encourage our Scottish workers to 

 redouble their energies, as there certainly is a vast amount of valu- 

 able floristic work still to be done ; in the lowlands of Scotland in 

 particular. 



The novelties include Castalia alba. Wood, var. Candida (Presl.), 

 from a loch near Dunkeld and from Galway. Mr. Druce says : "The 

 distinguishing characters are the absence of stamens from the upper 

 part of the ovary, leaving the neck bare ; the pollen grains are smooth 

 (not tuberculate, as in alba) and somewhat larger. The lowest pair 

 of leaf-veins are curved, and, if produced, would cross, enclosing an 

 oval area." 



Sagina nodosa, Fenzl., var. monilifera, Lange, Southport dunes, etc. 



A Sagina from Ben Lawers, which has long been a cause of 

 perplexity to botanists, was the cause of much discussion, but 

 pending further examination it has been assigned to Sagina glabra, 

 Koch. Mr. Druce says : " From S. sagi?wides it may be known by its 



