98 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxyi. 



Trail's notice when he drew up his " Topographical Botany 

 of the River-Basins of Forth and Tweed " (Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edin., 1903). William Evans. 



Petasites albus, 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. 



Note on some vice-county records of Comus suecica, 

 Linn., etc. — To the list of Scottish vice-counties from which 

 Comus suecica has been recorded, given by Mr. G. G. 

 Blackwood (p. 97), must be added 87 (So. Perth) and 111 

 (Orkney). In the former it has long been known to grow 

 sparingly on Ben Ledi, where it was gathered by Professor 

 J. H. Balfour and party on 21st July 1860, and in subse- 

 quent years, as recorded in his " Botanical Excursions," 

 pp. 309, etc. I have before me a specimen collected there 

 so recently as July 1907. The Orkney record — from the 

 island of Hoy — is given by Mr. Arthur Bennett in " Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1908, p. 251. To the English vice- 

 counties should be added 59 So. Lancashire {id., ibid., 1911, 

 p. 190). William Evans. 



Saxifraga aizoides, L. — Among plants from Orkney 

 sent by Mr. M. Spence are two specimens of the above 

 Saxifrage, and answering to the description of the /. 

 aurantia of Hartmann, "Vet. Ak. Handl.," 1818. The 

 leaves are orange, shading to yellow at the apex. The 

 lower stem leaves are suffused with red, and the fruit is 

 orange-red (only half -ripe). The leaves are quite entire, 

 very thick, with here and there a long patent hair. This 

 form occurs in Norway, with the ordinary form in Sweden, 

 and rarely in Russian and Finnish Lapland. Is not the 

 figure in " English Botany," t. 59, quite a rare form ? I 



