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natum, gathered by him at Craighalkie, Tomintoul, Banffshire, on limestone, 
in August, 1866. He also sent specimens of Draba incana, from Greywacke, at 
Boyndie, Banffshire, a few feet above the sea-level, gathered on 10th August, 
1864, and also from schistose rock at Ailnathside, Glenavon, in the same 
county. These specimens exhibited considerable variations from those found 
in high alpine districts. Mr. William Cameron, schoolmaster, Balquhidder, 
sent a specimen of Elatine herandra, gathered in Loch Voil dF. 
Duthil mentioned the occurrence of Verbascum Lychnitis on the Castle Rock, 
at Stirling. 
A yellow-fruited variety of the Butcher's Broom (Ruscus aculeatus) has 
been gathered by Mr. Shortt in the woods at Heckfield. 
We have to record the death of Professor Gasparini, of Naples, whose nam 
is c known from his inquiries into many abstruse and difficult bélncical 
subject 
Dr. F. Schultz has just issued the ninth and tenth centuries of his ' Her- 
barium Normale. Besides many established species, these two fascicles con- 
tains a considerable number of the species recently established by Jordan, 
Bonn Mueller, ete. 
A.—Mr. T. R. A. Briggs requests that the station (given at page 290) 
The two reference letters attached to the first couple of characters in the arti- 
ficial key to the Sor at page 302 should be transposed. The'error in the 
text occurs in the original of Crépin, and its correction was overlooked in the 
transcription. 
