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only native specimens of Menziesia caerulea in that herbarium, are three little scraps, 

 marked in Sir James Smith's handwriting, as from ' the Western Isles of Shiant,' but 

 without any mention of the person by whom they were collected. Smith has left no 

 memorandum on the subject, either in his herbarium, or in the interleaved copy of his 

 ' English Flora.' Professor Don, who has seen the specimens, does not think they 

 were sent by his father." — p. 141. 



In the Shiant Isles, our tourists were much struck with the kixuri- 

 ant growth of many of the plants; some specimens of Carex binervis 

 " were fiill five feet in length, and had small spikes produced in the 

 place of the lower flowers of several of the fertile catkins. Many of 

 the spikes were male in the upper half and female in the lower." 



Juncus balticus was gathered in profusion at Barvas ; where also 

 Petasites vulgaris was observed to be very abundant, and its roots are 

 given to cattle in the winter months. 



On the northern shore of Loch Maree, at Polewe, in Ross-shire, 

 Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi was seen in abundance, " descending almost 

 to the edge of the water ; and in one place there are the remains of a 

 forest of Pinus sylvestris, Quercus Robur and Populus tremula, occu- 

 pying the clefts and ledges of lofty and almost perpendicular rocks, 

 rising directly from the water. Many of the noble fir-trees assumed 

 the most picturesque forms, spreading their stems, branches and roots 

 over the face of the rock, in a truly remarkable manner." 



The next article is a Catalogue of the plants collected in the above 

 excursion. The list, including varieties, consists of 325 flowering 

 plants, 23 Filices, Lycopodiacese and Equisetaceae, 50 Mosses, 11 

 Jungermanniae, 27 Lichens and 24 Algae. A great proportion of 

 the plants are species looked upon as common by the English bota- 

 nist. By observations made in this excursion, the northern range of 

 the following plants, in degrees of latitude, has been ascertained to 

 extend beyond that previously recorded. Namely : — Ranunculus 

 sceleratus, |°. Sinapis alba, |°. Sagina maritima, ^°. Callitriche 

 pedunculata, 45-°. Daucus Carota, 5-°, Myosotis caespitosa, 2°. Atri- 

 plex erecta, 6°. Rumex aquaticus, 2°. Salix alba, 1°. S. vimina- 

 lis, 1°. Potamogeton oblongus, 6°. Avena strigosa, V. 



We have already given a long extract from the Rev. J. E. Leefe's 

 paper ' On the Groups Triandrae and Fragiles of the Genus Salix,' 

 (Phytol. i. 175). The author describes at some length the species of 

 these groups believed by him to be distinct. 



For reports of Dr. Dickie's papers on the occurrence of Gelidium 

 rostratum at Aberdeen, and on the presence of iodine in certain mari- 

 time plants, see Phytol. i. 239 and 463. 



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