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The Scottish Naturalist. 



W. Newbould, Dr William Traill, North Ronaldshay, John 

 Jeffrey, Balsusney; (in part II, p. 342) Sir Walter Elliott (in part 

 HI, (pp. 508-524) Professor Alexander Dickson, Dr. John T. 

 I. Boswell of Balmuto, Rev. Churchill Babington. D.D., John 

 Percy, M.D., F.R.S., Dr. James S. Crichton, Arbroath, and 

 John Allen ofTanhill. 

 Three Reports of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club are 



included, chiefly from the pen of Dr. Craig : — 



(1) In 1886, to G-len Spean and Pitlochry (pp. 65-73), several rare 



plants were found, the rarest being Saxifraga ccespitosa, found sparingly on a 

 mountain in Glen Spean. 



Report on a visit to Applecross, by the Members of the 

 Summer Camp, 1886, by John Allen, with lists of Phanerogams and 

 Algse. 



(2) In August, 1887, to the Hardang-er District of Norway. A 

 full list of the Phanerogams observed is given. Connected with this excursion 

 are three papers by Professor James W. H. Trail, — two on The Galls of 

 Norway (pp. 201-19, and 482-86), the third being an Enumeration of 

 Fungi collected in Hardanger, in 1887 (pp. 487-94)) some being 



regarded as new. 



(3) To Sutherland and Caithness, in 1888. Mr. A. Bennett in 



his papers on the distribution of plants in Scotland, published more fully in 

 the Scottish Naturalist, has incorporated the records of novelties to the 

 respective Watsonian Counties and Vice-Counties. 



On a supposed new British species of Sagina [Boydiisf. n. ), by 

 Dr. Buchanan White (pp. 32-35), found by Mr. W. B. Boyd in Braemar, in 

 1878, probably on the Glen Callater hilh. 



Notes on British Species of Epilobium, by Ar. Bennett, F.L.S. 

 (PP- 47-5o). 



Ajuga pyramidalis in Dumfriesshire (in Black's-Hope Glen), 

 by J. Thorburn Johnstone (p. 389) ; several local or scarce plants are also noted 

 from the same glen. 



Notes on some Willows in Edinburgh University 

 Herbarium, by Dr. F. B. White (pp. 441-43), deals with the identity of 

 the Scotch examples collected by Greville and others, and preserved in the 

 Herbarium, as determined by Dr. White in his exhaustive investigation of the 

 British Willows. 



On the occurrence of Zostera nana Roth in the Firth of 

 Forth, by Wm. Evans, F.R.S.E. (pp. 413-16). 



Note on Juncus alpinus, Vill. (from Perthshire), by Dr. F. B. White 

 (pp. 3I3-I4-) 



On the occurrence of Calamagrostis stricta var. boreal is 

 Hartm. in Scotland (on the Tay, in Mid-Perth, found by Mr. Druce), 

 recorded by Mr. Ar. Bennett, F.L.S. 



Additions to the Scottish Flora during 1887, with a resume 

 of the year's work (pp. 178-83), and Notes on the Records of Scottish 

 Plants during 1888 (pp. 417-20), both by Ar. Bennett, F.L.S. 



List of New and Rare Plants presented to the Herbarium 



