Periodical Literature . 
XXXVll 
Science Gossip. 
No. 265. Keegan : The Minerals and Flowers of the Lake District. 
„ — Riches : The Economical Products of Plants. 
„ — Wheatcroft : Albino varieties. 
„ — Taylor : Seasonal Variation in the occurrence of Orchids. 
5 , 266. Saunders : Irregular appearance of Tolypella imbricata. 
„ — • — — : Irregular appearance of Bee Orchis. 
,, — Wallis: Amphipleura pellucida. 
„ — Paulson : Bees and flowers. 
„ 267. Gibbs : Variations in plants. 
„ 267, 268. George : Hooker’s Students’ Flora and the London Catalogue. 
„ 267. Brown : Salvia pratensis. 
„ — Collins : Fertilisation in flowers. 
„ 268. Wishart : The chickweed winter green ( Trientalis europaea). 
„ 269. Taylor : On Australian Forests. 
,, 270. Anald : Cephalanthera ensifolia. 
„ — Jeffrey : Irregular appearance of the Bee Orchis. 
Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. Vol. V, Part 2. 
Kidston : Notes on the Fossil Plants from Lochrim Bum, Corrie. 
Grant-Wilson and Macadam : Diatomaceous Deposits in Skye. 
Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. 
Series 4, Vol. XIX. 
Macdonald : Agriculture of the County of Renfrew. 
: Improvement of Hill-pasture without breaking it up. 
Oliver : Insects most injurious to Forest-trees, the diseases occasioned 
by them and the best means of prevention. 
Aitken : Reports of Experimental Stations : — 
I. Potato-crop, Harelaw, 1886. 
II. Manurial Experiment with Potatoes at Harelaw. 
III. Turnip- crop, Pumpherston, 1886. 
IV. Basic cinder and the manurial value of phosphate of different 
degrees of fineness. 
V. Ground felspar as a potash manure. 
Reports on silage made in pits and stacks, and sweet and sour silage in 
Scotland. 
Reports on the cereal and other crops of Scotland for 1 886. 
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Series 2, Vol. II, 
Part 10. 
Berkeley and Broome : List of Fungi from Queensland and other 
parts of Australia, Part III. 
Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glasgow. Vol I (New 
Series). 
Ewing : Notes on some Alpine Plants from Forfarshire and Aberdeen- 
shire. 
Cameron : Biological notes — On some Mite Galls. — On Galls of Ceci- 
domyiae. — Abundance of the Galls of Neuroterus in 1884.— On 
Fungoid Galls. 
McAndrew : On some Forms of Sphagna found in the Glenkens, 
Kirkcudbrightshire. 
