Annals of Scottish Natural History (Volume 37-40) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOTANY. .ON The Alpine Flora Of Clova. By Miss M. Thomas. Trans, of Perthshire Soc. N. S. iii., 1900, pp. 60-69.?Is a good sketch of this most interesting flora. Plant Associations Of The Tay Basin, Part II. By Robert Smith, B.Sc. Trans, of P. S. N. S. iii., 1900, pp. 69-87, with a map.? This, the last work of its author's brief life, is a very valuable contribution to our knowledge of plant-distribution in Scotland. The Woodlands Of Perthshire. By Henry Coates, F.R.S.E. Proc. of P. S. N. S. iii., 190,0, pp. 59-64. Botanical Notes On The Selkirk Meeting (of The BerWickshire Naturalists' Club). By Rev. David Paul. Hist. Berw. Nat. Club, xvii., 1900, pp. 49-50. On The Cultivation Of Mycetozoa From Spores. By Arthur Lister, F.R.S. Journ. Hot., 1901, pp. 5-8. Some British Violets. By Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 9-12.?Discusses and describes the forms into which Viola tricolor, L. (Sensu latiorf) may be divided in Britain. Robert Smith (1873-1900). Journ. fiat., 1901, pp. 30-32.?Is a reproduction, with a portrait of the obituary by Prof. D'Arcy Thompson in College Echoes for gth November 1900. A Disease In Turnips Caused By Bacteria. By W. Car- ruthers, F.R.S., and A. Lorrain Smith. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 33-36, and Journ. of Roy. Agric. Soc., 1901.?Describes and figures a serious disease very prevalent in parts of Yorkshire, and observed in two localities in Dumfriesshire, most hurtful to Swedish turnips, less so to yellow turnips and to cabbages, caused by an organism named by Prof. Potter Pseudomonas destructans. New British Hepatice. By Symers M. Macvicar. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 36-37.?Enumerates five species new to British records, as the result of a fortnight's visit in June 1900 to the Ben Lawers district. On Certain Galls In Furc...