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NOTES ON THE BRITISH CHARACEZ FOR 1885. 
By Henry & James Groves. 
(Pxares 263 & 264). 


Tue past season, as regards the number of new county records, 
shows, as might be expected, a considerable falling-off when com- 
pared with previous years, but two species have been added to the 
certainly British Characea, viz., Nitella capitata and Chara inter- 
media. The discovery of a Tolypella in Caithness and Lychnothamnus 
stelliger in Surrey are the most important additional county records. 
It is nope) to be able to add several notes for the Irish 
counties 

We hav ve again to a our many correspondents for the speci- 
mens ae have kindly sen 

Cuara FraGILIs, Desv. goes 1883, W. Joshua; Hants N., 
1885 Pape C. E. Palmer; Sutherland E., 1885, fide O. Nordstedt; 
Kerry 8., 1885, E. F. éW.R. Linton ; Mayo E., 1885, i. F. dW. R. 
Linton. 

var. barbata. -—Salop, 1884, W. EF. Beckwith, comm. A. Ben 

var. capillacea. — Dorset, 1883, H. N. Ridley d W. Fa hint 
Carnarvon, 1885, J. EF. Griffith ; Pembroke, 1882, H. N. Ridley ; 
Down, 1885, R. L. Praeger, Hb. 8. A. Ste 

var. Hedwigii.—Stafts., 1885, H: Shaves “Any J & Galway W. , 
1885, C. Bailey. 

var. delicatula. — Anglesea, 1884, C. Bailey; Mayo E. & Gal- 
way W., 1885, (. Bailey ; Leitrim, 1884, R. M. Barrington. 

C. aspera, Willd. — Cheshire, —— 1885, H. Searle; Forfar, 
Reuhes Tee Loch, 1882, 4. Stur rock, a oa: Bennett : Galway W., 
Oughterard, 1885, EF. F. d W. R. Lin 

var. subinermis. meal Lough Noaght 1884, H. W. Lett, Hb. 
Joshua, 


- PaPILLOSA, Kuetz., Repombuty Bot. Zeit., 1834, i., p. 707; 
Phye. Germ., p. 260; Sp. Alg., p. 526; Tab. Phye O.; Vi; tab, 70, 
.1; Braun, Schweiz. Char., 1847, p.17; Wallman, Act. Stockh., 
1852 (1854), p. 308. 
Journan or Borany.— Vor. 24. [Jan., 1886.] = 


4 NOTES ON THE BRITISH CHARACE® FOR 1885. 


C. intermedia, Braun, R. & S. Exsice. (1859), Nos. 45 & 46; — 
Consp. Char. EKurop., p. 6; Krypt. Flor. Schles., p. 406; Fragm. 


[ : a 
Sver. Norg. Char., p. 33; Nordst., Bot. Notiser, 1868, p. 50; Leon- 
hardi, Oesterr. Arml., p. 80, ex parte; Sydow, Europ. Char., p. 62. 
xsicc._-Braun, R. & S., 45, 46, 98-5; Nordst. & Wahlst., — 
b ‘ 


of cortical cells to each branchlet, primary cortical cells more pro- — 
minent than the secondary. Spine-cells few, varying from long — 
q : : : 


u 
Phyc. much more closely resembles C. polyacantha, and Kuetzing’s 
specimen appears to belong to a form intermediate between C. 


C. papillosa occurs in Europe, chiefly in the Central and Western 


again found it in the same locality, although very sparingly, with 
young fruit, as shown in our plate. It will be seen by the long 
branchlets of the lower whorls that our representation is taken 
from a young plant. The ripe nucule is drawn from a Swedish 
specimen. : 

C. conrraria, Kuetz. — Oxon, Oxford, 1885, G. C. Drnce; Gal- 
way E., Lough Derg, 1885, FE. F. & W. R. Linton. : 

var. hispidula.--Mayo EK. & Galway W., Cong, 1885, C. Bailey. 

C. nisprpa, L. — Wilts N., 1885, G. C. Druce; Hereford, 1885, — 
A, Ley, 

+ voLearis, L, — Norfolk W., 1885, A. Fryer; Carmarthen, 
1885, O..Nordstedt; Limerick, 1885, 8. A. Stewart; Clare, 1886, 
R. P. Murray. ? 

var. longibracteata.—_Somerset 8., 1884, R. P. Murra ; Lines. N. 
1884, H. Searle, spt Area 

var. papillata.__Cheshire, 1885, H. Searle. 

var. crassicaulis.—Hunts., Ellington, 1884, W. R. Linton. 


LycunorHaunus steLLicER, Braun (C. obtusa, Desv.).— Surrey, _ 


NOTES ON THE BRITISH CHARACE® For 1885. 3 


Walton-on-Thames, 1885, H. G. An pas oat connecting link 
between the previous records of Norfolk and Dey 
is LYPELLA GLOMERATA, Leonh.—-Suffolk E., nr. frag South 
Town, 1885, H. d J. G.; Bedford, 1884, My Davis, comm. J. 
i 8 


specimens we have seen, ars to bear the same relationship to 
T. glomerata that T. Neewé maniana does to T’. nidifica 
T. mntricata, Leonh.—Hunts, St. Neots, 1885, W. R. Linton. 


ITELLA TRANSLUcENS, Ag.—Sutherland E., Lochinver, 1885, fide 
Dr. O. Norietett Kerry S., Killarney, 1885, 'E. F.& W. BR. Lin ton. 
N. FLEXILIs, o.—Stafis., Rudyard Lake, 1884, H. Searle, comm. 
A, Boinett: Notts .» near Workso op, 1885, H. Searle; Mayo E., 
Cong, 1885, E. F. & W. R. Linton. 
N. opaca, Piste — oes N., 1885, Miss C. E. Palmer; Kerry 8., 
1885, R. P. Murr . 


N. caprrata, ic Syst. Alg. (1824), p. 125; Wallm., Act. Stock- 
holm, iam (1854), p. 265, ex parte ; Wallst., Skand. Char. (1862), 
onog. Sver. Norg. Char., p. 15; Nordst t., Bot. Notiser, 
1868, p. 84; Rabenh., Krypt. Flor. ienhe (1863), p. 287; Leonh., 
Oesterr. Arml. (1864), p. 47; Braun, Consp. Char. Europ. (1867), 
p- 1; Monatsb. Akad. Berl., 1867, p. 801; Fragmente Monog. 
Char., p. 31; Sydow, Europ. Char. (1882), p. 12. 
C. capillaris, Krocker, Fl. Siles., iii. (1814), p. 62, fide Braun. 
C. capitata, Nees, Denkschr. Baier. Bot. Gesellsch., 1818, p. 80; 
, Ann 2. 


a alastidas Amici, Deseriz. di ale. sp. nuove di Chara (1827), 
p- 9; tab. i., figs. 2 & 8, tab. u. (extr. Mem. Acad. Modena 

N. syncarpa, var. gleocephala, Kuetz., Phye. Germ. (1845), 
p. 256. 
C. syncarpa, var. capitata, Gant., Oesterr. Char. (1847), p. 9 
(ea parte). 

npg ee —- Braun, R. & S., 26, 27, 28, 104; Nordst. & Wahlst., 

; Desmaz., Pl. Crit. F fi B19; Areschoug, Alg. Scand., 300; 

Billet, 1986-7. 

Stem slender. Whorls of 6-9 (usually 8) branchlets. Fertile 
mens usually in small compact heads, more or ae: enveloped in 

ucilage. Branchlets once divided into 2-4 one-celled acuminate 
reconary rays. Secondary rays equalling or iowtar than the pri- 


or oie so, with f getage nd chweas: ridges. Globules large. 
sr . 264. 

xceedingly beautiful species is most nearly allied to Y, 
opaca cae our British Nitellas, but may be at once distinguished 
by the erp tac enveloping the fertile. a and the more slender 
habit. It is generally distributed in Europe, but we have no 
records of it as. Russia or the Thevian Peninsula. It has also 
been found in North Africa, Asia, and North America. N. capitata — 


4 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. a 
_ Spe ane. last spring by our friend, Mr. Alfred Fryer, in 
f the Wash ditches near Sutton, Cambridgeshire. It is 
+i catiivibe that the discovery should have been made by this 
enthusiastic botanist, ve has done so much towards working out 
the Flora of the Fen ¢ 
s stated in our Saver. Braun a hale pe from Llyn 
Idwal, Killarney, and Stowting to this speci We have had an 
opportunity of examining fresh SB es the Aan Idwal 
itella, collected by eee J. KE. Griffith and H. Groves, but 
no trace of any mucil. 
Mr. Fryer has sent us ieee: of the peculiar monecious 
Nitella _— to in our Notes for 1884 (Journ. Bot., 1885, p. 83) 
in West Norfolk; we are not, however, yet in a position 
to ome a definite opinion wpon it. : 


ON THE RELATION OF THE BRITISH FORMS OF 
UBI TO THE CONTINENTAL TYPES. 


By J. G. Baker, F.R.S. 


Tue subject of the relationship of the British forms of Rubi to 
the continental types is one of great interest. 2 is io in Central 


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their distribution, given by Nyman in the first part of his ‘Con- 
ee "U8T8), embodies the results of the labours of Dr. Focke, © 
as worked out in detail in his “ Synopsis Ruborum Germania” of 
1877. Dr. Focke has — the German Rubi much more _ 


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RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 5 


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d Heidelberg. After wee 
ak to England I took, pase by Mr.: Newbould and m 
son, several walks in the north of Surrey, to hunt up siuinble- 
stations for Mr. Beeby. The fe ale sets thus obtained, the English, 
the Belgian, and the German one, I asked Dr. Foeke to examine 
and rep sort upon, and he has now most kindly done so. at I 
propose to do in the present paper is to go through the list in 
man seriatim, and to place our English forms under his types as 
accurately as the material which I have at command will as 
e to do. ist does not pretend to be exhaustive, and i 
mainly confined to the British forms which I have myself oa 


Thee are two renege at the outset to be re in 
adjusting to Nyman’s the British catalogue of for Nyman’s 
list throughout runs ego parallel with Focke’s, with one im- 
portant exception. The groups are the same as in Focke, except 
that the large centr tral group of the Adenophori quite disappears. 
Some of the forms classed by Focke as ddenophori are mentioned 
y Nyman under other groups, as, for instance, chlorothyrsos, Gremlit 
and Leyi are placed by Nyman under silvaticus in the Villicaules 
group, but several of Focke’s other Adenophori, as, for instance, our 
most satisfactory British repreSentative of the group, the Rubus 
infestus of Weihe and Nees, I cannot trace in Nyman anywhere. I 


ped 
group Adenophori in proper —— e should come on page 218 in 
yman, between the Tomentost and the V estit 

= other difficulty whale I find in dealing with Nyman’s cata- 
logue is that Genevier’s labours on the West French forms are 
eon fF all taken into account. In Genevier’s ‘Essai mono- 
graphique sur les Rubus da) bekain du Loire,’ which was published 
in 1869, 208 species are named and defined. It is only iy maaeaiae 
to suppose that the West French forms will in many cases fit in 
better with ours than those of Central re nletins but at least half 
the names employed by Genevier are not included in Nyman at all. 
The task of adjusting sg French to the German nomenc 
still remains to be perform 

In the following list the grou and numbers are followed as 
they stand in Nyman’s enumeration 


Ipmosatus Focke. 


1. Rubus Ideus has a very wide European distribution. I 
found the ordinary Jdeus just as plentiful about Spa and along the 
Rhine fo it is in the south-west of Surrey or in the English lake 
district. I have a German specimen from Bamberg, cee by 
Koohler, given me by Dr. Focke, which entirely agree 
English Leesii, and another (var. sterilis Koehler) ek is inter- 
mediate between this and the type. There has been “Ghronicle® 


esit lately, in the ‘G 
on. xx. (1888) pp. 12, 150, 214, 276 and 342), and a 


figure (tab. 8) has been _ from a — imen sent by a neighbour 


6 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 


of mine in Yorkshire (Mr. Culverwell, of Bedale), who believed 
that he had produced it by hybridisation between the Raspberry 
and the Strawberry ! 
Kupsatus Focke. 
Group. 1.—Suberecti. 
2. R. suberectus.—What I have from Dr. Focke - —— and 


fissus ee agree with what we understand by those names in 
Engla e found undoubted suberectus this ee in small 
quantity in the lane between ‘ Wheat Sheaf Inn’ and Virginia 


— station, which is the first satisfactory Surrey station I have 


om: R. sulcatus Vest. — Of this I have seen several dried speci- 


mens, but have not gathered it. It differs from suberectus by its 
more elongated inflorescence and by ita stouter prickles and 
stalked lower leaflets. As it extends from sts ermany to Norway 


and Sweden it is not unlikely to oceur in Brita 
4, R. plicatus W. & N.——Here, again, the cavwitaalsial plant, 
which I saw rat copiously stan Spa and in the Neckar 
— entirely agrees with what we call by this name in Britain. 
5. R. nitidus W. & N.—tThis scien from plicatus in the direc- 
tion re Dr. Focke gives it as British on the oo 
of nshire specimens from Mr. Briggs. Long ago Genevier 
told nie ‘abe same thing about this Devon plant, “ _ bin = . 
specimens were sabe teh both by Mr. Brigg: in 
place in a wooded valley at Ivybridge, in June, 1865, he ee i 22 
on waste heathy rie: 8 above the Combe at Egg Buckland in June, 
18 myself seen similar forms near Witley in Surrey 
and in Woolmer forest in one eae The plant is well figured 
in the ‘ Rubi Germanici’ (tab. 4.) 
. R.afinis W.& N. ——What Dr. Focke and other German authors 
seem to understand by this name (‘ Rubi Germanici,’ tab. 3), is a 
ee type closely allied to the prec eding, not what we 
have been calling afinis in Kngland, which belongs to the 
Rhamnifolii. 
R hemistemon Muller.—This is not mentioned in Nyman, but 
judging from my specimens from Bloxam and B Bagnall, it is a 


it is represented by 
_specimens (No. 3.) in the benictal series “of Vosgesian Rubi issued 
by Abbé Boulay. 

Group 2.——Rhamnifolit. 


This group, which consists of the arching Rubi with glabrous 
barren stems and equal prickles, seems to be much more abundant 
_ botl ae individuals, in Britain, than in Belgium or 
German ny. 
7. f. carpinijolius W. & N.—This is given as En 
Nyman, but I have not been able to sedi vitalive it cle comet 
British plant. Dr. Focke regards as carpinifolius the only rhamni- 
folian bramble I collected in the neighbourhood of Spa. Wirtgen’s 


RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 7 


popes I had an opportunity of seeing alive, both the type and 
the variety heteroclitus, on the basalt hills of the Siebengebirge. 


is the amnifolian bramble of North Yorkshire, and 
occurs also abundantly in the Lake District and reappears in the 
New Forest and about “Sprcmypetage but ch I have never see 


whi 
about i oe is not in any way essentially different from mon- 
tanus, and that we ought to look upon this as the British Aarne 
tative of this present type. I believe the all —— R. lacin 
of gardens is a cut-leaved form of the same plan ees pie 
Focke classify here the R. Grabowskii of Balington, which they 
bees to be quite different from the original German Gr reir 
of y own impression of Bloxam’s Grabowskii is that i 
comes in aaa od between pubescens and infestus, and not seb 
we Rhamnifolii. 

8. R. vulgaris W. & N.—The type is not given as British by 
Nyman, and I know it only from two or _ rig septate and 
the figure in ‘ Rubi yaa It seem me approach 
closely to our English R. ramosus Bloxam, but "abo this I know 
too little to _ with Soihion nce. According to Focke, R. maero- 
acanthus N., belongs here, so that “it must be entirely 


by himself this Reape near Oldenburg, ee think all our British 
batologists would be in favour of keeping up Lindleianus as a 
distinct aioe. 

9. R. rhamnifolius W. & N.—This is not recognised as British 
by Nyman, but Ae Rp specimens of the Minden plant, figured 
‘Rubi Germanici,’ tab. 6, given me by Focke, agree fairly well with 


) ‘ Nor 
Pomeranian FR. Muenteri. The oe cor —— Dr. Pooks looks 
upon as a very rare endemic Germ receding from rhamni- 
folius in the direction of thy sales Sey 
Besides these three we have in Britain under this section at 


le distinguishable forms not menti by viz., i. 
incurvatus ; co i een rhamnifolius and villi- 
aulis, and R. imbricatus Hort, which Profes: ington now 


approximates to ramosus, but which Mr. Briggs finds in the neigh- 
bourhood of Plymouth to quite maintain its distinctness. 
(To be continued.) 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND 
NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


By tHe Rev. W. Moyzie Roeers, F.L.§S. 


Tue districts treated of in this paper may be defined as 
follows :— 
The seaboard for between 20 and 30 miles from Morwinstow 
to Trebarwith Sands, with the road along the high ground from 
ilkkhampton to Launceston as eastern limit. Much of this, 
including cremate at one end and Launceston at the other, are 
left untouched by m 
Il. The valley aio of the Tamar, from its source near Wooley 
Barrows to Launceston, including both sides of the Launceston 
and Kilkhampton Road. Here be country chiefly examined is 
between Kilkhampton and Whitst 


. The tract north-east of Launceston and east of the Tamar 


and drained by its tributaries on that si 

: IV. The country drained by the Waldon oe: other south-western 
tributaries of the Torridge, to the left bank of the Okement. The 
railroad from congas to Okehampton is constructed along the 
watershed of the Tamar and ‘getare and thus forms a partial 

boundary between Districts ITT. a 
and II. are in East iveecits Il. te IV. in sap Devon. 
All the N. Devon records have been made e e four 
years 1882 to 1885; a large proportion of t eons ncding many 
of the most interesting) by Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs, ing short 
visits to the house which I have just left in Brdyernls, and the 
— ¥y gin Of the E. Cornwall records Mr. ee G. Baker’s bear 
. M. 


1885 * Mr E. re “Webb's 1885; and the rest (Mr. Briggs’ and 
mine) 1882 to seed Where a = follows a locality it is the date 


coun 
Tackbear and Newacott are the names of houses in B. Corn- 
wall; as Pasianoit ona Southlands, Tatson, Leworthy and 
Worthen are in N. Devon. Some of the other names given, as, 
e.g., Grimscott, Burrow is n and Tinney, are those of very 
small hamlets which will be found in any fairly good maps of 
Devon and Cornwall. In every case the Tamar is here regarded as 
ee ad houses a Hence the frequent occurrence of the name 
in t Il., as well as in District III, the river 

FR a the parish @ rai reckoned as wholly in Devon) into almost 
equal portio The most marked features of the Flo 


damit to Dartmoor being saturated with moisture nearly all the 
rear round. ‘This applies least to the actual seaboard. Hence the 
oe _— richness of the Flora in District L., and its extreme coeniy 


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ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 9 


iret almost to Obslieeten, Thus in four years I have siditlies 
found nor had reported to me from any of the districts a wae 
sac of aoe Aegis Arabis thaliana, Lychnis vespertina 


carpa, Viola hirta, Saxifraga tridactylites, T ortits nodosa, Galium 
verum, Centaurea Scabiosa, Salvia Verbenaca, Myosotis collina, Sclero- 

chloa rigida and Bromus asper. 
pecies of no particular interest which I have found to be really 
common in all the dist: ions (or in such portions of all as have been 
visited by Mr. Briggs or myself) will be given without localities. 
Other species, usually common elsewhere, but which I have not 
oeey ascertained to be so in this part of the country, will have 
n account of their distribution given. The sign ! placed after an 


give 
Cleniadiy Vitalba L. I. Near Bude. Poughill (Hind!). Only in 
two or three spots. Denizen. 


al 
planted many years ago, but still in small quantity. Also reported 
tt. 


a) 

Ranunculus peltatus Fries (a. truncatus All.?). II. and ILL. In 
canal and the Tamar; frequent.—R. diversifolius Gilib. I. Stream 
side, Summerleaze Down, 1882.—R. intermedius Hiern, Mon. I. 
Greena Moor. IIL. “Drove” between Tinney and Worthen, 1883. 
Bridge Moor, in several a Pyworthy, near the Holsworthy 
and Stratton Road, in two places. Near Dunsland Cross Railway 
with R. L t 


mil. Us ually very ow water. Pe 
requssitty veined ‘san 4 as tanks and as white as those of R. 
Lenormandi. Both species are in flower for quite half the year, 
several weeks earlier and several weeks later than R. hederaceus.—R. 


Lenormandi F, Se , Ri. hederaceus L., R mmula L. (ty 

and b. pseudo-fluitans), R. acris L., R. repens L., R. bulbosus .— R 

parviflor - Poughill. Summerleaze Down. Widmouth 

Bay. Boscastle. Trebarwith. II. Littlebridge and near Sheen: 

og in all these aealiise, and not at all in IIT. an d IV.—R. 
tcaria L. 


Caltha palustris L. I have found b. Guerangerii with type in two 
places i “ Bridgerule (III.). 
rus viridis L. I. ‘Orchard near Parsonage, Kilk- 
hampton, ae pacha with — Bistorta, Geranium pheum 
rs. Kennedy, in lit.). Week St. Mary 
(orthaed). i. Bridgerule Vicarage Plantation, one large and 
increasing patch. 


10 oN THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


| eae ga vulgaris L. I, About Kilkhampton, frequent (Mrs. 
Marhamechurch. Lesnewth Valley are generally, 
a perhaps native in this district. III. faerie in two or three 
mie.) but ub uly where it seems to have escaped from cultivation. 
eris vulgaris L. IV. Near Bradworthy. Near Okehampton. 
Denizen 


er Rhaas. I. Here and there from Bude to riage 
caine locally abundant south of Boscastle. Searched for i 
vain in the other districts. [P. somniferum L., as nie in some 
quantity near Bude]. P. dubium L.—I. Near Bude, rather 
frequent, both forms. Boscastle and Trebarwith (Lamotte). 
Chelidonium majus L. III. Bridgerule Churchyard hedge. 


= pton. 
Corydalis lutea DC. Alien. I. Boscastle and Trevalga; 
established in some quantity. 


Fumaria confusa Jord. I. Bude. oven Valley. oga: 
Trebarwith. II. Near the quarry, south-west of Tackbea Ii. 
ridgerule. Clawton. Uncommon. — F. oficial L. a Bude 


(Hind). Boscastle, abundant. I believe quite ra 

Sinapis arvensis L., 8. alba Li. I. Bude, rape- ‘field by Marham- 
church Road. II. Newacott, in potato-field in great quantity in 
1885.—S. nigra L. I. Near Bude. Marhamchurch and Boscastle. 


Brassica Rapa L., sit. - Launeells. Boscastle. 
II. and IT. Bridgerule. Rather frequent colonist (See Mr. Briggs’ 
note on this in Journ, Bot. 1873, pp. 99, 

Diplotawis muralis DC. I. Poughill. Bude (Hind !) frequent. 


Cardamine pratensis L. C.hirsutaL. C. sylvatica Link. 
Barbarea vulgaris Brown. B. —_ ce bs" I. Marham- 
rr 


h. uent, Near Newacott. 
hare Hit. Bridgerule. IV. Near ieainacie. Denizen 


, ar Holsworth 
(about ae miles from sea) on ee < i garden and 
on 


RO nees. IV. By the Waldon, near peter ne in fair 
psqaen! (not near see or garden now). The occurrence of this 
aritime plant in so many inland places seems ts point to its 
Pai eubeeoudaad 3 in this neighbourhood. —C.danica L. I. Coast, 
common. = atton 
vee ee Bude, abundant (type and b. brachycarpa). 


g f Sw paikarie Mench. 
_____ Lepidium campestre Brown. Colonist. Rare. I. Sandymouth, 
IV. Cornfield, Bradworthy.—L. Smithii fash | sie : 
a — a Pers. t Staton Hind} —8. Cana Foe. 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING Districts. 11 


[As aliens. Armoracia rusticana. I. Bos het — ait yssum 
maritimum Br, ude. — Lepidium sativum. I. Boscastle]. 

Reseda Luteola L. I. Marhamchureh (Hind). 

Viola palustris L, V. odorata. I. Near Kilkhampton, rare 
(Mrs. Kennedy). Poughill (Hind !), in considerable pa agro 
sunny lane. Also between Bude and Stratton and i 
three other spots about Bude eg Stratton. poties gids 
II. and III. In several places, but always as denizen.—V. hirta 

r Bude } i 


; 7 
hills, Bude(Hind !) aan Widmouth Bay; a Lae. lactea Sm. 
r) Moor, abundant. II. Moor south of Merrifield. 
ut Affaland Moor. Moors near Dunsland Cross, in good qu ge 
1883. IV. Near Okehampton. Last June I found this vi 
near Molland, close to the Somerset border. No doubt it will i 


Polygala vulgaris L.  I., If., II1. Rather comm peepiers 
Reich. I. Widmouth Bay; with Pacmag el att pe Faete 
depressa Wender. "The commonest for 

Saponaria lial ig L. 3 Bude (ind), Alien. 

Silene inflata Sm. I. Fairly ¢ n (b. puberula, Bude). 

Generally though pie Ee aeatante distributed. — S. 
maritima With. I. i ease as a maritime plant. 

Lychnis diurna Sibth L. Flos-cuculi . — L, Githago Lam,— 
III. Bridgerule : « Bridge Park’’ (1884) ; Southlands (1885). IV. 
Sutcombe. Apparently rare. 

Menchia erecta Sm. IV. Hillside south of Okehampton, 1882. 

areca tetrandrum Curt. I. “Coast, Bude” (Hind!) and 
elsewhere, common. Stratton, on wall-top.—C. semidecandrum L. ° 
Li Ponghill ‘(Hind) and Bude, abundant.—C. glomeratum Thuil.—C. 
triviale Link. 

Stellaria media With.—b. Boreana. I. Bude sandhills. III. Near 
Furze Farm, Bridgerule.— d. wnbrosa. II. Bridgerule, in two or 
three spots. ILL. Bridgerule, in several spots. Near Parnacott, 
warm bank by canal. Shuns exposed places. —S. Holostea L. 
—S, arpeninen L.—S. uliginosa Murr. 

enaria trinervia L.—A. serpyllifolia L. I. Bude, c. Stratton. 

—b. Poni I. From Boscastle to Trebarwith, fairly frequent. 

IV. Near Okehampton. I have not been able to find a plant 
of either type or var. between Stratton and Okehampton. 

Sagina maritima — . Bude (Baker!). Boscastle. Tintagel. 

Trebarwith.— S. apetala L. I. Kilkhampton (Mrs. Kennedy). 

oscastle. ILI. 


Bude. § 

Bridgerule Churchyard. Rare. — 8. ciliata Fries. I. About 

Boscastle, abundant. Trebarwith. IV. Near Okehampton. — 
- procumbens L.— 8S. subulata Wimm. I. Boscastle. Valley of 
cks. Hill above Trebarwith IV. Near Okehampton.—S. nodosa 

Meyer. I. Bude (Hind!) IL. ‘Canal banks s, Bridgerule. 


Spergularia rubra Fenzl. I. By quarry near Forrabury Church, 


12 ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


By quarry, St. if stg near Launceston. III. By Reservoir. — 
about four miles from source of Tamar.—S. neglectum Syme. I. — 
Bude, beach (Baker !) ; pre in plenty, in 1 salt marsh and on Efford 
Down. Widmouth. ‘Wanso n Mouth. Boscastle. Trebarwith.— — 
S. rupestris Lebel. I. Mong the eoast from Sandymouth to 
Tintagel, abundant (? = Dr. Hind’s “ token marinum Wahlb., — 
coast, Bude ”’).-—-S. maryinata Syme, seems absent from this coast ; 
of rock and sands, 

Montia fontana L. 

Tamarix anglica Webb. I. Bude, .. 

Hypericum Androsemum L. — H. perforatum L.— H. um. 
Leers. I. Kilkhampton (Hind). II. and IIL. Sridhurate: “athe 
frequent. — H. tetrapterum Fries. — H. beticum Boiss. Common 


H, 
and Bridgerule Viensage Plantations a 
vatera arborea L. I, Fraieaet on coast, but only where — 
planted. 
Malva moschata L.  M. sylvestris L.—M. rotundifolia L. I. Wid- 
ou scastle. 


- Radiola Millegrana Sm. I. Kilkhampton (Mrs. Kennedy). 
Greena Moor. Very abundant in MOON haa Minster Valleys. 
ITI. an . Frequent. 


Linum catharticon L.— L. angustifolium L. 1. Frequent. 
I. By 


w ds 
Reservoir. Bridgerule. Pyworthy. Holsworthy. Clawton. Lifton. 
Local. — L. 2 usitatissimum LL, III. Casual in several places, from 
1882 to 1885. 


Geranium sanguineum L. I. Quarry near ge he damart ease one 
large plant (1885), garden outcast.—G. p . Kilk- 
hampton, orchard near Parsonage (Mis. Kak nnedy). TL. Bridge- 
rule sheets x samosas eat Rectory orchard, in great 
quantity.—G. p icum L. Denizen. I. Bude, grass field, one 
plant (1882). Widmouth, — by “Villa,” in plenty.—G. molle L. 

— G. a gee I. Bude. — G. dissectum L. — G. columbinum L. 


Cliffs above canis seers echt Dew: Lane 
near pehation (Webb). Hoppicott Down, one plant (1884). III. 
side Sebecan —— and Bridestowe. IV. Near Okehampton. 
—G. Robertianum 

Erodium wrens Se Herit. I. Bude (Hind!). Widmouth. — 
EF. moschatum Herit. 1. Poughill, garden wall-top. Bude (Briggs 
and Baker!). Summerleaze Down, in great quantity. Widmouth 
Bay. Native.—F. maritimum Sm. I. Bude. Minster Valley, to 

— a mile inland. Boscastle to Tintagel, frequent. 

walis Acetosella L. 


oo asm ke I. an Bete are Faso Bridgerule. 
oe / Pyworthy. — te aon oa North T Tetott; un- 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAK AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 13 


Rhamnus Frangula L. I. Remarkakly common. Dr, Hind’s 
list, omitting this, gives ‘ R. catharticus L., Lansells,” a species 
or 


Acer campestre L. 1, Near Kilkhampton, some fine trees on the 
Thurdon Road (Mrs. Kennedy). Between Stratton and Launcells. 
Marhamechurch (Hind!). 11. Worthen. Pyworthy. North 
Tamerton. IV. In two or three spots in the Bradworthy neigh- 
bourhood. Very rare, but I think native. [4. Pseudo- plasieas i 
Always planted]. 

Ulex europeus L. U. Gallii Planchon. 

Genista anglica . Near Tackbeare. Week St. Mary 
(Hind !), Greena Moor. IL. sad III. Bridgerule and Pyworthy, 
frequent. IV. Near Okehampton. One of the characteristic 
moorland plants.—G. tinctoria L. I. Boscastle Clifis, in plenty 
ia humifusa). II. Between canal and river below Newacott, 


7 


 iekeitheen scoparius regs — . St. Gerrys ie 
Near Tackbeare. Tresparrot Dow ecg one bush see 
Quarry by canal above Bridgerule ve ot sh). Near Wilsworthy 
Moor (one bes ush), IV. Near Okeham 

Ononis arvensis Auct. Only feaike common. 

Anthyllis Vulneraria L. 1. Type sila var. Dillenii abundant 
along the coast from Sandymouth to Trebarwith. 

Sone go lupulina : 

lotus officinalis Willd. _I. Stratton (Hind). — M. arvensis 

Willa, “3 Kilkhampton (Hin 

Trigonella seepec ahr DC. ib: — ground near Forrabury 
Church, in great quantity. Valley of Roc _ 

Trifolium pr aiense L. 7. medium L.—Rem markably common. — 
T. arvense L, 1. Willa Park Point. Tintagel Head (Hind). — 
T. striatum L. I. Stratton and Lannecells Road. Boscastle, 
abundant. Trebarwith, on the sides of the cliffs with the next, but 
giving place to it altogether on the cliff-tops. — 7. scabrum i. 
All along the coast in great quantity. 7. hybridum L. LI., IL, aa. 
A frequent roadside alien.—T7. repens L.—17’. fragiferum L. I. North- 
cot Mouth (Mrs. Kennedy). Bude (Hind!). Summerleaze Down. 
srenerseceee between Marhamchurch and Bridgerule, in two places. 
Widmouth, abundant. 7’. procumbens L.— UT. minus Relhan. — T. 
Jiliforme 7% I. Bude, salt marsh. Lesnewth Valley, Boscastle, 
and Valley of Rocks; abundant. II. Between Launcells and 
Bridgerule. III. Parnacott. Bridgerule, rather common. 

Okehampton. 


Lotus corniculatus L. L. major Scop. 

Ornithopus perpusillus L. I. Nea pores te (Mrs. Keuned ) 
From Boscastle to Trebarwith, frequent. II. Quarry n ar Bt. 
Stephen 

Vian hi hirsuta Koch. V. tetrasperma Meench.—I. and II. Fairly 
i ene III. Only seen near Lifton. — V. Cracea L. — V. Orobus 
DC. I. Greena Moor, rough furzy ground at south-west end, in 
csicalie quantity, in “fruit only on Sept. di; e- New w County 


14 ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 


Record. On Tresparrot Down, about four miles from Boscastle, a 

small patch in full flower on July 1, 1885. III. Between Reser- 

voir and Bradworthy, among heath; observed for several years 

past (Mrs. Kennedy). This is probably a went as Mr. and’s 

locality, on boone or it is entered a . Dev phe in 

Top. Bot., Edit. 2.— V. sepium L. — V. fee Roth. (both a. 
and b.). 


"oo 


Lathyrus pratensis L. 
Orobus tuberosus L. Both type and b. tenuifolius remarkably 
common. 
(To be continued.) 


ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 
By G. §. Jenman, F.L.S. 


Waite occupied recently in looking up ee on the 
Guiana Flora at the British Museum Herbarium, I used the 
opportunity to determine the ferns in Sloane’s collection of J amaica 
plants. 

The plants are contained in eight large folio volumes, and a 
described, and in part illustrated, in Sloane’ 's ‘ Natural History of 
Jamaica.’ The ferns form vol. i. of the seri In the course of 
the examination I found that the figures have iia often misquoted, 
for, though they are characteristic in general features, m man 
cases escee details are wanting ; and I therefore now place on 
reco! y determinations, which I have also written on the sheets. 
Beyond correcting the misquotations alluded to, the result shows 
thai s collection, now two hundred years old, contains several 
rare or only recently spraageache species; and, still more in- 
teresting, that it siege o unnamed plants. 

Sloane’ 8 number sie * one hundred and paee but these 


shots re te, went ke the V West Indies ies 1728, and died 


The pont were grown at Sir Arthur Rawd t 
= , Treland, and, after Sloane had s mplenontt is cleo | 


ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 15 


from them, transferred to Oxford, and Bobart employed them in 
i ed. 


designs, in December, immediately after their arrival. Sloane had 
long cherished the desire to visit the West Indies, with the view of 
studying their natural history, the character of which, like almost 
every pertaining to the New World, was much exaggerated, 

even as late as his time. On the death of his patron he determined 


year, Sloane reckoned the objects of Natural History he had 
acquired as upwards of 30,000, besides 200 vols. of plants; and 
ibrary numbered 50,000 vols., all of which, under a certain 
stipulation for the benefit of his heirs, he bequeathed to the nation. 
Sloane’s eee in Jamaica having been the foundation of these 
mense collections, Jamaica has a close and interesting connection 
with ee csiablishmout of the British Museum. 


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his ferns shows how profitable it is to back to the types of the 
older authors, in which the British Museum is most enviably rich. 
Though undred years old, most of Sloane’s specimens are in 


“The Tribe of Ferns in Jamaica are very numerous, and strange in their 
Manner of growth. Many of them are Scandent, more than one white on the 
Back ; some Shave ines like other Herbs or Trees, and some perfect Stalks. 


16 ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 


But whatever they ed they shall by me be ranged as those of Europe are by 

ri hae be rding to the divisions of their Leaves: and whereas it Ri com- 
monly held that no Fern has, properly speaking, a Caulis or Stalk, yet it will 
hereafter Slaunly appear they have. To avoid a great deal of trouble in the 
di ane hem, 


taken — of in the division. Without doubt all a named Ferns are 
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are vert and therefore not having seen their Sabie, I aie them this, till a 
better place is foun e name T'richomanes shall signifie with me the second 
divided Fern with broad small Leaves, and the word Lonchitis those with ones 


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they are sinuated; many other Varieties there are, appearing really 
rere — may be sensty found out by any, who considers their al 
It is true, as Sloane says, that ‘‘ Ferns in Jamaica are very 
numerous, and strange’’—that is, Le as their manner of - 
growth.’ Over four times as many are known now than he knew, 
and the variation of form is eorreaponding!y greater. Though 
several extend into the middle and higher regions of the country, 
nearly all that he gathered are Sachraeassvoly low altitude species. 
He was only partly right in regarding the ‘stalks of those 
climbing ferns only as roots’”—that is, root-stocks ; 
twining kinds, such as Blechnum volubile, two o Lygodiums, Hypo- 
lepis nigrescens, Davallia aculeata and fumarioides, all but one of 


clas n he 
tended is left rather ambiguous and indefinite. It is based on the 
divisions of the fronds,—entire, pinnate, bipinnate, &c. He is also 
somewhat obscure in the use of his terms, Trichomanes, Lonchitis 
Filices non Ramose, and Ramose. In going through the plants we 
shall see how the "clansttieabion is carried out, but Sloane did not 
employ his divisional characters as poaaeniee to define what species 
came under —— 


which he h 
Pats were in many cine cited by Linneus as types of hi 
given 


pager tae 


* 
A NEW CHINESE TEPHROSIA. 17 


In the ‘ History’ his designations and quotations are followed 
by a popular description, with the localities, which also I have 
quoted, where found, and, in some cases, the medical _ with 
numerous acrimonious replies of Dr. Plukenet’s criticism 


Anemia adiantifolia Swartz. 
1. Lunaria elatior Adianti albi folio duplici Spica, Cat. p. 14; Hist. p. 71, 
Herb. p. 38. Osmunda adiantifolia Linn.—Banks of the Rio Coles. 


Anemia hirsuta Swartz. 
2. Lunaria elatior matricarie ‘bare Spica duplici, Cat. p. 14; Hist. p.71, tab. 
25, fig. 6, Herb. 39. Osmunda hirsuta Linn.—Habitat of the preceding. 


Fadyenia prolifera Hook. 
3. Phyllitis non sinuata minor apice folit radices agentea, Cat. p. 14; Hist. 
p- 71, tab. 26, fig. 1, Herb. p. 40. tae proliferum Swartz; Aspidium 
Fadyenia Mett. —Shady woods at the bottom of Mt. Diabolo. 


BND Phyllitidis Linn. 


4. Phyllitidis arboribus in ns folio ve + sinuato tenuiori rotundis pulveru- 
lentis maculis aversa parti punc era Cat. p.1 t. p. 72, Herb. p. 41. Campy- 
inenrie Pre sl. — Tt grow: = mostly on the Tran nes of great, chiefly old, Trees, 
as Misseltoe.” ...... ‘Sometimes when old Trees fall down, this will then 


grow on the ground.” 
Asplenium serratum Linn. 


Phyllitis non sinuata, &e., Cat. p. 14; Hist . p. 71, Herb. p. 42.— 
young state, in which condition the leaves are most deeply serrated, or even 
Ce) 


Cat 
—Gathered in Madeira by Dr. Shorea. and given ‘to Singin Adiantu um ae 
forme Linn., plts. p. 44, is from the same island. Neither is Jamai can.) 


Hemionitis palmata Linn. 
- Hemionitis folio hirsuto, &c., Cat. p.14; Hist. p. a Herb. p. 45.—The de- 
vain says: — 2 sate m the middle Ribs go several transverse Fibers, on which 
is a great deal o eatin s Moss, which is the Seed. . Sead banks 


(To be continued.) 


A NEW HONGKONG TEPHROSIA. 


By H. F. Hanoz, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 
Q> 
Lis Tephrosia SS ae oraria. — Frutex parvus, novellis 
pba pease ramis pee cortice cinereo obaicts, folie 


longis 6-10 lin. latis pores iolulis id: inoue racemis a aye 

ramulorum sitis fasciculatis multifloris, floribus breviter pedicell atis 

roseis?, calycis campanulati canescenti-tomentelli dentibus brevibus : 

triangulatis posticis aro connatis, alis carinaque —— 
biculato 


vexillo or emarginato extus min ute serieo, oo 


ea or Borany.—Vou. 24. Same 1886.) c 


¢ 
18 NOTES OF A BOTANICAL TOUR IN WEST IRELAND. 


ovario lanceolato pluriovulato, stylo incurvo complanato intus— 
breviter barbato stigmate brevissime penicillato. 
n ins. Hongkong, ad promontorium D’Aguilar, juxta pharum, 
subgregarie crescentem, m. Dec. 1884, invenit cl. C. Ford. (Herb. 
propr. n. 22310. 
very interesting plant, belonging to a section of which there 
is but a single de ckiesige ribs in the whole of our Indian possessions; 
and which, like of its allies, differs a good deal by the rigidly 
coriaceous, acute S lenflets. Perhaps the pao ese plant is nearer the — 
Javanese Kiesera minor Miq., only kn me from Miquel’s | 
diagnosis. Though carefully watched, ob: a rhe fruit could be 
found set on any of the shrubs. 


NOTES OF A BOTANICAL TOUR IN WEST IRELAND. 
By tHe Revs. HE. F. anp W. R. Linton. 

Between July 29th and August 19th of this year we visited the 
principal botanical localities in West Ireland. The meget ee short 
account of our findings is given in chronological order. egan 
at Killarney. Owing to the dry season the water of the fake there 


| er p ; 

gafis supplied us i the boatmen there as dredging apparatus, we 
got in about five feet of water several —— things, not men- 
tioned for that locality in the ‘Cybele Hibern close p 


Jragilis Desv. On oka as 10 feet ies the lake near here 


' dredging-grou 
Lake ; here we gathered a few specimens of Alisma repens Davies, 
a delicate pretty plant, and more dlisma eet wk with floating 
leaves, in ditches. On the shore of Mucruss Lake were a few 
= of a Boge Rosa, which we patina with the impression 


species, 

former deotsiog: plac ace. 7 Ross es and fou 
Syme, E. B., corroborated by Mr. 
and quisetum | 


NOTES OF A BOTANICAL TOUR IN WEST IRELAND. 19 


Myriophyllum eo DC., a eRe minimum Fries, Hpi- 
pactis —— g., and Kquisetum fluviat .; and along the 
shore west from Ross Castle Hypericum asian Leers., and 
yeas odorata Miller. H. Androsemum L., was notice in 
several places. A second day was spent upon the wooded and 
rocky slopes of Turk Mountain. Here Saaifraga wmbrosa L., and 
S. Geum L., were obtained. The most prevalent form of 8. wnbrosa, 
owever, was S. punctata Haw., typical es ett with blunt crena- 
tions on its leaves being rather scarce. 8S. serrata of Lond. Cat 
(S. sera sgt te MacKay), and S. hirsuta L., were afte o fairly plentiful. 
By t e below was growing a form of Thalictrum minus L., 
a sbpeate: to be var. maritimum. 


in 
Fries, Ginanthe Lachenalii Gmel., and in great plenty, by 
houses along the roadside, age didyma Pers. From —o we 
had a day on Connor Hill and Brandon Mountain. Connor Hill 
gave us, close to the road, Rosaye elegans Mackay, as wall: as S, 
hirsuta L., S. umbrosa L., and 8. stellaris L. Ishould mention here 
that several Saxifrage forms which were gathered by us seem a8 

rueTerpen partaking of the characters which belong to two or thre 
the ‘‘ species,” viz., wnbrosa, Geum, and hirsuta. Whether thi 

is . to hybridism of two different species or to variation of on 
species ae potpe be settled by cultivation of the several forse 
= who Sir J. Hooker, incline to the belief that S. umbrosa 
S. diem are one species, may see in the above-mentioned fact 
soalitination of their view. Along with the Saxifrages Pinguicula 


=", a Lam., in fruit, was abundant. A plant of Trichomanes 
dicans Swartz. “had been gathered here shortly — ne the 
ase slopes of Brandon we observed Bartsia viscosa L., we 


advanced upwards Caltha minor Syme, Alchemilla alpina Lv Hier 
cium anglicum Fries (with a rather unusually leafy stem), being in 
our judgment the var. decipiens Syme, and Carex rigida Good., were 
no ticed. But it was only whe en we got within 300 ft. = the summit 


haa ri i Willd. aa — to the top a few patches of S. caspito osa LL. 
were found. There was a ine ae le difference in the hairiness of 


pteris ilestota Hook. was growing here and there on the upper parts 
of the mountain ; C. iste proper ha been found there, but we 
did not see it, Desce cending, we came upon Aira alpina L., and fine 
Saaifraga umbrosa, var. serrata ener — =o a consider- 
able altitude, and one or two pools full of Jsvete 2 
From Kerry we passed to Portecna, at ee northern 
extremity of f Lake Dearg. On the shore near Portumna a creeping 
Helosciadium was plentiful, which we at first identified with H. 
repens and it agrees with specimens sent out under that 


el 


‘Ssparya We were far too 


“name some few years back by the Bot. Exch. Club, but differs con- 


20 NOTES OF A BOTANICAL TOUR IN WEST IRELAND. 


siderably from specimens of the same received from the Continent. 
Teucrium Scordium was also plentiful all along the south-western 
shore of the lough. In the lough itself grew Potamogeton mucro- 
natus Schrad., Chara contraria Kuetz, C. hispida, C. polyacantha 
A ‘a Wi oodf c 


growing very finel 

River, which runs into Lake Dearg, on the south side of Rossmore. 

By this stream also we observed Hieracium umbellatum L., a culti- 

vated land Mentha paludosa Sole, M. arvensis L. form, and in a pond 

at Rossmore Potamogeton obtusifolius M. and K. Inula salicina L. 
as in good flower but very scarce; one plant was found on 


und. . 

From Portumna we came into Connemara. At Oreghtarard we — 
picked up on the shore of L. Corrib fragments of a peculiar close-set 
form of Chara aspera Willd., which Mr. A. Bennett considers may 
be with one named C. aspera f. marina condensata. Here also 


occurred Scirpus uniylumis Link. Near Recess we saw Sali« 
Smithiana, and i e stream Potamogeton polygonifolius Pour., 
var. p. fluitans, was plentiful, but only i ng 


found a curious broad-leaved form of Ranunculus pseudo-reptans. 
Roundstone proved a very interesting locality. On our way there 


urselves acquainted with the well-known species of the district, as 
Erica Mackaiana Bab., E. hibernica Syme, Erythraa Centaurium 
Pers. var. pseudolatifolia, plen 


Curtisii Forster, Radiola Nillegrana Sm. We searched on Urrisbeg 
and about its base for the variety acutwm of Asplenium Adiantum- 
nigrum, but cannot be sure of having obtained the true form, which 

loc na b., Senecio 


Leaving Roundstone we stopped a night at Maam. Below the 
hotel, in the river, just above the bridge, is a bed of Potamogeton 
niifolius Leest. early to gather it in fruit, 


NOTES OF A BOTANICAL TOUR IN WEST IRELAND. 21 


but obtained a few pieces in very young bud. Contiguous to the 
Potamogeton was a curious depauperate form of Juncus supinus 
Meench., which Mr. A. Bennett considers is sa identical with 
J. fluitans Lam. At Cong Nitella flexilis Ag. occurred, Gentiana 
Amarella and strong-growing forms of Potamogeton poten and P, 
crispus, of which only foliage was obtained. Near Headford, 
Co. Mayo, we met with Inula Helenium L. and Papaver somniferum, 
but probably a introduced. 

Our next stopping-place was Sligo, where we devoted one day 
to the jaitiiskicadson of Ben Bulben. Thou gh this mountain is of so 
low an altitude (1700 ft.), its fine north- po aie face presenting a 

e of precipitous rocks ranging between the levels of 1100 and 
1600 ft., makes it exceedingly interesting from the botanical point of 
view. We skirted these rocks and found Pol ygala grandiflora Bab. 
very mae Dryas octopetala L. in no great sega ay Bate 
the ordinary form, a form of Salix phylicifolia ‘* Linn. n fruit; 
poy sylvestre Poll., Keleria cristata Pers., apparently the ped Tae 
form; Draba incana Te Hieracium anglicum Fries, Sesleria caerulea 
Scop., Leontodon pratensis Koch, Thalictrum minus L. var. montanum ; 
and hi gher up, on steep grassy slopes, Sawxifraga hy ypnoides Ly. and 

with b 


with ie a form the leaves of the barren stem much more 
divided, whic 7A nnett considers to be sponhemica Gmel. 
Arenaria ciliata L. does not occur in Ben en, but on King’s 


Mountain, a separate peak of the group. In the outskirts of Sligo, 
on cultivated Sei occurred Mentha arvensis L. var. precox, On our 
Ww 


foliage, was plentiful ; gi beeey the second mill it was flowering ani 
fruiting freely. the canal by the side of the river was growing 
Potamogeton decipiens Helio ui i uit. 

Appended is a list of plants pbserved by us, which are not 
recorded in the ‘ Cybele Hibernica 

Caltha minor. Kerry 

Raphanus maritimus S Ba. on ae Galway W. 

Elatine hexandra DC. Killar erry. 

Polygala_oxyptera Reich. Rawitetond. Galway W. 

Radiola Millegrana 8m. Roundstone, Galway W. 

Leontodon pratensis Koch. Ben Bulben, 


Salix incubacea L. Roundstone, Galway “W.—S. Smithiana © 


Galway W. 

Potamogeton mucronatus Schrad. Roundstone, Galway W. 

Alisma repens Davies. Killarney, Kerry. 

Juncus obtusiflorus Ehrh. Galway EK. and W. 

Scirpus uniglumis Link. Oughterard, Galway W. 

dira alpina erry. 

Equisetum fluviatile L. Killarney, Galway W. 

Nitella ae Ag. Killarney, Kerry; pa Mayo. — N. opace 

erry.—N. translucens Ag. Killarney, Kerry; pa 
Roundstone, Galway. 
Chara contraria Kuetz. L. Dearg, chads E. — €. 


hispida L. 
L. _—_ Galway E.—C. teh mes ha A.Br. L. Dearg, =? EK. 


* 


ey ments have been made there, and thus this interesting plan 


22 


SHORT NOTES. 


ARA FRAGILIS Var. DELICATULA.—In Journ. Bot., 1884, p. 1, it 
is stated that there is no record of Chara fevnn. second counties, in- 


- 


Littorella lacustris. The former floated conspicuously on the surface 
while the Littorella, together with the Chara, clothed the shallow 
bed of the pool on one side with a beautiful green carpet. 


PEMBROKESHIRE Sues AND THE res Mr. Hotcomee.—I find 
amongst the letters addressed to Sir Jalen Gulla: of Hardwick 
House, near Bury St. Edmunds, one from the Rev. Mr. Holcombe, 
of Pembroke, and dated June 6, 1775. It is to be found in 


e must have taken much intelligent interest in n t 
cannot name mentioned in any of the books to which I 
have access J. Cullum seems to ha th dit of his 
discoveries to he was directed by the letter before me. 
Mr. Holcombe gave a sketch of a tour to Si n which 
he mentions several plants of interest. He gives the locality of 
Brassica oleracea ‘on the north side of Tenby.” Lavatera 
arborea he says, ‘* on th ite Sands, the south side of ca! town, 


, is fou 


the ri 
 * Botanists’ Guide” (ii. 508). I believe that agricultural 4 


See y erntnarl eerie? eam 
Seo Jona Bot 2884 for fuller all the | ality, “Pronk: 
oles Rf pnt eat 


SHORT NOTES. a 


destroyed. I did not find it, nor have any recent visitors to the 
spot, as far as I am informed. It is quite clear that the plant once 
grew there, and it will probably be found in some similar locality 
in S. Wales. Mr. Holcombe seems to have been the Pembroke- 
shire botanist of the middle of the last century, and to have shown 
Sir Joseph Banks and others many of the plants recorded under 
their names. For instance, he claims to have ‘‘ had the honour of 
discovering Sison verticillatum [our Carum verticillatum] first to be 
an English plant,” and informed Sir Joseph Banks of it through 
Mr. Lightfoot, by whom it was mentioned to Hudson, who inserted 
itin the ‘ Flora Anglica’ (Ed. 2, p. oy: on the authority of Sir J. 


s. No one says mee about Mr. Hole ombe, and so I hope 
that this note may be worthy of publication, to add his name to 
the accurate students of British Botany, who have never them- 


selves SE the results of their studies. "s. C. Basinerton, 


HELLEBORUs FeTIDUS IN GLAMORGANSHIRE.—Except in the south 
and ea" of England, thie: plant j is generally considered as an escape 
from cultivation. It is recorded from Glamorgan in Top. Bot., with 
doubt as to its nativity. I found it in August last, i the upper 
end of Three Cliffs Bay, Gower, ey the bay 2 gee into a 


bushes, and the appearance of the plants themselves, all scons a 
long period in which the soil had been undisturbed by the spade, 
and the nature of the groer i a6 and its surroundings ededan the 

idea of any other mode of cultivation there.—Joun F. 


Carruness Borany (see Journ. Bot. 1885, 333). — I was exceed- 
ingly sista to see the record of work done in Sutherland and 
Caithness by Rev. H. Fox and Mr. F. J. Hanbury. I am very 
well acquainted with the latter county, and when I botaniz 
part of it in 1888, I added some new records, a few of which 

i efore speaking 


Reseda Luteola, Leontodon hispidus, Oden incarnata, and Scirpus 
uniglumis, can claim that honour,* all the others arate been 
previously discovered by myself and other local botanists; some, 
as Pyrus Aucuparia, Rhin pinta otey eee: and Salix ei nered, 

so common that their omission from the ‘Cybele’ must have 
been accidental. Caithness is almost erly devoid of trees, and . 
montana and Sambucus nigra, as well as Pyrus Aria and a few — 

others, are very foe at From ae Sirti on of the little 
natural wood now rem ning, I was then led to conclude that 
Populus tremula, Pyrus ENN, Betula alba and Corylus Avellana, 


* [Our correspondent does not, we ae notice that Messrs. Fox and Han- 
bury only stated that the plants not recorded in second edition of 
‘ Topographical Botany.’ ’’—Ep, Journ Bony, 


cS liata, Narthecium Ossifragum 
_ Were amongst the 


24 SHORT NOTES. 


the only indigenous trees. In the a cerrsag se of Loch a 
Winless I found Anagallis tenella and Schenus n ans, both rare in 


the county; and pursuing the moorland burn eakin its source, I 


found the following, Carex deri, Scirpus pauciflora, Drosera inter- — 


media and Carex fulva, all new rec cords so far as oe am aware. On 


nes between A. crocatum and H. ceanies possibly nearer 
the former. Thongh affording numerous rarities for the plant- 


and his companion may, under these ap ae seca feel gratified 
in having added so many.—AnsrrutHer Davi 

Puants or N. Wits ann E. Grosrer.—To its st which appears 
in the Journ. Bot., 1885, pp. 274-5, may be added :— 

Ranunculus floribundus Bab. In the upper reaches of the 


Rosa tomentosa Sm. Near Lechlade ; Gloster EK. 
Rubus rudis W. Oddington ; Gisster E.R, lewcostachys Sm. 
Oddington; Gloster E.— R. amplificatus W. & N. Oddington; 
er H. 


Callitriche 0 sage K. Lechlade; Gloster E. 
Orchis latifolia L. Meadow near Marstou u Measey; N. Wilts. 
: Scirpus multicaulis Sm. Near Kelmsford, Gloster E.; and 
Marston Measey, N. Wilts 
The Fest _ from Marston and a has been referred by 
Prof. Haeckel o Ff. ovina L., var. duriuscula, subvar. brachyphylla 
ck. I ne since found the same form on oolitic ground, and 
on a aamomeage ar Banbury.—G. C. Druce. 

Narcissus Psevupo-Narcissus in Breconsmire, — A daffodil 
gathered by “the Hay Road near Brecon early in April last, by 
my daughter, has been submitted to Mr. J. G. Baker, who thinks 
it is typical Pseudo-narcissus, ee perhaps, is worth recording for 
the segregate (see Journ. Bot. 1884, p. 194). Other records, in 
addition to them in Mr. Barrett’s valuable paper on the Flora of 
Breconshire (ene Bot. 1885, p. 39), are Vinca minor L., Priory 
Grove; Polygonum Bistorta L., Priory rg ae and an ‘ alien” 
rom 


Hay Road is, I think, Viola an a The s specimen is @ 
poor one, and hardly worth submitting to a pert, but it would 
be well for some resident eager to pete this 1 locality carefully 
next — ALFRED Frye 


“Pos OBULIFERA IN WesTMoRELAND. —In gla: ancing over 
Mr. Baker's the ‘Flora of the Lake District,’ I noticed that this plant 
ed for asthe Bed I found it on Brant Fell, 

Mego eee R 


garis, U. minor, Rhynchospora pore Carex vesicaria, Menyanthes trifo- 
» Nymphea alba,- and set ted tenella 
other plants in Se. ~ ouring watery p 


EUROPEAN PRIMULAS. 25 


Selaginella selaginoides occurred at Lindeth, which .is the lowest 
altitude I have ever seen it at; it occurs much more frequently a 
thousand feet higher. Primula farinosa is abundant about the 
rills on the east side of the great hollow of — aad me 


‘altha minor was sparingly seen at the of Rosset Ghyll. 
Sedum es egooiert Sanguisorba officinalis, Stach, se "Britonkea, es ypericum 
pulchrum, Festuca pratensis, Jasione montana and Phalaris canariensis 


grasses far away from any house. Jscetes lacustris is abundant in 

Angle Tarn, under Bow Fell. White Orchis mascula occurred in 
ea in a field near Dungeon Ghyll.—W. West. 

yY oF Nympnoma auBpa.—Mr. Frank Miles, in Oe Garden’ 

p r. Loth Ame, 


find any acccount of it. It is a small-flowered variety with an 

inclination to be pink, showing on its outer petals the purple spots 

Lvar:] rubra, Mr. axton has observed one similar in the 
Bedford 


EUROPEAN PRIMULAS. 


ix order to assist in the arrangement of European Primulas 
at the Exhibition to be held by the Royal Horticultural Society in 
1886, Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., has dra awn up the following pro- 
visional ay classified in three groups, viz. :— 

marked species distinguished (tee one another by broad 
clear si ee 

2. Subs species or varieties distinguished from the types under 
which they are placed by slight characters. 

3. anaes hybrid types which have received names as if they 
were speci 

fyscuree are printed in italics. 


Section 1. aomeg teasiag Young leaves revolute, oo mealy 
eath, Calyx strongly ribbed. 

LGARIS side ., grandiflora Lam., acaulis Jacq.; Sibthorpii 
Reiss amena Hor 
2. eLatior Jacq.; Pallasii Lehm.; Perreiniana Flugge; car- 
pathica Fuss 
3. orrrcrNatis Scop ., veris Linn ; mnacesenly= Bunge; suaveolens 
Bert. ; ; Column Tons : Tomsensins G. & G. 


26 EUROPEAN PRIMULAS. 


Section 2.—Atxzuritia. Young leaves revolute, mealy beneath. 
Flowers small, with a long corolla-tube. z 


4, rartnosa Linn.; scotica Hook.; Warei Stein.; stricta Hornem.; 
frondosa Janka 
5. LONGIFLOR. 
6. SIBIRICA ae “finmarchica Jacq.; norvegica, Retz. 


Section 8.—Avricunastra. Young leaves involute. Calyx short. 

7. Auricuta Linn.; Balbisii ig ; ciliata Moretti; dolomitica 
Hort. ; Obristii Stein. ; similis Stei 

8. Patinurr Petag. 

9. caRNIOLICA Jacq. ; integrifolia Scop.; multiceps Mrey.; 
Freyeri Hoppe. 

10. maretnata Curt. ; crenata Lam 4 

11. viscosa Vill.; pedemontan: a Thom: ; commutata Schott; lati — 
folia Lap. ; graveolens bgt : _eilnt Schrank; confinis Schott 
villosa W ulf. : ; hirsuta All.; we Kern, : 

12. paonensis Leyb. ; ssicicigar Thom. Stelviana Vulp.; cadi 
nensis Hort 


Section 4.—Arrnritica. Young leaves involute. Calyx long. 
13. caycina Duby., glaucescens Morett. 

14. spEcTABILIS Tratt.., Polliniana Morett. ; Kitaibeliana Schott. 
15. WULFENIAN. 4 Schott ; longibarda, Hort, 

16. Crustana Fatih: : Churchi 0 

17. INTEGRIFOLIA Linn. - ; Candollcana Batok. 

18. Axuionz Lois. 

19. ryrotensis Schott. 

20. mInIMA oi serratifolia Gusm.; Sauteri Schott. 
21. eLutTinosa Wulf. 


_ Hybrids of section Sie eee DC., variabilis 
Goup., 1-3; digenea Kerner, 1-2; flagellicaulis Kerner, 1-8; me 
Peterm., unicolor Lange, 2-8; Tenoriana Kern 

Hybrids of sections Auriculastra and hehe bilors Huter, 

20-21; alpina Schleich.; rhoetica Koch, 7-11; Arctotis Kerner, 

7-11; Dinyana Lagger, 17-11; discolor Leyb., 7-12: Dumoulini 


Muretiana Moritz, 17-11; obovata Huter, 7-18 ; Peyritschii Stein, 
7-11; Portae IHuter, 7-12; pubescens Jaen, rhe tica Gaud., hel 
vetica Don, 7-11; pumila Rern., 2; alisburgensis Florke, 
21-20; Steinii Obrist, 20-11; Sturii Schott, 20-11; oe Host, 
7-9; Venzoi Huter, 19-15 ; Weldciinria: Resoh 


27 


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Tuts handsome quarto is devoted to dy alain if 

i aie botanical are evidently careful and accurate—of some 

the more striking plants of the Hawaiian Flora, collected on the 

atlas of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian 
fes 


fo 
indigenous plant, the ground te wholly taken possession of by 
weeds, shrubs and grasses imported trom various countries. It is 
remarkable that plants from both tropical and temperate regions 
seem to thrive equally well in these islands, many of them spread- 
ne as if by magic, and rapidly exterminating much of the native 
ora.” inclai i 


e 
letter-press to many of the plates tells the same tale. Unfortunately, 
as is the case elsewhere, it is the pee endemic species which are 
most in danger of extinction. The notes contain some interesting 
scraps of folk-lore: thus of iguana “Hillebrandii we are told, 
that ‘if the plant is pulled, ‘ the tears of heaven’ [rain] will fall. 
So in the old days the natives were careful not to gather it, as they 
dreaded the cold mountain rain, which was very inconvenient 

uring their expeditions.” This corresponds closely with the Cum- 
berland or eae which has gained or our Veronica Chamedrys 
the name of “« Thunner Flower. 


Manual ws the Botany (. Ba soomice:npeiige rie Pteridophyta) of the Rocky 
Mountain Region, from New Mexico to the British Boundary. 

By Joun M. Covrrer, Ph.D. ‘New York and Chicago : 
Ivison & Co. 1885. 8vo, pp. xvi., 458, 28; 1 dol. 85 cents. 


A’ sa in ig aot this kind is always a welcome Geren to the 


lications which are necessarily inaccessible to most private workers, 
tedious to consult. 

Dr. Coulter, whose name will be familiar to our readers in 

connection with his ‘ Botanical Gazette,’ was associated with Prof. 


4 


28 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


Porter in the ‘Synopsis of the —— of Colorado’ (1874). “The 
demand even then for a book b means complete or conveniently 
arranged was unexpected, and in aR wonderful development of the 
decade since pao lies the confidence that a more convenient book, 
covering a greater range, will be welcome to many.” ‘This 
confidence will certainly not prove to have been misplaced. 

By the “ Rocky Mountain Region,” as here used, the author 
refers to the i beginning with the western limit of the mountain 
system, and extending eastward across the plains to the prairies, 
or Jieladting ‘Color ado, Wyoming, Montana, Western Dakota 

rm Nebra and Western Kansas. The larger part of the 
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the eo Hi ete North-western Texas, Northern New Mexico 
and Arizona, and Kastern Utah and Idaho. The order of the 
* Genera yeas is followed in the main, but gymnosperms 
have been placed at the end of pheno; onl and monocotyledons 
and dicotyledons subordinated to angiosperms. Dr. Asa Gray an 
Prof. Bante Watson have, as might have eats expected of them, 
been helpful in the work; the genus Salix has been undertaken by 
ees M. 8. Bebb, and Mr. L. N, Bailey has elaborated the species — 
0 lt 


World botanists. 


Fruits and Frruit-trees, Home and Foreign; an Index to the kinds 
valued in Britain. By Leo. H. Sse Manchester: Palmer 

& Horne. 8vo, pp. xii. 820. Price 6 

Mr. Grinpon, without taking a cisinty scientific ground, or 

indulging in the speculative style of writing whic ca + fashionable — 

just now, has done much by his ooks to are know- 
_ ledge of Botany, and make the subject cepacies a the gen neral 

reader. He does not sacrifice a to | haat en as is too 


a botanica . 

intelligent observer of Nature, and whose memory is happil 
retentive of small points tending to Basteate the subject of which 
he is —_— ‘ Fruits and Fruit- trees’ would form an an 


type an and — are excellent. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 29 


ie eh eo Herausgegeben von P. Sypow und C. 

ei Theilen. i. Theil. Kalendarium, Schreib- 

coe gece Kalender, Hilfsmittel fiir die botanische — &e. 

[pp. xul., 96]. . Theil. Botanisches Jahrbuch. Pp. 112. 
Berlin : Hounea: ** 1886.” 

Tuese very charming little volumes will be invaluable to the 

German field-botanist as well as to the student. At a very low 


most useful and pact k of reference ha provided, 
containing so much practical and varied information that it is safe 
to prophesy ae it a ae sale. The fi ume begins with a 


the birthdays and deathdays of notable botanists ee noted. 
Some practical oe for plant-collecting and amateur other 
matters hai followed by a comprehensive list of German floras. 


8 
given at Bei various German Universities and High-schools, the 
volume concluding with a very full bibliography of German 
Stained: ‘publisateis issued from July, 1884, to June 80, 1885, 
and an excellent index of authors. Both t e and paper throughout 
are excellent. Are our British botanists obese A numerous and 
energetic to support a work less ambitious, but on similar lines ? 
That such a year-book would be of great use there can be no as 
even if it went no further than a list of local botanists and a 
bibliographical section. We commend the notion to our readers, 
promising our hearty support to any one who will take up the 
project. 


The Plants a the Bible. By Joun Hurron Batrour, M.A., &e. 
New and enlarged edition. London: Nelson. 1885. 8vo, 
pp. 249. 6s. 

Bible Flowers and Flower-lore. [Anonymous]. London: Hodder 

Stoughton. 8vo, pp. viii., 151. 1s. 6d. 

Ir is not to be wondered at that the —_— of _ Bible have 
presented themselves as attractive ia gen of study ; their — 
literature should be both varied and e tensive, aka from the 
quaint Latin volume of Lemnius, pu vabsahedite 1563. But it mi 


80 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


first a seems strange that there should be no work on the 


when we get beyond a few about which there can be no mistake, we 
are brought face to face with a number of doubts and opinions and 
conjectures, from which our only way of escape is in the reflection 
that after all it does not very much matter. 

Neither of the volumes before us is likely to be accepted as 

ring any material help in our researches on the s subject. The 
second, which is the less “petinitione is the better of the two: it 
has not the air of bookmaking about it which characterises 


57. a 
manifestly out of date; and we should cer ertainly have had Fees. ; 
— to those who have by travel and a. date late — 


of a a sketch of the botany of Palestine in its meta Brie aspect 
m en. 


We regret we cannot speak more favourably of what might 
have been a good book. But its scientific value is of the slightest, — 
while its given reflections are see de ommonplace. orse th 
all, there is no index ; a defect which is isead by ‘ Bible Flowers.’ 
This latter is a pleasantly- written little book in a pretty cover, and 
would make a suitable Sunday-school prize 


Tue recently issued (Dec.) part of the ‘Icones Plan 


contains descriptions and figures of some o 

ants and of other noveltie ng them a 
genus (Psyllothamnus Oliv.) of Illecebracea, sent “ with 

of specime den and thereabouts,” by Dr. Hugh Beev 


New Books. — Isase: 
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— Heyer Bam ‘ Histoire des Plante 8’ 


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ne “1886 ” (vol. viii. ; Composite ; 


ARTICLES in JOURNALS. 81 


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Moisissures ’ (Paris, Alcan: 8vo, pp. iv., 304, 107 cuts: 6 fr.) — 
H. Zire andi 


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tables).—E. Rorn, ‘ Additamenta ad Conspectum Flore Europes ’ 
(Berlin, Weidltng 8vo, pp. 46).—‘ Flore Pittoresque de la fog oS 
See seater 4to, pp. xvi. 478, tt. 80, 989 cuts: 35 fr.. — 
C. Rocuon & E. Rozz, ‘Atlas des Champignons’ (Paris, Doin ; fol. 
fase. a ou, vill, 24, tt. 8; 10 fr.).— J. M. Covunrer, ‘ Manual 
ba the Botany of the sagen! Mountain Region’ (New York, lvison 

J. H. Batro 


0.: 8vo, pp. 458, 28: 1 dol. 85 cents.) — 
The Plants of See Bible’ (London, Nelson: 8vo, pp. 249: 
trated with cuts. 6s.).—§. Luyp & Hsatmar Ksarsxon, ‘ Morfo- 


logisk-anatomisk Beskrivelse af Brassica Sadasiands B. oe & 

B. Napus’ (Copenhagen, Hagerup: 8vo, pp- 151, tt. 16).— 

WaALDNER, fi er Europeische Rosentype en’ ( scans y pier 

4to, pp. 56, 1 tab.)—G. L. Goopaze, ‘ Physiological Botany’ 

(Gray’ s Botanical Text-book, pt. 2) (New York, Ivison: 8vo, pp. 
xxi. 499, 36). 


ARTICLES IN J OURNALS. 

Ann. Sciences Nat. (Bot. Ser. vii., ii. nos. 2 and 3) (Nov.). — 

K. Bescherelle, ‘ Florule biologique ev Mayotte. 
‘Etat actuel de nos connaisances sur la fonction chlorophyllienne.’ 
—M. L. du Sablon, ‘ Recherches sur le développement du 
Sporogone des Hepatiques’ ( 1 plate). — ‘ L. Guignard, ‘ Observa- 
tions sur les Santalacées’ (1 plate).—J. Herail, ‘ Recherches sur 
lanatomie comparée de la tige aa Dicotyledones.’ 

Bot. Centralblatt (Nos. 48, 49).—A. Mahlert, ‘ Zur Kentniss der 
Anatomie der Laubblitter der Coniferen’ (Nos. 50-52). — A. 
Hansgirg, ‘ Noch einmal iiber die on erorapiag Schwarmer.’ 

Bot. Zeitung (Noy. 20 — Dee. 4).— A. F. W. Schimper, ‘Ueber 
eae = und Wanderung der Kohlehydrate in den Laubblattern ’ 

11). — W. Belajeff, ‘ Antheridien und Spermatozoiden der 
See Lycopodiaceen’ (1 tab.), 

Flora ss 21) — Roll, ‘ Zur pe bcp der nese — 

(Dee. 1). Nylander, ‘ Lichenes hie A 
Parmeliz 


ce novee.’—(Dee. 11). 1 Gaaony: "ober dio — c 


82 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. | 
orescenz von Typha.’ — (Dec. 21). P.G. Strobl, ‘Flora der 
Nebroden’ (cont.). 


ardeners’ Chronicle (Dec. 5). — Erica Rimanni Rehb. f. sp. n. 
Hucharis Mastersti (fig. 163). — Cladostrichum passiflore Pim sp. n. 


(fig. 164).—Frui . of Lycaste cruenta (fig. 165).—(Dec. 13). Styrax 


( 
Baca Any 66).—W. B. Hemsley, ‘ Giant Bromeliads of Chili.’ 

—W. G. Smith, ‘ Mucor stolonifer and M, Mucedo’ (figs. 170- a 
—(Dec. 19). Schismatoglottis neoguineensis N.E. Br., sp. n.—J. G 
Baker, ‘Synopsis of Nerine.’ —G. B. Wollaston, ‘ Apospo ory in 
Ferns’ (figs. 174-182). — Pinus tuberculata (figs. 1 83, 184),—-G. § 
. Jenman, ‘ Proliferation in Ferns.’— (Dec. 26). J. R. Jackson, 
‘ Cocoa-nut Fibre.’—Fruit of Stephanotis (fig. 188). 

Grevillea (Dec.).—M. C. Cooke, ‘ British Fungi.’ —Id., ‘ Fungi 
f M insula.’—Id.. ‘ Valsa Vitis.’—Id., ‘ Syno opsis ‘pyieudl 
mycetum.’ —Id., ‘New British Freshwater Alge.’ —‘ British 
Soha epctian. : 

Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 141 (Dee. 24). J. Ball, ‘ Contributions 
to Flora of Peruvian Andes’ (Ranunculus chiclensis, Drymaria 
nitida, Trifolium chiclense, Astragalus casapaltensis, Cotyledon bea 

. chiclensis, Sedum andinum, Cinothera psycho ‘ophila, Valer 
remota, Senecio casapaltensis, Hieracium chiclense, Lugonia pei: 
Eritrichium Mandonii, Colignanda biumbellata, Chetotropis andina, Des- 
champsia Mathewsii, Festuca wf hook, Bromus frigidus, spp. nn.). 
—H. Bohns (with notes ay X. HE. Bro ‘ Contributions to Bene 


a, D. lineata, D. Bodki ss gees Me ty D. Nae », 
Woodii, D. Tys sg spp. te).— G. Henslow, ‘A Con- 


> 


tribution to the Study of the pod as effects of different parts of 


the Solar Spectrum on the Transpiration of Plants 
Magyar Noévénytani Lapok (Nov. 1). —F. ps ‘ Additamenta 
+ ear anes ad enum. pl. phanerogamicarum districtus quondam 


sterr, Bot. Zeitschrift (Dec.). — L. Celakovsky, ‘ Alisma arcu- 
atum’ (conel, ). —K. Richter, ‘ Viola spectabilis,’ sp. n. — W. Voss, 
‘ Zur Kenn nntniss der Rostpilze’ (Puccinia carniolica, sp.n.). —E. 


Schneegebirges’ (cont.).— A. Heider, « M scape st verhiltnisse 
Pemphylins me. G, Strobl, ‘ Flora des Etna ’ (cont.). 

: e (Dec.).—R. du Se cae: ‘EKtude du genre 
ieee oe Ok, Cashii, sp. n., from Sou wtbport, reaps > 
H. Olivier, ‘ Sur les Cladonia de is Flore Francais 


Trans, Bot. Soc. Edinburgh (xv. pt. 2). — sage sg pruce, ‘ Con-— 
ordi 


— Hepaticorum subordinum, tribuum et pkeechara (22 
Pp. 


We understand that the os owe oe the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, has been finally off . Morris, Diree 
of Public Gardens and Piatriatiotue? jan 


Rey, eevee esi a is ve =r 


88 


ON THE J AMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 
By G. §. Jenman, F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 17). 


Pallea geraniafolia Fée. 
9. Hemionitis egos siedcichonge tee &c., Cat. p. 15; Hist. p. 73, Herb. p. 46. 
& S. 


Pieris pedata Linn color —This Sloane says was found growing 
with the preceding tabi the wie ot Savanna and Two-mile W: Linnzus 
quotes this specimen for his moans nine a q Ce) , whi as 
is understood a geraniefolia is distinguished by its 
punctiform sori which are ‘confluent preset t veins, and more 
incised margin. “The ¢ of Sloane’s plant is the more interest- 
Ing, as it was only rediscovered a few years ago at the old mines near Hope 


and Gordon Town, when it was supposed to be new to nt West Indies 


.  Aspidium trifoliatum Swartz. 
0. Hemionitis peregrina foliorum, &c., Cat. p. 15; Hist. p. 73, sen 26, fig. 2, 
He: aS . 47. Polgyodiuht trifoliatum Linn.—The specimen is an en re plan is 
unfertile, j in the small merely trilobed state of growth. In a younger ugh the 
onds of this species are quite entire and even-margined. 


Polypodium gt rer Linn. 
Phyllitis minor scandens, &c. ; Hist. p. 73.—On Trunes of 
Trees, ue Diabolo. There is a fhe ot Pelapeaiaas piloselloides Linn, on 
Trichomanes muscoides Swartz ; T. phere Kunze; T. punctatum 
Pits 


12, Phyllitis scandens minima, &e., Cat. p. 15; Hist. t. 27, ned 1, Herb. p. 71. 
—The above three es ies are mixed on the sheet, but not connected, as as ae te 


makes them appe: 
Brown’s hand as distinet, “and are > identified correctly by ‘Grisebach in his ‘ Fl. 
Br. W. Ind. Isles,’ p. 657. T. sp herioides. 
the bulk of the specimens being unctatum. The specime’ ibed under 
I. reptans Sm e ‘Synopsis Filicum ’ of Hooker & Baker is 7. spherioides 
mention here that, eferring to Swartz’s types riginal 
descriptions, I find s names reptans and pusillum have been trans 
rbaria, and should therefore be reversed llum Sw. (and 
as the author —— it) is disting from T. y the fronds 
g linear, or branched only at the top into horn-like projections, the mi 
po et to - sey or bran into the projections, 


(Nos. 13, 14, 15, and 16, tab. 28, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, are Moregravia wmbellata 
Linn. ; and Nos, 17 and 18, tab. 27, figs. 2 and 3, are an aroid.} 


Polypodium aureum Linn 
19. Polypodium altissimum, Cat. p. 15; Hist. p. 75, Herb. p. 48 and 49.— 
Inland mountainous parts of the island. 


Acrostichum aureum Linn. 
20. Lonchitis palustris maxima, Cat. p. 15; Hist. p. 76, Herb. p. 50.—Sloane 
Dy “It is used instead [of] Thatch to cover Houses. It is also used to stop 


enteries, Age sages bine motions of c¢ Passion, by bi the Root 
tion. e Decoction t is excellent in 
p Parner, of the Spleen, Quartans, a and Melancholy, ry if 


Sarsa and China be added. A Salt made of nee ee 
excellent Uleers, Bones of the Toes and legs, being 


Journat or Botany.—Von. 24. [Fes., 1886.] oe 


84 ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 


very drying. Bon.” In this and other cases Sloane records the reputed 

oe virtues of plants, apearéntly approving them in abstaining from im 
commen 

Polypodium —— Swartz. 

21. Lonchitis gga facie pinnulis variis, &c., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 76, tabs. | 

29 and 30, fig. 1, Herb. p. 53.—This was brought ho me by Jam ste Harlow. Sloane 

well describes the aia variation of form in this Sain and =? that he had 

* not seen in any Plant so great sporting o f Nat 


Nephrolepis exaltata Schott. , 

eaueeie altissima, pinnulis utrinque, &., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 77, tab. 

b. p. 52. Polypodium exaltatum Linn. ; ‘Aspidium Sw.—Also, like the 

a pte home by James Harlow. 


iisiieain simile Linn. 
. Lonchitis altissima, pinnulis raris, &c., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 77, tab. b. 32, 
Harb,'p . 51.—Sloane describes this as about ’5 tt. long, are a petiole 14 ft. 
long. "His specimen is 3 ft. long, with a petiole about 15 in 


Asplenium arboreum Willd 


Asplenium auritum Swartz. 
25. Lonchitis minor, de, Kina 5 16; Hist. P- 78, tab. 33, fig. Fe Herb. P. 56. 
lenium marinum Lin B.—Linneus quotes the above figu 
fortunately there i ie no rslakastiig the plant from which the fen " 
merely a small poorish eae of po cxcontasly. well-distingu 
exceedingly variable A. auri Linn. is based on ne o 
Jamaica plants as well, A. roan Tia ony A. seve Saar Linn. 

sometimes quoted the same figure or plant for different speci 
Asplenium auritum Sw. 

26. Lonchitis major, pinnis angustioribus, &c., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 78, t. 33 
fig. 2, Herb. p. 57. Asplenium hoa Linn. — Linnzus aa Sloane’s fig 
as above for his soe and Browne's Asplenium simplex nigrum, &c., ‘ N. Hist. 
- 94 tter, however, is a different species, for ete quotes 
n Linn. e re 


tab. 33, fig. 2, is i 
which it is well established. At p. 54 of Sloane’s plates there are Jamai 
cimens of A. fa i ett. 


coment. OF 
Pteris longifolia Linn. 
27. Lone. tis major, pinnis longis, &c., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 79, %.38 


p. 59. Pawo vittat ta Linn.—The Linnean names are founded on the ‘ange = 

smaller states of species, 
Polypodium incanum Swartz. 

Poinsdin ai minus, oe, Cat. p. 16; Hist. p. 79, Herb. p. 60. Acrostichum 
poten Linn. 4 on the side of a mountain near Mr. Ellitson’ 


Hiden. pectinatum Linn. and P, elasticum Rich. = (P. Phim 
ee Be .): 
29. Lonchitis minor, &e., Cat. p. 16; Hist. p.79, Herb. p. 61.—A plant of 
ae a four of the latter are ‘together on the herb. sheet 
onchitidi afinis arbor anomala, &e., Cat. p. 16, Hist. p. 80. Merb. p. 
is Xylopitla latifolia Linn, Sloane remarks under it:— ‘I think this a @ prop 


ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 35 


place for _ Plant, than to be put in another, as Dr. Plukenet would do in his 
Macs. p 1 a 
Notholena trichomanoides R. Br., var. subnuda Jenman. 


31. Trichomanes majus pinnis sinuatis subtus niveis, Cat. p. 17; Hist., p. 80, 
as 35, fig. 1, Herb. p. 72. Pteris trichomanoides Linn. nthe anid ROSA as 


Aspidium gear Sw. 

32. “ye omanes majus totum album, &c., Cat 17; Hist. p. 81, tab. 36, 
figs. 1, 2, Herb. pp. 73 and 74.—To this chan rei 5, 3, ‘4 of tab. 36. Fig. 5 is 
a state of 4. (Polystichum) viviparum Fée, not so deeply cut as usual. The 
lobes, which overlap in the opened: are Paya shang shown in the figure 


Fig 
assigns to = Reece "Swartz, with which he jestpine Fée’s A. uviviparum. 


Adiantum pulverulentum Linn. 
Sasi rs 8 majus nigrum, &., Cat. p. 17; Hist. p. 8 b. 35, fig. E 
Her i Adiantum serrulatum Linn,—Probably it is ag eaidatun Jenman, 
but all fronds are simply pinnate, except one which is shortly bipinnate at 
the very base, ne . fully fertile. This is the specimen figured. On the —— 


rai sairiehetlan Swartz and A. Kaulfussit Kze. 
majus nigrum, &c., Cat. p. 17, Herb. p. 76.—The two species 
are moanied reemert on the same sheet. They were ieoua home by James 


Harlow 
ann pine * ar 
manes foliolis longiorib gant ig 0 A oe . p. 82.— 
e Filer! to tab. 36, fig 2 (a pinna of dspiiiuan Sinageben W. ‘ od an error. 
Plukenet, Phyt. tab sho Be is correct. e identity is co y the 
tat given, ‘‘Fissures of the Rocks, of each side on the Rio Oro.” “ a 


bi 
beautiful little species piel grows on rocks along the beds of the ri 
Jamaica. 


Asplenium dentatum Linn. 

36. enone: oe dentatis, superiore latere auri ger accte Cat. p. 17; 
ere 82, 1 Herb. p. 78.—‘ On the Fissures of the moister Rocks near the Banks 
0 

Acrostichum (Olfersia) cervinum Swartz. 

37. Filiz maxima in a tantum divisa, &¢., Cat. p.17; Hist. p. 82, tab. 37, 

Herb. p.79.—Mount Diabolo. This is quoted by a FL Bri t. W. —. 


Pp. 685, for Asplenium landi olium Lour. Sloane had not seen 
bélitte ieeaae juglandifoli 
Aen ee Mett. 

38. Filix major in pinnas tantum divis as, &c., Cat. p. 17; Hist. p. 83, 
Herb. p. 80.  Gakiitiok and cei pies: i Ja fama Harlow. Harlow seems to 
have reached a higher elevation, judging by this plant, than Sloan 

Acrostichum ER: sorbifolium Linn. 

39. Filix major scandens, & t. p.47; Hist. p. 83, tab. 38, Herb. pp. 81, 
82, 83. — “On Trees = = eae side of Mt. Diablo and the stone Trunes of 
large Trees, in the mountainous woody inland of this uice 
mix’d with the Oil. a Sergei A Sesamun) — and long “Pepper, and 
anointed on the Head, CG erick Tleada 

Acrostichum (Gymnopteris) Re Swartz. 
40. Filix major scandens, &e., Cat. p. 18 ; Hist. p. 84, tab. 39, Herb. p. $4.— 


_ Collected and brought hoes by Harlow. 


86 ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM, 


Meniscium angustifolium Willd. . 
41. Filix pate &e., Cat. p. 18; oe p. 84, ee 40, Herb. p. 86. Ara ES 
marginatum Linn.— Banks of the Rio d’Oro n ar Archer’s Bridge be : 
sixteen Mile Walk and St. Mary’s tbe North uns. " Cited by Grisebach, ‘ FL 
B. W. Ind. Is.’ p. 668, for Pteris secmiaifolte 


mahensteg Ae dS cervinum Sigh 7 
&e. 8; Hist. p. 84, tab. 4 1, fig. 2, Herb. p. 87.— 
satya ‘ work ett vith eee one or a a pair of rea pinne. 


Aspidium trifoliatum Swartz. 
43. Hemionitidi a ‘liz a th ore &e., Cat. P. 18; Hist. p. 85, in 42, 


Herb. p. 88. Polypodium trifoliatum Linn «Banks of the Rio Cohse* 
Orange i beavinatge Crescent Plantation. ” ‘Soane adds :-—‘ If this be what Piso 
means, he says ’tis very opening, purging of Choler, cutting and aperitive 


above the Seas Polypodium.” 


Danea nodosa Smith. 
ga “Daag Bi sees Filix major, &., Cat. p. 18; Hist. p. 85, tab. 41, 


Herb. p Asplenium nodosum Linn.—There are two specimens on the 
tess sheet i. os ll plant with two fronds, which is that figured, and a larger 
e Both were gathered in a young state, for the species grows sev veral 


times larger. 


Polypodium ate high var. a A gente Schbr., and - 


— Swa ee 

44, Filiz meaner &e., Ca fe p. 46. ‘ t. p. 85, je a p. 89.—In the Herbarium 
the number (89) of the ree od "epeate, and a figure, a included in : 
series 0: wings, and specim obliteratum Swartz are given a8 
belonging to this, ‘sien oft the Rio POro, near Sixteen Mile Walk. a: 


Nephrodium amboinense Presl. 

45. Filix minor, &e., Cat. p. 18; Hist. p. 86, tab. 43, fig. 1, Herb. p. 91.— 

There are three fronds on the sheet, two lar arge eand a small ; the latter and the _ 

right-hand larger one ied Polypodium tetragonum Presl. ; the other, iy a , 
n ee 


Nephrodium amboinense Presl. 2 
46. Filix minor, &c., Cat. p. 18; Hist. p. 86, tab. 43, fig. 2, Herb. p. a= 
This and the last are likely distinct. They differ in -_ ‘lower —. which in 
: = ee ma : 
e figure is quoted by Grisebach for his Aspidium asplenioides ies (Polypodium 
Swartz), which, however; i is noe in the collecti: oa oy 
Aspidium semicordatum Swartz. 
47. Filix minor, &., Cat. p. 18; Hist. raat | 86, = 44, fig. 1, Herb. p. 94.— 
the centre of the lower part of the page of the eMart is a small 
barren frond of Lomaria procera foseie: 8 Sides of oat Diablo, very pe 


Blechnum occidentale Linn. 

48. Filiz minor, &c., Cat. p. 18; Hist. p. 87, t 2, Herb, p. 95.- 
-Mount Diablo. < ia eae saped wads 
Gymnogramma rufa, Desy. : 

49. Filiz minor, de. &e., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 87, tab. 45, fig. 1, Herb. p- % 
Acrostichum rufum Linn.—Gathered an dicot home by James Harlow. 


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Aspidium macrophyllum Swartz, var. pilosum. 
50. Filix minor, &c,, Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 87, Herb. p. 98.—Cardiochlena 
pilosa Fée. 
Gymnogramma trifoliata Desv. 
51. Phyllitis ramosa trifida, &c., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 88, tab. 45, fig. 2, Herbs 
p. 99 -—Acrostichum trifoliatum Linn. 


L hai volubile Swartz. 
2. Phyllitidi multifide, &c., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p- 88, tab. 46, fig. 1, Herb. 
pp. 01 and 102. 0; iolopialeli volubile Linn.— Ple entifully on. Mount Diablo, 
Archer’s Ridge, &c., in Mountain River Plantetions.” 


LIygodium venustum Swartz. 

3. Phyllitidi multifide oan Mr c., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 88, Herb. p. 
Ophioglossum se andens Linn.—‘‘ In a wood near Capt. Heywood’s House, in St. 
Maries in the North ei 2% the e Island.” This was not collected again in Jamaica 
till a few posed ago, when it appeared with a few specimens sent me by Mrs 
Richmond, wife of the ‘Duala Engineer, who gathered ei in the vicinity of 
Spanish ros. 


Davallia (Saccoloma) Sloanet Jenman. 
54. Filix non ramosa maxima, &e., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 89, tab. 47, Herb. 
- 102. Pteris Sloanei Radd.—As Raddi’s identification was merely a guess 


or more, near 

alternate, obliquely spreading, 3—5 in. apart from base 2 ee the upper ones 
ligulate, subentire, sessile; the lower petiolate, fully pinn at the base, above 
this pinnatifid almost to the costa; 10—15 in. long, 36 in - wide. ; suddenly 
reduced in the outer third to 1 in. width, ligulate goon arhich is broadly 
and roundly lo — within, the lobes passing outwards through sinuation of the 
margin a the serru p Pinnula alt conte: "tia late, 
3—4 in. long, $43 in. — ies and, except the lower one or r two, fully 
adnate pa connected by a brane, with a broad sinus, rounded 
on the Upper seo pee er on a Sb loner; side, }—4 in in: wide between ; basal 

uced. 


beset on each side with Pinne [pinnule] Palich teatatey vg more or lon 
n 


green colour, ge having its = lying in 8 ferruginous Line or Wel —- 


B 
ee 
ig 
a 
5 
ig 
crit 
Zit 
Es 


less wae gd species have disa ee ee Se ei is this one 
ng ot ‘Grisebach referred it to Pteris er ipes Ag. (‘Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 
P. 669). 


38 ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE'’S HERBARIUM. 


Nephrodium Serra Desv. : 

55. Filix non ramosa major, &e., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p tab. 48, fig. 1 b a 
pp. 00. aad 104. Aspidium Serra Sw. —Banks of i Rio Cobre. sical = 
specimens are typical, judged by a Swartzian specimen in the Brit. Mus. Herb. 


Neprodium patens Des : 
56. Filix non ramosa major, &c., Cat. p. 19; erty p- ‘st tab. 49, fig.1, Herb, 

pp. 106 and 107.—Banks of the Rio d’Oro Sige ted by Grisebach for 
— limbatum Metz., ‘ Fl. Brit. W. Ind.’ = 


Nephrodium Sloanei Baker. - 
57. Filiz non ramosa major, &c., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 90, tab. 50, fig. 1, Herb. 


p. 108.—Aspi ne W. p 
Forster’s Polynesian Pleats: which, by the way, is quite identical with t 
narrow variety of N. Sloanei that is generally taken to be N. Serra, but which 
differs from this latter oy its broader gt with narrow falcate, ine ¢ 
broad deltoid, segments. Tab. 51, ae . p. 110, is this vari riety, and Slo: 
describes the variation of sis spec 


Nephrodium usitatum Jenman 
58. Filix non ramosa major, &c., Cat. p. 20; Hist. p. 90, tab. 48, ee 2, Herb. 
p- 103. Polypodium pcos Linn.; P. tetragonum, var. a, Gr., ‘ ¥1.B it. W. Ind! 
p. 697. The Linnean name belongs possibly to ‘Nephrodium Serra, whi ch is on 3 
the same sheet. This i is one of the most distinct of Jamaican species, but it is F 5 
rarely correctly distinguished in jochaeharta, 


ee a Desv. a 

59. Filix non ramosa me ; Hist. p. 90, tabi be , fig. beet : 

p. lil peice of Orange ay he saa Rio Wire. Possibly this 
Baker, but the fronds are too much mutilated to sho sage Sarat 


Neprodium molle Desv. S 

60. Filix non ramosa minor, &¢., Cat. p. 20; Hist. p. 90, tab. 50, red 3, Herb. 

p- 112.—Locality of the preceding. ch are four fronds on the b. sheet, 
of which that on the lower right-hand side is the one the figure was als payoe a 
The others are N. patens (1), and Patypodivm spe (2). ag 


—— alvoaran Baker (forma). 


61. Filix non ramosa minor, &., Cat. p. 20; Hist. p. 91, tab. 52, fig-1, Herb. 
p- ase Beaks of Rio Cab, below the town of St. ime ‘o de la Vega” ‘now 
Spanish Town). This figure Grisebach cites for N. patens 


Nephrodium patens Desy. 
62. Filix non ramosa minor, &c., Cat. p- 20; Hist. p. 91, tab. 52, fig. E, Herb. 
p- 114.—A very young plant, specifically recognised by its creeping rootstock. 


Nephrodium sanctum snipes 
63. Filicula non ramosa minima, &c., Cat. ; Hist. p. 91, ste, 49, fig-B 
Herb. p. 115. Polypodium Sw., Aspidium Mett., Agee ad 


Acrostichum (Polybotrya) osmundaceum Hook. 
64. Filiz non ramosa scandens, &c., Cat. p. 20; Hist. p. 91, Herb. p. 116.— 
‘‘Trunes of Trees in going up the ian of Mount Diablo, dresee’ 8 Ridge, oe. 7 


Gymnogramma calomelanos Kf. 


65. Filiz non ramosa minima, &e., Cat. p. 20; Hist. p. 92, tab. 53, fig. 1, Herb. 
p- 119. Acrostichum ebeneum Linn.—A young plant. 


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we sn ne Kf. 
66. Filix non aspire or, &e. 20; Hist. p. 92, tab. 30, fig. 2, Herb. 
20.—* On Rocks upon a tise Banks of es River and Rio d'Oro, near Mr. 
Philpot’s Plantation in the North side. 


Asplenium montverdense Hook. 
67. os teeing accedens, &c., Cat. p. 21; Hist. p. 92, tab. 52, fig. 3, Herb. 
o 2ST. = ae “ge the Rocks on the ans of Rio d'Oro, between sixtee 
Mile Walk and St. Maries.” 


Asplenium cicutarium Swartz. 
murari@é accedens, &c., Cat. p. 21; Hist. p. 92, Herb. p. 122.—Same 
locality a re preceding. Sloane ‘aiioai the bright rusty-brown colour which 
the abundant fructification gives to the under surface of this species ; 


Pteris a rer 
69. Ruta pctialer major, & ; Hist. tab. 53, fig. 2 2, Herb, 
p. 123.—* Banks of Orange River yer Ris, = Oro, i in the iddlo = "the Island. 


coer cuneatum Lam 
70. Ruta muraria maxima, &c., Cat. p. 21; Hist. <i 98, tab. 46, fig. 2, Herb. 
p. 124, -—‘‘ Rocky Banks of radia "River and Rio d’Oro 


N spire excultum ? Hook. 
71. Filix non ramosa scott ., Cat. p. 21; Hist. p. 93, tab. 54, fig. 1, Herb. 
5 : 


t. p. 
—This is a young state, qui nite barr ren, of a species that I do not recognise 
rtainty. The poriai e are hoon erect, from a decumbent erect rootstock. 


Fronds tripinnatifid ; the te segments ovate or ovate-oblong, and bluntly 
dentate in dere outer part. Wexiacs subcoriaceous an re pees = ' 
largest fr in the figure loo tripartite, an and su i 


work made up o mona ag. ortions of 
shape. The text § tescdare and the fg ea are less fee apd t and less 
sharply and Pe amen than N. effusum Baker 


Adiantum villosum Linn. 


72. Adiantum nigru mum, &¢c., Cat. p. 21; Hist. p. 93, tab. 55, fig. 1, 
Herb. p. 127.—Shady Gully’ s asks beyond Troopers’ ese Se — oe Town of 
“Ae eg de ve be a. Sloane remarks :—‘‘ Piso commends this, says that 


sed in — for Expectorating tough Phlegm, or for other 
igo sie saat made pean Maiden. Hair.” 
(73, Cat. p. 21, Hist. p. i; Herb. p. 128, is the same species. ] 


Adiantum triangulatum Hook. 
74. Adiantum pouddo minus non —e pst ye P 21; Hist. p. 94, Herb. 
p. 129.—Archer’s Bridge. The e specimen is 


Adiantum Kendalit Jenman (—= A. macrophyllum Sw., var. 
Baker). 


ipinnatum 
75. Cat. p. 21; Hist. 94, tab. 55, fig. 2, Herb. p. 1 sap pee wood and 
other the inland w woody parts of the Island. The specimen is a fragment with 
most of the segments removed, sien it shows the bipinnate woe at the base. 
e top only, ike ns as figured. The figure is quoted by Grise- 
bach for A. lucidum Swartz (Gr. {FL Brit. W. Ind.’ p. 663). 


Adiantum striatum Swartz. : 
81. Adiantum nigrum non ramosum majus, &c., Cat. p. 21; Hist. p. 95, Herb. 
p. 131, oe aig 


40 ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 


= fructuosum Spreng. 
Pt is a perfect fr f this, which is new to Jamaica, but common in 
uiana and Brazil, on rh ee with the preceding species. 
Cheilanthes serene et se R. Br. 
- 82, Adiantum igru 


um t. p. 22; Hist. p. 95, Herb. 
iatum Linn.—“ Wood ts in ‘the extn side of the ae by 
the Ola Town of Sevilla” 


Cyathea elegans pager 
. Filix arborea ramosa, ot Cat. p 2 22; Hist. p. 95, tab. 56, Herb. pp. 133 
at 134. Polypedtiont specio i oane descr ben this as having @ ; 
“ Trunce twenty feet high, as es as ones Lee, pad the manner of Palm-Trees), e 
undivided, and covered with the remaining ends of the Foot-Stalks of the Leaves 
fallen off, which are dark brown, as mel “8 ones Finger, two or : he inches 
long, thick-set with short and sharp prickles....... From these Trees 
growing on the Mountains of iepanicda, the ——* argued the “fertility 
of that Soil, making Ferns grow to such a vast bigness, which i 
were so taocudavabie, not Recunmnee 2 that the Ferns in Europe a aoa here, 
were quite different Kinds one from the other.” oe gure is quoted under : 
Alsophila nitens J. Sm, in Gr. ‘ Fl. Brit LW. Ind.’ | 
: 
: 


Davallia — sere 
84, Adiantum nigrum t. p. 22; Hist. p. 96, tab. 57, 
figs. 1 and 2, Herb. p. 135. plata of b Mju Diabolo, very plantifalic: gas this, 
plis. p. 137, is Sivlnded portions of frond of Dicksonia cicutaria Swar 


Dicksonia rubiginosa KIf. 
diantum nigrum ramosum cmoowren &e., Cat no. 22; Hist. p. 96, tab. 57, 
- Maries, in the ‘North side. This or species 87 were confused by Sloane. 


On tab. 57 there are three figures; 1 and 2 are cited for species 84. In the text 
under 85 he refers to tab. 57, fig. 3, as above quoted, but the pss there figured 


e of 85 must have been dro - for want of 
is quoted by Grisebach, ‘Fl. Brit. W. Ind.’ : 691, a Ausaben gece pe Mett., 


and Kun. eesti Soe a ig ae taraaee erb. p. 137, is given with this, but 


is his species : 
room on the table, and the requisite change not made in the te The figure 
Brit 

it is D. : 
P 


emake — ag 


At presen this only grows on the trunks ha Opether elegans, which, however, a 
may have asealet: except where it ascends beyond the range of that — 
inc ote hirtellum Swartz. : 

Herb. p. 139 is given with the p 


; 

= 

es — th ose Baker. a 

m, &e., Cat. p.22; Hist.p.97,tab.5% 

fig. “a i Herbs pp. sp. 142, 143 143, Td. Pe Polyscsiun divergens Sw. —Mount Diabolo. 
There Sra to the plate See species 85. 


[88 oe , Hist. p. 07, pits. io 145; and 89, Cat. p. 23, Hist. p.9% 
~~ 54, ae 2, gen p. 146, ar as the preceding, the last being ‘merely < 


et ba REY 


Cheilanthes Pt te Swartz. 


. Adiantum nigrum ra , Cat. p. 23; Hist. p. 98, tab. 13, 
ey “5 Herb. p. 147. Rocks talow the tent of Be Yegn as te Veen 


ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 41 


Adiantum tenerum Swartz. 
91. Adiantum sive eval illus Veneris, &c., Cat. P. nes Hist. p. ws Herb. p. 151. 
—Brought home by James Harlow. This might well be take ~ or A. Capillus 
ris in those days, hee it is simply A. tenerum in a young 


Adiantum tenerum Swartz 3 A, Liars Swartz. 


nium nigrum majus, &e., Cat t. p. 98, Herb. 
the sides of a shady woody Gully, eau: Tro per a Quarters te (St Jago de la 
ega, wo species were not discriminated by e they oun 


the 
pinnules, all of which have dropped but ‘fou 


—- tr epsom Linn. 
. Adiantum nigrw mum, &c., Cat. p. 23, Hist. p. 98, tab. 59, 
Herb, p. 153.—*“‘ Grew i it the} rahe inland ny Woods of this Island.” 


Acrostichum (Polybotrya) osmundaceum Hook. 
94, Filiz ramosa scandens, &¢., Cat. p. 23; Hist. p. 98, tab. 60, Herb. 


ase. 
= very definite, for in his prefac —s sured their several parts by 

y Thumb, whisk, with a little airiates I Chere an inch,” 

ropa aoe a Swartz. 

95. Filiz ramosa major, &e., , Hist. p. 99, tab. 61, Herb. pp. 156, 
157. —‘* Near the open line i Rio ‘ZOro, moet ~ Philpot’s Plantation.” 
Adiantum aculeatum Linn. ; but this specific nam ccepted now for sa other 
— species, which at a higher altitude ‘ae this, and for which 

risebach has quoted the 


ee apiifolium Schbr. 


96. Filiz ramosa major, &c., Cat. p. 23; Hist. p. 99, Herb. pp. 157, 158, 159. 
—In all the inland woods of the Island. 


Pteris Kunzeana Agardh. 

7. Filiz ramosa major, &c., Cat. p. 23; Hist. p. 100, Herb. p. 162.—It grew 
on the inland parts of this Island. Sloane remarks :— “ The P owder Faponent 6 on 
the back side of the leaf is commended by Piso in ill Ulee 

Pteris laciniata Willd. 
. Filiz ramosa major hirsuta, &e., Cat. p. 23; Hist. p. 100, ger de 163. 
Donhitie hirsuta.—Banks of the Rio d@’Oro; St. Maries in the north si 


Aspidium cicutarium Swartz 
x ramosa minor — &e., Cat. p. 24; Hist. p- 100, Herb. p. 164.— 
Brought oat by James Harlow 
Dicksonia cicutaria ? Swartz. 
100. ae ramosa major, &e., Cat. p. 24; Hist. p. 101, sory 62, Herb. p. —— : 
oody parts of the Island. Pro ba ably correct, the specimen 
taken i an early stage, and is most f 


Pteris caudata Linn. 
101. cle 8 sco seu ramosa major, &c., Cat. p. 24; Hist. p. 101, Herb. 
p. 166.— d Savannas of the Island. 


ea tp 3 ‘oo PN ee 
the preceding of peta, ener Linn.) 


42, ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. 


Gleichenia dichotoma Willd. 
103. Filix <<. ad ramosa major, &e., Cat. p. 24; Hist. p. 102, Herb. 
p. 168.—Moneque 
OTA of numbered species.] 


ADDENDA. 
Nephrodium scolopendrioides Hook. ; Polypodium hastafolium Swartz. 
Herb. p. 


Asplenium abscissum Willd. 
Herb. p. 58. 
Pteris oo —. 
Herb. p. 85. Dr. Houston ex Jamaica, 


on ae macrourum Baker. 

Herb. p. 109, and an umbered page next preceding from Dr. Houston. 
These were supposed by sade to lies to his No. 57 (Nephrodivan Sloanet 
Baker). 

Hymenophyllum (Sxrproctonium) ape Os Jenman, 0. sp- 

Rootstock and stipites not seen. Fronds lanceolate, broadest below, 4 in. 
Jong, 1} in. broad, baat atifid. Pinne cabdistant, obliquely spreading, 1—1}in 

in. wide at base innule — ree Ultimate seg 
anes divergent, linear, 4 line broad, 12 Bessa a e vein in eac 
Ra entous, winged t throughout, of saat widt ty with the other parts. 
Margins spinulose and slightly ert rushed. Fructification not seen. Hebr. p. 140. 
e 


Species comes nearest H. tortuosum Hk. & Gr. of temperate South America. ~ 


poe =e Spring. 
Cat. p. 12; Hist. p. 68, Herb. p. 2 


Equisetum giganteum Sibu 
Hist. p. 70. Herb. p. 31. 


There 2 are a few Madeiran and Nevis species in the eollecti@ig 
os — the one or two ascribed in error to Jamaica, I have 
eft unn ibe 


cllowing is an index to the arrangement, based on the — : 
sequence of the ‘ ae Filicum.’ The species without numbers — 


belong to the addenda 


GLEICHENIA Day. TLANTHES 
dichotoma, 103 Sloane at radiata, 82 

CYATHEA microphylla, 90 
elegans, 83 tea 95 

TRICHOMANES TANTUM — 9 
punctatum, 12 macrophyllum, 34 NorHo.a e 
sphenoides, 12 Kaulfussii, 34 trichomanoidés, vat a 
muscoides, 12 Kendalii, 75 Prenis {su ubnuda, 3k 
pusillum, 12 puly: tum, 33 longifoli ee. 
scandens, 86 villosum, 72, 73 heterophylla, 69 

HyMeEnop: UM fruticosum, 81 udata, 101, 102 

irtellum, 86 riangulatum, 74 laciniata, 

Houstonit striatum, 81 ‘ 

Dicksonia trapeziforme, 93 grandifolia 

inosa, 8; tenerum, 91, 92 Lomarra 


ru 
cicutaria, 100 fragile, 92 - procera, 47 


ee 


RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 48 


BiEcHNuM patens, 56, 59, 62 MENIscIUM 
occidentale, 48 Sloanei, 57 angustifolium, 41 

AspLeNIUM Serra, 55 GYMNOGRAMMA 
serratum, 5 molle, 60 , 
formosum, 35 usitatum, 58 trifoliata, 51 
dentatum, 36 amboinense, 45, 46 ealomelanos, 65, 66 
abscissum scolopendrioides HeEmMIoNITE 
cuneatum, 70 NEPHROLEPI apse ae "8 
auritum, 25, 26 exaltata, 22 Acrost 
montverdense, 67 FapyENIA p iootianiaisiaas 40 
cicutarium, 68 prolifera, 3 aureum, 
celtidifolium, 38 OLYPODIUM sorbifolium, 39 
arboreum, 24 elasticum, 30 cervinum, 37, 42 

inatum, 29 revelers 64, 94 
semicordatum, 47 e, 23 ANEMIA 
triangulum, 32 baselines hirsu 
viviparum, 32 reptans, 21 adiantifolia, 1 
trifoliatum, 12, 4 enatum, YGODIUM 
macrophyllum, 50 obliteratum, 44 volubile, 52 
cicutarium, tragonum, var., 44 venustum, 5 
olium, 96 megalodus, 44 Danza 

Nepuropium incanum, nodosa, 43 
effusum, 87 aureum, 19 SELAGINELLA 
excultum, 71 hyllitidis, 4 serpens 
sanctum, 63 piloseloides, 11 EqQuisETUM 
macrourum, 61 lycopodioides, 11 giganteum 


ON THE RELATION OF THE BRITISH FORMS OF 
RUBI TO THE CONTINENTAL TYPES. 


By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 
(Continued from p. 7.) 


In the present paper I propose to deal with the range of form 
characterised by hairy barren stems and equal prickles. _ before, 
the groups and numbers are those of Nyman’s ‘ Conspectu 


—- 83.—CANDICANTES. 

10. R. thyrsoideus Wimm.—This is marked by its high-arching 
stems, barren stem sabia ea and quite glabrous when piper 
leaflets twice as long as broad, not nearly so white beneath as 
discolor, a long lax narrow panicle cera 7 beyonl the Teavea in its 
upper part, with a densely pubescent rachis, wi 
small hooked prickles, and by its white flowers. As will be seen in 
Nyman’s ‘Conspectus,’ it is widely spread cat the Continent, 
extending from Central and Southern Russi ia to Spain, West 
France, and Scandinavia, and includes a large onahe of sub- 


nee from Dr. Focke and other continental correspondents. 
‘Synopsis’ Dr. Focke cites thyrsoideus of Babington as a 
poveoseet bay seb arta bescens W. & N., and he has also referred to 


44 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 


pubescens the common London plant we rae always called thyr- 
soideus and a plant I sent him several years ago from t of 
Wight as 6 for thyrsoideus, as defin ad i in Hooker’s ‘ Students’ 
Flora.’ I have myself certainly never collected the genuine : 
thyrsoideus in Brit ain, but see no reason to doubt the Devonshire 4 
lant gathered ae Mr. Briggs between Tamerton and Roborough 5 
(mentioned in ‘ Flora of Plymouth,’ p. 115) being the true plant, 
as understood by Nyman 

11. i eeein I Libert. — What I have as arduennensis from 
France and Germany is like Ky Merten in the panicle ; rhe the 
leaflets are rounded and more densely pubescent, and less white 
beneath. Dr. ape in his ‘ Synopsis,’ sib doubtfully ae 
arduennensis the R. discolor var. pubescens of Babington, bak I feel 
satisfied that this is ne the right place for it. 


Group 4.—Vir 


recent authors tae aa to call discolor is the commonest fruti- ; 
cose bramble we possess. In some places in the South of England, 
as, for instance, along the Undercliff in the Isle of Wight, it has 
the abundant bramble-thickets for miles of country almost entirely 
3 itself. I did not fully realise till this autumn how essentially 
see ad as a whole this was, like Ulew or Erica, a characteris- 
foalky southern and western type. It is abundant enough in 
France a Switzerland, and all through the Mediterranean = on. 
It extends from Portugal and the Azores as far east as Persia and 
Afghanistan, and across the Mediterranean basin to Algeria, am = | 
Morocco. Belgium I saw it as far east as Spa, and it pages to 


8 
Pe 
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S 
. = 
2 
2 
‘s 
S 
ce} 
nop 
m 
a 
Sy 
2S 
Es 
© 
= 


ame for it p’ e per 
Schott in ome 1818, p. 821, and this is bapted gf Focke and 1 the 
he t Swi eine To the he cited a4 Focke (whi 
i : 


var. pubescens Bab., which recedes from the type oo 
the directions of leucostachys, is, I think, essentially identical te 
the South European R. Linkianus Gusson ne. It grows abundantly — 
ou the = Taare - es the road between Virginia Water Station — 
and the Wheatsh 

14. R. Li Vest (. bute Mull.; R. rhamnifolius Wirtg- 
non W. & N.). — This differs from the last by its non-pruinose 
barren stem and Saeed paiiiele-raohien with slender straight 


RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 45 


prickles. It is a common Swiss bramble, and I saw it growin 
abundance this autumn in the neighbourhood of eidelhere: 
here are one or two ee bushes inside the courtyard of 
Heidelberg Castle, so that it is sure to come under the notice of 
any tourist who is at all on the 100k out for plants. Nyman places 
under this a subordinate form, R. Lindenbergii Muller, which is the 
Danish and Scandinavian discolor of Arrhenius & Fries (Summa 


8). 

15. RK. pubescens W. & N., Rubi Germ. t. 16. — This is one of 
the commonest Rubi of Surrey, and is the thyrsoideus of Brewer’s 
: Surrey Flora’ and the plant so called in Hooker’s ‘ Students’ 
Flora.’ As dealt with by Nyman it covers a wide range of forms, 


oo to which Dr. Focke has referred British specimens, 
also R. macrostemon Focke (which = BR. discolor W. & N., Rubi 
the plant i i 


e position of this present type is midway between 
ulmifolius and villicaulis, I saw it this autumn in abundance both 
any. 


villicaulis Koe oehl. ; -&N., Boke Gabe t. 17. — 


name. 1 saw the same plant in plenty this autumn, in the 
country, in the woods of the pratense He has recently 
referred to R. gratus Focke, a Surrey bramble gathered by Mr. 
Beeby, and doubtfully to R. — Weihe, a Herefordshire 
plant sent by the Rev. A. Ley. th these and also R. wmbrosus 
Weihe are classified under this on aa Nyman. The aciculate 
variety of villicaulis described by Babington eee Mull. = adscitus 
Genev. = Bakeri Blox.) is not mentioned by Nyman. 
16*. R. wmbrosus Arrhen. ex parte, and Hooker’s ‘ Students’ 

Flora’ (R. ee Blox., non W. & N.; R. ae a. 
umbrosus Bab.). — This is one of our commonest and mo y 
distributed British Poa Aa and yet I can say very little that is 
definite about its relationship to continental types. Arrhenius did 
not publish the plant as a new species, but merely took sae the 
uame from the Rubus vulgaris 8. umbrosus of Weihe & Nees, described 
Rubi Germanici, - ng and — and = leaflets only, on tab. 14. 
According to Foc , this is R. pyramidalis Kalt., shortly to be 

noticed. The ba : ‘in «Flora Danica’ (tab. 1163), cited by Fries, 
certainly does not represent 8 present plant, but what is issued 
as umbrosus in the ‘Herbarium Normale’ of Fries is, I think, 
identical with our common ‘lant I have not seen it either alive 
or in the form of dried specimens from Belgium, France, or Germany. 
I should like to class our plant as a distinct subspecies, inter- 
mediate between = 35 ie a OE ifoli: , not under villicaulis, : 


+ wv 


6 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 


of which wmbrosus is placed as a subordinate form by Nyman. This 
I believe is the position of a Surrey plant lately named R. Newmanni 


by Dr. Focke for sec Bennett and Beeby, and most likely also 
Fe “ 


of R. leucandrus, mentioned by Focke as probably British. 
th ec? macrophylla W. & N., Rubi Germ. t. 12. — Here all 
ent authors seem be in unison, and to agree in placing 
Schlechtendahlii, PS and amplificatus as subordinate forms. 
e Rhine Valley this autumn. It occurs in 
fine condition near the illar and chalet on the summit of the 
Konigstuhl, at an elevation of nearly 2000 ft. above sea-level. 
sylvaticus W. & N., Rubi Germ. tab. 15.— About this as 
a British plant Tam completely puzzled. Nyman and Focke cite 
as synonyms rubeolus of Hooker's ‘ Se Flora,’ Salteri Bab. 
x parte, calvatus Blox., and foliosus Bab.,non W.& N. Babington’s 
pana seems to me entirely out of place i is thi present group, and 
I cannot — Bloxam’s calvatus with the figure of sylvaticus in 
‘Rubi Germanici.’ R. calvatus I should like to class as a distinct 
subspecies of this present group, coming in between villicaulis and 
rhamnifolius. The claims of ss count type to be registered as 
British need further ae ae 
19. R. Sprengelii W. & N., Rubi Germ. t. 10; Fl. Dan. t. 1697. 
— This is a well-marked bramble, with a rather restricted con- 


open 
heathy woods. The Danish and North German R. Arrhenit Lange 
(figured ‘ Flora Danica,’ tab. 2720), kept up as distinct by Nyman 
differs mainly from the large Borrert of the Surrey ae by its 
ned petals = short stamens, and will probably be found in 
Brit The very local R. rubico = Bloxam appears to be inter- 
ee between a and calvatus. 

Besides these, I should prefer : classify with the Villicaules the 
fo —-— which are placed in other iit in Nyman :— 


okies Schleich. = R. vestitus W. & N., Rubi Germ. — 


t. 33.—I saw, both in Belgium and the “Bhin e Valley, a plant ea 


conspt uller recedes from the type in the direction of 
— R. oe Lange (figured ‘ Flora Danica,’ tab. 2832) 
is ry elegant variety with a large lax casein and red 
<e which should be looked for i in ow 


IRISH HAWKWEEDS. 47 


d 
name of mucronatus, as applied to the present plant. As long ago 
as 1840 Torrey and Gray showed that the North American R. 
mucronatus Seringe was a mere synonym of R. triflorus Richards. 


very clearly-marked type, and although it is widely spread in 
Scotland and the Northern and Midland Counties of England, 
I have never seen it from the South of England or from any 
Continental locality. Years ago, in company with Dr. Boswell, 
I collected along with the type in Arran a strongly aciculate variety, 
caring the same relation to the type that adscitus and derasus bear 
to villicaulis, and vestitus to leucostachys. R. Grabowskii Bab., not 
W. &N. (Bloxam’s plant), should be compared with R. horridicaulis 


i oO 0 
Vosges,’ No. 14 bis. The place of this is, I think, between pubescens 
ree: and of R. Colemanni Blox. between calvatus an 
éstus, 


Group 5.—Tomentost. 


_ 21. R. tomentosus Borckh. — I had the opportunity for the first 
time this autumn of seeing this growing plentifully in the Valley of 
the Neckar, above Heidelberg. The type is a most distinct plant, 
but it appears to run off into other things in all directions, and to 
complicate the German brambles in a way that we are than to 
be spared from in England. It appears to be essentially a dry 
country type, needing greater heat in summer than we get in 
England.” It reaches, however, Belgium and Brittany, so that it 
Should be looked for in the chalk-districts of the South of England. 


(To be continued.) 


IRISH HAWKWEEDS. 
By H. C. Harr. 

Tue following is a list of the Hieracia which have been collected 
by me during the past five years in various parts of Ireland. Their 
identification is entirely due to Mr. James Backhouse, of York, to 
Whom specimens from all the undermentioned localities have been 
submitted senor? : ees ‘ 


48 IRISH HAWKWEEDS. 


Hieracium cerinthoides B —— —a. Slieve League, Donegal; — 
eo Park, Down; Car Jingford a Louth ; Galtees, 


way; Westport ad RELATE ayo; (eee aaah car 
ed rayes and Macgillyeuddy’s Reeks, K : 
Fr ogherrerram: —— ceaal , River Finn, River Erne 
on g Seiameer and *(St. s Point), on limestone, Donegal; 
ee a arerigeay aa ae Galway. 
H. m Fr. —Aghla a Mountain [Finntown], Donegal; (Car- 
lingford re Down 
if. — Fr. —Moynal near Laghy and (Glenalla), Donegal; 
mountain-str in Mourne Mountains near Rosstrevor, Down; 
Siialaigkt [Lwelve sya Maumeen {[Maam T : 
Note. — Referring to specimens from Mourne Mountains, Mr. 
Backhouse writes, ‘ Possibly — esse forms of H. argenteum, 
but very remarkable,” and ‘ w form to me.” By Backhouse’s 
request I sent them to Prof. Babington, i writes, “Ts certainly 
the most remarkable H. argenteum that I have ever seen. bu 
agree with Mr. Backhouse that that is its place.” The locality is 
Broughnamaddy, by the Causeway Water. The specimens from — 
Moynalt approach those from the Mourne Mountains tolerably 
closely, and of the former Mr. Backhouse has no doubt. Of t 
latter the most noticeable peculiarities are—the stem leafy, with 
about five leaves, the uppermost about 2-8 in. long, lower 3-4 in.; 
all stem-leaves about eight times as long as broad, very pointed 
and tapering at both ends, remotely or not at all toothed; texture 
glabrous, satiny and silvery; radical leaves shorter, more elliptic, 
about four times as long as broad, hardly toothed; all the leaves : 


= 
Fy et 
cep) 
ae 
e" 
2 
Po 


ees 


@® 


The Glenalla spe 
were gathered too late in the year for satisfactory identificasaa 
The Galway eh is nearer the type. This species has not bee 
previously foun d. 
H. murorum Laie —Ben Evenagh, Londonderry. 
Note.—I have also gathered this species near Glenalla, Donegal. 
H. cesium Fr.—Cooleross, in the north of Innishowen, Donegal; 
Dargle, Wicklow. : 
H. = Fr .—(Finn River), Donegal ; Owenrigh River near 
en and Ben Bradagh, Londonderry; Tullymore Park, Down. — 
H, " pila Fr.—Killybegs River, ae —? Var. angusti- — 
— Killybegs River, jena: — Var. latifolium. Finn River, 
arrick River Lidbiowze River and —— Lake, near Ardara), — 


ead 


eee, 


* Those encircled by curved brackets () were bad or doubtful specimens. 


. 


HOOKERA V. BRODLEA. 49 


eeds. 
H. wmbellatum Linn. — Glenties and Lough Bske, Donegal.— 
Bie Cai lean Lough Eske, Donegal. 
his unmistakable species is common by all the moun- 
‘ec ies in Western Donegal. 
H. crocatum Fr. — Sea-banks at Glennagiveney in Innishowen 
ae Mournebeg River, Donegal; Owenrigh River near Dungiven 
Tullymore Park, Derry ; ; In a glen at the northern base of the 
Carlingford Mountain, Louth. 
H. boreale Fr.—Glenmalure, Wicklow. 
é “ee corymbosum Fr.—Banks of the Barrow at Graignenamanagh, 
ar. 
Note. — This is, I think, the species — the river above 
feack and below Ballinaclash, in Wicklow. I have not as yet 
secured id ese ens. 
- rigidum Fr.—In above Omeath, on the northern 
flanks of the Carlingford Si sesitte Louth. 


_ These will tabulate thus into the Districts of the ‘ Cybele 
Hibernica’ :— 


A, boat ge Backh., a., 1, 2, H. gothicum Fr., 


6, 11, 12. ar. ame. a3. 
Bp. H. anglicum, 4; SB, 6, O44; 1%. Var. latifolium, - Bes 
H. iricum Fr., 6, ll H. umbellatum Linn., 
H, pallidum Fr., 5, 11. H. crocatum =e 5, i, 72. 
A. argenteum Fr., 6, 11, 12. H., boreale ¥r., 
HA, murorum Fr, (11), 12. H. corymbosum Pr, 8, (4). 
AL, caesium Fr., 4, 11. H. rigidum Fr., 
Al, wulgatum Fr., 11, 12 © 


HOOKERA y. BRODIAA: 
WITH SOME REMARKS ON NOMENCLATURE. 


By James Barrren, F.L.S. 


-In the ‘Genera Plantarum’ (iii. 800) Hookera of Salisbury * 
(Parad. Lond. ¢. 98) is placed as a synonym of Brodiea of Smith 
(Linn. Trans. x. 2, t. 1). I desire to show that the position of 
these names should be reversed. 

Salisbury’s two species of decade were published, according 
the date on the plate of H. cor on March Ist, 1808. ‘the 
paper in which Bmith sateeahed ee odiea was not read until 


* The etait accurate a cites this as * Hookeria Salish. 1809, 7 whieh 


_is incorrect both as to name 


JOURNAL OF ‘Rouse 2 Vee. A. [Fes., 1886) i 


50 HOOKERA V. BRODIZA. 


April 19th of the same year, and that he was quite aware of 
Salisbury’s prior publication is shown by the fact that he cites his 
Hookera as a synonym. 

Probably the universal acceptance of Smith’s name is due to 
the fact that about the same time he established the well-known 
genus of mosses, Hookeria*; and the moran pleted of the two names 
may have been considered too close. But, if so, Hookeria and not 
stent must go to the wall: for the ra ag was published more 

an es before the paper establishing the former was re 
rene sth, 1 08). 


It is not, t es to be wondered at that complet should express 
himself strongly as to Smith’s conduct in the ter ; and, what- 


them, it is impossible not to feel that he had grounds for 80 
expressing himself. Accordingly, in the ‘ Paradisus,’ t. 117, when 
describing H. pulchella more fully, he states that H. coronaria me 
been named by him in June, 1807, and published in March, 1808; 
and then proceeds to animadvert on Smith as follows :— 
‘* When Dr. J. E. Smith came to London in May following, at 
a meeting of the Linnean Society he read the ree character of - 
a Moss, which he thought proper to name Hookeria, after an 
secuedtons cryptogamist ; and at a A ienarg meeting he read his 
~ generic character of my Hookera; made up from dried specimens 
awi gi him by Mr. Menzies, naming it Brodiea, — 
after one of his pee Notwithstanding what he then said — 
respecting the affinity of these two plants, such was the impression oe 
made upon several of the members present by the which 


ive. 

The genus, as defined in the ‘Genera’ (iii. B00) an and by Mr. 
Sereno Watson (Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 236), includes many species 
ee 


* He agen this to his “young friend, Mr. William Jackson Hooker, of NoF 
wich, F. LS. most assiduous and intelligent botanist, already well known by ot 


oO for Mr. Turner's work far more disting ished by bis 
illustrations of the difficult genus Jungermannia, to which he has given peculiat 
attention. The reticulated habit of this his favonidite ores accords with what 


is most remarkable in any Hookeria” (Trans. Linn. Soc. ix 


+ Further animadversions by Salisbury, not unmixed with ersonal attach, 
will be found in his ‘Genera,’ p. 86. ‘* What will an impartial historian says 


se 

descend to posterity in the glorious com of Robert’s, Joubert’s. Aubriet 

er orte’s, Merian’s, Spaendoch’s, Bimet's  Ehret’s}, Sowerby’ ho Reims 
two a — clear Edwards’, another victim, of Sir J. + 


HOOKERA V. BRODLEA. 51 


referred to Milla by Mr. Baker, and excludes his B. volubilis 
(= Strophilirion) and vd coccinea (ue Brevoortia\. The three species 
left must stand as follow; 


Hooxera coronaria Salish. Parad. t. 98 edie = Brodiea grandi- 
flora Sm, in Linn. Trans. x. 2 (18 

H. PuLcHELLA “Balisb. Le akT Bs. congesta Sm. l.c. p. 3. 

H. muntirtora = B, multiflora Benth. Pl. Hartw. 339. 


The other plants placed under Brodiea by Mr. Watson, Liat in 
Proce. Amer. Acad. and in ‘ Botany of California,’ li. 158, m take 


: r an : 
identity of H. pulchella Salisb. Mr. Baker doubtfully refers it to 
B. congesta 8m., and Mr. Watson ite doubtfully) to B. capitata 
Benth. I think, however, that if § ury’s remarks be read care- 

will be seen ao Smi the ee congesta and Salisbury’s H. 


who was likely to know. But an ele which might be felt 
as to the synonymy of the latter is overcome by the statement of 
the authors of the ‘Genera,’ who say, ‘‘B. capitata Benth. Pl. 
Hartw. 339, a specie typica B. congesta Sm. nequaquam differe 

videtur, nisi staminibus omnibus nec 8 solis antheriferis.* Hookera 
ape Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 1 dubie ad unam alteramve 


aband don ith’s conduct was Snfustifable, 3 asmuch as he 
dettbebataly set aside Salisbury’s name (of the existence of which 
he was fully cognisant) in favour of his It is to be regretted 


The restoration of Hookera is not only a tardy act of justice to 
Salisbury, but it brings back to nomenclature the commemoration 
of the able artist who planned and illustrated the ‘ Paradisus 
prone This work contains 117 plates, erode s discontinu ed 


“the 122nd No. of Paradisus Londinensis, of witich only a od 
copies were a by Mr. Hooker to his friends, without any figure.” 
Salisbury was believed by Sir Joseph Banks to help Hooker with 
money in the  poblidation of the work.§ William Hooker (who was 
born in 1779||) was a pupil—and an apt one—of Francis Bauer: 


ong Menzies’ eS , of B. ont Sm. in Herb. Mus. Brit. is one 
maskeas by Brown, ‘ Distinct and hexandro 
t Salisb. Gen. p. 1 ~ ¢. 189. 
§ Banks’ MS. Godiapiieum Jan. 15, 1806. || Salisb. Gen. p. 85. 


a ae Gt} af t 
aaa WiC AY 


52 ‘ HOOKERA V. BRODIMA. 


his memory is associated by artists with the colour called after 
and there was a peculiar fitness in the 


‘“‘Ord’s Apple,” mentions him as knowing apples ‘better than 
oy Bll || He lived in London, and died about the early part 
of 1852. 


Salisbury finds another ground of complaint** in the substitution 
by Robert Brown of Thysanotus for his Chlamysporum. There cat 
be no question as to the priority of Salisbury’s name, for Brown 
when establishing his Thysanotus quotes “ Chlamysporum Salisb. 
Parad. 103” asasynonym. Brown (Prodr. 282) justifies his conduet 
by saying, ‘‘ Nomen meum, in Herbario Banksiano receptum et D. 
i : i in publica luce 


: 

: 

pi 

es 
4 

4 

.. 
ms 


of his bad Latin, this assertion as fa neern: 
Ise; but I certainly should have opposed his selfish desires to 
taboo that New and genus, even if 


usually known as Thysanotus junceus Brown; and the other species 


* ‘Pomona Herefordiensis,’ viii. + Trans. Hort. Soe. i. 198. c. 
; Salisb.Gen.p.10. _§ Trans. Hort. Soc. ii.62. || Ib. 287. J Ib. 2nd S. i. 246 
+ - Hort. Soe. ii. 62. , 287. ' 

William Hooker was “a 4 ily the same 
Fe son’s ‘Hist. of Engli 
ening, Fae gn the ‘Pomona Londinensis’ is attributed to Sir ( 
ooker. 2 
*“* Whether Salisbury’s personal unpopularity had anything to do with the 

wholesale ignoring of his names I do not know. I purpose shortly to bu 
8, like the preceding, in which he has been unjui 


A NEW CHINESE AMOMUM, 58 


of Thysanotus, as defined in Fl. Austral. vii. faa must ~ be 

styled Chlamysporum; their specific names remain 

present, the terminations only being orcad teat cif pa Sh 
r. will become C. multiflorum, T. triandrus, C. triandrum, and 


admirably disposes of it: ‘The attempt to uphold « certain names 
because we are used to them must result in ultimate failure; it is 
“n attempt to compromise with truth, a course that can end only 

a heavier penalty at some fate time.” * This is ae igs 
Gas acted upon by Bar n Mueller in his ‘Census of 
Australian Plants’ (1882), A, fg is this aie must ultimately 
prevail. It is to be regrenen that the authors of the ‘Genera’ 


of one more generally recived and their example has been ae 
by many. Thus Mr.C.B.C ke (Fl. Brit. 1 India, iv. 337) connives 
at the suppression of D. Dans s "Ty ichosporum in favour of clea 

thus of Jack, with the remark, “ Afschynanthus Jack was published 
Jan., 1823; but Trichosporum D. Don, being gaat July, 1822, 
has the right of priority ; AEschynanthus, “however, havin, ng been 
ce for half a century, it would not be axpationk to relinquish 


8s, eight ‘of hake a are published for the first time. No better 
opportunity could have been found for restoring the proper generic 


ae may be trusted to set all this eae in his esos opus, 
which is steadily progressing ; but he will not thank those who thus 
add to his labour by the introduction of needless synonyms. 


A NEW CHINESE AMOMUM. 
By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., ener &e. 


supra sabe itidis albido-atro rene vittatis subtus * pallidionibus 
Venis saturatioribus crebris percursis squamulisque consitis 33-6 
poll, longis 23-3} poll. latis Asie 4-1} pollicari, vaginis ad. 
4 poll. longis pe elevato-reticulatis, scapis petiolam paulo — 
Superantibus fusco-rubentibus pubaratis, inflorescentia laxiuscula 


* Journ. Bot. 1881, 76. 


§4 SHORT NOTES. 


d, a. 1883. Planta jam elapso vere in hort. bot. 
hortulo meo Cantone large florens 
specimina prebuit unde diagnosin composui. (Herb. propr. n0, 


insufficient for description. 


SHORT NOTE. 


limosum. It may at once be separated from the former by the 
large hollow of the stem, which has, also, much 
fi 


plant was found), 
other, for some little distance up the hill-sides. Many of these 


monograph of the genus, and the Surrey specimens, 


ty ee ee Le Ne eee Pee es ee OES eee eee tae yee 


NICHOLSON’S DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. 55 


scarcely mature, agree well with some of the figures. According 
to Milde, this species is very variable in the form of the stem. The 
Bisley plant has both barren and fertile stems nearly or quite 
simple when growing on the enrié e a few plants occur on the 
adjoining peat, and these show uch stronger Neivtiod to 
branch. The occurrence of essthio’s prmmiern in this country is 
quite in accord te te continental distribution as given 
Nyman.—W. H,. Brz 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening ; a Practical and Scientific 
Encyclopedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists. 
Edited by ae NicHoLson, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Kew. Vol. ii. F—O. London: L. Upcott Gill, 170, Strand. 
1886. Ato, ea. 544, 811 cuts. 


Ir this work were only to be regarded as a “ Dictionary of 
Gardening,” we might content ourselves with repeating of the 
second volume what we said of the first (Journ. Bot. 1884, p. 254). 
It is useful and comprehensive; Mr. Nicholson continues to exercise 
a careful supervision of the contents; and the abbreviated titles of 
the works quoted are as irritating and unintelligible as they were 
when we previously took exception to eae 

bo 


u which is in dange 
being overlooked, for, although stile ‘for petunia” aa it does 
a directly appeal to them. We are accustomed to recognise 


: 


same Platform with eres Nor can it be considered of like im- 
portance: for, so far as we know, no new plants are described in it. 
But a little search will show that many species are here for the 
first time ae to their proper genera according to the ‘ Genera 
Plantarum d this book must therefore be cited by future authors 
for these er for which Mr. Nicholson must stand sponsor. 
looking through the volume we were convinced that this was the 
— and Mr. Nicholson, in answer to our enquiry, kindly wrote as 
ollo 


notice is Isoloma bogotens . This ent oa on Achimenes picta 
Bot. Mag, 4126—is refacréd to Tsoloma by ‘ Genera Plantarum’ ; 


56 NICHOLSON’S DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 


first time in any gardening work; they cross-fertilize with Mil- 
tonias, but refuse to mix with Odontoglossum, although Mr. Bentham 
states the opposite in Gen. Plant. 0. Warscewiczii was awkward— 
there was already a Miltonia Warecaaices, so I had to coin a name 
and I used the specific name Endresit, in honour of the ‘ndividual 
who sg brought the plant alive to Baas 
the names in the Dictionary San printed in accordance 
she sciantifio practice, there would be little to complain of. But, 
o doubt from a quite intelligible consideration for the gardening 
uid, no authority is appended to any of the names, so that 


change of naine is distinctly mentioned), it is: peels to tell 
whether a name ote r has not been previously published. Thus 
we have ‘ Miltonia Roeeli (then follows description)... ... - .M. 
6065; B. O.* 30 (under name of a Roezlit.” This 
would lead us to suppose that the plant was figured as O. Roealit in 
Bot. Mag., but it is there styled CDN Gisee: and accordin gto 
Mr. Nicholson's letter) se we st yee as a Miltonia is found 
in the ‘ Illustrated Dict A. vewillaria 1 0. 6 es B. 
6037, under name of icici ine aoomeagy makes the matter 
plain so far as Bot. Mag. is concerned, but there is nothing to 
show Se ete the plant has or has not been published elsewhere 
as a Milt 

fr. Nicholson is too good a botanist and too careful a worker 
to wish to add to the troubles of synonymy; and we trust that m 


eu 

This would Sake so little space that neither eabichee nor gardener 
could opin. while the botanist would be as grateful as we fear 
he wi e the reverse. We might well spare some of the 
pkplahatiotis of the specific names; in Miltonia, for example, the 
reader who learnt at p- 867 that M. Clowesiti Lamarcheana would be 
called in English, ‘Mons. Oscar Lamarche de Rossius’ Clowes’ 
Miltonia,” would probably remember that gentleman's name when, 
two pages further on, he came to another form named in his 
honour. Whether he or anyone else aa ever use such a desig- 
nation is another matter. 

Unfortunately this is not the only difficulty. The Merge is 
dated 1886, but most of the parts of which it is composed 
issued during 1885. Thus an oe of date is Poieen 
which may lead to further sea array 

e have been thus particular in calling attention to hee 
names eae 5 as it seems a us, they cannot be ignored, 


orward at some later date, and further complicate the tangled Be 


of synonymy. It is peoaty therefore, to recognise at once as 
as s have claims to adoptio 


* B. O. = Bateman’s Monograph of Odontoglossum. 


peeps 9 1. 


ne 


CUMING’S PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 57 


Phanerogamea Cumingiane Philippinarum ; o Indice numérico y Cata- 
logo sistematico de las Plantas Fanerogamas coleccionadas en 
Filipinas por Hugh Cuming; con caracteristicas de alyunas 
especies no descritas y del género Cumingia (Malvaceas). Por 
D. Sesastian Vina y Soler. Manila, 1885. 8vo, pp. 217. 
1 plate. 


Tuts work begins with a Numerical Index of the Flowering Plants 
collected in the Philippines by Hugh Cuming in the years 1836-40, 
must prove of considerable value to those who have sets of 


belonging to each; and afterwards a systematic catalogue of the 
r 


Cwmingia,+ having the habit and appearance of the Tropical Aus- 
ian Camptostemon, to which it seems most allied. A list of 
corrections and Index of Contents completes the work. 
k is privately printed, and may thus perhaps not be 
nerally accessible, it may be worth while to enumerate those 
_ Species appearing for the first time, giving Cuming’s n 
_ brackets. The following are fully described :— 
-_ Cumingia philippinensis, sp. unica, p. 212, tab. (This was 
discovered. a ihe "ithe ee Luzon, and is not represented in 
vuming’s collections). 
Artabotrys Cumingianus, p. 169 (970). 
Polyalthia lanceolata, p. . 
Orophea Cumingiana, p. 170 (854, 1412). 
O. enterocarpoidea, p. 171 (1586). 


* The author estimates that the flowering plants comprise 1332 species of 


G44 genera, as compared with 3466 species of 1002 genera known from the 
islands at the present time. 


t The genus described by Don under this name is now reduced to Con-— 
‘@ Ruiz. & Pay. ; oS 


58 CUMING’S PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 


Rubus Rolfei, p. 171 (808 


(Myrtus communis Blanco, Linn.). 
Eugenia (Jambosa) cinnamomea, p. 173 (846). 
E. apneen*) Cumingiana, p. 178 (925). 
Astronia Cumingiana, B 74 (999). 

A, Rolfei, p. 174 (1723 
Heptapleurum caudatum, p. 175 (800), 
Nauclea Blancoi,t p. 175 


W. luzoniensis, p. 179 (1823). 
Ra Cumingiana, p. 179 (1866). 
Villaria § littoralis, p. 180 (874). 

Rolfei, p. 180 (1271). 
Canthium arboreum, p See ec 1544). 

(Ronabea arborea Blan 
C. Villarii, p. 182 (886, 1537 
Ixora Cumingiana , p. 183 (895, 1238, 1566). 
teense parvifolia, p. 183 (1894). 
rato es Sean a 216 (1242), 
Mei da Cum p. 184. By iben), 
Gaultheria Catalistan, p. "84 (934). 
Arete eoocetaet p- 185 (1029). 

m wig p. 185 eae 

Cordia Cumi mingiana, p. 187 (1019). 
Callicarpa micrantha, p. 187 (1165). 


The following transfers are here made, apparently for the first 
time :— 


Gymmnosporia philippinensis, p. ed oes 
(Putterlickia? philippinensis Planch.)|| 

Allophylus Cebbe Bl., var. rosette, p-. 105 (640). 
(Schmidelia grossedentata Turez.). 


* This is not a Syzygium, but belongs to the section Jam: 
+ i Soe . purpurascens Korth., from Java, nia and Borneo 


t Alm tical with the Phili ine we Bartlingii DC. Prodr. 
iv. p aka, A though 12 I ave not seen an authentic Ste = 


gT © spec ies were mentioned by me (Journ . Linn. Soe. xxi. ~~ as 
ippinensi. 


6 
no specim nens at tow. sat only Shteine da hasty glance Cuming’s specimens 
in the u hen saves discovered at Kew, amongst the 
a ——— I was convinced of their distinctness, but too late t0 
correct the e 


Sea T have rot a succeeded in ed in finding any publication of this, and believe it to 


CUMING’S PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 59 


Lagerstremia paniculata, p. 115 (1188). 
(Pterocalymna paniculata Turez.). 
Ebermaiera Neesii, p. 84 (1083 
(Ebermaiera spatilata Nees, ex parte, non Hassk.). 
Cyrtopodium ensiforme, p. 150 (2047, 2048). 
( Cyrtopera ag bas in 
(C. squalidum, p. 150 (2052, written ‘* 2053” by error). 
(Eulophia pasion ndl.). 
Sarcochilus philippinensis, Pp. 150 aie 


Habenaria muricata, p. 151 (2086). 
(Dissorhynchium muricatum Schauer). 

Fimbristylis bursifolia, p. 156 (678). 
(Abildgaardia bursifolia Steud.)* 


The following transfers are anticipated in my Supplementary 
List of Philippine a, published in last year’s issue of this 
Journal, pp. 209-1 


Strombosia philippinensis. Terminalia mollis. 
Gomphandra ik fos Barringtonia luzonensis. 
Cupania segs Urophyllum memecyloides. 
Cc. Symplocos oblongifolia, 


Connarus Rolfat Vidal,t p. 106  Microchites Schrieckit. 
(851). 


A word of explanation as to the localities of Cuming’s Philippine 
stions may not tars seem out of place. I have failed to find 


¢ os in a very few instances, any lo written on the ticke 
in the sets I have examin the above eo the list o Tooaltien 


has been chiefly compiled from two MS. lists in the Kew Library, 


to the set possessed by him. It has been of great value in correcting 
. Some undoubted errors, —notaly those which had led to plants 
from Malacca, Singapore, and Sumatra being accredited to the 
Philippines,—but the special localities are not given. The second 
list is partly in ink and partly in pencil, and some of the localities 
are evidently written in with hesitation. In the Kew Herbarium I : 
find four original tickets, on which the locality is given as well as 
ee 


_ find no such name, and, as a purse-leaved Cyperacea would be an 
ag ; _ suspect it must be a slip for 4. brevifolia Steud. Syn. Cyp. p. 72, 
which | unded on Cu In this case oe ee 
acutifolia Tab, var. minor Nees. 
Founded on ostemon. trifoliolatus aces +f piss a 


60 CUMING’S PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 


the number. The writing is the same as ‘la of the number- 
tickets which were distributed with the plan Sir J. D. Hooker 
tells me he believes the writing on these Een tickets to be that 
of Cuming’s daughter, not of ang himself, as I at first suspected. 
These four tickets are as follows : 


ens luzonica F. Villar.—‘ 1479, Island of Mindoro, Aug., | 
838.” 


yes emna nauseosa seers —‘‘ 698, Island of Corrigedor, Bay of 
a, Sept., 1839.” 
Potumogeton lucens L.—‘*1881, Prov. of Nueva Eeija, July, 
1889.” 


Freycinetia luzonensis Presl.—* 1455, Prov. of South Camarines, 
Feb., March, 1839.” 


According to the afore-named list the localities should be 
respectively—1 and 4, Prov. Batangas; 2, unlocalised; and 3, 
Proy. Albay. These provinces are districts of the Island of Luzon. 

if to ee the — — this list cannot be taken as correct, 
we note that the localities on these original tickets are scarcely 


of determinations, with localities (Hook. J urn. Bot. iii. 392). 

A possible explanation of this Saatuioa may be that “the — 
records for the ferns were published at once, from some sou 
which, not being then recorded in the case of the flowering- olan, 


doe 
(Cleroen dron =.) 1689 (Bragantia sp.), and 1724 (Aporosa miecro- 
calyx Hassk.) are cited in the list as from the Island of Samar; 


and of the latter, ‘Island of Leyte.” Again, several orchids on the 
sheets are recorded from the “ Island of Bohol”: ‘but no locality for 
any orchid occurs in the list. The discrepancy I cannot explain, 
except as above. 

_ Enough has been said to show that the locality-lists, as given 
in the above work, must be taken cum grano salis, t gh not from 


excellent service to Philippine Botany, both in the investi -— or 
the Flora in the publication of the results. R. A. Roure 


New Booxs.—C. D. Harz, < dandy isthechaitliche Samenkunde’ 
(Berlin, Parey : 2 vols., pp. ix. 1362, 30 m.). — F. Huzprr, ‘ Die 
Formen der Bakterien * (Wi iesbaden, Kriedel : 
24 cuts). — J. Vi” Guide 
Cauterets’ (Pau, Cazaux: 8vo, 
‘Studies of Plant Life — 
pp- ili. ix. 288, tt. 1X.). — 
Practical 


ROOKSHANK, 
ie 80. Bacteriology * ‘ictaeas Lewis : mt pp. xxii, 249, 


—— 


— 


a ee 2 


61 


ARTICLES IN JOURNAL 
American Naturalist (Jan.).—E. L. Seatorin «A Study of the 
ndelion.’ 


Da 

Bot. Centralblatt (Nos. 1-8). — A. Nathorst, ‘ Ueber die Ben- 
ennung fossiler sea eel 

Botanical Gazette (Dec.). — J. C. Arthur, ‘ Some Botanical 
Laboratories of the United peered — J. M. Coulter, ‘ Laboratory 
Appliances.’ — Id., ‘ Laboratory Courses of Instruction.’ — H. 
“Selly ‘The ‘Laboratory at Strassburg.’ — T. J. Burrill, Section 

ti 


Bot. Notiser (Haft 6, 1885). — B. Lidforss, * Nagra vixt tlokaler 
till nordvdestra Skanes flora.’ —A. Rudberg, ‘ Nya nares 

Vestergétland.’ — B. Hégretl, ‘Ur femariga antec 

pees och nagra ee i sammanhang stiende iat 


e5) Zeitung (Dec. 18).—W. ee ca Laer ime ia Sperma- 

3 tozoiden der heterosporen Lee — (Dec. O. Lindt, 
. ‘Ueber die Umbildung der ae a Ate in Neottia 
Nidus-avis zu Chlorophyll.’ --- (Jan. 4,. 8), H. de Vries, ‘ Ueber 
die Aggregation im Protoplasma von Drosera rotundifolia’ (l plate). 
Bull, Soc. Bot. Be lg. (Jan. 14). — J. ©. reat —— 


du genre Thalictrum’ (conel.: 5 plates). — L Cardot 
‘Les Muscinées des environs de Spa. — (Comptes. mame 
Paque & V. Coomans, ‘Les Mouvements des Po chez les 


Orchidées.’—H. Christ, ‘ Nouveau Catalogue des Carew es 


4 étude des Algues de Belgique.’ — A. Domet, Lichénes de Bel- 
gique.— E.. Marchal, ‘ Bommerella, nouveau genre de Pyrénomyecétés.’ 
—H. Laurent, ‘ “Tee Microbes boulangers.’ 
Bull. Soc. Bot. France (Jan. 1, x xxii.; Sess. extraord. a Charle- 
og >: CG. Richon, ‘Sur quelques Sphériacées nouvelles ' ” (Lepto- 
es Lemoinii (sp. fossile), Lophiotricha (n. gen 
ab mato, spp. nn.: 3 plates). — - é Cardot, ‘Les Mousses 
J: Constantin, ‘Sur 1 eee des feuilles du ~ 
Ryhiphiee Sikes et du a luteum — Le Bazot, ‘ Herborisations 
dans les Ardennes Frangai __ —, Boulay, ". De Vinfluence 
chimique du Sol sur la distribution des espéces végé étales.’ — P. 
Petit, ‘Sur le développement des auxospores chez le Cocconema 
in, ‘Sur l’inegalité de valeur des espéeces 
dites linnéenes.’-—E. Bescherelle, ‘ Mousses nouvelles de l’ Amérique 
australe,’—P, Vuillemin, ‘ Sur l’anomalie du systéme séeréteur des 


_ Hydrocotyle. 
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Ger: ).-W. Nylander, ‘New N. Am American 
_— Arthonie.’ — (Dec.). F. Wol ‘ Fresh-water Algie’ om new — 
ss Species: 1 plate). — * The Origin of Herbaria.’ 


* See Soums: Bot. 1885, 260. 


62 OBITUARY. 


Gardeners’ Chronicle (Jan. 2). — Celogyne stellaris Rehb. f., 
iors bella Rehb. f., Spathoglottis Augustorum Rehb. f., Eucomis 

mbesi er, spp. nn.—G. 8. Jenma a ‘Proliferation in Ferns.’ 

— (Jan "9), Oncidium lepturum Rehb. sp. n. — J. M. Wood, 
* Disa macrantha,.’ — (Jan. 16). W. G. Siaith, ‘ Craterellus cornu- 
copioides i. (figs. 11, 12). ee inodora Rehb. f., sp. n.— 
H 


eritiera # macrophylla (fig. 16). — (Jan. gl Jd. Gi Baker, ‘ Cape 
Bulbs.’ — ‘Orchid Seed-vessels’ (figs. 21-24). — T. W. Fulton, 
‘The Inflorescence, ope ructure, and pollination of Scrophularta 


aquatica and S. noc 


Journ. Linn, Se xxi, No. 140 (Jan. 25).—W. Joshua, ‘Burmese 
Desmidiea’ (4 plates). — J. S. Gardner, ‘Hocene Ferns from the 
ea of PSP ty and Bootlana” ri plate) 

Magyar Névénytani Lapok. (Dec.). See experiments 
of the Archduke Joseph near Fiume, 1881-85. 

Nuovo Giorn, Bot. Ital. (Jan. 4).—P. Pichi, ‘ Sulle eee = 
Bunius Erueago' (1 plate). — A. Mo orl, ‘Funghi di a 
T. Caruel, ‘Note di una corsa botanica nel Friuli.’ — F. M ori 
‘Sopra una nuova malattia del Frumento. a tee Berlese, ‘ pei 
wna specie di Lophiostoma mal conosciuta’ (i Cay. 

i aleune anomalie riscon:rate negli organi doral delle Lenina 
3 plates). 


Zeitschrift (Jan.). — A. 4 eed Begs io of 
Andreas Ramahntier (b. 1824: Sit teem . Potter, ‘Flora des 
bayerisch- oops Waldgebirges.” — i Subran ate, * Rubus 
Pseudo-radula,’ — G. Schneider, SFhidiicich des Riesengebirges.’— 


RK. Wiesnek ‘Flora des bshm.-mahr. Schnee ehitpes’ (concl.). 


Scottish cig ene ).—J. W. H. Trail, ‘ Report on Fungi of 
East of Scotland.’ — C. 0. Babington, ‘On Local Museums.’ — J- 
Wee Mosses a Scotland’ (Campylopus symplectus, Sp.D-)- 

—dJ. Soiank & J. W.H. Trail, ‘Mycologia Scotica—Supplement.’ 


OBITUARY. 
_ Dr. Henry Graves Buu, or Herzrorp —Mycologists have read 
= deep ey of eo /_ of this excellent and kind-hearted 


brief and painful ites a Gate 31st, 1885. As I was the first 
mycologist Dr. Bull =o i i 
last letter 


Personally Dr. Bull was one 


ou 
He was always ga gay, enjoye = nt droll 


dy of fungi he worked night 
first met greece 1867: ; it was in Exhibition Road, 


eee. 


genial, ‘igh-spirited, kind-hearted, hardworking men it | 


Pe See ee ae ee SS Ae ee ee ee ee ee ee ee aT ee 


OBITUARY. 63 


banter with the cabman about the size, weight, an 
hampers; the banter was as to whether the charge should be made 
for size, weight, or number. I made an amusing remark, and Dr. 
ull at this immediately turned round and said, ‘Are 

Worthington Smith?’’ Directly afterwards he was introduced to 
Mr. Berkeley, who was inside the building. At this meeting Dr. 
Bull was awarded (for the Woolhope Club) the first prize for his 
collection of named fungi. Dr. Bull had only at that time used 
Dr. Badham’s volume and my coloured charts. 


Museum) were at the above-mentioned exhibition, and with these 


gaily ascended the platform wit erous actual speci- 
mens of fungi be im, and delivered an excellent address, full 
of humour, but scientifically accurate from end. He 


mind 


and was always ready to glean facts any source, likely o 
i He was of course the very soul of the Woolhope Club: it 
18 In fact impossible to imagine th ub without him. Att 


as e 
obliging, thoughtful, kind, and pleasant to everyone. His memory 
will be p large and : 


64 : - OBITUARY. 


artistic skill. Dr. ’s botanical career ranges over eighteen 
years. He was always very reticent in sending papers for painting 
or drawings for publication,* as he did not esteem his own abilities. 


He replied, with a gay laugh, “Don’t you see, I never try to improve 
Nature, but carefully copy all her accidents.” ersons who have 
own Dr. Bull—who died in the month he loved—will keep him 
in pleasant memory till death, and no one will remember him more 
pleasantly and affectionately than the writer of these lines.—W. G. 
Smire,  - 
In Joun Morris, who died on J anuary 7th, within six months 
of completing his seventy-sixth year, English Geology lost its most 
eminent teacher. Distinguished chiefly as a paleontologist, his 


‘Magazine of Natural History’ “A Systematic Catalogue of the 
Fossil Plants of Britain”; and in the ‘Annals of Natural History’ 


b 
Lesquereux ; and, jointly with Dr. Thomas Oldham, contributed 
il Flor j i 


_ Morris was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery on January 13th, in 
the presence of a small but representative group of his scientific 
friends.—G. §. Bouner. 


*[Most of his work appeared in the ‘Transactions of the Woolhope Club, ’ 
from which his interesting paper on “The Mistletoe in Herefordshire” was 
_ Teprinted, with corrections by the author, in this Journal for December, 1864. 
His only other contribution to our pages was a short paper on the occurrence of 

_ Cortinarius russus in Britain (Journ. Bot. 1870, 272).—Ep. Joury. Bor.] 


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FARIA Ee ete ee he ee 


Fe PN et SIN A ee 


65 


A BRITISH MOSS NEW TO SCIENCE. 
By G. A. Hour.* 
Sr 265). 


foliage less complanate. Lower st m-leaves distant, equiamond; shes 
or less triangular. Middle a “leat ves sublinear, acuminate, con- 
cave, rather lax, erecto- -patent, incurved; length - 5mm. : width at 

ase *65--70 mm., at middle -45--50 mm. Marg plane, minutely 
serrulate below, sharply and coarsely serrate shoes Nerve thick and 
very broad, but ill-defined, opaque, striate, gradually hanced into the 

mina ; towards the base flattened and dilated so as to oceupy almost 


rd 

more prominent at back; vanishing below apex; width at base 
‘55-60 mm., at middle -88--35 mm. Lamina at base very narrow, 
of 5-6 rows of elliptical cells. Areole oval, ‘03 x ‘01 mm.; at 
apex of leaf larger, -035--040 x ned 015 mm. _ Branch-leaves 
smaller, nerve narrower, about one- — width of leaf teeth 
larger. Neither fruit nor flowers a observed. 

abitat.—Found sparingly on shady Eacatsnts rocks, associated 
ea T’. alopecurum, in Ravensdale, Derbyshire, May, 1888 and 1884, 

. A. Holt. 

T. angustifolium is pee “ once to differ from T. alopecurum in 
the narrow outline of leaf,—always broadest at base,—in the 
very broad thick poet in sets laxer areolation, and in the coarser 

ation. The leaves of 7’. alopecurwm are ovate, being sere just 


above the base, the nerve comparatively narrow, ‘1 mm. at base, - 


subterete, hoes defined, prominent throughout; the areolw inde 
rounder, -015 x -010 mm. T. angustifolium has been confirmed as 
& new species by the eminent authorities, Prof. Lindberg and Dr. 
Kindberg. 


EXPLANATION oF PLATE nium a ae 1. Stem-leaf, x 27. 
la. Apex epels same, x 160. re shat uate 2a. Apex of owes a x 
B.1. Stem-leaf of 7. alopecurum, x 27. B. 2. Branch leaf of same, x 


PROF. F. PHILIPPI’S RESEARCHES IN CHILI. 
By Jonn Batu, F.R.S. 


A RECENT — from Professor Federigo Philippi, of Eger 
de Chile, ormation which must interest many readers 
of this Favial. It is well known that the desert of redbeng: in 
the north of Chili, extending northward from the river of Copiapd 
through the mining districts of Chili and the territory recently 

from Bolivia, is one of the most arid regions of the earth. 


* Read at a Meeting of the Manchester Cryptogamic Society. 
JOURNAL OF Borany.—Vot. 24. [Marcu, 1886.) * 


66 PROF. F. PHILIPPI'S RESEARCHES IN CHILI. 


In ordinary seasons it is absolutely Sram but at intervals 
of several years the region receives occasional showers, which 
suffice to maintain here and there some eek vegetation, especially 
in the higher portions which extend to the watershed of f the Andes. 
The Chilian province of Atacama includes, besides the desert 
strictly so called, a southern portion, lying between the rivers | 
Copiapé and Huasco, which approaches nearly to the desert 


four inches in the yea: nate the aspect of the country, excepting 


along the few streams rae ending from the Cordillera, is a waste, 
dotted at intervals — rare patches of ee ie: chiefly 


trees were seen, and the only tall Bases were the Cereus — 


valley to Freirina and Huasco, embarking at the latter place to — 
return to Valparaiso on the 4th of October. 


Professor apr d has been good enough to send me a summary [| 


of the results of his first examination of the collections made — 
this excursion ‘of only tee ba days. Besides three ferns he — 
enumerates = species of pee —— of which he reckons 74, — 


Leguminose much larger, than is ordinarily found in the adjoining 
regions s of Chili and Peru. 


Composite ... ay re ae 36 species. 
a5 is 3 


fratine 

Convolvulacee (including Nolanacee) 18 
NOON, et i ne I, 
Gramineae... ae 2 gee 


RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF ICELAND. 67 


The residents of this district unanimously declared that no such 
abundant vegetation had been seen for many years; and the 


us to expect the possibility of collecting one-half of the number of 
species found last year. 

special interest attaches to the annuals that appear to form 
the larger portion of Prof. Philippi’s collection. It is conceivable 
that in a climate so dry, seeds lying on the surface may preserve 
their vitality for many years, and may produce a fresh generation 
when a rainy season arrives; but the enquiry as to the probable 
origin of each of these species will offer many curious subjects for 
investigation. For such an enquiry we must await the publication 
of the full results of Prof. Philippi’s excursion. 


RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF ICELAND.* 
By Artuur Bennett, F.L.S. 


Since the publication of Groenlund’s ‘Island Flora’ (1881), the 
author has noticed the additions in ‘ Karakterisk af Plantevexter 
paa Island, 1884,’ and in ‘Afsluttende bidrag til oplysning om 
Islands Flora.’ In 1884, Strémfelt, in ‘ Ofver af Kong. Vet. Ak 
Foérh. No. 8, Stockholm,’ contributed a paper entitled, «‘ Island 
Karlviixter, Vetraktade fran viaxtgeografish och floristish eae 


Ear SI Dae ne RTOS DEON a aa oa 


* Releronics to Icelandic Botany will be found in this Journal for 1366, 
P. 94; 1867, p. 107; 1870, pp. 236 and 277; 1875, p. 210; and 1982, p60. 


68 RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF ICELAND. 


An interesting part of Strémfelt’s paper is a comparison of 498 
species that occur in Scandinavia, the Faroes, Iceland, and Green- 
land. Of these 402 occur in Scandinavia, 218 in the Faroes, 349 
in Iceland, and 367 in Greenland. 187 species are common to all — 
four countries, and of these only 9 do not occur in Scotland, i.e, 


Stromfelt now makes the Icelandic Phanerogams and Filices to 
Babington numbers 467; of these he 

expresses or implies doubt of some 80, and, with a few others 
mentioned in only one list, we may call his number for the Flora 
es. Looking at the distribution of these 60 species which 
constitute the difference between these estimates, outside Ice ’ 


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Ranunculus acris L., var. borealis Trautv. ; f. grandiflora Trautv. 
Eskifjérthur. 
| ee nivalis Liljeb., f. speluncarum (n. f.) Strémf.—LHast side of — 
lyvatn. 
Stellaria crassifolia Ehrh., p. subalpina Hn. ; y. luaurians Stromf. — 
Akureyri (N. Iceland). 


Stellaria humifusa Rottb. Hofsés, by Skagafjérthur (N. Iceland). 
Described from Icelandic specimens by Rotteboll, but persistently 
ignored by nearly ee, swale except Gliemann and Vahl; this is 
) it. 


pag Knows eS cessor be Pie Ps ‘a peg 
only, gathered by Steenstrup. 

; ao nivalis Lindbl. By Skithadalur, Vathlakeithi (N- 
- —— arvense L. Eyaarbakhi (8. Iceland). « Plant not culti- 
Babington aya there a epecinen i olsen nea 
doubts its being native.* | 
inbred nea stint U- Outside Reykjavik (8. Iceland). + Surely 


* (This seems a good opportunity for saying th ' a 
oEanr tM tupuina is Sneladed in Prot. Babington’s “Hovision’ ip nob th 
ED. iomtoet This is apparently an addition to the list— 


RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF ICELAND. 69 


Alchemilla conjuncta Bab. Strémfelt remarks on this, ‘In all 
the places I visited, from the coast to the west of (the) Lagarfljot. 
According wi an example from the Faroes, kindly given to me by 

. E. Ros trup, of opestanret it perfectly agrees with the A. fissa 
Sch. sledetitiedt “in the ‘Faroen Flora,’ which name is given to a 


Compare the description in ‘ Faroen Flora,’ pp. 80-31 (4. Jissa) and 
Babington’s ‘Manual,’ ed. 4, p. 92 (A. conjuncta), with ‘ Flora of 
Silesia,’ Wimmer, 1841 (A. fissa), and ‘Flora of France,’ Grenier 
and Godron, 1848, vol. i., p. 565 (A. pyrenaica),” p. 118. I am 
also indebted to Mr. Rostrup for specimens of his ‘ hone Flora’ 
plant, and I do not think they are 4. conjuncta; in this view I am 
supported | Dr. Lange, of Copenhagen, who remarks ey a Tene 
“A. conjuncta seems a variety of alpina; A. fissa seems different.” 
I have not seen the Icelandic plant. 


ove-na 
the genus Epilobiwm, 1884, gives it as found in Sweden, Norway, 
Greenland, Kamschatka, Labrador, and “pre whence he has 


this to mean Garpodalr, in the north-west of the i islan 
Callitriche autumnalis L. Pedinionn: te Med. den Bot. Foren. 
(1885), p p. 159. Not admitted by Groenlund. Babington remarks, 


"Bais perennis L. Skagafjérthr (H. Fridriksson). Eyafjérthr 
(J. Mortensen). Babington records this as from Symington; “given 
to him.” Groenlund says, ‘‘ New for Iceland.” 

Achillea Ptarmica L. Obfussd, near Langardeelir (S. or 
(G. Gudmundsson). Babington remarks, ‘Solander also saw 
des in Paulsen’s maa ; and Hove rnemann likewise ails 


phalium sylvaticum = rm spring near Langar, 
“ee AthatroyKadalnr f (N. fccland) “Gf. Babington’s = * Reeviaiods, 
p. 3 


a de uniflorus L. Herdubreidarlindir (Thoroddsen). 


Hieracium nigrescens Willd. Eskifjérthur (E. Iceland). — 
Schmidtii ee Bildudabur, near Arnarfjé irthur (W. TT — 
H. murorum L. Under this Strémfelt gives four subspecies: 1. 
basifotium v. alpestre Lange (S. and N. Iceland; 2. bijidum Rit. a 


merfeltit, near this (E. Iceland). — H. dovrense Fr., var. demissum 
Stromf. Asgantrsathir, east of Eyrarbakhi (S. one 
Pyrola rotundifolia i Eyafjorthur, by a warm spring (H. 


Fridriksson sson). Confounded with media by some of the sats writers 
on the Flora ?.—P. uniflora L. Reynistathir (H. Fridriksson). 


70 RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF ICELAND, 


? [Ajuga pyramidalis L. Doubtful specimen found.] : 

As stated by Dr. Trimen (Journ. Bot. 1870, 279), there is a | 
specimen of Veronica Anagallis L., localised ‘Islandia in thermis”’ 
in Herb. Mus. Brit., collected by Banks and Solander. Babington 
says he has seen no specimens, and doubts it. Groenlund does not 
admit it. In Sweden it occurs north to « Gefleborgs lin” and 
South Norway. 

Glaux maritima L. eirarey (H. Fridriksson). Given by 
Baring-Gould for ‘‘Eyjaford and Mithfjord,” and numbered by @ 
Babington. 4 

Plantago major L., v. rotundifolia Lange. Reykir, at Mossfell — 
(Thoroddsen). a7 

? Urtica dioica L. Reykjavik (H. Fridriksson). Numbered by 
Babington. 

Salix glauca L.; pullata Fr. Eskifjorthur (E. Iceland). — 8. 
lanata x herbacea Lundstr. (n. h.) — «. pubescens. Vathatheithi (N. 
Iceland).-—8. glabrata. Hallounstatharhals (E. Iceland) 

Potamogeton polygonifolius Pour. Federsson in Med. den Bot. 
Foren, p. 159 1885).—P. natans L. Near Eyrarbakhi (8. Iceland). 

ear Akureyri (N. Iceland). There is a specimen from Iceland in 
Herb. Mus. Brit. 

Zannichelia polycarpa Nolte. Federsson in Med. den Bot. Foren, 
p- 159 (1885). 

Sparganium natans L. Federsson, 1. c. Babington remarks, 
‘It is in Solander’s collection.” — §. affine Schweizl. Near Ery- 
arbakki (S. Iceland). Myvatn (N. Iceland). : 

Listera ovata L. Omitted by Groenlund: but there is a specl- 
men in Herb. Kew from Paulsen (ide Hemsley in ‘ Botany of 
“Challenger” ’), 

L 


Iceland). A rare form, known before only for N. Norway, placed 
y Nyman under subsp. C. Deinbolliana of Gay. — C. glareosa Wg. 
Setythisfjordur. Seley, outside Reytharfjérthur (E. Iceland). 
Grimsey (Thoroddsen). Hofsds, near Skagafjorthur. Oddeyri (N. 
Iceland). Not noticed by Groenlund or Babington, but given for 
“Island” b : in hi nlandice ; 
probably on the authority of Drejer, who, in his ‘ Revisio,’ p. 448. 
1 ns 2 De 


may be that Mr. Bailey’s plant represents the 
_ landica Lange of Berli .* Laat: of | 


aiid tat oka 


RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 71 


the Swedish Expedition of 1883.’ Lindsey gives “‘ acuta” for Ice- 
, with five other autho ne who —— ge on its Flora. 
Gincwis maritima Wahlb. Common near Skagafjérthur and 
Eyjafjorthur (N. Iceland). Bahingten remarks, “In all the lists,” 
but ses d did not admit it in his ‘ Flora.’—-G. aretica Hooker, 
ange. Myvatn (N. Iceland). ~ ‘interesting addition of 
chine Arctic ees ~ Greenland, N. America, Nova Zembla, and 
Spitzbergen ; buts ngly not Asiatic, at dead it spe ere appear 
Kjellman’s fee on the Vega Expedition,’ &e. 
Poa alpina L., v. minor. Myvatn anderen: parece 
in Nerheder of Husarik (Thoroddsen). — P. pratensis L., v. 
gena Blytt. Gesavatn (Thoroddsen iF 
a — L., v. minor Moore. Found by Thorodd- 
sen in 1882 near Bjarnarflag, east of Myvatn (N. Iceland); also in 
1888 at Gennndevee by Reykjanes, when the sand was 27° C. 


In his recently published ‘ Additamenta ad Consp. Fl. Europ.,’ 
Dr. Roth (to whom I am es bted for the localities) gives the 
following species as Icelandic: 


Callitriche staan Kiitz. Anilthrasser, 1, 8, 1856, by Haurdi- 
ger in Herb. A. 

Myosotis alpestris 3 K. Island, by Haudiger in Herb. A. Braun. 

Rumea crispus L. Island, 1881, by Sinogowitz in herb. Berlin. 

Salia Lapponum L. Island, 1881, by pra one ks in herb. Berlin. 

jord, N.W. coast, by Wendil (1881) i in herb. 

Koeleria cristata Li. Dyratjord, N.W. coast, by ‘Wendil (1881) 

in herb. Berlin 


ON THE RELATION OF THE BRITISH FORMS OF 
RUBI TO THE CONTINENTAL TYPES. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 
(Concluded from p. 47.) 


Following the sequence of Nyman, the present paper includes 
the Corylifolii, in addition to all the Glandulose groups. 


Group 6,—ADENoPHORI. 

This group, the account of which occupies from p. 247 to p. 284 
in Koch's ‘ Synopsis,’ is altogether omitted by Nyman. A few of 
ead included therein by Focke are mentioned, however, under 
4 oups by Nyman. 

Re pris Focke Synops —Dr. Focke refers to this 
doubtfully a Cumbrian ashi ate allied to R. infestus, and has 
sent me for comparison an authentic specimen of the German 
plant. A form very near to this is not infrequent im North York- 
shire, and R. Purchasii Bloxam is also nearly allied; as is also a 
Hertforishire bramble, which my friend Mr. H. T. _Mennell io fe 
just shown me, which Dr. Focke has — doubtfully to 


72 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 


R. infestus W. & N. Rubi Germ. t. 80.—In his ‘ — (p. “ee 


Focke admits our British infestus as identical with the German |"_ 
oR and he has lately confirmed what I sent ii an this | 
th 


e from three differen low localities in Surrey. His specimens from 
Minden weed Rubi selecti exsiccati, No. 66) entirely confirm this 
idea. The e form is not infrequent both in North Yorkshire 
and the Bisa’ distr: ict. A. infestus appears to bear 2 pa much the 
same relation to Koehleri that Hystriz bears to rosaceus. The 


comes in between Radula — villicaulis var. ser This and d the 
two preceding are omitted in Nyman. 


Group 7.—VestiT1. 


Of this group, as it stands in Focke and Nyman, R. vestitus 
(leucostachys) and pyramidalis Kalten. have beck already noticed in 


r. : 
obscurus Kaltenb. — I collected this i ze the sea : 


Bo kt. 
of Spa, but have not seen anything exactly like it in Engl 


adornatus and ewsecatus of Muller, both cited by Bebington under : 
the English foliosus, are placed here by Focke, but the former 18 | 


altogether omitted by Nyman. I do not know much about the 


ee foliosus, but feel satisfied this is a ong better position for it 
in the 


an where it stands in Nym 
Of. Tageundi W. & N. Rubi Geran t. al, — Here Dr. Focke 
rejects the English plant, so called. I failed to find the type in the 


— of Spa, but gathered R. festivus Muller, placed by | 
f 


Group 8.—RapvuLz. 


28. R. Radula W.& N. Rubi Germ. t. 89.—About this all recent : 
authors seem to be agreed. It is one of the commonest and best- _ 


navia to Fran tria. Focke and Genevier both accept our 
ordinary British plant, cry re as identical with what they 

by the same name. of them agree in rejecting our English 
**rudis’’ as identical with the German man and Focke 
place it as a su form of Radula under Lindley’s name, 
‘‘ echinatus.” It seems to me to differ ape ae the type Radula 
in the deeper dentation of the leaf. I do think R. Leightont 


Lees can stand where Nyman has placed mg under R. rudis. It 
ems to be a oe form of Radula, differing from the type 


mutabilis Genevier, oe noticed by 
: Woae ca bea well-mar ked form of this a 


29. R. rus W. &N. ube ae Lohrié Wistg.) —D*- : 


ea 


| 


RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 73 


Focke has kindly sent me a specimen of the German type, which is 
totally different from the plant to which we have been applying the 
name, and looks also totally different from R. Leightoni Lees. Dr. 
Focke has recently identified with the German rudis a Surrey plant 
gathered by Mr. Beeby. See also Prof. Babington’s remarks on 
R. Lohrii Wirtg. (‘ British Rubi,’ p. 186). 

80*. R. saltuum Focke (1870) = R. Guntheri Bab., non W.&N. 
= R. fleauosus P. J. Mull. & Lefev. in J ahresb. der Pollichia, 

1 18 i i i 


Silesia, two sent by Dr. Focke and two by Dr. F. W. Areschong, and 
they quite agree with one another, and differ materially from any- 
thing I have scen in Britain. Of R. saltuum I have specimens, SO 
called, from Oldenburg, Schaffhausen, and Geneva, and exactly the 
same plant from Central France, labelled by Genevier as fi. flexuosus 
of Muller and Lefevre, of which there is a very full description in 
= ‘Pollichia,’ as just cited, and which is an earlier name than 
saituum. 


raun. | 
88. R. pallidus W. & N. Rubi Germ. t. 89 = R. obliquus Wirtg. 
— Nyman does not admit this as British, and Dr. Focke considers 


*, R, fuscus W. & N. Rubi Germ. t. 27. — This I collected 
both in the neighbourhood of Spa and nea Heidelberg. Itis closely 
idland Counties and Cheshire 


allied to the last. ies ¢ es 
(the latter collected by Mr. Warren) which was distributed under 
the name of fuscus by Bloxam requries further study, but I know 
too little about it to offer any opinion with confidence. The plant 
I mean is that from Great Cowleigh Park, mentioned by Babington 
under hirtus at p. 251 of ‘ British Rubi.’ ; 

R. longithyrsiger Lees MSS. = R. pyramidalis Bab., non Kalten- 
bach. — So far as present knowledge goes, this 1s an endemic 
British form, belonging to Watson’s Atlantic type of distribution. 
I have seen it growing plentifully both in Devonshire and Wales, 
but nowhere in the east or north of England. 


74 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 


ee 9.—Hysrtnrices. 


85. R. — W.& N. Rubi Germ. t. 36 = R. aculeatissimus 
n. — Here ». Focke admits the identity of the German type 
with the British an Irish plant, so called. I did not meet with it 
either in Belgium or German 


as British, either by Focke o r Nyman, but Dr. Focke has recently 
admitted the identity of tha, German type with the rare London 
meetnble, so called. 

- R. Koehleri W. & N. Rubi Germ. t. rn — This is not ad- 


ey ginia ’ : 
Hill), which we have always called by this name. I gathered it 
this autumn both in Germany and Belgium. He regards as a 
shade form of Koehleri what we ae been all along aint pallidus 


has clasping fruit-sepals. I gathered a form very near the English 
pallidus this autumn in the woods of the Siebengebirge. | 


Group 10.—GuanpuLosi. : 
_ 88. RK. Schleichleri W. & N. Rubi Germ, t. 28. — We have had 


like it in Britain. pears an essentially ternate type, most like 
aha ee aa long-trai n oc d Nyman 
mifusus as a subordinate form under 


39. R. serpens Weihe, non Godr.—This is the common bramble 4 
of eae eats shaded pats round about Heidelberg. Its alliance is close — 


Sioa: in Focke : W. & N. Bu - Germ. t 


, an 
between this and rosaceus. My Yorkshire plant, referred by Babing- 
ton to humifusus, appears to be R. sazxicolus Muller, a to range 
here, as does also the Silesian R. Guntheri W. & N. I had an 
oer this autumn of gathering characteristic ye in 
excellent condition on the thickly-wooded slopes ascending from 
_ the o at Heidelburg to the Konigstuhl. 
R. Bellardit W. & N. Rubi Germ. t. 44.—Focke and Nyman 
eamit e identity of the German type with our rare English 
| named, which is well figured in Eng. — & 2883. It 
is a frequent woodland fetal of France and Germany. I saw it 
in plenty this autumn in the woods of the Bho ahitgs. RG 


RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 75 


eglundulosus, as the name ae in 1 ‘a Bey doubt an un- 

fortunate misprint. The two older s, R. hybridus Me Delph. 
ist. vol. ili. p. 559 (17 89), pe R. SE Bellarai di, Act. Taur 

v. 280 (1792), are both defined very vaguely, and Saki include 

all these glandulose forms. 


Group 11.—Cory.irouu. 

48. R. ws Sig Smith.—Our ordinary corylifolius seems to be 
quite as commo rance, Germany, and Belgium, as in Britain. 
I do not think Sera in Britain would be inclined to follow Nyman 
in keeping up R. Wahlbergii Arrh. as a distinet primary type. In 
Blytt’s ‘Norges Flora,’ vol. iii. p. 1167, Dr. Areschoug keeps up 
the name R. maximus Linn. Westgotharesan, p. 113, citing under 
: it Svensk. Bot. t. 187, Fl. Dan. t. 2588, and Fries, Herb. Norm. 
j fasc. vii. No. 48. All these would be referred to corylifolius by a 
| British botanist. If the name mawimus be admitted, of course it 
has long geste over corylifolius ; but the book is a few years prior 


| 


to the first edition of ‘ Species verge and so, I t , it can- 
not be seokutied ai as a binomial n R. incurvatus Bab., arranged 
here by Nyman, is clearly quite Ba ‘of place. A large number of 


| Muller’s species range here (see Babington’s ‘British Rubi.’ p- 272), 
and, judging from the very poor mired * should suppose f. 
nemorosus of Hayne to be a form of corylifo 

| 49*. R. horridus C. F. Schultz, Fl. Stare ‘Suppl. p. es Ea 

DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 562 — R. ferox Weihe in Bonng. Prodr.; Fl. 

Seage ae 153 (1824) = R, dumetorwm var. ferox W. & x. “Rubi 

: Germ. t. 45 ; 


a fined. rang r 
folius and tuberculatus of Babington, and the British forms which 
have been meres by — to R. oreogeton and myriacanthus. Var. 
concinnus War which is one of the commonest Rubi about 
Thirk and Matlock, is clearly identical with R. tenuiarmatus Lees. 

I gathered a curious form in the neighbourhood of Spa with a very 
| leafy panicle, a sepals adpressed to the fruit. R. Briggstt and R. 
Bagnallii Blox. connect this with the Glandulosi. 


gta the _— in the same sense as that in which it is sapere 
y N 


Summary. — As far as 1 am able to understand the matter, the 
erin 3 is the position in which we stand in Britain in Sapte 
~ shea eis types of Weihe and Nees, as interpreted by Focke 


1. on types admitted as identical with British types for et 
we have been usiny the same names 2 catus, ‘hamuifolius, . 


76 RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 


caulis, macrophyllus, Sprengelii, leucostachys (vestitus), infestus, 
Radula, Koehleri, rosaceus, hystrix, hirtus, Bellardi. Lo 

2. British types for which we in Britain have been using the name 

of the ‘Rubi Germanici’ in a wrong sense :—afiinis, cordifolius, car 
pinifolius, discolor, Grabow aay thyrsoideus (fruticosus), Lejeunii, 
foliosus, rudis, fuscoater, scaber, pallidus, Guntheri, humifusus. 
ypes of the *‘ Rubi Ger andr with which British plants all 
further comparison :—carpinifolius, vulgaris, silvaticus, rudis, fuscus. 


The following is an attempt to readjust the list of British forms, 
as classified on the plan of Hooker’s ‘ Student’s Flora,’ after working w 
through them again this year, with the aid of Focke’s ‘Synopsis’ 

and Nyman’s ‘ Conspectus,’ and with the help in rape and 

Gouin aiibiking specimens which Dr. Focke has kindly 

1. Rubus Ideus Lin 

»  obtusifolius ; Willa. (Leesit Bab. ae 
2. 5,  suberectus Anders. (nessensis Hall.). 


8. 4,  rhamnifolius W. & “a 
»  Maasii Focke Ae coat Bab., non W. & N.). - 
= ev Wirtg. (afinis Bab., non W. & N.), (to be 

40 ti with carpinifolius W. & N. and senticosus — 


»  incurvatus Bab. 
imbricatus 


ort =| 

3» ramosus Blox. (to be compared with R. vulgaris W.&N.). 

4. 19 Lindleianus Lee oF 

5. ,,  corylifolius Sm. gd Linn. Iter Westrog.). 
] Bab. 


» altheifolius ex an Host ? 
a latifolius Bab. 


: yrsoideus Winam, 
8. ,, wlmyifolius Schott (discolor Bab., non W. & N.). 
abruptus Lindl. 
»  Linkianus an W saresersae Bab.). 
9. ,, pubescens W. 


»  horridicaulis Maller ? (Grabowskii Bab., non W. & N.)- — 
10. ,,  villicaulis W. & N. 


»  adscitus Genev. 


RELATION OF BRITISH FORMS OF RUBI TO CONTINENTAL TYPES. 77 


11. Rubus wmbrosus Arrh. ex parte, non Weihe (R. carpinifolius 
lox., non W. & N.), (to be compared with leucan- 
drus and Newnanni Focke e). 
12. ,, ~ macrophyllus W. & N 
3,  Schlechtendahlii W. & N. 

»  amplificatus Lees. 

»  pyramidalis ae non Bab. (hirtifolius Muller). 
13. ,, mucronatus Bloxam, non Seringe (mucronulatus ise 


»  vrubicolor Bloxam. 
15. ,, —leucostachys Schleich. 
»  vestitus W. & N. 
»,  Leightonianus Bab. (hirsutus Wirtgen). 
16. ,, — infestus N. 
» — egregius Fooke ? 
»  Purchasii Blox. 
» festivus Wirtg. ? (Lejeunii Bab., non W. & N.). 
»  easecatus Mull, (foliosus Bab., non W. & N.). 
»  adornatus Mull. 
»  Colemanni Blox. 
Radula W. & N. 
»  Leightoni Lees. 
er onan — (rudis Bab., non W. & N.). 
” tabilis 
2 Steen Focko ? 9 ( {jucater Bab., non W. & N.). 
» preruptorum bBo 
»  Babingtonii a ler Bab., non W. & N.). 
ok Bloxami Lee 
19. ,,  horridus C. Fr. Schultz (feroa Weihe ; dumetorum War- 
; W. & N. ex parte). 
»  diversifolius Lindl. 
»  tuberculatus Bab. 
7 one TS 


& 


pilosus 
»  emersistylus 1s Boulay (Bagnallii Blox.). 
»  Driggsit Blox 
20. ,, Koehleri W. & 
9 — Waar 2 fw Bab., non W. & N.). 
21 


” hystria ic W. & 

»  Airtus gute 

»»  saxicolus 7 Cini Bab., non W. & N.). 
23. ,, Bellardi W. & 


tus Blox. 
» rotundifoiius Blox : 
24. ,, flexuosus ai Mall. & 1 & Lich. (saltuum Focke; Guntheri Bab., 
” nm . a a . 
; a longithyrsiger Lees MSS. (pyramidalis Bab., non Kalt.). 


7 


78 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND 
NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


By tHe Rev. W. Movie Rogers, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 14). 


Prunus spinosa L. — P. insititia L. I. About Bude, Marham- © 
church, and Widmouth, in several spots. III. Near Bridgerule Bog, ~ 
le 


mpton. — P. 

and Widmouth, ae Feataart IV. Near Sutcombe, one bush. 
Not seen in fruit.—P. avium L. and P. Cerasus L. Both generally 
distributed, but Cerasus the more abundantly, 

Spiraea Ulmaria Li ; 

Agrimonia Eupatoria L. Generally sdoteresen ne in remark- — 
ably small quantity, except near the -— A. odorata Miller. II. 
Near Curry Lane. III. Near Paaccte igen, in several 
places and good quantity. Clawton. North Tamerton. Tetcott, 
i be. 


Poterium Sanguisorba L. Apparently rare. I. Sandymouth © 
Cliffs. Bude (Webb). III. North Tamerton, in one place. | 

Alchemilla arvensis p- 

Potentilla Fragariastrum Khrh. — P. Tormentilla Schenk. — P. — 
oni Sibth. L, = site III. Common. IV. Near Sutcombe. — 
—P. reptans L.——P a 
testi palustre = ” Reitiehable frequent for S.W. England, — 
where usually it is quite rare. I. Lord’s Meadow, Kilkhampton. — 
J. By canal, near Red Post and below Newacott. III. Tamar 


Fragaria vesca L.—F. e + Ehrh, Ur. By the canal, in some — 
quantity grote Parnacott ; aca 

* Rubus Ideus L. Kilkhampton. IL By ¢ anal, occasional. — 
‘Il. patent Bridestow and Lifton. IV.  Bradworty. Sutcombe, — 
frequent. Between Thornbury and sworthy. Beaworthy. — 
Okehampton. No doubt native, but un coe except in IV.— — 
B. ae Oe Anders. I. Roadside thicket north of Launcells — 
Vicarage. Minster Valley. If. By the Reservoir. Pancrasweek. 
Between Parnacott and Halaworthy. Bridge Moor. Pyworthy, ™ 
two places. Between Affaland Down and ee: Tetcott. IY. 
Sutcombe. Between Ashbury and Beaworthy. —— R. fissus Lind 
I. Lord’s Meadow, iilshampien: pe ge nol of Yealm ae 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 79 


wg Down between Whitstone and Week St. Mary. Greena 
r. III. Bridge Moor, 1882. Moor, seeped es, Roadside 
between sah doa and N. Tamerton. Dunsland Cross Moor. IY. 
Near Ugworthy Moor. Between Holsworthy and reac 
Moors, ad and Ashbury. —— R. plicatus W. & N. IL. Dux 
Common, 1883. By Lower Bridgerule Bog. Tinney Moor. IV. 


R. hemistemon Mill. Okehampton, between the river and rail- 
road, in plenty, 1883. ect afinis W.& N. I., oe and IV. Fre- 
quent. ane A jase (under var. lentiginosus) must come a strongly 
arching plant, which Mr. Briggs has found near Tackbeare (I.) and 
in the te Valley ae osite which he thinks may be the 

incarnatus Mill. All the d am are especially rich in swberecti. 
A majority of these fantlens land bushes appear to me to 
belong to intermediate forms. ‘The foregoing have been named 
(not ribet considerable hesitation in some cases) after prolonged 
study and much consultation; and, as on so many previous occa- 
sions, my obligations ah great fon help most kindly rendered in my 


. N. 
Baker). Bridgerule, sparingly. Near Pyworthy. Tinney. Ash 
Grove. Between Lifton and Bridestowe. IV. Between Hols- 


pton. — R. imbricatus Hort. are. I row, a few bushes. 
two lanes near Bridgerule, in very small quantity. IV. N 
Okehampton. — R. discolor Loeally mo 7 

districts. —- R thyrsoideus Wimm "I. Roadside thickets north of 

Launcells Vicarage; not R. leucostachys Sm airly 


_ typical. 
common in all the districts, but much of it off the ype A form 
with deeply cut foliage and remarkably red flowe especially 
abundant in Bridgerule East (ILI.).—R. hii Mill, ILt. Near 
Pywo rthy. Near Dunsland ees 1882. . Between Ugworthy 
Moor and Soulden Cross. Differing very “janily from the Plymouth 


Greena Moor. IL Parnacott. Sa nee Moor. Between 


Cross. Rail ee iV. Boa rthy. 2 Near Oke- 
ross Railway Station, in plent; y. f worthy. dke- 
hampton, 1882. I find that I do not yet understand this So | 
80 I give here only the two or three localities in which Mr. 


80 ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


has pointed it out to me, with some others which he has reported. — 
— R. carpinifolius W.& N. III. Broad furzy roadside between 
Parnacott and Holsworthy. pwd south of Loudgworthy Lane, 
Bridgerule, IV. Moor south-west of Okehampton, 1885. — R. 
villicaulis W.& N. I. Bude. Jeoubeto tow. St. Knighton’s Kieve. 


Il. Tam Valley: south of Newacott. III. Bridgerule. Near 
Haleweatiot Tetcott. IV. Bradworthy. Between Beaworthy — 
and Ashbury, peteintae — rem —~ R. adscitus Genev. | 


I. Marhamchurch. Jacobst Pentargan Bay. Near St. — 
Knighton’s Rive: Boseastle “hl Tintagel, common. II. Whit- | 
stone. III. Bridgerule and Tinney, frequent, but rather —_— 

in character. Pyworthy. Tetcott. Near Dunsland Cro IV. 


I. Frequent.— R. mucronulatus Bor. 1. Laun- — 
ere near the Church and Vicarage, abundant. — R. Borrert Bell © 
Salt. IV. On a common about two miles from Okehampton. — Jf 
R. th ee a If. Wood-border near St. Stephen’s. IV. Near 
Okehampton. — R. rudis Weihe. II. Near Launceston (Baker). — 
III. Near fe Common, in very small quantity. Between Parna- 
cott and serait abundant. Near Holsworthy. On the ro 
to Stratton. — R. Radula Weihe. Only locally common. I. Near 

a ton. Launcells, below the Church, in plenty. Greena — 
Moor. II. By the canal, below Newacott. North Tamerton, ben q 
the Church and Ogbeare House. III. By Reservoir. Betw rie : 
nacott and Holsworthy, in plenty. inate searce. Bot wes : 
Pyworthy and Tetcott, er place Common at Teteott. 2 
IV. Frequent. — R. Keh i Weihe. ise I. Minster Valley, 
among furze, in plenty; a Sosatifil small form approaching pallidus. 
IIT. In the Bude and Holsworthy Road, near Pancrasweek. 


I. North-east end of Summerleaze Diwn: abundant. Between 
Marhamchurch and Butsburrow Cross. Near Burrow Near — 
e Reservoir. Pancrasweek, in some quantity. Between Parnacott 
and Holsworthy. Bele n Pyworthy and Derriton, and between 
Pywo North | 


rthy und T feces on. Most Dunsland Cross. IV. Near — 
Soulden Cross. Near contort Between Beaworthy and Ash- 
.—— “R. dumet ending sepals.” I. “Heath north 


of Yealm Beige (Baker). — "R dumetorum, var. pilosus Warren 18 
Mr. Bagn naming for a corylifolian form f from Summerleaze 
Down i. —— R. pyramidalis Bab. II. Near Launceston Gantt 
Ii. a Hill, in eee uanti ne eee Giinthert Weihe. 


Reservoir. P. d by i 
oe rocccheng ——— and eeertireiirg Pyworthy, near Bounds’ 


: 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DisTRICTS. 81 


In the Waldon district, rather spare Okehampton. — R. Bal- 
ead Blox. Fairly common, nen ually well marked. I. Near 
Titson. Boscastle, in good quant IL. By canal near Homer. 


though rather locail so aa ieee ra Boatietio. in several 
spots.—H. althaifolius Hoa t. £ Minster Valley. III. Bridgerule, 
in two or three places. — R. casius L. Rare. I. Near the coast, 
Bude (Baker!). Boscastle 
eum urbanum 

Rosa spinosissima i. I. Coast, sora Som Sandymouth to 
Trebarwith. Between Hoppicott Down and Red Post, in several 
laces (some of it the R. consimilis Déségl. Mon., or near it). IL. 
Moor south of Merrifield.—R. tomentosa Sm. Type a and forms very 
near it frequent in all Ese: districts.—d. scabriuscula Sm. Rare. LI. 
Near "Seen ae brat mehure h. Near fer as Farmhouse. 


Devon god Kast st Cornwall genera y-— R. canina L., a. aren © 


Near Parnacott, in Holsworthy Road. agers V. Near 


_ Okehampton. — g. urbica. Hardly common. I. Hoppicott Down; 


and on high road near, for some distance (apparently the form 2. 

platyphylla Rau.). Near Widmouth. Near Boscastle, in one spot 

- Between Red Post and Butsburrow Cross (round fruited form). 

Bridgerule, by canal, in plenty (small form bs 2 Sent gee one) 
i Ti . Ne 


I. and Tif. Rather common.—m. tomentella (‘‘less hairy and less 
Serrated than type,” J.G.Baker; so approaching Jrondosa). I. 
Lane near Bude, several. Roadside between Marhamehurch and 
Pa : 


arvensis Huds.—b. bibracteata. Uncom I. Minster bee § 
erie: scarce. III. igh eee See Ford Mill. Tetcot 
TV. Holsw d Thornbury 
Mespilus germanica Denizen IL. Near Grimscott, on the 


ampton Road, three or four low bushes i in hedge. ie a 


Crategus Oxyacantha L. Only b. monogyna; as generally in the 
fouth-west, where I have never met with ovyacanthotdes. 
torminalis Ehrh, Rare. I. Stratton and Holsworthy 


ates or Borany.—Vou. 26. [Magcu, 1886.] s 


82 NOTES ON LIGHTIA AND ERISMA. 


see 
. Last summer I found it in East Devon, near — 
Molland Railway-station. — P. Aucuparia Gaert. — P. Malus L 
L., IL., 111. Common, acerba being, I think, the more frequent form. 
IV. Between Bradworthy and Soulden Cross. 
thrum Salicaria L. 
Peplis Portula L. (To be continued.) 


NOTES ON LIGHTIA AND ERISMA. 
By B. Cuargez, F.L.S§. 


Lightia licanoides (Spruce 8143). — Flowers in racemes. Calyx : ) 
tubular, enclosing the : EG it 


completely 
at the 


with a much 


ent from those of the latter family ; a } 
synearpous, with a long slender style 
the style is basal, an indication that if there 


8 
@ different tint and different growth from the rest, and 
= uriant 


SHORT NOTES. 83 


were 3 carpels the ovary would be apocarpous. From the pecu- 
liarities of the stamens of the single flower examined it would 
appear that the odd sepal is next the axis, as in other Vochysiacea. 
In Erisma violacea the ovules are 2 collateral, attached to a 
projecting process of the placenta, amphitropal, with an inferior 
foramen. The ovule is attached by its side for some length, so 
that there is no funiculus. Its lower third is free from the placenta, 
and projects nearly to the base of the cell, having the foramen at 
Its apex; the upper end has a thick chalaza, like a small knot. 
From descriptions it would appear that no other genera of Vochy- 
staceeé have an inferior foramen, and, if so, these two might be 
Separated as a distinct section, offering one of the most conclusive 
evidences that the position of the foramen is not much to be relied 
on as an indication of affinity between orders more or less allied. 


SHORT NOTES. 

Heiieporvus ratipus In GLAMORGANSHIRE (p. 23). — This plant 
had long since been considered a true native in Glamorganshire, 
where it was discovered by the late Dr. Maton, many years since, 
growing in some plenty among hedges south of ‘‘ Park Mill,” in the 

wan 


locality for several successive seasons since 1838. The late 
H. C. Watson informed me he might have been a little too hasty 
in not considering H. fetidus truly wild in Glamorganshire, after he 
had printed « Topographical Botany.-—T. Bruezs Fiower. 

Trtsh Hreracta.—I was well pleased to observe that Mr. Hart 


me; but on 
. Arthur 


84 SHORT NOTES. 


and in the case of two or three we were not aware of their eing | 


unrecorded in ‘Topographical Botany’ (2nd ed.). We are now 
able to add these to the previously recorded localities. There are 
also two to mention, found in 1885 :— Hieracium eximium Backh., - 


var. tenellum. Fairly plentiful at 2700-2800 feet, in Corrie 
Etcachan, Aberdeen south. No doubt noticed and recorded before 
: the walls of Penar 


4 - nitidum 
I think this may fairly 
which I so named on 


quite satisfied that these two are one species.—H. vulyatum, Fr. 
I f 


With yellow styles. Rugby, Warwick, July 28th, 1885. 1 found this 

e waiti Oo or three hours for the Iri ‘ 

umbella ing with it. Neither species is new to the 

county ; but it is at least unusual to see this species with a clear 

yellow style. ay here mention H. umbeliatum L., between 
ord and Rossmore, Galway East, Augus 


| Mr. Packhouse names as above.—H. crocatum Fr. Uig, 


; 
: 
‘ 
3 
j 
4 
: 
‘ 
: 
3 
: 


: 
E 
; 
: 
4 
: 


? 


FLORA OF BELGIUM, 85 


(Eb. North), Aug. 6, 1884. This aN: sparsely around the bay, 
both sides of the village —EH. F. Liv 


CAaIrHNEss Borany. aie A. ‘Davidson, at p. 23, remarking on 


bably not more than 450, including - varieties.” This is too low an 
estimate. Without going very car ver? through my records for 
the et IT may y safely say, that 5 = be far nearer the 


mentioned in that list I already possess, from Mr. J. Grant, who 
discovered them :—Viola Curtisii Forst., V. lutea Huds., Arenaria 
trinervia L., Geranium sanguineum L., Prunus spinosa L., Rosa 
tomentosa Sm., Epilobium parviflorum Schreb., Myriophyllum 
spicatum ., Callitriche platyearpa Kuetz., Ribes petreum Sm., 
Hieracium anglicum, Fr., H. strict Fr., H. crocatum Fr., H. 
corymbosum Fr. Mr. Grant has also sent ee of a Hieracium 

at is not yet determined, possibly new Britain. Azalea 
procumbens L.., seers m Scorodonia L., Myos hast sabes tris With., 
rientalis europea Atriplex 2 Babingtonii Woods, £. virescens 
Lange, Salix fond L. (fide Leefe), Habenaria viridis Br., Paris 
quadrifolia L., Potamogeton filiformis Nolte, Sparganium minimum Fr., 


C. Bde ieee e. — ood., C. fect Tausch., C. salina f 


Hack.; these three fide Hackel. I have sent seen it remar 

that the Flora of West Sutherland is a rich one, and undoubtedly the 
Coast is so; but a comparison with Caithness does not support t this 
for the county asa whole. There are in Caithness 114 species not 


not in Caithness. In the Pipa there are 52 not found in Caith- 
hess; in Caithness, 92 not found in the Orkneys. Dr. R. Brown 
(Campst. ) tells me that on digtribated his Caithness plants ‘‘ among 
frien'ls and fellow-students”; I should be glad to know if any 
of these are in existenee.-Arruur Benet. 


FI NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
ore eat de la Belgique; espéces indigénes et plantes cultivées 
sans abri,  P: aus 2 Vos. Mons, Manceaux. 1885. 
Sm. 8vo, pp. xxiii. 789. 
Tas is a work to some extent novel in execution; the author 
boldly —— his wish to BoGcans 22 & new course, a while asking 


86 FLORA OF BELGIUM. 


ieghem in his ‘ Traité de botanique’ (1884)—the flowering plant 
beginning with the Composite, ending with the Tawinee, the Fe 
n ies following e k closes with lists on botanica. 


g sts 0 1 
bibliography, general and local, and published Exsiccate of the — 
chen 


Mosses, Fungi, and Li 


The critical botanist must not look here for answers to his diffi. a 
culties; but he who requires a reply to a mi imple query respecting — 


plants cultivated in Belgium will find it, often accompanie 


interesting particulars as to introduction ae Europe, use, produce, — 
ote cum. 


The Flemish names of genera and species are also give 
hope the few authorities he quotes really give the actual Flemish 


names, and not such i ene s and meaningless substitutes as are | 


often found in an English boo 
According to the author his book contains more 


than 3000 : 
species, native, naturalised, and cultivated; and compressed into 


its pages there is a large amount of interesting information only — 
m Ww in- 


tinguishes a lis from o ihopayha by leaves collapsing into 4 
pencil when taken from the water. Sosige — 
when we take into consideration the great t of 


proved if the two forms were cultivated. Aquatics change great ly 
in appearance and flexibility when cultivated; this is notably the 
in the Characea. 


That the species of Batrachium Ranunculi have been axoessively 
multiplied nara to be beyond — if we take the usual accepta- 
ee of the term. What y wanted is some one in eac 

untry with time and Spperteaey to cultivate all the forms, = do- 

28 Me iste Mr. H. C. Watson did with the Chenopodia—wateb, 

d dry the results year by year. It might be found that the — 

saad action of ries streams on these plants would not prove 50 
great as ee 


As a ‘ Flora Belewum.,’ for the botanist’s part, this book beer! 
not be of great ane but as a handy little guide covering a Wi 
field its worth is ‘considerable. Agtuur B. . 


i 


ORCHID-GROWER’S MANUAL. 87 


The Orchid-Grower’s Manual, containing descriptions of the best Species 
and Varieties of Orchidaceous Plants. By B. S. Wruwtams. 
6th edition. London.: Victoria Nurseries, Holloway. 1885. 
8vo, pp. 660; price 6s. 6d. 


K 
this book fills a vacant place for which the more expensive an 
beautifully-illustrated works are not suited. Orchid-lovers are on 
the increase: not perhaps that many more of the wealthy class are 


o branch of the subject has been neglected. The habitats, means 
of collecting, treatment at 0 : 
exhibition, structure of orchid-houses, are all dealt with in the 


there are numerous references to plates, synonyms, &c. _ : 

In ing over some of the more popular genera in a horti- 
cultural work of this nature one cannot but be struck by the number 
of species only known in cultivation. Collectors of dried plants 


meet with them; and again m rhaps most, of our finest 


cultural plants are only obtained by live-plant collectors, who, 
with a few notable exceptions, do not dry even a few flowers of their 


Scientific names, while Roses, Primulas, and other florists’ flowers 
take simply fancy names. Of course in a book like the ee 


d to adhere to the well-known names ; but it would be highly 


88 REPORT ON BOTANICAL GARDENS AT SAHARANPUR AND MUSSOORIE. 


satisfactory if namers of new cultural varieties would turn their — i 
attention to this matter H. N. Riptey. 


Report on the Progress of the Botanical Gardens at Saharanpur and 
ssoorie for the year ending 81st March, 1885. J. F 
oti: Superintendent]. Allahabad, 1885, fol. pp. 51. 


Tuts Report contains, besides information connected with the — 
Saharanpur Gardens, an interesting account of an excursion under- — 
taken by Mr. Duthie o North-eastern eo rE in 1884. He | 


looked :— Primula Reidii, n. sp —Leaves ovate, lanceolate, clothed i 
with silky pubescence ; pat erect, Brash 2. to 4 inches long; flowers 
= in umbels, larg , drooping; calyx broad, snowy white 


capsule globose.” (Saharanpur Report, 1885, p. 80). The Appendix : 
of «New species and others not previously recorded for Kumann’ = 
(PP- Sa os ere also the following :—Delphinium densijlorum, — 
Biep. 69; ria ferruginea, 0. 8p., Sawifraga Stolitzka, TL. 8P+y_ 
Sedum eae: n ae S. filicaule, n.sp., Tricholepis hypoleuca, D. SP +) 
Lactuca filicata, Nh. §p., Polygonum parvulum , D. sp., Scirpus dissitus 
ke, MS., Kobresia Duthiei OC. B. Clarke, MS. Of th 


48 respectively. On a saxifrage is styled “‘ S. lycopodioides, 
followe remark ‘ Probably aegis Aitch 
Helmsley” Eaomaley; ; and on p. 37 Mr. ie writes, “I pr 


a distinct s cacian from A. Oz zycedri ; and adds in a eee: 
“previously named by Sir Joseph Hooker A. minutissim 
course such nomina nuda are entitled to no recognition ; ager it is 
much to be regretted that, in the last two cases especially, they 
should be allowed to appear in print. 


In ‘Studies of Plant-life in —— (Ottawa, Woodburn), the — 
author, Mrs, C. P. Traill, gives us a handsome book, the Preface to 
which contains an anteresn secs of her difficulties in becoming 
Wi with the native flowers of Ontario. ‘At the age of © 
eighty-three years” Mrs. Traill completes her work ; and although 
we may feel that her hope that — volume may r rank with White's 


two books have more in common han might be supposed. There 
is the same strong personal interest and affection runnin g through 
) j simple record of careful chemraticn kanes 


SHORT NOTICES. 89 


but founded on their value to man as the source (and therefore 
symbol) of a higher type of life.” This extract gives a fair idea of 
the author’s treatment of his subject, but it does not convey an 
adequate notion of the amount of learning of different kinds which 
he brings to bear upon it. 
THE GaRDEN,’ by May Crommelin (T. Fisher Unwin, 
Paternoster Square), is a handsome volume, not improved, however, 
i gra As might be 


oug an ‘ 

‘‘ Eyebright or Euphrasy ” she has three quotations, two referring 

to Veronica Chamedrys and one to Euphrasia; the quotation under 
Honesty” d 


“Acacia” three different plants seem commemorated. The 
undew, Sweet Gale, Dandelion, and the like, would hardly be | 
found ‘in the garden.” 
Mr. Exuior Stock sends us an exquisitely-printed little volume 
entitled ‘The Praise of Gardens; a Prose Canto, ¢ i and in 
part Englished by Albert F. Sieveking.’ This is worthy in its own 
particular line to stand by the side of that most delightful book, 


‘The Book-lover’s Enchiridion.’ Beginning with an extract from an 


90 SHORT NOTICES. 


Egyptian MS. of the KIXth Dynasty (B.C. 1800), it brings us 
down to “ Vernon Lee,” most of the writers who have made gardens _ 
their theme bieicns quoted by the way. We should like to have | 


seen extracts from Henry Kingsley’s ‘ Hornby Mills Garden’; and 
Mr. Jeffries, although he more usually deals with the aunaltarels 
— of Nature, might, we think, have been laid under contri- 
butio 


Manas rs. Casseu send us the fourth Series of their ‘ Familiar 
nr Flowers,’ which is unfortunately heralded by a garish 


co s not differ from its predecessors in style; its 
Paptekalanss are idtiankieny though fragmentary, and its letter- 
press is inaccurate. € open on a long statement apropos of 


one apennina, demonstrating the unreasonableness of botanists 
who ‘‘ have too much to say about British plants that are possibly 
not British,’ and proceeding to state that this plant grows wild in 
counties which are known not to produce it. The plant figured as 
Trollius europeaus seems rather T. asiaticus. There is eres 
ree between Lychnis and Silene in the eek stn which accom- 
panies the figure of S. pendula ; and the mystical Sntanpentstion of 
the Pabaloti awe? is as original as it is inaccurate. 

Mr. ma has written a eon little book 28 ‘The Ministry 
of Flowers’ (Sonnenschein & Co.), in which some of the more 
recent obatieve tions upou whales and flowers are Pehifeth to be 
susceptible of moral applicatien. 


LATION Of M. Paul Bert’s ‘First Year of Scientific 


illustrat e botanical portion, which alone concerns us, 
pean 


We have received from Venice the first number of a new 
quarterly journal devoted to y See: ‘ Notarisia,’ edited by Drs. 
G. B. de Toni and D. Levi 


New Booxs. —L. Avinwit BA: & A. Daentn, ‘ Flore de la Haute- 
a (Saint-Dizier, Henriot: 8vo, pp. 586, map).—J. Rarrnay & 


ror pp: ik 128).—E. D. Lasessz & H. Prerret, ‘ ele Terre et = 
Véghioas gered: Masson: 8v0, "pe. vili. 468, 574 cuts). — 
tLLKoMM, ‘ Forstliche Flora von 1 Deutschland und ie RB oe 
(Leipzig, Winter: 8vo, pt. i., pp. 80, 18 cuts). — EH, SrraspurceR, 
* Manuel technique anatomic végétale’ (transl. by J. Goprrin: 
Wy i L 


’ 8vo, pp. arty : 
methysticum ’ (Berlin, Hirachwol 8vo, pp. 60, 1 ta 


91 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
m. Set. Nat. (Jan.). — J. Hérail, «Sur l’anatomie wet HN 
de lat neh des Distiptedenod! (5 plates).—G. Bonnier & L. gin, 
‘Sur les variations de la respiration avee le développement “des 
opus ‘ La fonction siiapieubeite chez les végétau 
Centralblatt (Nos. 5-9). Tee Dalitzch, ‘ Zur Canine der 
Blatt ans tomie der Aroideen ’ (1 plate). 
Botanical Gazette (Jan. 23).—C. R. Bownes, ‘Asa Gra 
pasteait). — J. M. ree & JN. oe ‘ Pollen-spores of Trade- 
antia virginica’ (1 plate). — J. C. Arthur, ‘A new larval Ento- 
ite: (E. Piney 1 L plate), we) Gray, ‘ Anemone as 
0. sp.’ 


Botaniska Notiser (Haft. 1). — F. Svanlund, ‘ Anteckningar till 
Blekinge 8 flora 


Bot. Z eitung. (Jan. 22, 29). — H. de Vries, ‘ Ueber die Baie 
gation im Protoplasma von Drosera rotundifolia.’ — T. ngel- 


: : b. 5 
A. Meyer, ‘ Bildung re Stirkekorner in den pitts aus 
in.’ — (Fe b. 12). W. Pfeffe 


it. Besprech. von de Vries: Plasmolytische Studien.’ 


Flora (Jan. 4, 11). — O. Linde, ‘Beitrige zur Anatomie der 
Senegawurzel’ (1 plate). — (Jan. 21). —. Rall, ‘Zur Sy Henin 
der Torfmoose’ (1 plate).—G. Haberlandt, ‘Das Agatadineinniage 
tem der Laubmoos-Sporogonien.’ — (Feb. 1). K. B. J. Forssell, 


‘Ueber den Polymorphismus der Age en cart ee aus 
Anlass von Hern Zukal’s Flechtenstudien und seinen Epilog dazu. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle (Jan. 80), — Polypodium macrourum Baker, 
od, ‘ Narcissus triandrus and its varieties’ (figs. 


, 


81, 32). — (Feb 6). J. G. Baker, ‘Kew and its work.’—* Primula 
fieedi Ducie, n. sp.* — W. G. Smith, Polyactis vulgaris (fig. 84). — 
(Feb. 18). Adiantum elegans Moore, “‘n. hyb. (?).”” — W. ee 


‘ Root-proliferation in Plesyon m’ (fig. 89). Bis 20). Gonio 
Phlebium oe page . Sp. 

Journal of Royal scopical Soc. — A. W. Bennett, ‘ Fresh- 
Water Algw tastes ol Le Protophyta) of of the English 
Lake Distriet ; with descriptions of twelve new —_ ’ (2 plates).— 
E. M. Crooksh ank, ‘ On the cultivation of Bacter 

_ Ocsterr. Bot. Z eitschrift — A. Peter, ‘ Flora des ee 
bohmischen Waldgebirges’ (concluded). — J. Romer, ‘ Ein rae 
kam pf zweier . — E. Palla, ‘ Flora von Kremsier — M. 
Kronfeld. « ‘ Mimosa pudica wihrend einer Kisenbabnfahrt.’ 

Pharm aban Journal (Feb. 18). — Bo M. Holmes, ‘ Tumbeki’ 
(Nicotiana pers ca).—Id., ‘ Ergot of Diss.’ 

Science Gossip.—W. B. Grove, ‘A Nettle Fungus’ (Lophiotrema 
angustilabrum). 


* P. Reidii. See p. 88. 


92 
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 


Me vee! 5, 1885.—Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Pres., in the chair. — 

— There was for the Baron Von M Mueller a@ ‘collection of 
eeetty = of species of Hucalyptus, prepared by Mrs. Lewellin, — 
of Melbourne. These confirm Baron von Mueller’s observations as 
. definite aoe and the relation of these to the skeletonising pro- 
ss.—Dr. Ondaatje showed examples of walking-sticks from Ceylon 
Baliis: viz., the Kittool Palm (Caryota wrens), oe Areca, and Coco 
Nut.—Mr. ¥: G. Baker made remarks on tubers of Solanum Maglia — 
grown at Kew, the see of twelve Seer Shelbe twenty-eight 
ounces; also the ‘‘ papa del Oso,” Bear’s Potato (S. ‘tuberosum var.) 
grown out of doors from Kabobs received from Dr. Ernst, of Caracas, — 
who sheatiad them from Merida, where they are found wild. — 


John Ball read a paper entitled ‘‘ Contributions to the Flora of the oe 


Peruvian Andes, with Remarks on the History and Origin of the 
An referring chiefly to the western slope of the 
Cordilleras. From the collections made and other data, so far 

as this region of Peru is concerned, it may confidently be stated 


coast to 8000 ft., a temperate zone reaching to 12,500 ft., and an 
alpine zone upwards to 1700 ft. above the sea-level. As regards 


fourth of the whole species, the gras es one-eighth, the 
Scrophularinee supply five per cent., while C ucifere, Garyophylla, 
and Leguminose each are represen ted by about: one-thirtieth of the 

oe 


the proportions of the endemic genera and species as criteria, the 
An Flora appears to be one of the most distinct existing in the 
world. Mr. Ball agrees with those who think it probable that the 
south polar lands constitute a great archipelago of islands. To this 
region in question he is inclined to refer the origin of the antarctic 
types of the 8. American Flora. . 
December 8. — Sit John Lubbock, Bart., Pres., in the chair. — 
—Sir H. E. Maxwell, Bart., Lieut.-Col. L. Bit penis and Messrs. 
R. A. Bastow, 8. J. Capper, C. Ford, G. B. Howes, J. H. Gurney, 
jun., W.H. Jones; W. F. A. La mbert, o. T. Musson, G. 
Osborne, D. Petrie, and G. Thorn were elected Fellows Rev 
Geo. Hens low = a “Contribution to the Study of se Relative 
t parts of the Solar 


Effects of on the 
* Plants, The conclusions are ie experaments prove “that 


Bi 
: 
3 


LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 93 


rature within the tissues and causes the loss of water. The only 
additional facts advanced, and that tentatively, are, that yellow 
ight has a retarding influence upon transpiration, and that ‘life” 
has a retarding influence upon evaporation as distinct from trans- 
piration.—A paper was read by Sir Joseph D. Hooker, ‘‘ On Castilloa 
elastica Cervantes, and some allied plants.” The author states 
that under the name Castilloa elastica probably more than one 


December 17. — Frank Crisp, LL.B., Vice-Pres. and Treasurer, 

im the chair. — Dr. Maxwell Masters showed a branch with leaves 

and fruit of Heritiera littoralis var. macrophylla, received from Prof. 

Cornu, of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. ‘The adult leaves were of 
“8e size, deep green e, silve 


from H. littoralis, but the points relied on to distinguish the tw 
Were not in Dr. Masters’ experience constant. Flowering specimen 
also been received from Mr. Baxter, of the Oxford Botanic 


smunda regalis from Pocies) near Barton; and from various 
localities seeds of Thalictrum, Ranunculus aquatilis, Nuphar lutea, 

“wus baccata, Hippuris vulgaris, Potamogeton heterophyllus, e. 
crispus, P. trichoides, P. flabellatus, Zannichellia palustris, Rumex 
waritimus, and Ceratophylium demersum, all in a remarkably fine 
condition of preservation. — Mr. Thos. Christy exhibited a plant 
Of dngrecum sesquipedale in flower, and a plant of Catasetum purum 
showing flowers erect and reversed on the same spike. none of 
the flowers was the ovary visibly twisted, but in ——— 
orchids it is often very difficult to detect the twisting of the ovary 


94 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 


_by external aspect. This specimen illustrated the fact that ligh 
or the absence of light was not the cause of the alteration o 
position.—The ore _— imens were exhibited for Mr. Edward 


M. Holmes, viz. (1) A g a Eagl of the fruit of Afzelia cuazensis, 
from Limpopo, Natal, seat io him as the pod of a mahogany tree. | 


po, 
(2) The fruit of Trichilia Dreget, ps om the same district; oil # 
obtained from the seeds by boiling, and with this, porn as an 
insecticide, the Kaffirs anoint their bodies. (3) Ustilago marina 
Durieu, a fungus new to Britain, and which he had discovered last 


autumn growing on Scirpus parvulus at Studand Bay, Dorset, on — 
ground covered by sea-water.— Mr. Henry N. Ridley read a paper — 


‘On a small collection of Orchids from Madagascar.” 0% ey 


n fr 

South Africa ; a an East African representative. Another 
interesting plant is Satyrium gigas. From this series it is evident 
that still other ad ote species ser _ ecbeanapanes for in the 
herbaria of this country several known to Thouars are yet absent. 

January 21, 1886.—W. Carruthers, F.R.S., Vice-Pres., in the 
chair.—Mr. Harry Veitch exhibited, in illustration of Dr. Masters’ 
paper, a series of living Conifers, among which were: — Abies 

a : 


nobilis, A. grandis, and A. amabilis; also Pseudolarix Kampfert, 

Picea Omorika, Pinus Pearce, Arthrotamis selaginoides, and A. last- 

folia re _ sare Holmes exhibited a specimen of the Ergot . 
Diss (Arr ax) from Algeria. This Ergot is said to be m 

aire medicinally than that of Rye, and is slenderer, and iwiedl a 

thrice its length, and is attributable to the Fungus, Claviceps 

prpure —Dr. Chas. Cagswell drew attention to dried specimens 
asthe es 


Scotia, an isyrinchium Bermudiana ak Bryophylium caly- 
einum from Bermuda. He contrasted the great difference of climate 
aa vegetation of the continent and island, observing that the 
Gulf Stream doubtless had an important influence on the Bermudan 
flora ; erg nahn it was notable that Bryophyllum, like the maples, 
put on a brilliant red autumnal tint.—Dr. Maxwell Masters read 
a paper; * en to the History of certain Conifers.” 
m e 


— In exhi an extensive series of fossil plants from 


a 


lll ne ee LL 


ae hes Se 
aren eee ie eee tS ag (Se Eo Ce tie ee 


4 
E 
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LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON 95 


the island of Mull, Mr. J. Starkie Gardner made rem rks concerning 
inferences to be drawn from the well-preserved leaves. He 
. ora comprises but one fern 
e 


merica and 
A 


0 
represented by one sword-shaped leaf. There are at least twenty 
species of Dicotyledons. A Flatanus obtains differing somewhat 


Credneria and Protophyllum of cretaceous age, This Mull flora, 

though possessing few novelties, is interesting, as supplying fresh 

confirmation of the view first propounded by Asa Gray, that 

formerly the entire northern temperate regions possessed a very 
orm flora. 

February 4.—Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., President, in 
the chair.—Mr. Frederick J. Hanbury exhibited and made remarks 
on a series of forms of the genera Hieracium and Carex, obtained by 

m on the coasts of Caithness and Sutherlandshire last autumn, 
all being new to the British flora and representative of Scandi- 
navian plants. Among these were H. norvegicum Hr. and var. 
farinosa, C.aquatilis Wahl. var. cuspidata Loestad., C. rigida Good. var. 
infer-alpina Loeslid, and others, besides a large form of Euphrasia 

Reay Links, Caithness._Mr. W. H. Beeby drew attention to 
an example of Hquisetum litorale Kuhlerwein, a species new to 
i i urrey.—Mr. John 


gradations occur, from a distinct and appreciable greasiness throw- 

ing off moisture, to such as are easily wetted. A large series of 

leaves of different groups of plants have been studied by him, and, 
i in the 


irface. Class ILI. possesses bloom above, but none inferiorly on 
the leaves, and 100 per cent. of these have stomata on the upper 
urface. Class IV. have leaves with bloom on 8 eS, 
62 per cent. of them haying stomata above. From such analysis 
and other facts and data given, Mr. Darwin concludes that the 


OR BOTANICAL NEWS, 


things being equal, that it is functionally protective a undue 
wetting by rain, and thus injury of the leaf-tissue. The ealiness 
i imulas is in so 


e Dr. of Ka 

The ar ae er of the author are that the wild Citrus | 
hystrix DC. is the grandparent of Limo tuberosus Rumph. and Lima | 
of Ceylon, and all their derivations of Limo agrestis, Limenis fert, — 
Limonellus auriarus, and others; while also more distantly the — 
grandparent of piers vabkivaies true limes of India, Ceylon, an 
other parts. It was suggested that the winged petiole of the Lime 
was derived from its progenitor, Citrus hystrix. 


BOTANICAL NEWS. 


Tue Norwich Museum has lately received from Sir James Paget 
a collection of British dried plants and marine Alge formed some 
fifty years ago by himself and a 


them in compiling their ‘ — of the Natural History of Yar- 
mouth and its Neighbourhood’ in 1834. This collection had been 
deposited at St. Bartholomew’s eee tal, but Sir James was of © 
opinion me it would be of greater value at Norwich, especially as 
showing the changes which ae aken elas in the local flora m 
the course of years. It finds a resting-place in the museum of the 
county in which it ‘was found, with similar donations of Sir J. E. 
Smith and the bequest of Mr. John Drew Salmon 


Herr Boysmany, of nope ee Holland, fied sent us ss - 
of dried "nite, with the floral and fruit parts dissected and se 
rately mounted. Those ec which would be injured by sa 
are placed in alcohol in small fiat-sided bottles, so that they can be 

readily examined with a lens. Small of flowers are also. 

mounted in the same way, and where ed require a higher power 
han an ordinary lens they are mounted on glass slides for use Wi 
the microscope. Although these spesediet are intended primarily 
as a series of medicinal plants, Herr Buysmann undertakes to pre- — 
pare, so far as he can, such plants as may be required by subscribers. _ 
The series will prove to be of great assistance to teachers of sy8- = 
tematic botany. 


Portugal for the p se of collecting oie 

collect at least 500 species, which will be disposed of to subscribers 
at 80 fr. per cen’ + a amount to be paid before his de- — 
Lsgeoag be which will she. nee on March 15th. G renee 


Ske: ANTONY sai has are appointed to an can in the 
eet of Botany, British — 


97 


A SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPEZ. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S., F.L.S. 


Suborder 1.—SarviniEz. 


gS ps genes Bey Ars + 


Conceptacles usually single, always 
and containing sporangia of only one kind. 


: 1. Sanvinza (Micheli) Schreb. 


Conceptacles globose, membranous, indehiscent, monoicous, 

seated in clusters on short branches of the floating stem, 1-2 0 

~ ach cluster containing 10 or more turbinate macrosporangia, 
each of which contains a single macr ospore: several of each 
cluster containing very numerous globose gee Spee cae which 

are much smaller than the macrosporangia, a each contains 
numerous minute microspores. — Fugacious suns, with slender 


and close erecto- -patent oem veinlets connected by a few 


arches. Sporangia of both kinds borne on a much- branched 
filamentous receptacle. 
Fronds flat, floating, horizontal. 
ronds about three times as long as broad Sp. 1. 
preade ovate- ene, or ee or oblong: 
é ehicalar Sp. 2-7 
. pee ae oe orbicular ; : Sp. 8, 9. 
. Fronds ahocest with edges f folded together : ; Sp. 10, 11. 
| oe known species Be ae 


. 8. osroxcrrorza Mart. Te. Crypt. Bras. 198, t, 75; fig. 2, and 
t. 16 — Fronds laxly — “subsessile, horizontal, oblong, em 
inate, cordate at the bas e, 1¢-2 in. long, $ in. broad, the as 
rapa veinlets as close as in S. Radula, the upper with 
frm with bristly tips, the lower side finely oe 
Conceptacles 10-20 together in peduncled clusters, the cells | 
their walls regularly hexagonal. Pe 
- Amazon Valley and Central Brazil, Martius, Pohl, St. 


Hilaire. 
2. S. narans Hoffm. Germ. ii. 1; Schk. Crypt. t. 178; : Ones 

t. gs. 1-11 a covticiilats Roxb. in Cale. Journ. 184 
t. 18-20; Griff. Te. t 128. — S. vulgaris Rupr.— S. europea 
esv.— §. Sprengelii Corda Rhizos. 10, t. 2, figs. 12-23 ie 
n. — Fronds oblong, horizontal, rounded or sig ly 
date at the long, bright green on. Se upee year 


98 SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 


matted like the stem with shining brown pellucid hairs. 


ceptacles 4-8 in a cluster, the cells of their walls regularly 
he 


exagon 

b. Warm arm temperate eee of the northern hemisphere of 
the Old World, extending from the South of France to North 
China and the Plains of India. 


cropunctata A. Br. in Kuhn Fil. Afric. 201. — Habit © 


3. 8. nz 
entirely of S. natans. Fronds aiken, shortly petioled, §-} in 


long, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, with 15-20 pairs of : 


row of spaced-out blackish dots, without distinct bristly points, — 
he 


the under surface thinly coated with adpressed brown hairs. Fruit 
nown. 

Hab. Niger Country, gathered by Vogel and Barter. Old 
Calabar, Mann! 

. Hildebrandatii, n. sp.—Fronds horizontal, sessile, oblong, 
ej in. long, 4-4 in. broad, obtuse, or obscurely emarginate, 
cordate at the ‘base, flat, distinctly keeled, green and rough with 
minute concolorous stiff hairs all over the Bo hel surface, brown 
with matted fibres beneath. Fruit unknow 

Ha North Mpdapiaons; Hildebrandt 8416! 

5. §. moutas Mett. in Kuhn Fil. Afric aes .—Fronds horizontal, 
oblong, shortly petioled, 8-9 lines long, about 4 in. broad, truncate 
at the base, very obtuse at the apex, sublobed, densely clothed with 
short hairs, sparingly with a few longer ones beneath, the close 
veins anastomosing in several rows of areole between the midri 
and edge. Fruit un é 


rs. 

6. ata Desy. in Ann. Linn. Soc. Par. vi. 177. — Fronds 
rm disposed, thin, spreading, flat, shortly Seti ovate-oblong, 

bout 3 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, slightly cordate at the base, deeply 
saat at the apex, clothed with dense short grey pubescence 
all over the ge surface, thinly matted with brownish tomentum 
beneath; veins very numerous, fine, immersed, erecto-patent- 
Conceptacles not seen 

Hab. Eastern Madagascar, Baron 1569! Humblot 350! 

S. Rad p.— Habit of 8. ms Fronds horizontal, 
distinctly petioled, and oblong, Af in. long, § in. broad, distinctly 
cordate at the base, with close veins on each side of the 
midrib, the whole upper surface rough with contiguous  bristle- 


tipped papillw, the lower side only clothed with a few minute fine 
adpressed hair: 


s. Fruit unknown 
Piab. British Guiana, Park art Jenman 1114! Para, Spruce 


508! Rio Janeiro, Radi! Burchell 1580! Glaziou 2443! Midway a 
riculata 


—— natans and au 


n. 7. — Habit of S. natans. Fronds orbicular, | 


- 
wit sessile, } in. diam., rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 


with about 10 erecto- -patent yeinlets on each side of the midrib, 
each beset with 5-6 tufts of minute bristles, the under surface 


rownish, and matted with shining pellucid hairs. Fruit unknow2 
b. Santa err gee Routh raters 6 Dr. es Muller 479! 


a 


SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPEX. 99 


9. 8. auricunaTa — Guian. ii. 969, t. 867. — S. higregs rs 
Willd. ; Raddi Fil. gs. t. 1. — S. hispida H. B. K. — 
Raddi Fil. B Bras. 1, . a — Fronds firmer in texture part in = 
natans, 0 alowed ‘deeply cordate at the base, 3 in. 


Var. 8. ie sion Klotzsch. — Fronds tightly packed, sessile, 
} in. diam., with 20-80 veinlets on a side. 

Hab. Tropical America, from Cuba to South Brazil. — Var 
"fersiana. French Guiana, erie Sagot 745! South Brazil, 
Olfers | Paragua ay, Balansa 1123! 8S. affinis Desv. in Ann. Linn 

. Par. vi, = probably belongs here 
prucE! Kuhn in Fl. Bras. i. 655, tab. 81, figs. 11-13.— 
F ronds crowded, subsessile, orbicular-cuneate, suberect, cucullate, 
t in. broad, glabrous on both sides when mature ; veins distinct, 
Sha 0 aaa anastomosing ve e. Soncnpae not clustered. 


ab. 

with a — dain of 8. Bias rs 

: 11. 8. cvcunnara Roxb. Fl. Ind. edit. Clarke 547; Wall. Cat. 
0. 399 2 tae sessile, so tightly packed on the stems that they 

rata nearly or quite erect, with inflexed borders, broader (4-$ in. 
cad) than long, broadly cuneate or cordate at the base, the 


: & row between them; papille of upper pr eae Pests minute and 
lose ; under surface nearly naked. Fruit not se 
‘ei Tanks of the Plains of India. Swan es Drummond 


RF 5. tLuLA Desv. in Ann. Linn. Soe. Par. vi. 177.— 

re ke cordate, rugoso- -pilose above, sarsoe0- -pilose 
heath ; epale Wie shaped. 

Hab. West Africa 


13. S. apnata Desy — Fronds sessile, adnate, broadly 
rag 4-5 lines long, eure - ne ae above, glabrous 


Hab. sper of East Africa. 


Exciupep SPrciEs. 
K - L&vicata Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 587, proves to be Trianea bogotensis 
+3 Regel Gartaniliars, +. 980; in Hydrocharidacee. 


2. Azouta Lam.* 
the concePtacles of two kinds, placed in the axils of the i of 
Same plant, both indehiscent, one larger, membranous, 8 ; 
* See Mettenius in ‘Linnea,’ xx. 259, figs. 2-3, and ‘ 
P. 51, tab. 25 ; Griffith's “Toone, tae niga and Strasburger’s elaborate 
‘aph, ‘Ueher Azolla,’ 86 pages 8vo, with 7 plates, Jena, 1873. oe 


100 SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPES. 


= — microspores, which are aggregated in — 
with a membranous cuticle, and are born 
a hepsnbel filiform yeconisls+ the other kind smaller, ova con- 
taining a single macrospore, which is se ce y few or many — 
float-corpuscles, and has a calyptrate which is pushed off as — 
the archegonium developes.— Fu eres tacking water-plants with 
copiously-branched stems; leaves sessile, minute, densely imbri- 
in ee lobed, each lobe furnished with a midrib only; the — 
stems sending out from the under side into the water copious simple — 
or feathered solitary or fascicled root-fibres 


Subgenus Evazorta Meyen.—Macrospores crowned with 3 float- 

corpuscles. Massule of the microspores armed all round with rigid _ 

glochidiate processes. Root-fibres solitary. Sp. 1-3. 

ubgenus Ruizosperma Meyen. — Macrospores eocued with 

numerous float-corpuscles. Massule of the microspores a armed 

on one side with a few weak prickles without glochidiate tips. 

Root-fibres fascicled. 
Leafy fronds single and crowded . Sp. 4.) aaa 
Leafy fronds placed on a wide- trailing leafless stem Sp. 5. 


1. A. rmicutomes Lam. Encye. i. 848; Kuhn in Fl. Bras. i. 
658, tab. 82, figs. 9-11. — 4. sicialinecia Willd. — 4. Arbuscula 
esv.—Fronds 1-2 in. long, copiously ree a pele 8 green or 
oftan tinted with red-brown, the lar Eek e. Macrospore 
3 float-corpuscles, its cuticle tarnicbad wisi large discoid 
tubercles with deep pits between. assule of microspores fur- 
nished with copious rigid processes, without septa, with a glochiia 


ip. 
“ea South America, enly on the west side, ascending in the 
The 


Andes to 16,000 ft. alpine forms are dwarf, with nearly 
‘biealar leat lobes. 

‘ rupra R. Br. eit Sse — Fronds deltoid, tec in. long, 
copiously bipinnate. Leaves of firm texture, red-bro broa 


ovate, always very obtuse. acs ospore like that of A. * ilicitssdlel 
Massulz covered with copious opiate eosuidies processes. = 
Hab. Australia and New Zealand. e 

| aRoLintaNA Willd. Sp. Plant. v. 541; Kuhn in Fl. Bras. 

= 659, tab. 82, figs. 1-6. — A. microph olla Kaulf. : Mart. Ic. Crypt. 
4-75. ao densa Desy -— A. mexicana Schlec eas por eer oe 

Spre eng. — dA. bonariensis — Fronds not more than 3 
long, more “Geltoid and ous copiously bipinnate than in 4 fli ee 
culoides, the brane ss racemose. Leaves of softer texture, 
nerall boid- 


cuticle finely granulated. Massule of the € microspores with copious 
septate rigid processes, with a glochidiate ti ae 
Hab. Southern U nevi States and California, through Tropical 
America to Buenos Ayr a 
4, A. prnnata R. Be Flind. Voy. ii. 611, t. 10.— Root-fibres 
fascicled and conspicuously feathered. Fronds oblong or deltoid, 


JOHN ZIER, F.L.S. 101 


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Zoll. — A. japonica Franch. & Savat. — Salvinia imbricata Roxb.— 

Fronds smaller, deltoid, with fewer more distant, more compound 

branches, 

_ Hab. The type in Australia; the variety, which approximates 

— towards 4. caroliniana, widely spread in Tropical Asia an 

ica. 


| nodes. Leaf lobes ovate, often acute, conspicuously Macro- 
) Spore crowned with many float-corpuseles, its cuticle finely granu- 
lated and beset with a few clavate papille. sule f 


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general habit from the other species. 
(To be continued.) 


JOHN ZIER, F.L.S. 
By James Brirren, F.L.S. 
Tux plants collected by Archibald Menzies and acerpranogs: 
th Sag: 


disposition of these plants; and on a recent visit to Edinburgh, he, 
by the kindness of Professor Duns, had the opportunity of ex- 


acquiremen 
gpa plants. With the specimens was enclosed a parcel of 
BE. en 


* This was bequeathed by Menzies to the Edinburgh Botanic Gar en, where, 
Dr. Macfarlane kindly i fd me, it is sti It consists chiefly of 
Cryptogams, Graminee, and Cyperac on sheets of an 8vo size, the 


102 JOHN ZIER, F.L.S. 


botanists. By his contemporaries, however, he seems to have been 


both known and esteemed, and it ie be worth while to print what 
I have been able to find out abou 
ohn Zier was a Pole by vet “He was elected F.L.S. 
March 18th, 1788 (the second meeting of the Society), being ino 
—. in Castle Street, Leicester Fields, London; he subsequently 
sided in Pimlico. The chief interest about him seems to centre 


now bears his name, Smith writes, “‘In memoriam pie defuncti 
Johannis Zier, Soc. Linn. quondam Sodalis, botanici indefessi, 
nobis non obliviscendi quamvis alio sub nomine labores ejus sepius 
inclaruerint.”* And in the ‘ Botanists’ nied gee t. 606 (1810), 


would, we fear, have far less pretensions than Zier.” This note 
was written by George aia who ea? bly = with feeling, 
inasmuch as he seems to have been similarly ted ; a notice 
of Jackson will, I hope, sae follow the Aca pai Sims t 
speaks of Zier as ‘ our late friend Mr. Zier, a learned and in- 


industrious ae we are most rag to confirm by our own 
testimony. -was no less meritorious in his private ‘characte, 
d bore with modesty and patience those privations which too 
often belong to literary merit in a — country, especially where 
canting and time-serving are out o f the question. We have beet 
informed that - Zier was the ‘coadjutor of Mr. William Curtis 


=e eaten ‘ahieks make the oe merit of the work. Mr. Zier 
died oe the year 1796, perhaps rather earlier, at no advanced 
period 


is suggestion of Smith’s, so far as I can ascertain, i 


x 
4 
e 

| 
Br 
5 


¥ 
4 


SIGN PR IRENE RE SP Repe GR emnT tne tier 


way borne ut by any internal a afforded by jeaeae ‘ Flora . 


Loudinensis nor is anything in support of it to be gathered from 
the biographies of Curtis in Gent. Mag. 1799, in memoirs by his 


son ge Ia to the ‘General Indexes’ to the first 53 


: 2 = pees Linn. Soe. iv. 316 (read tin th, Sek _ + Bot. Mag. t. 1395 (1811). - 


Ea 
ae a 


JOHN ZIER, F.L.S. 1038 


regard to the ‘ English Botany ’of the former, which Samuel Curtis 
says was brought out in opposition to Mr. Curtis’s ‘Flora Lon- 


friendly botanical intercourse with him; and I record it now 
merely that the public may understand the real state of the case.” 
8, of course, impossible to form a clear opinion as to the 
; but the insinuation of Zier’s connection with 
the ‘Flora Londinensis’ shows no friendly feeling on the part 
of Smith. 

But if there was no foundation for this insinuation, was there any 
ground for that made by Smith in 1798, and repeated by George 
Jackson in 1819? Undoubtedly there was; and it is this which is 
established by the MSS. mentioned at the beginning of this notice. 

eorge Don,} when describing Zieria, mentions “ Mr. John Zier, a 
learned and industrious Polish botanist, who assisted Mr. Dickson in 


. 
er 
-_— 


an 
Mr. Carruthers has kindly assisted me, has convinced us both that 
the descriptions in Dickson's ‘ Fasciculi’ (1785-1801) were in 
steat part, written by Zier. That these MSS. are no transcripts, 


of them taken from specimens in Dickson’s Herbarium, and so 
indicated : thus, « Lichen junceus M. . . . . Hospitatur in : 
D—ni.” “Dickson makes no reference td having received any help 
in his work; but besides this aid from Zier, he was assisted by 
Robert Brown.§ If any doubt remained as to Zier’s connection 


_ * ‘Memoirs,’ p. xii. 
+ Writing to Goodenough, Nov. 9, 1797, Smith says “I am very glad pestood 

Curtis did not accept my oe, though I would then steadily haye kept to it. 
Memoir, i. 535. 
} Gen. Syst. i. 794 (1831). 
£ ie aoe ¥ 
§ “The fourth fasciculus of Dickson’s ‘ Plante Cryptogamicm,’ but not, I 
believe, the third, was largely indebted to [Brown]; but it would be rime 
impossible, to determine what portions of the text were actually furnished 
_ by him” (Bennett's Preface to Miscell. Works of R. Brown, I. v.). . 


104 oN THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


with the work, it would be removed by his note on a plant which 
he at first thought new and named Lichen involutus, but sub- 
sequently identified with L. marmoreus Hoffm.: “ Sic. observavi 
Lichenum a D—o mihi, pro fascic. suo 2do. describendi causa, 
atu 


The references to Zier in contemporary literature, other than 
those _—_ are _ * He is mentioned in ‘ Hortus Kewensis’ 
ed. 2, 5), as having ictadvecd Rapistrum a@gyptiacum to 
cultivation i in 1787 : _and he was one of the ‘‘ number of naturalists 


tions, throw little 1 light on his histor cee of o “m0 nt (‘‘ Lichen 


tuberculosus *’) he says, ‘* Inveni ah : earn. prope radicem- 
and 


prope pagum inter Kew et Hounsley » ‘[Hlonnsl ow] ” of 

another (‘ Lichen rubiginosus Msc. M.”), “In Germania en circa 

Hanoveram in consortio Ehrharti, qui nomen Byssi ferruginei ei 
M as 


terms of intimate friendship with Ehrhart; also that he had a 
oe and ~— at Hampstead ‘ oR and in See Isle . 
Wight, a well in Germany in w Men ecam 
patsy of his MSS. is not ce ‘en <P seubilen: os int 
his possession at the death of Zier 


,, ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND 
NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 
By rue Rev. W. Moytz Rogers, E.L.S. 
(Continued from p. _), 

Epilobium angustifolium L. 1. ae (Hina) lady 
escape. Not otherwise fuedbdiad for Corn hirsu 
Local and uncommon, except in District I. fey singin Bokerad 
—E. hirsuto-parviflorum Schur. Hybrid. II. Roads ne ditch near 


Newacott, several together. — E. montanum L. — E. tetragonum L. 
I. and IT common. Between Bridgerule Church and 
Bridge Moo: Co ‘Between Tinney and N. Tamerton. 


Dux on. 
— EF. obscurum Schreb. — FE. palustre L. Rem arkably common.—— 
E. parvifloro-palustre Hmp. ees sities abundant. II. and 
i ide-ditches. 


My priophyllon 5 spout di, ,. I. “Bude Canal, &e.” (Hind). ? The : 


Hugh Davies, writing to Smith in March, 1793, says “IT am much affected — - 


oh foes snes os Mr. Hudson and Mr. Zier ” (Smith ’s ‘Memoir and Corres- 
_ pondenee,’ i. 434). Unfortunately Smith’s letter, to ‘0 which this is a reply, is not 

‘given. 

oF Ann. Bot. i i. 373. 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING Districts, 105 


— M. esc tae DC. III. Canal near Reservoir, and 


near tele Vv. e Waldon, near Bradwo hy, abundant. 
A Myriophylium also occurs in plenty on Greena Moor (I.), in the 
nal at Bridgerule (II. immense qaniile. and at Tetcott 


stanke, I cannot say whether it is spicatum or alterniflorum. 
Callitriche stagnalis ee es hin no agg —— C. hamulata Kirtz. 
In the Canal, where issues from the Reservoi 
b. pedunculata, III. Ditches ie Bridgerule and Dux Gom- 
mon, in plent y- 
ryonia dioica L. I. Hedge in lane near Poughill or Marham- 
church (Webb). Probably a —- I have never seen it in 


Cornwall, and only once in Devon, on a garden-wall at Teignmouth. 
A Ribes rubrum L. II. Southlands Plantation, in fair quantity ; 
enizen. 


m Telephium L. I. Boscastle (Hind). Valley of Rocks, 
and fin considerable pore near St. Knighton’s Kieve; perhaps 
native. II. Whitstone, roadside not far “from cottage. aN 
Tamerto on, hedge near the villa age. All purpurascens, I think. — S. 
anglicum Hands. I. Abundant by the sea. IV. Rocks, Okehampton. 
— S.acreL. I: Frequent on the coast. Inland I have seen this 
species fas also S. reflecwm L.) only where its presence seemed due 

man’s agency. 
Sempervivum oe L. Where planted, frequent. 


stream-bed, in sect quantity. Wanson eo — "St. Knighton’s 
-Kieve. Boscastle and Minster Valley, in —_— Valley of Rocks. 
II. Between Dux Common and Pyworthy Village. Holsworthy 
and Bridgerule Road. in two places. 
Hydrocotyle vulgaris 
Sanicula europea L. 
Eryngium maritinum L. 1. Bude (Hind!), Widmouth. 
Apium graveolens L. I. Common near pa sea. 
* on nodiflorum Koch. — A. repens Koch. I. Bude 
1nd) 
: oselinum sativum Hoffm. I. ‘Bude, &.” (Hind). Boscastle, 
; on walls and rock (with Lepidium sativum), but not far from kitchen 
: garden. — P. seyetwum Koch. Very rare. I. Pou ghill (Hind). 
Between Bude and Stratton. 
: on Te Ayo dnsbe _ Stratton, and Marham- 
- hatch ¢ neighbourhood, frequent; but not seen elsewhere. 
di Peete Pode graria L. A fa irly common denizen in all _ 
. Gstricts, 
Carum verticillatum Koch. I. Week St. Mary (Hind, 1873 !), 
in hollow east of the village. ‘Tackbeare; and beyond, towards 
- Widmouth. II. Tamar Valley, in several places. Wi —— 
Moor. Itt. Bridgerule, 1882, and in nearly all wet moory — 
__ between the Tamar and Holsworthy, very common set ge 
- Moor, Marshy ground about four miles from Bradworthy, on 


es 


106 oN THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


Holsworthy Road. Not seen in the higher moorland tract between 
Holsworthy and Okehampton. 
unium flecuosum Wi 
Pimpinella Saxifraga Lis Generally distributed, but hardly a 
common plant in District II. 
(Enanthe Lachenaliti Gmel. I. Bude (Hind!), on Summerleaze 


own.—(H. croc cata 
ores Cynapium ti 
rithmum eisttsinaia L. IL. Sea-coast from Sandymouth to 
Tintazel, en 
Angelica sylvestris Li 
Pastinaca sativa L. I. Near Northcot Mouth (Hind 


). Neate 
the coast at Bude (Baker), I have not seen this, es in spots 
where it seemed to me to have escaped from cultivation 

Heracleum Sphondylium L. 

aucus Carota L. — D. gummifer Lam. ‘‘ Frequent on coast” 

ind). 
Torilis Anthriseus Gaert. — T. nodosa Gaert. I. From Sandy- 
mouth and Kilkhampton to Trebarwith ; fairly frequent in dry 
sunny spots, especially near the sea IL. In very small quantity 
at Littlebridge, and by Sanctuaries Farm House. ILI. and IV. 
Not seen. 

Cherophyllum sylvestre L.—C. temulum Li. 

Scandix tee a L. 
Conit mL. Local, I. Bude (Hind!). Marham- 
church. Bomastle: eae neighbourhood, abundant. III. Bridgerule. 
IV. Okehampton 
Smyrnium Olusatrum L. I. Between Stibb and Kilkhampton 


= 
S 


nedy 
frequent, and in some places possibly native. Inland I have noted 
several localities for it in all the districts, but only such as former 
cultivation would account for. 
Hedera Helix L. 
Sambucus niger L. 


enum Li. 
ubia peregrina L. I. Poughill (Hind), and thence along the 
coast to Trebarwith, Measeat steht: Down. Between Titson 


Galium verumL. I. Frequent, but only quite near the sea. — 

G. Mollayo L. "Gaiearkably local, and so far from supporting the 
statement in Keys’ ‘Flora of Devon and Cornwall,’ ‘‘ abundant in 
erst counties.” I. Between Stratton and Bridge- 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAK AND NEIGHBOURING DisTRIcTs. 107 


roadside north of the village for some yards. Lifton and Bridestowe 
Road, common. IV. Apparently absent from the Waldon district, 


I. Efford Down, among furze, in small quantity, 1882. I saw it 
there again in 1883 and 1885, but aes failed to find it elsewhere 
aay) the coast. Mentioned in Keys’ ‘Flora of Devon and Cornwall’ 

Saal: reported for the county” (i. e., Cornwall), but without 


locality nam Unknown in Devon. — G. palustre L. ommon, 
@ var. longa oe although Witheringii ~_ occurs in 
many places. — G. uliginosum L. I. Greena Moor. Il. Near 


Merrifield. TIL. es 1882, and Tinney, frequent IV. Near 
Bradworthy, on the Holsworthy Road.—G. Apar 
Asperula odorata L. Denizen. III. Tieutatioen at Parnacott 
and Bridgerule Vicarage, i in great quantity. 
erardia arvensis lu. 
rain ruber DC. I. Alien. ge and Boscastle gee 
ana officinalis L. — a. Mike I. Kilkhampto 
“onion frequent. — b. simbucsfulek es common 
Valerianella olitoria Meench. Apparently quite rare. I. Bude. 
Trebarwith. LV. Okehampton. — V. Auricula DC. I. Between 
Marhamchurch and Burrow. II. Roadside, Merrifield. ILI. 
e, h. 


Dipsacus sylvestris L. I. Morwinstow (Hind). Certainly rare. 
T have not seen it in any of the ine 
Scabiosa Succisa Li. -- S. arvens 
Carduus tenuiflorus Curt. I. " Rilksangton aeons Hannes 
Bude. Widmouth. oe Trebarwith. — s L. 
F airly common. Not seen at all in the other distri. aot near 
Bridestowe (1£1.).-— C. spe a L. — C. crispus L. Roadside 
near we yekines I. or II. (Baker). I have failed to find it. — C. 


palustris pratensis Huds. Yr t and often exceedingly 
sbundant plant in most of the bo y and moorland districts 
I, Near the es Week St. Mary (Hind! 


ampton 
First record for Cornwall, 1878). Greena Moor. Il. Between 
Canal and the Tamar, below Bridgerule. III. and IV. So frequent 


. First record for N. Devon, Raven ‘ Flowering 

Plants and Ferns of Devonshire,’ 1860 (‘* Between 8. Molton and 
ampton,” in which locality, on “Baples Hill,” I saw it last 
summer). It is remarkable that in the Ist pliten oki Topo- 


unrecorded for Co rnwall and nanied for N. 
I. Puce (Hind! 1878), Efford Down. The ie “Gomish Tocality 
known. Still pnrecosies for N. Devon, and exce y local in 


Arctium. majus ane Ss oa 'L. «Poughill, &e.” (Hind, 1878). 
€, two or three plants. Waste ground below (ig, : 


108 on THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


and in road near, a good many. Burrow. IV. Near Okehampton. 
— A. minus Schkuhr. Rather common. — 4. intermedium Lange 


“sao occur at Kilkh lampton and Burrow (with m« mafiesy LS 
Loudgworthy Lane, oe IIl.; and about Okehampton, IV. 
Serratula tinctori 
Centaurea nigra ce I consider type and var. decipiens (both 
rayed and unrayed) about equally common. — (. Scabiosa L. 
Frequent on the coast, at Sandymouth, Bude, &c. II. Bridgerule, 
rare. Not seen a all in III. and IV. -- ¢. Cyanus L, III. 


0, cask rade segetum Li. 1. Boscastle (Hind !) — —_— 
bourhood, very abundant. Tintagel, potato-field fu A 
plant in Cornwall and Devon. — C. Leucanthemum L 

Matricaria Parthenium L. Denizen. Rare. Launeells, near a 
farm-house. -Boscastle. III. Bridgerule. amerton. — M. 
inodora L. —¢. maritima. I. Bude (Hind). I do not understand 


anacetum vulgar scare I. Morwinstow and Trevenna (Hind). 
Near Stratton. Whitst ne Churchyard and lane. Jacobstow. 
Boscastle neighbourhood, squlat Tintagel, &c. a native 
ee me few spots in this district. III. Between Dux Com an 


Anthemis Cotula L.— A. nobilis L. Quite peter dh I. and IL., 
and fairly so in III. 

Achillea Millefolium L. — A. warpage ica L. 

rtemisia Absinthium L. Deni I. Morwinstow (Mrs. K 

nedy). Near _ Bude and Satonn nna (Hind). Sunni ockahall 
Down, north-east end, in considerable quantity. Pentargan Bay 
and whole Boeoaaiie neighbourhood, in i II. Between Pan- 
crasweek and Parnacott, near farm, one plant. — A. vulgaris L. 

Filago germanica L. Rather wicommon. pt ome oughill, &¢.” 
rags Boscastle. Trebarwith. II. Bridgerule TL « Lower 

ill Park,” Bridgerule. Between Lifton and okiadiows. IV. 


Gnaphalium uliginosum L. — G. sylvaticum L. In Dr. Hind’s 
list without locality named. “ Hitherto unrecorded for Cornwall, 
and very rare in Devon,” Briggs. I cma add that the few Devon 

aes pe D 


enecio vulgaris LL, — S. ateatious: L. Common enough in its 
special habitats. — S. erucifolius L. Very local, wae near the 
sea. - — Sandymonth to Widmouth, frequen Stratton. 


the Valley 6 of eg « Picked up at Tintagel, recently gathered 
(Hind). ~~ J. peers 

Bellis perennis Li. 

Erigeron acris L. I. Su mmerleaze Down, 1883. oe 

~~ Tripolium L. I. ‘ Plentiful by the stream at Bude 
(Baker 

Solidago Virga-aurea L. 

Tussilago Farfara L. : 

Pataaites — Desf. I. Orchard near the Parsonage, aan 
hampton Spee siege ads Langford Hill Plantation. IV: Brad- 
worthy, old 

Eu hae i. 

itkrisen Intybus L. Very local. I. Bude (Miss Harrison, lO 

in Keys’ Fl. Dev. and Cornw. ); frequent, especially towards ee: 
re hia Stratton, and — lls. Also a few Siaeke together 
(often only, one or two) at Burrow, near Red Post, near senoe 
Mouth, and at Week St. Mary. I. Between Gilbert’s Cross 9 
Burrow Cross. Littlebridge. About Newacott. It. Speage ry 
roadside near the church. Perhaps only as a casual in II. and III. 

Lapsana communis I. 

Eaewhen glabra L. I. Bude e (Mrs. Kennedy). Not otherwise 
known as Cornish. The locality is a likely one; having — 
found this s Species in plenty on Braunton Burrows, I searched the 
Bude sand-hills for it, but, I am bound to add, without success.— 
A. radicata L, 

Leontodon hirtus L. — L. hispidus L. I. Poughill mite ae 
Hill between n Werrington and St. Stephen’s, abundan te 
Bridgerule, roadside bank near Vicarage, one plant, 1883, base ” 

Ween Lifton and Okehampton, frequent. IV. Pp enty 
eae oe Deniers and Ashbury, and about Okehampton.— 

autumnalis Ly. 

awe echioides Gaert. I. Frequent from Sandymouth Ped 
Widmouth h, and inland to Burrow; but not seen in the Boscastle 

Tint Il. In cla ayey — 
Bridgerule Church and Bride e Moor, a few plants; an 
= and exposed locality for it. Near Holsworthy, on the Bude 
ad, 


Taraxacum officinale Wige. —a. Dens-leonis and d. palustre. Com- 
mon. ~~ b. erythrospermum, 1. On rocks —— stle. 

Sonchus oleraceus L. — S. asper Hoffm. — ‘ 
Crepis taraxacifolia Thuil. Colonist. I. a 
Near Bude = Biration, and. Buches Geuae Qeeet idgerule, in 


; el ly umbellatum, in Mr. 
ton, * Hin i Probably , =e 
| Baker's . ee noi boreale Fries. Il. Near Kilkhampton 


110 on THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


vege half a mil on the Grimscott Road, for some distance, but in 

o great quantity. The only locality where I have seen it, and 
probably "ay same as Dr. Hind gives Joubtfully for this species. 

asione montan : 

Wahlenbergia hilivoows Reich. Very local. I. Minster Valley, 
in plenty. IV. Near Beaworthy. Moorland pasture, near Ash- 
bury. Near Okehampton 

Vaccinium Myrtillus L. Remarkably uncommon. I. Launeells, 
lane north of fists Week St. Mary (Hind). Minster Valley. 
IV. Okeham 

Erica Tetralie L.—F. cinerea L. 

li 


Lagustrum vulgare L. Common, and I think undoubtedly 
native, i in all the districts. 
inca minor L. I. Parnacott and Bridgerule; no doubt 
planted. Pyworthy, wood on Holsworthy Road, possibly native. 
Erythrea Centaurium Pers. —b. pseudo-latifolia. I. Sandy- 
mouth. Bude. Boscastle. — ‘ pulchella Fries. I. Bude (Miss 
e 1. i 


ummerleaze and Efford Dona) ocally abundant. Field near 
Hoppicott Down. Widmouth. Wanson Mouth. Not seen in the 
other districts. 

Cicendia filiformis Delarbre. III. Affaland Moor (near Ford 
Mill), south-west corner, sparingly; and for a short distance in 
roadside ditch between the moor and Pyworthy village, 1883 and 
1885. An especially Steceelia discovery of Mr. Briggs’, “ there 
appears to be no other Devon locality on record, althou 
county has a _— credited with the possession of this pi 
(see Fl. De r. Ravenshaw’s List 

Chlora emery L. I. About Bu de, locally abundant. 
Between Stratton and Red Post, in several spots, and especially in 
great iss in a field near Hoppicott Down (‘‘ Between Stratton 

P. Balkwill, 


and Laun ? Mr. BF: al 1862, in Keys’ Fl. Dev. and 
Cornw.). pre unknown for Corn: wall. 
Gentiana Amarella L. Seen only in one locality. I. Efford 


Down, Bude. are in the extreme satis. west, and without 
personal ne for E. Cornwall in Top. Bot. — G. campestris L. 
Nearl as Amarella. I. Greena Moor. Boscastle (Hind). 

rina ss trifoliata L. One of the commonest bog plants in 
all the districts. 

Convolvulus arvensis LL. Remarkably rare. I. Bude (Hind) ; on 
the road thence to Marhamchurch. ILI. Bridgerule.—C. sepiwm L. 
——(, —_—_ L. I. Bude — and Widmouth. 

cuta Epithymum M 1. Fro es aia to Bude, 
frequent i ee fe." - Hind). te seen inlan 
olanum Dule aL. — igrum L. Rare. I, Bude (Miss 
uate: in ave FL Dev. and Comtw., Hind). III. Bridgerule, 
garden weed at Visseaewrit 
ote ale 


| 111 
SHORT NOTES. 


ri Wek: 
of &. spinosissima 
— on Barnes Common in July, 1878 ; this I had provisionally 
| abelled R. Ripartii Déségl.? As my attention has to a con- 


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| however, thanks to the kindness of Messrs. H. and J. Groves, who 


‘ Conspectus Flores Kurope,’ places A. Ripartii under R. myri- 
aeantha DC. (which is accorded specific rank), but I follow Mr. Baker 
ne both as mere forms of R. spinosissima L. Orépin, in 
5 timitiz Monographie Rosarum,’ published in ‘Bulletin de la 
on Royale de botanique de Belgique,’ tome viii., p. 262, says, 


cote des fol. et les stip.” The synonymy of this plant is as follows :— 
a fi. Ripartii Déséglise. ‘ Essai Monogr. in mem. de la Soc. Acad. 

eM. et L.’, x., 1861, p. 87 et extr. p. 4 
Rei fi. spinosissima. ‘ Trattinick, Rosarum Monographia,’ i., 118 ; 
F ichenbach, ‘Flora Excursoria’ (1880) ii., 612; Mutel, ‘ Flore 

Tangaise,’ 1., p. 4 5. 
os Ri. pimpinellifolia y. Lloyd, ‘Flore de l'Ouest de la France’ 
- 2 (1861), p. 175.—Grorex NicHonson. 

Tae arrmeom or Auren Species.—The record of Sisymbrium 

ne Fe ? n 


in Dr. y ‘ 
i (p. 8), as a British plant, suggests the query ‘‘ How should our 
en plants be distinguished on their labels at a glance?” I ask 


: e is 
nothing to prevent a host of our aliens being so recorded, if they 


teach continental herbaria, without some mark or sign. It may 
e knowledge of their distribution elsewhere should 


112 SHORT NOTES. 


be sufficient, but even M. DeCandolle, as quoted by Mr. H. ©. — 
Watson, was not always able to do this, and if not a DeCandolle, — 
others would be much less likely to do so. I am well aware tha’ 


Nor ES ON East Norroix Prants. — The following new al 
and remarks on plants observed in this vice- -county dur stay 
at Happisburgh during the summer of 1885, may rete wor 
recording in the Journal :— 

Rubi. — This neighbourhood is evidently worthy of further 
attention : a few collected in the lanes near Happisburgh have ae 
hi . 


not uncommon. Mr. Baker ae ave never seen n anything 
. it. N S 


m 
Sambucus us. Forms hedgerows in the wale: near Happis- 
burgh ss gems 
Lip A new station in the Ranworth District, quite 
distinet, + balers, from that near the Decoy very abundant. 
Ruscus aeuleatus. Hedgebanks ro a Waleot and Ridlington. 
A rare plant in the county, according to the 
Potamogeton trichoides. Ane entirely new atin viene Lessingham. 
se jlwitans. Abundant near Les essingham. 
marina. It ig Aptos beet to record an entirely new 
station eter this i intoresting plant in the same district, but some 


h. 
careful search of the coast from Happisburgh southward to 
Palling, and again from Caistor to Yarmouth, failed to produce 
Carex trinervis—Henry T. Mave 
New Guamorean s.—The f ollowing were gathered last 
une, aba are all nadine e ‘Topographical Botany,’ ed. 2. The 
dintvaet round Swansea, to which these fost ows was ope worked 


2 
E 
iss 
3 
ih 
ye 
: 
aay 
; 
| 
a 
i. 
a 
ee 

é 
* 
i 
y 

x 

4 

sy 
: | 
ee i 
eal, 


paliidwens on Priz mula vulga is Hu — Lastera ovata 


‘deri Eich, eee ee "8, ll 
junceum L. ¥ gathered also a Juncus spins “std 
6-stam, = , and lik rent to en J. 


NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 113 


Potypoprum Puecopreris in West Sussex. — I have recently 
received this from the above county, collected by Mrs. R. i Pratten 
in a “grassy coombe”’ about a quarter of a mile from the Surrey 
border, in the Arun basin. From what I know of the locality, I 
think it probably native. My informant also reports its occurrence 
west of Haslemere, but I have not yet been able to ascertain whether 

is locality is in Nort h Hants or Surrey. There are not a few 
likely stations for this fern in se southern portion of the Arun 
district in Surrey.— W. H. Bex 

Nore ee 14.— The poe of the bladderworts is crowned 
by along beak. popsieting of the persistent style. It affords valuable 
diagnostic aon Se The following observations were made on 


upwards, with a rather wavy and sales ge margin ; longer than 
the yee of the fruit. eb shou ld be much interested to learn 


NEW Sse tlds PUBLISHED IN noe tige oe IN GREAT 
N AND IRELAND DURIN 

: Tue iioitdle ‘dele in this list ees : Beal Magazine,’ 

‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ ‘ i Plan tarum,’ : Journ of Botany, 


as .. 

Some danger of species ublished in works of this general kind 
being overlooked. A large number of nomina nuda have been put 
forward in Mr. H. H. Johnston’s ‘The _ Siete Expedition’ 
(a work falsely dated 1886); but these we of course ignore, as they 

ave no ¢ to recognition, and their ssinvdatiii ‘into botanical 
literature in this form Bean! be reprehensi 

We have added in square brackets the publishers of certain 

names which are cited tron & he MS. description or notes of those 
who stand as the authority for them. New genera are indicated 
by an affixed asterisk. 
y pales HoLoGyNA Baker. Madame eae ae sar 

CTINIDIA FULVICOMA Hee China. Journ. Bot. 321 
Azranruus Leonis Rchb.f. Madagascar. Gard. Chron. xxiii. 726. 
JouRNAL oF a —Vou. 24. [Aprm, 1886.] see 


Linn .Bev- xxi.4il. 


114 NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 


Arrwes Banzantinianum Rchb.f. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 198.— A. 
ro ated Fichb. f. Id. 650.— A. marcinatum Rehb. f. Id. ¥ 
xxiii. 588.—A. Ortemsiancm Rehb. Ji 20; GOL. “4 

AiruioneMa spicatum Post. Syria. Ic. Pl. 1478. a 

AGLmonEMA acuTIspatHum N, E. Br. China. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 39. 

Atocasta stnvata N. FE. Br, Malaya. Gard. Chron. xxiy. 678. 


AusopEIA pecora Trim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 20 
MU THAMIAN a Journ. Bot. 266 
Ampnorcuis tinactna Ridley. Madagascar. Journ. Linn res xxi. 518. 
Anemone THomsont O i ourn. Linn. Soe. xxi. 397. 
ANGR&EcUM cLAvicERUM Ridl. and A. Cowanu Ridl. Madagascdl , 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 484—5.—A. rroruLentum Rehb. J. Mada- 
gascar. Gard. ee xxiii. 786.—A. eromeratum Ridl. Sierra 
Leone. Id. xxiv. 678. — A. maxintariomes Ridl. Mad gascar. 


a, 
Journ, Linn. Soc. xxi.479.—A. rostetnarE Rehb. f. Madagascar. 


Ridl., and A. verEtiroiium Ridl. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. 
Soe. xxi. 478-485. 

ANISOCHILUS sINENSE Han China. Journ. Bot. 827. 

ANTHEMIS HyDRUNTINA H. Gives (Flor. yo B. Italy. Journ, Linn. 
Soe. xxi, 588. 


ANTHERICUM ECHEANDIOIDES Baker. Mexico. Bot. Mag. t. 6809. 
AN um N. E. B 


M FLAVID r. Columbia. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 
—A. GLAZIOVII Hook. f. Brazil. Bot. Mag. t. 6858. —A 
consPicuum } Gard. Chron. xxiii. 78 
*APODOCEPHALA (Composite, Eupatoriaces). —A. paucrrtora Baker, 
sp. nnica a car. J inn. Soc. xxi. 417. 
Axcrotis Lercuriimiana Lynch. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 8. 


ArpIsia Lonerres, A.? MACROscYPHA, A. MYRIANTHA, A. OLIGANTHA, A. 


UMBELLATA, all of Baker. Welecuian: Eawea, Linn. Soe. xxi. 
419-21. 


Aristea atata Baker. E. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 405. 
ARISToLocHIA ELEGANS Mast. Brazil. ard. Cnet xxiv. 801, 
fig. ( 64.—A. Forpiana Hemsl., and A. Westianpit Hemsl. Chi 

n. Bot. 286. 


Ketsidase CASAPALTENSIS Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. 
xii. 86. 
Banxerra VANNERIANA fichb. f., “n. sp. (hyb. nat.?).” Gard. Chron. 
xxiv. 678. 
EGONIELLA ANGUSTIFOLIA Oliv. N. Granada. Ic. Pl. 1487. 
Bicornewia parvirtora [idley. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 


xxi. 6 XV. ae 

Boucerosta Aarons Hart. Palestine. Trans. R. Irish Acad. 1 

‘Xxvill. 486, t. 17. 

Brassia ELEGANTULA Rehb. f. ties Gard. Chron. xxiv. 616. 

Brwe.ia coccotonzrouia Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xxi. 441. 


* It seem: necessary to add this er ama of Florentig) to distinguish 
Mr. Henry eg of Florence from his amesake of London, = oe 


NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 116 


Bromus rricipus Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxii. 68. 
Bruemansia, n. sp. Sumatra. Nat. Wand. 206 (figured, but not 
named or described. 
Bucunera Exserta Fawectt, and B. trmmorensts Fawe. Timor. Nat. 
and. 512, 


UPDLEIA SPHEROCEPHALA Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Xxl. 425, 


ley. : 
ALADENIA JAVvaNica Benn, Ske (Ridl.). Timor. Sek. Wand. 518, 
Catamus wrvazis Thw. MS. [Trim.] age C. ovorpgeus Thw. MS. 
So Bot. 268 


0 B 2 328. 
Cataserum ec Rehb. Sa “n. typ.” Mexico. Gard. 
v. 552. 
Carrirya ivkuncaial fichb. f. British Guiana. Gard. Chron. 
Xiii. 338. 
. CeLasrrus CANTONENSIS Hance. China. Journ. Bot. 3 
CrRoprgia oBTUsILoBA Fawe. Timor. Nat. ae gee C. 


Honic China. Journ Bot. 286. 
Cuatacue MADAGASCARIENSIS Baker. Madagascar. _ Trans. Linn. 
443 


SE a Ee a | 
erat | 
— 
3 
Ld 
© 
© 
— 
° 
=) 


Caxrorropis ANDINA Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. Soe. 
Xxx. 58, 


TIA HAINANENSIS Hance. China. Journ. Bot. 322. 
Cuaprom ENSIGERUM Hance. Hong Kong. Journ. Bot. 80. — C. 
LERI and C, panroropum Baker. Macaca Journ. Linn. 
Soe. xxi. 451, 


Cntonormrrva RHIZoMATOSUM Baker. Zanzibar. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 


HRISTISONIA Tuwarresit Trim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 240. 

Sv aeaeag Tuwarresianum Trim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 244. 

CLERopENDRON ? BRUNSViGioIDES Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. 
- XX1. 485.—C. puncurum Fawe. Timor, Nat. Wand. 514. 


PARVIFLORA Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. tee 
Contenonra BIUMBELLATA Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. 
Xxli. 54, 


CHLENSIS and C. mvcanum Baill. Peruvian Andes. 
88. 


= Crotararra "sai aad Oliv. E. Afriea. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 399. 
Cayproconyng Beckxerru Thw. MS. [Trim.]. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 


Cuncunta OLIGANTHA Trim. Ceyl Jo Bot. 245. 
: ylon. Journ. 
 Cyrzanpra 5 SERRaTA Fawe. Timor. Nat. Wand. 5138. | 


116 NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 
Cyrropoprum SaintteGerianum Rchb. f. Parigtny: Gard. Chron. — 
Daa eren Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 408. : 
Dapune winzarirouia Hart. Palestine. Trans. R. Irish Acad. 

LPHINIUM ie SS Oliv. HK. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soe. 


Xxi. 
Drhpnosrum ALBIDULUM Thw. MS. [Trim.]. —— J Pe Bot. 
O48, sa. 


. ArractopEs Ridl. Siam. Journ. Bot. 128. —D. 
ERYTHROPOGON Fchb. f., n. sp. (* hyb. nat. 2), eens: Gard. 
Chron. xxiv. 198.—D. parpauinum Rehb. f. Id. 280.—D. Par- 


THENIUM Fichb. f. Borneo. Id. : 
Descuampsia Matuewsn Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. 


Soc. xxii. 60. 

DIANTHERA TERMINAL 8 Fawe. Timor. Nat. Wand. oer 

DianTHus AcUMINATUS i (pris ), D. Avpensoxn (Syria), D. Conensot 
(Natal), D. Lusrrantomes ‘(Palest ne), D. Moctisqvantates bee 
distan), D. pusrrunus (bacistan . PURPUREUS (Byris)s , 
Scutosserr ( me D. syriacus (Syria), all of F. N. Willta 
Journ. Bot. 342-8 


Dane nti Saker Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soe. 
xxi. 427. 


Deas Laxtuscuta Thw. MS. [Trim.]. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 272. 
Dtoscorra acuminata Baker. Madagascar. ' Journ. Linn. Soc. x3i- 
449. — D. crinita Hook. f. Natal. oe Mag. t. 6804. 
1476. 


Diospyros ruscovenutina, D, GonocLaDA Dems MEGASEPALA, D., SPH#RO- 
SEPALA, all of Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi 
22-94 


4 ; 

Disa arrints N. E. Br. §. Africa. Sno Chron. xxiv. 402. — D. 
zuuLA, D. Bopximt, D. tiweata, D. py mA, D, RETICULATA, = 
Scutiy1, D. renuicornis, all of Bolus. "8. Ad Africa, Journ. 
Soc. xxii. 68-74. 

DisPeris Micowaa B. oxyeLossa, D. Tysont, D. Woonn, all of Bolus. 
S. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 76-79.—D. zevnanroa Trim. 
Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 245. 

Drvris Frvana Ridl. Timor. Nat. Wand. 519.——D. rricozor Fitzg- 
N.S. Wales. Journ. Bot. 187. 

Doona ostonea Thw. MS. [Trim.]. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 206. 

Dracmna xipHornyita Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Sot 
xxi. 449° 

imine racunDum Hook. f. Guiana. Bot. Mag. t. 6808. 
Drymeria nitmpa Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 81. 

EicHINOLENA MADAGASCARIENSIS Baker. i caiecex. Joyrn. Linn. 

EX 


Exzxocarpus Henryt vite China. Journ. Bot. 322. a 

EpmeNDRUM eames chb. f. Gard. Chron. xxiii. 566. — E. 
PunctuLatum Fichb. f. <3 Xxiv. 70. 

Eracrostis maxima Baker. Madagascar foussy. Linn. Soc. xxi 464. 


NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 117 
oo Manponnt Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
nol, 


imac FLUVIATILE /’rim. Ceyion. Journ. Bot. 270. 

Eucuaris Masters Baker. N. Granada. Bot. Mag. t. 6381. 

Evuernta cractuenta Hance. China. Journ. Bot.7.—E. Harckeniana 
207. 


a. F 
H. myrsintrouia Hance. China. Id. 8.—K. pumutyreowes Trim. 
Ceylon. Id. 207.—K. repnropes Hance. China. Id. 7. 
Evtorata Gaupana Rid’. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. xxi. 469.—E. 
MEGISTOPHYLLA Rehb. it ene sear. Gard. Chron. xxiii. 786. 
PILEATA, E. K. RETICULATA, _ VAGINATA, all of 
idley. m saeainages erie, tases Soc. xxi. 467-70. 
Evpatorrum MELANADENIUM Hance. China. Jou ourn. Bot. 825. 
UPHORBIA TETRAPTERA Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xx1. 440, 


sono TIMoRENsIs [tidil. Timor. Nat. Wand. 5 


Festuca CASAPALTENSIS Ball. Peruvian Andes. — tien, Soc. 


Xxii 
Fious ise, Baker. at ascar. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 
—F. caupiounata Trim. eylon. Journ. Bot. 242.—F. meea- 


Popa, F’, popopuyz YLLA, Ys SPHEROPHYLLA, }', TILIMFOLIA, and F. 
TRICHOPHYLLA, all of Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
ul, 443-45.—F'. Trent King. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 248. 
Gazrrvera PHANEROPHLEBIA and G. pHyniostacHya Baker. Mada- 
_ Sasear. Journ. Linn. Seis xxi, 425. 2 
Gatium perre Hart. Palestine. Trans. R. Irish Acad. xxvul. 
. 16. 


SENOTIA POLYPOGONoIDES Munro MSS. [Oliv.]. Ic. Pl. 1481. 
Gemma Ge ERRARDI Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 413. 


Bri ker, an LATIFO: MS 
[Baker]. S. Africa. Journ. Bot. 227, 228 gate 259, 260) 
—s Wwatsonioipes Baker. HH. Africa 

405, 


Govmsia SULPHUREA Fichb. f. Paraguay. Gard. — xxiv. 70. 
Gussonna cornuTA Ridi. Comoro ls. Journ. Bot 
Hazenarra AL MAC 


IFLORA MISERA, U = 
adagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi, 503-509. — H. 
PLEISTADENIA Rehb. f. E. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 404.— 
CT ; : 


= NERR idl. . Linn. 
Soc. xxi. 510, 505.—H. Tuomsont Rehb. f. E. Africa. Journ. 
a Soc. xxi. 404.—H. rmonensts Ridl. Timor. Nat. Wand. 
BRACTEOsA Hance. China. Journ. Bot. 323.—H. Rarno- 
*LLA Tho. MS. [Trim.]. Ceylon. Id. 208.—H. tricno- 
er. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. bios xxi. 409. — H. 

_, lcHROA Hance. China. Journ. Bot 
SARIS CXSPITOSISsIMA Baker. epee — Linn. Soe. 


118 NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 


Heuicurysum LEUcospHmRuM and H. pynocuapum Baker. Mada- 
gascar. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 417-18. 
RACIUM CHICLENSE Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. Soe. 
Xxil. ~ 
Ho aA? mADAGAScaRrENSIS Baker. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 424. — 
+ abecaten. (Rubiacew, Anthospermes). — H. reese aa Baker, 
sp. unica gascar. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi 
Hyprostacuys STOLONIFERA Baker. Madagascar. ion Linn. 
1. 435. 


Soc. xx 
Pivarlesnonont parvirotium Uliv. E. Trop. Africa. we Pl. 1488. 
HyopancHEe aTROPURPUREA Bolus * Africa. Ic. Pl. 1486. 
HyporstEs oe H. stacuyores, H. rricnocunamys and H. 
UNILATERALIS, all of Baker. Tadaiseenrs Journ. Linn. Soe. 
+xi. 431.82, 
p53 oe KinIMangARI Oliv. and I. Tuomson1 Oliv. E. Africa. 


Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 398. 
Toisiane: GRACILLIMA aint I, Metter: Baker. Madagascar.- Journ. 
Li i. 


G. xxi, 420-8 
Tris Vnatass Foster. Palestine. a Chron. xxiii. 488. 
Ixora EmrRNENSIS Baker, Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 412. 


—I. gractus R. Br. MSS. (Faw awe.), and I. quinquirina R. Br. MSS. 
(Fawe.). Timor. Nat. 8 

JUSTICIA TRICHOPHYLLA and J. TRriTIcEA Baker. Madagascar. Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xxi. 428. 

Knreuor1a Bucnanant, K. enstrouia, K.1runpreunaris, K. NATALENSIS, 
K. PAUCIFLORA, all of Baker. Cape. Journ. Bot. 276-280 ; K. 


Lasiantuus Forpu Hance. China. Journ. 
Lepractina TeTraLopa N. EF. Br. E. Trop. chien "Gard. Chron. 
Xxi 


Lervcoas MaShTeNsEs Oliv. E. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 403. 

Levucopogon opovatus Fawe. Timor. Nat. Wand. 509. 

Lrearis auntra Ridi. Timor. Nat. Wand. 518. mks picornis, Li 
connata, L. Lonercauuis, L. tonereetana, L. Lurea, HRACEA; 
L. ornrrnorrayncnos, L. parva, all of Ridley. Madagascar. 

ourn. Linn . 458-62. 


Lowndes Forpu Hance. China. Journ. Bot. 38. 
Lueonra anpina Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 49- 
MacaranGa myrIoLePipa and M. risestowses Baker. Madagascar. 


ourn. Linn. Xxi 
Macuiius saticina Hance. China. Journ. Bot. 327. 
Masa puncHetta Fawc. Timor. Nat. Wand. 5 
Maspevatuia sents Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 4 
AXILLARIA PR=STANS Rchb.f. Guatemala. Gard. Sled xxiii. 556. 
MADAGASCARIENSIS Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. 
Soe. xxi. 418. 
Metopinus Forsesn Fawe. Timor. Nat. Wand. 510. 
CAMERANA (* apoidline Ga vatioty ”) Muell. Norfolk Island. — 
Journ. Bot. 358. ; 
as, we GYMNOCcHILOIDES Lidl, ——— Journ. Linn. Soe. 


NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 119 


Mormoves Dayanum Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 552. 
Muss2npa FUSCOPILOSA and M. macropopa Baker. Madagascar. 
rn. Linn. Soc. x abe 


Mysracrprum GRAMINIFOLIU M. ocHraceuM, M. TENELLUM, all of 
agascar otis, Linn. Soe. xxi. 488-90. 
OBERONIA GLANDULIFERA Ridl. imor. Nat. Wand. 518 


Opontociossum vimmwaLe Rchb.f. Columbia. Gard. Chron. XXXi. 
108. 


(in oes psyoHRopHita Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ, Linn. 
OC 88. 
ENLANDIA LATIFOLIA Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 


XXi. 

Oncip1um Sis veroucuie b. f. Trop. America. Gard. Chron. 
xxiv. 166.0. crocopmicers Rehb. f. Mexico. Id. 360.— 0. 
Housscun Rehb. f. Ecuador. Id. 650.—0O. tupens Rehb. /. 
Id. xxiii. 756. 


Xili, 

Oncopa Lastocatyx Oliv. E. Tr rop. Africa. Ic. Pl. 1485. 

Oncostemum NERIIFOLIUM, O. pyaTycuapumM and O. venuxosum, all ot 
Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 421-22. 
LISMEMUS BROMOIDES Baker. Madachosad. Journ. Linn. Soe. 
Xxl, 452 

OrtHostpHon BREVICAULIS , O. emmevensis and O. secunprFtorvs, all 
of Baker. Madagascar. Journ Linn. Soe. xxi. 483. 

Panpanus CERATOPHORUS, P. CONCRETUS, P. ui cRocEPHALUS, P. OLIGO- 
cePHauus, all of Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 

~48 


Panicum sieruarrnyitum Trim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 272.— P. 
PasstrLora tancearta Mast. Costa Hica. —P. Lexwannt Mast. 


PeLiosanTHEs macrosreara Hance. ’ China. Journ. Bot. 328. 
‘NNISETUM TRITICOIDES Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn 
Xxi. 458. 
AS MIoRANTHA Baker. ee Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 408. 
Pescarorea Rucxertana Reh b. f. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 424. 
ILODENDRON Graziovit Hook. f. Brazil. a. Mag. t. 6813. 
Pu cake Trim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 267. 
us Haxcatensis Thw. MS. Trim] genet Uakgalensis). 
Gasiait Journ. Bot. 242. 
caPirata and P. catia Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxi. 446,--P. Warrersn Hance. China. Journ. Bot. 827. 
Prieua ont 4 Fawc. Timor. Nat. Wand. 516. : 
Bins suman Baker. Madagascar. Journ . Linn. Soc, xxl. 


Preorranravs cymosus Baker. Madagascar. Journ. ee Beg 
Xxi, 434._P. VERONICIFOLIUS Hance. China. Journ. bot. vi. 


Precrrowra Borvistana and P. suxirouia Baker. Madagascar. 


Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 411. 
PLEURO einen a Rehb. f. Brazil. Gard. Chron. xxiii. 582. 
Popocarpus mapacascarrensis Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. 


Soe. xxi. 447, — [P. INSIGNIS Houdl: Journ. Bot. 287. = P. 
ARGoTznia Hi. 


120 NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 


Poconta Barxyana Rechb. f. §. Africa. Gard. Chron. xxiii. 726.— 
P. Forpi Hance. China. Journ. Bot. 247.— P. PULCHELLA 
Hook. f. Hong Kong. Bot. Mag. 6851. 

PoLYGONUM ACAULE pe f. and P. perrusiitum Hook. f. Hima-— 
layas. Ic. Pl. 149 

PoLysTACHYA ANCEPS, ae A, P, VIRESCENS, all of Ridley. Mada- 
gascar. Jour fe Tint Boe x1. 473-74. 

PrasOPHYLLUM ssa =: iene P. pensum, P. ERIOCHILUM, 
P. FILIFORME, LAMINATUM, P. LONGISEPALUM, P. REFLEXUM, 
P. viRIDE, all of Fitzgerald, ‘from N. §. Wales. Journ. Bot. 


*PasuporvGENtA gs ogee PERAKIANA Scortechini. Malaya. 
Journ. Bot. 1 


PsoRALEA FOLIOSA woe RE. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 399. 

Psycnotria LucipuLA and P. mesentericarpa Baker. Madagascar. 
ourn. Linn. Soc. xxi. 412-18. 3 

eee (Ilecebracew). -- P. Bervort Oliv, sp. unica 
Aden 499. 


PreROSTYLIS CLAVIGERA Fitz N.S. Wales. Journ. Bot 
Ranuncunus CHICHENSIS Ball, Peruvian Andes. Journ. ame Soe. 
Xxil 


Rvueww Brevicautis Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 
428. 
SaccoLaBrum ceaLeste Rchb.f. Gard. Ginga Xxiii. vet 
ot. 3 


ormis Han 
ATYRIUM CALCEATUM Ridl, Maadinisoar,” Stir: Linn, Soc. xxi. 
 §20.— S. pesiz, 8. emarncipum, S. ocnRonevcum, all of Bolus. 
8. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 66, 67. 
ScHISMATOCLADA CONCINNA | arid S. visunnorpes Baker. Madagascat. 
ourn. Linn. Soc. xxi. 407. 
ScHISMATOGLOTTIS NEO-GUINEENSIS N. EF. Br. N. Guinea. Gard. 
ron. xxiv. 776. 


Scure nari spicata Trim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 241. 
Sepum anpinum Ball. Peruvian Andes ourn. Pann: Soc. xxii. 
88.—S. ronmosanum N.E. Br. Formosa. Gard. Chron. xxiv- 2 


Setaco THomsont Rolfe. HE. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 402. 

SeLenipepium Karerevrum N. E. Br. Gard. Chron. xxiv. 262. 

SENECIO CASAPALTENSIS sina ai Andes. Journ. Linn. Soe. 
xxli. 47. -— 5. purpur: 1s Baker, Fe oe ge Id. xxi. 
419.—S. seGMENTATUS ie Te. Pi. 148 

SHOREA BREVIPETIOLARIS Thw. MS. Eee iF aed S. Dern Thw. MS. 
[Trim.] . seein Journ. Bot. 2 . 

OLANUM MYoxoTRIcHUM Baker. Siviedeorh Journ. Linn. Soe. 

xxi. 4 


Sonera Guneratne! Trim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 208 
Sopusia stricta Baker. Madaga Journ. Linn. ss xxi. 427. 


asca 
Sparcaniuom NEGLEcTUM Beeby. England. Journ. Bot. 26, 198 
(t. 258). 


SpH#RaNTHUs GRAcILIS Oliv. E. Africa. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 400- 
SrrurHrota THomsont Oliv. - Africa. Journ. . Linn. Soe. xxi. 404. 


NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1885. 121 


TaRENNA MAcRocHLAMys Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xxi. 411. 
Temostacuyum ? macutatum T'rim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 273. 
ENARIS ROSTRATA NV. Ff. Br. Fanwibae® Gard. Chron. xxiv. 39. 
Tetymirra Forzesn Ridl. Timor. Nat. Wand. 518. 
Tuunsercia convonvutironia Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxi. 428. 
TRicHocLaDuS GRaNDIFLORUS Oliv. Transvaal. Ic. Pl. 1480 
Trirotiom CHICLENSE Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
XXli. 
TTA conspioua Trim. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 206. 
Se Sare Hanninctonranum Mast.* ([Oliv.]. Trop. Africa. 
484, 


COR Fo Poe ee Pee Ree ee ge ae ee 


Ic. Pl. 1 
URREA Watccicos Oliv. E. Trop. Africa. Ic. Pl. 1489. 
OPHORA FLAVA T'rim. eylon. a ourn. Bot. 239. 
gutaee CLUSIOIDES and U. icurouia Baker. Madagascar. 


ELINIA ROTUNDIFOLIA Oliv. E. ‘Africa. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 397. 
ourn. Linn. Soe. xxi. 440-41 : 
Urera spamropnyita Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soe. 
Xx1. 445, : 
Ureicunarna IBARENSIS Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
: XX1. 427, 
: Vacemum Forszsr Fawe.t Sumatra. Nat. Wand. 278 (fig.). — 
; V. trmorensE Fawe. Timor. Nat. Wand. 509. . 
Valais remota Ball. Peruvian Andes. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 


Vanttta Humenorm Rehb. f. Madagascar. Gard. Chron. xxiii. 726. 
VareRta nervosa Thw. MS. [Trim.]. Ceylon. Journ. Bot. 206. 


Vatica opscura Trim ylon, Journ 
2 VERNowta POLYTRICHOLEPIS, VY. ST erento V. stein THA, V. VOLUTA, 
lof Baker. Madagascar. Journ. Linn. Soc. 415-16. 
Visurx oRBEsu Fawe. Timor. Nat. Wand. 506. 


Viscum 4PopUM, V. cuNEIFOLIUM, V. GRANULOSUM, V. SOPH BOOM 
¥. Ravuna, V. RHYTIDOcaRPUM, V. TRACHYcARPUM, all of B. 


RI 
4yaureratum Kianocan Iichb. f. N. Granada. * Gard. Hivos, XXiv. 
391.—Z. rammarum Rehb. Id. 70. 


* {On referring to the ‘Enumeration of Plants collected by Mr. — a — 
(the Kilma. njaro Expedition, pp. 337—349) we find the name ps Cd gv the 
— ma Hanning tonianum Mast.,” without any description or e aenion a 
fe is a new one, or any reference to ‘Ic. Plant.,’ where is the only description 
. yet Published Ep. Journ. Bor. can 
: t (Mr. Fawcett (in Journ. Bot. 254) subsequently propo 
Dempoense for this a that of Forbesii being preoccupied (Hook. Ic. "PL 34). 
Mr. Baker, however dee umn, Linn. Soc. xx. 194), has identified V. Forbestt Ep. 
Wi - emirnense ongina! name : 
OURN. Bor.] 


so that Mr. Fawcett’s may stand.—. 


122 


NOTICES OF oo, 


monti ric quinoctialis a 
azonum ostiis ad Maris Pacifici pies mage necnon & 
eataractis fluminis Orinoci, cis equator adusque fluvit 


Huallaga cataractas, Lat. 6°-7° aeelis annis 1849-1862, 
decerpsit nuperiusque one Ricwarp SPRUCE. Trans. 
Bot. Soc. Edinb. Vol. Parts i. & ii. 1884-5.— 
Hepatice of the anon aad of the eres of Peru and 
Keuador. 8vo, pp. 588, tt. 22, cloth. Tribne 


We oo Dr. Spruce very rosie on the chai of 
a great work on the Amazonian Hepatice. Few who saw him on 


believed that he would live to arrange-and describe the unrivalled 


1849, and the last about the close of 1862. His return to Englan 

was delayed until May Ist, 1864. For the last two years he 
eae ag on i> a coast of Pern ae with dysentery, and 
in this n not a single Hepatic was seen. We may remim our 


s mark as one of the most promising bryologists “ a day: 
i ale,” 


We can imagine with what visagiie | the friends of that 

Greville, Sir W. ‘Heakie, Dr. Taylor, and _ Wilson—now no eee 
—would have welcomed the work before us 

The author defines 577 Sra of ‘equatorial American Hepatice, 
e majority new to science, and all but some half-dozen species 
Re by himself. Of. these species, 283 are Jubulee, 274 
ermannie@, and 22 Marchantiacee. They are arrange ed under 
fifty. -one genera, whereof —_ are deo e i ages Cheetocolea 


unaccu ies our - ears, t the iltastentiona, ‘which are 

carefully lithographea by Carter, an drawings by Dr. Braithwaite, 

sq. (the latter excellent), will’; — the student 
to aeeteet the meaning of the author. 


. 


HEPATION AMAZONICH ET ANDINE. 128 


“al Since no distribution of duplicates has yet been made of the new 
pecies, it would be premature to discuss them: We propose, there- 


of Vis 


MGs. eS Long years ago I pointed out to the late Dr. 
sited of Dunkerron, how inconvenient it was to find authors 
Peaking of dorsal ferns—meaning thereby ferns which bore their 

Oo k 


t on 
. ‘oe of a Jungermannia, or of the dorsal lobe of the leaf, 
‘You me meant the upper surface, or upper lobe. He replied, 
called 7 tly complain of this ambiguity, and the man who first 
ee vs € stipules belly-bands (amphigastria) has much to answer 
De oun author appears to be as fond of notes as the lamented 
uimey, and those on the distribution and affinities of species, 
ib d 


of th ; d its primary angles at the axis, or fold, 
tHe three complicate flower-leaves; hence its trigonous form, 


‘Sgr there are only two such leaves, and they are pressed together 
y their faces, a complanate perianth results, at right angles to fant 
i er 


trigonous, with the third angle in front, as we see 16 in Lophocolea ; 
folde may still be complanate and ancipitous, if the underleaf be 
Olded along the middle,” as in Leioscy 


phus. 
Our concluding extract shall be morphological. Under Plagio- 
Pro ‘ » m e 
fr surface 


¢ 
chila (pp. 452-8) we find the following notes:—‘ 


indicate a degree 
mai 


ers that survive start off on a se 


124 SHORT NOTICES. 


assume the normal foliage of the species . Fort ago, 
in the ‘ Phytologist’ for Feb., 1845, ii. 85, 1 ‘described and Edoured the 
way Herberta adunca Dicks. . . . . puts forth minute panonne 


Frullania. 
In lain. we would call attention to the fact that a limited 
ber of copies have been assigned to the author. These oan. 
been bound in cloth, and may be obtained from Messrs. Triibne 
B. Cipameroe 


Tue results of the eeabaseh Forestry Exhibition of 1884 have 
been published in a handsome volume of nearly 600 pages, entitled 
‘ Forestry and Pevect Prcieets: (Edinburgh, Dongle ), and edited 
by Messrs. John Rattray and H.R. Mill. As is to be expected, the 
essays bear rather on the economical than on the botanical aspect 
of the subject; some seem of especial valne, such as the one on 
* Lacquer,” by Hikorokuro Yoshida, Chemist to the Imperial 


and of branches, and other ae of forest- produce, with the 
view = shing waste,” is suggestive and practical. 


. Boyavia has published an teres little book on 
‘fhe Future of the Date Palm in Indi ’ (Caleutta, Thacker & Co. 
8vo, pp. 118), which is well — the attention of ntl a a8 
anxious to develop the resources o Indian Em 
long been convinced that ‘of all Ae trees which ite been ee 
in India, either for fuel or as a help in times of famine, the date 
offered the most advantage,” and having superintended its culti- 
vation in the Lucknow Horticultural Gardens, the author considers 
it advisable to bring together the results of his own observations, 
supplemented by others from different and trustworthy sources 
- The little work is full of interesting and often out-of-the-way matter, 
and deserves the attention of practical men. 


New Booxs.—Sm Joun Lussoox, Pag tmas sors and Leaves’ 
Macmillan, 4s. 6d.: 8vo, pp. xv. 147: 95¢ uts). — W. Banpey 
‘Epilobinm genus a cl. Ch. Cuisin illustratum auspice William 
Barbey’ (Lausanne, Bridel: 4to, tt. 24).--G. Bouver, ‘ Cata- 
logue Raisonné des plantes utiles - soe sed de la Flore de 
Maine-et-Loire’ (Angers, Germain: pp. xvi. 240). — W. 
Miter, ‘Worterbuch der Bacterien “Kunde (Stuttgart, Hnke; 


microrganismi’ (Florence, Loescher : ‘ato. pp. xxx. 374, tt. cel — 
K. D. pet Castix10, ‘ Ilustrationes Flore Insularum Maris Pac 
(Paris, Masson: 4to, fasc. i. pp. 32, tt. x.).—R. Kinston, ‘ataogne 
of the a Plants in the British Museum’ (London: 


125 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
a Naturalist. — EK. L. Sturtevant, ‘A study of Garden 
tuc "te 


Centralblatt (Nos. 9-11). —M. Dalitzsch, ‘ Beitrage zur 
No. 10) 


Kenninis der Blattanatomie der Aroideen.’ — (No . SS. Korz- 
sky, ‘ Notiz iiber reser inka tenuilobum. 
Bot. Gazette (Feb.). — F. L. Scribner, ‘ Some a, Grasses’ 
plate). — A. P. Morgan, ‘ Life and labours of pions es 3 
ard, ‘Notes on the Flora of Eastern Virgini wins 


co thalictroides.’ — (March). D. H. Caanyibill -Develop- 
ment of root in Botrychium ter —s (1 jens.” as C. Parry, ‘On 
Eriogonea.’ — J. N. Rose, ‘ Mildews of Indian 

Bot. Zeitung (Feb. 19, 26). — ye Meyer, ‘Bildung der Starke- 
kérner in den Laubblattern aus Auckerarten, Mannit & Glycerin.’ 

— (Feb. 26). KE. Laurent, ‘ Starke ebildung aus Glycerin.’ — A. 
Buchinger, ‘ Coronilla scorpioides. ’—(March 5, 12,19). J. 7: Rett ke, 
‘ Photometrische bpp i Sg iiber die Absorption des Lichtes 
in den Assimilationsorganen 


Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Feb.). — —L.H. Sasa ‘ : seepage” of 
testa of several L Leguminous seeds’ (2 plates). — G. Vasey, ‘ New 
American Grasses’ (Panicum Nealleyt, Imperata ineilia Aristida 
arizonica, A. Havardii, A. Orcuttiuna, spp. nn. ). — (Ma rch). J. 8. 


Newberry, « Flora of the Amboy Clays.’ — N. L. Bri tton, * Quercus 
enbergii 


“gs (Feb, 11, = — A. Geheeb, ‘ Vier Tage auf aero und 
Aeds.’ . Roll, ‘ Zur Systematik der Torfmoose.’ Ge . 21). 
Ke 


Blatter ’ (1 plate). — J. Miiller, ‘ Lichenologische Beitrage.’ 

Gardeners’ Chronicle (Feb. Sar — W. B. Hemsley, ‘ Concerning 
Figs.’—(March 6). R.A. Rolfe, ‘ Flowers and Insects.’—Kalanchoe 
carnea N. Ki. Br., sp. n. ~ Obituary of E. Morren ADOC. 2, 1833—-Feb. 

» 1886). — W. G. Smi . ‘Corn Mildew an berry ae 
(figs, 58-60). — (March 20). N. HK. Brown, Tene anthemum 
Jiciforme’ (fig. 78).— Proliferation in Trichomanes (fig. 73). —W. - 
woes ‘A ~ disease of crams ak (figs. 74-78). — G. Sym 

es 

a. Navurate —J.E. Bagnall, ‘ Notes on the Anker Valley 
and its = 

est. Bee Zeitschrift. — R. v. Wettstein, ‘ Neue Pilze aus 
Nieder- Geiser > (Usti Hage Primula, Cantharellus gregarius, 
Spp. nn.).—_ EK. Woloszezuk, ‘ Salix scrobigera Bet ge x gr 7 - 
folia).’ — B. Formanek, ‘ Malvische Rosen orbas, * esa 
Verbreitung & Teratologie von Typha & Sparen ine: 
Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinbargh (vol. xvi. ¥*- ae so ’ red 
cases of Epiphytism among Alge.’ — Id., ‘ Ev Siation Oxygen 


126 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 


Sea-weeds.’—D. Landsborough, ‘ Australian and N. Zealand plants 
grown in Arran.’ — W. Craig, ‘ Excursion of Scottish Alpine Bot. 
Club to Teesdale in 1884.’ — J. Buchanan, ‘ Vegetation and vege- 
table products of Blantyre and Zourba districts of Africa.’ —J. 
Lowe, ‘ Asplenium germanicum.’ — A. Dickson, ‘ Development of 
bifoliar spurs into ordinary buds in Pinus sylvestris.’ 


LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 


February 18,1886.—Prof. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., in the chair. 
—Prof. H. Macaulay Posnett, of New Zealand, was elected a Fellow 
of the Society.—There was shown for Mr. oshua over 130 
specimens of lichens, collected and preserved by Mr..G. Hart, 
of Gordon Town, Jamaica, and determined by Dr. J. Miiller (Arg.), 
of Geneva; many of these were rare and of interest. Micro- 


Coca in fruit.— Mr. J. Ball read a paper ‘On the Botany of 
Western South America.” In his introduction he deals with the 
climatal relations of the western seaboard of that Co 


f des : 
observed that where fogs rest in winter, even in the so-called 
rainless zone of Peru and Chili, considerable vegetation exists, this 
however, ceasing abruptly outside the limit of the cloud. Southern 
ili is influenced by warm westerly winds, and at Concepcion and 


uniformly to Cape Horn. Indeed, the dominant beech forests, 
abundance of delicate ferns, title the 


LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 127 


in Columbia. He infers that the vast region including the warm 


in various parts of the same region, a few forms so distinct as to 
be ranked as separate genera, mostly represented by one or very 


broad sense it may be said that the most natural divisions of the 
ema of the earth are wide areas of low country, over which, 
aa : : lie 


and of Lota in Chili; and lastly, briefly refers to his collections in 

the channels of Western Patagonia and Straits of Magellan. 
March 4. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart. F.R.S., President, in the 
chair. — Messrs. Gilbert CG. Bourne, W. H. Cattell, and Thomas 
A. Cotton, were elected Fellows of the Society. —There was exhibited 
5 olume of water-colour drawings of British 


er.—A paper was read by Mr. George Murray, ‘‘On a New Species 
of Rhipilia (R. Andersoni) from the Mergui Archipelago.” The 

en i i Dr. John n, F.L.S. 
(superintendent of the Calcutta Museum), in 1882, and recently 
Presented to the British Museum. It was found growing on mud- 
flats in King’s Island Bay. The genus Rhipilia was established by 
Kiitznig for the reception of two species, R. tomentosa and R. longi- 
caulis, collected by Jorden in the Antilles. To these Prof. Dickie 
added hi. Rawsoni, from Barbadoes. The new species, R. A mi, 
differs from R. tomentosa and R. longicaulis in the frond being 
completely sessile on the mass of rhizoids, and from R. Rawsoni in 
the sessile frond being entire. A hitherto unidentified, injured, 

é t 


: n two new species of Lentinus, one — 
stowing on a large Sclerotium.’” The one specially referred to 
in the title (L. scleroticola) comes from Samoa, where it was 
Collected by the Rev. 8. J. Whitmee. Its mycelium inhabits the 
tissue of the large Sclerotium, and is supposed by the author to be 
Perennial within it, giving rise to guecessive crops of Lentinus 

Under suitable circumstances. The author compares it with the 
Lentium Tuber regium Fr., of Amboina, the original account of 
_ Which is to be found in Rumphius’s ‘ Herbarium Amboinense.’— 


pe 


128 "OBITUARY NOTICE OF DR. HANNINGTON. 
J. G. Baker then orally gave the gist of a communication 


Mr. 
‘©On a Collection of Ferns made in North Borneo by the Bishop 
of Singapore and Sarawak.” 


OBITUARY. 


We fear that the accuracy "3 the report of the murder of the 
Rey. James Hannineron, D.D., F.L.8., Bishop of East Equatorial 
: ica, can no longer be Actin, By his death we have lost an 

enthusiastic botanist, who was well acquainted with the flora of 
his native country, cee ia. as far as his limited opportunities 
permitted, contributed t r knowledge of the flora of Tropical 
Africa. In 1882 he ty a mission party across the Continent, and 
though he reached Lake Victoria Nyanza, he had suffered so much 


reluctantly compelled to retrace his steps to the coast and return 


a 
to England. He brought with him a small pat abr of plants, — 
id i 


in connection with two of them his name will remain associated 


restored that his medical advisers assured him that he might return 
ce) ica without any special anxiety as to the climate. He was 
consecrated a Bishop of the Church of England, and shortly after- 
wards he returned to Africa, ae on his way Palestine or 


plants. He sent home a small collection of aosses which are in 
the hands of his friend Mr. Mitten to work o In his expedition 
to Kilimanjaro he collected some plants, which ‘the rain afterwards 
soaked and destroyed. He was delighted to meet on the moun 

with Sibthorpia europea and Arthraabion ebracteatum. He deter- 
mined that there were certainly two entirely distinct species of 
Hydnora in the district in which he travelled; perhaps greet e and 
other plants ~_ yet _ Englan, ore He resolved to visit the 


aes the King in his = and the missionaries failed to 
convince him to the contrary. The King sent messengers to arrest 
the bishop ; and after — asthma a prisoner for eight — he 
y order of Mwanga, murdered on October 30th, w 
wort party, except hae . = porters, who have since easlied 
Mombasa and co: ed sad story. W. CarruTHERs. 


— 


129 


NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI:—Pazr III. 
By W. B. Grove, B.A. 
(Puates 266 & 267). 


HE paper on which the following list is founded was read 
Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, 
i a 


for his ever ready and kindl y help in answering all the questions on 
the a of species Thich I have put to him.t 
aricus (Myc.) — Buckn. Fung. Brist. iv. 2, t. i. f. 2 
ase: Cooke, Illustr. t. 2 

On dead — —_— ties Park (Wk.), June. Agreeing with 
Bucknall’s fj 

ead « atro-rufus Scheff. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 800. 

Pileus 1 in. ac cross, subumbonate, Siti bas fleshy, convex, 

h 


eg pee E> lei soe SNR CaS SUE are Wa Oa as lage eer SMe aE ee SS! -) pO Se 
a i 
oO 
<< H 
ag 
fae] 


then tan exed, ascending, slightly sinuate, not 
crowded, purplish umber ; edge white, crenulate. Spores elliptic, 
Somewhat acute, dark le-brown, 12-15 6 3 cys 


numerous. Stem 24 in. x 4 in., white, shining, with a 
purplish tinge, equal, smooth, fibrilloso-pruinose above, a few 
fibrous roots at base. 
ongst =~ Sutton (Wk.), December. The description given 

above was drawn up from some specimens w ich Dr. Cooke refers 

this eter fad figures in the ‘ Thcaxationk pl. 571. They 
m Fries’s description in a few eee mainly in ft. 
_— of the gills, and are probably distinct 


Mucor racemosus Fres. Beitr. p. 12, t. 1, f. 24-81 (1850); 
Sue ih i, 488 (1878); Bainier, Mudee. pp. 17-20, t. i. f. 6-11 
Stem 5-10 mm. high, fold with long branches, or racemose 
with jet short patent scattered branches ; each branch and stem 
terminated in a single small globular sporange, 30-80 » diam 
Which is at first inpleahine then yellow, then rusty sala, and 
finally brownish ey. Sporangial membrane sige lowish, 


casionally roundish, with remains of sporange at base. Sp 
splerca, ra a oval, byses 7-11 » diam., but occasionally (in 
rangia) as low 


oe soins starchy eae ea Birmingham, with M. Mucedo. 
Y distinguished by its sparsely AE, stem and rusty 
Py Geers 


A small number of dried specimens are being prepared for publication, 
Under the title « Fungi Bavaria Selecti,” in half-centu: Jaga! no species 0 
be i Serted except some pas in this series es of Pa oT or : 


130 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 


sporangia. Bainier figures echinulate zygospores, 73-84 ps diam. 
No doubt often found, but confounded with M. ram nie Bull. 
owing to the meagre dese cription, in the ‘Handbook,’ of the latter, 
which is represented by Bulliard with numerous panicled branches. 


76. Mortierella polycephala Coemans, Hyph. Nouv. (1863); Van 
Tiegh. Rech. sur les Mue. p. 98 seqq. t. 24, f. 80-89 (1873); Bainier, 
Mucor. p. 108-4 (1882). — M. erystallina Harz, Neue Hyph. p. 58, 
1.1.3 Ue 871 

Stems in Nuss white scattered tufts of 20 or more, erect, 
straight, perfectly hyaline and smooth, not granular, swollen below, 
attenuated and on above, 950. 400 » high, terminated m @ 

single sporange, about 40 » diam. ; a little ‘bale the sporange are 

2-4 (rarely 5 or 6) one: Spatent branches, sometimes subverticillate 
or opposite, more often scattered, but not remote; branches pes 
cylindric-subulate, sporangia smaller than terinasial one. Sport 
subspherical, rather angular at times, perfectly hyaline, 10-12 ; 
diam., 50-80 in a sporange. 

On Hypnum, dung, &c., Edgbaston (Wk.), Oct. At the base 
and on the moss were numerous whitish yellow ‘ chlamydospores,” 
spherical, covered with short blunt spines, supported on very short 
or longer spies eee 20-21 p diam. = probably Sepedonium 
mucorinum Harz (l.¢. p. 23). 


7. Gymnoascus oe eas Tiegh., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. (1877) 3 
Winter, Pilze, ii. 16 ae 

Eo oe " bro ad, at first bearing conidia; hyph# 

irregularly joes entangled, having thin walls covered with 

nD 


diam. Every part of the pion is of a brigh ab -wax red 
colour. 

On dog’s dung, Hereford,* Dec. to Mare ae asci are at first 
concealed by the tufts of hyphe, but at nah exposed. 

78. Gymnoascus Reesii Baranetzky, Bot. Zeit. hu 2); Winter, 
Pilze, ii. 15 (1 

This is similar to the preceding, except in colour, and has 

i and sporidia. I include it here with — 
0 


an. 
walls, smooth outside, but the Ege contour wavy, W! with 
numerous — ; the asci roundish, 7-9 » diam.; the sporidia 
discoid, 4 » diam., and of a pale brown Soe 
On dog’s dung, Hereford, Dec. With the preceding. 


__ _* This and the other fungi (except one) mentioned i _ ov paper from Here- 

_ ford grew on a portion of dung which I picked up there during the Fungus 
Foray, 1885, — on my return kept moist under a glass anade. It is wor of 

note that none of them appeared until the matrix had been so preserved for 
about two secatioes i 


Ei 


NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 131 


79. Valsa cincta Fr. 8. V. 8. p. 411 (1849).—Spheria cincta Fr. 
8. M. ii. 887 (1822)—non V. cincta Currey. 

Stroma rather large ani -8 mm. diam.), attenuated from an oval 
base into a roundish or more often elliptic disc, pustulate and 


to the outer bark, usually surrounded (when seen in horizontal 
a h st 


é€ or more often brownish, s amie by the projecting 
globose largish black ostiola, which are pierced by a conspicuous 
pore; asci clavate or oblong, attenuated are 8-spore 0-8 
x ; Sporidia biseriate, large, allantiform, hyaline, rounded 
at each a 14-26 p x 4-5 
On branches of damson, Sutton Coldfield (Wk.), Feb. This is 
not the oe on Prunus domestica, ‘tigsk aaa by Fekl. (Symb. M. 


*Lentomita ampullasca mihi, Sci. Gossip, p. 76, f. 48-53 (1886).— 
ampullasca Cooke, Handbk. p. 876, fig. 895 (1871). — 
Ceratostomella ampullasca Sace. Syll. i. 409 (1882). 


‘are tristichous, oblong-fusiform, somewhat curved, appendiculate at 


¢o: 
Mynx oe of ascus crenately bilobed within. Sporidia 12-5- 
bx at 


Inner surface of barb of Acer pseudo-platanus, Sutton Cold- 
fla (Wk. ), Dec. to Feb. This is certainly the fully-developed form 
ri Cooke’s species, the form of the asci being exactly as in his 


Nore 
the Lentomita was and f till e valsoid 

. growing, and found specimens still mo 
in character, but having the perithecia and sporidia in all pberaare 
identical with those of the scattered form. As is suggested to me 


_ I first described are Diaporthe Hystricula 8. et Speg. I have seen 
oe > Sgmegmeg of these, but, if so, the synonymy would be as 


Diay porthe Hystriz Sace. Fung. Ven. iv. 6 (1875). 
Forma Rot :—Sphe e@ria Huswia Tode, Fung. Meck. ii. 58, f. 127 
(791), — Spheria stylophora B. & Br. Ann. N. H. No. sg 4, 17; 
29 (1861).—Lentomita stylophora Sacc. Syll. i i. 586 (1882). 

orma subsparsa :—Spharia ampullasca Cke. Hndb. p. 876, f. 395 
Catt | ES ae Bp casio S. et Sp. Mich. i. 392 (1878).— 
e a Sace. phil i. 409 (1882). — Lentomita 

(1886). ; 


182 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 


— Eriospheria inzequalis, sp. (?) n.—E. peritheciis ovoideis, 
- 150 » diam., dense confertis, Seistotnana tg parte — pilis 


ee Op <n cet basi attenuatis et tum 70-80 p ng 
3-4 ws crass.; sporidiis monostichis, oblongis, 7-8 pe xX 24 
sequalibus, hyalinis, 2-3-guttulatis, maturis tenuiter 1- septatis, 
loculo superiori ovoideo 1-guttulato, inferiori angustiori at longiori, 
_ conico-attenuato, 2-guttulato, loculis demum facile secedentibus. 
igno putri, una cum Gonytricho awe Nees, ‘‘ Barnt Green 
(Ws.), Aug. Spherie pilose Cke. Handb k. p. 860, manifeste affinis, 
et teste icone Curreiana (Linn. Trans. t. 57, f. 21) vix nisi sporidiis 
inequalibus differens. Cum Trichospheria pilosa Sace, Syll. i. 452, 
comparanda, et presertim cum ejusdem var. nitidale. (ibid. 2. 
Add. xxxiv.), que probabiliter status juniores viderentur. £, in- 
equalis saltem varietas esse alterius-utrius — etur. 
81. Melanomma longicolle Sacc. Fun . Noy. iii. 5 (18 )i 
Enng. Ital. 298 £4 1878); Mich. i. 449 eT) t ii. 417 (4882)' ee 


s, fili 
20 » x 7-TE p, strai ght or ralighly curved, 3-septate, saree con- 
stritod 4-cuttulate, ane oli 
ark of Acer Seiedeiatas sey Coldfield (Wk.), Feb. 
The parithocip are at first hidden, then emergent, and then sur- 
rounded at the base by the laciniw of the bark, vhacidinn ike 


longer than the asci. Sporidia, ae young, hyaline and uni- 
septate, with two guttule in each loculus: sometimes they become 
coloured whilst still only uniseptate, aosiel nine 8-septate and still 
hyaline. The guttule ultimately disapp 
82. Sporormia brassicz, sp. n oe peritheciis gregariis, 
magnis, usque ad 4 mm. diam., globosis, atris, levibus, nitidis, : 
ostiolo minute papillato obsoleto, inter fibras nidulantibus, demum 
pene superficialibus; ascis subfasciculatis, aparaphysatis, clavatis, 
0-60 » x 15-18 p (part. sporif.), infra in‘ stipitem filiformem™ 
: m 


, i 
oribus —— v, oblongis, 8-10 yu long., difficile mere 
In rassice olerace eens: Streetly (St.), Oct 
Asci et perithee cia iis S. oe similia, ¢ illi cum sporidiis fere 
duplo minores. (Tab. 66, fig. i 
3s. a vipetia (Ni eu) Rise Syll. i. 230 (1888) ; , 
Gnomonia ri i Neu. Kern. 47 Ger), 


NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 138 


Perithecia scattered, immersed beneath the cuticle, afterwards 

emerging, globular, somewha depressed, at length collapsing, 

black, smooth, shining, prolonged into a subulate or cylindrica 

beak, a little longer than the perithecium, subpellucid at apex. 

_ clavato-fusiform, 25-32 x 5-6 yw, 8-spored; sporidia dis- 
x 2 


8. 
he lower part of stems of Hpilobium hirsutum, standing in 
water, Harborne Ws.), Nov. The original specimens of — 
had 4-spored asci, but in other respects istily resembled min 


5. Gibberella ¢ yanogena Sace. Syll. ee: ll. 555 (18 a 
Spharia eyanogena Desm. Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 352 (1848).—Botryo- 
spheria ¢ cyanogena *Nicsal. Peo p. 47 t (1878 


lapsing at the conical obtuse apex and anaes: plicate and 
errucose, dirty amethyst-blue; asci clavate, obtuse and rounded 


end (the nucleus ve ery pale violet), 3- bra septa Peer 

25-32 /; mycelium branched, effused, cru ou yet 

lowish ; conidia ne tess solitary, sometimes shitaeed ku 
iform, apiculate, 1-8 (more rarely 5) a dpi: 

rotting stems of cabbage, Ireland (H. W. Lett) 


a Nectriella chrysites Sace. Mich. i. 278 (1878); ; Syl. ii. 450 
(1883), —Nectria chrysites West. 

On twigs and small branches of ash, Sonnuee (Wk.), April. 
It is not without a little uncertainty that I r my specimens to 
this Species, since the asci were inrpertacthy. pate fc But the 

habitat, the form of the perithecia, the rich golden colour of the 
tissues, and a few unseptate free spores found in each perithecium 


€rumpent clusters of 4-16, were globose or more often pyriform, 
golden, then br cg deeply umbilicate at the apex, about 250 u 
om ; asci clavate, young. 


: trema angustilabrum Sace. Mich. i. 888; Fung. It. 238 
: aera) Sri ii, 687 (1883).— Topeens ejnairan B. & Br. ; 
dbk. 50. 


p. P = 
On nettle. -stem, Middleton (Wk.), April. See «Science Gossip, 
scan uP. Aas figs. 81-4, where it is shown that Lophiostoma sex- 
ooke (ibid.) is identical with this species. Lophiotrema 
serop Indaria (Peck) appears to be closely similar, but smaller. 


gel: Niptera ee begs Myce. Ven. Spec. p. a t. xvi. f. 3-6 
(1878) ; ; Fung. Ven. Nov. iv. 33 (status spermogonicus 

dead eg Sateen Coldfield (Wk.), Sept. Ress aes 3 

Of the large forms of Niptera cinerea Fckl., from which, accor peptic 

W. Phillips, it is not really disunet. I am not quite : 

*Pinion. The © denply-obet ae og that ee = 7 


134 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 


the greyish yellow subsuleate disc I have never seen in any speci 
men of the ya species, at any rate so strongly marked. The 
size, reaching 4-5 mm., was also a pied feature. 

87. ne nectrioides Phill. i 

On cones of Pinus sylvestris, Bacar Green (Ws.), Sept. 

AY ted P pyr (B. & oe — Stictis lecanora S. et K:, var. pyr 


‘ Grevillea 
On deka Weesihes of. pea: -tree, Sutton Coldfield (Wk.), Dee. to 
Mr. W. Phillips considers my specimens to be identical with 


Fe 

this species, 
88. Phyllosticta stephanoti, sp. n. — P. maculis rotundatis 

Vv. irregularibus, albidis, linea angusta atro- fusca cinetis ; peritheciis 

epiphyllis, wagers bese sparsis, atts, sis sniper om depressis, papil- 

latis, } mm. diam., ostiolo epide m perforante; sporulis ob- 

he utrinque rotundatis, 12- 16 ~ . oe 5p, hyalinis. (Tab. 266, 


oliis Stephanoti, “Sutton Coldfield” (Wk.). Apr. A Phoma 
suliaear West. differt peritheciis sporulisque multo majoribus. 


89. Phoma cert Sace Jie at 105 (1884). — Spharia — 
dlicson Walz l. Crypt. p. 777 (1883) 
rithecia dolicate rounded, at tee liad pale translucent- 
brown, shining through the epidermis, becoming black, bursting 
a 


90. Phoma hysterella Sacc. Mich. ii. 275 nisi): syll. iii. 102 
(1884). 
Perithecia be ached here and there a few, linearly aggre- 
gated, surrounded by the epide ermis, which is split in Hysteriwm 
china. mae papilatats. black, $ mm. diam.; sporules obovate, 
 X 7 p, slightly acute at bass: with a large guttula (several, 
Sace.), hyalin 
On dead ta feed of Taxus baccata, Hampton-in-Arden (Wk.), Aug: 
91. Phoma eens Sace. Syll. iii. me i) — Spharopsis 
tlicicola C. et EH. Gre V. vi. 3, t. 96, p. 28 (18 
Perithesia amphige enous, gregarious, slobitar , black, shining, 
eosin epidermis laciniate. Sporules Weta “hyaline, 9-12 » 


x ps 

On holly-leaves, Hampton-in-Arden (Wk.), Aug. Distinguished 
from P. ilicis Desm. (besides the ga ‘by the fact that the ep | 
dermis is split by the erumpent perithecia, whereas in the latter 
the epidermis is merely pierced by the ostiolum 

oma lineolata tesa Not. Ann. Sci. Nat. xvi. 298 (1851); 
Sace. sll ili. 150 (1884 
Perithecia innato-erum t, black, small, connate in short lines 

pierced, at length anecoandeas by the split epidermis ; ; nucleus white ; ; 
sport rules ovoid or oblong, expelled in a cirrus, 5-7 » long, on short 


On larch-cones, Hampton-in-Arden (Wk.), Aug. 


{ 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 185 


93. Phoma pithyophila wees: eer 2 ae (1884).— Spheronema 
pithyophilum Corda, Ie. iv. 41, 40). 


one side, and sometimes, but rarely, as guttule ; ber in an 
oblong ays or ee cirrus, which is whitish or yellow. Sporules 
~9 


a pi ine- -cones, King’s Norton (Ws.), Aug. My fats Hi 
agreed with Corda’s figure, but occurred on the cones, not, like his 
on the leaves of Pinus : sylvestris. 


94, i sige inophila Sace. Syll. ef 175 (1884). — Phoma 
inophila ‘Bok (1853) ; ee Handbk. 

Var. Psrupo-piarant mihi. — A. ariel — gregariis v. 
paucis connatis, iehionee 3 variis, precipue mee vix v. distincte 
Papillatis, atris, rugosis, 80-160 mm. diam., rae cinerascenti- 
dealbatas solutas sericeo-nitidulas Adee tandem superficiali- 

8, collabescentibus, poro pertusis ; sporulis oblongis v. ovoideis, 


Me Vv. non-guttulatis, singulis hyalinis, coacervatis luteolis, 4-5 w 
Ee i 


runcis Aceris pseudo-platani decorticatis, ‘Sutton Coldfield” 
(Wk) ), 3 an.—March. A typo sporulis 2-3- ed longioribus distincta 


95. Coniothyrium rostella dae sp. n. — OC. peritheciis — 
bosis rostello brevi cylindrico instructis, v. ovoideis rostro confluente, 
mm. dia It., super ficialibas, atris, rugulosis, sparsis 
Y. subinde duobus semiconnatis; contextu sub microscopio paren- 
chymatico, olivaceo, subpellucido ; ; speras numerosis, ovoideis v. 
tubglobosis, olivaceis, 4 p x 23-8. (Tab. 266, 
g riori squamarum superficie conorum "Pini casei 
King’s Norton ” (Ws.), Aug. CC, dispersello affine, at rostro mani 
festo distinct 


96. Die heder@ Fckl. Symb. Mye. p. 895, t. ii. f. 35 seoted 
ee. Syl iii, 844 (1884). 


ee 
yee 
B 


ened. “et opine rounded at each end, at first continous, 
hyaline, with 1 or 2 guttule, then arecee fare the septum o 
arcuate, -— ae the spore unequally, at length dusky olive, 


On fone of ivy, King’s at Boke .), Aug. Externally 
Des 


97. Staganospora ea sp. n. — 8S. peritheciis byecehoes 
Sparsis vy. subinde binis-ternis congregatis, atris, globoso-lenticulari 
bus, epidermide poro exiguo pertusa velatis ; sporulis exiguis, 


i: NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 


cylindraceo-fusoideis, utrinque subacutis, 8-septatis, hyalinis v. 
coacervatis dilutissime olivaceis, 14-17 (vel usque ad 20 p) x 2-3p. 
(Tab. 266, fig. 
n foliis Ilicis ‘Aquifolii, ‘**Warley Woods ” (St.), April. . 

98. Rhabdospora inequalis Sacc. Syl. iii. 580 (1884). — Septoria 
inagualis Sace. et Roum. Reliq. Lib. iv. No. 156, t. xliv. f. 80 (1884). 
Perith 


ey td Tm ye 


ecia densely gregarious, iaatlehos ent, depressed- 
globose, extremel equal, scarcely gor black, } mm. diam.; 
p Sietas fusoid, acute ach end, curved one hyaline, 


On smooth bark of Sorbus Aucuparia, Harborne (Ws.), March. 
My specimens had the perithecia somewhat shining, but varying 
much in size and form, slightly papillate or not at all; the sporales 


or subramose at the base, often swollen in the middle, averaging 
double the = of the sporules or more. 


99. Rhabdospora pleosporoides Sacc. Syll. iii. 588 (1884).— 
—— ?) pleosporoides Sacc. Mich. i. 128 (1878). 

Spots none; perithecia scattered, veiled by the bese 
5 Cao Pea, 4mm. diam.; ostiolum short, papillate; sporules 
filiform, straight or curved, 88-50 » x 1-14 p, continuous, obsoletely 
guttulate, hyaline. 

On old ie ems of Rumex Acetosa an nests of terns, Farne Islands, : 

n the collection of Mr. R. W. Chase, of Birmingham. The perl- 2 
hada resemble in size and habit Soe of Pleospora herbarum. 


COLLONEMA, gen. nov.* 


Genus e Spheroideis scolecosporis. Perithecia cabetobden 
subearbonacea, superficialia. Sporule longs, cylindrice v. fusoidex, 
continu: yaline. 
Apo spheria scolecospora. Eodem sunt ——— Spheria 
ee A. et 8., et oe schizothecioides Preu 
. Collonema papillat sp. n. — C. peri ec minutis, 
Seo atris, globosis v. bowel basi ligno insculptis, dein 
liberis, sursum in papillam conicam pulchram poro exiguo pertusam 
attenuatis, rugosis, ‘08-13 mm nucle 
conglutinato ; cirro longissimo, tenuis ssimo, filiformi; spo 
fusoideis, utrinque longe attenuatis, — curvulis, € eguttu- 
latis, h yalinis, 18-19 pw x 2h p. (Tab. 266, fi 
corticis Aceris pseudo-plat fant pagina interi atte « Sutton Cold- : 
field” (Wk.), Dee.—Jan., socio Graphio aoe Cord. Sporule Z 
aqua diu suffusa difficillime tamen solu 4 
DeEscrrerion or Prates. 
Tan. — Sporsemia brassiet, unusually short-stemmed ascus X 500; 


a, free sporidia x 500. oniothyrium rostellatum, perithecium x 100; eon = 
Cee Ee b, spon aaa. 3. Phyjilosticta + stephanoti 


= * Kéane, gine, and ripe, a thread. 


GEORGE JACKSON, F.L.S. 187 


3 


poe MEO ee 


sospora, a X ; b, conidium Se 1000; c, germinating conidium x 
Dactylella fusiformis, conidia x 500. 11. Bentsty indrioe, chetospira x 150; 
a, conidia x 500. 12. Se coteylndram pallidum 750. 


x . 
um, = unusually Re nched stems x 500; b attached conidium x 500; ¢, 
conidium 000. Dactylosporium brevipes x 8 ypha and conidia 
Pe Dendrodochium citrir num, a, vertical spies x 50; b, hyphe x 1000; 
¢, conidia x 1000. 
(To be continued.) 


GEORGE JACKSON, F.L.S. 
By James —— F.L.S. 


may be worth 1 none that short it biographies of botanists are often 


eners panes Je thes ono 
, So named by ee r. Robert Brown, in memory of the 
oo Mr. aon oe Jackson, F.L.S., a man of the most excellent and 
amiable character, devoted to the science of botany, to which, under 
A am 


ena Sout S phere es as 5 new genu us 0 

, inous named Ormosia. y uscripts oraee 
his learning at scientific skill remained in the hands of Mr. 
Lambert. Mr. Jackson died of a Téth in Bt. e Jan. 12, singe 


sy 
We. 
Be 
5 


nd, Mary-le-bone. He . 
Species [of Jacksonia] are defined in an on published a sheet of the 
third volume of the Hortus Kewensis, kindly communicated to us by 
Mr. Brown, that the memory o ee _ iriend might as soon and as 
Widely as possible be commem: 

This is the only account of J Facksom ‘published, so far as I have 
been able to ascertain; and some f details re egarding him may 
be of interest. ies was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society on 
Feb. 2nd, 1808, his place of residence then being, as Dr. Murie 
kindly informs me, Swallow Street, London. 


to him in establishing Jacksonia (Ait. Hort. 


Brown does not, oe refer 
“a 8, 133, 12). 


138 GEORGE JACKSON, F.L.S. 


Although the paper on Ormosia* above mentioned is the only 
one with which his name is associated, it seems probable that some — 
of the work of which Lambert was the ostensible author may be © 
me ae to Jackson, who is styled by Baebury, writing in 1820, 

‘Mr mbert’s late factotum.’+ I cannot, however, find any 
iisrones rs Lambert to Jackson’s services, "alino ce those of his 
successor, David Don, are suitably acknow ledge d.{ 

e connection of Jackson with Andrews’s ‘Botanists’ Reposi- 
seems to have extended from the latter part of vol. vii. to 
that of vol. x.—from 1807 until his death. The first reference 
to Lambert’s Herbarium is on t. 584 (vol. viii.), although living 
plants sent by Lambert had been aac acknowledged by who- 
ever wrote the descriptions in the ‘Repository. Jackson’s part im 
the work seems to have been well Sow es his ¢ ontenpoaaa 

thus Salisbury, referring to a stabil in the ‘ ‘ Repository’ (t. 80 03) 


paragraph that he called immediately to assure me he was not the 
postal of it”;|| and he quotes Lambert as the authority for the 


"Smith 4 attributes to Jackson, no doubt correctly, the foundation 
isbury.** 


in 

Haworth: another of Jackson’s contemporaries, also knew of his 
connection with the ‘ eget but his reference to it is not 
complimentary to Jackson. Writing of Mesembryanthemum pre 
pingue, he quotes doubtful the plant so named in Bot. Repos. 
t. 540, and pro 

“ The s pobuid F edition of Hortus Kewensis cites the above figure 


J. s asking and o aeuae the favour of m telling him 
wake the rare Agieate littoralis grew wild (at a time when I was 


* ‘he genus was — (Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 358 sagas on two os 


s Herbarium, and a third, referred to Sophora by Swartz, which 8 . 

drawing b y Plumier existed in “the Sherardia Se Hime = Oxford.” OF this 

and other Plumierian drawings, Jackson says he n copies for Mr. 
Lambert,” and the plates ieccocaiking g the paper are no doubt hi 


t+ Salisbury’s MSS. in Department of Botany, British Museum. 

t _ to near —- of « The Genus Genus Pinus,’ p. vi 

gi grnksTbntors to this w 

al Trans. Hort. Soe. i. 295 (isia)._ f pod leo aad sigs Asay p. 63. 


non + +1, 


THE DISTRIBUTION OF POTAMOGETON IN BRITAIN. 189 


bl unaware that the name heterophyllum had heen preoccupied by 
aworth, and employed it in the belief that his plant was the type 
vs nage Species. A certain animus is also visible in Haworth’s 
re nce to the figure of Agrostis littoralis (Polypogon littorali, 

eauv.) in ‘English Botany.’ He says it was re as a 


triaristata Haworth. Specimen by Mr. Hancock about 3 years ago not 
Jit to dra es ee ee co 
ee w, who said it can scarce be the Ag. littoralis Withg. Mr. 
Wo 285 gathered it near the powder magazine about 4 miles from 
Si wich, August 4, 1803.” The italicised portion is crossed 
3 : aie In Smith’s hand is added: « Withs* plant is Phleum 


pat quoting ‘“Jacksonia Rafin. in Desy. Journ. Bot. il. 
4 re adds in a footnote, ‘‘ dicat. G. Jackson, botanico anglico.”’ 
4 oubt the subject of this sketch is intended, but I do not know 

ow Pfeiffer ascertained the fact, as Rafinesque in the paper cited 
—a characteristic ‘prospectus’ of a never-to-be-issued work— 
merely says, ‘ Jacksonia trifoliata, Cleome dodecandra L.” 


THE DISTRIBUTION OF PUTAMOGETON IN BRITAIN. 
’ By Arraur Beyyert, F.L.S. 


* Revis. Plant. Succul. 223 (1812). __¢ ‘ Nomenclator.’ 


140 


THE DISTRIBUTION OF POTAMOGETON IN BRITAIN. 


remains to be done, not only in the field, but among old herbaria, 


ere My can sa ay we an a 


aquat Any info 
gratefully aiehowlbaise 

op. Bot.” J.B. 
Report. 


Potamogeton densus. 
58 Chester. H. Searle sp. 


P. pectinatus 
= Suffolk west. Druce R.C 
4 Linlithgow. Balfour in Bain, 
urgh herb. ! 


unts. 
bu herb. ! 
87 Worcester. Mathews J. B. 
, p. 40. 
54 Lincoln north. H. Searle sp. 
P. filiform 
52 — 


88 Perth mid. 
* EKasterness. 


83 Edinburgh. Glasgow herb. ! 
Sturrock s 


Groves sp. 


26 Suficlk we toe ” Trim- 
mer in Supp. Norfolk Flora. 


- _ P. pusillus. 
82 42 53 57! 74 87! 88! 98! 
100! 


6 Somerset n. 
0 


s 4 
Druce, 5. ~ L881, 
p. 252. 
Suffolk east. Druce R. C. 83. 
Suffolk w. Herb. G.C. Druce! 
Norfolk west. Druce R. C. 83. 
Gloster east. Reader ms. 
Lancashire +. Cc. Ete i 
York ee 
York s. 


2 haan RC C. 88. 


rmis. 
Rev. H. Davies 


p- 
= Deven ay 
81-2. 


proach to completion among our 
formation on this genus, however slight, will be 
d. The names and s of 
= Journal of Botany; R. C. = Record Club 


sequence are those 


77 Lanark. Gourlie in herb. 
Trin. Coll. Dublin! 


obtustfolius. 
37 Worcester Towndrow sp. 
fi 


onfirm. 
69 MiseGaseeiia d. Roper sp. 


72 Dumfries. Fingland sp. 
92 Aberdeen s. Dr. Trail sp. 
cutifolius. 


82 ons Druce J. B. 1880, 
p- 116. 


P, zosterifolius. 


22 Berks. Druce sp. 

24 Bucks. Druce J. B. 1881! 
‘ ers sp 

82 Northton. Druce herb. ! 


40 Salop. Beckwith s 


P. crispus. 
2 Cornwall . M. Rogers J. B. 


1882, 
Evans R. C. 


42 oats Barrett J. B. 1885, 
43 Rano. Ridley J. B. 1881, 


p.1 

74 Wigton. Druce! 

86 Stirling. Coles sp. 

83 Haddington. ‘“H. Sco 
Edinburgh herb. ! Bee 


P. perfoliatus. 
26 34 42 79! 84! 96! 
P, lucens, 
34 Gloster west. Reader ms. 
P. decipiens. 
17 Surrey. Retiey sp. 
29 Cambridge. Fryer sp. A. 
sp. 


- 


81 Hun Fryer s 

32 ne a, rhe 

. Bromwich s 

53 ogee south. Beeby ag 
88 me mid. Siescck & por. 


82 Northton. Druce ! 
48 Merioneth. Parsons R. C.! 
04 Ebudes north. §. Grieve! 


P. heterophyllus. 
WW, 


94 Banff. . Miller s 
1 
95 Elgin. Craig Christie sp. 
(confirm.). 
nitens. 
17 Saray Straker sp. (/ide 
ius). 
52 Anglsoa Herb. Dillenius, 
92 periee. s. Trail & Roy 
J. B. 1884, p. 242. 


06 Buthrind west. Hanbury & 


F; 
29 Cambridge a sp 
31 Hunts. F sp 


. Fryer sp. 
39 peetons. Dougl las. he rb.T 


' on! 
89 Perth east. Sturrock! 


rufese: 
21 Mise. “re igny ! 
28 os orfolk w mee cay! Hind 


32 Roi Herb. A. G. More! 
= Stafford on Searle sp. 

58 Lincoln south. Edin burgh 
a herb.! 
74 Wigton. Druce! 


THE DISTRIBUTION OF POTAMOGETON IN BRITAIN. 


141 


87 Perth w. B. White 
00 Clyde Isles. s as Hunt in 
herb. Dr. Moo: 


P. natans (seg.). 
M. Rogers J. B. 


Hunts. Fryer r J. B. 1884, 
0 


Reader sp. 
Mathews J. B. 


MAE 
83 Gloster east. 
87 Worcester. 


1884, p. 40. 

88 Warwick. T. Kirk in herb. 
Edinburg 

42 Brecon. Barrett J. B. 1885, 
p- fs 

483 Radnor. Ridley J. B. 1881, 

45 Pembroke. Ridley! 

55 Leicester. Mott herb.! 

57 Derby. Hind herb. Trin. 
Coll. Dublin! 

65 York north-west. Percival 
sp. 

74 Wigton. Druce 

76 Renfrew. Nichisteon com. 8 

84 —— A. Craig Christie 


J. B. 1884, p. 


91 pale i Trail & Roy 
J. B. 1884, p. 242. 

93 Aberdeen n. Druce herb.! 

98 Argyle. OC. Bailey sp. 

06 Ross east. RB. C. 81-2. 

07 Sutherland east. Grant sp. 


87 Pesth west. 


P. ie ge 
C.8 


23 Oxfo: Druce R. C. 83. 
42 sae a Barrett J. B. 1885, 


a _ Glasgow herb.! 
57 Derby. J. G. Baker 
60 Lane. west. 


81-2. 
73 Kirkeudbright. Druce. 


142. ON SPARGANIUM NEGLECTUM. 


74 Wigton. OC. Bailey sp. P. plantagineus. 
97 Westerness. E.F.Lintonsp. 86 Hereford. A.Ley!  - 
05 Ross west. C. Bailey! 72 Dumfries. Herb. Dr. B. 
06 Ross east. Druce J.B.1882, ite 
357. 80 Roxburgh. Brotherston R.C. 


ON SPARGANIUM NEGLECTUM. 
By W. H. Bessy. 
Durie Dr. Nordstedt’s visit to this country last year, I had the 


pleasure of showing him the two forms of Sparganium included in 
the S. ramosum Huds., and described in this Journal, 1885, p. 193. 
Since his return Dr. Nordstedt has drawn my attention to an 


nse. I am unab e 
the exact date of Curtis’s plate (‘ Flo. Lond.,’ fase. 6, pl. 842), but 


Lloyd, of Nantes, who also sends the same from Charente Inférieure, 
and Vendée, France. In England its northern limit is reached in 
ine W. ' 


appears less common in South Europe, as M. Lloyd’s communi- 

cations do not include it; and Dr. Mori’s paper shows it to be rare 

in Tuscany, although he records having met with it near Massarosa, 

while, as already pointed out, it is the northern form in this country. 

The — distribution, as shown by specimens seen by myself, is 
ws -— 

Sparganium ramosum Curtis. — Dorset, R. P. Murray ; Sussex 
East!; Surrey!; Oxford, G. C. Druce; Norfolk East, H. T. Men- 
nell ; Cambridge, 4. Fryer ; Hunts, A. Fryer; Gloster West, H. P- 
Reader (com. Fryer) ; Worcester, R. F. Towndrow ; Warwick, J. E- 


Bae Daiwa ree eter Se ee ei ter Aen eae ly ee ge tee Ce a ates eR ree ee el ste ae 


ON SPARGANIUM NEGLECTUM.' ~ 143 


Bagnall; Stafford, J. Fraser: Salop, W. E. Beckwith; Yorks N.W., 
F. A. Lees; Westmoreland, Miss E. Hodgson (Hb. Mus. Brit.) ; 
Cumberland, W. Hodgson ; Stirling, A. G. Kidston (com. G. Nichol- 
son); Perth Mid, F’. B. White (com. Ar. Bennett) ; Aberdeen North, 
J. W. H. Traill (com. Av. Bennett). 
S. neglectum Beeby.—Hants South, R. P. Murray; Sussex East, 
H. T. Mennell ; Surrey!; Oxford, G. C. Druce; Norfolk Hast 
— Fen, fruit imperfect), H. G. Glasspoole (com. A. Bennett) ; 
orcester, R. F'. Towndrow; Warwick, J. E. Bagnall; Stafford 


(fruit quite abortive), J. Fraser; Salop, W. E. Beckwith. 


_ Mr. Beckwith could not find S. neglectum in Salop until I drew 
his attention to the station whence there is an immature specimen 
Hb. Mus. Brit. (leg. Leighton). I have seen no specimens fro 

Ireland, but have seen S. ramosum from several Irish counties. 
I think that old records of S. ramosum may be safely applied to 
i atson’s Province IX., and for all 


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144 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND 
NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


By tae Rev. W. Moyte Rogers, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 110). 


Hyoscyamus niger L. I. ‘ Bude, &e.” (Hind and Mrs. Keuaee 
Verbascum Thapsus Li. I. Frequent. III. Bridgerule. Tinney 
—V. Blattaria L. I. Tintagel (Hind). Alien. 


m. I. and Il. Com It no 
doubt occurs in the other districts, though I think sparing as I 
have no records and have several times looked for it in vain. — 9. 
nodosa Li. 

Digitalis purpurea L. f 

Antirrhinum Orontium L. I. Bude (Hind). IIL. Bridgerule 
Vicarage garden, casual weed (1882 onl 

Linaria Cymbalaria Mill, ien or denizen. Frequent. — L. 


ulus luteus L. a L. Trebarwith, stream lined on both 


ibthorpia europea L. I. Abundant in the Minster Valley, 0 
the hill above Boscastle, and in the Valley of Rocks. St. Knighion’s 8 
Kieve (Keys’ Fl. Dev. and Co ornw.). 

Veronica hederifolia LL. — V. polita Fries. — V. agrestis L. — V. 
Buxbaumit Ten.—V. arvensis L.—V. serpyllifolia L.—V. officinalis L. 
—V. Chamedrys L.— V. montana L. Locally abundant. I. Kilk- 
hampton (Mrs. Kennedy). stra by stream, in great quate 


Launcells, by stream below chur Minster Valley. 
nacott. Bridgerule. Tetcott. a Near Bradworthy, on “the 
utcombe and Kilkha Road. — V. Anagallis Very rare 


own, and in ditches by the river, in good quantity.—— V. scutellata 


L. Unusually common. I. Near the Reservoir (type and var. 
pert a Tray? (pubescens). Wainhouse poets Greens 
I. Quite common in roadside ditches well as 


Moor. 
on moors eras IV. “Between Holsworthy and Thornbury “(extreme 
pubescens). Okehampton.—V. Beccabunga L. 
Euphrasia officinalis L.— Var. montana. I. Boscastle Cliffs. 
D 


from montana in habit, colour and hairiness, although growing 
quite near it at Boscas tle. 
Bartsia 


Odontites Huds. Vars. verna and ser: otina quite common. 
With seals flowers at Wanson Mouth. —- B I, Kilk- 
: sme 


Podiniacks senowst Lop bie dice 


TAs 6 


: 
i 
a 
: 
2 
: 


see 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING Districts. 145 


Rhinanthus Crista-galli L. Ik. 
Melampyrum pratense L. Only locally common. I. Ki 
hampton neighbourhood, not very common (Mrs. Kennedy). Near 
Stratton, Burrow, and Tackbeare. Week St. t. Mary, wooded hollow 
east of village. Minster Valley. III. Clawton, age. 
IV. Baagorthy: bushy roadside eo Ashbury, in peta qadiainy 

for short distance. Okeham mpto 

Verbena officinalis L. I. “Bude, &c.”’ (Hind). Stratton and Laun- 
cells Road, and near Marhamchurch ; only a plant or two together. 
epee , Trovalge, and Tintagel, frequent. III. Near Pyworthy. 


Mentha rite L. Native. I. Minster Valley, in ee 
“cage ; and elsewhere in the Bosthatls neighbourhood. ee “1 
(Hind ! !).—M. viridis L. Denizen. ILL. pert si mei 


Thymus Serpyltum Fries. _ Abu nda nt. Dr. Hi nd’s list contains 


and perhaps not nti the 
Calamintha linia ipsa Rare. I. Trebarwith. 


Reservoir.—C, menthi ola Host. L pen IL. Fairly com 
Local. - _Bridge rule. Ms Holsworthy. IV. Near Souda: ‘Cross. 


aie. oflcinalis L. Alien. L., II., III. Rather frequent, but 


N “Be ee N. glechoma Benth. 
epeta Cataria L. I. Bude ( — c 

Salvia Verbenaca L. Rare. I. Bud von Boreal (ind ae 
*specially abundant on the rocky pers near Forrabury 

Prunella vulgaris L. 

Scutellaria oes L. I. Bude and rig ren Valley by 
Marhamehurch, by Canal (Webb). IL. and III — rage iobe 
canal and river, frequent. Worthen.—S. minor , 
commonest bog and moorland plants. 

Ballota nigra 
Be Stachys Betonica Benth. — 8. palustris L. — S. ambigua L. 

it rule. 


Keys’ Fl. Dey. and Cornw. it is stated that there is a specimen 


Rss S. 
ae es m ok Borrer at Kew from Tintagel. — S. sylvatica L. 
ey 


Galeopsis Tetrahit L. —- Leonurus Cardiaca L. 1. Bude (Hind). 


IL; 
Lamium purpureum L. —L. album L. Not seen in i 
Journat or Borany.—Vou. 24. [May, 1886.] 


146 oN THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


7 rare elsewhere. III. Tatson Orchard. Pyworth illage. 
Holsworthy, at both ends of town. IV. About Okehampton. —L. 
Galeobdolon Crantz. Only seen near Okehampton (IV.) 
Ajuga reptans L.—Teucrium Scorodonia 
Echium vulgare L. I. “ Bude, &e.” (Hind). The only record 
for all the districts. ; 
Lithospermum officinale L. I. “ Bude, ” (Hind); in good 
quantity at north-east end of Summerleaze Down 
Myosotis cespitosa Schultz. I. Kilkhampton (Mrs. Kennedy !). 
** Bude, &e.’’ (Hind), Summerleaze Down. IL., , LV. Common. 
oR i 


) 
Reich. Bo scastle and Trebarwith, in small quantity. 
Possibly elsewhere. in this district, and overlooked through dis- 


i Reich. 
Anchusa arvensis Bieb. I. “Bude, &e,”’ (Hind). Fields between 
Forrabury Church and the sea, abundant.—— 4. sempervirens L. 
Denizen. I. About Boscastle, in aad places. II. Bridgerule, 


ag 
et officinalis L. I. Denizen. About Boscastle, remarkably 
abundan 
crseieea officinale L. I. Between Burrow and Titson. 
tstone. Week St. Mary. Boscastle, in very small quantity; 
denizen. Valley of Rocks and Trebarwith, amy common 
apparently native. Not seen in the other distri 
Pinguicula lusitanica L. Rather common. L stents i 
Kilkhampton (Mrs. Kennedy). Greena Moor. III. 
Parnacott and emcee 6 Bridgerule and Tinney, feel 
aland Down. IV. Between Beaworthy and Ashbury, 1 


lenty. d 
Primula vulgaris: Huds. — P. officinalis L. III. Bridgerule 
Vicarage Plantation and fields near; no doubt planted, but 


easing 

Lysimachia nemorum Li, | 

Anagallis arvensis L.--A. ceruiea Sm. I. Kilkhampton (Rev.0- 
nee in Jacob’s W. Dey. and Cornw. Flora, 1886-7, quoted in | 
Keys’ Fl. Dev. and Cornw.).—A. tenella L. 

C entunculus minimus L. I, 5 ETE. sagem, OS 

Glaux maritima L. 1. Northeot Mouth. Bude (Hind!). : 

Samolus Valerandi L. I. ‘Bude, &e.”” (Hind !). ie of 
BAe Tintagel. Trebarwith. 

Armeria maritima Willd. I. Sea-coast, common 

d 


Eee that re ~~ seen (at Bude and Boscastle) a appear ae come 
; rmedia, : : y a ea Tr ‘4 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 147 


Plantago major L. — P. lanceolata L. — b. Timbali. I. Bude. 
Introduced. — P. maritima L. I. By the sea, Fev At Tres- 
parrot, more than a mile inland.—P. coronopus Li. I. Common by 
the sea, but not seen inland beyond Kilkhampton ee Kennedy). 
Littorella lacustris L. The Reservoir,—in an o the water, 
—in plenty on Cornish and Devon sides (II. and tI), 
Salsola Kali L. I. Bude (Hind). 
Beta maritina L. I. Bude (Hind). Bose 
Se eokem polysper wae L. I. Field a spe ie 
Near Wanson Mo at potato-field. — C. album L. - 
Henricus He es en. “ Saran Stratton and Ee a a 
rocky bank near ferns Near Fo Beet Church, field- border, 
several. III. Tetcott, tok far from chure hya: 
Atriplex angustifolia Sm. — A. erecta Hu ai «da deltcidon Se 
I, Bude. Marhamchurch ( (Hind!), between Titson and Bun 
Hill. III. By Moor Farm cottages. — A. Smithii Syme. 
Bridgerule. IV. Okehampton. — A. Babingtonit Woods. I. Bude 
(Hind!). Tintagel. 
Rumex conglomeratus Murr. — R. nemorosus Schrad., a. 
_ Sommon enough, I think, although I have only two or yoee 
localities recorded.—b. oe Ae Between Poughill and Bude, 
“Seeger quanti her L. I. Bude. Boscastle, 
and valley. — R. ati eee — R. pratensis M. & K. 

8 PR eetrerlonn Down, by stream near Launcells. Road near 
Hoppicott Down. Il. Pedeorser a canal, sie ear Atatnd 


Down. . Near 
walt, Acetosella L. 
_ Polygonum Fagopyrum L. a Stratton ae ms no 
doubt. — P. Convolvulus L. — viculare Bab. 2 i 
Bude (Hind and Mrs. hoa I have not seen ie on es part 


of the Cornish coast ydro: — P. mite Schrank. is 
siven in Dr. Hind’s list (without locality), and P. minus Huds 
mpton) in Mrs y's notes; but e never seen & 


Kilkha; 
Lornish specimen of either. Both are queried for the county in 
p- Bot. — P. Persicaria L. —b. elatum, III. Par soa — P. 
apathifolium L. I. nieseee" (Hind). Burrow. |. THE. 
Bridgerule. IV. Okeh mpton. — P. amphibium L., b. vee. 
. eta abundant The typical plant not observed anywhere. 
a Le _ Deniz zen. ILI. Bridgerule, by streamlet in 
“Chareh Sater 
[Daphne Laur sola as I have seen this only in a cottage-garden 
at Bridgerule (II.); but the eotiager said that he had brought the 
bushes (three) from a field near Newacott, where he had found 
them wild.” It is likely to oeet in a few sheltered spots] . 
a Buhoctas Helioscopia L. — E. Paralias Bio de B Bele eerereias in 
Phytol. 1846, quoted in Keys aL Dey. and Cornw. ; 
EY portlandica L. 1. Bude gee Die GR ae meg GT 
l 


. Boscastle 
hampton, 


148 SHORT NOTES. 


Urtica dioica = —U. urens L. Apparently rare. I. Bude 
(Hind!). Bossin 

Humulus Caonien L. Denizen. I. Fairly common, but usually 

in small quantity, and never, I think, far from house or garden. 


Il: Bridgerule, by village. Il. Bridgerule, erty poe "wedge and — 


road near. Tinney, near farm. IV. Okehampto 

Ulmus suberosa Ehth. Locally common, — T have no notes of 
localities (whether as denizen or native).—b. glabra. IV. Between 
Soulden Cross and Reservoir. — U. stricta. pi — a little 
out of Launceston northwards (Baker). — na Sm. 
a ome Bude. Boscastle. III. Halowerdiy: ov Oke- 
ham 

te Robur L., a. pedunculata. Common; — b. intermedia. 
II. Church Meadow, Bridgerule; one old rae —. sessiliflora. 
Fairly frequent. I. Bude (Baker). Common near Kilkhampton 
(Mrs. Kennedy). Stratton and Marhamchurch Road. Near Wan- 

n Mouth. 


. and 
Whitstone (Baker!). III. Near Reservoir, many. Fields about 
Bridgerule Bog, in plenty. Near Holsworthy, on the Thornbury 
Road. IV. Sut deanihe and Kilkhampton Road. Between Beaworthy 
hb 


Fagus sylvatica L. Denizen. Locally abundant. 
Corylus Avellana ee 

Alnus glutinosa L 

Betula alba L. All three vars. are common 

Myrica Gale L. Rare. IT. Upper Bridgerule Bog, in good 
quantity, 1882. Scotland Bog, a few bus 

Populus alba. I. Trevalga (Hind). ‘Probably planted. — P. 

i . Bude (Hin 


tremula L ative. Remarkably freq d). 
Launeells. Marhamehurch. Tackbeare Lane. Il. Bridgerule 
and Whitstone. III. Near Reservoir. Bridgerule. Pyworthy 
and Tinney, co Near Holsworthy. Clawto: : 
rently qu common over all the cor laaey pore from the 


(To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 


Botany or Carruyess anp Su —As promised Journ. 
Bot. 1885, p. “933), I Seiden a few additional particulars. By the 
Wick river we found a Carex growing with C. — b. kattegatensis, 

which proves to be C. aquatilis var. exmgfee Lestd. T. o 
referred to in the paper, after being seen by Mr. pikiiele Prof. 
Babington, and Mr. Baker, who all aeiciaered they did not agree 

ith our hi Almquist, 


, i q 
of Stockholm ; and among them are H. norvegicum Fr., H. — 


im asstuscul Almq., < 
basifolium Almq. A Polygala from the limestone hillocks about = 
_Durness, in Sutherland, peentes to be P. calearea F. Schultz : this - 


GOODALE’S PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY. 149 


Is an extraordinary spore of its hitherto ra a southern 
it tion. On our journey south we gathered on the Little 


weies ae’ 
found many years belts and to which he drew my attention, and 


with coin see a All the above names have been inserted 
1 in the new edition of the ‘ London pao which srw sé pub- 
| lished ve the first week in ss —FREDE J 

| HELVOLA in Briratn. —_ while examining hey age 


seer aoe with the specimen pe raed eeancted by his father 
= M. Blytt) at Valders, Norway, the original sta tation. — 
mun Benner. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


Gray’s Botanical Text-book. Vol. Il. Physiological Botany, by 
Gzo Lincotn ee a A. M., M.D. i Ah on, New York. 


Txo 
tice. bearing the title at ‘the head of this notice recals at once 
Hofmeister’s ‘Handbuch der Physiologischen omen "haga 


: - rank 
__ With the series written by Hofmeister, de Bary, and lie this 
fact has placed Prof. Goodale in the position of having great things 


his own wn good patty: dale It may be said at once that, though the 
Present book hardly be placed on the level of the classical 
— sean, yet it does not fall far short of them; and 

odal 
best book of its kind-in the English language, of native origin, if I 
botk Say so re = aR = k. Hitherto a large body of students 


150 GOODALE’S PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY. 


Botany need only be written in German to deserve the honour of 
translation, and perhaps it is worth while pointing out that German 
text-books resemble the heavenly bodies in at least one particular, 
since they differ widely from each other in magnitude and in other 
attributes. One may imagine the grave surprise of certain German 
authors and their friends—particularly their friends--when the 
news of translation reached them. But far be it from me to say 

than a caution on this matter, lest the charge of 
ingratitude be brought. Botany in this country and in America 


TK, 

Goodale’s can be at once traced almost entirely to the German 
original. While so deeply indebted for material, it is nevertheless 
a distinct mark of progress to find this material in its place in a 
work of independent arrangement and treatment, such as the 
present. 

The book is divided primarily into two parts, containing the 
outlines of the histology of phznogamous plants and vegetable 
physiology respectively. The Introduction contains a short and 
useful account of the appliances used in histology—microscopes, 
nag instruments, reagents, staining agen unt 
me 


the reproductive organs, with a physiological classification of the 
tissues with respect to the division of labour in the plant, and the 
mechanies of tissues. I., which treats of physiology propel, 


constituents, the transfer of water, assimilation, the ges of 
anic matter, growth, movement, reproduction, germination and 
the resistance of plants to untoward influences. T k will thus 


be seen to cover the whole field of plant histology and physiology; 
and with a remarkable amount of detail, considering the limi 
ined. act, one is almost te 
think more highly of it as a storehouse of information than as a 
teaching book,—but this, if a fault at all, is perhaps one of the right 


| ; bu 
to think, a good one. Such directions are best given personally in 
the laboratory, though these instructions may be of aid to the 


from them. ( in body of the book, however, it may be said 
without hesitation that it consists of the results of accurate and 
conscientious labour. It is very lucidly written, and though a fe 

phrases strike strangely on British ears, it may be after all that 
these are more English than ours would be. Of the two parts of the 


the second is the better done, and at the same time the more — - 


needed. Prof. Goodale deserves the gratitude of all of us for his 
- courage in thus taking so decided a step in advance, and for the 


BAGNALL’S HANDBOOK OF MOSSES. 151 


The next volume of the series is one in preparation by Prof. 
Farlow on Cryptogamic Botany, both structural and systematic ; 
and a fourth is promised, dealing with the Natural Orders of Phe- 
_ nogams, their special morphology, and useful products. G.M 


Handbook of Mosses. By J. E. Bacnatz. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 
1886. 8vo, pp. 96, 87 cuts. 1s. 

Few things are more noteworthy of progress in our day than the 
Manner in which the more recondite branches of natural science 
are made plain and easy to the learner, and at a price which would 
have astonished the last generation. 

Jne of the most recent bijou manuals, and quite up to the 
standard of any of them, is Mr. Bagnall’s little book on the 
mosses, which is thoroughly imbued with a genuine love for these 
elegant little plants, and will no doubt add largely to the roll o 
young bryologists. 

The wo 


O- 


umella, but only to the outer wall of the spore-sac ; ss 
habitats : s an account of the various situations in whic 
mosses grow, and is one of the best in the book, b witness to 


e 
the author’s frequent rambles in search of his favourites. IV. Classi- 
fication: an outline of the tribes, after Berkeley’s 5 ange 

i i. s. 


information on all the modes by which mosses and their various 

parts may be most satisfactory displayed, either for the herbarium 
Or as microscopic objects. 

The little book is very clearly printed, singularly free from 

graphical errors, and a credit both to author and publisher. 

R. Brairawalte. 


List of Seeds of Hardy Annual and Perennial Plants grown in the 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 1885. 8vo, pp. 58. H.M. Stationery 
Office. Price 6d. 


‘Was issued at Kew: if so, it was hig . 
We fear, however, it is intended to take the place of the 


152 THE KEW SEED-LIST. 


was doing in the Gardens, and botanists acquainted with the recent 
additions to the Herbarium; being at the same time a storehouse 


Orient, 
mopolit.,” ««Cauc. As. Min.,” «C.and §. Eur.,” “Sinus Kotzebue,” 
“Kur. (B.),” Austr.” (which means Australia, also styled “N. 
Holl.”), « Chatham is.,” *«N.'T. Zone.” To one plant is appended 
“*N. Afr. Am. Ind. N. Holl.” The printing of the names of author!- 
ties is extremely careless: opening quite by chance at p. 50, we find 
“‘ Gay.,” “ Ker.” and others, always printed thus, as if their names 

A Ca ” is another instance. The _ 


for ‘‘ Hooker,” « B, 


many more. ‘“ Boiss.’ and “Bois. 
both occur on th 


same page—the former is preferable. Who 
however, be considered an abbreviation of Balansa, who (with 
issi ded 


ep.” is on the same page. Elsewhere we find “ H 

Serr.,” ‘* Dorrh.,” ‘*Stend.,” and the like, some of whom we cannot 
even guess at; this criticism might be applied throughout the work. 

_ It is even more serious to find that the names of the plants 
themselves are equally unsatisfactory. Without leaving the page 
open before us, we note that some names have no authority attached. 
Sisyrinchium Bermudianum is wrong; and what “Iris Xiphioides, 
Engl. Iris” means we are unable to conjecture; nor is it clear what 


THE KEW SEED-LIST. 158 


is meant by “I. Douglasiana Herb., . de Santa Cruz.” But 
glancing through the book we note pees inaccuracies. The mode 
adopted to ara heer eles species and varieties is to indent the 
latter and prefix a 
- ae officinalis L., Eur. As. 
a 


— Var.” 
According to the Kew list, then, the ee names in, the 
following selection are entitled to specific ra 
“ Delphinium Maackianum Rgl.  « ee ia With. 
Monsieur Viola — semperflorens. 
or Werleigh’s re 
moschatum D. C 


Nahamah Hort. ‘“‘ Nicotiana rk tobacco. 
nudicaule Torr. et a tobacco. 
Gre Maryland tobacco.” 
The little Astervlinum, or more properly Asterolinon,—at ari 
80 its founders wrote its name,—appears first as “ Asterolin 
Linum-splendidum L. et T.” and then as “A. stellatum Link,” 
its proper title being Asterolinon stellatum Hoffm. & Link. “ Linaria 
rediviva L.” has clearly strayed away he hoe in Crucifere to its 
Present position in Scrophularinee. Such names as ‘Anirrhin 
“Stramniomium,” “ Li — hia,” “ Noien* “6 chelidonoides,” 


abound: these are from oppo = pages (Pp. 40, a from 


od 
(= =e se] strigosa DC.).” This, we think, would be 
interpreted by mo ople to mean that the latter was the correct 
name, but in the hots iis st the reverse is —— intended; and 
we find no entry under a we do not see what is gained by 
the printing of the synonymy. This mode— Sehiak is at least novel 


pte 
further elucidations are introduced as “ Xan um gymn 
aren Bth. et Hk., Mexico (= Gutierrezia a uyabaapanntis, 


a). 
We should strongly advise an es of Kew, Z he has not 
i f seed-list 


. su 
extraordinary,” as a pormreion: ie ie styled it, ary as call in, if 
i on sale. The grou undwork of the list 


be said of the copy hehoaditts 


154 TOURIST’S GUIDE TO THE FLORA OF THE ALPS. 


The Tourist’s Guide to the Flora of the Alps. By Prof. K. W. v. 
ALLA-TORRE. Translated and ae by AtFRED sag ae 
M.A. London: Sonnenschein mo, pp. Vill. 392. 
AUTHOR, — saz publisher es ula d to render ‘his 
little work in every way attractive. Printed in clear type on thin 
paper, and hcunas in red leather, in pocket-book form, it weighs less 
than five ounces, and is thus really suited for the pocket—which is 
not always the case oh pocket-floras. The descriptions are short, 
but clear—indeed the book is in every way so good that we hope 
it will soon run through the present edition, and that a second 
issue will supply ce rae deficiencies which are at present noticeable. 
For unfortunately it i complete. The author tells us he has 
excluded ‘‘only the pecan and most = aes and 
the — “has added a few which he would expect to find in a © 
Flora of this kind”; but the ances containing & names of 
those ‘ oer described in this work” is sadly too extensive. It 
seems to us that plants which are common pre ubiquitous are just 
the ones which would first strike the eye and excite curiosity ; and 
as many of these are not British, eae would be the first which the 
English traveller would wish to identify. He would, we fear, be’ 
likely to fall see one of two eeu either to twist the deserip- 
tions in the < so as to suit the plant before him (and we all know 
how easy it is oe be misled by book- ocda grees or to discard the 
little volume as useless for his purpose. The transatlantic botanist, 
to whom, when visiting Europe, a work as this might 
invaluable, will be in a still worse predicament, as many of our 
common British plants will be unfamiliar to him. 
We hope, therefore, that a second edition will soon be called for, 
in which these omissions will be supplied. The convenient size 0 
the volume is one of its greatest attractions; but an extra ounce 2 
weight and a slightly increased bulk will not seriously detract 
om this. t the same time, the somewhat numerous misprints 
le” and ‘radile 


“ Leaves with hn es (p. 120) is a puzzling 
generic characte er; and “ terpinnate”’ does not strike us as an 
improvement on the sabhans Py of the wor 


be to be of ¢ any use $6 y either, the t sy ae should be ene 
associated, which we do not is the case. Nor can we see wha 
rus Nissolia is likely to gain by x eroming among and closely 

g grass: surely it is more that the plant would be 

copped with: the sey fecan serie it can sarily be distinguished, 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, 155 


than that “the leaves would be picked out and eaten if they were 
more easily distinguishable 

Mr. H. W. S. Worstey- -Huaiben sends us for notice an address 
on “Charles Darwin,” delivered by him in November last before 
the Highbury Microscopical and Scientific Society. It is a st 
but careful summary of the chief Hank of Mr. Darwin’s life, on 
lines of Mr. Grant ‘Allen’ s work; and is marked by that dori 


those who have criticised Mr. Darwin’s views, being apparently of 
the opinion that the use a strong language should be reserved for 
Darwinians and their frie 

Amone the many ides of Prof. Asa Gray which have appeared 
in the American. press during the last six months, none has been 


rwin 

pothesis ge great caution, and with unshaken cairo belief. .... 
T e theory of natural selection was never quite what it was 
to some hata ne and creation = theism could never form 
any part of aoe belief. .... ‘Iam,’ he has said, ‘ scientifically 

in my own fashion, a Darwini ia philoso hically a convince sot 
theist, and atecnaty an ween of the creed commonly called 
Nicene as the exponent of the Christian faith.’ 


New Booxs.—H. Lorer & A. Barranvon, ‘ Flore de Montpellier’ 
ed. 2: 8yvo, pp. lxxvi. 663 : Paris, Masson). — G. Marcusss, ° 


Sepa di piante nuove o poche note per la ee age j ses 
agrania’ (Vv 198: Milan, 2 lis G. 
‘Uber. * oneen nenag 5 Organe bei den Planten’ (Leipsig, 


Enge 8vo . 82, tt. 8). — J. Srevanson;, ‘ Britis ungi 
(Eiymenomyoateny’ " (Blask wed: yol. i.: 8vo0, pp. vil. 872: 39 pate 


ARTICLES IN JouRNALS. 
Ann. oo Nat. (Ser. vii. t. ii 1).—(Mar.). G. Bonnier & 
L. Man ‘ Recherches sur Vaction shlosophyiientt séparée de la 
respiration,’ — A. Miintz, ‘ Recherches chimiques sur la mat turation 
€8 graines.’ 

Bot. Notiser (Haft 2).—A. L. Grénvall, Orthotr seat — 
n.sp.— G. Lagerheim, ‘Contributions algologiques re de 
la Suéde.’ — R. Tolf, ‘ Nagra smalandska mosslokaler.’ 

Bot. Zeitung (Ap. 2, 9). — J. Reinke, SPREE ERT E Unter- 
Suchungen iiber die Absorption des Lichte en Assimilations- 


_ Organen.’—(Ap.9). F. Kienitz Gerloff, ‘ Ueber die Bedentung der 


Paraphysen.’ — hee 16). J. Boehm, ‘ Ueber die Ursache des 
Agee 8: Blati y SRS _— (Ap. 23). J. Wortmann, ‘ Theorie 


Fee Bot. France (Tom. Xxxii.: Yaa hea ome D— 


(ie. r. E. Cosson, ‘Exploration de la Se 
Battandier, ‘ Notes sur quelques plantes d'Algérie — Te 


156 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Aristidis, Vicia fulgens, spp. nn.).— A. Deflers, ‘ Herborisations 
dans les montagnes Morr aae” d’Aden’ (Crotalaria Schweinfurthit, 
Li ssa minor, spp. . Sarrazin, Amanita muscaria. — 
G. Rou “Sur laire aeons de |’ Abies Pinsapo en Espagne.’ 
— G, Bonni & L. Mangin, ‘L’action chlorophyllienne.’ — E. 
Belzung, : eccieie as de ‘Am idon a l’obscurité.” — P. van 
Tieghem, ‘Sur la structure des Cabombées.’ — L. du Sablon, 
i D 


: ) 
Duchartre, ‘Observations sur ie vrilles des Coombe —H. 
Corte, Cistus laurifolio-salvifolius x.-—— L. du Sa blon, ‘ Observations 
anatomiques sur la chute des branches du peuplier blanc.’ — A. 
Franchet, ‘ Sur les saiaes du genre / pimediwn.’ — E. Heckel, 
: Observations Rerprologianes. — D. Clos, ‘ De la durée assignée a 
at especes.’ — A. Fr ranchet, : ws de la Chine et du 

Pd 


Ba Torrey Bot. Club (April) ers H. Campbell Develops 
of Antheridium in Ferns’ (1 plate). — G. Vasey w Am 
Grasses’ (Aristida Reverchonii, Stipa Letter mebe Mouhlenbergia 
Parishii (= M. sylvatica var. californica Vasey, olim), M. californica 
(= M. glomerata var. brevifolia Vasey, olim), M. Wrightii, Ages 
depressa, A. foliosa, A. Diegoensis, A. Oregonensis, Deyeuxia Cusick 
n.). 
deners’ Chronicle (Mar. 27). — W.B. Grove, ‘A Fungou 
iatiiss of Eucharis’ (figs. 74-78). — T. Moore, ‘ Polybotrya Lech 
leriana’ (figs. 79, 80). — (Ap. 8). R. W. Adlam, «A Trip to 
Polela (Natal).’ ge aKa Fonninni (fig. 84). — (Ap. 17). J. G. 
Baker, ‘The Piatto of the Linnean Herbarium.’— Picea Breweriana 
(fig. 938). = (Ap. 24). M. T: Mantes: Root-structure and mode of 
growth in Primulacee in relation to cultivation’ (figs. 102-111, 
114-116).—J. G. Baker, ‘ Synopsis of a opean Primulas.’ 
Journal of pesietaee Society (Ap. 14). — F. Darwin, ‘On the 
Relation between the “Bloom” on leaves and the distribution ’ 
the Stomata.’-- H. N. Ridle ey, ‘ Orchids from Madagascar ’ 
phylium approximatum, B. conchidioides, B. ophiuchus, B. naniaphabiik 
Liparis puncticulata, Eulophia macra, Aeranthus us polyanthemus, Mysta- 
cidium viride, Actos ‘chis glandulosa C. aurantiaca, C. tenella, 
abenaria conopode . Foxit, H. ore neumoniformis, Holothrix 
glaberrima, Satyrium ” gigas, Brownleea madagascarica, SPP nn.) — 
C. B. Clarke, ‘Observations made in a journey to the Naga Hills.’ 
J. Ball, ‘Botany of Western South America’ (Griselinia alata, sp.0.). 
Midland x aturalist.—J. EK. Bagnall, ‘ Notes on the Anker Valley 
and its Flor: 
Notariia (Ap ril).—G. Lagerheim, Mast tigocoleus, gen. nov. (tab. 1). 
. Borzi, este Floridee Mediterranee’ ( Nitophyllum carybdaeum, 


sp. n.). 
#1 uovo Giornale Bot. Ital. (Ap. 19).—F. Panizzi, Polyporus olea, 
spa, Venturi, ‘ Appunti Sopra muschi. italiani.’ — L. Nicoira, 


LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 157 


ae am di Messina.’—A. Jatta, ‘Lichenes Italie cedace — 

A. Mori, ‘Ascidio di Gunnera.’ — A. Piccore, ‘ Pugillo di Alghe 
Canariensi.’ —0O. Maittirolo, ‘ sab di nuovi Hypocreacei.’ 

Oesterr. Bot. ty cate pas A. Hansgirg, ‘ oe aque 
dulcis species no Formanek, ‘ Mahrische Ros 

Phaitnaléousical J iaaiias (Ap. 10). — W. Kirkby, ‘ Sandal Wood’ 
(figs. 1-38). 

Science Gossip.—W. B. Grove, ‘A Sycamore Fungus.’ 

ieee Naturalist ed —G. C. Druce, ‘ Plants of West Ross.’ 
— J. Stirton, ‘On certain Mosses of the tay Dicranum.’ — EK. M. 
Holmes, — Marine Alge’ s). Stevenson 
J.W.H ‘Mycologia Scotica (supplement? (Camasporium 
metableticum Trail, s Sp. n.). 


LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 

March 18, 1886. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., FR. S., Pres., in 
air. — The Hon. and Rev. J. T. Boscawen, Dr. P. Herbert 
Carpenter, F.R.S., and Arthur E. Gibbs were elected Fellows of the 
Society. — Dr. Maxwell Masters exhibited a specimen of Pinus 
sylvestris from Chatsworth, showing a large globular mass of short 
densely branched shoots han nging from the end of a branch. He 
Pointed out that such growths were either the result of injury from 
mites (Phytoptus ?) or from other causes, or that in other cases they 

resulted from pee tacliarhon Seedling variations of a similar kin 


eurred. Such 
the curious dwarf Conifers met with in gardens, such as the Clan- 
brassil fir. A similar case o dimorphism in the foliage in a species 
of Leptospermum was also shown b . Masters, having been 
obtained from Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, of Melbourne — Mr. 
William Fawcett then read a oe on new species of Balanophora 
and Thionningié, with a note on Brugmansia Lowii. Acroblastum | 
pallens Sol., collected on the first voyage of Capt. Cook in fe 
Placed by Seemann under Balanophora fungosa Forst., been 


nyt Philippine Islands. Other 
Species sent from the Malay <daehisabiisn by Mr. H. O. Forbes oe 
zee i and B. Forbesii. 


158 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 


are sessile with obtuse scales. The anatomical structure of the 


ugm 

Lowii was Liab by Beccari from buds. His conjecture that 
it differed from B. Zippelii Bl., which has five or six lobes in the - 
inayat in having 16 lobes, has been confirmed by an open flower 
sent from As geen by Mr. H. O. Forbes. 

— Sir John ie hbdck Bart., Pres., in the Mr. 
J.G. Baker exhibited a specimen of Scolopendri ium Delavays "Frenehets 
a new species discovered by the Abbé Delavay in the province 

nan. — The fo llowing communication was then read: 
Hetaniéal Observations made in a Journey to the Naga Hills 
(between Assam and Muneypore), in a letter addressed to Sir J. a 
Hooker by Mr. C. B. Clarke. Writing from the station of Kohim 
4750 ft. alt., with the a: peak of Jakpho, 9980 ft. alt., about 
ten miles distant, he s the country above 5000 ft. is nearly all 
jungle; Sikkim plants laut predominate in number of indi- 
viduals, and make Kohima resemble Darjeeling, not Shillong. He ob- 
serves that the Commelinacee, Rubi, Senecio, and eotne, besides other 
groups, are nearly all identical with those growin Ww. 
on the other hand many Khasi i plants are sarsthentuiay absent. For 
example, there are not Khasi balsams, nor Jmpatiens —— nor 
. Lespedeza, nor any of the species of the Cheira Sacred Wood, &c. The 
pines and oaks are an exception; the latter form the —_ es ca the 
forests around Kohima, though Alnus is abundant, and this some- 
r 


feet from the ground, and cut the innumerable sprouts for firewood. 
Two species of Diospyros were collected. e flora is interesting 
and rich, though there are few new species. Mr. Clarke pe an 


vels 
7000 ft. on Jakpho are mostly torests of shrubby Str se gma six to 
twelve feet high, just as in Sikkim. There are several laur 
Llex Aquifolium as a tree thirty to forty feet high. The Conetencea 


which grows in the wet jungle near Kohima. — The first part of a 


be alee Flore Simensis,” or an enumeration of all the plants known 
from China proper, Formosa, and the Luchu Islands, together with 
their synonymy and distribution, was introduced by the authors, 
Messrs. Francis B. Forbes and Wm. B. He emsley. — A paper was 
read by Mr. H. N. Ridley, On the Freshwater Hydr ocharidew of 
Africa wee Islands.” A number of new species are described, 
Laine which site radicans and Boothia easerta are remarkable; 


ice ets oS he 5 eld age oe 


OBITUARY NOTICE OF REY. W. W. NEWBOULD. 169 


the latter —- was obtained by Sir John Kirk on the River 
Zambesi, near Shuhango, January, 1860. — A paper, ‘On the 


decidedly Scandinavi all the iB preoiese are 
also found in Lapland, ay notwithstanding the vicinity of Am 
few belong to the New : e Asiatic arctic species are rare, 


ile 170s 
are recorded from the western side, the same tage absent edstwards. 
Nova Zemlja and the ee . Waigatz together possess 290 species, 
and Spitzbergen 117 s The author enters into particulars 
regarding the special planta: peculiar to sii seaboard, and such as 
are cultivated by the inhabitants both in the open air and under 
cover. He remarks that the long and pS rss summer sunlight 
and at times intense heat have much influence on the vegetation, 
despite long and cold winter seasons. 


OBITUARY. 


Tue news of the death of the Rev. W. W. Newsoutp, which took 
place on April 16th, will evoke a chorus of regret from British 


friend, should be given as complete an account as can be gathered 

of his “ame lg with British botany; and this will appear in our 
next iss 

The following tribute, from one of Mr. Newbould’s oldest friends, 

and one for whom he had the highest affection and respect, need 

not be delayed :—‘ The death of my very dear friend Newbould is 

&@ loss = which I shall not soon recover. He was — oldest 


=orey onan ne hlns was used te the help * scienti ved 


self or in his own pero no one would have sana Sie a. 
careful siate and  peienatie —— He applied himself chiefly oe 


160 OBITUARY NOTICE OF R. H. ALCOCK. | 


to the study of our native plants, “om either has discovered or been 
the cause of the discovery of many; and very much information 


cin 
for his life was not altogether a happy one, owing to circumstances 
which it is not necessary to state here, and which do not in any 
way concern the readers of this Journal. I cannot better conclude 
than by quoting a characteristic saiinrk which fell from his lips on 
September 17th last: ‘The longer I live the more I feel that I 
must sum up all my prayer in the Lord’s Prayer, and even more 
than all in that one clause of it, Thy will be done.’ — CuaRLEs s C. 
Basrneton.” 


The death of Ranpat Hisserr Atcock, which took place last 
Nov. 9th at Didsbury, cies many miles from Gatley, 
in Cheshire, where he was born on July 21st, 1833,—deserves & 
record in the pages of this J ournal, of which he had for many years 
been = attentive reader. During the greater part of his lie he 
lived at Bury, in Lance ashire, ies he carried on the business of 
a ae it manufacturer ; this he abandoned in 1882 and went to 
Didsbury. Of quiet and retiring disposition, he was a man of much 
general informat tion, and an excellent letter-writer; at one time he 
took a prominent part i 


mainly instru 
Bociety, of which he was President until he left the town, and in 
which he always continued to take much interest: he drew up the 
list of slsais, published in the Boniety: s Report, which is noticed in 
this a = hago p. 277. He was always much interested in 
the w g-met naturalists of Lancashire and Cheshire, and en- 


origin of his ‘ Botanical Names for English Readers,’ published in 
1876 Journ. Bot. 1876, 158), in which he explained the meaning 
of all ical names in use in our floras, prefacing the volume 
with a gaeien executed and interesting History of Botany. This 
work gave an impetus to the classical studies of which he had 


Pp 
of Sey on natural nate tory and aia matters to the Manchester 
papers. His death occurred somewhat suddenly, wags wa eae 
of the lungs. Mr. Alcock was elected a Fellow of the Linnean 
Society on Dec. 7th, 1876; he was also a member of the Botanical 
Exchange and Botanical Record Clubs. 


| 


pilation ap Prof. Babington and Messrs. Baker, Boulger, 


161 


WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 


i ny of these we widely missed or more generally 
ere by British botanists than he who was laid to rest in Fulham 
or reed on the 20th of last April, in the presence of a few of his 
he er workers—Messrs. Baker, Boulger, Glasspoole, B.D. Jackson, 
i oa and myself. ‘+ We could have better spared a better man” 
8 the ae with which many will have heard of the death of 


=P 
. 


the belij elf; and it is in 
e belief that those whom he has helped will be glad to have a full 


S are consecrated. have received much help in its com- 
an 


Townsend. 


oe Bohler. He then went to Cambridge, where he entered at 
inity College, and attended with great interest the lectures of Prof. 
enslow. He was introduced by Henslow to Mr. C. C. Babington, 


life, was always ready to afford, and which none could 
j years, indeed, he worked more 
hi a 


With books and less with plants; but his willingness to be of 
he same. i 

‘ his residence at Cambridge he manifested his interest 

in botany in other ways. He was one of the early Fellows of the 

‘Journan or Botany.—Vou. 24. [June, 1886.] M 


162 WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 


ford ; in 1848, Melilo arvensis q at — and oe 
Picridis** at Com batho, pre five miles west of Cambridge, where 
* was then cur urate-in-ch ‘Be, and penne, in 1856, he sent the 


on ei was materially assisted by Mr. New- 
bould at a tata period in his ‘Flora of Essex,’ fearing that a 
notice of Melilotus arvensis (‘ Phytologist, iii. 481) might have 
been misunderstood, as attributing - discovery to him, wrote to 
disclaim the honour, heading his communication, ‘‘ Mr. New- 
bould the discoverer of Melilotus cana and crediting the first 
finding to “one of our most accurate yet diffident of botanists” 

—no inapt phrase for describing the man 4 to the day i his 


scientionsness, etait and paticane which were such ete 
featur in Mr. Newb ould :—“ I value very much what you have 8? 


Previous to this, however, and shortly after leaving Cambridge, 


where he took his awe = 1842, Mr. Newbould was curate of 


Bluntisham, in Huntingdonshire, having been ordained a deacot 
of the Established Shes ee 1844, and priest in 1845. He sub- 
ge 


‘Bot. Gazette,’ i. 57 (1849). : 
as 63, where th e plant is styled F. agraria. } «Fl. Cambridgeshire, hire,’ 3. 
s ‘Ann. Mag. Nat. Bist Ged Bek i Engl. Bot. coms 
“Phytologist, il 540. ** “Engl. Bot. Suppl.’ 2056. 


WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 163 


sequently removed to Comberton, where he married Miss Fendall, 
& mece of the rector, the Rev. James Fendall, after which event he 
resided for some time at the adjoining village of Toft, there being 
| no house suitable at Comberton. While here he made the acquaint- 
: ance of Mr. W. Mathews, now of Birmingham, but then at St. 
| John’s College. 

While at Bluntisham he was not idle, as is shown by the 


wens, With various manuscript notes, in the form of ‘ Newbould 
S.”” («Top. Bot.’ ed. i. 580). He also contributed catalogues 
marked for Surrey, Middlesex, Cambridge, and 8.W. Yorkshire. 

It was during his residence at Bluntisham that he made the 


q ae _l accepted his invitation, and, when the term ended, went to 
3 ~ Untisham. On this occasion I remember being struck with his 
"Sat t i tion on subjects which more especially 
interested him, such as botany, poetry, and metaphysics, and the 
vy of the latter as based on phrenology which had great 

igen for him. The great phrenologist Spurzheim had nurse 
» 48 a boy, on his knee. His mind was remarkably open to 


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their friendship may have been established through this circum- 
Stance. The tribute in ‘Topographical Botany’ to Mr. Newbould’s 
Seneral helpfulness may be quoted here :—‘‘In various modes I 
have been assisted by Mr. Newbould, while writing this and former 
_ Works. Indeed that gentleman’s ever readinees to take trouble on 

behalf of other botanists is too well known to need eulogy from my 


164 WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 


pen ; _— it may be allowable here to record an expression of 
my own grateful sense of his can Sere = disinterested zeal in 


reception they met with somewhat surprised those who had pre- 
viously known him only through his writings. In January, 1881, 
an absurd rumour as to wn authorship of ‘ English Botany,’ ed. 3, 
was the occasion of a letter from Mr. Watson to Mr 
which, with a chaselouce reply, will be found in this Journal for 
1881, p. 89. He did not say much about it, but he was manifestly 
pained by the somewhat harsh tone of the letter, which, — ne 
answer, he circulated widely among British botanists. He sen 
copy to Dr. Boswell, who, Mr. Watson thought, might have eas 
injured by the rumour; but this was ane! scknowledged, to 
Newbould’s great regret. Mr. Boulger writes :-—* Mr. ewbould 
used to say that he believed he might ike ‘acodih to himecl for 
having to some _ brought Mr. Syme and ‘English Botany’ 
together, since, knowing that Mr. Suse was meditating some inde- 
pendent work on British veo and that the proprietors of ‘ Engli 
any’ were intending to issue a new edition of that work, which 
might have fallen into ate thoroughly oo hands, he persu 
Mr. Syme to undertake the work and t e publishers to entrust it to 
him.” He was one of those who = aah Mr. Watson's grave at 


coach, and his shoulder was put out. I found a doctor at once 
(thank God) and got it put in, and we returned to Largo, where 
Prof. Goodsir was visiting his brotlier, and took charge of W. W. N-» 
keeping him there for several weeks. Then we returned to England 
When Babington was preparing his ‘ Revision of the 


v9 
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WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 165 


and it was now collected by the two botanists ‘‘on the shore of 
7 Lough Neagh, by Shanes Castle,” Co. Antrim, on Sept. 9th, 1852. 
His specimens, with this locality and date, are in the Herbarium of 

the British Museum, where a large number of plants collected by 
| Mr. Newbould are to be found. When Messrs. Trimen and Dyer 
| were engaged on the ‘Flora of Middlesex,’ Mr. Newbould was 


3 

| crossing from Milford Haven to Waterford. 

: _ In 1860 Mr. Newbould, who was then living at Turnham Green, 

: visited the Department of Botany at the British Museum, where he 
soon made himself at home. His chief attraction here was the 
Herbarium of Adam Buddle, preserved in the Sloane Collection, 

| which was long his ideal of what a herbarium ought to be, and 


| synonyms.” In the first number was published the plant now 
united by many botanists with Ranunculus penicillatus under the 


edition of Babington’s ‘ Manual’ (1867) ; and Mr. Carruthers —o 
i : . rm. ; 
1867, 184. Mr. Newbould stoutly disclaimed any responsibility for 


hee by Mr. Newbould as 7 doubt ~ his wegen 

he withdrew from the Department of Botany tor many \ 

The breach, however, was at length happily healed, and Mr. oa 

bould felt himself able to resume his studies in the —— 

_ Sotany, where he always seemed more at home than anywhere else, 
_ €xcept in the Reading-room of the Museum, 


166 WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 


Mr. G. §. Gibson’s ‘ Flora of Essex’ appeared in 1862: and for 


some time previous to this Mr. Newbould had been working at the 
botany of the county, with a view to helping in the work. Mr. 


N 
very greatly indebted for the assistance which he has most kindly 
and freely rendered. In addition to the time bestowed on ancient 


authorities and herbaria, he has undertaken excursions into several — 


of the districts, for the purpose of noting localities; and, besides 
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noted that his plants were “labelled with more care and critical 


Frenchman at Bangor on the 12th of August, and M. Gay refers to 
Mr. Newbould as ‘“‘un auxiliare trés-utile dans l’exploration pro- 
etee, vu que c'est un homme des plus versés dans les détails 


spécifiques de la botanique anglaise, quoiqu’il n’ait rien écrit, que 


al 


WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. _ 167 


who had no access to a large library. Here he transcribed for the 
the ‘Cybele Hibernica’ a MS. of Patrick Browne’s, 


It was in 1864 that I made Mr. Newbould’s acquaintance. He 

alled on me in connection with a note on some introduced plants 

which had appeared at Kew Bridge, which I had published in this 

aaa for Dec., 1868 (p. 875), which number also contained the 
e 


Hutchinsia alpina a British plant?’’: and I believe I am right in 
i i Oo 


ec. on 


the docks, the dimorphic-leaved pondweeds, and the avieu 
Polygona, he was never tired of observing and expatiating upon 


168 WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD, 


an excursion on his own account he should most likely turn 
ee 


into the first field and stay there till night-time. 
About this time Messrs. Trimen and Dyer began to er by 
9), an r. 


suggestions, and much help in many ways,” and also say, “ The 
v. W. W. Newbould requires special mention, for his care in 
helping to correct the proof-sheets.” 


‘ Contributions to the Flora of Berkshire’ for the Newbury District 
Field Club: the list he furnished me with was of plants noticed 


ment soon sprang up between the two botanists, who, in some 
respects widely dissimilar, had many points in common. r. 
Newbould took many excursions with Mr. Pryor, and was deeply 
interested in his intended Flora of Hertfordshire. On the death of 


took most active interest during the last decade of his life were 
those of Hampshire and West Yorkshire. He was. also much 
pleased with Mr. Bagnall’s ‘ Flora of Warwickshire,’ published m 


the ‘ Midland Naturalist.’ For the Hampshire Flora he undertook 


ts of the county, in company with — 


WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 169 


its author, his old and valued friend, Mr. Townsend; and in the 
preface of the work (published in 1882) is the following acknow- 
oo aga = his assistance :——‘* I am especially indebted to the Rev. 
d, more a pa for reference to British oe 
Sahesiomn: localities, as well as to old authorities, in which he 
known to be so well versed. Alt ners I have myself barrens 


have been far less accurate and complete ‘ad it not been for his 
valued help. 


? > 1) 
Mr. Newbould, not without great difficulty, to undertake the duties 
until an shoatitbenk should be found. Of his work at Honington, 


much liked. His delivery, though somewhat m nous, was 
clear and distinct. His sermons were, I believe, pero compiled 
from well-known s ble was, I know, a favourite writer. 


He depreciated his individual teaching and iifesiee in private, 
strong though was his faith. In the house of God he seemed to 
gain strength, and his faith stood him better in ste 

departure, when the living was —— was as regretted by the 


rds. During 

his residence at Kew, which began in 1879, he was a constant 
helper in the services both at Kew and Petersham 

The West Yorkshire Flora may literally be said to have been 

Mr. Netebould’s last botanical interest. The first or introductory 

volume was published in 1878, and was dedicated by the see 

Messrs. J. W. Davis and F. A. Lees, to Mess rs. Baker and 


a Riding and a work that alike owe much to his profound botanical 
research.” In the preface, too, Mr. Newbo uld is mentioned as one 
“without whose =— unselfishly rendered — the Flora could 
never have been written.” The second volume of the book, con- 
taining the Flora iteelf, had been ae delayed. ‘Mr. Baker writes :— 
“During his last illness, after he had been confined to bed many 
days, and appeared to be ser onys a san came to me containing 


The last wor ve on which Mr. Newbould was engaged before 
his illness was transcribing Surrey localities for Mr. Beeby from 
Mr. Watson’s herbarium. He had Aves for some time been engaged 


170 : WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 


in going through the works of Turner, Gerard, Parkinson, How, 
Merrett, Ray, and others, and copying out under their respective 
counties the various localities given for British plants. 

The appearance of a new edition of Babington’s ‘Manual,’ 
and, in later years, of the ‘ Student’s Flora,’ was an event of 
the greatest interest to Mr. Newbould. He would go carefully 
through it, page by page, noting the changes, however slight, 


is sm. 
carried about with him a copy of Bay's ‘Synopsis,’ so that 
he might obtain in it the autograph of any botanist he happened 


or many years, and especially since he took up his residence 

at Kew, his chief friends were Mr. and Mrs. Baker, who looked after 

his comfort in many ways up to the time of his death. Mr. Baker 

writes :—‘‘I first made his personal acquaintance nearly thirty 

years ago at a dinner at Mr. Syme’s, the other guests at which were 

Mr. Watson and Dr. Dickie. I had his company on <a 
an 


Derbyshire, the botanical results of which haye been published in 
the Jo r elsewhere; and he helped me most gladly im 


against being considered as part author. On the occasion of this 


Rogers and Mr. J. E. Bagnall, of which he spoke with great 
pleasure ook in the 1884 meeting of the British 
Association at York, and was selected to carry the bishop's staff at 
the Sunday service h ster. After meeting he jc ined 

f. Babington at Grange-over-Sands, and as usual much enjoyed 
botanical rambles in hi npany. His last excursion was one 


with Mr. Baker in the north of Surrey, to hunt u r L 
stations for Mr. Beeby, the results of which are recorded in this 


would hardly be possible to name a living British botanist 
to whom Mr. Newbould had not in some way been helpful ; and it 
seemed somewhat strange that so few assembled round his grave 
to show him the last signs of respect. He himself was careful to 
pay this little tribute to those whom he had known. He was 


& WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 


remark, sometimes led to amusing circumlocutions. 


171 


when 


~~ 


asked his opinion of one whom he took for a botanical ramble, he 


time, though he hasn’t said anything about it. 
occasion I asked him if some one—not a botani 

man: and he said, “ 
deal of slothful energy. 


* Qn another 
was not a lazy 


anist— 
Well, I would rather say that he had a good 


his devotion to botany may be said to have been 


ug 
Mr. Newbould’s leading characteristic, his inter 
d his information singularly varied. He 
i i h 


earlier “‘ High Church” party, he was able to appreciate the good 
r ini He ha 


c = oe | 
you heartily for it.’ 
Was so simple, and yet so earnest and so good. 


172 WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 


down with Mrs. Townsend, and put her cloak and his hat on the 
table on which my box stood; and on their leaving he was very 
busy getting the cloak and hat; so as soon as he had gone I looked 


bould were again in Wales), wrote to Mr. Carruthers from Llanberis, 
ing :—‘t His sermon was all 

excellent one, and, but fo 

manner, excellently well preached. It was on the text, ‘How shall 


more energy of manner would have made it all that could be 


nervous hands, 
dusky 
_ bowed 


WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 178 


felt hat, and shabby, ill-cut clothes, powdered with dirt of museums, 
shiny with friction of desks, piteous often in their lack of a woman’s 
hand to keep them neat or mended, their palpable insufficiency to 
meet the severities of wind and weather to whic 


pove 
indestructible stamp of refinement, of gentle birth and gentle 
culture, which was one of the most delicately-marked characteristics 
of the man, whose absolute humility, whose absence of every vestige 
of pretension, was his most striking virtue. .... . , worke 
im the world where he worked for others always, for himself never, _ 
forget many things and forget them easily; but those of us who 
have grown familiar with the picture thus recalled, who look for it 
m vain in the place where we have so long known it, will scarcely 
do so without a sigh, without a loving reverent remembrance of 
d ” 


Working classes’? had been materially raised during the last 
twenty or thirty years. He was a total abstainer, and almost 
etari 


estive. : n 
ma a matter of surprise to some that Mr. Newbould ne 
rose above the position of curate, but I know that he refused at 
least one living, and this from purely conscientious motives. This 
conscientiousness was one of the marked and strongest features in 
hi oe , som so as to become almost morbid. This 
Prevented him from undertaking anything on his own responsibility ; 

€ was a strong support to others, but he hesitated to act where 
he would have to take the most prominent part, or would have to 

Test on his own jud ake : 
ess which terminated fatally in the early morning of 


Winter he was knocked down by a cab in the streets of London. — 
No bones were broken, and it did not evidently seem to injure him 
much then, but the accident gave a shock to his system. He caught 
cold at the time, and in the severe weather of March this became 
The inflammation was 


symptoms of weak action of the heart appeared, and on Thursday, — 
the 15th of April, he grew rapidly worse, and died the following 
Morning. : i 
His name is commemorated “ agen the —- rs 
Roniaceous genus Newbouldia, whic - Seemann uamed 
him (as “oak of the most painstaking of British botanists ) in the 
first volume of this Journal (1868, p. 225). 


174 ANGOLAN SELAGINE. 


Those who form their estimate of a man’s finftidnde and ability 
from the number and magnitude of the works standing in 


a: 
, 
eel 


_ 80 kind and considerate to om inferiors, whether in position or 
in attainments, and so deeply and sincerely regretted by every 
student of British botany, as William Williamson Newbould. 


James BRITTEN. : 


ANGOLAN SELAGINEZ. 
By R. A. Roure, A.L.S. 


Turez species of this small order were collected by the late 
Dr. Welwitsch in Angola, two of which have been met with by 


of view i ; 

genus Lagotis, the remainder of the order is almost concentrated m 

extra-tropical South Africa, the exceptions being a single species of 
ischisma, identical with a Cape species, in Australia, a few specie 


genera on the western side of the Continent, and it is ne to 
note that the species are distinct from those found elsew. On 
= eastern side Hebenstreitia dentata L. is found on Mt. Kilimanjaro 

the mountains of Abyssinia, as well as at the Cape; while Selago 
in [ Sremnted y 3. lacunosa Kl. i Mounuiee by two peculiar 
species on Mt. Kilim manjaro, a: one or two others, as yet un- 
described, from other localitie 


Hebenstreitia angol sp. — A branching perennial 
herb, 2 ft. or more high, ‘wath erect leafy minutely puberulous 
branches ; ; the minute retrorse hairs generally in decurrent lines 
from the leaf-bases. Leaves usually somewhat fascicled, narrowly = 

linear, ee entire, glabrous, 1-8} in. long, 4-1} lin. wide. 
Spikes slender, 4-6 in. long, with numerous flowers. Bracts con- 
cave, ovate, obtuse or pclae often ending in a distinch 
apiculus, glabrous, 14 lin. long. Calyx spathaceous, concave, ; 
ovate, subacute, submembranaceous with 2 or sometimes 8 nerves, 
1 lin. ine Corolla } in. long, 1-lipped, split down for nearly two- 

of its length; lip subequally aes the outer lobes broader 


ANGOLAN SELAGINEX. 175 


than the inner ones, none of them exceeding ¥ lin. long. Stamens 
and _ os in genus. Fruit oblong, 2 lin. 1 

n Angola, Welwitsch, n. 4786, « fre eq. in paucis locis 
jux as Riva m de Humpata, corolla albida disco labio macula longa 
lataque seieois aurantiaca vel imo coccineo picta, April 1860”; 
also n. 4787, ‘In dumetis ad rivulos sed rarius, Jan. 1860.” 

Alli ied to H. integrifolia L. and H. dentata L., but with longer 
leaves than either of them. It is further distinguished from the 
latter by its — — All the species of this gr —_ are closely 
allied, and difficult to distinguish by satisfactory char 

e waoet oes roides, .—A perennial res oe ft. high, 
with numerous parses or  pabessent ate simple leafy branches 
from a decumbent branching base. Leaves fascicled, very narrowly 
u 


very short congested lateral branchlets. Bracts very narrowly 
linear, obtuse, gla brous or ciliate near the base, 3 lin. long, a little 
adnate to calyx at extreme base. Calyx tripartite, 3 lin. long, its 
lobes linear- oblong, obtuse, ciliate, the superior lo sho 
than the lateral ones. Corolla-tube } lin. lon ng, tobe obovate- 
oe those of the lower ip equalling the tube, of cic lip a little 
shorter. Stamens and pistil as in genus. Fruit n 

Hab Angola, Welwitsch, n. 4789, * In rae oer prope 
Lapel, ‘floribus albido-violaceis, Dec. 1859”’; also n. 4790, in same 
locality, e tigre violaceis, Jan. 1860’’; Chella Mouitalaa: #1; Be 
Johnston, Sept. 1888. All in the Huilla ‘district. 

A most distinct species, allied to S. lacunosa KI. of oe 
though differing in habit. The latter, together with the 
ee spike-like panicles, reminds one of certain ieelan “of 

é 


s linear or linear- sycora obtuse, puberulous, 1-1} lin. long. 
Gage deeply 5-fid, pubescent, 3 lin. long, its lobes linear, obtuse, 
and ciliate. Corolla-tube eae 1-14 lin. long, lobes oblong or 
roundish-oblong, those of the lower lip one-third as long as the tube, 
of upper lip still shorter. ae and pistil as in genus. Fruit 
ge gga globose, 3 lin 
In Angola, in the Huilla district, Welwitsch, n. 4788, 
Ubiguit aria in dumetosis collinis cireo Lopolo, Hloribus lete 
vilest Jan. 1860.” Okahandya, Damara-land, Dr. E Hépfner, 
n. 42, Ma 882. 
. A Wesco species, not very nearly allied to eae, as yet 
eser 


x 


176 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND 
NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


By tHe Rev. W. Moytz Rocers, F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 148). 


Salia fragilis L. I. Bude (Hind).—S. alba L. I. Bude (Hind). 
Marhamehurch. II. By canal, Bridgerule. — ¢. vitellina. L 
Poughill (Hind). III. icnhilenia Planiakic on, — 8. triandra L. 
III. Bridge Moor, one tree. — S. viminalis L. I. Marhamehureh. 
Il. Whitstone. III. Near Bridgerule Church.—S. Smithiana Willd. 
(aggregate). I. eee. — S. rugosa Leefe. I. Leancel 
— §. acuminata Sm. I. Poughill (Hind). — S. cinerea L. — 

aurita L. — S. caprea L. — * 8, psi B. tenuifolia? L. Week 


ind). ‘ _ 
Yealm Bridge and Whitstone, with 3 two parents, aurita and 
repens” (Baker). I believe that I have also seen this “occasionally 
0 a 


three forms, commo The foregoi ing” is a wholly inadequate 
account of the aia atin of Salix species, as I have no critical 
knowledge of the genus. 

Typha latifolia L. I. and IT. 4 caer) in several places. 

Sparganium ramosum L. iplex Huds. ncommon. 
II. and III. Reservoir. By canal, Sila. IV. Stream below 
Sutcombe. 

A culatum Li. I have not toa localities on record for 
this, but it is no doubt quite common 

Lemna minor 


Potamogeton natans L. IL. Canal ‘olce b at Bridgerule. iil. 
Bridgerule :——pools in Tatson Lane and Hoskin’s Moo r Plantation. 
Dux Common. IV. Near Okehampton. — - po olygonifolis Pour. 


—P, crispus L. IL. and Ill. Canal aed river, and Bridgerule mill- 
stream, in great quantity, 1882. — P. pusillus L. With the last. 

Zostera marina L. 1. Bude (Hind), 

Triglochin palustre L. I. Northeot Mouth. Bude (Hind!), 
stan and salt-marsh, with 7. maritimum L. 

dlisma Plantago L. wen cycigiameeet spria a 

Orehis mascula L. Rare or uncommon, so far as I have been 
able to observe. — O. latifolia L. Adetaents: i. e., including 
incarnata, to which (in its wider application) the plants W. hich 
I have examined seem chiefly, if not wholly to belong. The fles at 

mites form of incarnata has not yet been found, I believe, 
Devon or E. Cornwall. — O. maculata L. 

Habenaria viridis Brown. IV. Moorland pasture near Ashbury, 
in good | quantity, 1885. — H. bolia Bab. Man. Locally ssa 
i I. Greena Moor. Jacobstow. Boscastle, marshy slope 

March near Tresparrot. III. Bridge Moor, 1982- 

Chureh ude, Bridgerule. Tinney Moor. Moors on Duns- 
land Cross. IV. Moors about Bradworthy, Sutcombe, north of 
Holsworthy, Beaworthy, and Ashbury. — H. chlorantha Bab. 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 177 


Minster and Boscastle Valleys, abundant. [III. Between Parnacott 
and Holsworthy, in bushy ground, a plant or two. Most probably 
chlorantha, but the dowedie were withered]. 


__Spiranthes autumnalis Rich. Uncommon. I. High carboniferous 
cliffs south of Bude (Baker). Field near Hoppicott Down, several. 
anson mere one tines pag Lower 


IIL. 
Near Hollaton. IV. U gworthy Moo 
Listera ovata Bro own. Unco mmon. I. Thicket between Knowle 


IV. Moor Bee ep, and Ashbury (one plant, 1885). 


Epi 
Dianintion, cata oadside near Rector ry. Ill. Bridg erule and Soak 
Parnacott, in plenty. N. Tamerton. Dandland Cross. Bridesto 
(Keys’ Fl. Dev. and Cornw.). IV. tambien, GO E. pulaebls 
Crantz. III. Bridgerule a in pat quan 


Tris fetidissima lke.B i ot adie Knowle. Lang- 
ford Hill Plantation. IL. Ditches ‘bovwci Red Post and Whit- 
seri (Baker). — I. Pseudacorus L. (b. acoriformis the only form 
opsery. 


: Marden Pseudo-Narcissus L. Denizen. I. Hedge-banks near 
ampton (Mrs. Kennedy). About Knowle. Hedges between 
Burrow and Burrow Cross. II. Northern end of Burn Plantation, 
by canal. About Newacott. III. In several places (plantations, 
orchards, &c.). 

Galanthus nivalis L. Alien. I. Kilkham mpton (Mrs. Kennedy). 
Knowle. II. Newacott. III. Tatson Orchard and Bridgerule 
Vicarage Plantation, in great quantity. Tetcott Rectory Orchard. 

amus communis L. 
Polygonatum seer ponte All. I. Hedge-banks, Kilkhampton 


(Mrs. Kenned Langford Hill Plantation, in great quantity. 
Ii. ridgerule Viearage por ai a fifteen or twenty years 
ago, and still only r three plan 

Convallaria cobs ‘. Alien. I. > oteanils 


(Hind). 
Ruscus aculeatus L. Denizen. III. Pg near ee 
I aco 


this coast. I have seen it at Mortchoe, near .—S. verna 
Hu I. Exceedingly <panaast from Sendytcnth. to Trebarwith. 
—S. nutans Sm. ae 
pei stbiricum L, I. “ Tintagel, below the church "’ (Keys’ 
Fl. Dey. and Cornw.). — 4. ursinum L. Rather uncommon. I. 
mpton (Mrs Kenn ly). Bude Stratton M urch. 
Week St. M . By the river at N. Tam 
-astarager oe Huds. — Ce 


EEL, ‘Toteoti. 1 have suavehed iat vei foe rameters weer sito 
Journat or Borany.—Vow. 25. [Junz, 1886.] N 


178 oN THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


Rich. Local. I. About Stratton, in plenty; as also at St. Knigh- 
ton’s Kieve and in Minster Valley. IV. About Okehampton.— 
L.. campestris DC.— L. multiflora Koch. Type and congesta exceed- 
ingly common. 
goles naritimus Sm. I. Bude (Hind !), on Summerleaze Down. 
of ponglomer nis L. — J. effusus L. — J. glaucus Sibth. Locally 
sbondan I. Kilkhampton. Bude. Widmouth. II. and IL. 
Se. Tetcott. — J. acutiflorus Ehrh. — J. lamprocarpus 
Hhrh. (Dr. Hind = Mae itellus, but without locality).— J. supinus 


Mench.— J, bufonius L.-- J. squarrosus L. I. Kilkhampton (Mrs. 
Kennedy). IV. Soo Seiconbe Moorland near Ashbury. 
Cladium Maryons Brow x Morsriniou (Hind, 1873). I 


believe the only E. Compal locality kno 
Scirpus palustris L, — 8, wesilabenilis sige Rather common. 
a Moo Ii. 


ar 
ury. — S. pauciflorus ‘Light. Very rare, as in §.W. England 
generally. I. Summerleaze Down, 1882.—S. cespitosus L. Appa- 
rently rare. IV. Moors, at aah no and Ashbury, 1885. — 8. 
— L. Rather common. I. Greena Moor. II. Bridge Moor, 
1882. 


st ey. a by : £ 
Bridgerule and Tinney, common. IV, Baloo: Okehampton. 
—S. Tabernamontani Gmel. I. Rive r, &c., Bud e (Baker!), in great 
quantity. (Dr. Hind, omitting this, gives « S. caste L, B ; Bude, 
&c.,”’ applying the name, I SREP We aggregately).—S, mariuumus L. 
I. Bude Canal (Hind !). — S. sylvaticus L. IIL. By the Tamar. 

‘riophorum angustifolium Roth. 

Carex pulicaris L.— C. arenaria LL. I. Bude ( ares and Wid- 
mouth. — C. paniculata L. Not very common. I. Simondsham. 
III. Bridgerule Bog. Swamp * Bridgerule and Nouns Road. 
—C. vulpina L. By coast from Sandymouth to Bude. Stratton. 
Il. By canal, Bridgerule. — C. muricata L. I. Poughill (Hind). 
Stratton. Marhamehurch. Boscastle, in plenty on hill above 
Hotel, and in one spot near Forrabury Church. ae Valley. 
Tintagel. Rare, or very local, in the other districts. Ll. N. 
Tamerton. — C, re Ry Good. — C. remota L.— C. ovalis Good.— 

C. vulgaris Fries.— C. glauca Scop.— C. pases L. I. Common. 

Il. Near Littlebridge. III. Near W orthen. ng Common. . 

Okehampton.— ne precox Jacq.— C. panicea L.— dula aha ee 
= 


only where perce: sylvatica Huds.—C. — Sm. a 

Tne (Mrs. Kennedy !). Boscastle and Minster Valleys. IV. : 
Near Okehampton. — C. binervis Sm. — C. distans L. I. Bude, in 

‘Plenty. — C:Jutra Goo. Hemarkably. oo common on the moors.— 


Seite ey Later ee eae 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING Districts. 179 


C. extensa Good. I. Bude. — C. flava L. (probably including, as 
Mr. Briggs has implied, the “ C. deri Ehrh. Morwinstow,” of Dr. 
Hind’s list), Ve ery common, and all coming under the one form now 
considered to be minor (the lepidocarpa of Lon. Cat., Ed. 7). 

hirta L. Rather uncommon. I. Sat ndymouth. Northeot Mouth. 
Bude. Titson. Week St. Mary. Minster Valley. III. Bridge- 
rule, in two or three spots. —— C. riparia Curtis. I. Canal at Bude. 


. I. By stream 
south of Greena Moor. III. Near Parnacott, ditch by peril ef 
Road. By Reservoir. IV. Near Bradwo rthy. — C. vesicaria L. 
II. and Ul. On both sides of the river pin possi Fridearals to 


Anthoxanthum odoratum 
raphis arundinacea Trin. 


Phalaris canariensis L. Alien. I. Bude, &e. (Hinds), III. 


Alopecurus genicula ie te A. pratensis L. Not observed in 
Iand II. III. Bridgerule. Clawton. Holsworthy. IV. Oke- 
m. 


LB — pratense L. (type and b. nodosum). — P. arenarium L. 
ude (Hind !), Widmouth. 
cowboy edger Gaud. I. Marhamchurch (Hind). Hill- 

side east of Wan n Mouth, in considerable quantity ; colonist. 

_ Agrostis pelecten "Curt rtis. Locallycommon. I. Tresparrot Down. 

Lesnewth. III. Parnacott, 1885. a 28 aes Beaworthy and 

Ashbury, in plenty.— A. canina L.—A. alba ee rate ulgaris With. 
pumila, Near 


_ Phragmites communis Trin. Rather ite L gree Bude and 
Widmouth. IT, By Dunsland Cross es 
h Psamma arenaria BR. & 8. 1. Bude oe !) and neigh! ur- 
ood, 


Mili; 
‘Fl. Dev. and Corw.’!). Not seen asc ere. 
Aira cespitosa L. mn caryophyllea L. — A. precox L, iat 
on. I. Widmouth. ‘Bosoaatle and Tintagel. IV. Oke- 


Avena flavescens L. Only locally common, I think. I. About 


7 4. strigosa Schreb. Colonist. Rather frequent. I. Near Wanson 
Mouth (with Gastridium), in plenty. III. Bridgerule, in — 
fields and considerable quantity. Near es ao . wh Ja o% 
os oi I. Poughill (Hind), Marhamehurch. I. Bridgerule. — 


Holew mollis Li. — H. lanatus L. 
riodia decumbens Beauv. 
Keleria cristata Pers. a I. Valley of Rocks. Trebarwith. 


Molinia cearulea, Meench. 

Glyceria fluitans Brown. — b. pedicillata. IIL. pion = 
Several places. — G. plicata Fries. In all the districts nearl, 
Common as fluitans 


180 oN THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS. 


Seler rong maritima Lindl. I, Bude (Baker!).--S. rigida Link. 
Comm ot seen in the other districts. — S. loliacea Woods. 
L. eae: by the sea. 
Poa annua Li. — P. compressa L. IV. Okehampton. — P. pra- 
tensis L. — P. trivialis L. 
Briza media L. Local. I. Bude. Tackbeare. Greena Moor. 
Boscastle (Tellam in Keys’ ‘ Fl. Dev. and Cornw.’!). ILI. Bridge- 
rule. 


Cynosurus cristatus L 

Dactylis glomerata L. 

Festuca sciuroides Roth. I. Rather common. III. Bridgerule 
and Pyworthy, in a few spots only. Near Suga. — Raha 
station. IV. Near be mete Penner mpton. — F. oie 

rubra Li. — F. elatio ensis Huds. I Northeot Mouth. 

Bbibastie (type and by waaay. f in vplbhty: III. Bridgerule. 

romus giganteus LL. — B. asper i — common, and 
on the Devon side of the river very ra I. Occasionally between 
Stratton and Burrow. Tackbeare. IL. Bains een Bridgeral Village 
and the canal. Whitstone. III. Ash Grove. — B. sterilis L. — 

emosus ‘Iy,.” Fairly common (Dr. Hind, omitting this, gives, 
without locality, commutatus, which I have not met wi ith). -- B. 
mollis L. 

oe sylvaticum a : 8. 


Triticum repens L. — T. acutum DC. I. Bude (Baker !). — T- 
junceum a I. Bude (Hind . Northcot Mouth to Widmouth, 
frequent. 


Lolium perenne Li. — L. italicum Braun. ahauick — L. temu- 
lentum L. I. Bude (Baker).—b. arvense. I. on (Hind). 
Field by Greena Moor (1883). = Bee in “Feld nt wheat, 
in plenty (1885). Casual or coloni 
Lepturus filiformis Trin. I. Bude, beach and near breakwater. 
aaron murinum L. re. I. Bude. 
Trickomanes radicans Swartz. Particulars of the circumstances 
under which this fern was seen at St. pa oie Kieve, Distr. I. 
Keys’ ‘ Fl. 


unknown to me at.the time of my one hurried visit to the mes 
(1882). There seems to be no record of its recent occurrence there-] 
Adiantum we eneris L. I. Boscastle (Hind). 
a 
Lomaria Spica ‘ant t Desy. 
Asplenium oescrerehine L. — A. Trichomanes L. Rare. I. 
Minster i d hill above Boscastle, in good quantity. Tre- 
ith. Werrington. III. Bridgerule, on bridge over & small 
stream, two or three plants. Tetcott, one dant (1883). — 4. 
marinum Li. I. Bude (Hind). Boscastle and Valley of Rocks, 
rather frequent, and extending nearly half a mile inland. Tintagel 


species). Tre ith. — A. lanceolatum Huds. I. Minster. Bos- 
ss — tach wall near Biotaly _ ock-fissures. oS of oreo 


lantum-n I. and 
Rather common II. Ne se, Bee brdgerul, fairly frequent. 


ON THE FLORA OF THE UPPER TAMAR AND NEIGHBOURING Districts. 181 


Clawton. IV. eegeers $8 rm in much of the country 
between the Tamar and Dart 

Athyrium Filia-femina Bernh 

Ceterach officinarum Willd. ‘L. Walls of the bridge at Yealm 
Bridge (Baker). 

Scolopendrium vulgare Sm. 

Aspidium aculeatum Sw. Rare. III. Bridgerule :—-hedge-bank 


e 
hear Furze, in several spots; [Vicarage oe planted]. 
Hedge-bank near North cameion Bridge. — A. angulare Willd. 

Nephrodium Filix-mas Rich. (type aoa ¢. Borreri ry com- 
mon. — b. affine. ridgerule. spinulosum Desv. 
Kilkhampton Gawd who also gives ‘‘ glandulosum. "Poughi gl.”, -1.). 

—N, dilatatun Desy. — N. emulum Baker. Generally distributed, 
and rather common. — N. Oreopteris Desv. I. Week St. Mary. 
Iu. aga hen hy, and Tinney; in several spots. Near 
Parnacott. IV. Between Soulden Cross and These. Sutcombe. 
ear a rth 


y: 
Polypodium vulgare L. — [P. Phegopteris L. Found not many 
ars ago near Parnacott, III.; but I searched the locality without 
success in 1885] .——P. Dn yopteris L. III. Wall, Bridgerule, two or 
three plants, escaped from former cultivation. 
nda regalis L. I. Minster and Boscastle Valleys, in set 
quantity. and III, Tamar Valley (Hind!), very comm 
i . Tamerton. 


Pe 


Ophioglossum vulgatum L. IV. Beaworthy, between village and 
railway-station, in pies: Moorland pasture near Ashbury Railway- 
Station, in fair quantity 
fe “eh tai Lue Sw. IV. With the last, near Ashbury, a 
_ Equisetum arvense L. -- E. gt tha Vids. I. Poughill (Hind). 
aK a araunie L. I. Week St. Mary, damp wooded hollow east of 
village, May, 1 885 ; fruiting, ca i in ede quantity. I was directed 

.G. H. Ho 


ago. New record for Cornwall. U own in Devon.—F. palustr 
L.—Var. nudum DC. I. Bude Colt ——E. limosum L. L. Torte 
Meadow, Kilkhampton. Bude (Hind). Il. and II. Canal in 


fragilis I. Bude (Hind). — aris L. I 
ra lis ‘Des. u gas 
P oughill I (ttieal !).—Var. sins ie ix ile near ar Lastlebeldge, 
m aa On this Me essrs. H. & J. Groves remark (‘ Journ. Bot.,’ 
1884), ‘This form is distinguished by its nucules having a 
black nucleus, instead of brown, as in the type. Braun remarks 
that it is very rare.’ , 
Nitella flewilis Ag. II. Canal below Newacott. — N. opaca Ag. 
(? II. Canal below aber! Ill. Canal near the Reservoir. 
Stream south of Affaland Down 


182 


NEW FERNS COLLECTED BY J. B. THURSTON, ESQ., 
IN FIUI. 


By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 


In an 7 eee recently made by the Colonial Secretary of 
Fiji, J. B. Thurston, Esq., C.M.G., across = mountains of Viti 
Levu, the following new ferns were discovered. The numbers 
Pie: their position in the sequence tollowed:i in our ‘ Synopsis 


ur 
the mi of the pinnules above. inne oblong-lanceolate, 
1-14 ft. me 7-8 in. broad; their rachises castaneous, naked ; 
lower —— reduced in size. Pinnules lanceolate, 8-4 in. long, 


3-3 in. broad, cut down to the midrib into numerous adnate 
as oblong enti or crenate tertiary segments 1-12th in. broad, 
with a distinct space between Veins 12-15 jugate, 


at most 10-12 to a segment. Indusia cup-shaped, oe firm 
in texture, — at the throat, often turned over on the side, 
remaining entire or finally breaking up into two or ‘three pieces.— 
Allied to C. affinis Swarts and C. Milnei Hook. 

ophila dissitifolia, n. sp. — Candex short. Fronds 
ample, tripinnate, 4—5 ft. long, moderately firm in texture, green 
and oe rous on both surfaces, paleaceous on the midrib of the 
tertiary segments beneath. Pinne oblong-lanceolate, above a foot 
long, half a foot broad, their pee cet unarmed castaneous rachises 
slightly raceous and minutely gs wegfee Pinnules lanceo- 
late, pinnate, distinctly stalked, 8-84 in. long, 3-3 in. bro ad. 
Tertiary segments linear-oblong, airiaieiiie. the sterile ones 


lobe, reaching to a apex of the segments, often 14-16 to a 
segment.— Allied to A. Hornei, truncata, and decurrens. 

146.* prin His (LastrEA) maximum sp. — Caudex 
short, erect. Stipe short. Frond ample, Ren ft. 


a foo 
inate, cut away on the lower side at the base. Tertiary seg- 
ments lanceolate-deltoid, unequal-sided sessile, cuneate-truncate 
on the lower side at the base; ultimate lobes ascending, linear- 
oblong, obtuse. —- forked or simple in the ultimate tae 
Sori costular, one at the base of each ultimate lobe. Indusi 


; 


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NEW FIJI FERNS. 188 


large, glabrous, fargo tnt Baeigeati —-A large tree- “ns like 
Lastrea, allied to the Sam N. arborescens Baker, with pinne 
like whole unde of N. paiteak 
186.* Nephrodium (Eunersnoprom) decadens, n. sp.— 
drab, finely pubescent, 8~4 in. long. Fronds oblong. tdpollae 
long, 4-5 in. b re) 


half-way down to the fable bigs ‘close obione entire lobes oe 12th in. 
road. Veins simple, 5-6-jugate, only the lowest pair distinctly 
united apart from the sinus. Sori small, medial on the veins. 
Indusium minute, fugacious. — Inter mediate between N. seg 
and N. molle. Nearly allied to the Philippine N. ae ular 

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- crassifrons and the Himalayan P. khasyanum. 


SHORT NOTE. 
Oxcuts Morio witn two Cotumns.—Early in May I oe up a 
specimen ‘of this Orbis: with a double ataes Duplication of parts 


ain a 
component parts of the column. But abiaalicoh of the latter must 
be explained in another way. Both in the presen nt instance were of 
equal size _ appearance, each bearing an anther eee two 

Pollen masses, and were ee about half-wa the base. 
Both diverged from the same point with their tribe evidently 
formed <b the splitting or division of one vascular bu bundle. In one 
anther ollen masses were perfect, with their caudicles united 


been held by the eine ans the passage towards 
solitary pouch-shaped rostellum. The flower a as a whole was large, 
but otherwise normal in all its parts. —J. 


184 THE LONDON CATALOGUE OF BRITISH PLANTS. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


A NEW ‘LONDON CATALOGUE.’ 
The London Catalogue of British Plants. Part i. Containing the 
British [and Irish] Phenogamia, Filices, Equisetacer, Lyco- 


Edition. [Edited by Frepericx J. Hansury). : Bell 
& Sons. 8vo, pp. 88. Price 6d. : cloth, 1s.; Generic index 
on card, 2d. 

In producing this small work Mr. Hanbury has performed a 
great service. The want of a new London Catalogue has long been 
felt—to use a stereotyped expression which in this case is strictly 
accurate—but it could hardly have been hoped that the want would 
have been so thoroughly supplied. No edition had appeared since 

4—for we may ignore, save as a literary curiosity, the so-called 
‘eighth edition,” issued in 1888, which was a mere reprint of the 
preceding, and invited “inquirers” to address their remarks to the 
compiler, Mr. Watson, who had been two years dead! 

é can well understand that at first this Catalogue will create 
a certain amount of dismay and bewilderment. Cardinal Newman, 


own p i 
clergymen” at the exalted view taken by the ‘Christian Year’ of their 
privileges and responsibilities: and similar wonderment will fall on 

y be 


hand what was meant by Scirpus Caricis, Linaria viscida, Helianthe- 
( ‘alluna Erica, Arenaria sulcata, Calamintha 
arvensis, and very many more: an id to find an 


to that which has been p 
ition vouch eo 


THE LONDON CATALOGUE OF BRITISH PLANTS. 185 


t, to his 
intended that they shoul re quoted on his own authority.” Such 
are Trifolium medium, Alopecurus bulbosus, Dipsacus rae Mentha 
rotundifolia, Mentha ‘Kirsuta, Scutellaria minor—all of which must 
stand as of Hudson; while Mentha longifolia Huds., Ag ostis palustris 
Huds, , and Trifolium ochroleucon Huds., must replace M. sylvestris 
alba L., and 7. ochroleucum 


this new London Catalogue. It is well rasties and attra nti 
got up; and, being quite indispensable to workers, will do more to 
bring into use the correct nomenclature of ha plants than could 
be acco omplished in any other manner. The numbers have of course 
been rearranged ; they run to 1858, named vahatiels, which are very 


n no “ 
Bellis perennis. In this respect, however, the prese ent edition accords 
With the original issue in 1844, the numbers in which amount to 
1428, nope for a more Gritioal estimate of species and the like, 


many varieties. Comparisons of this sort are very interesting 
and suggestive ; but space will not allow us to pursue them. 


anbury has been fortunate in receiving hel 
8toups from those most fitted to give it. Prof. Babington has 
Tevised the R and, our readers will be glad to know, has pre- 


pared a series of notes on the list for this Journal. Mr. Baker takes 
the Rose es; Mr. Bennett has done Potamogeton; and the Messrs. 


oanieigi-o 
the various ways of citing authorities for names, such as ‘ (Jord. ),” 
a (Wats Bab.” 6c (66 on , « < p-) Br”; «6 «6 Poll, : 
plained. The 


tse), fa 
7" Broh Pawns,” : only the ‘first of ues is ex 


186 HYMENOMYCETES BRITANNICI. 


Moneses grandiflora; Aiton, not Willdenow, for Cyclamen hedere- 
folium ; Erica Mackayi should be spelt Mackaii. « Leestid.” occurs 
more than once for ‘ Laestad.’’; ‘ Leysse”’ is not a good abbrevi- 


ation for Leysser: but the number of misprints or errors is 
sing ew. Some of the varieties have odd na nes, such as 
‘Silene gallic anglica x quinquevulnera, Melvill”; but as 


ety. g, such as ‘ Rumex 
1236 hybridi, ‘teste Trimen”,” followed by seven hybrids; 
“‘Agropyron acutum, non R. & S.,” no authority being given; and 
the odd two-line prefix to the list of Ferns, 

‘* Bot. Ang. Ed. tertia. 
Gen. Seq. Hooker.” ; 

We should like to know more about such entries as “ Botrychium 
1810 (lanceolatum, Angstrém) 2”; ‘ Asplenium Clermonte, Syme 


—a very doubtful plant accor to our way of thinking—should 
have the “I.” for Ireland appended to its name. ‘‘ Deschampsia 
setacea, mihi” (Aira uliginosa Weihe) is, we presume, to be quoted 
as of F. J. H 3 but this is open to question, as Mr. H 


. J. Hanbury ue anbury 
only styles himself editor, and the work is by several hands. The 
black line h 


e “Generic Index on card,” and the shilling issue in limp 
cloth and on stouter paper are useful and practical. We shall be 
glad to know that the present issue of the Catalogue is exhausted, 
so that a still more satisfactory edition may take its place. 


Hymenomycetes Britannici : British Fungi ( Hymenomycetes ). By the 
Rev. Joun Srevenson. Vol. i. Blackwood & Sons. 1886. 
8vo, pp. 872, 89 cuts. 


Tus is the first of two volumes of a work intended to supply 


ig short-lived and variable plants. 
The appearance of a work of this nature is an event of some 
muportance, when we consider how few books we have in 


our 
bject.- It is now just fifty years (1836) since 
Flora,’ by Rev. M. J 


appeared (1860), by same author, con 
Hymenomycetes and some of the larger Ascomycetes. Eleven years 


HYMENOMYCETES BRITANNICI. 187 


he present work and Dr. Cooke, who is issuing his 
uable ‘Illustrations of British Fungi,’ should be engaged in 
d 


Progress made in the study of Myeology during the last fifteen 


ts to. Four 
genera are included in this yolume, one of which may be left out 
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Agaricus— Cooke. Stevenson. 
Leucospori (White-spored) . 280 399 
: Hyporhodii (Pink-spored) . 58 90 
Dermini Sreeieeer . 100 195 
ratelli (Purple-spored)  . 48 75 
Coprinarii (Black-spored) 16 23 
Coprinttsct) 3h Oo Lae ewe ee 33 


Bolbitius . . ‘ 
Total . « - 485 822 


188 : SHORT NOTICES, 


manner of Fries in his ‘ Monographia Hymenomycetum Suecie. 
Two arguments may be urged in favour of this method ; first, that 
it enables the author to incorporate the results of his own personal 
observations in a more succinct form; secondly, the book is 


to the most well-known species and find the descriptions 
clear and accurate mensions of the pileus and stem ar 
given both in centimetres and inches, and when the microscopic 


mark, in some few cases a stri 

disparity in spore measurements, leading to the conclusion that 
those responsible for them must have had different species under 
observation, as, for example, in the following :—Agaricus virosus, 
A. vaginatus, A. stellatus, A. porrigens, A. physaloides and A. micaceus, 
which are selected at random. Convinced as we are of the value 
of carefully-taken measurements of spores, we are pleased to see 
so many given in this work, as we consider it a step in the right 
direction. 


from typographical errors, printed on good paper, and furnished 
with an excellent index: and we shall hail the appearance of the 
second volume with much pleasure. W. Putuies. 


A usrrun ‘Handbook of Plant Dissection’ comes to us from New 
York (Henry Holt & Co.: 8vo, pp. xi. 256, tt. 2), being the joint 
work of the editors of our contemporary the ‘ Botanical Gazette, 

essrs.. J. C. ur, C. R. Barnes, and J. M. Coulter. It is an 

extremely practical work, admirabl rinted, well indexed, and 

easy to consult. e editors say, ‘Although the present work zi 
heres an 


Is issued of late years 


pha, Atrichum undulatum, Adiantum pedatum, Pinus sylvestris, 
Avena sativa, Trillium recurvatum, Capsella ; 

We have received from the author, M. E. Drake del Castillo, 
the first part of a handsome quarto work entitled ‘ Illustrationes 
Flore Insularum Maris Pacifici’ (Paris, asson). The interesting 
introduction gives a brief but comprehensive sketch of the leading 
featur the vegetation of these islands, and of those who have 
mainly contributed to our knowledge of it : we note that the draw- 
ings of G. Forster, about wh; in tl 


a SP yee Tes ey eas ee 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 189 


this number are: Berrya Vescoana Baill., Evodia ee sp.n., E, 
nodulosa, sp.n., . auriculata (Melicope Seach d.), #. emar- 


ginata, sp.n ,E. Lepinei Baill., sp.n., Sclerotheca asad A. DC., 


S. Forsteri, gp. n., Apetahia raiateensis Baill., siden costata Br. 

THE age volume of Prof. Saccardo’s great work, ‘ Sylloge 
Fungorum (Hyp me Re ral has appeared; we hope to give 
Additicnal notice of it later 


w Booxs. — H. Liscuer, ‘ Verzeichniss der Gefasspflanzen 
von Zofingen und Umigebang’ (Sauer rlinder, Aaran: 8vo, pp. 

—A. Ene ‘Fiihrer durch den Kéniglich Botanischen Garten 
zu Redlan’ (Broslau, Ran 8 ete : 80 pf.).—A. Francuert, 
‘Flore de Loire-et- Cher’ (Blois, Contant: 8vo, pp. ae i 792). 
—L. Ma aNain, ‘Cours Hlémentaire de Botanique ” (Pari Hachette : 
8vo, pp. ii. 882: 446 cuts, 2 plat tes). —J. A. Paumer, : Musheseedd 
of America, edible and poisonous’ (Boston, Prang: st pp. 4, tt. 12). 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS 
Bot. Centralblatt. (No. 12). — K. Keilliack, ‘Die islindische 
Thermalflora —(No. 14). P. E. Miller, ‘ Bemerkungen iiber die 
Mycorhiza ids Buche. '_(No. 15). XK. Keilhack, ‘ Die norddeutsche 
iluvialflora.’—(Nos. 16-19). J. Wiesbaur, ‘Priorititszweifel iiber 


Schnetzler, « Krganzung ate vorliufigen Notiz iiber ein Moos 
des Genferse es.” — (Nos ~28). = von Tubeuf, ‘ Cucurbitaria 
Laburni & Cytisus ete (1 plate 

Botanical Gazette (May). — E. Hackel, ‘ Scrimeria, gen. nov.’ 
(Graminew, Hordes: 1 plate). — J. M. Coulter, ‘Revision of N. 
American Hypericacew. ’"—G. Vasey, ‘Notes on Katonia’ (KH. Dudleyt, 
E. filiformis is (= HE. pennsylvanica var. filiformis Chapm. ), 8 pb 

Bot. cae 4 (Ap. 80-May 21). — J. Wortmann, ‘ Theorie des 
Windens,’ — (Ma ay 7). L. Errera, ‘ Ueber den Nachweis des Gly- 
gee bei Pilzen.’ 

Botaniska Notiser (haft. “ls —A. Vinge, ‘Om palace oa rege 

hes k, ska uggblad.’ —- C. Kaurin, Cladodium Limprichtii 


Bull. Soe, May Gores 
A. Franchet, ‘ Primula de la Chine et du Thibet’ (P. heucherafolia, 
- malvacea, P. oreodoxa, P. Davidi, P. ovalifolia, P. moupinensis, 


P. Poissoni, P. membranifolia, P. nutans, P. incisa, spp. 10.).— 
van sien Arr 


Yun-nan.’_J. de Se nes, M D n.sp.—P. 

: , Mycenastrum ugestt, TL p 

UExsderme' = Sen Duchartre, ‘Sur un Bégonia qui Bere des 
inflorescences épiphylles.’ — L. Du peN* ‘Influence de la lumiére 
Sur la structure des oe — A. Franchet, wa les espéces du 


Beare Epimedium’ (conel.). — T. Caruel, oe cation des fruits.’ 


—E. Mer, ‘ Sur la répartition des Stomate 
Bull. avrey Bot. Club (May).—J. 8. Ne abety, — cretacea, 


_-B.sp. (from the Cretaceous Clays of N. Jersey: te). 


190 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 


Flora (Ap. 1, 11). — F. Buchenau, ‘ Die Juncaceen aus Mittel- 
amerika.’—W. Nyla ander, ‘ Lichenes ne San Thomé.’ =(Ap. 21 
J. Roll, * Zur ee der Torfmoose.’ — P. G. Strobl, Flora 
der Nebroden.’ — (May 1,11). K. F. fa rdan, ‘Die Stellung der 
Honigbehiilter und ee SS hp in den Blumen’ 
(2 plates), 

Gardeners’ Chronicle (May 1). — W. S. Mitchell, ‘ The origin of 
the Potato.’—Cypripedium Sanderianum Rechb. f n. sp.—M. Foster, 
‘ Iris Cengialti.” —W. G. Smi ith, ‘ Poisoning by jee dealbatus ’ 
(fig. 121). — Id., ime rg Disease’ (figs. 124, 125). — ety 
aging (fig. 128). — (May 8). Thriespermum indusiatum Rehb. f., 

p.—W. G. Smi sitet | asmcetacerent (fig. 183).—(May 15). 
One iidium pardoglossum Rehb. sp. — ‘ Oidium Tuckeri’ (figs. 
136-140), — — (May 22). enti Birkenheadii T. Moore, n. sp.— 


5 rtrait of rren. 

—C.58. Sargent, ‘ Larches of Western N. America’ Sloe 145, 146). 

—M.T. Mas asters, a (fig. 147 47). —— (May 29). Mazillaria 
F; 


rag ngt Segre Sp., Lritillaria contorta Hort., Adiantum Collisit, 
—A maa Fedia (fig. 186). 
Linn. Soc. (Nos. 143-4 , Ap. 80). — M. T. Masters, 


‘ Pes etnies to the History or esrtain Conifers’ (9 plates).— 
(No. 150, on tee ). F. B. Forbes & W. B. Hem msley, ‘ Index Flore 
Sinensis,’ p i. (Ranunculus — Depachet, Melodorum Oldhami, 
Viola fst v. Websteri, Polyga a fallax, P. hongkongensis, P. 
Mariesii, Stellaria a ee Eurya distichophylla, Saurawa 
Oldhami, as nn., all of He 


r Novénytani Lapok. (April). — H. Sabransky, ‘ Rose 
dittonis 1 Pos 


Desterr, ae Zeitechrift — H. Braun, ‘ Rosa petrophila Borb, i 

H, Braun.’ — E. Woloszezak, ‘ Ein fiir Galizien neuer C 

M. Kronfeld, « Suingkaeces iiber volksthiimliche Pflanzennamen.’ 
Vaudus, ‘ Zur Flora a Wolhyniens.’ — E. Palla, ‘Flora von 

Kremaier,’ — oS G. Strobl, « Flora des Etna.’ 


i 
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LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
April 15. — W. T. T. Dyer, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 
—Mr, Rochfort Connor, of Graniget , was elected a Fellow of the 
Socie ety. — Specimens o livin endrobium oo and D. 


ort. — The third part of a List 
Gee. and other Hebe of Anstralia. with Descriptions 6 of New 
Species, ue Mr. v. —< Tonka Was read in nigga erwards 
Mr, Eve urn gave the of a anal s report on 


e gist 
the plants ec collected by him during his recent first ascent of Mount 
Roraima, in British Guiana. 
enti 


and fifty new species had been 
bed, while a few others yet enaited determination. A yet 


LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. : 191 


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distinguis 

the forest which clothes the upward slope of the country; and that 
the high savannah-land of the interior. Within each of these 

i : 8 1ts own peculiar species are remarkably evenly distributed ; 

Ub occasionally, especially on th annah, this uniformity of 


latter kind the two most marked instances in British Guiana are 
€ savannah above the Kaieteur Fall and Roraima itself. The 
emarkable fact was pointed out that the vegetation of these two 


hich 
them and separates the two, is in certain strongly-marked features 
mmon and peculiar to 


areas. It was also pointed out that a few other such small areas 


as 
ote Roraima and the Kaieteur. A map of the route traversed 
and coloured drawings of the country and aspects of the vegetation 


___ Were exhibited in illustration of the paper. 


May 6. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the chair.— 
Th, f. Henry Marshall Ward was elected a Fellow of the Society.— 
e following Auditors were nominated: Mr. J. Jenner Weir an 


7 _ Attention to framed water-coloured drawings of Letisomia aggregata 


and Fothergilla gardenia, botanical mementos of the two distinguished 
iclans, Drs. Lettsom and Fothergill.—Sir John Lubbock’s paper, 


~ “On Forms of Seedlings,” was by request adjourned, so as to give 


. : Pportunity for Mr. Romanes’ communication.—Mr. Geo. J. Romanes 
then read his paper, ‘‘On Physiological Selection ; an additional sug- 
Sestion on the Origin of Species.” He considered that, as a theory 


192 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 


primary specific distribution ; (2) it not ex y 
the secondary specific distinctions, or those trivial details of struc 
ich, while serving to distinguish one species nother, 


n 
re than a very small percentage of cases, although, when inter- 
crossing is prevented by the bar of sterility between species, 


that the theory of natural selection has been misnamed a theory of 
origin of species. It is, in truth, a theory of the origin of 


calls physiological selection, or in virtue of a variation taking place in 
the reproductive system in the direction of sterility (whether absolute 


0} 
species when all the individuals in that portion (or new variety) — 
would be absolutely sterile towards the rest of the species, while 


other specific characteristics, and entirely escapes the difficulty from 

intercrossing. It therefore relieves the theory of natural selection 

from all which it lies, in consequence of 
“ f 

_ Species. — The paper, “ On new species of the genus Metzgeria,” by 


William Mitten, A.L.S., was afterwards read in abstract. 


ig gh ve ay, ee pain a 


ss 


198 


NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. — No. I. 
By Joun Roy anv J. P. Bisser. 
| (PiatE 268), 


HouGH much attention has been devoted to the very interesting 
iaaral — of Japan, no contribution appears to have been made 
to the Desmid-flora of the coun untry, excepting the description of one 
Species ;laeteriaat japonicum) in Suringar’s ‘Alge Japonice,’ pub- 
lished at Haarlem in 1870. The authors have therefore thought it 
desirable to place on record the — ae far, of their examina- 

n of two small collections from ap 

n 1876 one of the authors heonght home a small quantity of 
Material, washed out of specimens of Utricularia gathered on the 
Rifle Range at Yokohama, and in it were found the Desmids now 
recorded as from that district. 

In September last Mr. James Bisset, F.L.S., of Yokohama, 
Seeing a ae stay at Hakodate, in the Island of Yesso, visited a 
= ee twenty miles distant, called by the natives the “ Junsai 

or Brasenia Lake, Junsai being the Japanese name of 
Se peltata, which abounds in the Lake. Along with Brasenia 
he al also found Nuphar japonicum, Nymphea tetragona, Typha japonica, 


aving been found in Siberia, m / Bideg tl ig eossic twee om 
Sibiriens Chlorophyllophycéer’), and a considerable number ie 
Supposed new forms here described for the first time, leaving so: 
to be noticed in a future paper 


I. Micrasterims Ag. 
1. M. denticulata ee Pee numa. 
= 8 rotata (Grev.) R: Junsai numa. 
apiculata heb) 1 Menegh. Long. (ex. sp.) 220»; lat. 
(x. 5) 160 ps sth. 85 p. 
M. Crux-melitensis (Ehrb. ) Ralfs. Junsai numa and Yoko- 


Ee temtidns Nag. Junsai numa. 
6. M. pinnatifida (Kiitz.) Ralfs. Junsai numa. 
Il. Evasrrum Ehrb. 


1. E. verrucosum Ehrb. Yokohama. : 
Journan or Borany.—Von. 25. [Juny, 1886.) = 


194 NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. 
2. E. orbiculare Wallich. Yokohama. 


ponte, 
Subsp. africanum Nordst. Yok rig 
Subsp. inermius Nordst. Yokoham 
4, EF. oblongum “he bi “oi Farida D numa. 
5. E. ansatum i Sai Sarat 
6. — elegans (eb. Kite tz. Yok 
FE. sibiriewm Boldt oe Sibviens -lcbecijdldphpesse p. 99. 
Tab. v., fig. 2). Junsai n 


III. Cosmarrum Corda. 


granules each; at the bet of the base of each aie is & 
e without granules, but punctate. Isthmus one- 
e semicell, smooth, side and end views 
tarch-granules in pairs. Long. and lat. 82-95 p; 
Fig. 16. 


] 
triangular space at the base. The number of the 
rows of granules, besides other points, — it still more widely 
from C. m 8, and C. latum & 
; Oe ‘scsi Ralfs. Yokoham 
3. C. latum Breb. kohama. 
- C. margaritatum (C. latum, B. margaritatum Lundell). Yoko- 


a 2, Sls enigma Wille. 
ornatum Wille. Junsai numa. 
6. C. Botrytis re Menegh. Yokoham 
1c, 8 —— — hues one- -seventh longer 


" minute crenatures; in the mi 
al above the base, is a pretty large granulated 
circular oh daecmmtl with about 22 
d7 


crenature ; ud verpaed i ee rows of 6-7 ules from each 
lated ie i iew ‘aaa ace y — with a prominent granu- 
inflation on ; isthmus narrow, oes one-fourth of 


NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. 195 
. breadth of the semicell. Long. 40 »; lat. 85 p; isth. 9 p. 


Yolohame, 
s bears a considerable general resemblance both to C. 
Botrytis Bory and C. Kjellmani, subsp. grande, Wille; but the 
former is much larger, and wants the ie 2 inflation ; ‘while the 


latter, besides being larger, has the granules on the central inflation 


ger than the others, and arranged in five perpendicular rows of 

five ap each. 
= C, pagar (Kiitz.) en Yokohama. 
tulatum Breb. Yokoham 
10. C. Aabnsine Lundell. Junsai ose 
11. C. Beckii Wille. Junsai : 
12. C. Regnesit Reinsch. Junsai numa. 
13. C. pulcherrimum Nordst. Junsai numa. 
14... C. — 
orma crenis lateralibus 8. Nordst. Junsai numa. 
15. C. jira Boldt (/.c. p. 104. Tab. v., fig. 9). se numa. 
16. sate pronenlers Lundell. Yokoham 
R, n. var.—Half the size of ‘type Junsai numa. 

17. "C. nitidulum a aig ri Ses 
18. soe ly dan benh. 
B. Lx gree int closely with Lundell’s forma minor, 
but differs 3 in b haeay quite smooth. Long. 28 »; lat. 22; lat. isth. 
7p. Junsai numa. 

19. C. capitulum, n.sp. — Small, about one-tenth broader 
than long; semicells Lrcwalad:% twice as cen as long, constriction 
sigh opening widely, sides drawn. 0 t, shortly rounded below, 


Ss 0 


almost sieerets end; side ei semic ise cular; en ae view 

elliptical. Isthmus two-thirds of the heeaeee of the semicel. 

Bates ember Long 21 pv; lat. 28; isth. 7p. Fig. 9. 
unsai n 


less Goadaied, in pevae the ends pice for three-fo f the 
brea, of oo and in having the constriction deep, 
Narrow, and 

20. C. impress Elfving. Fig, 10. 

21. C. Hammeri Rein 


B. iishnaiaen Boldt (J.c. p. 101. Tab. v., fig. 8). Junsai 
huma, 


22. 0, Clepsydra Nordst. (C. bicardia Reinsch). Junsai numa. 
23. C. Phaseolus Breb. 
y- achondrum Boldt (1. ¢. p. 108. Tab. v., fig.7). Junsai numa. 
24. C. galeritum Nordst. 
B. minus Wille. The Japanese form is slightly epraae than 


h 
a “pe American. Long. 81 p; lat. 30 »; isth. Tp unsai 


w OB. C. obsoletum (Hantz) Reinsch. Junsai numa. 


196 NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. 


26. C. depressum Bailey. Junsai numa. 

27. C. decachondrum, n. sp.—Small, subundulated, as long 
as broad, almost circular in outline, ends slightly truncate, re 
to which are a row of minute spines, of which 5-6 are visible in 


one on each side of the middle; end view elliptical, with ends 


Junsai numa. 

This species is near C. taxichondrum Lundell, f. prac ng 
Boldt; but that form wants the minute spines near the ends, an 
this wants the granule at the base, close to the isthmus, as well as 


e three parallel to the base on the middle of the semicell. A var. 
of it is a little more truncate. 
2 


8. C. pachydermum Lundell. Yokohama and Junsai numa. 

29. C. pseudopyramidatum Lundell. 
bsp. stenonotum Nordst. Yokohama. 

80. C eum Archer, Junsai numa 
31. C. Meneghinii Breb. J numa. 

2. C. moniliforme (Turp.) Ralfs. Junsai numa. 
33. C. connatum Breb. Junsa uma. 
84 cavatum Nordst. Junsai numa 


diagnosis of this fine species (‘De Desmid.,’ p. 58). 
Calocylindrus Cohnii Kirch. an Diophyntium tessellatum Delponte 
form apparently one species, and only differ from this in being non- 
punctate. 
IV. Arrsropesmus Ehrb. 

1. A. convergens Ehrb. Junsai numa. 

2. A. bifidus Breb. Junsai numa. 

8. A. octocornis Ehrb. 

- Ralfs. Junsai numa, 


(To be continued.) : 


eee RS Py hisoe nc. te RS eh he Bm et cig om Sees pe cub Ay Anas eee Wee Ow s g eee cea See EONS Goer sya 


197 


NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI:—Parr III. 
By W. B. Grove, B.A. 
(Pirates 266 & 267). 
(Concluded from p. 137.) 
PSEUDODIPLODIA Karsten. 


-Perithecia, superficial, globular or oblong, waxy-fleshy, when 
moist dark coloured, soon opening with a wide mouth. Sporules 
epieeoid, 1-septate, dilute olivaceous. 

u 


odiplodia sped tan sp. n. — P. late aes peri- 
theciis gregariis v. in lin es aut maculas contractis, 
1-1-4 mm - diam. ; 3 globulosis v. oblongis, Tevibus, nitidis, contextu 


feat, mo rte superiori P r a uel aceo, 
Senio (disco) subnigro; sporulis oblongis, sabhipcilsia: — 
obtusis y. basi aut apice acutatis, rarius curvulis, diu continuis, 


dein ivan — 1-septatis, vix constrictis, vix pitialasin 
singulis hyali rvatis dilu te olivaceis, 10-14 w x 3-4 pn, 
con subramosis fasciculatis 2-3-plo longioribus suffultis. (Tab. 


: a ane a interiori corticis v. etiam in ligno Aceris pseudo-platant, 
‘Sutton Coldfield” (Wk.), Dec.—Feb. A P. ligniaria Karst. 
(Sace. Syll. lil. 621) rence loco natali, sporulis duplo angustioribus, 
‘Sed imprimi peritheciorum magnitudine que a majora. 
Num vere ¢ Nectricideis sit, in dubio santas 
* Discula microsperma Sace. Bye: iii. 675 (1884). meen micro- 
sperma B. & Br. Ann. N. 
Sporules linear, hyaline, s sonnet es curved, 5 
On twi Wigs of osier woven into basket-work, Sutton, Goldfield, 
Dec. On the same basket-work, if not on the same twigs, I found 


i. 4 ‘tang carbonacea B. & Br. and Diplodia salicina Lev. 


porium profusum Fr. 8. Myc. iii. 487 (1882) ; a ae 
i pes (1884), — Stilbospora profusa Grev. 8. Or. Fl. t. 212, f. 


8 gregarious, -4—"7 m . diam., conical, subcutaneous, 


black, b Saceatig : in the vantre: co nidin small, ovoid- hia. 1-septate, 


at first hyaline, then olivaceous, at length dark fuscous, somewhat 
on rounded .at each end or more tapering below, 20-25 p 


On inside of bark of Acer meric seer Sutton ere (Wk. ) 


, Dec. This may almost be regarded as an addition to our Flora, 
- for though ‘Sure by Greville sorloug ago, ah has — omitted eau 


since 
the ‘Mycologia Scotica’ of Rev. John Stevenson sts), ‘and the 
additions oer published in the ‘ Scottish Naturalist 


s 


198 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 


nee longiseta Speg. Mich. i. 478 (1879) ; Sacc. Fung. 
It. i190 (1881); Syll. Fung. iii. 787 (1884). 


cervuli se ita oy globose- lenticular, hypophyllous, subepi- 
dermal, then erumpent in a globule, and finally covering the le af 


sometimes curved, 25-80 p x 8-9 p, 4-septate ; Uppernnaas: ot: 


1p; mi e loculi brown, the two upper ones darker aiid pl 


8 p 
zalea- lace; Sutton (Wk.), Sept. Verging towards 
seielbb Speg., which is perhaps not truly distinct. asordad 
also on leaves of Sorbus torminalis and Rubus cesius. 


103. Pestalozzia fibricola, sp. n. — P. acervulis parvis, oe 
ara hee eleva pinay: que Dewey poro pe mies 


triangulari; basidiis brevissimis, 3 px Ta 7 
Inter fibras libri Tilie ad usum horti cultorum parati, Sutton 
( Se um p Ss e Germania sin i none 


+)y pt. lanti e é 
Species _ loculo medio conidiorum saturatiori, at non opaco, & 
By a distineta. Sete inter se basin versus breviter connate. 
eterna 2 sete inveniuntur ; quum unica, solito est longior et 
oblique curvata. Loculus (? an recte sic nominatur) sat eat una 
cum decidit. 


setis Cum P. fwneree var. discolori comparanda 
species. 


GEOTRICHUM Link (1809). 


Hyphe short. Conidia arte ee cylindrical, trun- 
cate at ene end, ee or brightly ¢ 

1 otrich: ose sp. n Zo hyphis bi or 
intrcatis abi; Gonidiie, catenulatis, breviter pa ee es mgue 
abrupte rotundatis v. truncatis, basidiis — erectis suffults, 
dilute obs 16-30 eX 9-10 pn. (Tab. 266, 

Ad basin nei, maculas pa rvas rotundatas v. ob- 


J 
lon gas densas i efformans, socia Peziza Curreiana, ‘ Sutton 
Park” (Wk.), 


(1851) ae lycotropum Pr. St. Deutsch. Fl. xxix. 57, t. 29 

White, thinly rig conidia curved like a horse-shoe, hyaline, 

fasiform, obine: at each end, 2-4-guttulate, 1m + long, 3 # 

» the two inner poe almost always very lar, 

rotting stem em of Carduus palustris, Little Sutton (Wk.), Oct. 

The - - SO as sometimes to form nearly a complete 
circle, 7-8 = ee I was not able to observe them con 

catenate, so > that the genus is rather dubious. 


NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 199 
6. Septocylindrium pallidum ap. 1. S. conidiorum 


pallidos: circa ostiola hid lene paere pallidis, 


“saa manifesto connexis ; bates conidii longitudinem squantib 

| . paulo superantibus, vix ( ae septatis, angustioribus, subsatu- 
Sion bus. (Ta 

i In ostiolis Diatrypis ee nec Eutype@ ut temere — 
“ Blackwell” (Ws.), Mar. Dubium potest judicari um 
Septocylindriis an cum Septonematibus adnumerandum 


107, Septocylindrium chetospira, sp.n.—S. crtinoiculaeeh 
V. gregarium, album; catenis conidiorum erectis, eximie erie re 


ad instar Infusorii Chetospire (unde nomen), 200-250 y alt. ; 
boniaiie uniseptatis, dein 3-septatis, ¢ oa es utrinque Fatesntie. 
binde curvulis, hyalinis, 20-25 » x 24-3 «; basidiis nullis v. 


non visis. (Tab. 266, fig. 

Tn ligno putri, “ Streetly ” (St.), Oct., una cum Catenularia 
simplici v.). Species catenis more instrumenti “* eork-screw ’ 
dicti oan facile distincta. 


8. Sporotrichum merdarium Link, Jahrb. i. 176 (1819) ; xg 
Phi i. Yh ({oaas Sace. Mich. ii. 859 (1881)—non Harz, Neu. Hyp 
p. 21, sub S. Weskaion (1871 
Tufts very yellow, some ewhat powdery, about 5 mm. diam. ; 
“ramuli of he often trifid, Bn ie (Sace. l.c.); conidia 
numerous, globose, yellow, 5-6 » diam. (9-10 Sace.), muriculate. 
dog’s dung, from Hereford, Dac. Distinguished from the 
other yellow species by its globular ener which have a wavy or 
obby outline in optical section, arising from the bluntly convex 
elevations by which the surface is ornamente ad. 


109. Gliocladium lignicolum, sp. (?) n.—G. hyphis gregariis 
MG fasciculatis, erectis, ah eee 3-4- septatis, ‘elon ba _ 


superfici, “Barnt Green” (Ws.), Aug.—Sept. 
G. _Bencilvide * Cord: on nisi conidiis duplo breviosbus e et loo 
iffert; forsan ‘pti varietas habendum. Bis 
semel hyphe ligni succo parte inferiori, quinetiam ‘alte pe 
brunneo tincte su 
eas See caleea Ces. in Kl. Herb. Mye. 1681, sec. Sace. in 
Mich. i. 266.—Fusisporium caleeum Desm. 

Spots oval or roundish, chalky-white, surrounded by a narrow 
fuscous border, 1-6 on a leaf, 8-4 mm. diam. ; tufts hypophyllous, 
Scattered or gregarious, pure white, ee yellowish, consisting 0 of 
1 , 90-100 » high; conidia 

unise 


hole Dingle, near Dinmore, 
have often seen the spots on the anes: before, 


~ 200 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY: FUNGI. 


but they were always barren. These conidia a ig came! had one 
end somewhat knobbed or oo 84 broad. Hyphe narrower 
ie “ conidia, about as long 
As ee artae Sn mihi. — Menispora ellipsospora 
ade St. Deutsch. Fl. xxx. 98, t. 47 (1851). 
Can ‘dissimme hyphis tenuiter 3 mae re erectis, 
Ow x My 


ligno putrido, «Barnt G reen  Soaetas (Ws s.), Aug. Semel 
conidia bina in apice stipitis vidi. Septa conidiorum mediocriter 
auctorum non visibilia; hee tum ut in icone depicta citata videntur. 
Siquis tamen in — herebit, conidia eo modo quo ego pinxi 
germinantia aspici 
112. Da tae minuta Grove, Journ. Bot. xxii. 199 (1884).— 
Var. fusiformis mihi, ; 
© non nisi conidiis aoe angustioribus, et hyphis 
magis gregariis differt. (Tab. 266, fi 
In caule Cardui emortuo, prope “ re titan Coldfield” (Wk.), 
Oct. Conidia exacte fusoidea vy. apice perparum obtusiora, 60-75 
Hyphe etiam conferte v. caspitose. 
118. ere leve Sace. Mich. i. 82; Fung. Ital. 89 (1877). 
** Loose arious, black; hyphe short, simple or ve 
shortly branskat sparsely septate, hyaline ; conidia loosely 
capitate- craceinoge towards the tip of the hyphm, ovate or sub- 
fusoid, 12 » x 6-7 4, attenuate and subapiculate at apex, sub- 


pe Ze ‘bie with = tha fl short hyaline stalk, smooth, dingy, 
paler ray a (Sace nO.) 


think that FE. leve is _distine t from F. atrum Ons; being in fact 
merely * status junior,’ 


114. Bactrodesmium caulincola Grove.—Sporidesmium ogee? la 
(Cord. St. Deutsch. Fl. vii. 48, ¢. 19 (1829); Fr. S. Mye. iii. 495 
(1832); Rab. Krypt p. 81 (1844).—Var pellucidum nae 
e 


. p: effusum, atrum ; conidiis sessilibus, dense co mpactis, cylin- 
dri 8, w jue vix attenuatis v. etiam obtusis, 6-12-septatis, 
sis olivaceis, ise ang 60-100 » x 8-10». (Tab. 267, hae 
er i : 


preedita, nee no he ongiora, obtusiora,  sertata ai septs 
opaca. Si 

at stzaiate Fes ta lymenopati sarcopodioidi Cord. simi 
pe OT Bs ria B. & Br. Ann. N. H. (1850); Cke. Handb. 


(1 
ce. Fung. Ven. Nov. v. 198 (1876); F Ital. 967 
(1881) ; Trail, Scot. Nat. p. 189 (1885), |) Me 


NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 201 


I have met with hae ae fungus once between eg Bulies 
and Blake Street (Wk.), O The compound conidia 

#xX 154; the sete, 2s full grown, 40 » x 4p. The oe @ 
found singly, and on oak- leaves, not on leaves of grass as by 
previous observer 


115. Conbarkactun Migs wings Cord. Ic. i. 2, t.i. sar (1887). 
—Var. variegatum Preuss, St. Deutsch. Fl. xxix. 59, t. 80 (1851). 
“ Krumpent; heaps a sonidia, gregarious, pulvinate, black ; 
conidia Deer sah angular, flat, brown, not darker within” (Pr. l.c.). 
, Barnt Green Reservoir (Ws.), Aug. Differs — 
Corda’s f figure only in not being darker in the centre, and agrees 
exactly with that of Preuss. I do not regard this, Heli as 
being dictyosporous, but as es eae 


116. Stachybotrys dichroa, sp. n.—S. hyphis or erectis, 
simplicibus, hyalinis, septatis v. nonnihil articulatis (septis 8-8), 
flexuosis, 150-200 « X 6-10 w, sursum subattenuatis, Basi sub- 
os a coronam e ramulis brevibus valid simplicibus, 
12-15 , 5-6 verticillatis compactum gerentibus ; conidiis 
atro- sil ekials; Suicipiny 1-septatis, 10 » x 5 p, apice obtusis, aor 
oblique subattenua tis, muco tenui obyolutis re in capitula 

: maguitadin variantia atra nitida spherica congestis. (Tab. | 267, 

g. 


i 
‘ 
: 


Oe a Ka oN 2 ae eens te 


In caule Cardui palustris putrescente, “ Little Sutton” (Wk.), 
Oct. Cellularum lumina, rotunda, pro ratione minima, parietibus 
crassis olivaceis juxta posita, cerulea emicant. 


: 
ne 
: TRIGHOUSPORL UM Sace. Mich. ii. 25 we 


Hyph bro Conidia 
globose or bel smooth, acrogenous on — “branchlets a 
Sporotrichum with dark-coloured hyphe and sp 

: 117. Trichosporium murinum Sacc. Fung. Ta 740 (1881). — 
Sporotrichum murinum Link, Sp. PI 1,8 “(18 24); Bon. Handb. 
pb 102, f. 145 (1851); Sacc. Fung. Ven. v. 102 (1876 


rect 
branched upwards, clear brown, pallid and almost hyaline at apex, 
septate, 4 » diam.; conidia pot ar ovoid or oval, pellucid, 
pallid, then brownish, 8-10 

n dead wood, Steeton, aries Mey, (H. T. Soppitt). I con- 
sider ‘thes specimens to belong to this species, because of their 
But 


2 agreement with Saceardo’s figure. if so, Bonorden must be 
e wrong in sag to Botrytis murina int and Ditmar, which is 
= quite differ, 


CATENULARIA, gen. nov. 
Hyphe erecte, fuser, Ore apice conidia concatenata 
. eg Conidia simplicia, fus 
= Catenularia simplex, sp.n. — C. effusa, atra; hyphis 
eniitne longis, repentibus, ocr mcult: eqnalibus, fuseis, parce 
Septatis, subramosis, 3-4 p» crass.; fertilibus gregariis, erectis, 


202 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 


unquam flexis v. etiam recurvatis, at sepius rigidis, erectis, . 
seep lieibas, 100-200 » x 3-4 p, fuscis, septatis, errs allrae inflatis 


2-10- concatenate, shavabe v. 8) obconicis, utrinque truncatis, 
olivaceis, dein , 10-15 5-6 yp. 
gno aa. “ Streetly ” (St.), Oct. A ces licet 
maxime Fe conidiis differt continuis essentialite 
119. pepe domes extorre Sacc. Mich. i. 84 ; Pel It. 49 (1877). 
_E mas iecaen velvety; h phe e erect, cylin ae 


brown creeping threads at base : t many of the stems were 
beaten down by ~ eae, and the apex curling upwards looked 
like a very short s Occasionally the stem seemed almost non- 


existent, and the es of glistening ramuli was seated directly on 
the wood. 


120. Helminthosporium Hirudo Sace. Mich. i. 85 (1877); ii. 876 
ar Se Ital. 54 did — ok n mihi. 
as aterri inas, oblongas v. elongatas 
asgrogs atum ; hyphis pinasioalatis. sro ie s, cylindricis, es 
25-50 pw x x 6-8 #, fuscis; conidiis fusco-fuligineis, 300-400 p 
Sem vag he me infra lanceolatis, 15 p» erass., sursum in lon ni 
Re treme em , 6-8 p» crassum attenuatis, ana 
septa ts; “eellulis 70 stri quadratis tis ; apiss e truncato, nec pallidior 

In ligno igang “Sutton Coldfield” (Wk.), Mar. Speeie 
maxima, o"(Tab. 2 g. 5). 

Var. minus “ata H. e gregarium, in maculas atras 
effusum ; conidiis lan seca ‘pes brevi ve longiori, erecto, 
rigido, 8-5 septato, denique opaco suffultis, in rostrum longum 
cylindraceum, attenuatis, 100-200 p long., 10-12 (rostro 4-5 p) 
crass., atro-fuscis, semipellucidis 80-50-septatis S. 

In ligno putrido, “ Sutton Coldfield” (Wk.), una cum H. 
obclavato Sace. quod certe nil nisi status junior fe naeralie tie 
omnes ansitus simul sunt visi. Stipes 30-40 p x 4-5 
sed ene gee ad = p» longus 


m hormiscioides Sace. Mich. i. 85; Fung- 
Tal, 55 agri) Spovkdiliatn hormiscioides Corda, Ic. ii. 6, fig. 26 
(1838).—Closterosporium hor: rmisctoides Sace. Mich. ii. 22 (1880). 
notte i erage conidia on very short (15-20 » high) stems 
vermicular-fusoid, ta at both ends, but 
upwards, dark olive-brown, opaqu —* 
apex swollen, 


 ‘Septa 28-29 - e, rigid, 180-190 Bx 12-20 ps 
i pallid, 


NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 208 


On oak-wood, Sutton Coldfield (Wk.). This is exactly the plant 

g of Corda, except in being more thinly effused. The thickest part 
a of each conidium is se nearly in the middle of its length, by 
c 


an e fewer septa, ‘the species is easily distinguished 
A, Hirudo var. minus. It is;in my opinion, a true Helminthosporium. 


122. Relminthoeporam parvum, —— H. parce gre- 
garium, fusco-atrum ; hyphis erectis, are dt dilate fuscis, gras 
bus, strictis, aps raro subfasciculatis, apice onidium unic — 
(rarissime bina) gerentibus, ce tia Bs oY 80-90 
} longis, tridymis, apice obtuse rotundatis, a 
truncatis, loculo apicali subquadrato ot a een pig centrali 
“rotundo crassiori (inftato) brunneo, 12-15 
hi reino, *‘ Sutton Goldfield . (Wk), © m H. horm 
oide Sacc. eT apicalis subinde brunneus, mvc pre hears a 
H. coryneoidi subaffine. (Tab. 267, fig. 4). 


123. Acrothecium xylogen p. n.—— A. hyphis non 
maculicolis, erectis, strictis v. cu eentia as en ualibus, infra fuscis, 
sursum pallidior ibus, apice fere pyalinaa 120-250 » alt., coronam 
6-8 conidiorum gerentibus; conidiis cylindricis, apice rotundatis, 
basi acutatis, 4-guttulatis, ‘denique tenuiter 3-septatis, hyalinis, 
14-17 px 3p. (Tab. 267, fig. 2). 

In ligno Boe tri, awk Green Reservoir” (Ws.), Aug. A. 
caulium Sacc. (Mich. i. 75) affine, at conidiis rool hyalinis, 
ee disthactun: Septa maturitate tantum visi 


Acrothecium obovatum Cooke, Grevill. v. 50, t. 80, f. 13 
ast Blk. Moulds, ¢. 27, £. 80 (1877); ane: Fung. Ital. 766 
(1881); Mich. ii. 555 (1882). 
ack, thinly effused; hyphe simple, arith erect, septate, 
brown, about 180-230 » x 6 »; conidia forming a crown at the 


Re Pe ig eee re Tey oe ar 


Measure 18-21 ps 
On — wood, Sutton (Wk. ), April. The description is drawn 
specimens, which differ ads those of Cooke only in the 

econ: (probably less mature) conidia. 
5. Acrothecium simplex B. hol Ann. N. H. t. 16, f. 16 (1861); 
Cooke, Handb. p. 579.—Var. elatun 


ihi 
hyphis simplicibus, erectis, s sublexnosis, sequalibus, fuscis, 
ere ba valinia, 20 pp x . “a nidiis 3-septatis, ob- 


habeo eeaticl ne 50 p qui idem altis; in 
septata, leviter fuscescentia, 13-17 » X 5 B- 


204 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 


- Cercospora ferruginea Fckl. Symb. Myo. 354 (1869) ; 
Nacht ii. 20 (1% (1878 76 : Heer 

s thin, effused ; hyphe long, creeping, loosely branched, 
Sy fan 5-6 py diam. ; conidia ovate, then obclavate, 
— to an obtuse Salak, somewhat curved, 2-5. septate (when 

unger continuous, guttulate, then uniseptate), pale brown, with a 

pellueid reddish tinge, 50 » lon 

under side of leaves of Artemisia vulgaris, Bradnock’s Marsh 
(WE.), Oct. Not om a pace but clearly this species, which 
appears to be very ra catia — ed by its author to be the 


127. Helicosporium ee sp. — H. hyphis eb, 
septatis, fere hyalinis, primo mance: dein tam 
3-8 p ecrass., 200-300 » alt., sed supra—eque ac rami 16a 
adscendentes—sterilibus et Bapatlenvoibae conidiis pleurogenis, 
substipitatis, hyalinis, pluri- -guttulatis, 2-24 » crass., basi attenua- 
tis, apice obtuse rotundatis, in cireulum 15 20 » diam. dense 
spiraliter convolutis; spiris plerumque quaternis. (Tab. 267, fig. 6). 

n ramis tenuibus Rubi Foca ‘‘Middleton” (Wk.), Apr. Non 
pro certissimo habeo, hune non esse statum abnormalem, sed cui 
valainas. subjungam dijudicare nescio. Maculas efformat albidas 


128. Helicosporium lumbricoides Sace. Mich. i. 86; Fung. Ital. 
56 (1877). 


wteges ean nonoas “grey spots ; ser creeping, filiform 


wo! fare in 2-84 spires, 150 p x 4 m, with many mpeg in one row, 
e. 

On rotting oak, Sapte eee This was detected several years 

W.P Phillips a fragment of wood which I sent to him, 


Sruahias © worm. 
; DACTYLOSPORIUM Harz (1871). 
Hyphe erect, simple, ona. brown. Conidia cellular, ovoid, 
ping capitate, bro 
8 formed by Hors, = s "ad ae p. 44, to contain Mystro- 
Giaens macropus Cord. Te. 
ie. Dactylosporium t evi trum; 
pes, sp. n.—D. gregarium atr 
cei » brevibus, flexuosi sis, sida sursum allidioribu, 
_ Gense septatis, _subtorulosis — subquadratis), simplicibus v. 
us fureatis, 5 p. i capl 
coni 


NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 205 


In ligno Aceris pseudo-platani, “ Sutton Coldfield ” (Wk.), Feb. 
macropodt Harz peraffine et quasi varietas, at satis diversum 
etur. 


i. 
Vi 


| 3 STEMPHYLIUM Wallr. (1833), emend. 


Hyphe decumbent, brane hed, intricate, frequently hyaline, 
sometimes oe Co nidia ovoid, cellular, rae beset acrogenous. 
Sace. omy li. 31, 2 

In this genus seinis includes Soredospora Corda and Epoch- 
: nium macr eater are Berk. (Cke. Hndb. p. 628); also Sporidesmium 
‘ Pyriforme Cord. and S. alternarie Cke. Hndb. p- 483. He identified 
é latter with Stemphylium botryosum Wallr. Crypt. Fl. p. 300 
(1833), which again is identified by Harz with Ulocladium botrytis 
Preuss, St. Deutsch. Fl. t. 42 (1851): but in the Syll. ae iv., 
just received, I see that Saccardo has again separated them 


| 130. arige siieaed Magnusianum Sace. Mich. i. 182 (1878); 
Fung. Ital. 934 (18 
: 


Conidia nearly aehalen large, 30-60 fin shining pinkish-ochre 
or of a pleasant reddish co our, composed of numerous globul 


pellucid cells densely compacted together, pre on a loosely felted 
my: Scie . oud hyaline hyphx, and forming extensive pink or 
relish p tches 

ottin ng paper, dung, &c., Birmingham, Noy. The mycelium 
Was Beta abundantly by Echinobotr yum atrum Ca. and E. leve 
Sace. I can add nothing to Saccardo’s description of this fungus ; 
though it may be a Stemphylium, I am inclined to think that it is 

y an imperfectly developed stage of a Eurotiaceous fungus. 


* 131. Isaria sulphurea Fiedler; Sacc. Mich. ii. 867; Fung. Ital. 
5 (188 1). 


Ste A gp shan elegantly clavate, pale ss 
whitish | below, 1:5 mm. hi gh, composed of dense ese ate floc 


Pale yellow flocci, 5-6 
a. On dog’s dung, from Her efo rd, Nov., Dec. Saccardo remarks 
: that this may be the Coremium citrinum of — The flocci of 
‘My specimens did not anastomose so much as in Saccardo’s drawing, 
: Fs and ¢ rent dg were swollen at intervals, the siahinng being very similar 
: & conidium 
pene ee enicillioides Cord. Ic. i. 18, f. 251 (1837) ; Rab. 

Sarg Fl. 120 (1844) ; Sace. Mich. i. 77; Fung. Ital. feed ah 

Stems scattered, black, short, 100-130 w high, thick, obtusely 
__ ¢lavate above, sometimes swollen below, composed of fasciculate 
: fuscous hyphe, paler upwards ; ae acrogenous, linear, hy 
ee & X 14 uw, forming a whit 
ae _ bark ‘at syoanace Sutton Coldfield bee ae . Reyes dry 
: whole fungus shrivels up somewhat head of spores 
— dispersed. It was in company ee ie ~~ 


206 NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 


DENDRODOCHIUM Bon. (1851). 


Tubercularioid. Receptacle wart-like, varying. Conidia ovoid 
or oblong, acrogenous on densely compacted branched sabvertioilial 
idia. oe i. 34. 


bas Bon, Handb. p. 185; Sace. Mich. i 

Dendrodochium citrinum, sp. n. — D. spor arc 
verruciformi, 4 mm. diam., athe valde convexo, distinct 

; disco nitente, citrino, extus limbo tumido extant 


oque 
cba |  aaidiis Sasi 2-5. vertieiliate: ramosis ; ramulis filiformi- 
bus; conidiis acrogenis, levibus, sphericis, luteolis, guttulatis, 
1-75 » diam. (Tab. 267, fig. 8). 
In ligno putrido Pini sylvestris, “« Barnt Green” (Ws.), Sept. 


NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 
By tue Rev. R. P. Murray, M.A., F.L.S. 
Wate collecting materials for my projected Flora of Somerset 
I devoted os attention during part of the year 1883 to the 
brambles of the county. During some portion of the ict I enjoyed 
the benefit of Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs’s assistance. He accom- 
panied me in many of my excursions, and he Iped me by every 
means in his power. Alone, or with Mr. Briggs, I have, as I 


liberally supplied with Age and specimens by Mr. J. W. White, of 
Clifton. My th due to Prof. Babington, G. 


Mr. J. 
Baker, Mr. D. mye and W. Moyle Rogers, for kind assistance 
in yrarey: or det ecimens. 


whole, the teamble-toc of Somerset may be considered 
fairly biah - _but it is only particular districts which are well supplied. 


es rambles are concerned. The long ridge of 
Polden, with the valleys which lie on either side of it, I have found 
spe 


orms. ; : 
s further ons: abe Yeovil district is nee 
dn 
The onatemn mien of Mendip, a Oi saanoce to Frome and Witham, 
@ considerable variety of forms, while the country about 
and Castle Orchar 


in the extreme south-east will 
ailord the batologist ample opportunities for study. 


NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 207 


ubus Ideus Li. — Frequent throughout the county. In some 
districts one of the most abundant plants (Downhead ; * Guinionle, 
eg covering acres. With pale fruit on Glast tonbury Moor 
. k 
Var. Leesii.—I fear this may be lost at Bonniton, near Dunster, 
where it was found by the Rev. W. H. Coleman in 1849. I have 
tepeatedly searched for it in va 
suber ee Anders, — Ver} ocal, The scarcity of the whole 
suberoct group in Somerset is “ety aa kable. True suberectus 


e damp wooded valleys about gene ger Dunster. A plant 

collected by Dr. Parsons near Witham, on the eastern border, may 

are or h. plicatus, but the specimen is too imperfect for deter- 
tion. 


z. Jissus Lindl. —I have very seldom met with this form in 
atunrsct. Once, on the ridge of the Blackdown Hills above Wel. 
lington. This was called suberectus by Mr. Briggs, but is clearly 
separable from the usual form of the type by the much more prickly 
stem and thicker leaves. The terminal leaflet, however, is ovate-. 

a 


gs. To 
my = this looks somewhat nearer suberectus than the Blackdown 
ar as I know, it occurs nowhere else in the county ae name 


en, 

a strongly ee ate. The inflorescence is quite that of 
ple 

R. affin —Dulverton ; Oare Valley; Quantock Hills ; 

Castle oak near Pen Selwood. Certainly rare in Somerset, 

and, like its allies, decidedly western in its distribution. The 

Castle Glad plant was se to sissus by Briggs, but nara 


208 NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 


bramble considered by Baker to be good affnis, which is certainly 
what we in the west have been calling calvatus. 
R. Lindleianus Lees. — Yeovil ; Castle Orchard ; 


the leaves of the barren stem are ternate. In the case of one ~— 
placed here by Briggs the leaves are quinate-pedate, and pele 
imbricate. My impression is that the gradations between ; 
extreme type of this form (which approaches rhamnifolius) a 
ordinary Lindleianus are too numerous, and shade too gradua rf 
one into another, to make it desirable that it should be erected in 


ny) 
hedges near Br eld; abundant about Plainsfield; near 
Wellington ; hedge between Yeovil : Clevedon ; near 
Stoke e 


ane. ave collected the same form at Grou 
Sussex; and Mr. White finds it close to Bristol, in West Glouces 
shire. 


R. rhamnifolius W. & N. — Generally common, except in the 
Polden district, where I have not seen it. f 
- tmbricatus Hort. — Extremely rare in Somerset. I know 0 
only one station, viz., in a hedge near Spaxton, near the ee 
slopes of Quantock, where it was detected by Mr. Briggs in 1889. 
t exactly resembles Plymouth specimens. all 
R. discolor W. & N. — Common almost everywhere; gener y 
quite typical, but sometimes a form approaching leucostachys. 
: thi Welli 


ut llington, and in other places. 1a8 
Cccurred near Wells (R. J. Manning) and Axbridge (J. W. White) 
with white fruit (var. leucocarpus). 
R. thyrsoideus Wiram 


the 
yr - — Rare, and apparently confined to 

north-west of the county. ‘‘Hill-side between Cheddar and 
Axbridge ” (J. G. Baker). Briggs places here with some doubt es 


ft. leweostachys Sm. — An abundant woodland species, occurring 
even on Polden. Generally easy to r ise. 

com — Fairly common in the west and south of the 
ty. I have it from st Audries and Buncombe Hill, in the 


NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI, 209 


Quantock district, the latter “exactly Bloxam’s plant” (7. R. A. 
Briggs); from the Blackdown Hills; Bar wick, near Yeovil: Pen- 
pits; Downhead Common; and Ape Mr, Hake records it 

Ebbor 


| R. villicaulis W. & N. —A frequent bramble in Somerset. 
| Occasion nally, as near Oare, with loses. spesnitially laciniate. 
“ Dunster” (T. B. Flower in ¢ Brit. bi’) ; quent about 
| Minehead; Quantock; Pen Selwood ; grt s Wood ; We 8 
“a form app tise rere (Briggs); Downhead Common ; 
Shipham ; ‘*Clevedon,” J. W. White, who vane to me that he 


wit the eaves m and Briggs near Plymouth. “Briggs considered 
this form to be n nearer leucostachys ; Babington named it villicaulis 
nt.’ 


B. adscitus Genev. — ew rare in Somerset. I have only 
hed, 


twice found it in the county, viz., in a ge near Dulverton, and 
oo to = anes Rasumeas Just the plant of the ‘ Flora 
oO 


ie oe. Arrh. — Locally common, extending from Culbone 
~ en west to Pen Belwood in the _ a Bas Prag and 


_  &. macrophyllus Weihe. — Scarce and local. Culbone (C. C. B. 
mm ‘ Brit. Rubi’). Not unfrequent about Dunster, one o of my speci- 
mens being marked ‘typical’? by Baker. ‘For about half a square 
mile between Abbot’s Leigh “ = ower Failand, a very remarkable 
and “yea — : es W. 


5 abington, as he es no specimen in his ‘ rbarium troen this 
4 iebhnnicns Bor. — Very local in Somerset. a. and 
Very fine in the hedges above Kingston, in the , 


These plants I should consider good mucronulatus, A 

which ate in two or three pon near Clevedon must, I think, 

Certainly be placed here; it differs from the Quantock plant in the 

fonger pillars branches of the panicle, which is also somewhat less 
leafy. In none of my Somerset specimens do I find any sete on 
__ the barren stem, and the — seem shorter and less pointed than 
os b. Man 


Hecacias OF Susie: as 24, [Juny, 1886] a 


210 NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 


afinis in general appearance, but the presence of set on the stems 
are fatal to this determination. In reality it seems to come nearer 
. Borreri than to anything else. Another plant, which is frequent 
n hedges near Downhead Common, on the way to Stoke Lane, 
snnst also, I think, be referred here, at least for a present; it is 
exceedingly unlike the Clevedon plant, but resembles in reo 
respects the R. Borreri of the neighbourhood of Plymouth ; 
deserves further enema 


Bante: near the Wellin n Monument; ce about Castle 


no opportunity of comparing it with stents ic specimens 
Briggs referred the - temas ne a ern plants to peer 
with some doubt. They inly ery different from 


oods, near Bristol, which — to me quite different. I possess 
but a single specimen of this plant, which I owe to x ‘kindness be 
r. White, who has given me an interesting account 0 
oe in search . a name. It appears that it was fst 


Rhena i mor 
panicles different.” Mr. White calls attention to the “very peculiar 
bloom upon the barren stem.” He describes the plant as ‘‘a strong 
te Il- a — eer recognised, which grows in some qual ntity 
ridge.” I can add — to 


of the pre note. I am in ined to think this m be ‘the 
may 
may be worth of the difficulty, but only offer the suggestion for what it 


rie Weihe. — This i - a local bramble in Somerset, and 
Lag Git yal iste be alone taken into renege et is decidedly 
I have it from a « thay near Wellington”; from Bishop's 


NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 211 


Wood, Wells; Stoke Lane (here springing from a stone wall - 
quite open countr ry); and from edges of woods near Witham 
if R. rosaceus Weihe be included, as I think it should be, the ‘distr 


Dulverton, and occurs also abou Luxborough, and on the Black- 
down Hills, near the "Wallington Pai ent. These plants were all 


though in the “ he was inclined to call the Wellington plant 
rosac s I can myself judge, I should agree M 
Baker, yet holding that the two forms are hardly separable 

as also stevens a sant ou nd Mr. ry at Worle Hill, 


R. ‘ities Weihe. —Leigh ee (T. B. Flower in ‘ Brit. Rubi’); 
but see remarks under R. Blowamii 
rudis Weihe.—Another ioea bramble; generally well-marked 
and typical. I have it from Kingston, Broomfield, and Wellington, 


_ +t. Radula Weihe.—This seems to be decidedly a scarce beer 
in Somerset. I have it from Chipstable, in the west ; from Cleve- 
don, and from Downhead Co ommon ; and have a note that I saw it 


R. K mer: 
brambles, occuring in most parts of the county. I have found 
 Inyself quite unable to prernatnen satisfactorily between the various 
oi usually grouped together under this name, and fear that the 


R, pallidus Weihe.—Dulverton; Culbone, and thence eastwards 
to Dunster ; ag ae — ; Downhead; ‘‘ Leigh "Woods 
ubi’ 


R. 
understand the plant. I eves never seen a specitnen $0 
Which appeared to me to answer to the des ~ 
Buta plant from Quantock, “ neato Broome” — toa approac 
More closely to some = an Plymouth 3 nts grouped 
under this name than ae I believe also that this was 


the opinion of Me. Brives, perl was with me $6 ae it was collected. 


912 NOTES ON SOMERSET RUBI. 


R. diversifolius Lindl. — This is not an uncommon form m 
Somerset, but I have not noticed it at any spot further west than 
the Wellington Monument. It occurs about Yeovil (Briggs); but I 
understand that Baker has named plants from this locality tubercu- 
latus for the Rev. J. Sower i 


Rocks Wood, a curious variety with very long leafy panicle (Baker). 


I have collected this form myself in the sanie locality. ——— 
bury; Worle Hill; near Clevedon; hedges near Cranmore an 
Witham 


[f. Lejeunii auct. Ang]. — Very rare. Road-side near the Wel- 
lington Monument. A plant with ternate leaves is plentiful in the 
adjoining woods. It is probably a form of this species altered by 
growing in shade. Probably not Lejeunti Weihe ; 

R. pyramidalis Weihe.— This very beautiful bramble is frequent 
in the west of the county, but does not (I believe) extend further 
eastwards than Wellington. Culbone Woods (Bab. in ‘Brit. Rubi’). 
It is plentiful in this locality. Porlock Weir; Bonniton, near 

unster ; near the Wellington Monument. ; ; 
- Guntheri Weihe.—I know of but one station for this plant mm 
Somerset, viz., below the Wellington Monument. This place seems 
to be a natural botanic garden for Rubi; I know of no other place 
ope So many forms may be collected in so small an area. 


particular it agrees with a Plymouth specimen in my herbarium, 
for which I am indebted to Mr. Bri os. 
R. humifusus Weihe. — Edford Wood. Exactly resembles 4 


ll 
confidence a bramble which is sina abundant in some woods near 
. My specimens from these stations 
have mostly ternate leaves. “cc Woods, Berkeley ” (Dr. H. F. Parsons 
in ‘ Record Club Report for 1888,’ which adds, ‘‘This looks to me 
just ordinary pallidus (J.G. Baker)... .. . I think probably 


correct—it is not so robust as ordinary northern pallidus, has 


R. glandulosus Bell, 8. hirtus. — Apparently rare in Somerset: 
‘astie Urchard ; Downhead Common. Possibly these plants might 
be better a r var. y. Reuteri, but I have never sect 
authentic examples of this plant. Mr. Baker has recorded 2. 
hirtus W. & K. from Butleigh Woods (Polden). : 

eae ae Blox. —- Not a common bramble in Somerset; 
at least, I have very seldom met with it. Wood at Butleigh 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF ST. KILDA. 918 


Wootton. My specimen from this station has been submitted to 
Prof. Babington, who, after comparison with specimens in Herb. 
Genévier, gave me the following synonyms :—tenuiarmatus Lees ; 
rivalis Genév. ‘* Whitchurch (Rev. W. H. Painter, fide Rev. W. H. 
Purchas)” (‘Flora of the Bristol Coal-field’). « 
Claverton,” near Bath (Bab. in ‘ Brit. Rubi’). Mr. Baker finds the 
“var. degener, a form differing from corylifolius mainly by its 
ascending sepals, not uncommon” about Somerton. 

Rh. corylifolius Sm.—Generally common throughout the county. 
Noted at Dunster, Quantock, Taunton, Wellington, Yeovil, Somer- 
ton, Pen Selwood, Mendip, and Witham; in these cases var. a. 
sublustris. In some other cases, as about Bridgwater and Norton, 
T have only noted the agoregate. Mr. White records “ corylifolius”’ 

m Ken, Clevedon, and Leigh Wood. Prof. Babington records 
Var. y. purpureus from Bath in ‘ Brit. Rubi 


under RF. dumetorum, var. tuberculatus of Warren? It is evidently 
” 


> Cesvus ) oe and generally distributed throughout 
the county, perhaps less so in the extreme west. The record of 
Var. pseudo-ideus in the ‘Flora of the Bristol Coal-field’ is an error. 
R. saxatilis L.— Very rare. I found this interesting species for 
the first time in Somerset in May, 1888. It grows finely, and in 
Some plenty, in one part of Asham Woods, a few miles south of 
tome; possibly also in other parts of the same extensive woods. 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF ST. KILDA. 
By R. M. Barrineton, M.A., F.L.S. 


h 
islands and rocks. On f f these vegetation exists, namely, 
rocks nm four o g tose 


Journal,’ 1842, p. 47); and it is oo that in this list there 


are at least eleven species not observed by me :—-ira cristata, 


214 


arly for hae 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF ST. KILDA. © 


gustan bates 


nising, but this: excuse is insu 


Macgillivray’s list is evidently not intended to = “complete 


wu 5 0 


mission of some of the species contained in the 


following 


caries - about 120 species is unaccountable. It is possible I not 


yet have 


should wi sh. To Mr. A.B 
specially due for friendly aid. 


when a more careful examination 


pecies not in Babington’s ‘ Flora of the Outer Hebrides’ are 


marked *, 
prefix, ‘‘m.” 


ame it Flammula L. Com- 


Re acris L. Very common 
oe ‘ ae ps v. itiiins 
R. repens Bo Not co 


common ; in- 


mones t Sie 
M. Cochlearia officinalis L. Fre- 
quent; very large in places.— 
*Var. alpina. On hills. 
Capsella to deegaceatag Moench. 
Near house 
Viola steatioa tries, var. Rivini- 
a * — mon, = ss 
@ single flow 


8 ove: 
oe L. Very rare; only 
0 places on = Kilda, 
i near 
pei Flos-cuculi L. “Eroquent 
Cerastrum tetrandrum Curt. Com 


occurs on summits of 


ose in Macgillivray’s list are distinguished by the 


Stellaria media With. ieee, 
on. 


S eae Wimm. Rare; onend 
t. Kilda near the Doon. | 
ahi arvensis L. In culti- 
vated ground. 
Montia coe L. Common.— 
ar. rivularis. Frequent. 
H- catia pe mL. Rar 
2 ae eb n the gully 7“ 


acher 
violin repens L. Common 
Vicia s oe L. Rare; on the 
8 Soa, and on the 
Island of Soa; not over 6 in. 
high anywhere. 
Potentilla| Tormentilla Neck. 
= 
P. Ans Near houses. 
Callitriche Sakiialie Koe 
mM. Sedum anglicum Huds. 2 


Mm. S. Rhodiola 
the natives ‘‘ Usanion”’; plen- 
tiful and luxuriant on clifis. 

eae oposite L. Only 

the Conacher, 
behind the villag 

Hydrocotyle alias - Plentiful. 

Angelica 8 ve estris Plentiful 
in many places. 

Lonicera Periclymenum L. In one 
spot only > the east of landing 
places, on 

Galium ccaitla L. Comm 

Succisa cE > Comme 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF ST, KILDA, 915 


tg lanceolatus L. Near vil- *Rumex pir gas Murr. Near 


ge the house 
Z M. Chr ysanthemun segetum Li. The R. crispus th Near the houses. 
5 principal weed in tke oats. R. obtusifolius Auct. Near the 
: M. Matricaria — L., var houses. 
the ¢ R. Acetosa L. In great abun- 
Achillea Millefolium e Common. ance, and most luxuriant on 
Gnaphalium dioicum ommon cliffs at north of isl 


: mmon. 

S. aquaticus Huds. Frequent. . Oxyria digyna Hill. On the 

Leontodon autumnalis L. Very north face of ponents rare. 
common, Polygonum aviculare 

M. Taraxacum bee L., var. Empetrum nigrum L. On hill- 


patustre. ommon ; gr owin g tops. 
in the wildest ak most ex- Urtica dioica L. Frequent. 
posed situations. alia repens On are 


Sonchus asper Hoffm.? Too ~_ r village, &e. — Var. 7 
ean to distinguish from 

2 i bacea L. North face of 

Vitcininn M yrtillus L. On the ‘Co nacher, and descending to 
top of Conacher 0 ft.+ 


about 500 
Erica cinerea A Plentiful. een pe ie ooo ag 
— vulgaris Salisb. Com- Orchis omm 


Lris Proditacor 
Veromisa officinalis L, Frequent. Narthecium Ossifrag m Huds. 
Euphrasia officinalis L. Speci- Luzula sylvatica 6 oe Plentiful 
mens stunted and foweks on the summit of St. Kilda, 
1220 ft. 


purpli 
Pedioularis sylvatica L. Very “ campestris DC. 
L. multiflora Koch. 
iciinthus: Crista-galli L. Rare. *Juncus effusus L 
T pie Serpyllum Fries. Abun- J. supinus Moench. 


J, squarrosus 
Prunella vulgaris. Noteommon. Schenus 3 nigricans sL. 
Galeopsis Tetrahit L. — uniglunis Link.? Speci- 
. Pinguicula vulgaris L. Fre- imperfect; may be palus- 


quen iis. 
Prima a Huds. Plentiful 8S. caspitosus L 


on some of the cliffs. Eriophorum anpusiifolzan Roth. 
. Snapatlis tenella L. Carex pulicaris L. 
rmeria maritima Willd. C. stellulata Good. 
Pi lantago major L. C. vulgaris Fries. 
P. fiinbectats ch C. glauca Scop. 


P. maritima L. Plentiful, and . pilulifera L. 
very variable.— Var. pygmaa C. panicea L. 
Lange. a C. binervis Sm 

7 ers ii. pie minor Towns- 


P. Coronop 
aang Yardeni Woods. 


t Very low for this species. Mr. F. M. Webb found it at 1100 ft, in Mid- 
Scotland. ‘Trevelyan records it at 1080-ft. in in the Faroes. 


216 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


m. C. rigida Good. Mentioned by 
Macgillivray, and it was seen 
on the top of Conacher, 1220 ft. 

Anthoxanthum odoratum L 

Alopecurus geniculatus L. 


grostis ————? S§pecimen too 
young to determine. 

Aira flexuosa Li. 

A. precox 

Holcus la 


M. Festuca ovina L. Often vivi- 
parous. 

u. EF’. rubra L., var. duriuscula. 

Triticum repens L. 

Nardus stricta L. 


Hymenophyllum unilaterale Willd. 
Rare on S. side of Conacher. 

Pteris aquilina L. 

Lomaria spicant Desv. 

mu. Asplenium marinum L. 

Cystopteris fragilis Bernh., var. 

entata. 

Nephrodium dilatatum Desv. 

Polypodium vulgare 

*Ophioglossum vulgatum L., var. 
ambiguum. Among short grass 
near the extreme north end of 
St. Kilda. 

a. * Botrychiwm Lunaria Sw. Near 
landin: e. 

Sapien” selaginotdes Gray. 


Equisetum arvense L. 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI: 
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE To THE List in ‘Lonpon CaTALoGuE,’ BD. 8. 


By C. C. Bastnerton, M.A., F.R.S. 


- Baker took Focke and Nyman as his guides, and made, = 
remarks accordingly. I have at Cambridge the whole of Génevier ¢ 
er’ 


barium, and also a considerable number of Focke’s typical 


I have neglected the list given b 
for he cannot have had suel 2 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 917 


determine many critical points. He knew very little apparently of 
the plants of Western Europe as described by Génévi d 
also to make a careful catalogue of all the plants of Europe, not 
simply of the Rubi. We, as well as Focke and Génévier, are able 
more to concentrate our attention upon the Rubi. have, as is 
well known, especially studied our Brambles, as Focke did those of 
Germany, and Genevier those of Western France. I find that 
there is much still to be done before omenclature is quite in 


is our best guide; in the latter Focke. I have endeavoured to do 
this, but feel strongly that the results are often not so satisfactory 
as could be desired. much doubt remains 


are not final, and if I have at a future time to modify my present 
views in many respects. 

Génévier’s book is difficult to use, from his system of arrange- 
ment often distantly separating nearly allied plants, on account 
of the colour of their flora rgans differing. But have 
@ local cause of much difficulty from our having almost uni- 
versally neglected the proportions and colours of the petals, 
Stamens and styles. I believe, with those great authorities, that 
we have neglected a valuable series of characters. as I 
have been able to make use of them I have found them valuable. 

I shall now proceed to make such remarks on the list as it 
Seems to require, omitting all notice of plants which are not likely 
to be misunderstood or questioned. The numbers in at the 
beginning of the remarks on each plant, are those of the ‘ London 
Catalogue,’ ed. 8. if 
1. (416b) R. Inzus L., b. Leesii. I possess R. Leesit as the 


Genévier. Focke says of it that it is the R. obtusifolius Willd., 
but Gandoger (‘ Rubus Nouveaux’) places that next to R. Thuilliert 
P. i i e R. N. The 


Ki. Ideus v. sterilis is apparently a very slight deviation from the 


2. (420) R. 
resembles r plicatus, but has ultimately reflexed, not patent 
_conni 


me. It is applied to many forms by po arr : 
better neglected. That of Boulay, which Focke identifies with our 


R. suberectus, has the strong hooked prickles of our R. plicatus, and 


218 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


es = sulcatus Vest. & Focke, received from A 
J does t 


have seen the true R. sulcatus from Perthshire, — the 
kindness of Dr. Buchanan White. I define it as follow 

sulcatus Vest. Stem suberect, sulcate; prickles veiaill or de- 
clinin: sri from an oblong compressed base; leaves quinate ; leaflets 
fiat, finely dentato-serrate, with scattered hairs and green n beneath ; 
terminal leaflet ovate-acuminate; basal leaflets mens a 
ase mse of flowering-shoot often gibbous at re see 


tr seal reflexed, pale; stamens exceeding the green ee not 
connivent. 

I have it from Perthshire, near Blairgowrie, gathered by the 
late Mr. A. Sturrock, of Rattray. 

8. (421) R. xrmpus W. & N. Stem suberect, pentangular or 
slightly furrowed ; prickles aasing defiexed from me oblong 
conical este onfined to the angles of the stem; lea s 5-nate; 


subcordate or entir bas ets subsessile; flowers 
solitary or subracemose ; ‘heh and sakaited hairy ; sepals patent, 
ith fl d fruit; ‘stamens reddish, exceeding the violet- 


coloured styles.” The petals are pink. 
I find a cultivated specimen from Baker la? - _ Herb. 


Généy., which was named R. nitidus by Génévier. O possess 

e from Briggs, which I named R. rosulentus fa sas tt is from 
Probus (1869). I now believe it to be R. nitidus 

so Focke and Gé r. It does not possess ee anmatore of 
entus, of which I have not seen any British s 

fs (421b) R. samunosus I have examples of the 

Thirsk aed which has borne several names ia, 

It seems to e R. hamulosus L The s sched ar 


form 0 of I R. rhammifolius. All these I sochiaenidy naa to RB. hamt- 

losus, as Baker formerly did; but I cannot learn from his recent 

paper how he now names them: Nym es not seem to know 

the plant, and with Focke places it doubtfully with R. nitidus. In 

the Herb. Généy - I find specimens of it named, manifestly erro- 
irsk ( Au 


rather doubly Sicasa Atos Aicketnad leaflet cuspi- 


date; panicle small, open, ares felted, few-flowered, with faleate 


le ee OE 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 219 


prickles; white petals; white stamens equalling the green styles. 
The calyx also is slightly aciculate, and the leaves are usually not 
at all notched at the base. The credit of determining the true 
name of this plant belongs to Mr. Baker, who sent it to me as the 
fi. hamulosus Mill. in 1865. Probably it will have to be distin- 
guished specifically. 

5. ( R. arrints. Ours is the plant of Génévier and the R. 
cordifolius of Baker (teste Génév.). Our old R. cordifolius is probably 

nly a form of R. rhamnifolius. — 


from Minden, which is marked “verus” by Areschoug. We have 
been accustomed to name some forms R. cordifolius; but Focke 
tells us that the true R. cordifolius is very rare, and it seems to be 
different, but I have not seen a specimen of it. Génévier says that 


0 ong compressed base; leaves quinate ; leaflets coriaceous, 
convex, shining, subglabrous, hairy only on the veins beneath, doubl 
Serr ather lobate towards the tip, cuspidate, not imbricate ; ter- 


length of their bases. I think that we may well separate this from 
Re imbricatus, although the leaflets of that plant do not seem to be 


orm lifol shir : 
(‘Brit. Rubi,’ 92) is not R. latifolius. : The R. latifolius Boul., a 
much : lifolius. 
ue. later — —_ ose R. coryltfe The plaut which wo SS 
been accustomed to call by this name has no right to it. We only 


220 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


have the true plant from one place, near Plymouth Sani 
Tamerton Foliot and amy Down), where it is found by 
. Brigg 


scarcely ey It has also a few sete on its calyx. I define it:— 

R. thyrsoideus Wimm.; stem erect-arcuate, angular, furrowed 
subglabrous ; ears nearly patent from a dilated compressed base ; 
leaves quinate-digitate ; leaflets doubly but irregularly and coarsely 
serrate, finely saan felted beneath ; _ terminal leaflet obovate-lanceolate, 


acumi : r 
flowered; its pores few, weak, declining or — petals 
white ; oo exceeding the styles, ultimately conniv 
nd informs me that he has from the pan a Wight 
a plant nam re R. elatior Focke by that. botanist himself. This 
a find a place under the true R. thyrsoideus, in its 
Inde 


f . candicans Weihe. ed its difference from 2 
candicans is apparently very slight (I have specimens from Focke, 
R = before me), chiefly in the stems being furrowed 


10. (431) R. rusrscens Wirtg. This is undoubtedly the plant 
we 7 know by the name of R. thyrsoideus. It has a angular 
a 


many slender —_ ones anes lanceolate-acuminate pari 
e : - 


can basil bear tha 

11. (481) R. PUBESCENS W.&N., var. The plant named F. 
discolor 8. pubescens by me i s certainly not the R. arduennensis, a8 
was suspected by Focke, if we may trust a specimen of the plant 
—— at. * —— art ad mera —- by Focke. Baker 


‘nk state t is plant 3 is uchia doused, and probably it is not 
Still it is very unlikely that our plant and one of the extreme sou 
of Euro ould on identical. I have not seen a specimen of the 


R. pp acon of Seringe or of Gussone, nor have I rae page 
plant from the Mingle Water. The leaves of my plan 
y on the veins beneath on the stronger and older sp ge 
ashy-pubescent on the autumnal branches. My specimens are from 
Llanwarne, oe and Piereefield, Monmouthshire. 
The R. discolor W. & N. is R. macrostemon Foc - be which, 
combined with his R. viselinchias and R. Winteri, he s «« Speci- 
ina exsiccata.... . certis notis ees suena (p. 198). 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUB: 221 


Mr. Beeby finds what he believes to be R. Winteri in Surrey. But 
with his specimen and Focke’s before me I have doubts, notwith- 
ee ie s determination of it. 
82) The plant which we call R. discolor is the R. rusticanus 
. 3g R. ulmifolius of see and as toil seems benegh nice 
N., 


rusticanus. Neither Génévier nor I have seen authentic specimens 
of R. ulmifolius Schott. R. Weiheanus has very finely dentate 
leaves, which are rather compoundly dentate towards the end, and 
sepals which are ovate and shortly cuspidate. 

The - a -W. . is the R. macrostemon Fock 

18. R. LEvcostacHys re is an older name (isa ) th 
R. rate Wy. & N., 1825, and I see no reason staal . should not 
be retained, although Nyman considers it incongruo 

14, (4838) My £. vestrrus seems to be the &. thi Mill,, 
and might possibly be separated from R. leucostachys. The felt is 
very different on its leaves, being very fine and close, but wanting 
the softness of that of R. leucostachys ys. 

34) Our R. urerironius is certainly the A. pyramidalis 


16, (485) R. montanus Wirtg. It seems most probable that 
ur R. Grabowskii is not the aie as that which grows in Silesia, 


tani 
irtg., I accept that name for it. Focke has seen an Cease 
specimen of R. Gra howshii, ase says that it is very different. Baker 
rerigned identifies my plant with R. horridicaulis Mill. 
specimens name CR. horridicaulis Mill. by Genevier, 


zit specimens in Boulay’ s “ Ronces ¥ osgiennes,’ ih 24 


G 

Géné v. published in 1864. But Bloxam’s name and demecipticts 
appeared. in ee 
therefore claim p 


<a=s 
‘3 
ne 
EP a 
a 
re, 
a 
et 
i] 
i) 
ot po 
BE 
eo 


sent by miaices and from the rather numerous Fr ench specimens of 
. Boreanus in the Herb. Génévier. It may 48 doubted if the R. 
infestus of Bloxam (‘ Brit. Rubi,’ 128) can placed here. Its 


222 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


_ armature seems so very different. But the whole question con- 
cerning the nomenclature of the plants (there are probably more 
than one) sent out by Bloxam as A. Colemani and R.° infestus 


ation. 
R. Saurert Bab. Focke considers this to be R. 
sylvatious W.& N. Génévier recognises it as distinct. I deseribed 


I find specimens from Bloxam of his R. calvatus in the Herb. 
Génév., but there is no remark made upon them. Génévier placed 
them next to R. Salteri, and perhaps considered them to be the 
same: for he says under R. “erecta in his Monograph, that that 
is not R. calvatus Blox., although it 8 of Boreau. Focke places 


calvatus Blox. and my R. . foliosus as par artially synonymous with 
his R. chlorothyrsus, on the authority of a specimen from Bloxam 
A specimen of R. chlorothayrewe now before me (‘ Rub. Select.,’ 44) is 
not R. calvatus, which is so close to R. Saltert that I quite agree 


which I cannot consider to have any ee to my R. foliosus, 


Ri calvatus, as to) ee specimens sent = cae to Génévier 
a e. I am inclined to suspect the presence of some 
mist 


e. 
18. (488) R. carpmironiws W. & N. I think that I know our 
plant ; and would refer sapadially to its very finely serrate leaflets, 
which are densely hairy rather than felted beneath, and its narrow 
and often nearly simple panicle. My specimens seem to require 
very careful study. Some of them may belong to other named 
forms. Some botanists would perhaps refer some of them to 
vulgaris W. & N.; but I know nothing of R. vulga ris as a British 


plant. The onl 
‘Rubi Selecti,’ No. 5 “Mairmaee he quotes as being the true plant in 
his ‘ Synopsis’ (p. 188) t was unknown to Génévier 

19. Soro R. xpaaaprone W.&N. I agree with Baker in 

ur plant to be ¢ correctly named. I also believe my F 
adscitus oy be that of Génévier. He quotes me without doubt. 

ere are abundance of specimens in hig herbarium, but none from 
England. 

I place here the R. heteroclitus of Bloxam (set of 1876) with 
some doubt, owing to its very nearly, if not quite, naked stem. 
Focke places the R. heteroclitus Mill. with m R. Grabowskit, 
which is R. montanus s Wirtg.; but that can arty be its re ae 

' h 


Tae nee of some suberect form; not so Bloxam’s, which are very 
Tike R. Ce ae become compl letely naked. 


SHORT NOTES, 228 


I also place here the R. gratus Focke. Ble says of it, “Fl. 


magni rosei, stami EO: sepala patentia externe snb- 
 .. -virescentia.’’ I have what seems . it from Pe fe yrs 


dness of Dr. Bashanay White; and Surrey, 
liberality of Mr. Beeby. 


(To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 
Poramoceton cortaceus Nolte.—Last year Mr. A. Fryer sent 
specimens of the above plant “spr Cambridgeshire. This is placed 
by Reichenbach nearest to P. lucens, as a variety. Mr. Fryer 


Soniiders its nearest ally is P. Zak and q e 
These Cambridgeshire specimens are the nearest that I gee seen 
from Europe to Nolte’s type specimen in Herb. Mus. Brit s 


through my neglect it was omitted in the 8th ed. of the < ioeaee 
Catalogue.’—Arruur BENNETT. 

— RUFUS Wahilb. IN i Surrotx.— The Rey. Dr. Hind has 
es me a specimen of the above plant, gathered many 
year ice “e Sir Charles Dacian on the coast near Aldborough. 
Cheviotiand and Lincolnshire are the only records of its occurrence 
on the east coast.—Artuur BENNETT. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

Tux ‘ Annual Report of the Proceedings of the Belfast Natura- 
lists’ Field Club’ for 1884-85 contains, in the appendix, hae i. of a 
useful list of the Fungi of the. North of Ireland, by the Rev. H. 
W. Lett. It is prefaced by a short summary of the little that has 
previously bee tive in this directtion, and contains 581 specics, 
with localities for 


Tue *Poureatii Annual Report of the on London Miecro- 
scopical and Natural History Club’ contains an address from the 
¢ President, Mr. B. D. Jackson, on the botanists, from Ray 


Hill, wh f the 
district. The MS. notes of Newton, Doody and Buddle, relating 
to the local flora are quoted, as well as those published in the - 
works of Petiver, Ray, and Blackstone. 

A new volume (the 17th) of the ‘Icones Plantarum,’ which is 
apparently to be devoted entirely to Ferns, was begun in May. It 


224 ARTIOLES IN JOURNALS. 


contains twenty-five plates, mostly of =e — hitherto unfigured 
species, the text being supplied by Mr. Bak 

bil are indebted to the author, Mr. at Tweedy, for a copy 
of his ‘Flora of the Yellowstone National Park’—a pamphlet of 
pevenkys eight pages, consisting of an introduction, localised list of 
plants, and summar 

Tue last part (vol. ii., pt. 2) of the ‘Annuario del R. Istituto 
Botanico di Roma’ contains the following og aah :—‘ Sulla struttura 
e sviluppo del frutto dell’ Anagyris fetida,’ by E. Martel 3 plate) ; 
‘ Sugli sferocristalli del — clematideum,’ by R. Pirotta ; 
‘Di aleune particolari escrescenze del fusto del Laurus nobilis 
(2 pinkes), by A. Baldini; “Diu una nuova specie di Plagiochila’ 
(P. bifida: 1 plate), by F. a “Repertorio della Epaticologis 
Italica’ (8 plates), by C. Massalongo; ‘Ancora sui a tra 1 
vasi laticiferi ed il s She pilakors: by R. Pirotta and 
Marcatili. 


South and "West Lancashire and Mid-West Yorkshire districts. 
‘Tt does not pretend to completeness; its aim is rather > ape a 
basis on which a complete list may be built up”; and as ather 
from the Magazine that the College possesses a Retard History 
Club, we may hope that the present enumeration may 80 
extended. As it stands, it presents a good idea of the local flora. 


New Booxs.—P. Soravsr, ‘ Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten.’ 
Vol. i Die nicht-parasitiren Krankheiten (ed. 2: Berlin, ‘oe 


ge 
Fesehet Leitfaden: Botanik’ (ed. 2 : Hannover, Hahn : Bvo, 
i x, * Botanische 
Bestimmungs-Tabellen ’ (Vienna, Holder: 8vo, pp. lv. 70). —A. 
Karson, ‘Vademecum botanicum’ (Leipzig, Lenz: pt. i., 8¥ 
pp. 64, ‘199 cuts: 1 mk. 20). 


ARTICLES IN Jou 
Bot. Centralblatt. (No. 24). — cs van mn Tubeuf, ‘ Cucurbitaria 
oe om gna Laburnum.’ 


nische Zeitung (May 28). — J. Wortm ‘Theorie des 
Windens (eousel.) ) — (June 14). ve de Bary, ‘ {lobes einige Sclero- 
tinien und ‘Sclovstia 


ardeners’ aL, aa — J.D. Hooker, Larix Griffithit 
(fig. ees —Picea Menziesii (figs. 161, 162). 
(CEsterr. Bot. fonek @g une),—E. Formanek, ‘ Zur Flora der 
ment =< W. Vos Bildungsabweichangen an Frii a 
blumen.’—H. Steinin ay ‘ Pedicularis Janke, sp.n.’—J. Wiesbaur, 
prvsriee Veils? —K. Vandas, ‘ Zur Flora Wathyniens (Dianthus 
Borbasti, sp. n.).—J. B. Keller, ‘ Mahrische Rose 


225 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI: 
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE LIST IN ‘ LONDON CaTALOGUE,’ ED. 8. 
By C. C. Bazineton, M.A., F.R.S. 
(Concluded from p. 223.) 


22. (440) R. Maassn Focke. Focke ani Ste Sore that i is 
R. sary Marss. and R. Maassii Focke. k that it is the 
latter ; but I have not seen the form rmer, nor % as = my spec ‘nies 
seem to accord with Focke’s remarks upon it. We have been in error 
in considering our plant to be the R. vulgaris b. umbrosus N. and 
- umbrosus Arrh.; for Focke appears to be quite correct in con 
sidering ae to be the R. pyramidalis Kalt., our former R. hir tifolius. 
ain, amosus Nery of which : have authentic specimens 
ys 


ain, 
the plant found at Morden, Durham, Aug., 1864, and called R. atro- 
caulis by Génévier for Baker, is certainly wrongl ee. it is 
probably R. Maassii. I have the a R. atrocaulis before m “50 es 
I think that I have removed several of the errors into 
have been led. Focke told Baker that the form of R. hanna 
usually called by us R. cordifolius is R. Maassii ; but surely ther 
Some mistake. I may be wrong. but certainly think R. Maassit fas 
nearer to R. macrophyllus than to R. rhamnifolius. 
The fine but Pater: dentition of this plant is remarkably 
beautiful. Can e that my R. macrophyllus «. glabratus is a 
in Perthshire 


R. core lg and probably R. peer IIa ‘BR. pr 
I combine with R. Schlechtendatii with some little ica on I am 
not acquainted with the true plant as British. I also doubt the 
ey of ae plants of Focke and Génévier. 

If I understand Mr. Briggs correctly, he suspects that my 
Var. glabratie may be the R. Banningii Focke, the R. pyramidatus 
Mill. I have a specimen of R. Banningii from Focke before me, 
and they are certainly not the same. My plant is _— marked 


leaves, which a sae are ie aecaee ect this with the other forms 

R. macrophyllus. I have also a specimen which Dr. Boswell fxind 
in a wood near Balmuto, in October, 1878, and called a “ shade 
cordifelius” of Baker and Bloxam, and R. Lindleianus of Warren, 


Journan or Borany.—Vou. 24. [Aue., 1886.] Q 


22.6 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


glabratus; similarly the panicle. But all the specimens in our 
herbaria named glabratus require very careful re-examination. 
Can it be, as I have hinted above, that the whole should be placed 
under &. Maassii as glabrous forms ? 

24. (442) R. mucronatus (Blox.). I am pleased to learn that our 
old name may be retained; for there is reason to suppose that the 
plant of Seringe is only a form, even if more than a synonym, of 
A. triflorus Rich., and that therefore our name is free for us to use. 

I have several specimens of the French R. mucronulatus before 


to judge from Herb 


: Pp. 

give England as a loc 
. , (448) R. Srrencerm Weihe and R. Borrert Bell-Salt. 
I am inclined to let these plants stand under one name. Their 


growth, and R. rubicolor Blox. lies between them. QR. Arrhenw 
e is very near R. Borreri; chiefly differing by its orbicular 
petals, and stamens much falling short of the styles. : 
- (444) R. erupescens Wirtg. Stems arching; prickles 
many slender, straight, patent or declining from a short compressed 
ase; leaves quinate, green and nearly naked beneath, doubly 


; 
dentate-serrate ; terminal leaflet broadly obovate cuspidate ; panicle 
rather la i illary branch 


ascending, the ultra-axillary ones patent, corymbose ; its prickles 
slender, declining, a few stronger and rarely deflexed ; sepals ovate, 
much acuminate, setose 

I ha y deseription of 
them, except that the petals are “lactei”” and that ‘“ deinde styli 
cum filamenti énévi 


ears to have suspected that it was R 

ens. The English specimens that I have seen are from 
Maneetter, in Warwickshire, and near Ross, Herefordshire. [ 

= R. thyrsiger Bab. MS. R. rhenanus Mill. 


depends, as far as we are concerned, upo: i from Crab: 
ds, S$ we are , upon a specimen 
tree, in Devonshire, marked in my hand as authentically so-called 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. I27 


by Génévier, a upon what authority does not appear. There is 
no plant bearing that name in the Herb. a although a 


ee 

choug, is there named R. Bloxamii, but is really the Plymouth 
plant, which I now eall R. thyrsiger. canaehe sania no remark upon 
that specimen. As the description of anything named R. rhenanus 
cannot be found (even in Ga ndoger’s enormous list), I hope that I 
may be allowed to correct my mistake; a as I think that the 
plant deserves distinction, dencttbe it as follows 

- THYRSIGER Bab. MS. Stem antabatprebieiie: angular, 
slightly furrowed ; prickles ee declining from a long compressed 
; e 


leaflet , ne etc panicle long, pyramidal, very hairy and 


most marked distinction. It is very different in that respect from 
R. Bloxamii. Apparently the flowers are white, and the stamens 
oa the styles ; ner these points require attention on the living 


27. (445) R. Broxamu Lees. There is a beautiful series of this in 
Herb. Génév., named by Baker, from Laskell (Aug. ts or 
and Bloxam, from Twycross and Atherstone, whic e quo 

(‘ Rub. Loir.’ 140) as the authority for the name. Attached to one 


fore be any doubt about —— meaning the same plant as we do 
isname. R. splendidus Mill. is a OnE of it, published 


pl R. oe us Ww. & N. I find several British - 


“set” of 1876, from a wood between Pavy and Tamar, De 
(Briggs) ; i from Wrottsley Wood, near i eee ners (Fraser, 
1877) ; m Moreton Hampstead, Devon (Moyle Rogers, Aug. 

15th, isi); aa (4) from near a rth (1854), from Mr. Kirk. 
I therefore retain the name in 0 

R. philyrophyllus L. & M. 1 "identify a plant found by the Rev. 
Dr. Hind at Honington, Suffolk, with this. It seems to agree 
exactly with specimens named by Miiller and Génévier. It was 
published by P. J. Miiller in ‘ Pollichia’ of 1859, p. 117. 
— in Génévier’s and Focke’s books, not being foun 
districts; and the former placed it in his —< near to R. Dese- 
glesti, wish doubtful correctness, in ae opini 

R. thyrsiflorus differs from ales Fogger’ - having pang 
unequal At nt rickles, a broadly obovate acumin 
terminal leaflet. reps panicle with its ultra-axillary cy — 
racemose, usually rather dense strong axillary racemose nehes, 


228 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


an . 
All these forms require much careful study with better materials 
than I possess. 


equal minute aciculi and sete on the stem. 
stated to be ‘‘sparsim glandulosi v. eglandulosi,” and those organs 
are very scarce on my specimen from Focke (‘Rub. Select.’ 44). _ 
. (44 . PRERUPTORUM Boul. Baker combines this with 
R. Radula, but I cannot agree with him. To mention only two 
conspicuous characters: R. Radula has felt beneath its leaves, 
- preruptorum has none. The former has finely dentate leaves, 
the latter “dents plus grandes.” 

31. (449-451) R. scaser has long appeared to be probably = 
aggregate plant, and now the wish seems to be to distinguish its 
segregate forms. This has for some time been done on the 

ntin 


so Génévier, who received the true plant from 


_ ‘The R. scaber of Wirtgen and also his R. perpleaus are th 
R. Kaltenbachii Metsch, which is a very different plant, and must 
be placed near R. hirtus. 

_ _. Babingtonii is now allowed to be distinct from R. pee It 


a. : : 

They neither of them notice it, unless R. adornatus Miill. is the 

same. I define it and its allies as follows :-— 
(1). R. Babingtonié Bell-Salt.; stem arcuate-prostrate, terete OF — 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 229 


subsuleate ; prickles many, short, declining from a long compressed 
base ; strong short aciculias well as sete and hairs few; leaves 8-5- 
nate: leaflets doubly dentate, opaque and pilose above, pale green and 
pilose beneath ; terminal leaflet broadly obovate-cuspidate, subcordate 

ow; panicle usually large, leafy, with subracemose or nearly 
simple branches ; its pore few, small, slender; its aciculi and 
sete slender, few, except near the top of panicle and branches ; 


. debilis Boul.?; stem arcuate, 5-gonous, with flat sides ; 
prickles small, deflexed from a long compressed base; acicult few, 
er, U bagn ual ; sete very gle ine onspicuo us; hairs few or none; 


a se a sngalene also the inne ae ant are more 


possible, therefore, that our Plymouth plant is the 
R, debilis Boul., although distinct from R. scaber. This j is ae 
the plant referred to by Génévier on p. 164. 


3) caber N.; stem prostrate, terete or 5-gonous ; 
prickles small from a compressed nae ex eclining, 
strong, very short; aciculi, sete, an s few; loaves 3-6- mes 


Re ace with patent soba branches; 8@ eG 
t with petals eit oblong, _—_: stamens 
white, mee exceeding ‘the green styles, ultimately in 


82. R. 
much dittentig here. Mr. Baker’s specimens from ‘‘ hedges at 
Chertsey, oe 1867,” and “cultivated at Kew, 1867,” are accepted 
by Génévier as R. rudis. I think that this and our plant called &. 
rudis are the R. echinatus Lindl., perpen 1829, and it seh 


“*inflor. ample, ramuli divarieati,” sic 

&. rudis by ahr They are similar to the Surrey plant gathered 
by Mr. Beeby at Reigate, and another Areschoug at 
Kilburn, Matin These plants seem to me to have no relation- 
ship with R. Leightoni, which I consider to be a form of K. Hadula. 


230 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


oxam issued a ‘‘rudis with small leaves” in 1846, and “rudis 
var. microphyllus” from the same place ‘sien peewiie in 1845, and 


also in his ‘‘set”’ of 1876. These resemble the R. sertijlorus Mill, 
as illustrated in the Herb. Géné A specimen will be 
rb. Borrer possess it gathered by Mr 


e 
Purchas at Lidney, Gloucestershire. | It seems to be more nearly 
allied to R. rudis than to R. e 
38. (455) ADULA y. DENTIcULATUS Bab. is a doubtful _— 
which seems to connect I. Radula with R. rosaceus. I omit it until 
we can learn more concerning it. My specimens are from Tetley, 
near Sheffield (Newbould). I have not vet identified it with any 
described species. Should it prove distinct, I should like to call it 
fi. Newbouldii. See ‘ British Rubi,’ 195, for a full description of it. 
But if POs ere as a distinct species it can only date from this paper. 
34. (4 \OEHLERI Weihe. A specimen gathered at ee 
he true 


Pp : 
placed with it one from ‘“ Falkenberg in Saxonia,” sent to him by 
Areschoug as ‘forma typica!” I think that this latter is certainly 
our plant. have not seen a specimen of Focke’s typical plant. 


fi. Koehlert. I am not prepared to say that he is not correct in so 
doing: future study must determine it. I cannot now give any 
opinion 

c. and d. R, egregius — and R. Schlickumi Wirtg. I include 
these on the authority of Baker. He states that R. Purchastt 


ate ines ; Schlickumi has them quinate. The 
ay i of the latter plant is lax, its sepals wear a rather 
greenish coat of felt, and its petals are narrow and pinkish. The 
once of R. egrec gregius is = dense, its sepals are white-felted, and 


a which seems very near to R. Schlickumi. It grew 
Merstham, Surrey. 
e. R. pallidus Weihe. a placed various specimens of 
fi. pallidus together, and seems to have had much doubt concerning 
them. He has applied various names to them; all, as I conceive, 


which I have specimens before me. Nor it seem t R 
pallidus of The arsely dentate but broad teeth on the 
are those of my R. pailidus, not of Focke, to which 


he quotes R. G. t. xxix., which I rather incline to consider our F. 
pallidus. He also — his own ‘ _ Select.,’ 51, under - 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 231 
pallidus, et states on p. 42 that that specimen belongs to R. incultus 
of Miille Wirtgen, and a second time quotes the same specimen 
under that name on p. 869. I therefore retain our name pallidus 


. Koehl 
f. R. cavatifolius Mill. I do not observe that Baker has taken 


any notice o cavatifolius, which I retain as a form o 
Koehleri, and have pain in my former notes and in the 
‘Manual,’ ed. 8. I hav w seen specimens of it from Trelleck, 


Monmouth ; Bichosetsie Baie (Groves) ; a ieee Norfolk 
(G, Fitt) ; and Tor Point and An thony, Cornwall (Bri 

Génévier named a plant sent by Baker to Déséglise (Sept. 1864), 
and gathered at Clives, Yorkshire, R. longicr = Mull as 
called R. Koehleri by Baker, and requires further study. 

35. (457) R. rusco-arer Weihe? I do not know the R. badius 
Focke, and therefore think it best to ner the name usually 


then he also asic the R. fusco-ater ke Focke ; he had, however, a 

specimen before him from ‘‘ Gallo es, PO near Mesham, an 
Twycross,” sent as R. fusco-ater ned wire m, terre: as I believe, 
mernosily: named, according to our ideas. I ye gh the R. 


ai. 1, n. 64), to which he refers), on from a poco gathered 
by him at « Letmalhe, in Westphalen,”’ which I should have 
considered as R. fusco-ater; but then he — 2 amongst his 
Hystrices, where I should not place his specim w before me. 
— imens named R. fusco-ater by Génévier nares muieibly with 


I place the R. horridicaulis Mill. here on the authority of 
Baker’s specimens from St. Anne’s Hill (Sept. 1867), to which I 
have already referred under R. montanus, and French ones named 
by eb and Génévier 

ualidus Génév. is s exceedingly: near to R. fusco-ater, oe 
chiefly he its ‘‘organes incolores”; that is, it has ‘ 
blanches . . . styles verdatres” ; but R. fusco-ater has ieeenians 
roses . . . styles roses. 

86. (459) R. piverstronrus Lindl. This is the R. myriacanthus 
Focke, R. diversifolius of Génévier, and I quite believe of Lindley in 

2nd edition. I know nothing of the plant of Tineo, nor does 
Nyman mention it. I shatehae retain Lindley’s name published 
in 1835. I possess a fine series of English a all so-named 
by Génévier, from Thirsk, Sessay, Caieey: and Twy: I do not 
consider it advisable to accept R. horridus as the pace ees an aggre- 
gate species, for the Swedish —— differ lepers amongst 
themselves; some are much like our R. pallidus, others are R 
diversifolius. The remarks of oredr show the difficulty attending 

- appropriation of f the name R. horridus. ee the specimens 
included by Génévier —_ R. diversifolius as ly 
R. ferox Fekhbeg bcc rophorus M. & L. is “considered by 
Génévier to be a Shite aeasaeaae variety of this; it does not seem 


232 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


to differ in other respects. R. myriacanthus has white petals. FR. 
horridus Schultz, under which poe places a plant wi . him by 
Beeby, has red flowers, accordin 

R. asperrimus Rip. There are ri British cultivated specimens 
referred to this by Génévier. one are ticketed “ fi. cor, sed . 
Mahieryis cult. ex Horto Kew, 1867.” As Baker supposed, 
seem to be a form of R. corylifolius, not Wahibergit, but pat 
The true French KR. asperrimus, placed in the sam e packet wit 
them by Généyier, seems very different, and i > apparent om 
R. diversifolius. A specimen from Sheen eine (Sept. 1876) 1s 

ed R. aspericaulis L. & M. by Génévier, and seems to be a form 
pore diversifolius. It was sent to Génévier without any name by 


87. (460) R. murasiis Génév. Under his senate of this 
plant Génévier says that my plant is a form of LR. s with white 
flowers and finely dentate leaves. But he wa — forenton to 

what I have igepees sone ered as R. mutabilis, ay which I pos- 
sess so-named by for Baker, and gathered at Cleves, Yorkshire 
Sept. 1864), and find j in his herbarium from the same place and 

late under that name. I also find there the plant of Briggs from 
amerton Foliott, named R. mutabilis v. nemor one ink, 
therefore, that the true plant grows in Yorkshire and The 
other x specimen which I had in view (‘ Br. Rub.’ a is spent 
R. Babingtonii. 

88. (461) R. Leseuner Weihe? Génévier considered our plant - 
to be the same as his, Focke excludes it, but does not tell us 
clearly where he would place it: probably he calls it - ude 
help ks to which he refers the R. Le shi of Wirt 
question will have to be reconsidered at a future sing "id refer 
following Génévier at present. 

; 480. ee .) RB. restives M.& W. This plant does not fit well 
sai Ae I have been accustomed to suppose that it 


very imperfect our grouping of 
places R. obscurifrons & W. and R. 


area pov ere under. J. infestus. It does not seem to have beet 


40. (462) BR. ieee a 
_the name peo R. byramidals, for Kaltenbe erg had long be pefore 


nt. 

our 2. Gintheri, to 
give the name L. saltwwm (1870), as is done 

ex is a far older name (1859). I have 

of the R. Guentheri of Génévier, but 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 233 


think it probable that it is not the same as that of Focke. I do 

find plenty of R. flexuosus; and amongst them our R. Giinthert, from 

Atherstone (Bloxam), marked as certainly the R. fleauosus Mi 
clude th 


true f. Giintheri, but have the FR. fleauosus M. . 

. (464) R. saxtconus Mill. My R. humifusus is undoubtedly 
the R. sawicolus. I have the specimen (Wirtg. H. R. 151) quoted 
by Focke ; and in the Herb. Génév. I find an abundance of British 


Specimens so-named b one from ‘‘ Byland, Sept. 2nd, 1865,” 
h sphenoideus Boul., with the remark, ‘‘ extremement 
voisin du R. o s Mill.,” and indeed it is exactly lik 


authentic specimen of R. offensus now before me. I think that R. 

offensus and R. sphenoideus (1869) are the same. The date of 

R. o e it is described, I do not know. It is not 

noticed by Nyman, nor indeed is R. sphenoideus which was described 
ulay (‘ Desc. des Espéces,’ 150). 

_ 48. (465) R. roniosus Weihe. I find in the Herb. Génév. spe- 


from Hartshill Wood, which I named hh foliosus. Bloxam also sent 
it from Bunnersley Coal-field, and his name is again accepted. The 
R. foliosus of Bloxam’s ‘ Fasciculus, No. 102,’ has the cordate-based 
terminal leaflet of the typical plant. It was gathered in 1847. But 
another specimen from T'wycross 


R. adornatus and R. atro-rubens may be omitted from our list as 
Synonymous with R. foliosus. : 
focke says that he has received a specimen from Bloxam with 
ame ‘‘ R. calvatus (saltem pro parte sec. specimen a Dio 


a { 

seems rather to belong to the Radul@ than the Glandulosi, and to 

very near to R. rosaceus. Its chief difference from RK. chloro- 

thyrsus lies in its abundant minute equal aciculi and sets on the 

stem. R. chlorothyrsus is stated to be “ parsim glandulosi vel 

eglandulosi,”’ and on Focke’s specimen those organs 
6) R e. 


44, (46 . Betuarpi Weih 
m this: one long known . hirtus, the er R. pendu- 
linus Miill., which we had not previously re od. n ig 
th of these I remark below. opt R. Bellardi as the name 


our plant because R. glandulosus included very many 
forms; R. hybridus is very ambiguous. I do not see the 


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adopting these old —— unless it is quite certain to what they 


“ers now app'y : either does it seem desirable to take up some 
eglected name fom some forgotten paper or obscure inaug 
Saoartation:: 


_R. dentatus Blox. is exactly the R. derasus Mill. io ‘ Pollichia,’ 
1859, 166). It is not noticed by Nyman. It is the A. Miillert 
; : — er 


retained. Focke refers R. geromensis to R. serpens of Weihe, but 
not of other authors, who give that name to one of the Cesit. 

The characters of R. Bellardi and R. hirtus do not seem to 
require SE from those given in my ‘ Manua al.’ 

45. (467) R. penputinus Miill. A curious specimen found by 
Baker ‘abundantly in a hedge about a mile south of Saeeere 
in July, 1869, and called R. Bellardi doubtfully, seems to be the f 

pendulinus, of which I have authentic specimens before me. Tt is 
peony allied to R. Bellardi, but apparently aaite distinct. Baker 
found all the leaves ternate, and so they are on the original specimens 
sent by Boulay to Génévier. But other specimens have 5-nate 
leaves. Baker says on the ticket that the “ styles are claret-red, 
petals white and not longer than the sepals.” The stamens also 
seem to fall short of 0 o The inflorescence is very narrow 
and nearly — tra-foliaceous, with very short ov Lee 

ranches, and a more or less wavy rachis. The calyx is erect- 
_— with the oie and shows that it is probably reflexed rune 

it. I define it:— 

*R. pendulinus Mill. ; a arcuate-prostrate, abs nearly round ; 
prickles small, weak, declining from a short compressed base ; 

aciculi and sete abundant, short, nearly equal ; ‘ba rs few; leaves 
35. nate; leaflets hairy only o n the veins beneath, finely but rather 
irregula: arly dentate ; leafiets of ternate —- nearly equal, bene 
subcordate-obovate ; terminal leaflet much acuminate ; ; 
short, narrow, flexuose, felted, hairy, very Saclicalah and setose ; its 
branches — 1-flowered or racemose, mostly ultra-axillary, ! 

ose; its prickles very small, slender, declining; sepals 
ovate- Sattictanbe; aciculate, setose, felted, erect-patent with flowers 
reflexed from fruit; petals small, white; stamens exceeding the 
pink styles. — The young carpels are hairy; in R. Bellardi and R. 
hirtus they are | the styles of those are also greenish white. 

46. (468) R nett oes d many — of this in 
Herb. Génév., Sauhiding o from England: (1) Atherstone, 
Bloxam ; (2) cultivated KA en Baker. They agree well with the 
foreign specime 


R. rotundifolius Blox. is a rather marked form of R. hirtus. Tt 
is not the R. rotundifolius Weihe quoted by Focke, but is the f. 
— obably — seh slightly. varying forms might 
be separated from R. hirtus I do not know any British R. fuseus 


"3 work ; in the it is oe on 


47. (469) R. Reurerr Mere. f this in 
ai een: oe of Mere. I canno _ any notice 0 
There are are specimens in the Herb. Génév. under this name- 


NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 235 


It was ayn — As Mercier in Reuter’s ‘ Cat. Pl. 


lares de Gén 
I 


vascu 
2, and I have a specimen ‘inihantiniadl 
hes san a oo named R. Reuteri v. cordifolius by 


by hi m. 

Génévier, which was gathered at Thirsk pi 1865), but under 

what name, if any, Baker sent it to him does not appear. The 

difference between the leaves of the tw ens is so great 

I could ee aes ve: them to be the same had not Genévier 
R. 


combined the 


Reuteri i is n 


wish he had given us his matured opinion. 
ot pated by Nyman 
ack, Herefordshire, Ley ; ie Penyard 


(1) Sell 
Wood, Herefordshire, pata ; (8) Kirkby, Lancashire, Lewis ; 
and To 


(4) Paabhor ry, N. B 


separa 
48. 


R. Banrourranus Blox. It is possible that phe 
c 


(470) 
forms are included under this name: perhaps incorrec ctly so 


places it in 
dumetorum. 


the other ha 


the heterogeneous collection included by him under R. 
He seems not to have carefully studied the Cesti, On 


group Triviales, —- corresponds with our Cesii, and adopts R. 
Balfourianus as one of them. He had an ee of specimens, 
rap one anal by Bloxam and another by Bak 


R. coryuironius §m. Our A. corgi is not at all 


1) 
se atectcr, as it now stands. The typical plant, FR. sublustris Lees, 
ked 


well mar 


fortunately 
Gé 


The other forms require much coeae Un- 
Bloxam sent my var. gong (from Peckleton) to 
Ww 


same cover _ The re is @ plant in Perthshire 


conjungens, At first sight it much resembles 


y 
Si latifolius Ite terminal leaflet is more cordate than that of 


Seine on 
My var 


al | 
. sepicola, its stem more furrowed, and there are a few sunken 
the panicle. 


ar. purpureus is ts the R. fasciculatus Miil., described 


in 1858 by him, and also by Boulay in 1866. If distinguished, 
it must bear that name. 
50. (472) R. petrowrvus Miill. Our plant agrees so nearly wi 


this, which 


with 
was described in ‘ Regenberg Flora’ (1858, 181), as 


shown by authentic ——- in the Herb. Génév., that I consider 


it best to 


to adopt it for our R. altheifolius. Our plant differs con- 


siderably from the only specimen of R. altheifolius which I possess, 
- en as so-named to Génévier by Le Fevre, which seems to be a 
orm of R. corylifolius. 

Baker sent unnamed specimens from Thirsk (July 7th, eae ta 
Génévier, which are hamed H. acerosus Mill. by the latter. 1 


236 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 


h. He seems not to have well 


vin 
had then confused a form of R. casius with R. deltoideus. R. 
Mougeoti has rose-coloured petals, and stamens falling short of the 
styles. 2. deltoideus has white petals, and stamens exceeding the 
styles. ; 
In addition to the recorded station for this plant, I have received 
what I believe to be the same from Dr. Buchanan White, of Perth. 


c sp 
any confidence in such differences, as the highest foreign authorities 
do, that the names now adopted for our plants must not be con- 
sidered as final. 


LMIF 
e Hi. ligerinus Génév., and that I erroneously referred to it 
wmbrosus. Specimens from Naimby, Yorkshire 
(Baker, Aug. 12th, 1865), and from Twycross (Bloxam) are named 
fi. ligerinus by Génévier. We thus get rid of an ambiguous name. 
I have not yet been able to identify my var. intermedius with any 
ign form, 

R. casius ¢. hispidus is retained on account of the ambiguity of 
the term +» serpens. My plant is apparently the R. serpens G. &. G. 
and Genév., published in 1848, and perhaps the R. corymbosus 
Mill. of 1858 ; but not the R. serpens Weihe of 1881, which is the 
Ri. feronensis Pull. in the opinion of Foeke, but separate from it in 
that of Génévier, who placed it close to R. Bellardi. I have not 

seen R. feronensis in Britain, 


_PS.—I have now (July 16th) much doubt of our R. Grabowskit 
being the Same as R. montanus. It is certainly the R. Grabowski 


of Genévier. A specimen from Baker (Boerby, Yorkshire, July 21st, 
the R. montanus. It is called R. avillaris Mull. by 


NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. 287 


I have found a specimen of R. hamosus Gen., gathered at Dore 
ton, Yorkshire (August 5th, 1865), and given as R. cordifolius to 
Déségli lise by Baker, and by him to Génévier. It belongs to the 

rst “division of his Discolores, but seems to me, as Baker also 
believed, more nearly allied to R. rhamnifolius 

Baker’ s Surrey &. thyrsoideus is R. nemophilus Rip., according 
to Génévier. 


NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS.—No. I. 
By Joun Roy ann J. P. Bisset. 
(Concluded from p. 196). 


V. Sravrastrum Meyen. 


1. S. Bieneanum Rabenh. Junsai numa. 
2. S. orbiculare (Ehrb.) Ralfs. 
& elevatum Nordst. Junsai n 
- DEPRESSUM, new var.—Small, 2 Capt Long. 22 p: lat. 
20 p; “Aeth; 6p. Fig. 14. Junsain 
. glo sien . sp. — La sec one and a half times longer 
than ‘broad: semicells nearly circular, with a very broad isthmus, 
constriction acute, opening very widely; vertical view triangular, 
the angles very broadly rounded, and sides slightly concave. 
aoe aloud punctate. Long. 80-85 »; lat. 55-57 p; lat. 
of ist 30-82 p. Fig. 8. 


5. 8. leptodermum idl. Sones satin 
6. e brevispinum Bre Dae Meee 
minor Rab. Long. 40 p; lat. ; is uma. 
7. eudoc Sent n. sp. — es — Sm 5 “boat on es third 
longer chee Deck, constriction deep, forming a nearly 
Opening; semicells oval, terminated at each sai by a heat slightly 
incurved spine ; end view triangular, the angles terminated by a 
a spine, sides very slightly concave ; isthmus ros og 
very wide. mbrane minutely pun unctate. Long. 85 p; lat., 
fig.8. spines, 27 »; do., with spines, 35 p; lat. of sth 7 pe 


ies 
8. 8. "laden Breb. Junsai eer 
B. apiculatum Breb. Junsai n 

9. S. connatum Lundell (S. agehiiay Y aes tum Ldl.). | Junsai 
numa. This form, common in many parts of the world, ud 
opel bile aintaining its distinctive area seems well entitle 
o rank as a distinct s 

f. REcTANGULUM, ener — This var — from the type — 
having the sides very slightly convex sdddond be ' sharply rounded, 


238 NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. 


the opening rectangular, the spines stouter, and forming a con- 
eee of the slightly « curved sides in front view. Long., without 
spines, 20 »; with spines, 87 »; lat., without mere 23 p; 
spines, 28 py; isth. 7 w. Fig. 12. Junsai numa 

10. ~ en — Junsai numa. 

B. & , new var. — Differs from the type in being dis- 
tinetly, poeier’ sninataly, _ oro Long. 88-88 p; lat. 87 p; 
lat. of isth. 12». Junsai num 

a1. 6. ‘oxyrhynchum, n. — Small; length and pote 


wards; surface songhty rugose, with one urved rows of cleft 
a on ay ends, giving them a strongly crenulated appear- 
end vi triangular, with straight sides, the angles terminated 


angle to angle. Isthmus one-third of res breadth of the semicell. 
Long. and lat. 80 »; isth. 10». Fig. 6 


unsai numa. 

12. S. cuspidatum Breb. Junsai numa. 
18. S. Avicula Breb. ie — 
14. 


arcuatum Nordst. 
15. S. tunguscanum Boldt ii Cc. a 114. “Tab. v., fig. 22). Junsai 


a. 
16. S. bifidum (Ehrb.) Breb. Junsai numa. 
17. 8. brachiatum Ralfs. Junsai numa. 
18 J sal ‘ 

9 


21. S. subteliferum, n. sp. — — Medium- sized, slightly longer 
than broad: semicells in front view regularly oval, with three stout 


le is a cirele of nine vhcasraate spines, aides concave ; aa 
striction or Opening out widely. Membrane smooth. ‘Lon 
37 »; lat. 85 »; lat. of isth. 13». Fig. 1 
nsai n Rona 
pretty species has a certain amount of resemblance to 
8. teliferum Ralfs, but differs essentially in the two sizes of spines, 
as well as in the form of the semicells. From S. setigerum Cleve 
oe Royanum ree! —— also has spines of two sizes, it 99 
in being a , in the form of the semicells, both in 
front and end view, fe totally j in the number and arrangement of 
the | spines. 


—— sum Breb. J numa. 
25. S. submon ticulosum, n. sp. — Small, about as long a8 
—— y oval, with the end rounded, constriction 
iallow, 


at first. straight, then abruptly rounded into a short stout 


NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. 239 


emarginate spine, with two very small teeth; slightly below the 
ute of each side ; from these = round the end, end, the rs 
in s on 


argin 
two just within it. Membrane smooth. Isthmus half the breadth 
of the semicells. ears and lat. 82 »; lat. of isth. 14 pw. Fig. 7. 
unsai nu 
It seems unnece essary to compare this remarkable species with 
wad sever. though it is perhaps most nearly allied to S. monticulosum 


26. S. spinosum Ralfs. Junsai numa 
27. S. margaritaceum (uit ) Menegh. 
8. hirtum Nordst. Junsai numa. 
28. S. polymorphum Breb. Junsai n 
29. S. crenulatum Nag. Junsai numa a Yokohama. 
80. S. aculeatum (Ehrb.) M enegh. Junsai numa. 
31. S. vestitum Ralfs. nsai 
82. 9. gracile Ralfs. Junsai numa. 
33. S. doxum Meye Junsai numa 
34. S. tetracerum (Kiitz.) Ralfs. Junsai numa. 
35. S. Arachne Ralfs. Junsai numa. 
36. S. leptocladum Nordst. 
B. cornutum e. Junsai numa. 
37. S es aed Breb. “ unsai numa. 
38. S. subarmige .sp.—Small, considerably constricted, 
ee almost rectanglat ends ogpiaa semicells wi 


th. 
xcl. proc. Bo lat. excl. proc. 23 w; lat. of isth. 12 p 


Junsai n 

The nearest ally of this species is S. armigerum Breb. ; but it is 
not much more than half the size of that species, and is, besides, 
eiptgd smooth. ees 

39. S. sai — unde 

B. ux ne ‘: pt : a Be rocesses shorter, lower turned a 
little Teawaria. =e sess at right angles to the lower, 
d-angled ; ends smooth, witho ut granules. Junsai numa. Differs 
Sng Nordstedt’s MS. var . 

40. S. Hantzchii - (S. intricatum Delponte). Junsai 


numa 


240 NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. 


8. saponicum, new var. — Larger, processes longer, and more 
slender. Long. incl. proc. 58 »; lat. incl. proc. 50 ; lat. isth. 
244. Fig. 5. Junsai numa i re 

41. S. quadricornutum, n. sp. — Small, semicells cunea 
below, and rounded above; constriction, a rectangular opening 


ute spine; of the four only two are visible at once, the other 
two being placed vertically underneath them. Isthmus erste 
third part of the breadth of the semicell. Membrane smooth. 
Long. 25 ; lat. incl. proc. 80 p; lat. isth. 10 p. Fig. 4. 

Junsai numa. . : ‘ost 

This species resembles S. bifidum (Ehrb.) Breb. in end view, bu 
in front view it is entirely different, as it is from every other known ~ 
Species. 

VI. Xanrurprum Ehrb. 

1. X. fasciculatum Ehrb. Junsai numa. 

2. X. antilopeum (Breb.) Kiitz. Junsai numa. th 

3. X. leiodermum, n. sp. — Moderately large, about one-fi 


p 
longer than broad; semicells suboctagonal; constriction deep, acute, 
i i = +b ve i e lower angle, 


directed upwards not quite verti ally. No centra i 
Membrane smooth. Isthmus about one-third of the breadth of the 
semicell. Long. 48 »; lat. 89 »; isth. 11 fh. g. 11. 

Junsai numa. 


VII. Crosrerrum Nitzsch. 

1. C. striolatum Ehrb. Junsai numa. 
2. C. Lunula (Miiller) Nitzsch. Junsai numa. 
3. C. acerosum (Schrank) Ehrb. Yokohama. 
4. C. turgidum Ebrb. 

8. curtum, new var.—Smaller than the type, 6-7 times as long 
as broad. Long. 881 »; lat. 57 p. Junsai nu 

5. C. lineatum Ehrb. Yokohama. 

6. C. macilentum Breb. Yokohama. 

7. C. Ehrenbergii Me: _ Junsai numa. 


NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. ‘ 241 


8. C. moniliferum (Bory) Ehrb. Yokohama eh — numa. 

9. C. Diane Ehrb. Junsai numa and Yoko 

10. C. Leiblienti Kiits. Junsai numa. 

11. C. Venus Kitz. Junsai numa. 

12. C. parvulum Nag. Junsai numa : 

18. C. rostratum Ehrb. Junsai nuns. Yokohama, with zygo- 
spores 

14. °C. setaceum Ehrb. Junsai numa. 


B 
17. C. linea Perty. Junsai numa. 


VIII. Pentum Breb. 
1. P. Digitus (Ehrb.) Breb. Junsai numa. 


IX. Docrprom Breb. 
. baculoides, n. sp. — Slender, thirty-five times longer 
res broad, slightly constricted, ring not prominent; neither 
granules nor folds at the base, where there is a moderately 
prominent inflation, above which are 2-8 small undulations; 
breadth uniform from the basal inflation to the rae truncate 
apex. Lon a = semicell 265 »; lat. 15». Fig 
Junsai n 
This spesies “pears a ra en resemblance to D, Baculum 
Breb., from which it differs in the absence of granules or folds at 
the base, in the less seniaed basal inflation, and in the undula- 
tions above it. 
a shone (Ehrb.) Nag. 
B. crassum Wittr. Long., semicell, 800 »; lat. 75 ». Junsai 
a. 


8. D. maximum Reinsch. 
B. subclavatum Wittr. i ., semicell, 867 »; lat., greatest, 
64 mn least, 830 ». Junsai nu 
D. ‘mdiewss Grunow. Late semicell, 870 1; lat. 28-46 p. 
Bree unsai num 
5. D. crenulatum (Ehrb.) Rab. Yokohama. Long., 495 p; “ at 
suture, 37 2; do., atapex, 27 »; do., greatest, 43 ». Fig. 19. his 


species has ve generall been gasneinhe saasbip SD. Eke Breb., 
whi h 


ing 
sligualy eased ee. Above the ight inflation a the 
e are 8-4 very shallow, rather long undulations. e apex is a 
little contracted, with about seven Feaniephnicioa! granules around it, 


Indeed —s species appears to be more nearly related 
bei te than : to  okieues but Delponte’s’ species, besides 
£ the 


ing i is not crenulated at apex. 
Journat or Borany.—Vow. 25. [Aue., 1886.] R- 


242 5 NOTES ON JAPANESE DESMIDS. 


X. Sprroreznia Breb. 
1. S. condensata Breb. Junsai numa. 


XI. Onycuonema Wallich. 
1. O. lave Nordst 
. micracanthum Nordst. Junsai 
2. O. filiforme (Ehrb.) ; Sa "Ralf, &e.; O. Nord- 
stedtiana Turner. Junsai numa. This species, so long considered 


Nord. and O. wncinatum Wallich. Jn this respect it agrees with all 
countr 


XII. Spu#rozosma Corda. 


1. S. excavatum Ralfs. Junsai nu 

2. S. granulatum, n.sp. — S. spintlosum Delp., according to 
Wolle, ‘ Desinids of the United States,’ pp. 31 aa 159, PL. iv., 
fig. 14, and no doubt 8. excavatum fering Fievnbictl Nordst. __Small, 
as long as broad, constriction moder ately a open ; sides —- 


wanigad numa. 
Dr. Nordstedt has this species from New Zealand (in lit. eum tc-), 
and the authors have it from several localities in Scotland. 


XIII. Desmmium Ag. 
1. D, Swartzii Ag. Junsai numa. 
2. D. Baileyi (Ralls). Junsai numa. 
3. D. Aptogonum Breb. Junsai numa. 


EXPLANATION oF Piaie 268.—Fig. 1. ne or serakoardagen ast ath ; — 

b, front ; ce, one side; x 400. 2. S. subarmiger baat front 
ae 3. S. ps eudocuspidatum, 8° 6p. a: Sods: Ae ‘haat’, 

quadricornutum, n.sp.; a, sere b, rity 400. 5.8. pees schii Reinseh. 

B. japonicum, n. var.; a, e b, front; x 400. 6. S. oxy at 7 Sp. 5 

; x 600. 7. 5. pubmonticulosum, n. Sp-5 a end; 

b nt ; Caeces um aapitulail 


n.sp.; a, front; b, side 38: C. daliieasnicoe oe a, front; 
b, side; x 600. 11. Nicehidicae prog n.sp.; x 400. . Staurastrum 
connatum Lund. 8. recta ngulum, n. v! x 18. > meme ee apiculata 
pres Meneg.; x 200. 14. Rejrasir ios orbiculare (Ehrb. is. a 


Be 
essum, N. var.; a, end; b, front; x 600. 15. Cosmarium decachondrum, 0. S8p-5 
» front; b, side; c¢, en id; x 600. 16: ¢. “orthopteurum: N. Sp- > - 
17. Spherozosma granulatum, - Bp. ot 2000: 16; ee dium baculoides, D- Sp-3 
x 200. 19. erent (Eh) Hab. ; a, 200 400. 20. Cosmarium 
Foc, 20.5 a, front; b, end 


243 


A NEW TREE FERN FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.RB.S. 


In a small collection of ferns made lately by Mr. J. H. Har 
of the Jamaica Forest Department, in a tr rip to Lees lagoon of 
Jae is the following wells sated new species : 

Hemitelia (Ampxicosmia) Hartii, Baker, n. sp. — Stipe 14 ft. 
long, fa, channelled down the face, armed thro Shoat with 


with large lanceolate acuminate glossy brown pale amina 

deltoid, tripinnatifid, moderately firm in texture, green and 

glabrous on both. surfaces. Pinne oblong-lanceolate, 1-1} ft. long, 

3- % in. road. Pinnules lanceolate, close, sessile, 2-24 in. long, 
fs) in 


of it.—Chiri riqui lagoon, Ha ‘BI Allied to H. madtifora B R. Br. 
(H. guianensis Hook. ). 


A NEW 2CHMEA. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 


4échmea (Piarymcumea) chiriquensis, n. sp.—Acaulescent. 
Leaves 5-6, in a dense rosette ; dilated base ohicns. 8-4 in. long ; 
lamina lanceolate, a foot or less long, an inch broad, tapering to 
the point, thin and flexible, armed on the margin with spreading 
rather hooked, horny prickles, at most a line long. Peduncle 
slender, shorter than the leaves, furnished at the top with 3-4 
spreading bright red scariose serrated bract leaves. Inflorescence 
two distichous oblong spikes 1-2 in. long; flowers -6 on a side, 


ract }in. long. O 
just as long as the bract; sepals lanceolate- ‘deltoid, coriaceous, 
with a small ste cusp, as long as _ adap a ee 
st 
Shorter than the petals. —Chiriqui aeons tat 17: 3! A. very 
distinct novelty, nearest i. tillandsivides and vriesicides Baker, in 
Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 184. 


ey 


SHORT NOTE. 


uecica, issued as an appendix to the 2nd edition of his ‘ Fauna 
Suecica,’ p. 558, which is dated 1761, one year previous to Hudson 


mass of synonymy, seemingly as to hide Hudson's merits. Many 
of the slipshod references to Linneus have arisen from the 


‘Species Plantarum.’ Hence we find that Burman’s Gerani@, 


Jacquin’s plants of 1760, Hudson’s first edition, and Gouan’s Hort. 
Monsp. are quoted as of Linneus, through no fault of the last, 


{In this hope we heartily concur.—Ep. Journ. Bor.]. 


ADDITIONS TO THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE 
BRITISH MUSEUM DURING 1885. 


By W. Carrutuers, F.R.S. 


_ Durine the ‘past year 42,293 named and labelled specimens 
have been incorporated with the Herbarium. The phanerogamous 


: Ojacono, in Syria by Post, in Turkes 

by Regel, in India by Wallich and Beddome, in Ja a, and 

Mandchuria_ b i i 

~ ZFollin: rer a d 

A. Cunningham, and H. 0. 

in Eastern Tropical Africa by Johnston, in Madagascar by Hilsen-_ 
erg and Deans Cowan, in California by Greene and Jones, 

_ Mexico by W: right, in the Expedition to Roraima by Im Thurn, 2 

_ Brazil by Glaziou, and in Paraguay by Balansa, together with aD — 
_ extensive and valuable series, representing the species and varieties — 


ADDITIONS TO BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1885. 245 


of Crocus, and illustrating his monograph of that genus, parte ed 
by Mr. George Maw, and a large series of Grasses from various 
collections. The Cryptogams have been chiefly from the Herbarium 
of Mosses belonging to the late Dr. Hampe and from the Her- 
arium belonging to the late Dr. Dickie. The increase in the 
British Herbarium has been from presentations from British 
botanists, but Bileistd from the collections of the Botanical Resort 
Club which have been presented by that Societ 
e most apakindt addition to the collections eae the na 
year was the purchase of Colonel Beddome’s Her of In 
ositey containing nearly 10,000 species, many of chat tang pian 
eorge Maw, Esq., has presented his valuable collection of the 
genus Crocus, consisting of 416 specimens of plants and 72 speci- 
mens of corm-tunics, which are of special value in connection with 
Mr. Maw’s impo ortant monograph of this genus. The specimens 
have been carefully mounted and incorporated with the Spas 
and form an unsurpassed series of these interesting plan 
The other principal additions to the collections by Sniieiean 
during the year have iba ideng of 748 species of plants from 
Australasia, from Baron Mueller ; 617 species of South 
n plants, presented byt the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers; 337 
species of plants from Morocco, from John Ball, Esq. ; 815 species 
of plants collected in the Expedition to Roraima, British Guiana, 
from Everard F. im Thurn, Esq.; 114 species of plants, chiefly from 
South America, and four species of cultivated orchids from 


H. Veitch, Esq S.; a small collection of plants from 

Mary Island, Gambia, from J. R. Maxwell, Esq.; 128 species of 
outh African plants from J. Medley Wood, Esq.; 116 species of 
Indian plants from J mble, Esq. ; a small collection of 


: e 
plants from Aden, from Major Yerbury ; 20 species of plants from 
the Falkland Islands, collected and presented by Mrs. Holmstead ; 
some critical North American plants from Dr. Parry ; a small 
collection of ants from the Gilbert Telgnits, from C. M 


ite, aah from Afghanistan , from W. Pha so n, Esq. a collec- 


ee , Esq. ; noe of Nepenthes and 14 specimens of Mas- 
devallia from §. Court auld, Esq.; 17 species of cultivated orchids 


from Messrs, Shuttleworth, Carden, & Co.; 27 s species of Orchidew 
from Madagascar, collected by Dr. Fox; 10 species of cultivated 
orchids from T. Moore, Esq. ; 8 species of cultivated orchids from 
“s Christy, Esq.; a cultivated orchis from B. 8. William 5 Eee 
4 species oe cultivated orchids, from F. W. Bisbiage ta: ; 

cultivated orchis, from Major ee ; a species of Hucharis, ion 

Bull, Esq.; a specimen of Arthrotaxis lawifolia, from J. 
Rasbleigh, Esq.; 144 Cryptogams, fea Mrs. Skipworth. 


~ 


_ 246 appITIoNs TO BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1885. 


The following collections have been acquired by purchase; 914 
species of plants from Paraguay, from Balansa; 2275 plants from 
South America, collected by R. Pearce; 400 Mexican plants from 
Kerber ; 488 Mexican plants from Sehafiner 5 ; — species of Cali- 
fornian plants, collected by the Rev. E. L. Greene; 344 plan nts 
from South Africa, being the itasiug of aout and Bolus's 
Herbarium Normale Austro-Africanum; 154 plants from Rubai 
Hills, Mombasa, mote by the Rev. W. E. Taylor; 453 species 
of plants from Pole o Islands, from Humblot; 282 plants from 
Syria, collected by Dr r. G. E. Post; 1162 aoe of Be from 

Arabia, from H. C. Hart, Esq. ; 800 specimen European 
i periaes from ‘Dr. Albert Peter; 100 species of Selim nm, 
m 


ai Rabeaibree: 100 species of Fone, f from Von Thuemen : 100 
species of Ascomycetous Fungi, from Rehm; 100 species of 
European Mosses, from Rabenhorst. 

e f 


plants, collected by Alb. de Regel; from the Royal Herbarium, 
Leyden, 855 rae of plants from Java, collected by Blume and 

: from F. Duthie, Esq., Director of the Botanical 
Gardens, Sepniectinns ore, India, 350 plants from Kumaon, and 
other parts of Northetk India, collected by Mr. Duthie; from 
Professor Engler, of the University of Kiel, 100 species of Aroidee; 
from R. D. Fitzgerald, Esq., of Sydney, 8 species of Australian 
orchids; and from the Imperial Herbarium, Vienna, 593 Austro- 
Hungarian eee eget ie Dr. A. J. Kerner, Professor of the 


, ey., J, A. sare Ksq., J. Brebner, Esq., W. H 
Beeby, Esq., J. E. Griffith, Esq., Dr. Fraser, R. tte Esq., F. 
J. Hanbury, Esq., J. Rashleigh, Ksq., and H. G. Glasspoole, Esq. 
From F. A. Lees, 


species of Mosses collected in Bedfordshire, by Mr. J. Saunders ; 
2 Liverw: 2 Fant F..T. Mott, ws 25 Alye — Z M. Holmes, 
from W. mith, ai : if sig rea 


ints and drawings of plants has also 
of 174 original drawings of the 
live Settlements made by Christopher Smith, 


PROF. SACCARDO’S ‘SYLLOGE FUNGORUM,’ 247 


32 
1415 plates of plants. Dr. M. C. Cooke presented 281 plates of 
British Fungi, from works published by him on these plants. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Sylloge Fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum. Vol. iv.—Hypho- 
mycetes. Prof. P.A coarDo. Patavii, 1886. 


1es. 


t 

which it could be truly said that the absence of conspicuous hyphe 
was the only bond of union. The idea of uniting such genera as 
Phoma, Torula, and Puccinia in the same 

entertained by one who looked most superficially at the merest 
accidents of external form. But it is well known that Fries felt 
somewhat of a contempt for these lowly Fungi, and his ungenerous 
treatment of Corda, who made them his special study, may perhaps 


ha i uis feeling. 
ve been due in part to this feeling cies as Sporodesmium 


Mm ; : 
sufficient warrant for dividing them, but to p org meter sara 
is to break the most elementary axioms of taxonomy. is 


248 PROF. SACCARDO’S ‘SYLLOGE FUNGORUM.’ 


quished this practice, for it is possible to point to even recent cases 


in which the old illogical distinction between the Torulacei and the 


ed. 
In the final abolition of this distinction we have the key-note of 
Prof. Saccardo’s plan. Taking the Hyphomycetes in this widened 
i as h 


n 
universally approved plan, according to the septation of the conidia. 
: may not 


cryptogamists, without any compensating advantages. 
The first family, Mucedinee, includes those species that have the 
hyphx distinct, ¢. ¢., not densely fasciculate, and of a light or 


of previous writers; yet it is no means certain that it 1s one 
which will stand the test of future experience. For though mm 
certain cases the distinction is clearly natural, yet in others it 
separates too far species which are closely allied. ; 
In the third family, Stilbee, are placed those species of which 
: 7 ¢ i he fourth, 
Tuberculariee, those typified by Fusarium and Tubercularia. Hach 


. 


ss enumerate will afterwards prove not to be distinct from 
others. Helminthosporium capitulatum, e.g., is probably only Acro- 


inst 
hecatis Bace. (p. 80), which i i he author has 
himself aa ) is the same species that the au 


un 
— are collected together, not because the author believes 
oe pies fe @ genus distinct from Penicillium, but, ‘ faciliorts 
of th eer, hemanae it is impossible as yet to refer every specie 
oF ormer to its proper place in the latter. 

W. B. Grove, 


Se 


THE FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 249 


The Flora of Oxfordshire: being a Topographical and Historical 
Account of the Flowering Plants and Ferns found in the County, 
with Sketches of the Progress of Oxfordshire Botany during the 
past three centuries. By Grorce Cxrartipce Deuce. Parker & 
Co.: Oxford and “par As 1886, 8vo, pp. lii. 451. 


No one acquainted with British botanical literature can open 
this latest addition © our county floras without being struck by the 
striking resemblance which it bears to the ‘Flora of Middlesex.’ 
Whether this is ftantional or accidental—and it seems too close to 
be the latter—Mr. Druce is sure to be the gainer by it. The 
eta worth of the ‘ Flora of Middlesex,’ apart from the original 

which it struck out, will always entitle it to a high place 
ine our local floras; and one is insensibly prejudiced in favour 
of a book which at once calls to mind in manner and method an 


is, eae. by no means confined to externals. In th sei 
ave the same ha us combination of personal yo ant 
bibliographical research whic h distinguished the former; and i 
ruce cannot claim with Messrs. Trimen and Dyer 
siblisiment of a new model for books of the kind, his volume vill 
0 good service in keeping before the eyes of the new generation 
of British Seapets the lines in which they should w 
The introduction of some fifty pages, after a erg and noe 


nder each species are given references eo ‘ Topographi 
Botany,’ Baxter’s ‘ Phenogamous Botan xford book), 
Nyman’s ‘ Conspectus,’ and the 8rd edition of  Huglish Botany. 


could wish that Nyman had been followed in his Sg of the 
genus Batrachium for the aquatic — especially as 
Druce has followed him in separating as gen ra Pulsatile, Githago, 
a ; 


Mr. Druce: in this manner, and with the aid o new ‘ London 

Catalogue,’ our nomenclature will undergo a "poasetal revolution, 

and the correct designations will gradually but surely make their 
way into ordinary botanical literature. We have always protested 


250 THE FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 


against the ea that any special honour was conferred upon & 
man by having his name attac ae! as the authority for a species ; 
but we are nevertheless pleased to see Dr. Beeke’s name appearing 
in our lists in connection with hae palais = major Sm.), which 
he was the py to distinguish specifically or sl aspen 
It is desirable, however, to use only one ais for the 
plant; we find Ranunculus Sardous on p. 898 and fi. fariiia pe 
p. 370. 
ne small point on which a word of criticism may be offered is 
that of the abbreviation of authorities. We have always felt that 
~ only satisfacto ory way of d ing his, when it is really necessary, 
s by giving the first syllable in full and the first letter (or two 
letters) of the seco ee on this is the plan recommended by 
D olle. Mr. Dru ty no means singular in not adopting 


if it were generally ‘llowail: Initials might always (save in the 
rare evieerere of two botanists having “the game surname) be 
omitted, names of, one syllable given in full. The extra space 
required in + this latter cases would be more than counterbalanced ht! 

that gained in the former, as may be seen if for « W. T. Dye 
” and “ Sib.,” “ Dyer,” Bosw.” and ‘ Sibth. . ‘be 
substituted. an there should only be one way of referring to the 
nd books. 


same persons an Mr. ented a Alfred French as 
WA. Br” Ep.” and “H, A. F.” (Herb. Alf. French); and his 
citations of the same work vary a good Goal. 


The sbbievintione of generic and specific names—e.g., “ Taraw. 
erythrosp., Potam. zosterifol.which we find in the * jarnieint vais 
to us very unsightly; only custom or a material s 

could justify them, and neither plea or . put rite 5 pe Fes 
the Royal Society, in its Proceedings, some few years back set a 
dangerous precedent. We thin nk, ae the ‘prsuitig of the authority 


“ First reco: ndesirable deviation from the plan of the 
; ‘ Flora of Males, especially as there are no quotation marks to 


¢ rola minor. 
_ Besides the mere enumeration of plants and localities, there are 
many items of general information which indicate careful obser- 
srg on the part of the author, and also, in some cases, we think, 

of concentration, which is perh ps due vache to an 
cis of literary skill than to any uncertainty as to what 18 
intended by the writer. One of the most noteworthy is the series 
of notes upon the Oxford Senecios of “ disor ag set. Itis to be 
regretted that many of these are in the endix, and thus liable to 
be overloo ked ; ogee erence, olny ay help to prevent this. 


of Senecio squalidus :—* Var. a. iy Guss!: var. 
Chryenthonsjlie Guss!: ? var. c. origins. ? parviflorus Dyers: 


THE FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 251 


var, hybrida = = vulgaris x Bip ” * Besides mt: two species, 
**S. crassifolius and ‘ S. vernalis W. & K.” given, 
with a note that « ‘Sbobably 8. Traeahoeni feted Poir. ’ should be 
added to the list. Mr. Druce thinks that all these, with four other 
continental species, are hybrids of Saigitd and squalidus. This 

ems to us likely enough, so far as the Oxford silatib referred to 
are concerned; but a careful consultation of types would be 
necessary before any nr? ponte eS as to the species could be 
“openings established. Meanwhile, if a debt of gratitude is due 


fied Senecio squalidus! Perhaps he may see his way, after a care 
comparison of types, to embody his chachatnnsll in a paper for this 
Journal ote on Gentiana ger merc Faire agmites communis, 
andl Gi Orchis Simia are interesting. The list of Mosses is very full; 
of Rubi seems scanty, and gives us Fis impression that 
- Druce is not quite familiar with this troublesome group ; it 
ll had the 8 i 


on Cumnor Hill, Berks; these owe their origin to a quantity 
of seed scattered by Messrs. Boswell and Holliday about 1860’’— 
@ Most reprehensible act. 

here seems a little a for the of aliens 
and doubtful characters: Cytisus Laburnum, ‘ frequent as a planted 
tree,” Sorbus fennica, iasaod ” Quercus Ilex and Q. Cor ris, “in parks 
and ‘plantations, ” Inglans regia, ‘as a planted tree,” and the os 
would have been better omitt ted. The cron of Phleum asperum 
an Oxfordshire plant is traced to = source in the Botanic Caines 
and one or two other errors are ru arth. 

‘“ Summary ”’ a hay tom more useful had the tabular 


“e oun 
therein, Ver —_ Lychnitis. We have little doubt that Mr. par 
is right in considering Helleborus viridis as native in Oxfor hire 
as it is in Seals, and of this no one who has seen it growing in the 
woods and hedge- bottoms about High Wycombe will have any 
doubt; and it is, we think, equally certain that H. fetidus is native 
in nas though he does not mention it for this border 
coun 
: The biographical notes are remarkably well done, and give much 
interestin ng. ——_ i the Bobarts, Morison, —- 


* We cite these names exactly as printed: we do not quite understand Mr, 
Druce’s tas of the igh #1" 


252 ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH FUNGI. 


Littleton Brown, who helped Dillenius in preparing the ‘ Historia 
M rum,’ and is styled by Sherard ‘the keenest botanist I have 
ie y a 4 } 


r. Dru 
as having joined Dillenius and Brewer in Shropshire (of which 
county he was a native), but his connection with Oxfordshire 
botany was probably too slight to entitle him to a more extended 
notice. 

Mr. Boswell contributes a valuable Appendix devoted to the 
Mosses and Hepatic; and there are also lists, admittedly very 
incomplete, also of Fungi and Lichens. 

The list of corrections, large as it is, is not exhaustive: on 
p. 281 ‘ Napford” should be ‘ Naphill”; M. Gandoger’s initial is 
““M.” not “Cl” (p. 1); Mr. Melvill’s name has no final e; and 
others might be cited. 


Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes). To serve as an Atlas 
to the ‘ Handbook of British Fungi.’ By M. CO. Cooxz, M.A., 
LUL.D., A.L.S. Vols. I., I1., IfI., and IV. 8vo. Williams 
& Norgate. London, 1881-1886. 


ons.are most provokingly inadequate. The small number con- 
tained in Greville’s ‘ Scottish Cryptogamic Flora’ are equally good, 
ne ing. onl 


t. Th 
figures in Mrs. Hussey’s expensive work display great artistic 
merit, with considerable care in giving details, but the work as a 


_ them being searce and expensive, while the others are utterly in- 
_ adequate to meet the wants of the time. It is obvious, therefore, 


= | not have appeared more opportunely or been less in fear of rivalry. 


* Richardson’s ‘ Correspondence,’ 233. 


ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH FUNGI. ~ 2538. 


The field is absolutely clear, for we take no note of foreign works 
which have no special regard to our own wang How far it worthily 
- the ground we shall presently se 

n no branch of Botany are figures reek indispensable than in 
the study of the higher fungi. The specific characters in many 
instances are of such a delicat ture and so exceedingly evane- 
scent that they defy all efforts to —- them in the ise peices 


descriptions of them, however precise the may be. 
Klotzsch’s method of preserving Agarics and Boleti, aoseetbed in 
the fifth volume of the ‘ English Flora,’ tas never been improved 


equardales or delicate silky fibrils, which no words can 
depict, and an overwhelmi pally case is made out in favour of figures. 
It is well, oe, fo the present race of mycologists, of whom 
the number i y increasing, that Dr. Cooke has come forward 


W. t 
astonishment we read in the Intro¢ duction ‘‘ that less than — 


its success, pest its very existence is consequently senestans 
upon foreign support”! We venture to say that a statement more 
oe oe to a people professing an admiration of science could 

be 

These four volumes contain 622 coloured lithograph plates, 
some of which have two, more rarely three, species or varieties on 
them; making a total of 757 species, rere of varieties. This 
is a larger number than is contained in the whole of the eee om 
works referred to above. The co ial co- ee of the m 
active British mycologists in sending specim wings has 


s and dra 
largely contributed to this result, which help the eatin honourably 
acknowledges. The initials of the Rev. M. ats . Berkele iP and 
daughter, Miss Ruth Berkeley, Mr. Broo , the late . Bull, 
win: 


254 SHORT NOTICES. 


could hardly fail with this work in his hands to recognise the 

species he may find in his country ram Aap caer ially if he 

ec ren Seome gy the “eseriptions which are issued Beige 
eville 


author may see its satisfactory co pleti If all our pore 
of Botany and all our public libraries possessed | themselves of a 
copy, this result would . secured. Wituram Parxies. 


Tue Index number of ‘ English Botany ’ has just been issued, 
forming a companion to the whole work, to which it is a useful 
adjunct. Its bulk might have been materially lessened, and its 
nage gs in no way diminished, uy the omission of the greater 

of the so-called English, French and German names. It is 


§ , 
pak as likely that any Frenchman ever called Meconopsis ‘* Méco- 
nopside des Galles "’ as it is that any sane Engli call 
Rubus thyrsoideus the yrsus-flowered Bramble,” or Carex de- 


pauperata the ‘ Biarved Wood Sedge” ; and this is very unlikely 
indeed. Mr. N ‘undertaken the arduous work, 


De aL C. Cooxe has issued the first number of ‘British 
Desmids: a Supplement to . Fresh-water Alge’; it contains 
16 pages of letterpress and 8 pla 


New Booxs.—G. Krassr, ‘ Das gleitende Wachsthum bei der 
Gawelchatine der Gefiisspflanzen (Berlin, Eggers: 4to, pp. Vi 
, tt. 7.) —D. Maxper, ‘Der Wald in seiner (ralturhistorischen 
und | naturgeschichtlichon Bedeutung’ (Devos, Richter: 8v, PP. 
96).— A. Knenoxer, ‘Fiihrer durch die Flora von Karlsruhe’ 
L. Q 


rum 

(Paris, Doin: 8yo, pp. vill. 352).—J. Dunac, ‘Mélanges botaniques : 
plantes cal critiques, monstrueuses, ou rares’ fone Savy: 
8vo, pp- Xxili. 484). ak — ‘Flora von Wesel’ (Wesel, 
Kihler, 8vo, pp. vili. 44).—F. G. Kout, ‘ Die ‘Transpiration der 
Pflanzen’ (Baurnschweig, any, 8vo, pp. 22, t —— A, Voc eae 
& ANGELRopT, * Blora v splicgergers und der Saleen Umgegend 
Berlin, Friedlander: iis. pp. Vili. 8332),—K. Huser & A. BECKER, 
‘Pathologish- -Histologischen und Bacteriologischen Untersuchungs- 
Methoden ’ (Leipzig, Vogel: 8vo, 122, 1 tab.). 


ARTICLES IN JoURNALS. 
Botanical Gazette (June).—‘ Herbarium Number.’ * 
Bot. Zeitung (June 11-July 9). — A. de Bary, ‘ Ueber einige 
Sg! SR a aa 
a beet A — ce. which we hope to see reissued weparaiely. It is 
tains n ‘Specimens and Specimen making,’ and ‘How 


ao dolloct eottain plants,” by Phen sae 
suggestions. Y practised hands, abounding with useful 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 255 


Sclerotinien und vamerg charac —(July 16). W. Wahrlich, 
‘ Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Orchideenwurzelpilze’ (1 plate). 

Bull. Bot. Soe. -e xxv. (July 1)._E. de Wildeman, ‘ Note 
sur les deux espéces terrestres dugenre Ulotria’ (1 plate).—-J. Cardot, 
‘Les Sphaignes d’Kurope’ (2 ase 7 — V. Mouton, ‘Ascomycetes 


observés aux environs de Liége’ (1 plate): many new species). — 
E. Bommer & M. Rousseau, ‘ Onnesbedions & la flore mycologique 
de Belgique.’ 


a: Soc. Bot. France (xxxiii. Comptes ee hg ah | the 
eau, ‘ Dessiccation des plantes en vo 
‘ Modifications ae structure Mer es par une fouile oe fines 
enracinée.’ — J. d’Arbaumont, ‘ Note sur le Périe cle.’ — P. van 
. Pat 


: os orig pe en la Primevére.’—E. Belzung, ‘ Formation d’amidon 
pendant la ination des selérotes.’ — A. Franchet, ‘Existence 
du Cypr pediaon. ar a ond le Yun-nan.’ — L. du Sablon, 
‘ Influence des s gelées sur la séve.’— P. van Tieghem et H. Douliot, 
‘Sur les tiges a clears eyindre oo — P. van Tieghem, 


Populus rliainsite (1 plate).— PS Bs alee ‘ Duct Formation 
in Chestnut Wood.’ — (July). N. Pike, ‘Check List of Marine 
aca — G. Nasey, ‘ New Grasses’ (7'risetum montanum. Diplachne 
Reverchoni, Festuca texana, Elymus Macounii, E. nitidus, spp. nn.).— 
C. Miiller, Orthotrichum Pringlei, n. sp 
Flora (May 21).— E. Roll, ‘ Zur Systematik der Torfmoose.’— 

(June 1, 11).—K. F. Jordan, ‘ Die Stellung der _ sega und 
der Befruchtungswerkzeuge in den Blumen. ter 21, July 11). 
J. Miller, ‘ Lichenologische Beitrage.’ — (Jun on). uller 
‘Bryologia insule S. Thomé Africe oceid. trop. “in any new apesicn)- 
—(July 1). A. Hausgirg, ‘Zur Kenntniss einzelliger Bildungen 


n. 
‘Lichenes pea ‘Sane 

Garden (June 19). Fee wa gans oak (ic. pict.). 

peateeosi ‘pig pee (June 12). — Selaginella gr acilis T. oe 
n. sp. — Im 6 oe oe Bull. (fig. 168).— mith, 


pat 
Sheva mil (fig. 1 Oh = Men 19). #. D. Hooke er, Abies 
Webbiana) fi , 175). — mith, Gleosporium leticolor 
(fig. 177). ses res oss ae coats Baker, Aerides Godefroy- 
anum Reh. f., spp. nn. — W. G. Smith, apes splendens 
( umnera ra manicat — J. H. 


256 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Tritonia Wilsoni Baker, spp. nn.— (July 17). Dendrobium perenan- 
thum Rehb. f., Vanda Lindeni ani f., spp. nn. —— W. G. Smith, 
‘ Coleosporium pingue’ (figs. 15-18). — (July 24). Masdevailia 
earn aa , Chondr perlyncha Lendyana Rehb. f., spp. nn. 
es . xxiii., No. 151 (July 23)—F. B. Forbes & W. 

B. Renimay * > haaee ore Sinensis,’ pt. ii. (Impatiens furcillata, I. 
plebeja, I. tubulosa, Psilopeganum (gen. nov., Rutacee) sinense (t. iii.), 
Zanthorylum dissitum, Z. podocarpum, Z. setosum, Ilea ficoidea, 
Euonymus carnosus, EF. gracilimus, Dausives Spesdtng CQ. variabilis, 
Tthamnus rugulosa, Vitis Henryana, V. pachyphylla, V. umbellata, 
Sabia Swinhoei, Melioma Fordii, =) oe Fordia (gen. nov., 
Legquuinose Mena cauliflora (t. spp. noy.; all of Hemsley. 
—(xxii. 145, July 23). E. Bon valet See able Wild os of the 
cultivated true Limes’ (Citrus acida a).— J. 8S. Gar ‘ Fossil 
Leaves from Isle of Mull.’ — J. = Baker r, ‘ Ferns callecked in N. 
Borneo by the Bishop of Singapore’ (J’richomanes Hosei (t. Xii.), 
Dicksonia ampla, D. gomphophylila, sdaplestin aquibasale, Nephrodium 
sarawakense, N. aciculatum, N. multis. — N. megaphyllum, N. steno- 
phyllum (t. xi.), Polypodium sarawakense, P. campyloneuroides, P. 
leucophorum, Meniscium — Acr etch stenonebioidts; A. gra 
A. antrophyoides, spp. nn.). —H. N. Ridley, ‘ Freshwater Hydro 
charidee of Africa and its Islands’ (Lagar osiphon Nyasse, L. paid 
L. densus, Blyxa radicans (t. xiv.), “Ser siege O, plantaginea, 
Boottia crassifolia . abyssinica, B. exserta (t. X spp. nn nn.—Id., 
‘ Monograph of the Genus Liparis’ (L. plat pebeiii L. Beddomei, L. 
wanthina, L. pectinata, L. Forbesii, L. lacerata, L. # eccarit, L. 
Griffithii, L. Hookeri, L. resupinata, L, Cumingii, L. clavigera, L. 
triloba, spp. nn. : 110 species in all)—W. Mitten, ‘ New Species of 
Metzgeria’ (M. saccata, M. scobina, M. nitida.) 

Midland Naturalis (June). — H. B oyden, ‘ Flora of the Rea 
ver: '"—W. B. Grove, ‘ Fungas-hunting in Spring.’ 

uov, Giorn. Bot. Ital. (July). — A. Goiran, ‘ Prodromus Flore 
oo (contd.).— F. Tassi, ‘ Su delle singolari acetate dei 
fiori dell’ Emilia sagittata.’ — F. Baglietto, ‘ Primo sone nee dei 
ella —— (Agaricus cognatus, A. luteo- -cestus, spp. 1 

—A. Piccone, ‘ Pian: 


Ocsterr. Bot. secant uly). — Biography of G. Str 
- 1846 ; portrni it). — J, Volanoly ‘Flora von Ost. Ramelien.’ 
View Borbis, « Coronilla e 


Pharmaceutical ae io 19). —wW. Kirkby, ‘A Contribution 
to the knowledge of the Venezuela Sandalwood tree. 


OBITUARY. 

Wirn much regret we have to announce the death of Dr. H. F. 
Hance, se of the oldest and most valued pear ae to this 
Jo am. and one of its warmest supporters. The sad event took 
place at Centon on June 22nd. Mr. F. B. Forbes has oe 

write a biographical og of Dr. Hance, walch, 
with portrait, will appear in an early iss 


- 257 
q . ee 
ON THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE SUB- 
TERRANEAN PARTS OF LATHRAA SQUAMARIA L. 
By Grorce Masser, F.R.M.S. 
(Prate 269). 


not roots, as stated by previous writers. ‘‘ It will not, I think, b 
contended that they absorb moisture rather than air ; and as this 
forms the grand distinction between roots and leaves, I trust I have 
satisfactorily proved them to be the latter.”+ The very large 
starch grains appear to have puzzled the author, who describes 
them as ‘perfectly transparent bladders,” tried many curious 
experiments with them, and adds that similar bodies are met with 
in the bulbs of Liliwn candidum and Narcissus. 
In later times the structure and functions of the scale-leayes 
s 


some of the Yorkshire hazel coppices. 


ia, and the Peculiar 


* “On the Parasitical Connection of Lathrea Squamar i 
Structure of its Subterranean Leaves.’’ Journ. Linn. Trans. Vol. XV1., p- 
+t Loe. cit. : Ba { Lathrea Squamaria.” 


t‘‘Onthe Structure and Fun 
Journ. R. M. §., Oct. 1880 (1 pl.). 


Journat or Borany.—Vow. 24. [Sxpr., 1886.] 


258 STRUCTURE OF LATHRA SQUAMARIA. 


e. 

germination a strong conical tap-root is produced, which 
gives off numerous smaller branches, each furnished with several 
minute hemispherical suckers, by which the young plant is fixed to 
its* host. seedlings were found attached to roots, and in the 


during the first year; but if the frost is not too severe it 

continues to grow throughout the winter, for during the summer 

the plant, as a rule, has penetrated to a depth of about a foot 

below the surface, and thus secured itself from ordinary climatic 
uences. 


ng in a flowerin stem; the crowded arrangement of the 
branches accounting for the clustered habit of the scapes which, 
when viewed from the surface, appear to originate from one point. 


ch pr ng 
stems the following year, and by this mode of growth the plant 
migrates, step by step, for several yards from its starting-point. 
Flowers are never produced more than once from th same 
branches, but when the plant is very vigorous the flowering 
branches also produce clusters of branches, each capable of con- 
tinuing the plant, the result of which is a complicated branch 
system, requiring no small amonnt of perseverance to verily, 0D 
account of the great depth at which the plant grows, its extreme 
brittleness, and the complication of roots amongst which it 
occurs. We have isolated masses of the plant, the result 

gro ighi . d 
branches often weighing more than a pound, and in some districts 
in Kent the hedge-banks are one mass of the underground parts of 
Plant, penetrating to a depth of more than two feet below the 
*. No food is provided by the primary root after the first 
year, the Tosettes produced later being provided with fibrous 
rootlets springing from the stem between the leaves, or food is 


STRUCTURE OF LATHR#A SQUAMARIA. 259 


supplied by the leaves themselves, in a manner to be described 
later on. In fact, each rosette of branches may be looked upon as 
a biennial plant; for although the organic connection between the 
fascicle remains, yet each after flowering becomes brown and soon 

ies, but persists in a carbonized condition for some years. 


the cells petits out as root-hairs; a broad band of cortical 


with imperfect spiral or annular thicke enings, the central ones 
large, prismatic, and coarsely reticulate, ee into scalariform 
and pitted types. The haustoria or dises are best — on the 
t i min: rstitial, 
sometimes so numerous as to give a moniliform cose oe a he 
rootlets ; they are always minute, rarely exceeding a line in 
diameter. The parenchymatous cells are large, with conspicuous 
. e 


absorbs nutriment. This catatals is evidently affected by the 
secretion of some corrosive substance acting on the cell-w 
host, their structure being destroyed and reduced to a homogeneous 
mass in the neighbourhood of the parasi 

Tannic acid is present in every under ground part of the plant, 
and can also be — in the ieinteprated parts of the host, and 


the host, and consequently the direct result of some irritation 
tovalt about by this contact, although the terminal discs ma. 
seen in various stages of development up to the obovate shape, 
without contact with the host-plant. 
Tron is also present in 1 the plant, and the dark colour assumed 
when old or dried — ars to be due to a combination of this 
element with tannin 
The leaves are fle shy, often exceeding three lines at the 
thickest part; generally broader than long, reniform, or with the 
apex more or less produced; sessile, attached by a 
upper surface flat or concave, lower convex 


aid tastes ole lia. « Ze 


260 STRUCTURE OF LATHRASA SQUAMARIA. 


Nt 
out in the form of very fine filamentous prolongations, giving the 
an a velvety appearance. This form is most abundant, and 


recalling to mind a section of the human eye; one half sunk in the 
substance of the leaf, the remainder projecting into the cavity ; the 
head of th onding to the cornea of the eye, consists 

of four long narrow cells in one plane, containing granular ~ 


continuous border, owing to the large basal cell becoming narrower 
d , and which must be 


or 


bracts, and is very rare in the cavities, usually not more than two 
three being m leaf. 
. Under lying the epidermis of the cavities is a thin wall of tissue, 


remainder of the leaf consists of very la i lls 
joint : y large hexagonal cells, 

_ ‘Containing starch grains and erystalloids. The veins, which are 
ve id ag and well developed, are sunk in the substance of the leaf, 
and rm loops which surround the cavities, running between the 


STRUCTURE OF LATHREA SQUAMARIA, 261 
a wall of tissue lining the cavities, and the starch-bearing 


The following micro-chemical reactions were noted in the small- 
celled tissue lining the cavities:—Gardiner’s test for tannin, @ 


gave a copious yellow Beenogees the presence of this substance 
was also proved by the ir n and potassic besides tests. The 
nuclei assume a bright a ae blue colour when treated with 
ferro-cyanide of potassium and acetic acid, a terwards wash 

m alcohol, proving the presence of nuclein; the same structures 
also contain ir red with sulpho-cyanate of potassium, 


the cell. The proportions of the various reagents were used as 
given by Poulsen.* With dilute potassic hydrate, all parts of the 


plant containing protoplasm become clear primrose-yellow, with 
the exception of the cells forming the compact tissue lining the 
cavities, the contents of hange to a bright orange-brown 
concentrated ammonia gives the same reactions. The yellow 


colour points to the — ‘of tannin, but what the orange-brown 
colour indicates is un ee 
hen 


The eavvition of the leaves do not contain air, as supposed by 
Bowman, but water, having an acid reaction, due to a secretion 
from the stipitate glands, which can be proved by placing a — 
in litmus solution, when the acid reaction first shows — he 


some time with vegetable humus along w ler portions of the 


in several instances, where rat care was Seer in syeene 
the buried portions, not a single dise } 
admitting that a few were eal it is difficult to comprehend 
how so small a number could supply the plant with the — 


endosperm asse the oi 
extracted ye water; but these Burke ae pear a a oa nm thaie 
American Edition... 


* « Botanical — os wae 
t ‘Text Book of Botany.’ nd English Edition, p. 721. 


262 STRUCTURE OF LATHRA SQUAMARIA. 


nutriment from them. The fact that the roots of plants of this 
kind are so few in number and diminutive in length, as in Neottia, 
g,as in Epipogium and Corallorhiza, 18 very 

markable in connection with this. These plants are concealed in 
the nutrient substratum till the time of flowering, and may act 


possesses the power of supporting itself by means of its scale- 
leaves 


That saprophytes do act on organic matter by their whole 
surface was very clearly shown in one instance, where a plant of 
Lathrea had come in contact with the dead root of an elm that had 
ome soft, but yet retained its outline, and into which some 

Ps : i removed, 
depressions corresponding to their shape, while two other branches 


light friable loam, the soil immediately surrounding the Lathrea 
was saturated with moisture, while all beside could be crumbled 
apart with the fingers.” 


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heory being accepted 4 i in connection 
ee hey pted as explanatory of its function in ¢ 


he Loe. Cit., p- a 
beers: Soe. Nation, Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. (1884), pp. 5—40. 3 pls. 


THE MOSSES OF ROSS-SHIRE. 268 


EXPLaNation or Prare 269.—Leaf-structure in Lathrea Squamaria L.— 
Fig. 1. Under surface of leaf, x 2. 2. Section ene - along the line a, 
in Fig. 1. The upper sake is marked x ; ction gare gh leat 
along the line ot d,in Fig. 1, The upper sista is is Tiateal ys Be et ection 
through stem and two opposite leaves in the direction marked c in Fig z; 
x 10. diated view of a portion of the interior of a leat t cavity wd “stip itate 

ds ; b, large sessile glands; c, poideten cells; x i tface view of 


th 
above-ground parts of the plant; ion of a portion of the 
decayed = 100 of ans clin (a), into sistas : pee of Tatihdé (b) had eaten its 


THE MOSSES OF ROSS-SHIRE. 
By H. N. Drxon, M.A., F.L.8. 


As very little seems tes have been done in working out the 
mosses of mee it may be of interest to give a list of pate 


t 
leiocarpum, Rhynchostegium gain tum, and Amblystegium — are 
unrecorded in the whole of District 17 of the Catalo, 
Of the ‘ee days two were spent at Strome Ferry mee eight at 
tail on Loch Duich. From the latter place I went up Ben 
eresting records, including 


" S. cus, 
Ehrh. Strome Ferry. — S. rubellum Wils. Glomak. — S. sub- 
secundum Nees. Glen Shiel. Var. contortum Schultz. Glen Shiel. 
Atti 


B ttow. 
Andreea petrophila Ehrh. Kintail. — A. Rothii, var. falcata 
Schpr. Kintail. — A. alpina Turn. Glomak. Ben Attow. 


dw. Gl len Shiel. 
hrad. 


es aetle squarrosa Se 
Dicranum ering W.&M. Ben porte — D. faleatum coon 
en Attow. —*D. elongatum Sehwg.- Rock, Ben Attow. — V. 


264 THE MOSSES OF ROSS-SHIRE. 


scoparium L. Strome Ferry. — D. majus Turn. Strome Ferry. — 
D, palustre Bry. Brit. Thatched roof, Kintail. ae 
Campylopus atrovirens DeNot. “Strome Ferry. Kintail. Glen 
Shiel. — *C. fragilis, var. densus B. & 8S. Strome Ferry. 
Brachyodus tri ichodes W. & M. Kintail. My specimens were 
very poor, but I think there is no doubt of it. 
erin acuta Hedw. Strome Ferry. Ben Attow. Kintail. 
Didymodon — B. & §. Strome Ferry.—— D. cylindricus 
—_ Strom 
richum se Hedw. Strome Ferry. 
Barbula tortuosa i. Strome Ferry. Kintail. 
Ceratodon purpureus L. Strome Ferry. Ben Attow. Glen Shiel. 
Distichium Sealisincn L. Glen Shiel. 


Grimmia maritima Strome Ferry. 

Ptychomitrium polyphyllum Dicks. Strome Ferry. 

Racomitrium aciculare L. Kintail. — R. protensun Braun 
Strome Ferry. — *R. sudeticwun Funck. Strome Ferry. Kintail 
—R, — atiobain Hedw. Strome Ferry. — R. isan Schrad. 
Strome Ferry. — R. sae aa Hedw. Strome Ferry. — 


ees Hedw. Strome Ferry. Glen Liek. 

Ulota_crispa Hedw. Strome Ferry, — U. intermedia Schpr. 
Strome Ferry: — U. oo Brid. Ash trees, Kintail. — U. 
Hutchinsie Sm. Kintai 

Orthotrichum leiocar pum B.& 8. Ash trees, — 

Splachnum sphericum L. fil. Strome Ferry tto 

Entosthodin ericetorum Bals. Ben Attow. — Ei T empletoni 
Hook. Kin 

Bartana ithyphylla Brid. Strome Ferry. 

Philon tana L. Strom 
B . 


*Webera acuminata Hoppe. Strome F erry. Kintail. Glen 
Shiel. — W. elongata Dicks. Glen Shiel. — W. nutans Schreb. 
Glen Shiel. — W. albicans Wahl. aga Ferry (3). 

Zieria julacea Schpr. Glen Shi 

yrum erythrocarpum Schwg. on Attow. — B. alpinum L. 

Kintail._B. pallens Swartz. Strome Ferry. oa ps soudo-triguetrum 
Hedw. Kintail. 

*Mnium serratum Schrad. Kintail. — M. punctatum Hedw. 
Strome Fer te ~~ U. subylobosum B. & S. Glen Shiel. 
2 


( fe Kin a 
Fissidens adiantoides Hedy. ‘Strome Ferry. — F. decipiens 
DeNot. Strome eF 


=H, aiccteoes “shane Bruch. Kintail. : 

Brachythecium plumosum Swartz. Strome Ferry. Kintail. 
*Hyocomium Jflagellure Dick. Strome Ferry ; on rocks 

_Rhynchostegium confertum Dicks. Strome Ferry. 


“aM Ble lagiothecium mpiitnlaitis LL. Strome Ferry. 


SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 265 


Amblystegium riparium L.  Salt-marsh, Loch Duich. Var. 
longifolium Brid. Ben Attow 

Hypnum fluitans L. Kin tail. —-H. wneinatum Hedw. Glen 

Shiel.— H. vohatuiede Hedw. Strome Ferry. — H. cupressiforme 


) 
Glen Liek.—— H. sarmentosum Wahl. Ben Attow. — *H. scorpioides 
tow 


en : 
Hylocomium loreum L. Strome Ferry. 


ubjoin the names of a few more which I found, during the 
same visit, in other localities in Scotland. 


SKYE. 
Dicranum falcatum Hedw. Ben-na-Cailleach. : 
*Campy ylopus atrovirens var. falcatus Braithw. Loch Coruisk. — 
Cc. pyrifor mis Brid. Loch Slapin 


ach. 
Bryum intermedium W. & M. Broadford. 
Diphyscium foliosum L. Loch Slapin. 
DatwHINNIE. 
Sphagnum subsecundum var. obesum Wils. ay of Athol. 
Anoectangium compactum Se of Ath 
Dieranum ae pots Hedw. Sow of Athol. — °D. fuscescens Turn. 
Sow of Ath 
* Cer eae conicus Lindb. Dalwhinnie fs R32 
Bartramia Cideri Gunn. Sow of Athol 
ebera acuminata Hoppe. D slwhitnie: — W. annotina Hedw. 
thol (¢. fr.). 


c. 
Mnium cinclidoides Blytt. Sow of Athol. 
Hypnum ochraceum Turn. Dalwhinnie. — H. stramineum Dicks. 
Sow of Athol. Dalwhinnie 


SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 
‘By G. S. Jenman, F.L.S. 

Most of the following additional Jamaica Ferns have been 
brought to light of int, ely by my friend Mr. R. V. Sherring, 
who spent the past winter in exploring the less known (so far as 
the fern vegetation is gener Ay parts of the island, and a few 
by my former colleague, Mr. J. Hart, Superintendent of the 
Government Cinchona bane genase The rest have resulted from 
systematically working through m wn collection, and in a sober atzoss 
_ €Xamination which my late leave of iieaee in E me 

to give to the Kew and British Museum collections 


266 SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 


or id 
the pinnulw being not over } in. wide, and the segments even- 
edged.—Rose Hill, gathered by Mr. Sherring. 

Hemitelia Imrayana Hk. — Differs only fon H. grandifolia Spr. 


which I regard it a variety. It was gathered over thirty re? ago 
by Miss rie ao next by Wilson, and very recently, at Ros , 
by Mr. Sherrin 


two-thirds or three-fourths, and are free at the base, but sessile 
The involucres are very large, kp and almost enclose the sori, 
ian are medial in position at firs 

mitelia Sherringi, n. sp. o trunk tall, wee mee above. 
Pana wi ample, 7-9 ft. long, including the t, muricate, and 
freely paleaceous — e, sae ft. wide, tipnnaliid pellucid, sub- 
coriaceous, glabrous, except on the cost#, which are pubescent, 
right green on es upper side, pale beneath. Rachis stout, 
= sparsely muricate at the base, rather scaly an “ 


egments. < 
ceptacles densely scaly. Involuc Sporn oe shallow, completely 
circling the receptacles, the thin margin more or less lobed or 
d.— ne species, and remarkable as negate by 
the completely czoalae pian ad a passage into Cyathe 
H. micr , n. sp.— Trunk several ft. high, paleaceons & v6 
the top. Petioles spreading, scaly at the base, brown, a foot le 
or more long, freel t with short prickles. Fronds ain 
acuminate, 3-44 ft. I oie, , 13-23 ft. Wis, tripinnatifid, dark green 
above, rather glaucous beneath: Rachis wood-brown, rather slender, 
channelled, muricate in the lower park. Pinne spreading, con- 
tiguous, shortly salads. 1-14 ft. long, 5-6 in. wide. Pinnule 
contiguous, only the outer ones quite sessile, finely serrato-acuml- 
nai ae long, 8-10 1. wide, pinnatifid nearly to the midrib. 


. 


. not faloate. Cos tw and costule pubescent above, the latter with a 


SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 267 


few deciduous hearenred, bullate brown scales beneath, surfaces 
abro 


and very small involucres. In aspect it exactly corresponds with 
Cyathea dissoluta Baker 


Dicksonia antillen , n. sp. — Rootstock not seen. Pees 
erect, 2-23 ft. long, ria brown, channelled, naked. onds 
erect, 3-4) ft. long, 24-8 ft. wide, truncate at the "base, ae aiae 
acuminate, finely decompound. Pi in numerous pairs,  agplaacats 
at right angles. sessile, oblong-lanceolate, the lowest pair y 
somewhat smaller than the next pigens ae Fa id 4: apart, 
quadri-pinnate, 1— ine t. long, 6-8 in 
divisions the same shape, but proportionately sine  atrnary 
deeply cut into inten segments }-1 1]. wide, whic rren 


w. and the allied species, for which reason I piece it here. From 
. species it is readily distinguished by its fine cutting and the 
flat_ terminal involuecres, every final segment of the fertile fronds 
bearing one. It is as finely cut as Davallia fumarioides Sw. or 
Cjemen ‘amma schizophylla Baker 

Lindsaya faleata Willd. 

Adiantum nigrescens Fée — Distinguished from the striatum 
group, with which its alliance i is, by aie ebeneous polished smooth 
petioles, ee and s stipita e segmen 

Cc the esii, n. i. —Stip: ite es tufted, slender, polished, 
ook Sariasag brown or bla ckish, x Bane led on She upper half, 


long, with a few minute deciduous s at the base. 
li multifid, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, sa in the 
lower half, 4-8 in. long, _ petsaen Ti wide, tripinnate. Pinne regular 


from the base of ‘the frond upwards, contiguous, numerous, spreading 
alternately, lanceolate, basal ones the largest or not, 13-3 in . long, 
t-1in | 


and fully pinnate, with 2-6 rather spathulate — segments on 

each side, about 14 1. long, 3-11. wide, the term and 

ame at the base, all famtly crenate or anulae on the outer 
Tex jure membrano-chartaceous ; colour dull clo 

een; surface Rachis and costw polished and coloured 

fike the stipites, " uasniiied and scariose-edged. Veins pinnate, 


| 


268 SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 


the branches very oblique, simple in the larger segments, no 
entering the margin. Sori copious, pois patie in distinct Light 
— marginal dots, 1-4 to the side of a ent. Involuecres 
minute, subreniform, eventually concealed by ‘the sori. — Gathere 
at Oxford, 8 Elizabeth parish, by Rev. T. = Rees, after whom it 


isnamed. It belongs to the section Adiantopsis. 
Pteris serene Agdh. Distinguished by the long (especially 
segments, and broadly rounded open sinus, copious 


erminal) se 

fine areolation of the veins, writhout coped free branches, and 
peculiar rootstock, which consists of an aggregation of nutlets, 
each of which aaa exc a “ert frond, having its own roots, and 
quite independent of the 

Aspleni tum pas m Mart. x a 

As —- Rootstock fibrous, erect, to- 
mentose, and slightly dark ve He “Btipites grey-green, except the base, 
tufted, those of the barren fronds 1-2 in. long, of the fertile 3-6 in., 
naked. Fertile fronds central, very erect, the barren extern 
much smaller, and erecto-spreading; the former oblong- Janceolate, 
4-7 in. long, 13-1} in. wide, the base truncate, the apex narrowe 
and terminated in a lobate blunt or rounded SS inne 


superior base. Texture herbaceo-chartaccous; surfaces naked ; 
colour grey-green. Rachis flattish, slightly margined, like- -coloured 
with the stipites. Sori 14-3 1. long, spreading oe =~ 
side of the midrib, not reaching the margin. — eee through 
the island on rocks from low altitudes up to 6000 ft wet larger 
plant than 4. dentatum L., between which and A. obtusifolium it is 
intermediate. 
Hartianum, n. sp. — Rootstock stout, erect, the crown 
clothed with laneeolate: os scales. Stipites cespitose, erect, 
0-18 in. long, ¢ brown, “‘puberu ous, the dark base 
clothed with seamen eaten like those of the rootstéck. Fronds 
oe RN acuminate, with a pinnatifid serrate apex, 
broadest or not reduced at the base, 2-34 ft. long, 1-14 ft. wide. 
carne ed i i Vv 


sages Senator elder on 

_ long, 3-7 1. wide, the interior ones of the lower pinne reduced, 

and ary lowest one on the inferior side of the 1-2 lowest pair of all 
- l 


dv 
the pinnatifid outer part is app proached. 
z ange we crenato-dentate, the teeth 1-2 1. wide, Texture 


° 


SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 269 


chartaceous; colour dark clear green above, paler beneath; upper 


. surface naked, under subtomentose and glandulose, the vestiture 
e in t i 


rusty or ferruginous. Veins pinnate and forked in the pinnule o 
the smaller Pees ; in the larger, pinnate in the lobules or teeth of 
the pinnule. Sori reaching half-way to the margin from the mid- 

rib, few or several venapne —It is with much reluctance I venture to 
introduce a new name to the radicans group of Asplenia, si I have 
failed to match this at - Kew and British Museum Herbaria, or in 
books. It comes nearest the least divided states of A. Kloteschii 
Mett., and is quite distinct from any of the several Jamaican states 
of A. radicans feces nas appear be pe two forms. 


runneo-viri . sp.— Rootstock gat: erect, the crown 
clothed with pe ale. Stipites eee strong, erect, brown, 
clothed at the base like the rootstock, 2-8 ft. long. Fronds ample, 


erecto-spreading, 3-4 ft. o tang, 2-8 ft. wide, Pears gar aay 


deeper on the lower side. # numerous, contiguous, alternate, 
not sessile, about the same ees as the pinne, the acuminate 
point serrate, 84-5 in. | , 14-1} in. wide; lary segmen 


taceous, pellucid ; surfaces, excep on the a. naked, light green. 

achis and coste wood-brown or darker, eal ¢ anne er costee 
maa costule margined with fat membranous wings, and fibrillose 
with ll brown scales. Veins pinnate ; bcmtaice cuepie: Bal 2-3 
aside. Sori copious, ++} 1. long, the lowest anterior one on eac 
lobe double ; involueres ample, tumid, pale brown.—A larger plant 
than 4. Wilsont Baker and A. sandwichianum Mett., to both of which 
it is sey a 

pee Taylorianum, n.sp. — Rootstock and stipites 

not seen. Fronds ample, tripinnatifid, 24-3 ft. lo 08 2 ft. wide, 

k , rather membrano-chartaceous, glabrou glossy, 
except the coste and costule, which are slightly Aicilloee and 
cbvarvies scaly beneath or in the axils. ss spreading or 


conspicuously so in the outer 
simple, or the lowest anterior mee sometimes forked, “4-5 toa side. 
Sori short, nearer the midrib than margin, about 4 1. long, 3-4 to 
each side of the segments. Involucres vaulted. — Of local species 
this comes next 4. nek Jenman, from which it differs by its 

er texture, sessile pinnule, conspicuously 
dentated final parts, the teeth of which are rather obt d the 

very short sori. I have this species in memory of, the 


270 © SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 


Miss Fanny Hope Taylor, who in the years 1852-4 made an excel- 
lent collection of ferns in Jamaica, which included among other 
rare species the now well-known and beautiful Gymnogramma schizo- 
phylla—a species only rediscovered where she found it, and named, 
over twenty years later 

Aspidium dissectum ; 

Nephrodium sanctum Baker, var. magnum. — Fronds a foot or 
more long, 8-4 in. wi inne contiguous or apart, 2 in. long, 
5 1. wide, subequilateral, fully pinnate within, beyond that pim- 
natifid on both sides to the acuminate point. Involucres evident, 
ciliate-—This forms a passage into the conterminum group. 

Nephrodi caribeum, n. sp. — Stipites densely tufted, 
slender, erect, light brown, slightly scaly at the base, 2-4 in. long, 
slightly channelled, puberulous. Fronds erect, 14-14 

i indli tri 


ell Pinne spreading, sessile, contiguous or more or less apart, 
broadest at the base, from whence they taper to the acuminate 
serrato-entir ong, 4— e, subequilateral, uni- 


e point, 2 in. long, 
formly deeply pinnatifid, or the very base fully pinnate. Segments 
inear-oblong, close, except the enlarged basal pair, which are 
nearly or quite free, 3-1 1. wide, 2 1. long (the basal ones 8 1.). 


r 

- Sori medial, copious. Involucres evident, ciliate. 

termediate between the large variety of N. sanctum and N. 
Nockianum. ce 

N. Nockianum, n. sp. — Rootstock small, erect ; stipites 

tufted, erect, very slender, brownish, 4-6 in. long, channelled, 


2-1 1. wide. Rachis very slender, finely greyish or rusty pubescent, 
channelled. Coste similar. Surfaces glabrous or the upper —_— 
prey ve dark 


rim: r rather nearer the margin. Invo ucres 
veloped, ciliate.—A slender, thin, very pellucid plant belonging to 
the conterminum group. 

N. rigidulum Baker ? : 
i N. paucijugum, n. sp.— Rootstock thick as a quill, hori- 
__ Rontally repent, the growing point in advance of the petioles, and 


SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 271 


densely clothed with brown acuminate reticulated scales. Stipites 
op aes or apart, erect, slender, naked, channelled, stramineous, 
in. long, 5-6 in. 


3-1 ft. long or over. Fronds bi ipinnatifid, 9-12 
a, truncate at the _ reduced upwards to a ing acuminate 
pinnatifid terminal pinna. Texture chiebeteniii pellucid. Surfaces 


naked and glossy ; palit light green. Rachis slender, channelled, 
stramineous. Pinne spreading, the lower ones, which are not 
reduced, horizontally, apart, acumin ate, 3-34 in. long, 4-3 in. wide, 
the upper ones broadest at the base ‘and sessile, the lower one 


Segments close or with a — open sinus paprce oblique, 
Ve 


blunt-acute, often pointleted, 4-5 1. long, 1-1} 1 eins 
simple or forked in the inferior aca oblique, 7-10 y a side, 
the lowest pair entering at or above the sinus. not seen.— 


Belongs to the Serra and Sloanei groups, but the fepktieas is not rigid. 

N. Filiv-mas Rich. — A most in interesting discovery, for which I 
have looked for years, made now by Mr. Morris. This appears to 
be the first discovery of this species in the West ee and the 
form is exactly that common on the tr ne mainlan 


puberulous, channelle Fronds erect, 2 ft , 6-8 in. wide, 
the base gradually reduced to cs Sepa 4-1 in. long, ‘the acuminated 
apex com atis terminating 1 entire rather obtuse point. 


Inne humerous, spreading, with & a space their over width, more 
or less, betwee a a sagaile and free at the base, where they are 
auricled and broadest, 34-44 in. long, 5-6 1. wide, eee lobed 


obliquely rounded, and entire. Substance firm, pellucid, very dark 
green. Rachis channelled and with the ribs freely puberulous. 
See va ae cage , 3-5 to a side, the lowest pair united and 
Sending a h to the sinus, above which the next pair enter. 
Sori close pe “the — Involucres small, fugacious. — Comes 
next NV, usitatum Jenman, from which the smaller size, gradually 
reduced lower part of 4 the fronds, narrower less acuminate pinne 
with save Bh basal lobes distinguish it. 
Pol, mbatum, n. sp. — Stipites densely tufted, 
short or ae any clear. Fronds erect or erecto-spreading, 
~8 in. long, 13-2 1. broad, linear, narrowed at base, the apex 
bluntish-pointed, deeply pinnatifid. Segments close, rounded, 


Opaque, coriaceous; surfaces 

Spreading a sori at the base of the lobes near the rachis, 

borne on the spur of the short dark veins, the dark brown hairs 

protruding fete tween the sporangia. — Near P. truncicola Klotzsch 
and 1’, vryanense Mett. 


272 SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 


P. Hartii, n. 
dark brown reticulated scales. Stipites tufted, few ‘slender, from 
hardly any clear to 41. long. Fronds erect, linear, apes a 
to apex and base, 3-5 in. long, 2-8 1. wide, almost fully pin 
Segments ~~ close rene rounded at the end, the base cunaeale 
te, 1-14 1. long, the same breadth at both ends, 
but the reduced een ones ‘deltoid, achis filiform, covered under 
the parenchyma on see sides, oe prominent beneath, stiff. 
Texture tibaciade surfaces slightly — on the margins 
or naked, dark <i ‘but paler beneath ; mple vein in each 
segment, "that do oes not reach the apex. ‘Suits cet ES on the 
veins, sunk in a cavity which forms a ridge on the upper side of 
the a the sides of which are pofiexed, but do not cover 
them.—This and the next species form a distinct group, i sf 
the sorus ae elongated, and a in a depression of the 
nerved lobes. Found also in minica. 
— Roo isiuick very small and short, clothed 


with rather squarrose | reti oritnted scales. Stipites — filiform, 
erect, dark, slightly ciliate or naked, 3—} = long. Fronds ies 
ear, tapering both to apex and base, 8- in. long, aa wi 


pinnatifid almost to the stifish thread-like Ste which is coved 
by the parenchyma on the upper side, but not beneath. Segments 
obliquely aticted-obilciiy aces 5 shortly decurrent, Ath bk long; 
less wide, blunt. Texture firm; surfaces naked or the margins 
and rachis beneath slightly ciliate, dark or brownish green, paler 
beneath. Veins simple in the lobes, not reaching the points. 
Sori roundish or rather elongate, medial on the veins, superfici 
or slightly depressed. 
.o ee Mett. 
449. Thomsonii, n.sp. — Rootstock stout, upright, often a few 
Aa high. Stipites cxespitose, erect, 1-2 ft. long, brown, clothed 
downwards with membranaceous brows scales, and mucous when 


coloured. spreading, numerous, contiguous above, sub- 
distant below, sessile, with a subulate eland at the base beneath, 
6-8 in. long, 1- ot ag wide, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, with a 
serrato-entire point, the 2-3 lower — reduced half or more, and 
often deflexed, pinnati ifid to bells line of the coste. Segments 
numerous, close, straight, linear-oblong and round-ended, continents 
but not dilated at the panakodes base, 6-7 1. long, 14-21. w wide, 


at, with entire margins. Texture thin, membrano-chartaceous, 
ucid. Surfaces nearly naked, ous or ciliate on the 
ashe and ribs, and y glandulose beneath; colour pale but 
ivid green. Veins simple, slightly oblique, pellucid while fresh, 

— 12-15 to a side. Sori medial or nearer the midrib, brown, con- 
stantly distinct, at length dispersed. — Near P. decussatum L. ani nd 
P. Percivalii Jenman. It commemorates the name of Mr. Ro bert 


Thomson, to whom belongs the credit of forming th Cinchona 
o, ‘Plantations and the several branches of the Botanical Department, 
= — the Old Old Bath Garden, of which a puecanat still exists. 


SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS, 278 


_ Aerostichum inequalifolium, n. sp. — Rootstock thick as a 
quill or less, several inches long, Sonueniol densely clothed with 
dark chestnut- ooonren scales having p paler margins,  Stipites 
pag erect, 2— in. long, rather freely clothed at first 
with spreading, RES 89 brown, but very deciduous scales. Fronds 
oa. oS lanceolate, tapering equally at the apex and base, 
4-10 in. long, 4-13 in. wide, ee eous, the veins free, forked from 
§ 


do 


mediate between A. simplex and A. chartaceum, and beari g about 
the same relation to the latter that A. . conforme does to A, latifolina. 

A, (E eran Herminieri 
A. (Exapoctossum) viridifolium, n.sp. — Rootstock short, 
rather stout, oblique or decambeot densely clothed with snail 
ferruginous linear scales. Stipites subtufted, erect, stramineous, 
Fronds linear-lanceolate, in. long 


ig in. wide, tapering both up and down, but more so downwards 
and passing insensibly into the petiole; the apex pointed, but 
obtuse; margins even or repand. Surfaces meant: but with laxly 
scattered very minute peltate scales over the under side. Texture 
coriaceous. Colour bright green. Veins fine, close, once forked, 
nearly concealed. Fertile fronds much narrower, nearly or quite 
as long, on stipites vie as long. — This comes nearest to A. 


the fronds. The petioles are sai at first, but pot become quite 
naked. The midrib is prominent beneath, channelled above, and, 
with the petioles, straw-colour whe 

Selaginella caribensis, n. sp. —Fronds prostrate, vee delicate, 
1-2 in. long, usually leafy to the base, the shorter simple, the 
longer with short asernae mostly distant Se a which are 
1-6 1. long by 1-141. wide over the leaves. Lateral leaves con- 


ac b- 
ae the outer side eae than the Sag e margins 7 
a 


Journat or Borany.—Vot. 24. ‘[Serr., 1886.] T 


274 SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 


species. Its nearest affinity is with S. rhizophora Baker of Panama. 


A SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPE. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S., F.L.S. 


(Continued from p, 101), 


Suborder 2.—-_MarsmiEx. 
Conceptacles always double, the outer coriaceous and dehiscent, 
the inner “ membranous and indehiscent, containing sporangia of 
8: 


both kin: 
. Marsinea Linn.* 
Conceptacles se or globose, coriaceous in texture, placed in 
the axils of the leaves or rarely on their petiole, dehiscing finally 


tilbbebeeeaes holding a anierong microspores, and few macro- 
sporangia holding s i 
Pedicels many, polar springing from the petiole one 


above anothe Sp. 1. 
Pedicels 2~4- pore rarely solitary, adnate to the base 
ti 


of the Sp. 2-5. 
Pedicels 2 2-6 tiate; rarely solitary, slightly connate at 
_ the base, quite free from the petiole Sp: 6-9. 
Pedicels single. 
~ Pedicels very short. 

Leaflets oblanceolate jaediacuapl eye tipo hp. Opes 
Leaflets deltoid . Sp. 12-21. 
Pedicels at least as lon as the concept acle. 

Leaflets without pellucid streaks, Conceptacles 

seek horizontal, adnate to the.tip of the 
Sp. 22-86. 
Lcatiste: with pelluci d streaks. Conceptacles 
mostly erect, not — to the tip of the 
pedicel : ee a acd ics 
fei uel pecoameds 
raun’s monographs as cited under the genus Pilularia, and a mg 


1873, p. 


: pape eg ag Berlin M Monatsberieht ' for 1872, pp. 668—679, reprinted in Journ 


SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 275 


. M. porycarpa Hook. & Grey. Ic. Fil. t. 160. — M. brasiliensis 
el Ic. Crypt. 122, t. 73.—Large, aquatic, glabrous, wide-creeping. 
Petiole 4-1 ft. ; leaflets thin, deltoid, 4-1 in. long and broad; outer 
border rounded and entire. Conceptacles 10-20, placed on short 

curved pedicels ermine from the petiole one above another some 
distance from its base, nearly globose, 1-12th in. long, not com- 
pressed, glabrescent, without border or basal teeth, its veins 
anastomosing midway between the sutures. Sori about 10. 

Hab. Tropical  heatigl and Society Islands. Var. mexicana 
A. Br. is a form with fewer conceptacles, beginning lower down on 
the petiole; M. picta Fée, a variety with the leaves marked with 


conspicuous brown streaks in the areole formed by the veinlets ; 
and M, subangulata A. Br., a small variety cet fewer rather angular 
tomentose concaptacles. M. Stratiotes A. Br., gathered by Spruce 


on the Lower Amazon, is perhaps a robust aviaty of polyc sail with 
an sreeregge stout rhizome and petiole, but the fruit is entirely 
unknow 


2. M. quaprironiaTa Linn. Sp. 1563; Schk. Crypt. t. 1738. 
Large, aquatic, wide- Reet 0 ig: Petiole 3-6 in ‘oan deltoid, 
glabrous, 4-3 in. long; o edge rounded and e Pedicels 


2~4-nate, 4-1 in. long, a Gbinphe with each Bes: dnd adnate 
to the base of the petiole and upper part of bon base of the 
conceptacle. Conceptacles round-oblong, 4-4 i long, usually 
heey se when mature, not bordered; basal teeth minute. 

6-20. 


Hab. Central Europe to ee and the North of India. Rare 
in ve United States (New Eng 
. M. Bro 


rownn A. Br. in Berl. Monat. 1863, 418. — M. quadri- 
pi ReBr. Prodr: 167. — Aquatic, wide- egg gla abrous, with 
habit of M. quadrifoliata. Petiole reac 9 in.; leaflets deltoid, 
4-1} in. long and mo ee outer edge nanetiry entire, P 
1-83-nate, usually er ee connate, obscurely 
oO 


Hab. New South Wales, ee Brown! R. Cunningham! 

4. M. macropus Enge illim. Journ. ser. 2, iii. 56.— 
Large-sized, wide-trailing, with r habit of M. quadrifoliata. Petioles 
teach 6-8 in.; leaflets deltoid, rt in. long and broad, slig' 
2-4-nate, erect, 3-4 


one-fourth to one-third 
of their length, and adnate to the base of a petiole and conceptacle. 
Coneeptacle oblong, obliquely ascending, tomentose, 1-5th in. long; 
teeth small. Sori about Lag ims 
. oF lil 
on ee ee Berl. ee 1863, 421; Kuhn in 
Fi. otha i. 652, tab. 80, figs. 6-8.—M. striata Mett. in Crypt. Nov. 
Gran. 894. — Aquatic, pris vide-crbaganis Petiole 6-8 in. 
long 5 leaflets deltoid, about -* in. long and broad ; er edge 
ounded entire. Pedicels 2-nate, } in. long, not connate, 


276 SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 


inserted on the petiole above its base, ascending or deflexed, 
inserted into the middle of the base of the obliquely- iia con- 
ceptacle, which is nes unbordered, 1-5th in. long, without basal 
eeth. abou 
razil, in shes south of Oeiras, Gardner 2760! M. 

striata Mett. ., found by Triana in New Gran ada, has brown lines in 
the centre of the areole of its leaves, like those of M. polycarpa var. 
picta. 
6 uta Linn. Mant. 808. — M. erosa Willd. Sp. v. 540.— 
M. ina i Roxb. — Subterr rial or ae both with a wide- 


n. ur 
ecarahte at the 9 Staite to the pi oa of the a 
i 0. & 


in.), truncate at the base, rounded at the apex, distinctly 
Pega Bias teeth tah distinct, the upper one the largest. 
ori f 
Hab. Plains of India. Var. Zollingeri A. Br., from Java, 
differs by its subentire Le Sauer tomentose mature conceptacle, and 
lies distinct teeth. M. crenata Presl. Rel. Henk. tab. 12, fig. 3, 
from the Phibpoins relate. is perhaps the same Pact A plant 


420, is a form gathered in Pegu by MacClelland, with s 
“ah Aomtrap leaflets of HAs Ciare: 1-12th to 18th in. ‘ong 


tioles, and smaller conceptacles with about 6 
Wightii Raker (M. gt fps Wall, Cat. 7096, non Willd ) comneeké 
it with the type. M. brachypus A. Br. in Berl. M at. 1863, 421, 


M. gracilenta A. Br. loc: ci te 
between brachypus and the type with ae pedicels than in the 
former, and less silky leave 

7. M. crenunata Desy. Prodr. 1 177.—M. vulgaris Bory, ex parte. 
M. microcan pa A. Br. —M. ones A. Br. , ex parte.— Su bterrestrial 


dl able from M. sina iata, "the former with petioles 
1d Se in., and deltoid leaflets 1-1 in ae distinctly crenate on the 
outer edge. Pedicels - erect, 3-3 in. long, connate 


ee nate, sti 
at the base, free from the petiole, ca to the whole base of the 
Leth is ee tacle oblong- Aare alge horizontal, 1-12th to 
ia aie 5 eee or slightly silky, unbordered ; basal teeth 
a : 


Hab. Mauritius ee Bourbon. Only differs from M. diffusa by 
its cone crenate leaflets, and the smaller teeth of the base of the 
conce 


ee M. Dirrusa Leprieur; A, Br. in Flora, 1839, 300. — M. 
enter’ Bory, ex parte. — Subterrestrial or aquatic, both wi 
wide-creeping ing rhizome, the latter, when sterile, indistingnishable 


i 
ight 


é 


SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 277 


s 2-4 
ped erect, 4-4 in. long, free from the pet iole, spe es connate 

t the base, adnate to the whole base of the Pen eptacle. Con- 
iptadls oblong-quadrate, 4-4 in. long, horizontal, glabrescent, 
unbordered ; basal teeth both distinct. Sori 10-12. 

Hab. geria, Canaries, Mascaren Isles, and spread through- 
out Tropical Africa. Very near M. minuta, get A ch it differs 
by its unbordered conceptacles and usually entire leaflets. M. 
cornuta A. a in Berl. Monatber. 1870, 728, cached by Welwitsch 

in Angola, is a form with short pedicels and petioles, crenulate 
leaflets and ‘the teeth of the base of the conceptacle very distinct, 
the ne one hooked. 

EGALENSIS A. Br. in shel . peckirer be -Siz 
iol 


. di 
at the base, free from the peor adnate t to the wits base of the 
conceptacle. Coiideptasle early square, horizontal, silky, un- 
P steliged 1-12th in. long, porkietdntty silky; basal teeth minute. 
ri 8-1 


sah, 2 ‘Sen negal. Intermediate between M. diffusa and egyptiaca. 
M. aneustiroxia R. Br. Prodr. Austr. 167.— Aquatic, aoe 


e : icels so ct, very short 
upper part of the base of the conceptacle. Conceptacle oblong, 
horizontal, in. lo ong, unbordered, ee, tomentose ; basal 
teeth obscure. ‘Sori ab 

Hab. North Aditealiie 

11. M. tenvurrotm Engelm.; A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1863, 
425, — center neatly or quite glabrous, with a slender wide- 
creeping rhiz Petiole 3-4 in.; leaflets oblanceolate, about 


Hab. Texas, Lindheimer, fase. iv. No. 745. M. minuta Fourn. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1880, p. 829, gathered in Mexico by 
Schaffner, is said to be closely allied to this species 

2. M. pupescens Tenore Prodr. Fl. Neap. Suppl. i. 70; A. Br. 
in tee . re wero Fabri Dunal in Ann. Se. Na t. ser. 2, 


e 
crowded in two regular imbricating rows on the rhizome, globose 
obovoid, 4 in. long, silky, unbordered, horizontal, with the pedicel 
cee to the upper part-of its ; basal teeth obscure. Sori 
a 


278 SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPEX. 


Hab. Mediterranean region; South France, Italy, Morocco, 

geria. 

13. M. srricosa Willd, Sp. v. 589.—Middle-sized, subterrestrial 
or snguatio, the former tufted, the latter short-creeping. Petiole 
1-3 in.; leaflets deltoid, obscurely ny or glabrescent, }-} in. Be ; 
outer r edge slightly rounded, entire. Conceptacles sessile, oy i 
oblong, 4 in. long, with the pail adnate to the upper part 0. ” 
base, slightly silky when mature, not bordered, not arranged on the 
rhizome in two regular imbricating rows; basal teeth obscure. 

ri 8-10, 

Hab. §.E. European Russia oe Sheeran Siberia. Very near 
M. pubescens, with which Milde un: bit 

14. M. rimsriata Thoun. & Ha ‘Besk. Guin. 461. Fan inch 
of M. quadrifoliata. Petiole 4-1 ft.; leaflets deltoid, aba an inc 
long, glabrous above, strigillose beneath ; outer edge e - 
pe der Elokere, size of anise-seed, solitary, pase gaa y 
tom: 

ab. Yd uinea, Thouning. Known to me only from an incom- 

ist eg tion. 

: 4 ML. : nupica A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1868, 482. a 
aiida, subterrestrial, short creeping, glabrous. Petiole 1-14 +e 
long; ; leaflets deltoid, 3-4 in. long and broad; outer edge roun' sr 
Pedicels solitary, erect, ioe short, adna ate to the base : 
die conceptacle, finally turning black. Conceptacle nearly p28 , 
horizontal, 1-12th in. diam., unbordered, bright black, with a loose 

outer skin ; ‘basal teeth obsolete. ri abou differ 

Hab. Kord ofan, Kotschy 126! This and M. gymnocarpa rr 
from all the other feces by their glossy black conceptacles wi 
loose sees epidermi ost 
16. M. mirsura R. ‘Br. Prodr. Austral. 167. — Large or made 


co 
subterrestrial form ; leaflets 


¢ 
rf obliquely round-oblong, aed rt wutsre nearly ee 
1 6th to 1-5th in. long, persistently tomentose, unbordered; bas 
obscure. Sori about 15. M 
Hab. North Australia, Queensland, and N. 8. Wales. 4. 
exarata A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1870, 782, is a wide ecm pai 
terrestrial form, with leaves and fruits in dense tufts at the distan 
nodes, and small silky leaflets of firm te 
17. M. vintosa Kaulf. Enum, Fil. 279. ee iiiadie- sized or large, 
subterrestrial or aquatic, with deltoid leaflets, with rounded entire 
outer border, thinly silky, except in the aquatic. Pedicel short, 
solitary, erect, adnate to the upper part of the base of the oes 
wer, Conceptacle Tae Ee pevaeeny 7 silky, rary 
1-5th in. long, one-fifth longer than broad; basal teeth pro- 
ainesk the upper ane hooked, ty =e separated by Ps sce acute 
sinus. Sori about 
ge *Sandvih Islands. Very near M. vestita. 
. & Grev, Ic, Fil. t, 159. — Subterrestrial, 


SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 279 


tufted or wide- -creeping. Petiole 1-6 in. long; leaflets deltoid, 
¢ 


¢ e to 
the upper part of the base of the conceptacle. Conceptacles ets 
zontal, round-oblong, persistently tomentose, unbordered, 1-6th t 
1-5th in. long; basal teeth prominent. Sori about 15 
Var. M. mucronata Bs Br, in Sillim. Journ. ser. 2, iii. 55. 
Leatlets and conceptacles less niles Pedicels short. — M. brevipes 


Var. M. uncinata A. Br. in Flora, 1839, 300. — More robust. 
Bodice! often longer than the pid of which the basal teeth 
are very Banues t, the upper one hooked. Sori 20-24. 

H British Columbia, Bary ee and ‘Western United States 
down to Texas, New ae ae and Mex 

19. mexicana A, Br. in Berl. csiten 1870, 747.—Middle- 
sized, subterrestrial, with eee and pedicels clustered at the con- 
oo nodes. Petiole 1-4 in.; ; leaflets deltoid, slightly silky, 

: i und 


the conceptacle. Conceptacle round-oblong, horizontal, 4 in. 

long, perneney tomentose, a wh basal teeth none or very 
—18 

Hab. In " Mexioe, near Talisco, Beechey! San Luis Potosi, 
Parry é Palmer 1010! 

20, rnEsti A, Br, in Berl. Monatber. 1870, 746.—M. striata 

Ernst, non Mett. — Aquatic or subterrestrial, middle-sized, with 


ab, Caracas: Ernst 

21. M. concinna, n. sp. — Subaquatic, wide- trailing, small or 
middle-sized. Petiole £ 1h i in. ; leaflets deltoid, glabrous or slightly 

) ntire. Pedicels 
solitary, erect, 4-4 in. long, inserted in the middle of the base of 
the concepta tacle. “ Conceptacle obl Ong posinouie’ 3 in. long, per- 
sistently tomentose, unbordered, without Sori about 10. 

Hab. Paraguay, in in marshes near oe Koes ide ‘Balansa 1127 ! 

22. M. Burcuenun A. a, in Berl. Monatber. 1863, 429. — M. 
pumila E. Meyer. — M. pusilla A. Br. — M. minuta and filiformis 
Burch. — Subterrestrial Ge or uate, wide- trailing, the former (M. 


4 
of it horizontal, nearly square, 
1-12th in. diam., persisten ently to mentose, unbordered; upper basal 


tooth distinct ; lower obsolete. 
Hab. Cape Colony, as far north as the Transvaal. 


280 SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPEX. 


. M. smosa Willd. Sp. Plant. v. 540. — M. glomerata Presl. 
— se rome estrial or aquatic, wide-trailing, the former minute, with 
petioles 4-1 in. and silky leaflets 3-4 “in. long; the latter with 
glabrous leaflets 4 nis, long and broad; the leaflets in both states 
deltoid, with a deeply-lobed outer edge. Pedicels solitary, erect, 
about as long as the conceptacle, adnate to its base. Conceptacle 
nearly square, horizontal, i. 12th in. long, aecregam silky ; upper 
basal tooth distinct, — obscure. Sori 
og Cape Colo 
oh APENSIS . Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1868, 428.—Middle- 
cel ¢ or subterrestrial. Petioles reach 4 ft. long; leaflets 
deltoid, thinly silky or glabrous, }-} in. long; outer edge entire or 
emarginate. Pedicels solitary, erect, 4-4 in. long, adnate to he 


Bab: —* Colony. M. villosa Burchell MSS., ae which the 
fruit is unknown, differs by its densely silky leaves, and nodes 
furnished with ond buds densely coated with japagaois shining 
— palex. 

. M. macrocarpa co in Abh. Bohm. — Wiss. iii. 580.— 


M. Delian A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1863, — Large, wide- 
trailing, aquatic, glabrous. Petiole }-1 ft.; ‘oaflets deltoid, 3-2 in. 
long and broad; outer edge entire or crenate. Pedicels solitary, 


erect, 4-1 in. long, adnate to nearly the whole base of the con- 
ceptacle. Conceptacle horizontal, oblong-quadrate, persistently 
a + in. long, unbordered; basal teeth obsolete. Sori 
about 2 

Hab. Cape Colony and Natal. 

. rorunpata A. Br. in Kuhn Fil. Afric. 200. — Aquatic, 
glabrous, Params wide-creeping. Petiole reaching 4 ft. ; leaflets 
deltoid, 3 . long; outer edge rounded and entire. ‘Pedicels 
solitary, e r spreading, about 4 in. long, adnate to the base of 
the soeapencia Conceptacle round-oblong, horizontal or obliquely 
ascending, 4 in. long, unbordered, Pea aR or slightly silky; 
basal teeth very obscure. Sori about 

Hab. Angola, in the alien sacle: region of the province of 
— leper Sage Very near the Cape M. macrocarpa. 
» M. eprieur; A. Br. in Flora, 1889, 801.— 
Habit’ of sey jukicehnsa | leaflets large, with a rounded < 
outer edge. Pedicel solitary, deflexed, 2-8 times as long the 


SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 281 


adnate to its base. Conceptacle oblong, unbordered, oblique, 
ascending or deflexed, 1-6th to 1-5th in. long; upper tooth distinct, 
lower obscure. Sori about 15. 

Hab. Central Africa, in Bongo- -land, Schweinfurth 2147 ! 

29. GymMnocarPA Leprieur; A. Br. in Flora, 1839, 300.— 
M. léocarpa Bory MSS. — Habit of M. nubica. Leaflets narrowly 
deltoid, nearly glabrous; outer edge rounded, entire. Pedicels 
solitary, erect, brownish, rather Mahone = the poor pers — 
to its base. Conceptacle nearly square, } in. di much 
rg aca glabrous baat’ bla ck, ‘atthe’ a rape outer 


ri 
Sen on, Leprieur, Perottet. Differs mainly from ™. - 
i by its rh pedicel. 
[. ca Willd. Sp. v. 540; Delile, Fl. Egypt. 253, t. 50. 
sBabtexciateiat ot or "aquatic, very variabl ize. Petiole in the 
aquatic form }~1 ft.; leaflets deltoid, }-} in. long, entire ; in 


silky, deeply crenate on the r edge. Pedicels solitary, erect, 
+-4 in. long, adnate to the wes Tass of the pare yore which is 
horizontal, nearly square, 1-12th to 1-10th in. long ally silky, 


not bordered, with the — corner of the oe evdase into an 
obscure tooth, Sori about 6 
re wees Egypt and ‘Astracan 
condensata, n. sp. — Subterrestrial, middle- we 
ion tufted: ” Petioles ‘$14 in. lon he ere deltoid, firm i 
texture, thinly silky, }-4 in. long, crenate on cn outer edge. 
Pedicels in a "tuft with the leaves, free to “the base, 3-} in. Hrd 


stiffly erect, adnat the whole base of the oe on- 
ceptacle horizontal, suborbicular, a silky, unbordered, : in. 
long; basal teeth none or elie obscure. Sori about 10. 

H Herb. 


e, el 
ApRaTA A. Br. in n Berl. oe Sg 745.—Small, 
- leaflets deltoid, 


4 in. 
ese: Pedhects ferer erect, a 


= Babe Borneo, Low! — near M. egyptia 
in Linnea, XXV. 721. —M. macropus 


Nardu, macra, oxaloides, and hirsutissima A. 
1870, 784739. — Large, subterrestrial or aquatic. Petiole o 

ial forms; leaflets deltoid, fom 
silky, 4-2 in. long; outer edge rounded, entire or crenate. Pedicels 
1-2 in. long, stiffly erect, adnat 
the conceptacle. Coneeptacles oblique 
the dorsal suture Snes straight, }-} in. long, 
cuspidate, with a pair of small teeth at the upper corn 

Sori 15-20." 


282 SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 


. M. Muelleri A. Br. in Linnea, xxv. 721. — M. salvatria 
Hanstéin. — ee more regularly oblong, the dorsal suture 
more rounde 

Var. M. elata A. Br. in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol 1867, App. 3.— 
Conceptacle erect with a pedicel 24~3 in. long. 

Hab. ntral and oo Australia. 

85. M. vena 1 A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1870, 747. — Very 
near M. mexicana. Leaflets ia and gla —_ Pedicels longer, 
curved, decumbent, sometimes twice as long as the conceptacle, 
adnate to the upper part of its base. Concdnhadle oblong, per- 
pegs tomentose, 1-5th in. long; basal teeth obscure. Sori 


“Heb. St. Me Lop ans she a ro. 

34, M. mutica Mett. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, xv. 88.—Aquatic, 
middle-sized, wide- iseapiing. Petiole 6-8 i in. long; leaflets deltoid, 
glabrous, 4 in. long; outer edge rounded, entire. Pedicels solitary, 
ascending, }-} in. long, foscotly at all adnate to the base of the 
conceptacle, i inserted at its lower corner. Conceptacle poninandak 
unbordered, glabrescent, ra in. long, obovoid-oblong ; basal teeth 

obsolete. — about 

ab. New Caledonia, Vieillard 1698! We have aquatic forms 
of similar habit, but without fruit, from Tahiti and Fiji, and 
another from New so ona with entire leaflets 13-14 in. long 
and broad. 

M. ancytoropa A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1863, 484.— 

Wide-tr trailing, middle-sized or large, aquatic or subterrestrial, the 
latter with leaves rather silky. Petiole 1-4 in.; leaflets Siete 
rea in. long road; outer border comand and en 
Pedicels solitany, abruptly deflezod 1-6th to 1-5th in. long, oanie 
to the middle of the base of the cone eptacle. Conceptacle obovoid- 
globose, unbordered, tomentose, 1-5th in . long ; basal teeth none 
or very indistinct. Sori about 20. 

ab. Marshes in Ecuador, near Guayaquil, Jameson 894! 
Spruce 6550! 

37. coromanDELIcA Burm. Fl. Ind. tab. 62, fig. 8.— M. 

coromandeliana Willd. Sp. Plant. v. 589.— M. minuta var. coroman- 

deliana Tin Mant. 308.—Small, — or subterrestrial, glabrous 
in ts. Petiole 4-8 in. long ; leaflets deltoid, 1-12th to. 
1-8rd in. long; outer edge rounded, entire, Pedicel s $-} in. long, 
free, filiform, erect, inserted in the middle of the base of the eon- 
ceptacle. Coneeptacle oblong, meek 4 in, long, cay -mneaer3 secmel 
and grooved e face ; basal teeth distinct. Sori 

Hab. Plai sf Penivadas he a, and discovered Abhi by 
Dr. I. B. Balfour in Socotra. Species 87-40 differ from all the 
other species by having pellucid streaks in the areole of the 

8 their long diamete 


Small, er i ra, ‘ea ree 

e-trailing, glabrous. Petiole 1- ° 
long ; leaflets deltoid, about 3 in, anit outer “= ayer and 
mae, ous ar: very mers ascending, wee! in. long, 


SHORT NOTES. 2838 


ine oblong distinctly-bordered conceptacle, which is 1-12th to 
1-8th in. long, distinctly grooved across ie faces, and furnished 
at the base with two obscure teeth. Sori 

Hab. Se epauel, Hawieles 548! Very near the Asiatic M. coro- 
mandelica, from w it differs by its smaller conceptacles, broader 
in proportion to their length, and less distinct basal teeth. 

39. M. muscorpes Leprieur; A. Br. in Flora, 1889, 300, — M. 
ieseaiaila Welw. MSS. —- Minute, subterrestrial, wide-trai iling. 
Petiole Alt slender, 1-14 in. long; leaflets deltoid, glabrous, 

2 ) : : : 


distinctly-bordered erect round-oblong glabrous conceptacle, which 
is distinctly grooved across J sides, ‘and furnished at the base with 
two minute teeth. 

Hab. Senegal, Levit ieur. " Angola, Welwitsch 109! 175! Closely 
allied to the two preceding species. 

40. M. pisrorta A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1863, 433.— Middle- 
sized. Leaflets deltoid, glabrous, crenulate on the outer edge. 
Pedicel 24-8 times as long as s the conceptacle, very shortly adnate 
to its base, solitary, slender, spreading or deflexed, flexuose, 

ti 


Senegal, Lelievre, grit 
(To be <a eed | 


SHORT NOTES. 
Surrotk Mosses.—I have to make one or two ee athe and 
additions to the list I nes (Journ. Bot. 1885, 811), sup- 
plementing the Rey. E. N. Bloomfield’s list. Or hates tenellum 


it cannot be considered as recorded. I have also to a 

luridus, on stones, Dunwich; and Pottia crinita, san oaks 

Southwold, named for me by Mr. E. M. Holmes. My "parbula 

papillosa must not be looked upon as the first record for the county, 
e Rey. E. N. Bloomfield has since found specimens existing in 

the barbara of -Sir Charles Bunbury. I may add that ig 

ee has piece Campylopus paradoxus from Walbers 

ick,—H. N. Dix 


W I wish to record a variation which I 


ABN 
have ciate in a “specimen of Stachys sylvatica. All the flowers 
are sessile except those of one whorl, which are supported on two 
pedicels, one in the axil of each bract. One pedicel supports six 
flowers, the other three. The middle flower of the three i 


284 SHORT NOTES. 


aller than usual. The corolla is of the ordinary colour, the 
anterior part being variegated with white. The calyx has the 
usual number of teeth, and the ovary, style and stigma are normal. 
All the other flowers on the plant are normal. The bract in the 
axil of which the abnormal flower occurs is very large, pee 


just five inches in length, exclusive of the petiole.—Arrnur W. 
Harrison, 


Peoria in Opurys arirera Huds.—Last year my friend Mr. T. 
Colgate, Jun., of Glynde, kindly directed me to a spot on the chalk 
downs near this town, where he had met with a very curious 
variety of the bee orchis. On visiting the locality I succeeded in 
obtai r three specimens and left ot 


the typical lip, and of a rose colour, of exactly the same tint as 
the sepals. This gives the flower a most unusual aspect. the 


t'elo ving been observed in Ophrys aranifera. 1 am 
inclined to think the form is-transmitted by seed, as from enquiries 
I have made I believe it has been known in this locality for some 

ears. With it grows very luxuriant typical Ophrys apifera, also a 
form in which the lip—of the typical form — is unicolorous brown 
instead of being variegated with yellow. This I have not myself 
seen elsewhere.—J. H. A. Jennen. 

LYMUS NakIus In Soura Winrs. —I have this summer 
found a large patch (some five or six yards square) of Elymus 
Grenarws on the edge of the sandy cliff between Bournemouth and 

si : 


on the authority of “ Miss Filmore” from “ Exmouth Sands”; but I 
= for it there in vain in 1877. So, in the ‘ Flora of Dorset- 


narvon iv 
ip ge for it. It has also been reported from North Somerset, but 
- do not know on what authority —W. Moyne Roczrs. 

_ Potyropium 
this fern growing near ade, on a 
London and North-western Railway last May. It had not been 


CATALOGUE OF PALHOZOIC PLANTS. — 285 


Lycopopium cuavatum L. w Nor ime. — It may be 
worth while to record ‘os finding of this Solidi on niklateail Heath, 
Northamptonshire, as it is the first time it has been ~— in the 
county. ~ + cone of the spot is not more than 3800 ft.— 
H. N. Dix 

Hazen LBIDA IN Brecon.—I have to record the occurrence 
of this silane in the county of Brecon. Several fine specimens 
e Re M. 


near Hereford. It is ony recorded i in Top. Bot. for the county on 
the Fae of ‘‘ Wilmott.”——-H. N. B 
Rate or Increase oF tae Rines. —I do not know whether 
any one has ever made observations upon the rate at which “ Fairy 
Rings” increase. The followi ng observation, however, may be of 
t the ured two rin 


~ 


again. In the nine years’ interval oie has increased from 103 ft. 
in diameter to 19 ft., or about 11 in. per year; the other has 


in 
each case. Iam unable to say what species of fungus causes the 
rings in question, as I never observed any growing upon them, but 
I ae presume the species to be Marasmius oreades.—MILLER 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Catalogue of the Paleozoic Plants in the Department of Geology and 
Paleon ag British Malewie Natal History). By Rosert 
s London, 
Tue Trus igs and Mr. Kidston are ‘alike to be congratulated o 
the completion of an extensive and valuable piece ei work, whieh 
oc e 


y : 
of the work some idea may se aipeer’ from the fact that, while 


of the i scm dating fi ies 1841, and ‘that of Bornia, W 


2g 
E 
2 
Sy 
Lar | 
=I 
Qu 
2 
wm 
a 
5B 
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a 
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ae 
BER BE 
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only from 1862, suggests some serious reflections as to the laws— 
or lawlessness ?—of er peanecn in Paleo phyto: ogy. 

till more serious, how: t 
the specific names and esthetics quoted therefor. In his ise. 
duction Mr. Kidston says that he has adopted the ol 
but his usage, which we venture to stigmatise as vicious, may nro 


aovramming 


286 CATALOGUE OF PALEHOZOIC PLANTS. 


be illustrated by examples. On P a a Calamites decoratus 


Hichwald, sp.; C. striatus Cotta d Arthropitys bistriata 
Cotta, sp. The first of these stivon: nae described by Hichwald in 
1860 as Hquisetites decoratus, and, under the name it bears here, by 


Schimper in 1869; it is, theref ore, C. decratus Schimper. ae 


also named Calamites Co fers by Stern bee if, t ther oe bE is a 
true Calieien its name is C. Cotteanus Sternberg, and C. striatus 

Kidston’’ becomes an eaten synonym. In 1832 also 
Cotta described Calamitea bistriata, which was not cap at to 


founded by Gippert, whose authority the name shoul 
This blemish affects a considerable number of the specific ane. 
so that, in addition to three professedly new names, Byki 
Scotica, Lepidophloios Seoticus, and Bythotrephis divaricata, all o 

“ Kidston,” here first described, the following twenty-four pou 
also apparently be quoted on the same ig —Voltzia peas 
“‘Genitz, sp.” [sic]; Calamites varians, var. cruciatus ‘‘ Sternberg, 
ab : Sphenophyllum nee var. sacifragafolinm ‘‘ Brongniart”’ ; 
Sph enopteridium Plantianu ‘« Carruthers, sp.”’; Rhacopteris flabel- 
lata ‘* Tate, sp.” ; Calymmatotheca afinis and C. bifida ‘ Lindley & 


Sig 

ruthers, sp.”; S. aquensis wensis “ Kon age poem obovatus “‘ Car- 
ru rs, sp.”’; Cardi eae y; sp.’ re oF Lindleyt 
“Carruthers”; C. anomalus i Mace. i; pe ds preter Kiinss- 

bergit * Gutbie er, . ”; Palaoxyris helicteroides ‘* Morris, sp.’ 
Asteroc alamites sevobiculates ** Schlotheim, sp.”; Calamocladus 

acicularis ‘* Dawson, sp.”; nse Sgt curtiloba ‘* Dawson, sp.’ 
Pa aleopteris Rogersi, P,. Gaspien P. Brownii, and Ara ueari- 
Ouangondianum, attributed to the same authority, and 


niutabitie are two us. names, which the cated: following. sn 
undesirable agen accepts pe om Baron von Ettin tingsha ausen. It 
is perhaps a pity that such names as Permica and Scotica should 
be with initial capitals; but the most heinous offences 
against 3 generally -acoepted laws are the names assigned to the five 
foll plumosa * Artis, sp.’ secemepies tt 
crispum * Gutbier, sp.” ; Sigillaria discophora «Konig, sp.”; Lepi 
strobus anthemis énig, sp-; and Annularia latifolia «Dawson, 
sp. Of these the first was named, in 1825, by Artis, in Pe 
Antediluvian Phytology,’ Filicites Saioded: but in 1 
referred by Zeiller to his new genus Dactylotheca, with the speci 
name Ps sig ow 4eiller was not bound to adopt the name 


— giaeophyllum lactuca of Schimper * (1869) should i been left so; 
a Sgann: diesophore ‘* Konig, sp.” should be S. Preuiana Romer 


SHORT NOTICES. 287 


(1862) ; Lepidostrobus anthemis “ Konig, i a Sager be L. radians 
Schimper ; and Annularia latifolia *‘ Dawson, sp.” should be A. 
Dawsoni Schimper. Perhaps the worst pomibls form of name is 
Stachannularia (Br wena tuberculata Sternb. sp. (p. 56), for S. 
tuberculata Weiss (1876); and surely Psilophyton must be neuter, 

so that P. Dechenianum Canrathe ers (1878) must be preferable to 
P. Dechenianus ‘‘ Géppert, sp.” The classification employed is 
only liable to slight sii Pa in the placing of perasnee ie between 
Equisetacee and Filicacea, for the subordination of Lycopodiacea to 
the latter class on p. 231 is obviously only one of she ted 
ee of typographical errors which there are in the w 

may be interesting to the too paige class of bolaniels 

who neglect — —- to note her ibes under whic 
Paleozoic Ferns are grouped. ~ are six: Sphenopteridee, 
se agdren Ne Sivegeertace: Odontopteridea, Pecopteridea, and 
Bsr die jee 


iadibtinen ts that we are oblivious of the very jade ee value 
of the work. The critical discussion of such ig ee as = bark of 
Subsahines, seca heterophylla, Ulodendron, Trig rpus, and 
Psilophyton see co to be as judicious as it is “atatodsail Is it too 
much to hope that we may some day have a chou Paleozoic 
Descriptive Flora on the lines of this Catalogue ? 
G. S. Bounerr. 


Messrs. Swan Sonnenscuein & Co. were not well advised when 
they bound three of their little Penny Collector's Handy-books 
into a shilling volume, the bulk of which is swelled by a catalogue 


e a fe 
and the fottennecse will hardly add to the author's credit. We 
have no evidence that “ parasitic species are most abundant as a 
rule on plants of weak vitality ;”’ and although we demur to the 
Suggestion that = ree should be ‘“ sinned alphabetically *s 
drawers,’ such an angement would be at least as useful as t 
antiquated alkentestion given. Mr. Peter Gray has written ae 
account of the Lichens, which forms the second book ; this 
contains a great deal of varied sisformiations, but the bibliography 
is extremely unsatisfactory. The third book, ‘‘ Mosses, Scale- 
mosses, and Liverworts,’ is also by Mr. Gray: but this is for the 
most part rendered unnecessary by Mr. Bagnall’s excellent little 
book, already noticed in these pages, issued by the same firm 


w Booxs. — F. Worn “Dis Pflanzen im alten Aigypten’ 
ips, Friedrich 8vo, sits 946, 74 ‘itt. _-H. Frayks, ‘ Flora 

eren Umgebung der Stadt Dortmund’ (Dortmund : 8vo, 

Pp. ix..149).—-M. Da inane d easaeanials y civil de las tas 


288 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


de la peninsula Hispano-Lusitana é islas ae (Tom. ii., Calici- 
Soran 8vo, pp. 642 (Madrid). — J. D. Hooxs Flora = "British 

dia,’ part xiii., Sie edi as Deieacaserne). — Kh. Buorriire, 
: ore anatomique de la eee des icmsiceenneas ” (Paris, 
Goupy : pp. 69, tt. 2).—D. Me pee : hepee Histories of 
Planta’ ( pa OE 8vo, pp. gre 109 fi 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 

Bot. Centralblatt (Nos. 35, 36). — V. Schiffner, ‘ Observationes 
de exoticus quibusdam Hepaticis’ (Lejeunea repanda, L. perforata, 
Phragmicoma Haenkeana, P. Se al Riella Battandieri Trabut, 
spp.nn.; 1 plate), — (No. 8 6). . Nathorst, ‘ Uber das frihere 
Vorkommen der Trapa natans.’ 

Bot. Zeitung (July 2 3).— W. Wahrilich, ‘ Beitrag zur Kenntnis 
der Shomer oe aren — (July 30 W. Detmer, ‘ Ucher 
zerstorung olekularstructur des Proto lasma der Pflanzen- 

en. pared 3 18, 20, 27). F. cana ‘Zur "Entwickelungs- 
venti endospermatischer Gewebekérp 

Bull, Torrey Bot. Club (Aug.). —~ G. Davaatek ‘Fern Notes’ 
(Netholena Pringlei, n. sp. (1 plate). -—- W. Trelease, ‘Nectary of 

Yucca.’—-K. L. Greene, ‘ Californian Polypetala (Streptanthus ews 
S. peramoenus, spp. nn.).—T. Moro ong, Potamogeton Curtisit, sp,n 


mann, ‘ oa zur Kenntniss der pokes der Helosis guayanensis.’ 
Gardeners’ owe en 81). — J. D. Hooker, ‘ Pinus mono- 
phylla’ (fig. 24).—W. G. Smith, ‘ Peronospora arborescens’ (fig. 25). 
—‘ Taxodium rasa y (fig. 28). (Aug. 7). R.A. Rolfe, ‘Revision 
of Phalenopsis.’—(Aug. 13. Dendrobium pogoniates Rehb. f., sp. 2+ 
——(Aug. = Anthurium ete N. BE. oe and 4. Mooreanum 
N. E. B p-nun.— W.G.§ te sf mthosporium echinulatum 
(ie. ‘). ite che 28). Palbophe line sastrocephalum m Rehb. f., Ept- 
drum pristes Rehb. f., vase te9 Foerstermanni Rehb. f., spp. 00. 5 
Batemanniana, n. hyb. (Sophronittis grandiflora x Cattleya 
intermedia). — P, Sewell, : ake and their Work.’ — Selenipedium 
eadatun (fig. 54). 
ourn. R, Microscopical ea (Aug.).—G. Massee, ‘ Structure and 
Evolution ot Floridee’ (1 plate). 
Notarisia (July). —- G. . De Toni & D. Levi, ‘ Primi materiali 
per il Censiment delle Diatomacee Italiene.’ 
terr. Bot. Zeitschrift (August). —- L. Celakovsky, Utricularia 
vo secaat sp. n. — K. Fritsch, ‘Die Rubi Neuseelands’ (R . squar- 
rosus, sp.n.).——C. Sehilbe rsgky, ‘ Zur Teratologie der Gageabluthen’ 
(1 plate). —J. Velenovsky, ‘ Flora von Ost- pune en.’ —— M. Kron- 
feld, ‘Uber Volksthiimliche Pflanzennam — E. Forminek, 
‘Flora der Karpathen’ (contd.). 
_ Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales (May 25).--E. Haviland, ‘ Oidium 
-monilioides,’ - 


inte 


& 


289 


NEW VACCINIACEZ FROM NEW GUINEA. 
By Baron F. von Muetzer, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.8., &e. 
CATANTHERA, nov. gen.—Calyx almost bell-shaped, at the 


margin entire. Petals four, quite disconnected, nearly lanceolate, 
gradually narrowed upwards, rounded towards the somewhat 


before expansion, never much reflected, tardily dropping. Sta 


viated, almost menting Pollen — smooth, free or easily 
Separating. Style filiform. Stigma convex, not broader than the 
summit of the style. Ovary deeply inclosed, adnate to the ba 

eeson, of the paler four-celled; ovaries very numerous on aes 


di 
am near the base; si seb: He from the leafless re dah of the 
preceding year bearing simple or ‘muses compo bels ; 
Petals bright sk forming a pointed cone before expansion, often 

united when falling away. 

Catanthera lysipetala, oP unica. ee Sogere, near the 
Southern base of the Owen Stanley Ran Oe Forbes (419, 
451). Branches robust. Pe tioles eda? as in. long. sagen 


long, n ot angular, membranous at their expanding limb. 

P etals — in. See, overlapping also at a base, quite free from 
each other. Anthers never turning upwar ds, closely pepresned, all 
i —5th in. long, 


3-1 in. long, s t, but at last curved dae: ‘slightly 
thicker towards apa the middle. Disk from the base of the 
JournaL or Borany.—Vou. 25. [Ocr., 1886.] U 


290 NEW VACOINIACEZ FROM NEW GUINEA. 


calyx-limb descending to the summit of the ovary, minutely crenu- 
lated at the edge, finely we distantly eis downward. Summit 


of ovary convex. Fruit et unknow 

Th bi char Mell lh of ‘etal perfectly separated and 
of anthers continuously completely bent downward, demand for 
this vaccini plant a distinct generic position; the first of 
th ) of distinction brings the genus near Ozycoccos, 
more particularly so as the latter produces likewise only fo 
petals, which, moreover, oO to those of 


extrorsely retroflected prior to the expansion of the flowers, the 
introflection taking place during anthesis; nevertheless, the unique 
haracteristic of arena nary introrse refraction of the anthers 
separates this now established genus from all others of the order, 
and brings the above-mentioned tribal groups i ew and 
ana ge connection, while this new Papuan plant shows by the 
two very distinct fo orms of anthers within the same flower 
approach to the likewise solely Papuan toes create 
gapetes (Dimorphanthera) Forbesii, n. sp. wy : 
a near the base of the Owen Rinnley Range; H. "0. Forbe 
296). — Branchlets robust, somewhat sp: pa Leaves about 
stalked, scattered, ovate- or broad-lanosoln te, short-acuminate, thinly 
we slightly denticulated, 6 to 7 in. long and 2} to 3 in. broad, 


starting from near the base of the leaf, the other from somewhat 
further upwards, at each side of the leaves close to their base @ 
depressed gland. Flowers few or two or rarely one from the a 


in. lo as 
much connate broad but short bracteoles at the base. Calyces 
short-downy, brownish, nearly semi-globular, but cased close 
to the truncated base, at flowering time }-4 in. broad, minutely 
denticulated. Corolla dull-coloured in a dry state, fully an inch 
awed if not longer, of rather thick texture, as downy outside, 


abrous inside, furrowed downward to near the middle, its lo 
five, narrowly se ceolate, several times shorter than the tube, 
inflexed-valvate before expansion, also finally not d 


long as the latter. Filaments flat, membranous, almost glabrous, 
seat Sy preegr sd each other, but really disconnected. hers 
na hairy, the five — obverse- ae of preniae length 


dorsinel, recta edactiogliies a iss base, the connective 
en ; : 


uce i 
proces beyond the anther-cells, the latter opening by a pore-like 
the summit and placed contiguously to the cells of the 
: next large anther; the five smaller anthers also bilocular, but 
ee red bifid’ at the summit, each n cell opening by a se 


ee oe ee 
PIE TSS SEN Sw se a) ee et ea ie ET 


| 
« 


— 


SR Sa ae ae RS 5, ee 


NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 291 


half as = as those of the larger stamens. Style sekey rr in. 


it, 
neither dehiscent nor wr He 5-celle as ; 
stipitate, renate. Seeds very numerous, about "1-16th in. site 
crowded all over the placentas, closely filling the cavities, twice or 
ee longer than broad, somewhat angular, from the convex 
mmit gradually narrowed downward; testa pale brownish, 
fetinulated, shining. 

From the only allied species hitherto known, namely, 4. 
meliphagidum Beccari (Malesia i. 209), the present one is separated 
by shorter petioles, connate bracteoles, not conspicuously five- 
dentate calyces, acute lobes of the corolla, the not obtuse connective 

of the anthers; the fruit of the two may also pro va ir erent. 

A. Moorhousiana (F. y. Muell. in Wing’s 8. Science Record, new 
ser. 11. Feb., 1886) occurs also in Mr. Forbes’s silesiee (764). rt 


the “eae along the branches. The fruit main 

a letter accompanying the above asaceiptions, Baro on von 
Mueller has asked me to compare them with the larger series of 
) 


may be noted that in 
peduncles are poulanelin 2 -6t hi in. long or obsolete, solitary or two 
together, and the bracts ride a solita: tage not deciduous, at the 


base of the lower pedicels, alternate with the connate bracteoles, or 
two at the base of me — topmost pedicels, alternate. Mr. ou orbes’s 
no. = (from sane wish 5000 ft.) also belongs 

1es.— W. Sawdie 


- 


NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 
By H. N. Rotey, M.A., F.L.S. 

Wuen one compares the Orchids at present known from 
Tropical Africa with those of any other tropical region of equal 
extent, it is —- to avoid being struck by the comparative 
city of species to be found in it. Not much more than thirty 


4 


292 NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 


genera are represented, and of these only five are endemic. The 
great deficiency lies in the epiphytic species. This is to be 
explained in part by Ale limited amount of forest-country, at least 

in the best explored parts. The grass plains which form so large a 


whole of the tropical portion of the continent _ be divided into 
three a the Western Forest or Guinea R , the Abyssinian, 
and the Central Region. The first of these contain the bulk o 


the epiphytic species. It has, however, been very little explored, 


and will do ubtless yield many more when further invedioetalil 

n made init. The characteristic genera are Bulbophyllum, 
Meg are ne sed @cum, sg Corymbis. It contains a con- 
si r of g of sap Indian affinities, only repre 


oe 


sp 
C hetrostyla, Pogonia ore section), and Epipogon. Traces of 


elata (the Sierra Leone v y being only distinguished by its 


reddish colour) Teasgcladrs maculae and Cyrtopera Woodfordu. 
4 


e Abyssinian Region is very deficient in epiphytes, a few 
Polystachyas and Angreecums atid the only known species. Bul 
phylium, Megaclinium, and Vanilla are entirely absent. The Nootliags 


OnNER 


a Nae untuM.—The fruit of no species of this eons iecayee to 
have been described. A fruiting specimen of M. ? m Lindl., 
ed by 


in the Herbarium of the British Museum. The capsules are 
se oblong i in outline, with low waved ribs, all equal. They are 
half an inch long and a a quarter of an inch in diameter, and are 
crowned cred the relics of the perianth. 

NEA Exits Rid]., a hitherto known from Madagascar, 
was verse by the Rev. W. HK. Taylor, at Jomvu, in Nyika-lan 
It is called “Ndiko” by the natives, whe by boiling extract from the 
mot which are very numerous, a grey dye used for ornamenting 
ulophia Sracillima, n. sp.—Planta gracillima. Caulis basi 

babes, foliis vaginantibus Pn Files ta gracilia ogee 
acuta 6-8 uncias longa. Seapus erectus 


5 pedalis 
. Racemus biuneialis lusus. Flores parvi cixeiter 15, 4 uncia longi 


NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA.  9o8 


Sepala et petala subsimilia lanceolata obtusa equalia. Labellum 


media ovata seriebus tribus papillarum versus apices incrassatarum. 
t 


acuminata J. uncias 5 
$ uncia longa 3 lata. Labellum trilobum, laciniz laterales breves 
rotundats, media 4 uncia longa, oblonga elliptica obtusa crispula, 
carinis sinuatis parum elevatis 8. Calcar brevissimum conicum. 
Columna crassa. Anthera conica obtusa apice fuscata. 

Jomvu, Rabai Hills, Rev. W. E. Taylor, Jan. 1886. 

- Waxkerretpit 8. Moore & Rchb. f.—Grassy meadows near 
Jomvu and Rabai, flowering in September, and at Rabai, on the 
way to Wandara, in January, 1886, Rev. W. E. Taylor. 

Habenaria eburnea, n. sp.—Tubera 8-uncialia lanata. Folia 


longa et lata. Scapus sesquipeda Bractese membranacex 
ssite lanceolate longe acuminate venos@, ferme unciales. Flores 
plures majuscule albi, pedicellis 4 uncialibus. Sepal ticum 


galeatum lanceolatum cucullatum acuminatum; lateralia reflexa 
obcuneata acuminata obliqua semiuncialia 5- ia. Petala an- 
gusta linearia erecta simplicia. Labellum trilobum basi angusto, la- 
ciniis angustissime linearibus acutis acuminatis circiter uncialibus. 

alcar triunciale filiforme acutum versus apicem attenuatum. 
Anthera acumin brachiis porrectis grandiusculis. Pollini 
aurantiaca pedicellis longis, Ovari 4 uncia longum. 

ery rare; among bushes only; two specimens seen. Flowers 

pure white. Mandra, August, 1854: H. Vogel. 

_H. ceratoprrana Richard, Ann. sc. nat. ser. ii., xiv. 267, t. 
xvi. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 295.—* By the cataract of the River 
Repp, at an elevation of from 7000 to 8000 feet. Gerra Abuna, 
Tekla, two hours east of Gaffat. The flowers have an odour 
of vanilla, and might be used as such.” Abyssinia, Schimper 
“1863-8,” no. 1176. : 

H. leptobrachiata, n. sp.—Tubera bina oblonga. Folia 
radicalia ovata lanceolata recurva, superne in bracteis vaginantibus 
laxis attenuata. Caulis 7 uncialis ad pedalis. Racemus densus 

ultiflorus. Bractew virides ovaria superantes, lanceolate } uncia 
__ longe, 4 uncia late. Flores parvuli. Sepalum posticum galeatum 

_lanceolatum apiculatum apice recurvum parvulum, margini 

_ Giliatis; lateralia lanceolata oblonga obliqua apiculata reflexa, 


294 NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 


guncia longa. Petala bifida, marginibus ciliatis, lacinia postica 
br revis suberecta ae linearis lorata, antica lanceolata nents 
attenuata ferme } uncia longa reflexa. Labellum deflexum tri- 
obum, lobi a ae filiformes, lacinia’media longior F paren 
Calcar ovario subequale pendulum clayatum basi gracile. Anthera 
os galea (flore aperto) haud tecta, brachia tenuissima chews 
ferme m loculis. Stigmata brevia truncata 


8 
i) 

2 
FY 
= 
r= 


s hau 
8500 ft., ss the edges of bushes, Sept. 5, 1863. Schimper, 
o. 132 ge 


. co 2 —Tubera bina ovalia rotundata, demum 
oblonga. Planta b-8 ae alta, validula. Folia dissita inferiora 


lateralibus Sai medio. recto, longiore. Calcar brevissimum 


; teger 
yssinia. Mount Gunna, 10,000 ft. oti sea. Schimper, 
no. 1812. 


_, This seems to be near H. peristyloides Richard Tent, Fl. Abyss. 


hap Sarkatie n. sp. a sepius alta 14-2 se oa Tubera 
etiam plures. validul 


a ovalia, radi 
spdigue foliatus. Folia aie apsooiade cies subacuta 
-(majora) circiter eon uncialis 14 uncias lata, Spy sae cauli arcte 
su 


eee Calcar 4 unciale filiforme, antherm loculi recti, brachia 
brevissima. Lobi stigmatici bini carnosi, ligulati vel sub-bilobi, 


Apparentl y common and most 
dis chi fetes and very variable in Abyssinia. The 


NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 295 


B. parviflora.—Flores 8 minores, in racemo laxiore. Caulis altus, 
foliis asia appressis vaginantibus tectus. Schimper, no. 1292. 
Ds ops Meda meadows, at 8500 feet altitude. 

¢. acutifolia.—Folia subcongesta plicata acuminata subpatula, 
racemo denso. 
chimper ee Mount Gunna, 10,000 ft. above sea, 
Sept. 12, 1868 cee 
he m pied ae were obtained with the preceding on 
Mount ‘hae No. 1838, and at Dewra Tabor, on the mountains, 
1265. 


forms, although at first sight several appear very distinct. The 
short lip, distinct fleshy stigmatic lobes, and long slender ti and 
bracts lon nger t. than ovary, seem good points in which all agre 

ordii, n. sp.—Planta gracilis 9 uncialis. Folia pa 


erecta —— falcata obtusa. Labellum 

+ unciale r filiforme subclavatum pendulum quam ovarium 

brevius. ie arium }unciale. Anthera wets brachia_ gracilia 

eee vel paullulo recurva. Stigmat yaa crassa sub- 
laria truncata, quam anthers brachia ‘brevied 

Boke Leone, ford. 

This plant is allied to and resembles closely H. crocea Schwein- 
furth, but the flowers are larger, Ye lanceolate hada sepals, 
and dittrent — eI lobe 

sp. (Cul 


- Voge trate). eal 2, majuscula globulosa 
Salitaliate, endinds elongate vix lanate. Planta strictim erecta 
bipedalis. Folia angusta lanceolata, stricta acuminata 6-7 uncialia, 
% uncias lata, emus laxus; flores plures albescen 
pedicellati. Bractee lanceolate acute vi unciales, pedicelli 
% Unciales. Sepa sticum erectum breve lanceolatum cucul- 
la teralia reflexa ovario equalia obcuneata obliqua obtusa, 


ua. 
apice uncatula. Petala bifida, lacinie breves lineares lanceolate 
acuminate, postica quam antica paullo longior. Labellum trilobum 
breve vix stylo quale, lacinie anguste lineares obtass media 
i vario 


uatis. “Styli 2 uncia longi press clavato-incrassati 
marshy mountain meadow by Mosa, ial rome 1854. 


KE. Vou, no. 40. 
. socHENsis Reichb. fil. Rabai Hills, Mombaz, Rev. W. E. 


Taylor, —This specimen is rather bigger than the type in Herb. 
—— has a longer leaves. 
olothrix montigena, n. sp. — Tubera bina gran 
oblonga vel ovata. Folium singulum amplexicaule rotation, 
circiter uncia longum et latum basi vaginatum. Scapus rassius- 
culus, semipedalis basi villosus, superne glaber, bracteis ala cbae 


296 ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF SOME PROTEACER. 


lanceolatis acuminatis, } uncia longis dissitis. Racemus pluriflorus 


papillosa, brachia brevia curva. 
yssinia. Gaffat, in dry places half shaded by small bushes, 
at 8400 ft. above the sea. Aug. 28, 1863. ——— no. 1872. 
os PULCHELLA Richard, Tent. Fl. Abys 
wra Tabor, og the mountains among ales: Aug. 12, 1868. 
iuer s o. 131 
I believe that this j is the plant intended by Richard, but I have 
not seen a t e-speci men. He describes the flowers as purpus ; in 
Schimper’s specimens the lateral sepals and lip appear to have been 
of a deep blue-purple, the dorsal sepal and petals of some pale 
colour with purple spots. The bracts sili are purple. e spur is 
rather thicker than it is represented in Richard’s figure 
All the species described are in the British Museum Herbarium. 


ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF SOME PROTEACE. 
By Jamzs oe FE.L.S. 


ames, in “se hope that they may be restored to their 
proper position. 


In 1809 there was published a work, the title-page of which 
runs as follows :—‘ On the Cultivation of Plants belonging to the 
Natoral Order Proteée, with their Generic as well as Specific 

ers, and places where they grow wild. By J neh Knight, 
. ” (4to, pp. xix, 128). Knight had been gardener to George 
Hibben, * M.P., of Clapham, and had then settled in business as @ 


Fun 


Hibbert, Esq., M.P., F.L.S.,a gentleman eminently distinguished 
for his seth of plants and d the liberality of. ‘etalon communications, who pur rehased 


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Botanist ea 136, oe med. n Salisbury’s 
7 £79), a8! was much of the letterpress oF that Work hy Lene 


ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF SOME PROTEACER. 997 


nurseryman in King’s Road, a having acquired Mr. Hibbert’s 
collections as a foundation. as the foundation of the business 
subsequently carried on ae “the ae ont Knight and Perry; 
an ~ , a8 for many years past, by the Messrs. Veitch. 
e no evidence that Kaight had ths slightest claim to be 
Saideny a botanist, and there can be little doubt that the whole 
of the xpos portio n of his work was written by Salisbur 


have been quoted, except Rhebe of R. A. Salisbury, Lea, creo 
manuscripts have been found so useful in every sheet.” From 
internal — it is, I think, clear that this preface was, at any 
rate in great part, written by Salisbury. It is a nice point in 
nomenclature as to whether Saliabarry or Knight should stand as the 
authority for the many species here first published; but it will 
be easy to as that the names a have priority over the 
generally accepted ones of Robert Brown. 

Iam of opinion that — was a tacit understanding on the 
part of the botanical leaders of the period, a ing Brown, 
Banks, and Smith, that Salisbury’ s work and names should as far 
as possible be ignored, not only on account of shai strong antipathy 
to the man himself, but also, in Smith’s case at least, to the views of 
classification which Salisbury promulgated. In the ‘Banksian Cor- 
respondence’ are copies of letters which passed between Smith and 
Salisbury, which were sent by Smith to Banks; as pe as the 


acrimoni 
his views. But this cannot saath the bayettug of his work . 
serio 


ecting his moral character be admitted as accurate, can they be 
held od excuse the wholesale ignoring of his botanical publications, 
regard to the names published in Knight's ‘ Proteex,’ 


pea on ; ec 
private individual” (Knight, ‘Pro — preface, p. ah a he “for many years 
Possessed the most extensive collection of living Proteas that has ever been 
formed” (R. B: in Trans. Linn. ‘oi x. 46). He a elected F.LS., July 


‘Flora Australiensis’ (i. 33), it is treated as a synonym. 
Mueller, however (Census kus Plants, 2), restores it to its place as 
corr nee name of the species. 
* This is, hieatie Pagans Hist. ee Aigner Pa 282), 
who says :—“ This k has ft ‘attributed she Mr. Salis aa Tele os 
—— of Mr. Knight gardener to — as Be of Clapton a P Sos amped a 
Whose oe on of plants he now mee 


298 ON THE NOMENCLATRRE OF SOME PROTEACES. 


the position seems to be as follows. Robert Brown read a paper 
before the Linnean Society, on Jan. 17th, 1809, ‘« On the Proteacer 
of eeaepind which was not published until 1811. Meanwhile, 
during 1809, Knight’s book was issued, containing descriptions of 

Brown in reface 


sentence just quoted was written as a defence against the charge 
scaly he had good — to expect. At any rate, the charge was 


viz., to that point of shameful ea when no al man could be 
found to defend him. I would not speak to him at the prrericcen 
of the Royal Society. pie Brown speaks of the book as “ nimi 
say 20a conscriptus.’ 

Al Brown’s “hat n paper was not published till 1810, 
it oaleltg antedates the ‘ fee as Brown quotes the pages 
of it throughout the Proteacee of that wor . he also cites the 
names grsiry eee book, pre the abbreviation, “Knight et 


canton ad fallen, writ Error sob dubio ortus e acer 
disserta: . Trans., J.c.) malé intellecti, vel memoria 
imperfecta retent D. Salisbury, qui ejusdem coram Societate 
Linnzana lectionem audivit” (Prodr. Dp: Had the paper in 
printed form been accessible to Salisbury, Brown would not thus 
have explained his mi Again, in Knight’s book (p. 110), we 
the name ‘ Josephia, R. Br.,” followed by the remark,—* 

genus, most happily selected by Mr. Robert Brown, to bear the 

t Pa ey at first sight 
somewhat puzzlin no such name appears in the descriptive 


8, 
portion of Brown’s eck, although it is mentioned incidentally in 
the Coosa essay (pp. 22, 81). Salisbury, having only heard 
, Brown, bei 


printed 8 remark on its dedication seems to imply that Brown 

wished to flatter Banks, and wag clearly taken by Brown himself 

in that sense, and resented by him. In the ‘ Pr seteana’ (p. 897 

he writes :-—* Cum dissertatio citata de Proteaceis coram Societate 
ne : 


aioe toric 


ME cy aera A cg Coram Societate Linnean lectionem audivit.”— 
Ss ee eee i, 588, ¢ ‘ Prodromus,’ 391. 


- 


ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF SOME PROTEACER. 299 

It is obvious that—even if the extreme view be urged that the 
reading of the paper before the Linnean Society was a publication 
—the name Josephia must supersede Dryandra. The specific names 


may remain, save in the two following cases :— 


JOSEPHIA ‘“ ha Br.,” ex Knight, 
Prot., 110 (1809). 
J. sessilis Rnieht.* l. ec. 110. 


J. rachidifolia Knight, lie. 214, 
e following are the 


It is no part o 


synonymy of all the species ae ing to th 


Dryanpra R. Br., Prodr., 896, 


in the 
aw of mesaily oie 
be 


ser hs the test of practical use——is to 
urpose to give in 


in full the revised 
e genera in question ; 


I confine myself to those enumerated both by Knight and Brown :— 


Triconpyuus “ Salisb.,’ 
Prot., 121 (1809 
T’. myricafolius Sea lc. 122, 
T’. tinctorius Knight . 
T’. silaifolius Knight, . c. 122. 


’ Knight, 
9). 


I’. ferrugineus Knight, 1. c. 128. 
Rymanpra ‘“ Salisb.,’ "Knight, 
Prot., 124 (1309). 

R. excelsa Knight 


CyBete “ Salisb.,” Knight, Prot., 


C. umbellifera Knight, l. c. 124. 


ce ‘‘Salisb.,” Knight, 
Prot., 126 280) 
H. speciosa a Knig 


SorantHe “ ae ” Knight, 


Lomatia R. Br., Trans. Linn. 
Soc. x. 199 (1810). 

L. longifolia Br., l. c. 200. 

L. tinctoria Br., i 199. 

L, silaifolia Br., fe. log. 

L. ferruginea Br., l. e. 200. 
Knicutza R. Br., Trans. Linn. 
Soe. x. 193 (1810). 

K. excelsa Br., l. c. ot 
Srenocarpus R. 
Linn. Soc. 261 “ieee 
S. Forsteri Br. 
pagina -S = By as Linn. 
197 (1810). 
a. Regt cesta Be., We. 196. 
SorocerHaLus BR. Br., Trans. 
Linn. Soe. x. oe (1810). 
S. Baresi y c. 
S. lanatus 1. c. 4 
S. tenuifolia 1. ¢. 141. 
S. spatalloides 1. c. 141. 


2 va not ‘able t to identify the three oo species given by 


t (8. 
create Hb 
who has made a stady of the genu 


_ S. pinifolia, and with those 
y Brown, but this as no doubt be easy to anyone 


ontana) 


isbury’s genus Paranomus dane on a different footing from 
— published in ‘Proteé,’ having been established by 
‘Paradisus,’ under ¢. 67, published April Ist, 1807. Brown's 


reasons for sng th 


ting the name Nivenia cannot 
he name Paranomus as a synonym, he says :— 


be accepted as 


** This genus is se by Mr. Salisbury; his primary generic 
* T have cited the names as of bese = the example of R. Brown, who 
ve cr 2} i 


quotes them as of ‘‘ Knight & 


800 ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF SOME PROTEACE. 


it appeared t 
tenable ; but Iam disposed to believe that he will, on reconsidering 
the subject, see the propriety of “vers eon, it ; for the irregularity 
or unusual structur ure, which (if I understand him) he says sso! 


perfectly regular, and that too in opposition to some of the most 
nearly related genera, while the great uniformity and regularity of 
inflorescence forms an essential part of its een (Trans. Linn. 
Soc. : 133). Ben tham and Hooker follow Brown, as does Meisner 
in *Prodromus.’ The synonymy of the pee Be so far as those 
published by Salisbury and Brown are concerned, stands thus :— 


Paranomus Salisb., Parad. sub Niven Br., Trans. Linn. Soc. 
t. 67 (1807). x. 183 (1810). 

P. cumuliflorus Salisb.,in Knight, N. ee Br., Trans. Linn. 

, 68 (1809). 


37. 
; sceptriformis Salish., t.c. 69. -N. atria um Br., l. c. 184. 
. — each le. 70. N. spathulata Br., b. &. = 


It is no part of my purpose ~ correlate Salisbury’ s remaining 
apecidl of Pacaniens with Brown’s remaining Nivenias; this will 


Apart from those published in Knight’s work, certain other 
Proteacee must resume the names which were rejected by Brown. 
Such are— 


Hakea gibbosa Cay. Anal. Hist. Nat. i. 215 (1799) = H. pubescens 
Schrad. Sert. i. 27 fhe ), which is quoted by Brown and 


n. ee x: 181, Prod a Schrad. hac 
ake d by Brown and ena 

Sor latifolia Br.* (1810) = B. robur Cav. Io. vi. 29, t. 548 

B, cornet Br.t (1810) = B. premorsa Andr. Repos. t. 258 


_B. emula Br. (1810) = B. serratifolia Salisb. Prod. 51} (1796). 


* “Nomen Cavanillesii mutare coactus fui t 
homilie. quoniam revera frutex es 
+ Pees 3-4 pedalis, vix unquam orgyalis. alis.”” —Br., Prod. 392. 

ld 506 minimé premorsa, falsam nomen mutare itaque non hesitavi.”— 


+ Brown cites this as a — 56 
| “A a sorting rl da but Bentham (FI. Austr. v. 556) 


iiemcneenee en a ee 


301 


SUPPLEMENTUM ENUMERATIONI DIANTHI. 
Avctorz F. N. Wiiutams. 
Vide Journ. Bot. 1885, pp. 840—849. 
. eptcctrat og diutinus = 57. *D. idee ] 


compactus var. Preluciana mihi.—Calyx viridis. Petala 
eae Prope Preluci in ay los a, 1885. 
55. D. collinus var. iggeiety Rupr.—Glaber. Inflorescentia 
florum parvorum fasciculis. mer aA 
117. D. multipunctatus var. Akasa mihi. Anatolia. 


119a. D. brachyanthus Schur. — With difficulty distinguished 
from D. cesius; but is found in the same locality with the latter, 
near Kronstadt in eee beat and appears sufficiently distinct. 
Not gi be confounded with Boissier’s homonym. 
130. D. alpinus, var. Semenovii Reg. et Herd. Enum. pl. 
Semenov. ii. 5.—Dense cespitosus. Bracte 6. Prope Alatan. 
142. D. ruthenicus.—On rey eon not satisfactorily ay 


copied into various Russian floras and most probably = 
versicolor] 
(172. D. Levieri = D. liburnicus x D. sylvestris genuinus Wulf.]. 
190a. D. angolensis, Hiern ms., sp. nov. —Glaber. Caules 
centim., teretes, ramosi, Pysrs Folia lanceolato-linearia, 
adpressa ; radicalia 60-65 m 5-nervia, caulinia 50-55 mm., 
8-nervia ; vaginis quibus ‘npetaiie ltitadinem sequante. Flores 
racemis laxis nee sepius subsolitarii. Bractee 6-8 ovate, ad }$ 


calycis longitudinem acuminate, adpresse. Calyx dentibus lanceo- 
latis acutis. ee obovata, dentata. Prope Caconda sub. lat. 
14° mer. au ul., 
aD. holopetalus, specie capensi, caulibus semper glabris 

téritbusqae. floribus plerumque racemis laxis, a interdum 8, 
calyce dentibus brevibus, petalis dentalis longioribu 

. D. leucopheus var. macropetalon Clem —Tehiathef, Asie 
Min. i. 220. Petala laticha:, supra purpurea, infra palli 


ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON, ESPECIALLY AS 
AFFECTED BY CLIMATE.* 


By Henry Truoven, M.B., F.L.S. 
giving a brief account of the flora of the tropical island of 


( hi Pores 
ordinary traveller, “Ceylon” means but a : ton of "ihe island, 
that portion which occupies the south-west, and forms considerably 


* Read at the Meeting of the British Association, Section D, on Sept. 4th, 1886. 


802 ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 


less than a quarter of the whole country. It is here that are situated 
the ports of Colombo and of Galle, the beautifully-placed town o: 
Kandy, the sacred mountain of Adam’s Peak, the sanitarium of 
Nuwara Eliya coe the hill-districts where the European i 
have their hou and the whole railway-system. This is the 
neh of the English capitalist and planter, of the poet a the 
tourist; it is a rich sunny land, with perpetual ne unfai 
streams, and a teeming popula big: to whom life is ea: Nature 
untiful. But there is another and a larger Ceylon, “Tittle thought 
about in ro ear but comprising the whole north and east, an 
parts of the centre and west of the island. There the country is 
thickly covered with sombre jungle, population is sparse, and culti- 
vation is in most parts scanty and dependent on artificial irrigation. 


extend across the whole island that the remains of the hcaioak cities of 
the past are situated, whose gigantic and imposin half-burie 


sportsman, naturalist, or antiquarian, visit this country, but in an 
else account of the island it soko receive due consideration. 

g differences in these two Ceylons are due entirely to 
climate, aia especially to rainfall. The distribution of rainfall, as 
shown by the number of inches falling annually, is exhibited in the 
map on the wall by various shades of blue coloration, and you must 
at once be struck with the marked inj coe of the 8. W. esr 
of which I have spoken, over the rest of the island. 
explained by the conformation of the country ; the lofty Miler: 
escarpment of the mountain mass rises to over 7000 ft. (and there 


influence on fertility, especially in tropical countries; and in this 
favoured _ there are e rarely any long — — “a A 


n the remainder of the island the case is widely different ; the 

south-west monsoon, which so blesses the gcidcotieapap Pp f 

Ceylon, is now emptied of its moistur ure, and es a 
e 


ay 


— the Western Province and the hill-country are saturated, a 
ng drought prevails seh ig and usually atari until 
of the N.E. Octob This wind brings 
oo) rain we die whole island ; eae is no escarpment of the mountain 

plateau in in that direction, and during the three or four months that 


ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 808 


it blows all parts of Ceylon obtain more or less abundant rain. In 
many parts, however, of the north-west and east it all falls sen 
a very short period, and the rest of the year is dry; thus, — 
the annual amount appears at a pretty good figure, it is not pro- 
portionally beneficial, sa country being completely under water for 
a few ee 8, and par with drought for the remainder of the 


differences, abruptly separated and caused es the chain of the 
Western Ghauts, which terminates at Cape 
We shall now be prepared, if we ie ae aa ton of Ceylon, to 
find a great difference in the vegetable prose of these strongly 
ah oe climatic districts ; and “his i is in fact the case 
et us first examine =: Ba the general care of the vegeta- 
To anyone unfamiliar with —_ 
vegetation the first i impressions of the towns of Colombo or G 
and their surroundings are those of surprise and admiration. The 
predominance of Babee: the Coconut being of course pre-eminent ; 
but the smaller and perhaps more beautiful Areca-nut Palm, and 
the feathery Jaggery or Kitul Palm (Caryota wrens), almost , ar 
abundant, is characteristic; and scarcely less so are the of 
ed boo 


e-trees (I 
anew duel gs kc scleaeh, creepers gr noes Bite wn tl 
Ipomaas, &¢.). It is, however, of course scarcely necessary to say 
here that by far the greater part of the trees and shrubs which pro- 
duce all this splendour are not natives = ——- at all. ae is 


ne asks an observant peer oy of this ss to mention the sa0% 
eoontese trees or shrubs of Ceylon, he = probably give you 
a list three-quarters of which are foreigners, and at least one-half 


0 t r familiar the Bu ’ 
Guava, the Country Almond (Zerminalia lotions , the ing 
rrhoda Bilimbi), & amarind, and the Laie ge 


Pa n. No dou "very ancient saat ae a as ape og 
from India and the Areca Palm from the Malay Peninsula; but 


804 ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 


many are much more recent and from the West Indies or Tropical 
America. And here the trees commonly found ses the Buddhist 


ey t 

are mostly of foreign origin. Of these the most fnrni liar is the Bo- 
- tree (Ficus religiosa), an object of veneration in itself as being the 
tree under which, sitting in og eR Siddartha attained 
Buddha-hood. I have never seen a tree of this in a situation 
which suggested nativity, and it is ‘inti that the anviads tree at 
Anurdhapura brought from India s.c. 288, and still visited by 
thousands of devotees, is the parent of all the trees i in Ceylon The 
presentation of flowers on the altars being a prominent part of the 
simple worship of the Buddhist, most of the trees punted round 
the temples are such as afford suitable blossoms, yellow or white in 

colour, and by choice sweet-scented. these f bear aia 
is the most familiar, and is universally known as the ‘ Temple 


P 
guese, but I have not met with any record oe this. The flower 
have a delicious if rather asic am odour; the tree never pro- 
duces seed in Ceylon. Another loniies: tree in the temple 
sere is acini Gossypium with very brilliant yellow 
flowers, no doubt an intr roduction from India. The common —— 


Thunbergia alata, the gSorgh r white vinta rosea, the Allamanda, and 
a hundred others, prominent among which is the “ubiquitous 
Fanti from the W. Indies, and a fine Sunflower from Mexi 
Serato diversifolia). All are foreign and by far the greater vat 
from the New World, and many introduced quite recently. This 


the effect of causing a very “uniform character in the ae of 


species able to compete with those ce hebitente of open 
country and plains, which, when once introduced, are thus able to 
rete without hindrance. The rapidity with which some useful or 


is very s e Portuguese came first to Java in 1496, 
four years after the discovery of ge ; and to Ceylon in 1506. 
In 1520 sailed direct from §. America to the a 


American plants were at once S iodn ced there, and it was 
_ these islands that the other Hastern Tropics obtained many of the 
= ed vo oe 

ot be — to say much more about these exotic 


A NEW AMORPHOPHALLUS FROM GAMBIA. B05 


species, which must of course be left out of account in considering 
the real flora of the country. It is chiefly in this low moist district 
that they are so frequent. No doubt the whole of this part of Ceylon 


Coco-nuts, the Bread-fruits and ey and pees by the con- 
spicuous white floral-leaves of the Kakuna (Aleurites triloba), 
(originally native to the Pacific Isles), and much grown for its oil, 

which, however, kerosine is rapidly supplanting. Other orna- 
ick trees, often seen in the villages and looking like natives, 

are the Cananga odorata, or Tlang-ilang tree, and the Champak or 
Sapu (Michelia Champaca), both with delightfully fragrant yellow 
blossoms. It is in such villages also that the magnificent Talipot 
Palm sed ypha umbraculifera) is usually Ae surely the as st 
of the whole Palm-family. It is very difficult to decide whether or 
no this is native to Ceylon. From he one would say it was 
not so, as it is now never found in truly wild forest, and is in fact 
usually planted, the leaves being greatly used for coverings of all 


conditions ; and I am inclined to consider it as an originally native 
inhabitant of some of our low- country forests, possibly local and 
rare, which has been preserved from extinction by cultivation. 

(To be continued.) 


A NEW AMORPHOPHALLUS FROM GAMBIA. 
By H. N. Ruvtzy, M.A., F.L.S. 


In a box of plants sent in 1885 from Bathurst in Gambia, by Mr. 
J.R. Maxwell, to the Natural History Museum, were fruits and — 
of a species of Amorphophallus. As the tubers appeared ey 

care of Mr. Veitch, who culevated Tees 
successfully. veral threw cnt leaves, and last June one produced 
pe ill after the flower-spike was 
t appears ne to Snag been described, and is 


one n in 

oe hophallus (§ Higirieme ) ‘Doryphorus, 2 .sp.—Cormus 

dato- -comipressue, 

ina, 

Soquel  ae bipedale ad ees 3 cate crassum ; petiolus } uncia 
s ad basin viridie nec marmoratus ; letevirens, ni 
Journan or Borany.—Vow. 24. [Oct., 1886.] x 


306 siiorT Notzs. 


segmentis ovatis vel obovatis cuspidatis acutis, cuspide } uncia 
longa, basi confluentibus, nervis collectivis a margine remotis. 
Scapus strictus gracilis pallide virescenti-brunneus, teres, vix 18 
uncias altus. Spatha subcylindrica basi paullulo ampliata, 8 uncias 

a, basi brunneo-striata, lamina 


SHORT NOTES. 


June, 1884, from Ramsey, Hunts. The same form has been found 


n assignin: the same species. 


tumnal growth 
rative of - Bennett's specific determination, since the autumnal 


mistaken, in the field, for any other British species, except, 
a ich grows wit i 


ae be Lhose of P. Zizii, on the contrary, — 
: fan-like in habit, in one form even appearing 


SHORT NOTES. 807 


e a rosette on the surface of the water. P. natans may be 
distinguished from P. fluitans by the aiveieuks growth of the 
broad coriaceous leaves of the former; these leaves being enabled, 
by the “joint” at the base of the lam mina, to twist themselves 
into any vacant space on the surface of the Mee on which sar 
float. Indeed, when growing uncrowded, so o be able 
develop themselves naturally, they often bend heal ists the fine 
stalks until they are reversely parallel to the branch from whence 

ring. These indications of habit are here given in the 


over oe the rank vegetation, even in stations where 1 is 


rivers than of the stagnant waters of the fens, against the dense 
Sane ae which its ae of robe so ill enables it to contend. 


E narius In Norta Somerset.—At p. 284 the Rev. 
W. Moyle Bsr alludes to this plant having been reported from 
North Somerset on unknown authority. The facts connecting this 
grass with the latter vice-county are as follows. Until recently By 

e 


late Mr on whose authority the ‘Supplement to the 
New Botanists’ Guide’ brackets the plant with four allied grasses, 
‘all fo Burnham, Berro , and : r, Watson’s com- 


So, of course, I 


“This plant was collected several years since by the late Rev. 
J.C. Collins, of St. John’s Vicarage, peda. on ee high sand- 


hills between Burnham ss" Brean Down. b a specim 
in his herbarium in 1853, gathered in this locality. I have also 


308 


SHORT NOTEs. 


seen it on the same tract of sand- hills, but very sparingly, in 


company wi 
arenarius Li. was ete 
Cosmo Melvyill.—T. Brau 

or Cotonsay AND ORA 
noticed by me in Colons 


with Psamma arenaria 


say and Oranisay: in Augu 


and may add that F. 


gathered at varchar in 1870 by Mr. 
s Fito 


ay.—Tbe following tom were 
st last, and are 


not recorded in Mr. Grieve’s lists (Journ. Bot. 1881, pp: "155 and 
312). 


No. 102 


Ranunculus sceleratus. Stream 
r Priory. 


Papaver ubium. 
*Fumaria confusa. 
iloran Bay. 
*Cochlearia danica. 
Polygala vulgaris, 
Cerastium glom tum 
*Spergularia marginata. ‘Kiloran 


Field near 


Those marked * are new to the vice-county (South Ebudes, 
2) :— 


Veronica serpyllifolia. 
V.B 


‘ a. 
*Scutellaria panes Bog off high- 
road between Seallasaig and 
Oransay. 
Stachys sylvatica. 
Galeopsis versicolor. 
G. Tetrahit. 


*Lamium incisum. Fields, Oran- 


ay. Pinguicula lusitanica. 
*Geranium serena Road- rtica urens. 
side, Kilchatta Juniperus nanus (?). 
arothamnus scoparius parganium ramosum. 
Trifolinm mediu *Potamogeton natans. Stream, 
T. repens. oran Bay. 
T. procumbens. Triglochin —— 
Lotus major Listera ovata 
Vicia hirsuta. cirpus iglumis. 
[V. sativa.] pauciflorus. 
Rubus corylifolius Carex arenaria. 
Ircea alpina (?). C. ovalis. 
wander platycarpa. Ditch Phleum pratense. 
ar Scallasaig. Aira srt sion 
Biginctoes Pieri A. flex 
nanthe Lachenalii. A curious T#COX 
dwarf form; Oran Triodia de ens. : 
antore nigra. ] *Sclerochloa iehacck: Ruins, 
Senecio sylvaticus. nsay 4 and on rocky 
Hierscium murorum. coast, — say. 
H. vulgatum. Lolium perenne. 
W. F. Miczer. 
Rusvs PALLIDUS id & N. mw Brrraw.—In September, oe 
I found a Rubus in & copse in tease Norfolk E., 
answe no description — my reach. I submitted vias “ 
Dr. Focke, who named i ve, and stated it to be quite 
different from the patie of Babington’s Manual. I venture to 
add a dese n, in the hope that this notice may appear in time 
Ve = enable other botanists to search for it this season. The copse 
__ In which I found it is rather sh. shady and damp, but not at all w 
3 ‘The — © grows rather rank, making a tangled bush, about four 


THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS, 809 


feet high. Its thin glabrate leaflets and barren stem, rather like 
that of scaber, to which it is nearly allied, are features that readily 
catch the eye. 

R. panuipus W. & N. (sec. Nyman = R. obliquus Wirtg.) :— 
Stem citakie, angular, not furrowed, hairy and setose; prickles 
slender, weak, declining from a narrow compressed base, uni- 
formly pale ; leaves quinate ; ; leaflets pote patently dentate, 

iry on es, at i 


Wavy, setose, its prickles more slender and declining; sepals 
reflexed, triangular- ae fruit anil often undeveloped 
under shade.— me per ¥ 

ENECIO SQUALIDUS os iv Soutn Somerset.—This plant had 


have recently received specimens e kindness of Dr. 
or, of Halse, who informs me - has become quite 
naturalized on walls about Taunton. It was first recorded for 


the county by = late Dr. Southby, of Bulford, “Wilts, in 1820.—T. 
RUGES FLowE 


THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS: 
BEING THE ADDRESS TO THE BroLoGicaL SECTION oF THE 
Britisn Association at BrrMincHAM 6. 

By Witiiam Carrutuers, Pres. L.S., F.B.S., President of the Section. 
With additions by the Author. 

In detaining you a few minutes from the proper work of the 
Section, I propose to ask your attention to what is known of the 


en oa ently made the subject of ae bat to to handle it 

requires a more lively imagination 

perhaps than it is desirable to senda in how stnatly scientific 

Speen 

rature of science is of little, if any, a, in tracing the 
eter 


ut I 
porating as they do the most advanced observations of science, and 
et in the most exact es oo to anpply the = 


810 THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS, 


would be of no value. The short, vague, and insufficient descrip- 
tions a the still earlier botanists cannot even be taken into con- 
sidera 

“rae precision might be expected from gp illustrations that 
have been in use in botanical literature from the earlie st time es; 


fictitious. The careful and minutely exact illustrations which are 
to be found in many modern systematic works are too recent to 
supply materials for = pirad any changes that may have taken 
place in the elements of a flor 

ut the means of comparison which we look for in vain in the 
published literature of science may be found in the collections of 
dried plants which botanists have formed for several generations. 
The local herbaria of sce a day represent or; only the different 
species found in a cou but the various slg which occur 
together with their distribation. They must supply the most 
certain materials for the minute comparison at any future epoch of 
the then existing vegetation with that of our own d 


to believe, o the practice of making herbaria. Ghint’ 
pupils, Reeder and peelnnas, formed extensive collections. 
Caspar Bauhin, whose ‘ Prodromus’ was the first attempt to digest 


the literature of botany , left a mae deat herbarium, still pre- 
served at Basle. No collection of English ponte: a ~— to exist 
older than the middle of the seventeenth century; a volume 

containing some British and many exotic Sie mlieeels in the 
year 1647 was some y 8 ago acquired by the British Museum. 
Towards the end of that century great activity was manifested in 


y 

e, which were ae a by ‘hs. country in 1759 when the 

museum of Sir Hans Sloane became the nucleus of the now 

extensive collections of the British Museum. The most ee 

of these collections in regard to British plants is a herbarium of 
Adam Buddle, collected nearly two hundred years ago, ia con 


ae i an extensive series, which formed the basis of a British 


THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS, 811 


Flora, that unhappily for science was never published, though it 
still exists in manuscript. Other collections of British plants of 
, but less complete, supplemen those of Buddle: 


perfect as compared with those which we shall hand down to our 
successors for their u 


: ch 
taking place in plants, it is certain that the three hundre 
during which their dried remains have been preserved in herbaria 
have been too short to exhibit them. 

Beyond the time of those early herbaria the materials which we 
owe in any way to the intervention of man have been preserved 


been occupied by the British before and after the appearance of the 
Romans, we find that the woods chiefly used by them were oak, 
birch, hazel, and willow, and at the latter period of occupation of 
the village the wood of the Spanish chestnut (Castanea vulgaris 
Lam.) was so extensively employed that it must have been intro- 
duced and grown in the distri¢ i 


rict. The gravel-beds in the north of 
G. Smi ithie impl 


manship, the remains 0 ; 
ash, beech, hawthorn, wych-elm and hazel, together with thirteen 
of the more common species of our existing mosses. 
The most important materials, however, for the comparison of 
i a 


tombs of the ancient Egyptians. Until re ntl 
mainly of fruits and seeds. These were all more or less carboni 
because the former rifling of the tombs had exposed them to the 


3 
4 
g 
Ee 
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812 THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS. 


air. Ehrenberg, who accompanied Von Minutoli in his Kgyptian 
expedition, determined the seeds which he had collected, but as he 
himself doubted the antiquity of some of the materials on which 
he reported, the scientific value of his enumeration is destroyed. 

assalacqua, in 3, made considerable collections from tombs at 


one of the latest labours of Miaccandes Braun ae an examination 


ubli 
ca srefal editorship of ao yinee and Ma In this, twenty-four 
species were determined, some from singlet erfect materials, and 
necessarily with sina hesitation as to the accuracy of their 
determination 


remains were included within the mummy-wrappi ings, a being 


weinfurth ha Racial s no less shan fifty- 
ima Spathae: * some a which are represented by the fruits employed 


* List of the species of ancient Egyptian wel determined by Dr. Schwein- 
furth. I am indebted to Dr. Schweinfurth for some species in this list, the 
" overy of go a has not yet pebiahes: — "Delphinium orientale Gay, 

‘ _—_ Leeba, DC =) Nymphea cerulea Sav., Nymphaea Lotus Hook., io aed 


; - var. All H? 
spinosa Forsk., Tamarix nilotica Ehrenb., Alcea —_ L., Linwm humile x 
pati yptiaca Del., Vitis vinifera L., Moringa aptera Gertn., Medicago 


: ,G tiie 
aa » Picris coronopifolia » Mimusops Schimperi 
Olea, europea L., Weathe 9 piperita L., Rumex deatalar L., ago 


THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS. 818 


he votive offerings consist of the fruits, ee or stems of 
twenty-nine species of plants. Three palm fruits are common; the 
Medemia Argun Wiirt. of the Nubian Desert, and the Hyphane thebaica 
Mart. of Upper Egypt, pale exactly with the fruits of these plants 
in our own day; also dates of different forms resembling exactly 
the varieties of dried dates found now in poy rere of E 


18 common, and presents, besides some forms famili the 
modern grower, ches which have been lost a go ee a The 
leaves whisk have been obtained entire exactly agree in form with 
those cultivated at the present day, but the under surface is clothed 
with white hairs, a peculiarity Dr. Schweinfurth has not observed 
in any Egyptian vines of our time. A very large quantity of 


thus in the tombs, though he was not aware of its continued eulti- 


Sycomorus L., F. Carica L., see Safsa —_— —o phenicea L., Pinus 

Bis L., Alli : si " ae - A , Phenix dactylifera L., Calamus 

fasciculatus Roxb., Hyphene ncbenee Mart Medenia Argun Wiirt., Cyperus 

ede C. eseulentus L., Andropogon laniger Desf., hloa ‘bipinnata 

, Triticum vulgare L., Hordeum vatiend gtd Parmelia furfuracea Asch,, 
ai plicata 


ee 


814 THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS. 


weed in the flax crops of the days of Pharaoh, as of our own time 
There is not a single field of flax in Egypt where this charlock does 
not abound; and often in such quantity that its yellow flowers, 


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which are still found in the living plant. 
garland composed of wild celery (Apium graveolens L.), and small 
flowers of the blue lotus (Nymphaea carulea Sav.), fastened together 


manner their absolute adentity with the indigenous form of this 
species now abundant in moist places in Egypt. The same may 
be said of the other plants used for parlnhin including two species 
of lichens. 
It appears to have been a practice to lay out the dead bodies on 
a bier of ign branches, and these were inclosed within the linen 
ppings which enveloped the m mummy. In this way there have 
ce preserved branches of considerable size of Ficus Sycomorus L., 
0. pea Li. Sorat Schimpert Hochst., and Tamarix nilotica 
nd. The Mimusops is of frequent occurrence in the mural 
decorations of the ancient temples; its fruit had been detected 


found made up into garlands, but the discovery of branches with 
their leaves still attached, and in one case with the fruit adhering, 
has established that this plant is the Abyssinian species to which 
Schimper’s name has been given, _ which is ehdirechexided by the 
long and slender petiole of the lea 
__ In none of the species, except @ vine to which I have — 
rhich Dr. hwein has discovered, and of which he has m 
a careful study, has i been able to detect any peculiarities in the 
living plants . as absent in those obtained from the tombs. 
Before passing from the Egyptian plants I would draw attention 
to the quality of ‘tie cereals. They are good specimens of the 
: vitod grains rit —- observation is true also of the 
whic! ave examined, belonging to prehistoric 
_ The wheat found in the purely Butch ge of the 


THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS, 815 


dwellings in Switzerland, for which I am indebted to J. T. Lee, 
Esq., F.G.S., are fai . My colleague Mr. W. Faweett 
has recently brought me from America grains of maize from the 


Without an intelligent observer and recorder the be no 
definite determination of time. We can only speculate as to the 
period required for effecting the changes represented by the various 
deposits 


an unknown antiquity. They are subsequent to the last changes 
in the surface of the country, and represent the physical conditions 
still prevailin 


examination of these beds has, however, been made by Mr. vid 
Robertson, F.L.§., who has thoroughly investigated the contents 
of the strata explored in the excavation of the Dry Dock, Garvel 
ark, Greenock. It is evident that these beds record an earlier 
Phase of life than the beds at Crofthead. The arctic sh lls ar 
associated with the plant-bearing beds, and the plants themselves, 
while consisting to a large extent of ‘‘ agrarian species, Ineine 
i The remains of flowering 


816 THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS. 


myrtilloides L. and §. polaris Wahl.; and Betula nana L. has 
retreated to the mountains of Scotland. Three others (Dryas 
octopetala L., Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi L., and Salix herbacea Li) have 
withdrawn to the mountains of Northern E gland, , and 
Scotland, while the remainder are still found scattered over the 
country. Notwithstanding the diverse physical conditions to which 
these plants have been subjected, the remains preserved in these 
beds present no characters by which they can be distinguished 
from the living representatives of the species. 
meet with no further materials for careful comparison with 
i nse 


these alterations of temperature, extensive changes in the 
— of the land were taking place. The first great 
CAV: . * . 


| € 

250,000 years, estimating the time of the first of ar as 200,000 
years ago, while the subsidence took place 50,000 years later, and 
the second upheaval 92,000 years ago. 

The sedimentary deposits later than the Pliocene strata, but 
— older than the glacial drift, indicate an increasing severity in the — 
ae climate, which reached its height in the first glacial period. : 

es At Cromer, on the Norfolk coast, the newest of these deposits 


HE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS. 817 


has supplied the remains of Salix polaris Wahl., S. cinerea L., and 
Hypnum turgescens Schimp. This small group of plants is of great 
interest in connection with the history of existing species ; their 
remains are preserved in such a manner as to permit the closest 
comparison with living plants. Such an examination shows 
that they differ from each other in no particular. In the post- 
glacial deposits 2 Sk fcc Salia herbacea L. is associated with 
polaris Wahl., as I have already stated. These two willows are 
very closely ed ees indeed been treated as the same — 
unti ahlenberg Sele out. e characters mes separated 
disti : 


1812. One of the m a obvious of the specific distinotions is the 


present all the peculiarities which they possess at the present me 
and the venation and form of the leaves of S. polaris Wah 


io. but is aff foun ae arctic an ciuiae species in oan 
and the pre-glacial ‘speci ns of this cellular plant differ in no 


older a containing the remains of existing species, 
which are found also at Cromer, have recently been readily with 
ened diligence and great success by . Clem ob he 


his determinations, and to accept all of them. His collections contain 
sixty-one species of plants belonging Z forty-six different genera, 
ies identified. bs 0 


and of these forty-seven species have been 1 ed. Slabs of 
clay-ironstone from the beach at Happisburgh contain leaves of 
beech, ot. oak ow materials, however, which h 


existing flor 
Only oo species (Trapa_natans ie) has eS from our 
islands ; alls fruits, which Mr. Reid found abundantly in one 


eenale Gmel., “and Pinus file i are aka at present only 
n Europe, ; two species (Peucedanwn palustre Meench. and Pinus 
Ts aay L.) are found also in $1 beria, whilst five more aia 


818 THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS. 


officinalis L., Rubus fruticosus L., Cornus sanguinea L., Euphorbia 


in the J apanese Flora. Eight species, while found with the pe 
enter also into the “bee akong flora, extending to North Africa 
these are Thalictrum minus L., T. flavum L., Ranunculus re pens 
Stellaria aquatica Scop., Corylus Avellana L., Potamogeton trichoides 
Cham., Zannichellia palustris L., and Cladium Mariscus Br. ; while 
Potamogeton heterophyllus Schreb. has the same distribution, except 
that it has not been found in N. Africa. With a 8 ane distribution 


Menyanthes trifoliata Ls Stachys cileuneis = ‘Revewasks navies 
L., R. Acetosella L., Betula alba L., Scirpus pauciflorus Lightt., 
Taxus baccata L., and Isoetes lacustris ris L.) extend round the north 
Pree gee —_ while three (Lycopus europeus L., saliedad Plantago 
L., an ragmites communis Trin.), aving the same distribution in 
the 


€ various vied conditions which necessarily affected ori 
species in their diffusion over such large areas of the earth’s 

ce in the course of, say, 250,000 years, should have ted 1 to the 
production of many varieties, but the uniform te estimony of the 
remains of this considerable pre-glacial flora, as far as the materials 
ne. of @ comparison, is that no appreciable change has taken 


0 carry the history of any existing = keer of pee: 

bepond the sina deposits. ex: oft he plant remains from 

Tertiary strata have been referred ee still living one) but the 

examination of the materials, as far as they have come before me, 

convince me that this — been dies without sufficient evidence, 

ee _ conditions existing during even the colder of the 
periods i 


oe = fosn ‘oy no warmer ~varte of the earth 
ies now exist, though floras of the e 

cies ee nes taining closely ied species. The sedimentary 
beds at the base of ial Epoch ornergse a a at 


present know, the earliest remains of any e xisting species of plant. 
It is not my purpose to point out the bearing of these facts on 
_ any theoretical views entertained at the present day; I wis. 
aicaly to place them before the members of this section as data 
_ which must be — — account in constructing such theories, and 
as confirming the long-established axiom that by us, at least, as 
workers }, Species must be dealt with as fixed quan tities 


319 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


ean M. J. Surron has produced a handsome volume on ‘ Per- 
manent and Temporary Pastures’ (Hamilton & Adams), with 
descriptions and coloured figures of what agriculturists style 


to be included——-and clovers. The letterpress deals 

ject from the standpoint of the practical farmer ; 4 would have 
been much more useful, however, if figures of the seeds of different 
grasses had been given, so that allied species might be readily 
distinguished by the grower. The plates, Py Mr. B. George, are 
many of them good ; exception must, however, be taken to that of 
Medicago lupulina, which gives a very epapeieta idea of the plant. 


New Booxs.—-G. Camus, ‘ L’Opera salernitana ‘‘Cirea instans ” 
ed il testo primitivo del’ grant Herbier en Francoys, secondo due 
codici del secolo a: ., conservati nella r regia hiblic teca estense’ 
(Modena: ie, pp: 155).—A. Maen, ‘ La Végétation de la on 
Lyonnaise ’ (Geneva, Georg: 8vo, pp. Xvi. 518: 7 maps. — 
Barrots, ‘Role des ta ctes dans la fécondation des végétaux ’ 
(Paris, Doin: pp. 124, 24 figs.). —- C. CappEvILze, ‘Kitude sur le 
Piligan aces Saururus)’ (4to, pp. 52). — G. Sommer, ‘ Die 
Baume und Striucher der Grossl. Sehlossgartenaniagen zu Karls- 
ruhe’ 2 nine Macklot : 8vo, pp. viii. 126).—F. Herver, ‘ Cata- 
logus Bibliothece Hort. Imp. Bot. Petropolitani’ (St. Patertbede 
8vo, pp. xi. 510). — A. Frorence, ‘Les Alc aloides des Solanées’ 
(Lyon : 8vo, ~ 121).—J. C. Brown, ‘ School of Forest —— 
in Spain’ (Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd: 8vo, pp. xii. 2 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 

American Naturalist (Sept.). — W. Matthews, ‘Navajo Names 
for Plants. 

Bot. Centralblatt (Nos. 87, 88). — 8. a ae ‘Ueber die 
Samen die Aldrovanda pa Mt plate). —- (No. 40). 58. Dietz, 
‘Die Bliiten- und Fruchtentwicklung bei Typha und Habeas, 

Bot. Gazette (Aug.). — W. §. Lyon, ‘The Flora of our South- 
western Archipelago.’ — Ella L. Knowles, ‘ Structure and distri- 
bution of Resin-passages of White Pine’ (Pinus oe J6cg plate). 
—B. W. Barton, ‘ Neo on Campanula medium rehon, 
‘Botanizing in Texas.’—T. Meehan, ‘Notes on ees parle : 

Bot. Notiser (haft. iv ‘ Spridda bidrag till Nerikes flora.’— : 
H.W. Arne ~ i — notiser fran det smalindska hoglandet. 
—C. Kaurin, Brywm Lindbergit, 0. sp. 

Bot. Pw: (Sept. 3). — J. Reece: ‘Einige Bemerkungen 
zu der von Schwendener gegen meine Theorie des Windens gerich- 
teten Erwiderung.’ — (Sept. 10, 17, 24). J. Wortmann, Ue ber 
die Natur der rotirenden Nutation der Schlingpflanzen.’ 


820 ARTICLES iN JOURNALS. 


Bull. Soc. Bot. France (Sept. 1): tom. xxxii. Comptes- rendus - 
— A. Franchet, ‘ Rhododendron du Thibet et du Yun-nan’ (82 ne 
species). — P. Vui illemin, ‘ Conjugaison i Mucorinées. — P. A. 
Daugeard, ‘Un nouveau genre de Chytridinées * (Spharita). — 

Gandoger, ‘Plantes de la Judée.’— E. Blanc, ‘Flore de 
Tunisie. "—P. van Tieghem & H. Doulot, ‘ Sur la sortie des racines 
latérales,’ — j. Bourdatte, ‘Sur la Flore des Hautes-Pyrénées.’— 
L. Mangin, ‘ Sur les petales ovuliféres du Caltha pe an 
Tieghem, ‘Croissance de la racine dans les Nymphé bacées.’—T. 
Caruel, ‘ Sur la n aivelid famille des Scutellariacées.’ — L. Dufour, 
. Influence de Parientation sur la structure des feuilles.’ 

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Sept.).—T. Morong, ‘ Naiadacce in the 
Torrey Herbarium’ (Potamogeton Wrightii, n. sp.: t. 69 ea ae 
‘Synopsis of Paspalum’ (P. giganteum Baldw. (ine ed.); uckley- 
anum Vagey, spp. nn.). Si Schrenk, ‘ Dehiscence of Fern Spoaiaae 

Flora (Sept. 1).-—- O. Bachmann, ‘ bic near iiber die 
systematische Badeutiing der Schildhaare.’ — E. Zimmermann, 
‘Zur Kenntnis der Anatomie der Helosis jvcines 

te Did teed (Sept. 4). — Cyrtopera Loe Rehb. f., 

pedi 


n. sp. — lum vagaries’ (figs. 63-66). — A. D. Webster 

: ig cca ato — (Sept. 11). (C, ii ie Latiee Rehb. 
SP. ; cidium eagconstigele n. sp. (hyb. sis ?) Rehb. a 

j Sas Sate pictorin (figs. 72). a ‘Sep t. 18). Aristolochia 


ridicula N. KE. Br., n. sp. (fig. Gay. — Proliferous epee s bulbs 
(fig. Mr 35 3 as) Alocasia grandis N. E. Br., n. sp. ; Zi ingiber 
brevifolium N. EK. Br., n. sp.—Semi-double Oyppripertisth (fig. 83). 
Mager Novena Lapok (May-July). —- Obituary of C. Kalch- 
brenner.— K. Demeter, ‘A Ma, yar Birodalom erg ee — 
(Aug.). V.v. — : — lod janak kis potléka.’—H. Bra 


spora eee a Settentrione d’Italia,.’ — G >B. de Toni & D. Levi, 

‘De is, precipue Diatomaceis, inter Nympheaceas 
Horti Botanici P Patavini.’ — R. Pirolta, ‘ Sulle ficotin dell’ Agro 
romano,’ — L. Nicotra, ‘Intorno ad una pro posizione di Fitoto- 
pografia.’ — A. Borzi, ‘Le communicazione intracellulari delle 
Nostochinee.’ 

Ocsterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (Aug.). — H. Seapect ‘ Zwei west- 
eaeeasie Brombeeren’ (Rubus Bolla, n. sp.). — V. vy. Borbas, 
‘ Potentilla obscura et leucotricha.’ — E. Penh dnek, Flees der 

then.’ — J. Ullepitsch, « Symphytum cordatum.’ — L. Schlé igh, 
‘Der Pilamarkt in Ung. Hradisch.’—P, G. Strobl, ‘ Flora des Etna.’ 


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321 


ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW 
GUINEA COLLECTED BY MR. H. 0. FORBES. 


By H. N. Rovtey, M.A., F.L.S. 
(Puates 270 & 271). 


s with much regret that we hear of Mr. Forbes’ failure, 
from lack of funds, to accomplish the much-desired explorations of 
Central New Guinea 


the Owen Stanley range of mountains in 
ew countries have proved so difficnlt of iMate from natural 
causes as New Guinea. The forests are of unusual thickness and 


impenetrability, ind the whole island is cut of fas precipitous 
mountains and valleys, difficult and tedious to cross. 

were the expenses consequent upon this, to which was added the 
loss of a considerable portion of the collecting apparatus by the 
foundering of a small vessel which was conveying it, that Mr. 
Forbes, after building a winter camp and 2 sired everything for 
the expedition, had to dismiss his men and return to Australia, 
having spent all the money ajialiad to him by the Australian and 
English Goverumen ta, together with a considerable sum from his 
own private resources. It is hoped that he may ere long make 
another attempt to ade this entirely unknown region, and 
that with the success that has attended his former expeditions in 
Sumatra, Timor, and other little-known islands of the Malayan 
Archipelago. In spite of the fact that the already received al 


ae te e { 

I’. pungens, which also occurs in the collection, oe i ae upon a 
plant obtained in Ceram, and has also been found in Australia; 
JOURNAL oF fo a 24, [Nov., 1886.] . 


§22 ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 


while a figure of a plant in Rumphius, from Amboina, seems to be 
intended to represent it. Among the Orchidee several interesting 
novelties are to be found, epokacnn the curious Appendicula repre- 
sented on Plate 270, and some very beautiful species of Dendrobium, 
Sete worthy of cultivation. The Apostasiacee are dae peeress by a 
and striking species of Wiasieta ia, with n leaves, and a 
tall epike of yellow flowers. The difficult order of Poakahiin coal 
to be strongly developed in New Guinea, and several curious species 
of Pandanus and F'reycinetia have been obtained. 

Among the already described species are several till now in- 
sufficiently known. Coelogyne Rumphii was described by Dr. Lindley 
from a figure by Rumphius, and it has not been seen, so far as Tam 
aware, since his time. The Dendrobium — iosum of pate ae . 
la Coquille’ appears no t to have been met with a until n 
and Mr. Forbes’ specimens show that it is not a Dina biti te an 
Eria. The singular and aberrant Dendr ae longicolle Lindl., 
pescribed from a plant sent from Singapore by Cuming and 
flowered by Loddiges in 1840, now reappears in New Guinea. 


OrRcHIDER. 


ronia Hamadryas, n. sp. — Rhizoma diu repens, pseudo- 
bulbis remotis, uncia dianitic: Folia ensiformia faleata recurva 
bifaria 2 uncias longa } uncia lata. Scapus ferme omnius racemosus 
4-5 uncias er glabra, vidivola haud angulata. Flores copiosi 
laxiusculi patuli glabri. Bractee pedicellos breviter superantes 
lanceolat ate convolute pallide integra. Sepala et petala 
lanceolata Bnte obtusa deflexa, alba. Labellum i in ambitu ovatum 

um aurantiacum trilobum, lobi laterales erecti breves, obtusi, 
lobus medius cordatus triangularis acutus. Columna recta semi- 
teres aurantiaca. Anthera oblonga ovata obtusa 

South C 


0. hexaptera F, ae the only other species recorded from 
New Guinea, I have not seen. From the deser ription it seems to 
be distinguished chielly by the sharp wings of the rachis. 0. 
Hamadryas has no wings, nor is the rachis distinctly angled. 
tier longipes Lindley. — Sogere, 1800 ft., No. 394. A single 

iting specimen. 
. ere was also in the collection a Liparis of the section Platy-' 
stylis, possibly L. decwrrens Lindl., without fruit or flowers, havin 
been sent accidentally upon the branch of a a ee. 

Dendrobium (§ Cavema) triquetrum, n. sp. — Cwspitosa, 
wore ate approximati 2-8 uncias tongs: oetati acute trialati. 


costata 4 uncia longa. Flores parvi carnosuli 1-2 subsessiles in 
| oractea, Sopra citrino-virides. Sepalum posticum ellipticum 
ob i ibera triangular 


a alipticn pabcsenisih. apicibus cucullatis marginibus involutis. 
Petala spathulata. Labellum tenue rhomboideum acutum costis 
maarginibus: tenuiter crenulatis, in medio 


ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 823 


discus papillosus aurantiacus. Columna lata brevis, seg profunda. 
Capsula } uncialis oblonga acute triptera deflexa gla 
Sogere. LEpiphytic, flowers s gamboge-green, No. 756 
This curious little Octomeria- cy da nt is remarkable for the 
same wings on the pseudobulb an 

D. (§ Caperia) albiflorum, n. re —Pa silla cespitosa. Pseudo- 
bulbi 3 unciales graciles recti nec incrassati nec alati. lia 
¢ uncia longa, 1 linea lata, linearia decal biloba dorso carinata 
Flores albi minimi, singuli. Bractex linearia lanceolata, pedicellis 
ferme equales. Sepalum posticum gern! subacutum, lateralia, 
subsimilia basi in calearem conicum obtusum crassum producta, 


median lobe is —, with thin deflexed edges, and a thicker 
yellow-bearded m the middle, from which two low lamelle 
Tun to the base of | the af 

Sogere, No. 424. 

. reptans, n. sp. — Rhizoma lignosum diu repens, pseudo- 
bulbi- angusti elongati conici politi flavi (sicci) }-% uncia dissiti, 
# uncia longi monophylli. Folia angusta lanceolata obtusa 
coriacea membranacea uncia longa, 2 lineas lata. Flores par vi 
tenues singuli in scapis gracilibus tenuibus i uncias ig = albi. 
Sepalum posticum lanceolatum angustum, la lateralia bas Lat 


sima superne aurantiaca, infarne ilacino- “inaguleka. 
Sogere, at 1750 feet, No. & a 
small creepin e plan vith numerous narrow pseudo 


cg Fos — towers It is allied to D. funiforme B BL 
. — Speciosa. Pseudobulbi superne crassi, 


seeo) costata, 5 waaiae ere 2 uncias lata, elliptica lanceolata 
10 terminata. Bractew majuscule basis pedicellorum —— 


‘neeolate subacute multinervie 4 unciales. Pedice : 
ispidi presertim superne, circiter unciales. Ovarium globosum. 


824 ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 


Sepala lanceolata acuta glabra. Petala spathulata cordata 4 uncia 
lata, uncia longa, glabra, splendide ochroleuca. Labellum magnum 
flavescenti- papery venis purpureis ornatum, lobi laterales 
erecti magni r 


crassiuscula, alis latis, clinandrium profundum, fovea ovali-triangu- 
laris, alba, marginibus externis purpureis. Capsula globosa hispida. 
Mt. orkoko, No. 684. Also Island of Jobie, Barclay, a fruiting 


specim 
This 1 most beautiful plant is ‘ati a nearly allied to D. nae 

Rich., but is et eugeis shed by arger flowers, describe d by 

Forbes as rich ¢ m-white, th a cream-yellow lip veined ai 


purple, by the piakew ds petals and sepals, and the strong-curved 
tooth at the base of the lips in the centre, arising from a short keel. 
The edges of the lips at the extreme base are abruptly turned im, so 
as to make a kind of pouch. What appears to be the same plant in 

fruit was collected in the Island of Jobie, — Bay, by Mr. 
Barclay ; and cone 4 BT obtained in N.W. New Gumes, at 


collector as yellow. The flowers of the D. macrophyllum are usually 
oat: with purple markings. It is much to be hoped that we may 
n have e ¢ in cultivation. 
js ee (§ Pedilonum) trichostomum Rehb. £.—— Mt. Korkoko, 
at 8000 ft., as No. 774; Sogere, at 1700 ft., No. 893, ous 
This very handso e plant 6 a to be common in 


acuta racy carinata. Labellum quam as brevius lanceolata 

-angusta acutissima omnino glabra et integra 5-nervia. Columna 
aurantiaca brevis senons clinandrii profundi lobis duobus brevi- 
aa Anthera compress 

| Mt. Korkoko, at 8000 fi., No. 598. Mt. Wari Wari, at 5000 ft. 

= elevation, No. 425. Flowers blood-red or deep lake-scarlet, with 
; ht orange column. 

Ae . — cerasinum, n. sp.— Pseudobulbi breves 


i * ti 


ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 825 


unciales cespitosi haud dilatati. Folia angusta linearia 14 uncia 
z longa, 1-2 lineas lata, subacuta. Racemi } uncia longi, bracteis 

pallidis laxis membranaceis ovatis cuspidatis. lores 3-4 pro 
planta magni purpureo- get: circiter } uncia longi... Sepala et 
petala lanceolata acuta inata. Petala angustiora et breviora. 


quam sepala brevius anguste loratum lanceolatum acutum ley 

Calear apice dilatato. Columna recta quadrata at i pAb 
versus basin acuminata, linea elevata in ventre. Stigma quadrata. 
ang galeata. Ovarium alatum conicum cum pedicello } uncia 


t. Gawada, No. 5 
This plant and the preceding are closely allied in their habits, 
being small compact plants, with short leaves 


The latter species is distinguished by its narrower linear bases, 

distinctly dilated apex of spur, and the purple colour of the rather 
rger lowers 

: Bulbophylium (§ E.ecantes) kermesinum, n.sp.—Rhizom 

lignosum pinne corvi crassitie. Pseudobulbi remoti, uncia dissili, 

angusti subeylindrici unciales. Folium singulum erectum spathu- 


atu 
Columna kermesina maculata ‘curva, dorso eet dentes 
clinandrii lati truncati bidentati, 5 apiibs acutis pallidi, Ale 
eiiiiercs curvule late Sew arginibus evolutis, 

Sogere, 1750-1800 ft., Nos. 433, 775. 


um, — Rhizoma tenue repens, pseudobulbis 
oblongis monophyllis 3 uncia longis dissitis. F ellipticum 
lanceolata tenue carinatum obt i-1} uncla longum, } uncia 


angusta linearia lanceolata. Labell i inerassatum lob 
duabus crassis oe inter quos canaliculo, apice cornuto eine 
lineari, subobtuso, subtus canaliculato 0 carnoso 
dentes duobus ereotls acutis. Pes columne piacaciaih “Tabula 
Parvis duobus 

South Ca 


ape. 

This species resembles at first sight very closely B. vittatu “ 
Teysm., but o's in its distant not Ss pse coat ays = 

shape o f the lip, which is almost terete and upeurved, Ys 

and ‘eperng to the apex like a rhinoceros-horn; at the base it is 


826 ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 
broader and slightly flattened, with two short fleshy erect lobes, 
and a groove between them. 


compressa incomplete 4-loculata. Stigma ovali triangulare pro- 
fondum. Pollinia ovata 4. Ovarium globosum flavum bullatum. 
Sogere, 1800 ft., Nos. 892, 578. 
is is a very curious-looking plant, in some respects nearly | 
akin to Blume’s Cochlia violacea, as far as can be judged from his | 
meagre description and his figure of the flower. That species, 
however, is said to have a capitate inflorescence. e scape 18 
freely branched, having numerous distant slender branches, bearing 
e very small globose flowers. The sepals and lip are covered 
with warts or bulle ; the teeth of the column are short, blunt, and 
ost bifid. 
Bulbophyllum grandiflorum Bl. and B. Gerlandianum Kranz. 
are also recorded from New Guinea. 


m the base of the lip in the median line. The whole plant dries 
black, as do others of the same section. : 
ria pube nh. sp.—-Caulis pseudobulbosus 8 uncias longus. 
Folia 3 uncias longa, } uncia lata lanceolata acuminata acuta bast 
angustata. Racemi plures 2} unciales, basibus vaginis ampliatis 
tectis, rachide puberulo. Flores parvi plures patuli. Bractew 
a 


angustatum, lobi laterales anguste lineares faleati, obtusi, medius 
major obtusissimus ellipticus oblongus. Columna erecta parum 
curva, ventre carinata presertim ad basin. Stigma profundum 
_ prom . clinandrii parve. 
> South Cape. - is 
_ *hreatia albiflora, n. sp. — Pusilla ox itosa, breviter caule- 


yy ee. rinata 


ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 827 


longa, 4 lata. Scapi e vaginis inferioribus orientes nF uncias longi 
graciles, vaginis remotis ampliatis paucis. Racemus laxus; flores 


minimi albi. ractew lanceolate acuminate membranacez linea 

longe ovario cum pedicello equantes. Sepala ovata rentene ata, 

lateralia latissima. Petala breviora angustiora. Labellum parvum 
sum. 


vix petalo equale concavum, cuneatum obtu 

Mt. Korkoko, No. 675. 

Phreatia papuana, n. sp.—Pusilla, aun Folia coriacea, 
lanideolata biloba vaginis latis striatis, 2 un onga, 2 lineas lata. 

capi ex axillis orientes 2-8 graciles faith omnino racemosi 
13-1} uncias longi vaginis amplis. Flores minuti resupinati 
copiosi albi. Bractes lanceolate acute pedicellis equales. Se 
ovata, lateralia cum labello calcar formantia. Petala lanceolata 
obtusa Labellum angustum lineari-lanceolatum subobtusum 
oge 


(To be continued.) 


OF THE FLORA OF CEYLON, ESPECIALLY AS 
AFFECTED BY CLIMATE. 


By Henry Tren, M.B., F.L.S. 
Concluded from p. i 


imported as an ornamental saraen ahi; a s. 
the Eastern Tropics, quickly atime itself as an overpowering 
I i 


weed of open ground. Its range in 7 
strictly by climate; it does not extend out of the wet a, nor 
above some 3500 "ft. elevation ; within these limits it is, without 


doubt, the most abundant plant. Much of aistiler lost land sup- 
ports a dense covering for miles of a small native bamboo, the 


328 _ ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 


“ Bata-li” of the Singhalese (Ochlandra stridula), a favourite food 
of the elephant 


s 
the trees in May with its lovely flowers in a few places. On the 


ground flourish many ferns, and beautiful shade- and damp-loving 
herbaceous perennials, members of the families Zingiberacea, 
esneracea, Rubiacee, Orchidea, &e., an the 


a word corrupted from the Sinhalese name, ‘‘Kalu-médiriya” 
(Diospyros quesita), a sort of mottled or streaked ebony much sought 
after for furniture and cabinet-work ; and the Nédun (Pericopsis 
Mooniana), more largely used for the same purposes. Both these 
trees are peculiar to Ceylon. : 

Native vegetation has also been curiously preserved in a few 
Places which ‘“chena” cultivation has been unable to 


Ceylon, and in several cases now entirely restricted to the few 
Square yards in question on those isolated spots. 
And this me to mention one of the most remarkable 
features of the Ceylon flora, viz., the very large number of species 
i uliar to the island, or, as botanists call it, endemic. 


here are, so wn, found nowhere else in the world 
This is, considering the geographical position of Ceylon in relation 
to ; @ really extraordinary fact leads to some interesting 


speculations as to the origin of our flora, which I have to some 
extent followed out elsewhere.* I now mention it in this place, 
i - : an 


ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 829 


composed of endemic species, and not a few endemic genera. And 
it is another remarkable and significant fact, with regard to these, 
that their affinities and near alliances are with the plants of the 
Malay Islands and Peninsula far more than with the flora of 
Southern India. 1is is especially seen in the abundance of 

) 


remarkably characteristic of the Malayan flora. But I am not in 
ava eee dealing with the geographical affinities of Ceylon vege- 


“The low moist region under consideration may well include the 
lower hills of the central mountain mass up b 0 ft. 

Above that elevation vere is sa little paddy cultivation, nor any 
Coco-nut or Areca Palms. The characteristic flora of the hills 
themselves sasoals commences below 5 , and we have thus an 
intermediate belt of from 3000-5000 ft. of a Tensitianal character. 


, in 
completely natural state, uncultivated and niababited: indeed it 
was not until some years after that event that the pioneers of coffee- 
tation : in plantations made the first gaps in the then unbroken 
sheet of primeval montane forest. How rapidly and to what an 


were made, houses built, and a numerous population of Europeans and 
Indian coolies ssscaian ‘together. From this development of British 
enterprise it was especially the belt of forest from 3000-5000 ft. that 
suffered; even the crests of the hills within its limits were not spared, 
but all cleared, and at the present time very little forest exists, the 


more sharply defined than was naturally and originally the case. 
In reality the transition is doubtless ae aig but there is now no 
part where this can be well traced, save perhaps on the S.W. slopes 
of Adam’s Peak, where on the h lower hills there still remain some 


countries has roe Me eee of these the most conspicuous are 

annual Composite, som which oceur in vast a undance, as the 

White-weed oases con), ysis, - Spanish N eedle (Bidens com- 

posita), Gnaphalium indicum, and Erigeron tine Fame fow 

remaining strips of forest show a very great varie ty of species ; 

characteristic trees are the Duns (Doona eeper ey? sy rect &e.), 
y: 


strongly recalling the artistic Stone-Pine of Italy. Many species of 
Babs ( aie hee are found here, and other damp-loving plants ; 


* 


830 ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 


it was the great region for epiphytic Orchids, and is still the special 
district oer by a splendid parila creeper, meee ickia, which 
covers the with masses of large rosy flowers; whilst among 
the aeud fosees ‘benoit low: the great Gloxinia- like flowers of the 
root- 2p cts isonia. 


the m 

height is of course quite oMaees but it fairly well marks the 
lower limit of our specially montane plants; and it is practically 
convenient, as it has been soot as the elevation above which no 
forest-land is now sold by Government. 

With the exception of sailaie: grassy tracts, to be presently 
noticed, all the hills (the highest of which attains to nearly 8400 ft.) 
are forest-clad over their summits. The climate is generally very 
wet, and the forest has special Seema a All the trees are 
evergreen, for the most part rather small, hard-wooded and o 
very slow growth; they stand close dpechnr, and form a very dar. * 
jungle ; their leaves are in very large proportion small, rounded, 
smooth, en and leathery. The number of species is very large, 

and some genera are represented by many species, as saan 
Calophatlatn, neti hone tal Gordonia, Eleocarpus, Symplocos 
&e. 


ragged masses of Usnea and Meteorium hang in ma disorder 

from the branches, whilst the bark is the home of many F ilmy- 

Ferns, Hepatics, and Orchids. Most of the epiphytic Orchids are 
uliar . 


sma. part in eral aspect of vegetation. Ferns are 

abictiinest ¢ in -thols 1ill-foredta and the endemic Alsophila crintta, 
certainly the handsomest tree- fern of the ae is very common, its 
stems attaining 20 or 25 ft. in height, or e more in favourable 
situations. Fine specimen rage this have been successfully intro- 


a 3 nner into England » vam for the first ti 
But the charm 


ill-country to he: English botanist lies 
in the links with nine supplied by the smaller flowers. These 


of belong to familiar English genera, and such ones as 
utte: 


7 iki in any way bovowrnarsAve an Alpine flora ; these 
malo types are the nearest Paratbes to it, and they ; 


ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 8381 


are here mingled with many mountain plants of the East which 
do not occur in Western Temperate Regions, as species of Osbeckia, 
Sonerila, Hedyotis, Exacum, and Strobilanthes. 
distinction from the low-country vegetation, this hill-flora 
shows no special affinity with Malaya, whilst it is really very closely 
allied to that of the Nilgiri Mountains of 5S. India; though this 
affinity is shown in a highly remarkable and instructive manner. 
Less than 400 miles separates the summits of Pidurutaliga, the 
highest mountain in Ceylon, and Dodabetta in the Nilgiris (and 
malais). Yet the 


belong to the same genera, which are almost identical for both 
regions. It is thus possible to make the contradictory assertions 
that the floras are very similar and very different. . 

t us take some illustrative examples. Of the genus Strobi- 
ianthes, consisting of the ‘ Nilus” just mentioned, the Ce lon hills 
possess twenty-two peculiar species, and the Nilgiris, &c., about 

two are found in both regions; of the 


The vegetation consists mainly of large coarse grasses, PER tne = 
rarnott drun 


the genera Andropogon, Anthistiria, Pollinia, 


and dangerous and fatiguing ; 


walkin : 
however, a multitude of delicate and beautiful flowers spring up 
and blossom with the tall grass. 
terrestrial Orchids,—of which the beau 


3382 ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 


also many low shrubby Leguminose, Rubiacee, and Melastomacee 
with showy flowers, but the patanas are almost absolutely devoid of 
trees. In the high patanas almost the only tree is the common 
Rhododendron ((f. arboreum), whose numerous trusses of crimson 
flowers light up the hill-sides; whilst at the lower elevations the 
patana trees are principally Careya arborea (rather inaptly called 


exp ti 
equilibrium between the two floras has been arrived at, so that now 
neither can encroach on the other: the patana plants are unable to 
exist in the dense shady forest, whilst the seeds of the forest-trees 
never get a chance even of germination in the closely occupied grass- 
land. So far as can be observed, this balance is now maintained 
without change. 

Tue D 


acts of country lying to the north and east, where, as already 
mentioned, the rainfall is both less in whole annual amount and 
BA 


of the north-east monsoon, and thus affects but little the generally 
maintained drought. What is so marked in these cases is true in 
a less degree over all this great tract of country; in no part does 


he 
very flat, a few domes or masses of gneiss rock standing up out 0 
the forest alone breaking its level monotony. The forest, which 
covers the whole country, has all the appearance of having existed 
from the earliest times untouched. But it would appear that this 
can searcely be the case. It is impossible wholly to disregard the 
Singhalese records—backed up as they are by the widely scattered 
and stupendous ruins of cities, temples, aqueducts and tanks—that 


and extensively cultivated. It is said that this now dry an 
unproductive region was once go rich as to be termed “the granary 
of India”; this would be, suppose, in the first few centuries of — 
the Christian era, to which period so many of the great ruins of 
religious edifices and irrigation works are to be referred. Making 

_ Svery allowance for Oriental exaggeration, we must, I think, give 


ee : t, - 
- Modern experience shows us that 


ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. $38 


given only water inthe ing the soil is capable of great things ; 
it is I think, in many parts, more productive than in the agen of 
the island nee "iaoedied by rainfall. If then the grea _ tanks, 


amount of land may have been under cultivation and Pog fertile. 
But beyond the ruins of these vast works we cannot now trace an any 
evidence of a large population ; wabedkas forest — aver tileas: 
The question is of great interest, for if the country were really 
occupied by a numerous an - industrious peo pla engaged in paddy 
Bie tstion we have to believe that the comparatively short space 
a) years, or even less, has been sufficient to completely 
restore an aboriginal forest vegetation over a eres tract of country. 
I believe that similar problems present themselves in several parts 
of India. ut the “explanelicg may perhaps be found in the 
ae oeetion that in Ceylon probably no great extent was cleared 
and cultivated at any one time or for any long period. It is well 
known, from the native records of the island, ‘fat the oad ge 
was being constantly driven from one district to another by 
frequent invasions from §. India, and thus their fields st os 
abandoned after comparatively short periods of culture. At that 
time, too, it must be remembered, as helping to account for a more 
ce) 


occupy open groun ve little chance to the natives to 
resume their position. A remarkable fact to be noted is, that this 
dry Ceylon forest is all evergreen, and s thus ent from most 


Prost; as a whole. 

Perhaps the mice striking feature of this great dry forest- 
region is its monoton his does not result from poverty o 
species; on the conten they are numerous, but the resulting 
vegetation as a whole is very uniform over many miles of country. 


vi P sea semecarpifolia), Kohomba 
(Gleniea Popa Weverane (Per NB te At age 
ae — (Cassia Fistula), — 

ot ane more. The « siren © ually dense, consisting of 


884 ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 


shrubby species of Aurantiacee and of the genera Memecylon (very 
characteristic of all parts of Ceylon), Bauhinia, Phyllanthus, Croton, 
Maba, Ixora, &c. Climbers are comparatively few, species: of 


y : 
Bamboos are almost absent, and Palms quite so. Except after the 
ins there are very few herbaceous plants to be seen, and 


are also absent, but to make up, several of the larger and more 
handsome ones are found on the trees, as Vanda Roxburghii, V. 
spathulata and Saccolabium guttatum. 

ime does not admit of further details. Towards the coast the 
soil becomes more sandy and the higher forest disappears, a 
scrubby semi-littoral vegetation taking its place. Stunted thorny 
thickets of “ Andara” (Dicrostachys cinerea), and species of Acacia, 
Carissa, Zizyphus, Gmelina, Azara, &c., cover the country, and are 
ornamented with climbing species of Ipomaa, Asparagus, Asclepiadea, 
Cucurbitacee, and vines. This vegetation passes into the truly 
seashore flora. 


8 
the two climatic districts of Ceylon itself. So far as the flora is 
concerned, one would think the separation of Ceylon from the 
mainland (now parted by the very shallow Palk’s Strait) to be 
geologically recent; even the few endemic species in this part of 
Ceylon are all closely related to the continental ones, and clearly 

ble n And the Malayan 
element, so prevalent in the low country of South-west Ceylon, is 
t 


home of whieh noble palm still remains one of th 


cal Department maintained by the Colonial Government. It 
_ may, I think, be truly said, that no other British colony possesses 
‘So complete a system of botanical and experimental gardens as 
. Ceylon ; and I may now add that their sites have been determined 
_ on the principle that each of the climatic districts which I have 


y 


NEW CAPE LILIACEE. 885 


inland from Colombo. The mean annual temperature is here 

Several degrees higher than at Peradeniya, the rainfall beng much 

the same. In these gardens, of course, no truly temperate plants 
h hese a thir 


island, at an elevation of some 2000 ft. Here the climate is 
considerably drier than on the western side of the mountains as 
uready deseribed. 


ever, in which I wish to present this before you here, is that it 


NEW CAPE LILIACEZ. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 


* See Journ. Bot. 1885, 227 (footnote). 


336 NEW CAPE LILIACE. 


sonia latebrosa — MSS.—Bulb not seen. Leaves 


Mas: 
oblong or obovate, “rim -patent, 2-24 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, - 


acute, scabrous, and s EI dicalti with purple. Capitabuil 
sessile, under an okt in diam. Flowers — bract lanceolate ; 
ube seutindaieads 4-3 in. long, 3 in. diam. at the throat; segments 
BE reflexing, 4 i in. long. Pree = din. long, connate 
ring at the base. 
“Hab, Bokefeld, Aug. 1792, Masson. 
M. leta Masson MSS. — Bulb not seen. Leaves ovate, sub- 
obtuse, peels spreading, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. broad, distinctly 
distantly ribbed vertically. ’Capitulum dense, sessile, about 1 in. 
diam. Flowers white; bracts ovate; tube infundibuliform, 
4 in. long; sents very short, lanceolate, reflexing. Stamens 
short, erect, 4 in. : 
Hab. Su fae FY the Kamisberg, Masson. Drawing made in 
794, 


chenalia undulata Masson MSS. — Bulb not seen. 
Leaves 2, oblong, eee suberect, much crisped towards the 
margin, glabro ous, An 4 in. long, 1 in. broad. Pedunele green, 
lon . 


on 
purple, about 4 in. long. Stamens as re as outer segments. 
=: Hab. South-western district, Masson 

aker. — Bulb ovoid, : in. diam. ae < ae 


lower flowers spreading ; pedicels Sie wiccrage: lower + in. long; 
bracts small, deltoid. Perianth clar et-white, 4 in. long; outer 
segments iii in. longer than the i ean Stamens included. 
_ Hab. Olifants River, Masson. Drawing made in the year 1793. 
Albuca Massoni Baker. — Bulb small. Leaves 6-7, terete, 


g, under a line i uncle slender, 
terete, about as long as the leaves. Raceme rhomboid, 10-12- 
flowered, about 2 in. long and broad; pedicels erecto-patent ; 


lower an inch long; bracts lanceolate, lower } in. long. Perianth 
greenish, } in. long; inner segments rather shorter than the outer. 

ts River, Masson. The drawing = no dissections, 
sO > that the character of the stamens is not show 


337 


NOTES ON PONDWEEDS. 
By Atrrep Fryer. 


erhaps the character by which P. natans may be most readily 
_ separated from the other British species lies in the joint weyers 


texture as the midrib itself:—“ Lamina not extending to the base 
of the midrib, which is bare for its lower }in. Bare portion of the 
same colour as that of the upper part, and so distinguished from 
e midrib proper.”—W. H. Beeby in litt., May 5th, 1886. Prof. 
Babington is, I believe, the only author who has clearly noticed this 
jointed character of the upper leaves :—‘‘ Jointed to the stalks a little 
below the limb.’’—Bab. Manual, ed. vii., p. 871. A second, but less 
easily observe 
well as upp 


JournaL or Borany,—Vou. 25. [Nov., 1886.] 


338 NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 


in the sunshine, and sinks back on the surface of the water; here 


9) 
— 
jo} 
B 
at 
co) 
=) 
a, 
+ 
(a>) 
wa 
— 
er 
o 
° 
rer) 
bb 
<q 
= 
Bp 
4 
Po) 
S 
Bp 
or 
m 
rs 
> 
° 
= 
=] 


the various forms of leaves may be noticed from March to 


have been able to observe in a living state, I make no attempt at 
giving full specific descriptions, but merely endeavour to add a little 
to the life-history of a genus in which, from many of the forms seldom 
perfecting seed, habit and modes of growth are of unusual specific 
oe. _ With a view to the correction of any errors I may 


at a sound knowledge of this difficult genus. Letters may be 
addr.ssed to me at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. 


NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 
By Rey. W. Movie Rocers, F.L.S. 
__ Tuese notes are the fruit of a month’s botanizing (Aug. 7 to 
_ Sept. 3) in N. Wales this year. They leave all but untouched the 
“aracteristic plants of the Welsh highlands, as I reached the top 


339 
of only one of the higher hills,—Manod Mawr (2178 ft. above sea- 
level). None of the rest of the ground examined by me was higher 
than bah a s Mid-agrarian zone, which reaches 900 ft. As a 
8.W. England botanist, visiting Wales for the first time, I 
Eepicially interested in comparing the flora of the lower 
districts with that of ey and Gor nwall, so remar 
it in most respects. ime was Givi ed equally between the 
eouinties of Denbigh and Métigneth ,—my first fortnight being spent 
in the Vale of Llangollen in Denbighshire, and my second partly at 
Dolgelly and says * caeaee Festiniog in Merionethshire. From 
Festiniog I also tw into Carnarvonshire, getting about 
two bignrs’ potainining here time, that in the ne eighbo urhood of 
Roman Bridge railway-station being especially good. 
llowing is my list of “New County Records.” The 
nomenclature i is that of Lon. Cat. ed. 8. Exact localities for each 
“ne ecies will be given in the succeeding notes, where will 
also be found some account of the distribution of the Rosa canina 
forms and other segregates not noticed in ‘ Topographical Botany.’ 


NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 


For DenzicHsHirRE— 


Cardamine flexuo 
Polygala sap lioia 
Lychnis alba. 
Sagina apetala. 
Trifolium dubium. 
S. nodosa. 
Prunus insititia. 
Rubus rhamnifolius. 
R. echinatus. 

. Radula. 


R. fusco-ater. 


For MrrionETHSHIRE— 


Ranunculus hederaceus. 
Nuphar (?) luteum 
Sisymbrium Th haliana. 
Viola —— 
bolyeaie ‘serpyllacea. 
Cerastium semidecandrani. 
sche serpyllifolia. 


Sagina apetala. 
Talva moschata. 
Prunus insititia. 


eben plicatus 
R. (?) nitidus. 


Rubus corylifolius. 
Pyrus torminalis 
allitriche stagnalis. 


Hieracium vulgatum. 
Betul 


Quercus s peduneulata. 
Salix ¢ 

Cone aquatica 
Lastrea dilatata. 


Rubus rhamnifolius. 
R. leucostachys. 

osa arvensis. 
Callitriche rer 
Epilobium palu str 
Scandix Pect en- Foukein: 


urnum Opul 
Asperula odorata. 


Hyposkiecs glabra. 
ntodon hirtus. 


Anagallis tenella. 


840 NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 


Menyanthes trifoliata. 
Myosotis cespitosa 
Kchium vulgare. 
entha hirsuta. 
Lamium Gal 


Betula 
B. clutinosa. 
Salix cinerea. 


For CarnaRvonsHIRE— 


Trifolium dubium. 
Lotus corniculatus. 


obdolon 
Polygonum lapathifolium. 
alba. 


Carex Goodenowii. 

C. pallescens. 

Holeus mollis. 

Sta dpa communis. 

Me lica u 

Aira pstantiylion 
preecox. 

Giyeeri plicata. 

Festuca sciuroides. 
Bromus sterilis. 
Brachypodium sylvaticum. 

eum. 
Lastrea a S. 
L. dilatata 
Equisetum arvense. 
L. limosum. 


— muralis (queried in ‘ To- 
y’)- 


graphic ea tan 


—— suberectus. Betula Butine 
R. plicatus. Lastrea dilatata, 
R. Sprengelii. 


the notes which follow, the three counties are represented 
each by its initial letter,—D, M and C.: 
Ranunculus Lenormandi F. Schultz. M. ae abundant ; 
ascending to nearly — ft. on Manod Mawr. OG. Bettws y Coed. 
n only by lakes Tal y hlyn tye Llyn 
No eer Batrachian seen. 
Nuphar ? luteum 8m. Form with ioave es no larger than those of 
pumilum, ynwch ; in considerable quantity, but not in 
ower. Seen also in the Festiniog neighbourhood. In Top. Bot. 
the eae is not credited with any Nuphar. 
er Rheas L. Seen only in the yard of Valle Crucis 
Abbey (b (D). —P. dubium L. D. Llangollen; by railroad and in 
fields near, abundant. Valle Crucis. M. Glyn dyfrdwy. No other 
seen 


sg 
~ Chelidonium majus Lj. In four spots only, and all near houses, 


viz., D. At Llangollen and Valle Crucis, sparingly. M. By Cross 
Foxes Inn (near Cader Idris), rar eas 
Corydalis claviculata oel Cynweh. Bwleh Llyn 
. Near Roman Bri 


Cardamine flexuosa With. Common everywhere (more so than 
C. hirsuta), and ascending to 2000 ft. on Manod Mawr. 
: gent an . By the Dee at Llangollen, on the ap 
in great quantity, uite twent miles, I should suppose, from the 
spe red y 0 ppo 


: : _ Brassica Fey i e sora H. C. Wats. D. By the Dee, at 


NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 341 


Lepidium piste Hook. Apparently rare. D. Near Llangollen. 

M. Near the Cross Foxes Inn, Cader 

 ‘Teesdalia pee R.Br. D. Geraint Hill. M. Poi Se 
Viola palustris L. Remarkably common.— V. hirta L. 

Near rrr — V. Reichenbachiana Bor. M. By Cwm Caan 

— a Sm . Festiniog ; heathy places near wa 

good q uate, 28th August. cel not before shige pot 


Polygala oxpytera omens Geraint Hill. Acrefair—P. ser i 

: Weihe. Common. not see any well-marked vulgart 

Lychnis alba Mill, D Llangollen sGdibomidon common. 
th. 


Arenaria adh ta Leeds: Llangollen. ‘Acrefair. M. Bar- 
mouth.—e. lep oclados Guss. D. Llangollen. M. Tan y Bwlch. 


ergula arvensis L. Very common; usually vulgaris, but by 
the Dee at Llangollen sativa. 
igonum si um Fr. D. Acrefair, common. M. Tan-y- 
adie. Barmouth. 
Hypericum proereni L. Apparently rare. M. Near base 
of Moel Cynweh. C. Bettws y Coed.-- H. perforatum L. Vale 


26 EG aro eet RETEST ey fr ose eeenGe wet 28 


—H. dubium Leers. The abundance of this plant wherever I 
went seemed to me to be one of the most noticeable things in the 
North Wales Flora. I thought it not only the most —* 
distributed, but literally the commonest Hypericum. In Devon and 
Cornwall it is local and seldom found far from the cake eis 
ei —— it is as yet wholly unknown.—b. maculatum Bab. M. 
fe Between Blaenau and Festiniog, roadside in open heathy place; 
Sixerel ac dthak, At first sight more like perforatum than dubiwm. 

— H. elodes Huds. M. Vale of Festiniog,—up to Blaenau, rather 
frequent. 

ag moschata Li. D. Vale of Llangollen and Acrefair, frequent. 
__M. Seen only in two spots near Dolgelly.— M. rotundifolia 
: Hlangollen, ae here and there along the base of the Eglwseg 
Roeks. M. Barmouth. 

Tilia cordata Mill. OD. By sa Dee, Llangollen ‘ M. Near 
Dolgelly; roadside and in wood to ‘ Torrent Walk. Perhaps 
‘only planted in both counties. 

Geranium pratense L. D. Valley south-west i Llangollen. — 
G. pyrenaicum Burm. f. D. Roadside banks for some distance aa? 


eres Rocks, frequent. — G. lucidum L. D. Berwyn. Trevor 
M. Dolgelly. 


= Sa estate L. Very common. Up to over 2000 ft. (just 
below the top) on Manod Mawr. 


842 NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 


Impatiens Noli-tangere L. M. In two places (damp and rather 
shady) three or four miles apart, near Dolgelly; in plenty. 
think clearly native here. 

Rhamnus Frangula L. By Cwm Camlan and at Tan-y-Bwlch, 
abundant. 


; on. 

Trifolium medium L. Uncommon. OD. By the Dee at Llan- 
gollen. C. Bettws y Coed.—T. striatum L. D. In one place near 
Llangollen. — 7. hybridum L. D. Casual; less abundant than in 
8.W. England. — 7. dubium Sibth. Very common. <‘ New” for 
D and C no doubt only in the sense of having been previously 
overlooked, or not distinguished from the kindred species procumbens 
and /iliforme. 

Lotus corniculatus L. Common. OC. Near Roman Bridge. 
Previously overlooked in this county. 

Ornithopus perpusillus-L. D. Berwyn. . Common. 

Vicia Orobus DC. M. Festiniog, hilly pasture near waterfall, 
abundant. — V. angustifolium Roth. D. Frequent. 

Lathyrus macrorrhizus Wimm. Locally abundant. 

Prunus insititia L. By the Dee at Llangollen. M. Glyndyfrdwy. 
Dolgelly. —P. avium L. D, Llangollen. Geraint Hill. M. Near 
Dolgelly. No Cerasus seen.--P. Padus L. D. Base of Eglwseg 
Rocks. C. Bettws y Coed. 

Rubus Ideus L. Very Common. — R. suberectus Anders. M. 
Vale of Festiniog, rather frequent. ©. Roman Bridge. — R. 
plicatus W. & N. M. Near Tan y Llyn. Vale of Festiniog up to 
i man Bridge. — Rh. ? 


-& N, 

ees. D. Vale of Llangollen, rather frequent. M. Between 
Barmouth and Dolgelly, roadside. — R. rhamnifolius W. & N. 
Frequent. R. incurvatus Bab. M. Near Dolgelly, abundant. 
Vale of Festiniog up to Blaenau, locally common. Apparently one 
of the characteristic brambles of Merionethshire.. C. Near Roman 
ridge. Here, elieve, must also come a more prickly form 
which grows among the hills north-west of Valle Crucis Abbey. —— 
fi. rusticanus Mere. D. and M. Locally common —— R. leucostachys 
Sm. Widely distributed, but not seen in great quantity. WD. 
Trevor Rocks, Pentrefelin, &c. M. Dolgelly and Vale of Festiniog. 
i ed. — R. calvatus Blox. 
y : « oth. tad, G; anes 

on. — fi. macrophyllus W. & N. (aggregate). M. Vale o 
i ao: man Bri nig None Coed. — R. 


SHORT NOTES. 8438 


the bramble which reaches ee 1100 ft. near Buxton, named 

pallidus by Mr. J. G. Baker in 1884, but quite unlike the alls of 

Dr. Focke, which I ee distinguish from the are usually 

named hwmifusus by us. Typical rosaceus I did not meet with.— 

b. Hystrix Weihe, a very prickly form. M. Bettedta Blecate and 

esting, heathy roadside. — R. echinatus Lindl. D. Llangollen, 
side bank north of recreation-ground. — R. fusco-ater Weihe ? 


Mr sien thus names a h e bramb w near the 
nd appears to me to be exceedingly like a Somersetshire plant 
collected by th as r el near Castle Ner and named 


ant and characteristic Rubi. — oe ius & angollen 
and se of Eglwseg Rocks. M. Barm 
Potentilla procumbens Sibth. Local. °D. Gi int Hill, in plenty. 
Near Cross Foxes Inn, Cader. Between Blaenau and 
Festinio og. 
Alchemilla vulgaris L. Com 
Agrimonia Eupatoria L. D. "Baily frequent. M. Not seen.— 


Rosa site ncentiied i M. Barmouth, omen 
Sm. Fairly common. — bi scabriuscula Sm. gai Mens aoecrte 
in two places.— R. canina L. D. Exceedingly abundant and 
varied in the Vale of Llaipotlied and along the base of the Eglwseg 
Rocks, the commonest forms being lutetiana, dumalis, urbica, and a 
suberistate one dap pecrecs plone 8 and W aiaams, I also 


Neither at Visead (780 ft. above sea- Seah, nor at Vostiniog . 
(700 ft.), could I find a rose-bush of any kind ; but at Maentwrog, 


all the other species. | 
(To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 
p West Sutsertanp Prants. — The ten ea 


list 6 of elias waited 3 in Jul sais year by the Rev. E. 8. Marshall 
and 7 in company with Mr. J. Grant, will supp joint the 


844 SHORT NOTES. 


paper on the Botany of Caithness and West Sutherland published 
in Journ. Bot. 1885, p. 333. may mention that this year we did 
not go further west in Sutherland than Betty Hill. Hieracium 


after they ave been identified. The pone records do not 
appear in ‘ Topographical Botany,’ ed. ii 


108. Wezsr Senna ais 
Barbarea vulgaris Br. 
Polygala eu-vulgaris. Banks east of the Nav 
Sagina maritima Don. By the Naver. Cherie for 108 in Top. Bot. 
Lepig son marinum (agg.), Coast at Melvich. 
Alche ich. 
A. dulgairts L. Cliffs west of the Naver. 
Scandix Pecten-Veneris L. Melvich. 
Arctium minus Schk. Cliffs at Melvich. 
Hieracium norvegicum Fr. Cliffs at Melvich. 
H. prenanthoides Vill. Cliffs at Melvich. 
Ajuga reptans L. Base of cliffs west of Naver. 


‘Allium ursinum L. Cliffs west of the Nave 

Carex Oederi Ehrh. Melvich, and east site ‘of Naver. 
Phragmites communis Trin. B the Naver. 

Glyceria maritima Wahl. East ed bse the Naver. - 
Agropyron repens ‘Be eauv. By the 

Kquisetum sylvaticum L. At Birsthy. ‘and near Betty Hill. 


109. CarTHNEss. 
Ranunculus Drouetii Godr. Dunnet Links. 
R. heterophyllus Web. exp. At Castletown, and in a burn on 
the Reay Links 
Punnatta officinali is L. Cornfield at Reay. 
Polygala eu-vulgaris. By the Thurso River. 
_Myosotis repens D. Don. By — a 
Salix phylicifolia “LL.” Loch D : 
rome ene nitens Web. Wick River: Thurso River, and in 
inle 


ee ‘ “sonst aa Jluitans L. In a pond by the road between Wick and 


ey Carex disticha Huds. Wet meadow north of the Wick River, 
abouid 14 miles from Wick. 

 -C. eapillaris L. ~Dunnet Links. 
_ (. Oedert Ehrh, aA the Wick River. 

(—-Frepenic cx J. Hanpury 


i aki ni OST PLANTS. — Tex aie 
usually s his s plant to be fariatis on the roots of vari 
: slants, but ae n 


, on turf-clad, chalky cliffs, downs or 


SHORT NOTES. 345 


pastures, I took the trouble to dig up a number and examine the 
roots. The latter were generally considerably branched, ultimately 
ending in slender fibres, which were more or less abundantly 
furnished with disk-like haustoria, flattened on the lower caput 
that is towards the host-plant. The thicker branches of the 
were occasionally furnished with haustoria, possibly on co wae 
contact with a suitable host. The plant is mm no means a 
most thi 


ural orders. The ing 3 is a list of those eae haustoria 
attached to their roots :—Lo ee Anthyllis Vulneraria, 
Medicago lupulina, Ononis arvensis, Hieracium Pilosella, Ranunculus 


lbosus, Plantago lanceolata, Viola hi Ae "Thi ymus Serpyllum var. 
Chameadrys, Asperula cynanchica, Galiwn verum, Dactylis glomerata, 
estuca ovina var.— ASER. 
Hampsuire Puants. — On sit of the members of the West 
Sussex Natural flistary Society Ni Higling Island at the beginning 
of September last, Gnaphalium luteo-album was met with not far 


"4 a oe _ of the island, whence he has kindly sent me 
he occurrence of this species in Hants has been 
Bihiarto biel F. H. Arnoxp. 

Epmosrom ancustirotium L. m Campriezsure. — This plant 
grows by a fo roadway in the parish of Chatteris, but, as it is 
“a “2 gee along ditch-sides and similar wild places, it must be 
00 


- cultivation’? much more firmly than its congener, P. Fagopyrum, 
ge oe Roe grown as a Crop, oe = 
! 8. c 


succumb to some usualy severe winters, it is sure tos ring up 


3846 SHORT NOTES, 


segetum, Galium elongatum, Arctium minus, Veronica persica, Juncus 
glaucus, and Carea divulsa; also the following varieties of Rosa 
canina,—lutetiana, dumalis, urbica, obtusifolia, tomentella, verticilla- 
cantha, and glawca.—W. Movie Rocers. ; 

New Surrey Pranrs.—This summer I have paid some attention 
to the Thames-side portion of the Bourne Brook basin--a part 


in a slow ditch ; and Tolypella intricata Leonh., several fine tufts of 
which were found in another ditch.—W. H. Brxsy. 
CaLLitRicHE TRUNCATA Gussone in West Kent. — Last Easter, 

when looking through Borrer’s Herbarium for Surrey records, 
I noticed a Callitriche collected by the late G. E. Smith “in the 
stream at Westerham,” and named “(. pedunculata.” Tt was 
evident that the plant could be referred only to the above species 
or to C. autumnalis L. In June I was so fortunate as to the 
plant in the locality indicated, but I have not succeeded in getting 
it in ripe fruit. The occurrence of C. autumnalis in Kent is, how- 
ever, more than improbable, and the resumption is all in favour 
f the other species. The single immature fruit found shows no 

i a wing, and I think that the plant may be considered 
C. truncata Gussone; though it is to be hoped that ripe fruit wi 

e found on some future occasion. The locality in which the plant 
occurs is only a mile from the county border; but I have not 
detected it in Surrey, in which county it is not, however, unlikely 
to be found.-W. H. Bzrsy. 


blossom by Mr. C. Crouch, but at present its area is rather more 
restricted than when first observed. It grows on the open hill- 


REVISION DE PLANTAS VASCULARES FILIPINAS, B47 


paludal flora that found a congenial habitat in the locality, but 
which had gradually dwindled away as the moisture a ished. 


. purum, an . squarrosum. In fivthex oonteate tion of the 
suggested solution of the difficulty it may be mentioned that the 
three plants, eee Parnassia, and Carex binervis, occur rather 
plentifully in a marshy meadow on chalky soil at Totternhoe, Beds. 
They are, howivan, not so abundant in this station as yy = 


Sourn Breps. — aes ree grows penta in 
several ek dows called on Réterahue Meads,”’ and in such circum- 
stances as to suggest that the species is indigenous to the locality. 

‘t grows associated with a rich, truly native flora, its foliage forming 


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—— NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

- Revision de Plantas Vasculares Filipinas, Memoria elevada al Exemo. 
Sr. Ministro de Ultramar. Por EBASTIAN VipaL ¥ SOLER 
Inspector General de 2a. sen J ofe dela Comision. Manila, 
: 1886. 8vo, pp. 454. tes. 

e Tas valuable contribution to Philippine Spee published by 
A cGiority of the Spanish Government, is not exactly a revision of 
the vascular plants of the islands, as ite title would indicate. It is 
really the Report of the Chief of the Forest Flor a Commission to 
the Spanish Ministry, with a revision of the plants collected by 


herbaria visited by him, viz., Kew, the British Museum, Paris, 
Madrid. A few of the principal features of the Philippine Flora are 
also pointed pee us it. 

he Systematic Catalogue deals with numbers 1 to 2000 of the 
Philippine cna half of which were ay jointly = 
Don § myself; the — which were forward 


348 


REVISION 


DE PLANTAS VASCULARES FILIPINAS. 


St. Ignatius’s Bean—a source of the poisonous drug, strychnine, = 
which the ea information has up to the present time bee 


extremely impe 


0. ori new species are described by the author. 


The 


ata pages are annexed, but, as no sets have been distributed, 
the numbers are not given. A complete set of the whole collection 


is, iioeavers deposited at Kew 


few of Cuming’s distributed 


numbers are quoted, and these I reproduce :— 


Wormia luzoniensis, p. 36. 

Rolfei (A. suaveolens 

Vidal, Sinops.* tab. 4, fig. D, 
fio: 


Saccopetalum longipes, p. 48. 
Pyenarr hena manillensis, p. 45. 


Dipterocarpas ‘velutinus, p . 59. 
Heritiera sylvati lea, Pp. 66. 
Pterospermum niveum, p. 67.——- 
uming, n. 1163. 
Diplophractum philippinense, p.71 
Beddomea jensis, p. 84. 


p. Of. 
sis (h. Hel- 
Jeri Vidal, Sinope _ 39, fig. 
B, non .f3; or 
Gleditschia Roljei ; in 
rhshesaerra ee p. 1238. 


36. 
remia Batitinan (L. hea- 


aptera Vidal, Sinops. tab. 52, 
A, non Miq.), p. 139 
Homatium Villarianum, p. 142. 


g. B, non Benth.), p. 148 
Xanthophytum faneste p. 150. 
Gardenia longiflora, 53. 
Centratherum aE DOANGR, p. 159. 
Vernonia st Ham., var. ves- 

tita, p. 1 60.—Cuming, n, ‘495. 
Gynura purpurascens, p. ; 
Lactuca luzonica, p. 165. —— Cu- 

ming, n, 1642. 
Vaccinium Villarii (V. varingie- 


folium Vidal, Sinops. tab. “60, 
fig. D, non Miq.), p. 166.— 
Cuming 


Vs Cumingianum (V. sp.? Vidal, 

Sinops. tab. 60, fig. C), p. 167. 
—Cuming, n. 805. 

V. luzoniense, p. 168. 

V. benguetense, p. 168. 

V. Barandanum, p. 169. 

V. indutum, p. 169. 

Rhododendron Quadrasianum, p- 
170.—Cuming, 04. 


R. Sesiliceem, 2: 171. 

R. rosmarinifolium, p. 172. 

rssaastal Villarit, p. 178. 

. pseudo-spicata (8. spicata 

Vidal, Sinops. tab. 64, non 
179 


xb.), p. 179. 
S. montana,} p. 179. 


Se an ae ee 
ty Vidal, ‘ i, * Sinopsis de Familias y Generos de Plantas lenosas de Filipinas.’ 


tA here esi 
‘iii. pp. 86 & 87 
call this R. Vidalii a he 


“fer 5 vi. 250, ye, iat Sew 
——— Ss 


Rhododendron verticillatum Low in Journ. Hort. Soc. 
with Scare: Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 884; from Borneo, 


I propose to 


} There is already a Symplocos montana Brong. & Gris. in gs des Sc. Nat. 
 Ceetogin : I therefore propose to this S. 


REVISION DE PLANTAS 


Linociera coriacea, p. 181 


Alyxia monilifera (A. stellata 
Vidal, Sinops. tab. ‘ 
on Rem. & Schultes), p. 182 

Parsonsia Rheedii F. ‘ 


fig. 

spiralis Blanco. 
Rheedii Naves, in Fieri FL 
a ed. 8, tab. 810, non 
Wight), p. 184. 
Cran Senet p-. 191. 
Cordia Blan (C. Sebestena 


cl. syn., non 

aaa Myxa Vidal, Sinops. tab. 

70, fig. D, n on L.), p. 192. 
202. 


Ehretia Navesii (Menais mollis 
lanco. — LEhretia virgata 

Naves in Blanco, Fl. Filip. 
_ ed. 8, t. 70, excl. syn., non 
Blanco), p. 194. 

Cryptocarya luzoniensis, p. 222. 

C. Villarii, p. 222. 

C, ilocana, p. 223. 

Beilschmiedia Cairocan (B. sp.? 


first ¢ Z i 


VASCULARES FILIPINAS. 849 


bipet Sinops. tab. 78, fig. F), 


Anant pig 
Vidal, Sin 
non Reivw, i 

Litsea Perottetis 7 Villar, var. 
parviflora, p 

L. Perottetii i Villar, var. Vil- 
larit, p. 225. 

L. verticillata, 


cadot (C. iners 
ps. mh 78, fig. A, 


Cleistanthus Blancot Gluta 
orgyalis Blanco (‘‘ probably’’), 
p. 234. 


cupreus,* p. 2 

Phyllanthus rnin, p- - 
Agrostistachys Mes 
Taxotrophis ilivifolia, | my 24 
Behmeria Weddelia na, p. 
Quercus Soleriana 

var. convexa Naves in Blanco, 

Fl. Filip. ed. 3, t. 441, non 

Bl.), p. 261. 
Q. Castellarnauiana, p. 264. 


Ss sae. teanalers are here made, apparently for the 


aoe plagata (H. odorata Vidal, binant tab. 15, fig. A, excl. 


fig. 


5 (a fruit placed here by error), non R 


. -— Mocanera plagata 


. 1).-—Dipterocarpus plagata ase (ed, 2), — Anisoptera 


Blanco fee 
plagata Blume), p. 62. 


pocum Roem. & Schultes 


Badusa philippica (Cinchona philippica Cav.—Erostemma philip- 
. 150. 


Chrysopogon villosulis (Andropogon villosulis Sieh s p. 291. 


done mntil the Philippine collections in — herbaria are more 


Complete; but let us hope, as so 


“that genu s bein 


good a beginning has been made, 


that the materials for such a a will in due time be forthcoming. 


A. Hours. 


(Sip gs crcanearmepesge ee —— an 

sir Nanopetalum amyrianthun Sisssk: nail stand as a synonym of this species ; 

gorges to Cleistanthus 
‘Phanerogame Cursingienss 

was accidentally o 

—-Randia obscura Vidal, Sinops. t. 57, fig. B), 


@ Philippinaren (supra, 
overlooked :— Gardenia 


350 BOOKS ON BACTERIOLOGY. 


‘ 
Recent Booxs on Bacterro.oey. 


most part on previous works, but giving special prominence to, say, 
the kettle—the primitive type of which is undoubtedly the original 
domestic ‘ potato-steamer.”’ Certainly the student of Bacteriology 

. . . . is 


d tap d 
Woodhead and Hare, at p. 61 of their ‘Pathological Mycology,’ and 
Dr. Crookshank, at p. 79 of his ‘ Practical Bacteriology,’ show him 
with the aid of a diagram how to do this. It is conceivable that 


inventing sterilizing methods and apparatus and staining fluids,— 
all no doubt excellent and necessary things,_but, when made too 


it gave rise in those insects either to Entomophthora, or to Mucor if 
they were on a damp substratum, or if they fell into the water to 
Achlya. From the Mucor again they derived Saccharomyces in & 
sugar solution, &c. 


tions are simply ghastly; and the book is quite equalled in this 
er respect by Roster’s ‘Il Pulviscolo atmosferico.’ A book 
<p vO Serious student of the subject can do without is Hueppe’s 
‘men der Bakterien und ihre Beziehungen zu den Gattungen 


= 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 851 


und neg (Wiesbaden. C. W. Kreidel, 1886). It forms a com- 
panion to the same author’s ‘ Die Methoden der Bakterien-forschung’ 
Published last year (by the same publisher). It is in very handy 
form » and well illustrated. A ae ae kind of publication is 
pai 


L. Voss, 1886), In it there is Bi “forth in handy tabular form a 
description of the more important Schizophytes. ‘Die Untersuch- 

gs-methoden,’ by Drs. Huber and Becker (Leipzig, Vogel, 1886), 
is a book on the familiar plan dealing with instruments, reagents, 
methods of preparation, staining m methods, preserving substan neces, 
&c., by Dr. Huber, while the account of the Bacteria themselves is 
given by Dr. Becker. It is well written and illustrated. eit 
a Dictionary of Bacteriology has been published, called ‘ Woérterbuch 
der “arte mares von Dr. W. D. Miller r (St uttgart, Ferdinan d 
Enke, 1886). s in German, and is doubtless a useful publication, 
but greatly ‘battered from the botanical point of view by the names 
ieee in it without any authority. One or two minor blunders 
are more absurd than serious—such as describing creer ner as & 


be ¢ rect in a dicti onary“ aand a small dictionary—leaves room for 
stern For example, ‘‘ Uromycetes’’ is abominable, because it 
looks like the name of a new natural order. ‘‘ Sphacelia’’ is descri 


r. Miller would simply omit these names ungi, which have 
nothing in the world to do with Bacteriology, se wo 
serious number of errors. ce Murray. 


Unper the title ‘ Bibliotheca Botanica’ and the editorship of 
illustrat 


is =a chat by Fischer, of Cassel. Hach issue is complete in 


New Booxs.—-H. Lacuor, ‘Flore élémentaire’ (plants of Semur, 
Cote d'Or), (12mo, pp. xvi. 240). — C. Satomon, ‘ Worterbuch der 
botanischen Gattungsnamen’; and i Wartaxbuck der gn ep 
Bee tiche fiir Gartenfreunde ’ — Mead “© 188 

iv 


Oo, pp 92, & i TEN ‘ Saas, 
** Dictionary of English Plaht-nain s’ (part i leting the 
wor riib — i. Prrrzer, ‘ Morphologische Studien ueber 
die Orchideenbliithe’ (Heidelberg, Winter: 8vo, pp. 139, 65 cuts) 


—-E. Voazs, ‘ ee Pflanzenleben des Meeres’ agi Frohberg: 
8vo, pp. 83, 2 uts) J. L. pe Lanessan, ‘ Les Plantes Utiles des 
nies ‘oe oce (Paris, jaseiclibele id ee. pp. iv. 990). 


852 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 

Ann lag. Nat. Hist. os ) ——W. Fawcett, ‘An entomogenous 
Fungus’ ge eee Lloydii, sp. n.). 

Bot. Centralblatt. (Nos. 49-45 ).—C. Hassack, ‘ Untersuchungen 
tiber den anatomischen Bau bunter La ubbliitter, nebst einigen 
Bemerkungen, betreffend die physiologische Bedeutung der Bunt- 
farbung derselben 
Gazette (Sept.). - — A. Gray, ‘Essay toward a revision of 
Dodecatheon’ (D. Hendersoni, Sa n.). —W.G. Farlow, ‘ Development 
re a of U. Sta — D. E. Salmon, - The Theory of 

rom contagious discos — W. J. Beal, ‘Expulsion of 
sees 6 of Sporobolus cryptan 

Bot. Zeitung (Oct. 1, 8). a W ortmann, ‘Ueber die Natur der 
rotirenden Nutation der Schlingpflanzen.’ — (Oct. 15, 22). A. 
Meyer, ‘ Ueber die wahre Natur der Starke-Cellulose Niigeli’s.’ 

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Oct.). — HE. L. Scribner, ‘ The Oran nge- 
leaf Scab.’ —— J. 8. Newberry, ‘ Pinus monophylla & P. edulis.’— 

N. L. Britton, ‘On Anychia.’—Aconitum Noveboracense A. Gr., 0. sp. 

Flora (Sept. 11). -- O. Bachmann, ‘ Untersuchungen iber die 
systematische aac der la oon (contd.: 5 plates).— 
a 21, Oct. 1), —. Roll, ‘Zur Systematik der Torfmoose.’—— 

G. Reichenbach, ¢ Sievekingia’ (S. pein S. Jenmani, spp. nn.). 

Gardeners’ Chronicle (Oct. 2).— A. D. Webster, ‘ Spiranthes 
Romanzoffiana.’—-Amorphophallus Titanum Aino 88, 89),—Develop- 
90 


ment of Trientalis europea (fig. 90). — (Oc ‘Gon gora flaveola 
Rehb. f., Aristolochia salpinx Mast. (fig. 92), spp. n. tia iat Hate a 
(fig. 95). — — (Oct. 16. Odontoglossum ees ign Rehb, f., Den- 


drobium hercoglossum Rehb. f., spp. nn. — Tsuga Br unoniana (fig. 
101).—(Oct. 23). Habenaria miliaris Rehb. f., sp. n.—Orchidantha 
(gen. nov., Scitamine@) borneensis N. E. Br.—( Oct. 80). Dendrobium 
tnauditum Rehb. f., Esmeralda Clavkei Rehb. f., spp. nn. 

Notarisia (Oct.).—G. B. De Toni & D. Levi, ‘ Censimento delle 
Sel cnance. ttalighe finora scoperte.’ —Id., ‘Schemata generum 
Floridearum’ (contd. : 8 tab.). 

Oesterr. Bot. chain Ost) 4. B. Wiesbaur, ‘ Neue Rosen 
von éstlichen Erzegebirge.’—A. Hausgirg, ‘ Der Salzwasser Algen- 

pause — EB. Formanek, ‘Flora der Carpathen.’ — L. 
disch.’ 


_ Scottish Naturalist ( (Oct.). — O. Nordstedt, ‘ British Submarine 

= fost (1 plate). 

Trans. Linn. Soc, am Arg as ii. pt. 9). — J. D. Hooker, 

- ates elastica’ (i plate). —(pt. 1 1, Sept.). G. Mur uray, ‘A new 
Rhipilia (R. Andersonii) from Mergui "Archipelago’ : and ‘ Two new 


< : eee of Heqeaeal (L. seleroticola and L. 7: aylorii), (1 plate).— 


( Oct.). W. Fawcett, «New species of Bualanophora and 
nem aingia, with a note on Brugmansia Lowi’ (Balanophora Zol- 

heres &B ens, B. ramosa, B. multibrachiata, B. Forbesii, 
eee * MPP: nn.: 4 plates). 


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ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW 
GUINEA COLLECTED BY MR. H. O. FORBES. 
By H. N. Rouey, M.A., F.L.S. 

(Puates 270 & 271). 

(Concluded from p. 327.) 


; Coelogyne Rumphii Lindley, Fol. ae No. 36. — Angraecum 
ie Rumphius, Herb. Amboin. vi. t. 48. — Sogere, 2000 ft., 
ie : 


I have no doubt but that this Am is the species intended by 
Rumphius in the above-quoted plate. Lindley never saw any spe- 
cimen, and I do hot know that it has over been met with by any- 


A 
except Rumphius’ has been published, I ee one :—Pseudo- 
bulbi elongati, angusti 2 uncias longi. Folium singulum erectum 


aces Sepalum 
Em fag rilaie lanceolatum, lateralia late lanceolata, acuta. Petala 
angusta linearia acuta. Labellum ellipticum oblongum trilobum, 
lobi a obtusi rotundati erecti obliqui, medius obcordatus 
latus rene rotundatus cuspidatus : caring tres rufe sinuate, 
xterne quam me 


Eoeaete flava arcuata, apice late dilatato aurantiaco, alis latis 
ongisque superne rotundatis clinandrium integrum obtegentibus. 
na one incomplete biloculata. Stigma latum profundum 
oblongum marginibus oreee is. 

Co earns pustulosa, n.sp.—Folia desunt. Scapus 8 uncialis 
flexuosus validulus. semes membranacee lanceolate unciales, 
convolute, pedicellum et ovarium involventes. Flores magni. 
Sepala lanceolata acuta 3-uncia longa ferme }-uncia lata. Petala 
angustiora lanceolata lorata 3-uncialia. Labellum unciale trilobum 


tenuibus pallidis. Columna gee peas Sia parce Coke 
Scente. Als clinandrii breves antheram haud tegentes. Anthera 
'  Galeata, pallida. Rostellum latum cartilagineum ra ia 
___- Prominens ovatum. Ale columnares anguste. Pollinia splendide 
citrina, basibus in disco plano subtriangulari molli citrino ne 
uth C 
Although I have seen no more than a single flower-spike, this 
utiful plant seems so distinct that I have ventured to describe 
and name it. 
_ Spathoglottis plicata Blume.— ‘‘ Flowers rose-coloured, with the 
d tip of llum dark rose-purple, the lower part close to 


Journan or Botany.—Vou. 24. (Dxc., 1886.] 2a 


854 ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 


the column bright orange.” Mt. Korkoko, at 2000 ft. elevation, 
No. 680; also obtained at Jobie Island by Barclay, and recorded 
from Segaar Bay, Western New Guinea Kranzlin. This 
species is one of the most widely spread of Tropical Asiatic orchids, 
occurring from Penang to Austraiia, which is especially interesting, 
as the plant i is self- fertiliz ed. 


1 —Planta glabra basi bulbosa. 
Folia plura angusta lanceolata Sree petiolata, acuminata, 
uncias longa, 3-uncia lata. Scapi circiter bipedales graciles, vaginis 
paucis arctis striatis remotis acutis uncialibus. Bractee semi- 


unciales ovate lanceolat ut iis S. plicate minore 
purpurei erecti in pedicellis gracilibus uncialibus. Sepala ta 
obtus ngustiora, subsequilonga. Labellum trilobum, 


lo 

equalis spathulatus obeuneatus apice rotundato, subintegro, ungue 
revi, ad basin lobi medii cornua duo complanata truncata. 
Columna semitere arum curva, alis angustissimis. Capsula 


This _— has somewhat the habit of the narrow-leaved form 
f S. plicata (Bletia angustata Gaud. Voy. Uranie, p. ; 
ang ruil ‘eul Pl. 32), but has much smaller flowers, with a 
shor of which the lobes are nearly equal, owing to the 
greed Hi of the claw of the median lobe, which is long and 


ecies 

nthephippium javanicum ‘Bl. — Terrestrial. Flowers pe 
_ streaked with red, centre oe Lip cream-yellow to pink tin 

Sogere, 2000 ft., Nos 390 
ope papuana, n. 8p. — — Folia ignota. Scapi validi 
bipedales, in rhizomate li vaginis brunneis tecto, basi paullo 
incrassati. Racemus 2 comosus laxus multiflorus. Flores 
magni. s getaces unciales. Pedicelli 4-uncia longi. 
Sepala lanceolata acuminata % uncia longa } uncia lata. Petala 
breviora obtusiora. Labellum trilobum oblongum cuneatum basi 
brevissime calcaratum sr brevibus ferme zqualibus — discus 
pubescens mer brevibus 2 in venis medianis. Columna gracilis 
alis alt cele undatis. “Pollinia 2 triangularia. riers: galeata 


Sogere, No. 391. The whole plant dries black. 

Appendicula —— n.sp., Tab. 270.—Cespitosa. Caules 
sevrcrs semipedales, erecti. Folia elliptica shail emarginata 

cuspi 


irides. Flores minimi — flavescentes (in sicco). Sep 
ovata cuspidata lateralia apicibus deflexis. Petala angustiora 
Peres a ser ree re sis obcuneatum, sepalo # rs 
— — 0 liculo, apice sub- 

a eee nesta lateribus te es TP Calear 
. 1um obtusum. thane brevi, clinandrio haud gut 
rn ida, lobis acutis a Stigma ovatum triangulum. 


ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 855 


Anthera obtusa lata. Pollinia longa pyriformia acuta, attenuata: 
stipites tenues elongate-triangulares, glandula elliptica parva. 
peace 3 2 lineas longa, elliptica oblonga. 

South Cape. 
This curious plant is remarkable for its flattened spike of 
distichous bracts 

Tric choglottis leontoglossa, n. sp. — Caulis 6 uncias longus 
validulus, vaginis foliorum antiquorum ace 4 uncialibus. Folia 
lanceolata acuminata subo btusa apice biloba coriacea 4 uncia lata, 


linguiformis obtusus, discus see basi et in pagina inferiore 
canaliculatus pa cE canaliculi ad basin incrassatis. Calcar 

breve crassum rectum clavyatum a. Fate bilobo. Columna brevis 
crassa quadrata, stigmate profundo magno, qu Clinandrium 
profundum, marginibus erectis. Anthera incomplete biloculata 


ft., No. 889. 
ra papuana, n. sp. — Herba 16 uncias alta. Folia 5, 


m ] rac 
glanduloso-pubescente. Bractew florales, Rigcs superantes glandu- 
loso-pubescentes. Flores iis G. fumate Thw. equales. § 


erecta. Labellum latum ovatum subacutum concavum, intus vil- 


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= a 
bifidum. Pollinia vix caudiculata. Stigma subintegra. Capsula 
elliptica ee perianthio persistente coronata, parce pubescens, 
¢-uncia lon 
Sogere. gone Guinea, H. O. Forbes, No. 
The affinity of this plant is with G. fala ‘thw, of Ceylon. 
Corymbis veratrifolia Rehb. f—Flowers white. Sogere, No. 763. 


APOSTASIACES. 
wiedia calanthoides, n. sp., Tab. 271. — Rhizoma diu 


Racemus multiflorus comosus. Bractee inferiores 


erectus. 
= Pi cn long virides pubescentes. Flores pune < — 


um sepalis cuspidata. Labellum angustum lanceolatum, 
medio. Seaecs subtus pubescente, marginibus tenuibus glabris. 


356 ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 


Anthere anguste lineares brunnee. Filamenta complanata, ultra 
dimidio libera. Stylus mre filiformis versus apicem attenu- 
atus, antheris brevior. — arvum rohpecatorgeri? Ovarium 


8 species is larger than any oniee which I have seen, and is 
ea for its very narrow leaves, the whole plant looking, 
efore the flowers are open, very much like a Calanthe in bud. 


fe : 
the petals which is visible before the flower opens; but the edges 
of the petals, which are then covered by se: sepals, are glabrous. 


ScrTaMInEx, 


Tapeinochilus pungens Miquel.—_Sogere, Nos. 142, 148, 144. 
Several inflorescences of this fine plant were obtained by Mr. 
Forbes. 


uncialis. B eriores (vacus) ae. superl- 
ores (floriferr) late ovate acuminate apicibus recurvis, brevissime 
pubescentes, 1} u nge, uncia late (quo latissime). Flores 
li in ctea, biunciales ferme omnin pubescentes. Sep 
connata, 1} uncialia dura, tubus compressus, curvus, latus, 
marginibus, hispidis, lacinie recurv lanceolate, acutse, postica 
quam s corolle breviter exsertus, pubescens 


u 
lacinie lanceolate unguiculate sube quales dorso pubescens 
Staminodia fates linearia angustissine labello connata. 
bellum o ongum obtusum, carnosulum, concayum, costis duobus 
elevatis ad apicem. Stamen fertile, o eiicasuti ellipticum 0 obtusum 
labello subsequale, loculi lineares ase mes Stylis filiformis 
gracilis. Stigma ad a curv 

Sogere, 8000 ft., Oct. 20, 1885, Noe: Tite: 143. 
This plant is datingiiahed at first sight from the preceding by 


its pubescence, and b: e much more recurved points of the 
gens 1s entirely glabrous, and the bracts in the dry 
plant have a polished rance. ibescens one of 


ris 
the sepals is oes shorter than the others ; the petals, too, are 
eerie d hairy on the back, and the stigma is horse-shoe- 


The inflorescence of the genus is described by the authors of 
the ‘ Genera Plantarum’ as ter minal, and in Miquel’s figure it is 
represented so; but in all the specimens brought by Mr. pbc bs 
appears to have been seated on the rhizome, on a short 
peduncle, after the mann anner of Zingiber, &c. Possibly it ra an 
both positions, as does Costus us afer Li. 

vurcuma aromatica LiF lowers bright orange, in purple spathes. 
_ Sogere, at 1050 ft., Oct. 1885, No. 244. 

Costus speciosus L, iy ea white, Mt. Korkoko, at 2500 ft., 


ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 357 


Alpinia nutans L. —— Victoria Bay. East Coast of New Guinea, 
ae 

ia (§ Hexenta) affinis, n. sp.—Herba valida. Foliorum 

ove os costate; ligule maxime 5 unciales membranacesw glabre 

(fasciculo parvo piloram supra petiolum excepto) petiolus vatiiins 

+ uncia longa, lamina 17 uncias longa, 2} uncias lata quo latissima 


-  Panicul 

pauciramosa ramis pubescentibus. Flores subsecundi biunciales. 
yx 14 uncialis tubulosa spathaceo-fissa, lamina obtusa elliptica 
lorata minute pubescens. Corolle lacinie anguste lanceolate 
acuminate quam tubus breviores. Labellum lanceolatum acutum, 


am st a lin 
nectivo angustissimo. Stylus filiformia ‘(eal 
sutum clavatum. Ovarium pubescens. Bacca ekods glabra pisi 
magnitudine breviter pedicellato, pedicello pubescente. 
Sogere, Oct. 1885, Nos. 2, 58. 
(§ Hetienta) decurva, n. : —Caulis Laoag Foliorum 
me 


an 1 

saan connectivo angustissimo. Filamentum semiunciale 
angustum complan atum basi dilatatum. Stylus filiformis tenuis. 

Stigma minimum clavatum. Ovarium pubescens. Capsula glabra 

elliption rufa vel aurantiaca in ekg tribus demum fissa. Semina 


undat 
Sogere, ‘at 2000-2500 ft. elevation Flowers orange or orange- 


red, bases bright red; Oct. 1885, Nos. 253, Ad 58. In fruit, 
Nos. 41, 57, 231 Fruit light ney or ior a gare 
Clinogyne gra enth. o-like shrub. Fruit light 


is» B 
een. River-side, ‘Somes. 1750 ft. 
Phrynium, near P. capitatum.—Herbaceous shrub. Bracts lake- 
scarlet. Sogere, No. 326. Flowers too young. 


DroscoREACcE. 
Dioscorea pentaphylla Lam. —- Meroka Mountains, at 2500 ft., 
No. 888. 
oe —— Migq. is the only other species yet recorded from New 
Guin 


Liniackez. 


_ Dracena angustifolia Roxb. — Flowers pale yellow, No. 754. 
Fruits bright red, Oct, 1885, No. 274. 


358 ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. 


Dracena sp. ?-—Erect shrub. Fruit green to bright red. Sogere, 
1800 ft., No. 258. This seems to be a different species, the leaves 
being much narrower, and the whole plant smaller. It was not 
obtained in flower, so cannot be identified. 

D. Draco L, (introduced ?) is also recorded from the island. 

Cordyline terminalis Kunth. — Fruit bright scarlet. Sogere, 
1000 ft., No. 18. 

Dianella ensifolia Red. — Flowers dark purple-blue. Sogere, at 
2000 ft., No. 827. 

Smilax leucophylla Blume. — Fruit green. Sogere, at 2500 ft., 
Nos. 178, 189. There are also two other indeterminable species in 
fruit in the collection. 

CoMMELINACER. 

Cyanotis capitata C. B. Clarke. — South Cape, No. 919. The 
flowers appear, from the dried specimen, to have been blue and 
yellow. 


FLAGELLARIACER. 

Flagellaria indica L.—Flowers white or greenish white. River- 
side, Sogere, at 1750 ft., No. 688. Fruits yellowish white, Sogere, 
at 2000 ft., No. 19. 

PaLMm. 
chosperma caryotoides, n. sp. — Palma humilis. Folia 
circiter bipedales rachis triquetra validula fusco-furfuracea, segmenta 


i. Flores ma 
plures arcti. Sepala minima ovata. Petala 8 duplo longiora ovata 
elliptica obtusa striata. Stamina 13, erecti, filamentis brevibus. 
istilli rudimentum tenue elongatum stylo clavato.. Flores 
feminei, magis dissiti. Petala et sepala brevia obtusa lata ovata 
imbricata. -uncia longa aurantiaco-coccinea, elliptica 


gr ‘ 
P. litigiosa Beccari. -— A small palm, with light red drupes with 
lake cheeks. Sogere, at 2500 ft., No. 72. I have not seen the 
flowers of this plant, but in other respects it tallies very well with 


ix Forbesii, n. sp.—Caulis erectus, 4-uncia crassus. 

Folia citeiter pedales, rachis acute angulata, brunneo-furfuracea, 
ta linearia acuminata acuta carinata, 6-9 
uncias longa, } uncia lata, vagina in fibris fissa. Spathe non 
vise, Spadices gracillimi pedales, rachide brunneo-velutino. Flores 


-uncia longi, 1-2 ue 
ovata haud imbricata, parva. Petala lanceolata subobtusa obliqua 
] Stamina 6 brevia dorsifixa. 
lindricum. Flores feminei; drupa 


. Minimun 
- See 


elliptica rostro. brevi, g-uncia longa in capsula parva. 


ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW GUINEA. B59 


Pericarpium tenue crustaceum granulosum, aurantiaca — 
Mesocarpium fibrosum ndocarpium equabile corneum duru 

sen at 2500 ft. Flowers green, and fruit + tiealisielged. 
Nos. 168, 211. 

i. a abellatus Beccari. ~ A neo erect shrub, with immature 
fruit. Sogere, at 2500 ft., No. 2 

The collection contains also a species of Nenga, ne Bie male 
flowers only; and a Calamus, near C. Mish oe Soies ari Wari, 
at 5000 ft. Flowers whitish yellow. No. 


PanDANACES. 
This order seems to be very well represented in New Guinea 
but few species have been sufficiently well collected to be identified 
or described. 
Pandanus latifolius Rumph.—Victoria Bay, Barclay. 
P. Kurzianus Solms Laub. — A tree 12 rs a Fruit-spikes 
red ae ripe. "y obie —_ rst No. 4 
eramicus Ku g female apol of a screw pine 
sent ly Forbes without a locate. appears to belong to this 
spec 


Fre reye cinetia ane n. sp.— Frutex scandens. Catulis 
gracilis circiter peda Folia angustissima linearia acuminata 
acuta 2-24 uncias wea d-uncia lata Ree amr et carina ciliatis, 
vaginis brevibus teretibus + uncialibu ractes parve lanceolatw 
acuminate pallide marginibus ia ciliatis. Capitula feminea 
singula vel bina globosa vix }-uncia longa pedunculata, pedunculis 
f-uncialibus. Pistilla distincta conica, cos Rope parva depressa. 
emina copiosa, hippocreniformia kermesina, strophiolis pallidis, 
striolata, in mucilagine immersa. Flores masculi non visi. 

Sogere, at ee ft., ascending on the stems of trees, No. 3. 
Allied to F. ustifolia, but, —— ed narrower leaves, dis- 
Gaouiched by the strophioles o of the s 

ii, n. sp._-Caules panetere validuli. Folia lanceo- 
lata striata hast angustata acuminata, apicibus et carina ciliatis, 
: 4-6 uncias longa, 3-4 lata, vaginis ferme pe apie angulatis 
i acte hig 


monocarpica rarius syncarpica conica. 5 came ovata rotundata 
_ depregsa aise lutescentia. Semina kermesina estrophiolata. 
Fructus coecin : 
Mt. jes eoneg ak 2500 ft., January, 1881. Mt. Meroka, No. 352. 
A large climber, with bright scarlet fruits. Allied to F’, scandens. 


ARACEX. 


Epipremnum magnificum Engler. -- A climbing shrub. Fruit 
ee scarlet, orange, or green. Sogere, at 2000 ft., Nos. 128, 828. 
Raphidophora Peepla Schott 9—Spadix white.. esha No. 323. 


NarapACE 


eter ei Thunb. — In an stein of the Laragi, Nov, 


860 LOCALITIES FOR IRISH HEPATIOS AND MOSSES. 


GRAMINES. 


Leptaspis urceolata R. Br. — Fruit grey. Sogere, at 2000 ft. 
~~ No. sae 


ae compacti, bracteis deciduis trun 


bus ciliatis. Palea angusta ciliata. Lodicule sepissime nulla 
Stamina brevissime apiculata. Stylus gracillimus simplex vel 
bifidus ferme glaber. Ovarium (juvene) ers pubescens. 

Sogere, at 2500 ft., Oct. 22, 1885, No. 1 


LOCALITIES FOR IRISH HEPATICS AND MOSSES. 


By Henry Curtcuester Harr. 


session. pee are almost entirely from the mountainous parts of 


co pinion species, and with "regard to distribution I have been 
guided by Dr. Moore's papers ‘On Irish Hepaticw and Irish 
Mosses,”’ published i = the ‘ Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.’ 
I have also consulted Mr. 8. A. Stewart's ‘ List of the Mosses of 
the North-east of Ireland,’ before including a northern record :— 


Hepatics. 
Asterella hemispherica Beauv. sags aneg Glen, Co. Donegal; D.M. 
ozia cupressina Sw. Clare Glen, Glenstal, Limerick ; Holt. 


assania triangularis Schl. "MacGillienday’ s Reeks, Kerry ; ; 
Holt. Twelve Bens, Galway; Holt. 
a scuta 8 


Herberta adunca Dicks. Faneh Co. Dusieisk: D. M. 

Anthelia julacea Linn. seeneduilia, Co. Wicklow; Holt. 

capania on Linn., var. purpurea. Alt Mountain, near 
! Holi; and at Glenalla, Rathmullan, Co. 


rchul “tridenticulata Taylor. Amongst Bryum hornum, by 
an, near Ramelton, Co. Dokeeal’-D. = 


LOCALITIES FOR IRISH HEPATICS AND MOSSES. 361 


ia pusilla Linn. By the River Suir, near Carrick, Co. 
iippscary ; Holt. 
Metzgeria conjugata Dill. Clare Glen, Glenstal, Limerick; Holt. 


Mosszgs. 


Campylopus flecuosus Dill. Mullaghclevaun, Co. Wicklow ; 
Holt.—C. Schwarzii Sch. Alt Mount, near Ardara, Co. Don negal ; 
Holt.—c. ie ey Bridel. With the last, and at Bulbein Mount, 
Innishowen ; Holt. —— C. setifolius Wils. orth face of Benan, 
Twelve Bens, Go, Galway; Holt. Slieve Snacht West, Co. 
Donegal; D. M. — C. fragilis Br. & Sch. Glenalla, Co. Doge; 
D. M. In fruit. 
Racomitrium Leer Al. Braun. Mountains near Ardara, 
Co. Donegal ; 
Anectangium “colaainia Schw. Carrablagh, Fanet, Donegal; 
olt. Mountain near Ardara, Co. Donegal; Holt. Clare Glen, 
Glenstal, Limerick ; Holt. 
Didymodon cylindricus Br. & Sch. Fanet, Co. Donegal; D. M. 
Trichostomum littorale Mitten. Ben Evenagh, Derry ; + Molt; 
This moss appears to have only a very vague record in the Irish 
List of Dr. Moore. : 
s Ditrichium homomallum Hampe. Carlingford Mountains, Co. 
own ; - 
Orthotrichum rupestre Schl, Marble Hill, Co. Galway ; Hol 
. 0. fare Bridel. Killakee, Co. Dublin; Holt.—0. pulchellum Sin, 
; Glenalla, Co. Donegal; Ho 
. Zyoin Hoes Br. & Sch. Twelve Bens, Co. Galway ; Holt. 
Alt Mountain, near Ardara, Co. Donegal; Ho 
: 2 i ees mnioides Linn. fil. Dooish Mountain, Co. Donegal ; 
. olt ? 
Bryum alpinum Linn. Fanet, Co. Donegal; D. M.—B. julacewm 
Slieve Snacht West, Co. Donegal; D. M. 
Plagiothecum elegans Hooker. Lugnaquilia, Co. Wicklow ; oot 
rne Mountains; lee Dill. In several 


TP 


; 2 . 
ragh, Waterford, and MacGillicuddy’s Reeks, Kerry ; 
< Leskea polycarpa Hedw. At the base of Exrigal, Go. es, 
M. 


peel and Leavis Co. ee Holt. 


a 28 Oxford. Druce in litt. 


THE DISTRIBUTION 
Polytrichum gracile poke 
F. a Willd. 
Co. Wic eles “Holt. 


ind Ballinacor, Co. Wicklow; Ho 
" Dipkenan foliosum Web. et Mohr. 
Holt. 


Co. Kerry ; 


OF POTAMOGETON IN BRITAIN. 


Lough Dan, Co. Wicklow; Holt. — 
oish Mountain, Co. Donegal and Mullagh- 


— P. alternatum Menzies. Lough 
t. 


MacGillicuddy’s Reeks, 


THE DISTRIBUTION 


OF POTAMOGETON IN 


BRITAIN. 


By Artuur Bennett, F.L.S. 


Tue following are additions (with a correction) to the list at 


pp. aie 
herbarium. 
- possess i: —_ 


Potamogeton pectinatus L. 
41 Glamorgan. W. R. Linton, 
Sp. 
02 Ebudes s. Fingland, sp. 
P, owe es Bab. 
7 Wilts Druce in Journ. 
Bot. 1885, p- 275. 
- 83 Gloster east. Druce in litt. 


P, filiform 
02 Ebudes Sonllis: " Pngland, sp. 


cronatus Sais 63 
31 a: Board 
EP; ee Link. 
82 Northto: ce writes 
that his r record t in Journ. Bot. 
p. 116, was an error,—a slip 
for acuminatus.] 


PF; teers a 
17 Surrey. Beeby 


__ P, decipiens Nolte. 


81 Berwick. yn in Edin. 
Herb. 1835! 


‘*Sp.’’ means that a 
**!”? indicates that I have seen a specimen, but do not 


spe cimen exists in my own 


P. nitens Weber. 
09 Caithness. F.J. Hanbury, sp. 


P. Zizi Roth. 
88 Warwick. Kirk, sp. herb. ! 
A. G. Mor 
74 Wigton. Dewos in litt. 


81 Berwick. Renton, sp. 


P. rufescens Schrad. 
23 Oxford. ‘‘ Beesley,” in Fl.Oxf. 
49 Carnarvon. J. E. Griffith ! 


. natans L, (true). 
q Wilte north. Druce in litt. 
73 Dumfries. Dr. Davidson in 


5 Elgin. Grant, herb! 
02 Ebudes south. Miller, sp. 


P. polygonifolius Pourr. 
41 Poesia W. R. Linton, 


P. vie aagek Du Croz. 
22 Berks. Druce 


363 


NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 
- By Rev. W. Movie Roecers, F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 343). 


laciniata Wallr. Rather boas in A te Vale of Llangolias from 
yairawy 


Saxifraga stellaris L. M. On Manod Mawr, at about 2000 ft. 
— 8S. tridactylites L. D. Llangollen 

Chrysosplenium oppositifolium L. ae —— of Festiniog, up to 
2000 ft. on Manod Mawr; locally abun 

Parnassia palustris L. ©. ~~ ans at aie Bridge. 

Cotyledon Umbilicus L. Com 

Sedum Telephium L. basen ‘and clearly native on rocky 
hillsides. D. Trevor Rocks, &. M. Glyndyfrdwy. Dolgelly 
neighbourhood. : 

Drosera — L. M. Common. C. Roman Bridge. No 

se 


Lythrum Salicaria L. Seen only between Dolgelly and Bar- 
al 


Peplis Portula LL. M. By Llyn Cynwch and Cwm Cam 
Epilobium angustifolium L. M. Thickets near the Cross F oxes 
( t : 


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gonum not seen. — E. pa states L. M. Between eres and the 
ages irae Inn, in plenty. Vale of Festiniog up to Blaenau, and 
000 ft. on Manod Mawr 
tank erectum Huds. D. Acrefair Canal. 
Scandix Pecten-Veneris L. and Aithusa Cynapium L. M. 


Dol ied xy. 
he aemaig Gmel. M. Between Dolgelly and Ba 
aes under —. crocata L. Frequent. No other species 

seen 

Silaus pratensis Bess. ar: = at Bala a (M.). 

Cornus sanguinea L. D. About Llangollen, locally common. 
Not seen in M. : 

Viburnum Opulus L. Uncommon. D. Acrefair. M. Between 


Dolgelly and « The Torrent Walk.” 

Galium palustre L., b. elongatum Pres 1. ©. Near Roman 
Bridge — - Witheringii Sm. D. By canal, Pentrefelin. M. 
Dolgelly, : 

i ean Columbaria L. D. Base of ne aioe and Trevor Rocks, 


— 8. arvensis. D. eee M. Glynd 
3 Filago minima Fr. D. Near Valle Crucis mA M. Glyn- 
yfrdwy, abundant. 
at, Helenium L. D. Denizen in two or three spots about 
llen. — I. Conyza De. D. Trevor 


864 NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 


Pulicaria dysenterica Gaertn. D. Valley between Llangollen 
and Kglwseg Rocks. Not known for M. 

Bidens tripartita L. D. Acrefair Canal, in plenty. 

Tanacetum vulgare L. D. Base of Eglwse 

Artemisia Absinthium L. Rather frequent in a Vale of Llan- 
gollen (D.), and between oo and Bala (M.). 

Carlina vulgaris L. Com 

—— ——- Jasds. a7 Barmouth.—C. nutans L. and 

asi. ent in D, but not seen in 
 evaets itteek o4 Lo cal, M. m Camlan, in great 


. Be 
Foxes Inn. Between Dladnas and Festiniog. C. Frequent. — 
b mon. 


e 

Hypocheris glabra L. M. Glyndyfrdwy, rocky hillside in 

grassy mossy spots, in fair pl 14th Sait wages record 

for all Wales, I believe. —— H. ra ery commo A dwarf 
and nearly glabrous form grows hor glabra at Giyndytndiey: 


Leontodon hirtus L. and L. hispidus M. 
Barmouth. — L. autwmnalis L. Common ; ascending to about 
2000 ft. on M 


Lactuca muralis Fresen. D.&M.Common. C. Bettws y Coed. 
Tragopogon pratensis L. D. Llangollen and Acrefair; the tpye. 
Lobelia Dortmanna L. M. — Cynwch, in great quantity. 
asione montana omm 
Wahlenbergia hederacea Reichb. C. Bettws y Coed. 
peated Vitis-Idea L. M. Top of Manod oe —V. myrtillus 
L. Comm In M. up to top of Manod 
— Anagallis tenella L. M. Tan y Bwlch, &e. * Common every- 
W. 
Menyanthes ie ppp L. M. Llyn Cynweh. Ddualt and 
Blaenau Festin 
ve eas gl se ‘afioasl L. D. Pentrefelin. Base of Eglwseg 


_Myosotis cespitosa Schultz. D. Valle Crucis. M. Near a 
a M 


: abundant. repens 
D.Don. M. By Llyn ynwch. Between Dolgelly tails ies Cross 
Foxes Inn. All three species appear to be very loc 
Echium vulgare L. D. Pentrefelin. oe maa the 
Eglwseg and Trevor Rocks. M. Barmouth. Aberdov 
oo Convolvulus arvensis L. cate only at Tan y Bwlch ‘and Bar- 
= sre Are ). No Cuscuta see 
oe m Duleamara L. snd Feathaicun Thapsus L. Common; but 
no saee. specie S seen in either genus. 
Serophularia — aL. Seen only at Llangollen, by the Dee 
(D.).—S. nodosa mmon 
Digitalis purpurea L. Remarkably common. Reaching fully 
ft. voortont on Manod Mawr 
_ Veronica helerafotia Ts L, and V. montana L, Found only, in spite 
it search « pie (D.).— V. polita Fr. 


NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 865 


This always seems to me rather commoner (and not unfrequently 
much commoner) than V. agrestis L. in 8. W. England; but 
wherever I went in N. Wales agrestis was common, a polita 
showed itself only at Dolgelly (M.).—V. persica Poir. Fairly 
ommon. WM. Dolgelly. — V. arvensis, , perpiyllifolias splat, 
Chamedrys and Beccabunga; all common 

comet palustris L. M. Tan y ‘Bwlch. — P. sylvatica L. 
M. Frequent. C. Roman Bridge. 

Melaniys yrum pratense 7 D. Between Llangollen and Eglwseg 
Rocks. M. and C. Frequent; usually with orange-coloured flowers, 
as in the hillier ee of Devon. 

Pinguicula vulgaris L. Common; occupying the ground in 
which P. lusitanica = is usually seen in §.W. England. 

Mentha viridis L. D. Base of Eglwseg mee fo st 


water, away from house and aside n.—M. hirsuta L. and C 
Common. M. B Camlan. — M. sed L. (rivalis and 
paludosa). D. Acrefair Canal. M. Dolgelly. — — arvensis L. 
D. Very common. M. Vale of Festiniog, freque 


Lycopus europeus L. D. Acrefair Canal. M. too Dolgelly 
and Barmouth. 

Origanum vulgare L. D. Vale of Llangollen, from Pentrefelin 
to Trevor Rocks; locally abundant. M. Between Dolgelly and 
Barm 

Thymus Serpyllum Fr. Common. Chamedrys not seen 

Calamintha Clinopodium Benth. Remarkably common. The 
only species seen. 

Scutellaria minor L. M. and C. Frequent. 

Stachys Betonica Benth. M. and C. Pais abundant. — 8. 


eopsis Ladanum L. and G. Tetrahit L. Common. — G. 
Sica Mill. M. In several spots near Dolgelly, but. i in small 
quantity. 
Lamium album L. D. Llangollen and Acrefair, in good 
quantity. Not seen elsewhere. — L. Galeobdolon Crantz. OD. 
Common. M. Near Dolgelly. I saw no Ballota. 
— Ca lacustris L. M. Llyn Cynweh, in plenty 
dium: Bonus-Henricus L. D. In Scusidarable quantity 
Roce Eteagoluah and Valle Crucis. Base of Eglwseg Rocks. 
Polygonum lapathifolium L. Dolgelly. Blaenau Pedro: 
Rumex Hydrolapathum Huds. D. Acrefair Canal. 
Mercurialis annua L. M. Barmouth, very common. 
Aumulus Lupulus L. = Llangollen. M. Dolgelly. _ 4 
Myrica Gale L, M. ies lan om os an 
very luxuriant. Tan os aenau Festiniog, 
"Betula alba L. D. "Elaine re ‘ M. Glyndyirdwy.—B. glutinosa 
M. By Cwm Camlan. ©. Common. ; 
 Seuccas Taber Li « —— Salisb. D. —— M. 
Glyndyfrdwy. — Q. pedunculata Khrh. Common 


866 NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 


Salix cinerea L. and S. Caprea L. Common. — 8. aurita L. 


D. Base of a Rocks. M. By Cwm Camlan, &c., common. 
C. Roman Bridge. 
Populus tremula L. By Tan y Llyn. Planted ? 
Elodea canadensis Mich. D. Liangolen seated Canal. 
Tamus communis D. Com C. Rom ridge. 
Narthecium ossifragum Huds. ‘M. ceally akcoaaat, OO. Roman 
Bridge. 


une 
of Manod Maw wr. ©. Roman ee sioliun Bh hrh. D. Bas 
ly. — 


Lusula maxima DC. D. By the Dee. M. Moel Cynweh. C. 
Bettws y Coed.— L. congesta Koch. M. Blaenau Festiniog. 
Probably common enough earlier in the season. 

Typha vee L. M. Between Dolgelly and Barmouth, in 
great quan : 

“esi ramosum soa (Aggregate). D. Valle Crucis 
Abbey fishpond.—S. simplex Huds. D. Acrefair. 

Lemna minor L. ss ea uncommon. OD. Llangollen. 

ir. 


y: 

lisma natans Buchenau. - Llyn Cynweh; in plent: 
Potamogeton natans L. M. Llyn Cynweh.— Af. FSppermieer 
Pour. D. Acrefair Canal. M. Vale of Festiniog. — P. cris, 
anal. 


haris palustris R. Br. D. In the ie at oo Rage ami M. 
Lyn Cynweh. — EF. multicaulis 8m. ©. Roman Bri 

Scirpus eerie: os M. Vale of Fostiniog, ries, C. 
7 Bri 8. eusL. M. With the last.—S. lacustris oe 
(Aggregate). “OL ian Usiweks Llyn Mair. — G. maritimus 
M. pees ~cren outh. a 


rum spend L. Moel Cynwch. Blaenau Festiniog 
i "Ee capatuce Roth.). 
Fihynchospora alba Vahl. C. Roman Bridge 
ris 


remota L. D, Llangollen. Valle Crucis. M. Dolgelly. — C. 
M. Vale of Festiniog, frequent. C. Bettws y Coed. 
; , Igelly ne 


M. Dolgelly. C. Roman B Bridge. — C. sylvatica Huds. ©. Bettws 
y Coed. — C. binervis Sm. M. Vale of Festiniog, frequent. — C. 


_ fulva Good. ©. Rom man Bridge.—C. flava L. (Agere ales Common ; 


_ chiefly b. minor Towns., but eu-flava (I believe) at base of Eglwseg 
Rocks (limestone).—C, hirta L. Seen only at Acrefair (D.). —C 


 wesicaria L. M,. Valle Crucis Abbey fish Sak 
_ Atopecurus fulvus Sm. or cine ae 


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NOTES ON SOME NORTH WALES PLANTS. 867 


Aira ~— wllea Li. and A. precow L. M. Glyndyfrdwy. 
Holeus mollis L. M. Dolgelly, &. Like the 1 tat two, really 
common everywhere 
Trisetum pater Beauy. D. Common. M. Barmouth. 
Festinio 
Phr aymites communis Trin. M. Dolgelly and by the coast; 
locally very abundant. 
Melica uniflora Retz. D. Vale of Llangollen, frequent. M. 
Dolgelly. C. Bettws y Coed 
Briza media L. D. Base of Eglwseg Rocks. 
Poa nemoralis L. M. Glyndyfrdwy, among rocks on hillside, in 
plenty 
‘ieee fluitans R. Br. D. and M. Only moderately common. 
— G. plicata Fr. C. Bettws y Coed. —b. pedicillata Towns. M. 
Llyn Cynwech. Blaenau Festiniog. 
festuca rigida Kunth. Common.—F’, myurus L. D. Acre- 
ir. — F’. sciuroides Roth D. and M. Common. — F. elatior L. 
D. By the Dee, Liangolle 
Bromus giganteus Li. po abundant by the Dee (D.), and at 
Dolgelly (M.). OC. Bettws y Coed.— B. asper Murr. . Very 
common. Not seen in M.—B. sterilis L. Til, D. Llangollen. 
Acrefair. M. Near Dolgelly. 
Brachy ypodium s eat Roem. et Schult. M. By Cwm Camlan, 
ant and C. Com 


mon. 

ae arch caninum Beauy. D. Abundant by the Dee. C. 

“ins y Coed.—A. junceum Beauv. and Hordeum murinum L. M. 
Barmouth. 


eae Spicant Desy. M. Exceedingly common. C. Roman 
Bridge. 
Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum L. M. ee jon ¥. 


— A. Trichomanes Li. Locally abundant. Gly wy. 
Between ree aed and the Cross Foxes Inn a C. 
Bettws y —A. Ruta-muraria L. Very common, especially at 
Dolgelly, 


Athyrium Filix-femina Roth. Very common everywhe 
Scolopendrium nies ‘Symons. Rare. D. Base of “Exnseg 
ocks. I searched in vain for Polysticha, only seeing a little 

gas Presl. in a fern eaiee s hands at Bettws y Coed (C.). 

Lastrea Oreopteris P: By Cwm C Vale of 
Bastiniog; up to Blaenau, pipers > C. _— Bridge. pL: Biliz- 
mas Presl. Common. — ¢. ea Moo . Moel abies 
Bwlch Llyn Bach. Vale of  panenee sails abundant. — L. 
spinulosa sey C. Heathland near Roman Bridge. — L. dilatata 
Presl. Fairly common ; reaching top of — Mawr. : 

Theos Dryopteris Fée. D. west of Geraint’s Hill, 
among slaty shingle at about 600 ft., in pone quantity. 

Equisetum arvense L. M. Glyndyfrdwy, &c. Common. — E. 
ect | Sm. M. Llyn Cynweh. 


. Blaenau a 


868 NEW RECORDS FOR GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 


Since the first part of this paper was printed I have had the 
agg of Prof. Babington’s opinion on the more critical of my 

Wales Rubi. I am thus enabled to add to my list the 
iileema :—On one of the most frequent plants at ne 
Festiniog ae slaty basa), his note is, ‘‘It seems to be R. 
podophyllus M., a _ in my opinion closely allied to R aes 
folius. See Genev 129.” Of another, from the Vale o 


“This tends to show me that we rightly continue. ieee 
and Schlectendalii = piletostachys.” On the label of a very prickly 
lant common about Dolgelly he writes, ‘‘I have placed specimens 
closely resembling this under infestus”’; d on another from 
Geraint Hill, Llangollen, “I think that this is mutabilis.” Three 


follows ;— 1) “R, nitidus ?. Festiniog Waterfall”; ‘I think 
lentiginosus.” (2) The prickly plant, ‘hills N.W. of Valle Crucis 
— ey’ ‘ Lentiginosus ‘apparen tly. Very like the ere speci- 

n from Lees (3) “ R. hirtus ?. Baik Bridge’’; “I think it 
is ee atone of Bloxam.” 


NEW RECORDS FOR GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 
By rue Rev. H. P. Reaper, M.A. 


Tae following plants, which I have met with in Gloucester 
KE. & W. (88, 84) and Monmouth (85) during the _ few years, 
have not hitherto been recorded from those counties 


Ranunculus trichophylius Chaix. Several ponds near Wood- 
chester. 34. 
Helleborus fetidus L. Common in beech woods. 
Papaver dubium L., b. Lecogit Lam. Occasionally koe Stroud, 
but not persistent. 34. 
Jardamine amara L. By Thames and Severn Canal, near 
Stonehouse. 4, 
mbrium Thaliana Hook. gy between Usk and Aber- 
gavenny, near Clytha House. Mon. 
arbarea stricta Andrz. Tenses Docks. 384. 
Polygala er L. Woodchester. 84. — P. calcarea F. Sch. 
Rodborough. 
Silene tents aes ms Tae oe 34, 
Sagina nodosa EK. Mey. Cleeve Hill. 
Spergula arvensis L. Fields poser Clythe House. Mon. 86. 
Lasse salinum Fr., ¢. —_—, Kindb. — L. marginatum 
Koch. By Severn near § 34 


, 88. 
) Medicago denticulata Willd. Roadside between Stroud 
nese eater 1881. 34. Not oe and probably onto Aes 
poe Vicia seetice L. Tintern. 


NEW RECORDS FOR GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 869 


runus insititia LL. Near Woodchester. 84. — P. avium L. 
. Woods near Me aac msn 34. Very eee planted. 
Geum rivale L. Canal-bank, Brimscom 4, 
Rubus Latina Salt. Open sisbied in woods, Wood- 
chester. 
Rosa bed Sm., b. cerulea. Woods near Usk. Mon. 385. 
34. 


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Hippuris vulgaris ee Ponds near Woodchester. 

Ceratophyllum ‘“aquaticum.” Ditches, Shepherd's Pak: 34, 

Apium inundatum Reich. Canal near Coates. 34. 

Taraxacum i scene Web., b. Lethal — Andra, Wood- 
she 34. — ¢. palustre DC. Woodcheste 

tretium pans ie hk. Railway-bank near hice ? 

Woodchester, Seed Nymphsfield, &e, 34. — 4. arcade 
Lange. Woode hes 

Cnicus aophane " Hofia. Woodchester. 34. — C. pratensis 

illd. i 3 


n. : 

Bidens cernua L. By canal, Llantarnam. Mon. 35. —- B. tri- 
partita L. With preceding. 

Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. Woodchester. 34. 

Anthemis arvensis L. Woodchester. 34. 

— Trachelium L. Frequent in 384, as also C. 
_ glomerata L. 
~strineed hybrida DC. Cornfields, Woodchester. $4. 
Hypopithys multiflora Scop. Beech woods near Stroud. 34. 


Chenopodium polyspermum L. Dun, ville, ‘Slimbridge. 34, — 
ifoli i ceding. 
Atriplex patula L., b. erecta Huds. mamma Phe 


Polygonum aviculare ag 
mouth (85). It is doubtless abiidat there. I a9 observed the 
$ rurivagum Jord. agrestinum Jord. near 
“gyre : Hy rolapatan Huds., b. latifolia Borr. Supposing t - 
to same as maximus Schreb. I record it with 
doubt od the Berkeley Canal, near Shepherd’s Patch. My ses 
has obliquely cordate leaves, and raised aoe to petioles, but does 
hot otherwise differ from R. ’ Hyd olapathum 
Daphne Laureola L. Beech woods, Woodchester, &e. 34. 
a ea latifolia. Frequent in 34.—-E. purpurata Sm. Wood- 
chester. 84, 
_ _ Cephalanthera pallens Rich. 34. Frequent. — U. ensifolia 
Rich. Woods below Wynd Cliff. Mon. 35, 188 
poste chloroleuca Rid. Mags ods about Woodchester. 384. 
ris fetidissima L. Tintern . 
Wie ranunculoides L. Thames and Severn Canal, near 
Coates. 83 & 84. 
Journat or Borany.—Vou. 24. [Dec., 1886.] 22 


870 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 


Potamogeton natans 1. Clytha. Mon. 35. Very common in 
33 & 34, to apparent exclusion ty  polyonijline Pour. 

Acorus Calamus L. erkeley Canal, from near Sharpness 
onwards for some miles. 84. 

Sparganium Aes hp Curt. Frequent. 83 & 

Juncus diffusus Hoppe. Damp woods, Wosleebay 34.—J. 
compressus Jacq. Pitchcombe Mill. 383. 

Scirpus pauciflorus Lightg. By Windrush, between Notgrove 2 
and Bourton. 388. 

Carex ovalis Good, Near Clytha. 85.— C. paniculata L. By 
Frome, Inchbrook. 34. ree ener L. Woodchester. 34. 


Glyceria plicata Fr. Wadi esti. 34. 

Festuca Myurus L. By railway, oo Mon. 35. 

Lycopodium clavatum Li. Woodchester. 34.—L. complanatum ie 
Woodchester. 84 (erroneously as fern Glos. E. 88. Top. Bot. 
1883, p. 527). 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
By G. Cuarmeér Drvuce, F.L.S. 


In this J — for 1880 I published a list of Northamptonshire 

plants,—the result of six years’ investigation,—the greater part of 

which were addons to the first edition of ‘ Topographical 
Botany. 

During the six years which have since elapsed I have paid 
saa! visits to my native county, while some members of the 
local Natural History Society, agate Mes H. N. Dixon, 
C. Crick, and R. Rogers, have been busy ivestieatiae the county 

ora. The results ‘g now subjoin. 

Before giving the list of additional records to the list which has 
already appeared in the Journal, I send a brief summary of the 
plants recorded as occurring in she cunts, but which are not 


list referred to, and in some cases included in the ‘ Report of Record 
Club,’ eee Only additional localities to those given in 
Journ. Botan now inserted. 

anuneulus Drouetii F. Schult os —R. penicillatus Datak Ayn- 


’ eso — DC. Rail- am near Peterborough. Nene e. 


ay pie With. Wakefield, Ouse. King Sutton, 


sernylifolia L. var. leptoclados Guss. Aynhoe, Cherwell. 
Nene ¢ 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 371 


Cerastium semidecandrum L. 
Linum angustifolium Huds. Brackley (H. Blaby). Ouse. 
Trifolium scabrum L. —T. dubium Sibth. 


nd. 

Prunus insititia L. King’s Sutton, Cherwell.—P. Cerasus L. 
Potentilla procumbens Sibth. Whittlebury Forest. Ouse. — P. 
palustris Seo 

Rubus rhamnifolius W. & N.—R. leucostachys Sm. King’s Sutton, 
Cherwell. — R. —— Lindl. Whittlebury Forest. Ouse.—R. 
— — Radula Wehe — h. Koehleri Weihe. King’s Sutton, Cherwell. a 

Var. pallidus Bab. Mheoesrati Forest. Ouse.— R. amplificat 
Lees. Wakefield. Ouse. — R. diversifolius Lindl. — R. con ylifolius 
Sm. —— Var. conjunyens Bab. Aynhoe. Cherwell. — Var. sublustris 
Lees. Croughton. Ouse. — R. altheifolius Host. Grimsbury 

rw 


Be ele Phe es See ee eee 


Epilobium tetragonum L. Below Peterborough. ne c. 
Cinanthe © teem Poll. (Beesley and Foonch). Oe have not 
seen een 


= 
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pe 
es 
: 


Telia officinalis L. me led "Mikanii Wats. Aynhoe, Cherwell. 


Bean majus Schk. Castle Ashby, Nene c. Peterborough, 
Nene c., Rockingham. Welland. Greatworthy. Cherwell. 
Bidens cernua L. Habitat near Northampton, now destroyed. 
teenage Absinthium L. 
cuta Bpithefntun & Murray. Corby (Lewin). Nenec. Southorpe 
aieay Welland. 
Hypo = s multiflora Sco 
pond ieee Or main, L. ia Little better than a casual. 
Mentha arden: Huds. Near Helmdon (Blaby). Ouse. 


den pati L.—Var erecta Huds 
men 


sual. 
es Salix pcan L Posh at place on Wittering Heath, —— 
_ May be native. — S. fragilis L. Peterborough. Nene c. 
Worth. Cherwell. —§. aurita L. Bedford Purliews. Nene c. 
_ Orchis incarnata 
Polygonatum multiflorum AU. ca? ear Radstone. Ouse. 
otamogeton potions L. Cher 
uUZzula Maxi 


Carex Pseudo- -cyperus L. — C. rostrata Stokes. Wittering. 
ene c.—C. vesicaria L. 
Soars ecanina L. Aynhoe. er ae 
@leria cristata Pers. King’s Sutton 
Glyceria plicata Fries. Aynhoe. Cherwell. — G. distans Wahl. 


872 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 


Festuca pratensis Huds. 

Bromus erectus Huds. Common shoes bigcrammetdh and Colley- 
weston. Wella se Barnack and Wittering. Nen 

Hordeum sylvaticum Huds. 

Polystichum angulare Presl. 


The following plants, given without personal authority for 
Dotemptcnshisy in edition 2 of Top. Bot., I have found in the 

z uphar luteum Sm. Common in all the districts. 

Cardamine amara L. Cher well, Ouse, and Nene Valley. 

Helianthemum Chamacistus Mill. ocal. Abundant on oolite 
and Barnack rag. Ouse, Nene, and Welland. Absent for some 
distance from Northampton 

Arabis hirsuta L. Restricted to the north- etede Rie of the 
county, about Barnack, in the Welland and Nene ss e. 

Cerastium quaternellum Fenzl. Harleston Firs. 

Hypericum humifusum L. Local. Ouse, Nene, and "Welland. 

Geranium pusillum Burm. Ouse, Nene, and Wella nd. 

Trifolium striatum L. Rare. 

Ornithopus aed oerem L. Rare. Harleston Firs. Nene. 

Rosa rubiginosa L. 

Alchemilla vulgaris L. Cherwell. Ouse, Nene, and Welland. 

Lactuca muralis Fries. Rare. Cherwe ae: 


Inu ocal. 
Campanula glomerata L. Cherwell, Ouse, Nene and Wellan d. 


peta Pulegium Li. Nene. Harles 

ospermum officinale E Aste Nene Welland. 
Champ Vulvaria L. 
Op apifera Huds. oe Welland. a 
Allium vineale L. Ouse, Nen a 
sean Sag palustris Li. pe Cherwell. a 
Avena pubescens Huds. Ouse, Nene, Welland. 
La spinulosa Presl. Nene. 


Extinctions. 

The f following plants recorded in Top. Bot., principally on the 
authority of ‘ Morton’s History, ’ 1712, are now, I am afraid, lost 
coun’ 
Ramuncntas sa sardous Or. Laat record, 1845 

ke iL. Ap parently = from the few re- 
nwo county. Future editions of Top. Bot. 

F distribution of the plant, as drainage 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 3738 


extirpated it from most of its Midland haunts. It is extinct in 
xon. 

Teesdalia nudicaulis Br. Morton, “Woh last record. It occurs 
in Warwick, near to the county boundar 

Diplotaxis tenuifolia DC. With the doccactaie, of the Castle, to 
make way for the railway-station at Northampton, this plant, 
which pemeely abounded on the walls, has been lost from its only 
habita 


Begin subulata Presl., was almost certainly an err 
Teucrium Scordium L. The fen reclamation has, i am afraid, 
sare extirpated this plant 
ratiotes aloides L. Now r absent oe the fen ditches. 
Duaiseza regalis L. Long ago e 
Pilularia globulifera L. The iatian of the fens has wegen i 


: this plant he district over which the cotton- -grass once Way 
| its plumes i is now an extent of arable land, most distressingly shine 
from weeds. 


In addition to these losses, the following os it is sadly 
to be feared, are destroyed. At any rate, recent verification is 
desirable 

prey Alyssopifolia L. 

Eryngium campestre 


Limnanthemum —- Gmel. 

Cynoglossum montanum Lam 

Ajuga Chamepitys AH a 

Juniperus communis L. 

Eaaty, ea Oreopteris Presl. 

Against these losses we may place the new discoveries made 
since 1880, Some of these have already fs aera in the Journal, 
or in the Reports of the Recor d Club, or in the Flora of rc 
county which is being printed in the Piheaoidi of the North- 
amptonshire Natural History Society. 

Shsiscadel peltatus Fries. Aynhoe. Cherwell ; Bradland 
Pond, Ouse; Garton, Foster’s Booth, Nene a, Geddington, Nene db. 
Peterborough, Nene c. Stamford, Welland. 

Thalictrum flavum L. var. Morisonii Gmel. This appears to > 
the more frequent Thalictrum of the Nene Valley. I do rey no 
why it has been omitted in the new edition of the ‘ London 
Catalo. 

Caltha palustris L. var. Guerangerti Boreau. ag Cherwell 
(Beesley 


. viridis L. sh (Hichens). Upton, Welton, Nene a. 

Eas Eaton fold, c.  Whittlebury Forest, 
use. 

——  *Delphinium — Reich. Cornfields between Brackley and 

Hulse (Blaby). Ous 


374 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 


Erophila precoxr DC. Cos recat Ouse, 1880. Henge EES: 
1880, Nene a. Great Houghton, H. N. Dixon, 1884, Nene 
Brassioa nigra Koch. Scattered through all the tits 
*Te — ruderale L. Waste ground, Brackley (Blab 
ericum perforatum Li. var. angustifolium Gaud. gone: 
shoe Wake erley. Welland. 
*Geranium sanguineum L. Steane “hae ene 
Vicia gracilis Lois. King’s Cliff, Nen ‘ 
Lathyrus montanus Beruh., 1810 (Orobus tuberusus L.).  Acci- 
dentally omitted from ed. 2. Tt is inserted ined. 1. Stowe Wood. 
radley Wood. Farthingstone a Be aa a. Staverton 
ood, Avon. Wapperham. Whistley Wood, Ous Apparently 
restricted to the west of the county, ii will Aen be found in 
the Bedford Purlieus. 
Rosa systyla Bast. Nethercote Lane (Beesley). 
* Pyrus see ia Gaert. Cherwell. Harleston Firs, Nene a. 
Probably planted. « 
bus Balfourianus Blox. Near Banbury. Cherwell.—R. 
tuberculatus Bab. King’s Sutton. Cherwell. 
Epilobium angustifolium L. Brackley. Ouse. — F. palustre L. 
Wittering. Nenec. Brackley Gorse. Ouse (Blaby). 
Callitriche obtusangula Le Gall. Castlethorpe. Ouse, Wans- 
ford (Crick. Borough Fen. Nenec. Or oyland, Wellan 
Galium sere L. var. elongatum Presl. Rush Mills. Pie b. 
Thorp. Nene 
+ Dorentians Par dalianches L. oneeka (Sir H. Wake). Hast 
Haddon, Nene a. Cransley, Nen 
Taraxacum officinalis Web. ae throne mum Andrz. Duston. 
Harleston, Nene a. Castle Ashby, Rogers, Nene b.—Var. levigatum 
gsthorpe, Duston, Nene a. teak Ashby (Hogers); 
F 


pi stiete Tetrahit -. var. bifida Boenn. Bra ckley, Ouse. 

Salvia pratensis L. In an old pasture, Palas Gobion, Ouse. 

Pinguicula vulgaris L, Not extinct; still at Foxhall, Nene dD. 
Wittering, &c., Nene c. 

Rumex acutus L. Between Mederaasie’y and Duddington. Welland. 
*Urtica piluli ote Be Irches Pak Slater, Nene Var 
sggrvien' 3 he Lat id (uewiny d 
i uphorbia Lathyris Bedford Sooty Nene, Wakerley an 

Welland. Native.” . 
Ulmus popions Sm. Wild or naturalized in all the districts. 
— Smithiana Willd. Harleston. Nene a. Peterborough, 


a pe bibs i L. Doubtful native. Avon, Ouse, Nene ae 
oh ae Sreonia lM ative. Cherwell, Ouse and Nene. —— Var. 
ao : — oy Nen ene a. 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, S75 


apres i mage reed Ouse. Yardley. — S. ramosum 
Curt. erw and Ous 
Bc nijaim jatallaes Bab. Nene, ees and eae: — P, 
zoster@folius Schum. anal, Cosgr OBR. decipiens 
Nolte. eleva Reservoir, Nene a sate wens Lu. Var. acuminatus 
chum. Drayto n Reservoir, Nene a. By eeepc error this was 
recorded in the eae list as ** P. pea tee Schum 
 Sannichellia macrostemon Gay. Yardley Gobion, Ons. 
Orchis latifolia x maculata. Wittering Heath, 
*Ornithogalum nutans L. Between Guilsborough ak ‘Hatraall 
Nene a. (Rev. T. Hichens). 

Seir oe pene ifdorus Lightf. Southorpe, Nene c. — 8. setaceus L. 
Southor ec. 
the = th L. Wittering Marsh (Rev. H. Reader). Southorpe 
Marsh, Nene c. — C. acuta L. var. gracilescens Almq. Wines 
Nene c.— C. stricta Good. Very rare. jean tone” — 
*Setaria viridis Beauv. Nene i Northam “#8. glauca 
Beauv Nene banks (H. N. Dixon). — * pres Puelti 
Lec. at Lam. Harleston (H. ue baeaud —*Polypogon monspeliensis 
Desf. Nene banks, Northam 
or ostis nigra With. pee pears Nene a. Yardley Gobion. 


‘Melica nutans Linn. Bedford Purlieus—1878, G. C.D. ; 1885, 


: al collected specimens of this in 1878, but they were unfor- 
tunately mixed with some other species, so I hesitated to — it 
until substantiated. It is an interesting extension of its r 

a aig clavatum L. This, another very interesting addition 
s been already recorded by Mr. . Dixon (Journ. 
arleston Firs, Wane. a, where I had 


Recently recorded in Journ. Bot. by 
Tecan scarcely lage oa it native on the made wall of the 
i where I think I should have pohion 


i wen s eeouhers auing a indeed, peer within half a mile 
of it, and the hedgerows about yield A 

Nitella opaca Agardh. Wittering mill pies am, Nene ¢ 
ved T paretle intricata Leonh. Yardley Gobion, Ouse, 1879. Not 

an. fragilis Desy. Yardley, Ouse.  evclapeae  o Nene ¢.— 
_ C, contraria Kuetz. gatas Nene c.— C. hispida L. pad 
do pond, Nene c. — C. vulgaris L. Nene, Ouse, teal —— Var 
-longibracteata Kuetz. King’ s Sutton, Cherwell. 


376 


NEW RECORDS. 
By tHe. Rev. W. R. Linton. 


Tue following are not mentioned in the 2nd edition of ‘ Topo- 
graphical Botany,’ — so far as I know have not been recorded 
since its publication : 


Vicre-Co. 18. S. Essex. a imal glabra L., at West Tilbury, 
in grass field on ree gra 
LESEX. — Vale rianella carinata Lois., a pathway 

through cultivated fields north of Harefield, east of can 

Vice-Co. 27. E. Norrotx.—Juncus diffusus Hoppe, one , pateh i in 
meadows near Bradfield, among J. glaucus ae J. effusus. 

Co. 81. Hunts.—Papaver dubium L. b. Lecogii Lamot., fairly 
plentiful i in he or three places about Buibkaan, Prunus Avium L., 
in hedges at Graffham, Brampton, and Offord, west of the river. 
pride Pohabie L., discovered at eta Buckden, by John 
Linton, Esq. Vale rived duricula DC., at Southoe and Hail 
Weston, plentiful. V. dentata Poll. b. ae Dufr., in the same 
localities. Er yee sor Fr., on clayey slopes near eae and 
Graffha Lamium purpureum L. b. decipiens Sond. on- 
siderable quantity near Ramsey, by the side of the dyke oasis of 
Bodsey Toll; also on cultivated ground at Holme Fen, Atriplex 
patula b. erec cia Huds., on the east side of rae river below Buckden 
Station. aang neglectum pein plentiful at a pond between 
Southoe and Paxton Wood. This —— for me by Mr. Beeby. 

Besides the aber new records for “Co. 8 1, [have noticed during 
the past season the following in new side es :——Filago apiculata 
G. EK. Sm., in sandy field N.E. from Buckon. Serratula tinctoria 
railway bank by Abbott's Ripton Station. Juncus diffusus Hoppe, 
by Calfer Wood, near Graffham m. This last occurred as one patch 


po Vila Curtiss i Forst., in great quantity at one lacs 


= sand dunes of n Ferry Road Station. Rubus 
Ideus L., a three-leaved form in same locality, exten- 


core 
Juncus meus supinus Mench. b. Kochii S Do d 
yme. ubifully recorded in 
| 4886, by Rev. E. F. Linton. Plants found in fruit in July of this 
eer Common, near Swansea, remove all uncertainty. 


ou hear Cl e Moor, W. of Swansea. Potamo- 


ON SPARGANIUM NEGLECTUM. 877 


geton polygonifolius Pour., very plentiful on Fairwood Common and 
other places in the neighbourhood of Swansea. On a form growing 
in deep water Mr. A. Bennett remarked, ‘“ approaching pseudo- 
Jiuitans Syme, but not it.” P. pectinatus Tis; a slender form in the 


ry’ 
C. fulva Good., near Clyne Moor, W. of Swansea. Eguisetum 
oeerape igen = Nigel in, erineng along the canal by Crymlyn 
Bur E. variegatum Schleich a: arenarium Newm. i enor- 
Scien gaenees filling the ditches on both sides of the railway, 
rymlyn Burrows ; in April and July alike this plant was growing 
luxuriantly and fruitin very freely. Chara vulgaris L., Crymlyn 
urrows. Tolypella glomerata Leonh., same locality. | Titella opaca 

Agardh ? Clyne Moor. ‘These last three were submitted to Mr. H 
Groves; as the Nitella was barren he hesitated to name it ‘erith 
absolute certainty, though considering it to be almost undoubtedly 
as named above. 

Vicr-Co. 108. W. Surnernanp.——Carea pauciflora Lightf., Ben 
Hope, alt. circa ment ft. 

Co. 109. Carraness.—<Arctium nemorosum Lej., among the sand- 
hills, sok Perry plants. resis as been seen by Mr. Beeby, who 
considered it was correctly nam 

Co. 111. Orkney Is. Feat supinus Meench b. Kochit Syme, 
at Maes Howe, near Kirkwall, plentiful. 

Co. Suetianp Is.—Ranunculus acris L., apparently b. 
tomopiie J ord., plentiful on sandy flats of Balta Island, adjoin- 

Ei "pilobium ne L. b. brachycarpum Leight., 

cliffs W. side of Burrafirth, Unst. I suppose introduced. Juncus 
supinus Moench. b. Kochii heres slopes of Saxaford, Unst; very 
well defined 


ON SPARGANIUM NEGLECTUM. 
By W. H. Bersy. 


i my last notes on this subject iene p- ae I have made 
a few observations which may be worth recordin e autumn 
of 1885 I planted, at Reigate, roots of S. ramon a 8. parca 
in the same large pot, keeping it immersed in a deep vessel of 
water. On seeing the young growth of the one ras by side for 
the first time last spring, I was ac with the very different habit 
wth—more different, indeed, than 


the following distinctions were noted. 
are quite erect (so much so that the tips of the leaves are a 
together and point somes 2 are slightly twisted, almost parallel- 

sided, and haye a broadly rounded apex; in S. neglectum the 
leaves sae horizontally almost from their origin, and are pen- 


878 NOTES ON PONDWEEDS, 


dulous, their tips pointing to the oun: bh leaves are Ase oie 

in proportion to their length than in S. ramosum rather 

suddenly narrowed, in the last inch or en oe a sub- a ie pie I 

have since found these distinctions to be generally observable in 
t 


early in their growth, as later in the year the leaves become 
trodden down, or cane injured or disarranged, so that the 
habit is obscured. Where, however, the plants grow in isolated 
positions, as in different sia in some parts of the River Wey, the 
habit of each is quite marked late in to the summer. 
have essa in growing a few plants of S. neglectum from 
he fruits which germinated were collected last April in a 
aitob near Ghettiey. and began to grow early in June, so that 
probably the fruits always hie in the water some seven to eight 
isco before germinating. Bf stony epicarp apparently 
remains whole, and the young plant ae through the base of 
the nag which splits up into several Bash The young plants are 
now about two inches high, and of a Sang semi-transparent green 
colour 
The padiiaa Be are the only additional county records that have 
come before 
Laraenien ranosum Ourtis——Bueks, G. C. Druce ; ares 
G. C. Druce; Gloster East, W. Moyle Rogers; Radnor, A. G. 
pein "eee A. J. Crosfield) ; Leicester, F. T. Mott; Fife, J. T. 
Bosw 


5. glee eerie —Essex North, J. D. Gray; Suffolk Hast, 
E. F. Linton; Suffolk West, W. M. Hind (com. Ar. Bennett) ; 
Hunts, W. R. Linton 

Thus there has been no northward extension of the range of 
the latter plant, and in the Eastern Counties it occurs mostly in 
isolated localities. North Essex, however, seems an exception, as 
the Rev. J. D. Gray reports it common in ditches about Nayland. 

servations recorded above may be of use as bearing on 


well —_ characters ; good fruit will always be required to ensure 
i determination, and this is the case with most of the 


NOTES ON PONDWEEDS. 
By Aurrep Fryer. 


5 2. Poramoceron Lucens L.——In co ple with this old Linnean 

‘species a difficulty presents itself which must be discussed before 
ths enareeed description can be Gael. phe question which 
ses is this: What has to be described? The old aggregate 

of Linneus ; and pe sernent authors, which includes the 


NOTES ON PONDWEEDS. 379 
segregates, lucens, coriaceus, Zizii and decipiens; or an amended 
lucens carried out on the same principle? In this latter case our 
species will also include heterophyllus, nitens, and one or two obscure 
forms which at present have not attained a place in our British 
catalogues 


eir 
alliances as well as sig: dissimilarities of plants, a method of 
decomposing unwieldy aggregates into subspecies has been adopted. 
But this method is open to the very grave objection that the name- 
form of the aggregate is likely to be mistaken for the type-form, 
and so be misleading to all but those who are well versed in the 
genus. Potamogeton lucens certainly is not the type of the cluster 
of forms we have under consideration, although it is the first-named 
form 


this case, then, it will perhaps be found more convenient to 
relegate the office of expressing alliances to divisional sections or 
groups ; and in spite of the unequal value of our species to give 
each form we have decided upon as worthy of separation, full 
specific rank 


hen 
forms of Pondweeds, when sometimes every ditch seems to have its 
iar form, one is tempted to relinquish the idea of species m 


examination of the variations before us soon shows that they are 


; an 
under the most unusual conditions and in the most extreme forms 
_ we seek in vain for something wholly new to the race. t we 
see accidental conditions seized upon and utilised by the plant, 
which is in no respect compelled to transgress the limits of its 
genus. In a word, design is the factor, not chance. 

Una : 


A single illustration of a temporary variation, not infrequent in 
Pondweeds, may be here given; and itis one that at first sight, 


880 NOTES ON PONDWEEDS. 


is a species? a question not lightly to be answered, nor ; 
settled. Space would be uselessly filled b any recapitulation 
of definitions now known to every student. But one thing may 


weeds of a single country, but arguing from what we see at home, 
it seems very improbable that even the most sharply defined forms 
te 


era. 

1s note is already too long, so the description of P. lucens 
: xt. Space is only left to say, once 
again, that abnormal variations soon resume their normal appear- 
i h 


vations made in the field, alike tend to suggest the expediency of 
U 8s : d 


dealing our multiform Pondweeds as specifically ‘fixe 
quantities.” * 
‘i aaa cre ssp escapes een ee NTE Se m 


- ‘ By us, as least as workers, species must be dealt with as fixed quan- 
‘fities.”—Mr. Carruthers, Journ. Bot. 1886. 


i 


881 


A SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPER. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 283.) 

4, Pmourarta (Vaill.) Linn.* 


Conceptacles globose, coriaceous in texture, re singly on 
short pedicels in the axils of the leaves, 4-celled , dehiscing at 
the tip into as many ‘valves as there are cells, each cell (Gora, 
A. Br.) furnished with a parietal placenta, from which arise 


Leaves filiform, without any lamina, circinate in oe fur- 
nished, like the creeping stem, with several vascular bundles 


Conceptacles 2-celled. 


acrosporangia 1 in each cell ‘ Sp. 1. 
Macrosporangia many in each cell . Sp. 2. 
Conceptacles re re 3-celled Sp. 3. 
Conceptacles 4 celled Sp. 4-6. 
. P. minvta Duties A. os ‘Beri ian. 18638, 435; Dexr. 
Se. A Alger. t. 88.— Rhizome and leaves much more slender than in 
P. globulifera, the latter we in. long. Pedicels ges a the 
conceptacles, which are not more th deflexed, 


lin. diam 
-celled, Meceospanad globose, not constricted, solitary i in the cells. 
Hab. South of ast Algeria, Sardinia, and Asia 4 
2. P. novm-zetanpim Kirk in Trans. New Zeal. Instit. ix. 547, 
t. 29. — Rhizome a phe more slender than in P. globulifera, 
the latter fewer and more distant, 14-2 in. long. ie as Hong 
as the ey ag ae attached to the centre of their 
ceptacles $4 in. diam., erect or eee 2-celled. Macapotes 
subglobose, not constristed, 10-12 to a cell. 
Hab. New Zealand; hills of ee oihats island, Kirk 832! 
Berggren 


ricana A. Br. in Berl. Monat. 1868, 485.— P. valdiviana 
hilippi. — Rhizome and leaves rather more slender than in P. 
globulifera, the latter 1-2 in. long. Pedicel short, arcuate. Oda 
ceptacle 2-4, usually 8-celled, 1-12th to 1-8th in ‘oa -» erect. 
Macrospores subglobose, not constricted, 10-15 toac 
ab. Arkansas, Nuttall! Near Santa Bar bevk: California, 
Mrs. Coop ivia, Chili, ying yi! 
ai Vaan 2 2 A n Berl. Monat. 1868, 435. 
Rhizome a leaves rather more lena than in P. globulifer a, the 


* See A. Braun in ‘Monatberichte der Konig]. Akadamie der Wissenschaften 
Berlin,’ Oct. 1863 (translated into French Ann. Se. Nat., Series v., vol. i., 
pe aos and Aug. 15, ‘1872. 


882 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


latter 14-2 in. long. Pedicel short, igeiet to one side of the 
deflexed conceptacle, which is 3 in. diam., ed. Macrospores 
subglobose, not i iinae 20-25 to a ce 
Ha Swan River, Drummond 991! ‘Tasmania, Gunn 1561! 
Jaggi east inivtenlia’ si 
5. P. erosunirera Linn. 1563; Valent. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. xviii. t. 84; Hook. Brit. ale 57. —Leaves usually 2-4 in. 


long Pedicel very short, erect, agate to the ae of the base 
of the erect conceptacle, which is -celled, % in. diam. acro- 
spores ovoid, constricted above the midale, 15- 20 to a cell. 

Hab. Thr ut Kur 


6. P. Manponr A. Br. i Bai rl. Monat. 1862, 679. fi ak seis 
flattened, 1-11 in. long. TPedicel arcnate-ascending, }—% in. 
attached to the centre of the base of the 4-celled ne ES shih 
is just like that of P. globulifera 

Hab. Andes fees: alpine region, at 16,000 ft. above sea- 
level, Mandon 1534 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


New Booxs.—U. MARTELLI, ‘ Florula Bogosensis a Ricci: 
8vo, pp. vii. 170, t. i.).—A. Denanyer, ‘ Les Vegetaux Inférieurs 
ee ee pect Rage i. 8yo, pp. 80; 4 microphotographs). 

—E. FFEN, e bildet die Pflanze Wurzel, Blatt und 
ne ae > (idistip, Fi analy “1887,” Bvo, pp. 262 ; 95 cuts; price 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
Bot. Centralblatt (Nos. 46-49). — H. parapet ‘ Beschreibung 
der europaischen Arten des Genus Pedicular 
Bot. Gazette (Oct.).— A. Gray, + Revision _of N. American 


Pines, based on leaf- —— (1 plate).— C. Robertson, ‘ Pollina- 
tion of ae (i x la oe Obituary of John Goldie (Mar. 21, 
1793—June, 1886). — oulter, ‘Notes on Hypericum’ (H. 
lobocarpum Jattinger, n. Sa. 
Bot. Zeitung ( Oct. 29). — Aa Goebel, i ree ne euere my 
geschich "(1 plate).—-(Nov. 5 
J. F. A. Mellink, ‘ Zur iyllonfeage’ (1 plate). a Oe 
Zia, ‘ Ueber das Vorkommen von Reservestoff behilten bei Kalk- 
_ flechten.’—(Noy. 19). O. Warburg, ‘Die éffentlichen Garten in 
Britiseh-Indien.’ 
Bull. ‘Soe. Bot. France (xxxiii: comptes rendus 5: Noy. 1).— 
: es ovules et la fécondation des Chicken: 1G. 
Colom, "Binde anatomique des stipules.’ — A. ogissiots, 
‘Orchidées af Slate: (Lim odorum Trabehinwen, n.sp.).—H. Doulio 
de des Cassulacses, oon “Anatomie tes 
‘ Bi "Bananier Féhi, see e asperme et sa 
- Clos : — baa .—P.. Vuille- 


~ 


WE am 
MN es get Seiya OR ae oem a eae NE as 


‘LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 883 


min, ‘La Membrane des Zygospores de Mucorinées.’—N. Pat 
uillard, ‘ Helicobasidium et Faobasidium.’ — L. angin, ‘ Sur Te 
ollen 


cnt idicne — L. Guignard, ‘ Tissue secréteur du fruit de la 
Vanille.’—A. Battandier, ‘ Plants d’Algérie’ (Carduncellus Pomeli- 
n Centaurea Malinvaudiana, spp. nn.). — augeard, 
‘ Chytridium helioformis, n. sp.’ ok Franchet, i Plante Sanuaemtaee! 
(Clematis Delavayi, C. ranunculoides, C. yunnanensis, C. es 
Anemone Pana nbae A. Delavayi, Thalictrum Delavayi, T. dipt 
carpum, spp. 1 

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club ( os — Emily L. Gregory, ‘ Pores of 
Libriform Tissue.’—N. L. Britton, ‘N. American species of Cyperus’ 
Se Hallit Britton, C. Halet Tent . MSS., C. Wrightti Britton).— 

L. f 


reen 
i ichecholtaia ramosa, Thysanoo carpus danchala erus, Krysimum insulare, 
es Spp. nn.).—G. Vasey, ‘ New Genus of Grasses’ (Orcuttia (1 plate) ). 
Flora (Oct. 11, 21, Nov. 1).—2E. Goebeler, ‘Die Schutzvor- 
richtungen am Stammscheitel der Farne’ (1 plate). — (Oct. 11 ). 
W. Nylander, ‘Addenda nova ad ee eee europeam ’ 
Eiemniore flavocitrina and L. crenulatella, : from Staveley). 
—(Oct. 21). E. Roll, ‘ Zur Systemati k Pie otfindose? (conel.). 
Gardeners’ Chronicle (Nov. 6).— Masdevallia astuta Rechb. f., 
___-Fria Fordii Rolfe, spp. nn. — (Nov. 18). Catasetum galeritum, C. 
. pileatum, Dendrobium nycteridoglossum, Mawillaria Jucata, spp. nn., 
___ all of Reich. f.—Cratagus st tex Bhs major N. E. Br. (n. var. 
fig. 121). mie ae Oneidium (fig. 122).— W. G. Smith, Maida: 


____laerymans (fig. 125). — (Nov. 20). ir tte Ait Mast., 
8p. 0. (figs. 126, coe Vanda Dearei Rehb. f. 
- Journ. Linn. 8 (Oct. 27) Sir John “Tnibbodk, ‘ Phytobio- 
logical eae A: the form of seedlings and the causes to 
which they are due’ (184 cuts). 


Magyar Névénytani Lapok (Oct.).— V. Borbas & J. Csato, 
‘ Forme cee cuum Comitatus Albe inferioris’ (Quercus Csatoi 
Borb. s 


Wiles Giorn. Bot. Ital. (Oct.).—G. Venturi, ‘ Supra alcune 
__ Briinee critiche orare racolto dall’ Abate A. Corestia (Barbula 
_ chionostoma, n. sp.).-— Lu. Macchiati, ‘I nettarii estraflorali delle 
Amigdalacee.’ — B. Scortechini, ‘Nuove Scitanimee trovate nella 
Penisola Malese’ (Lowia (gen. nov. ; — a, Amomum macrodons, 
Cyphostigma easer se spp. nn. : es),--T. Caruel, ‘ Sue frutto 
€ sui semi del Cacao.’ — F. Tassi, ‘ a un caso di viviparita e proli- 
ficazione della Spilanthen caulirhiza.’—P. Senerino, ‘Su di una nuova 
-Stazione dell Aceras anthr opophora, suoi caratteril, ezeazione — 
chimiche _— cellule porporine del fiore.’—C. Massalongo, ‘ Appun 
teratolog 
ace. Bot. Zeitschrift. Nov.).—T. F. Hanausek, ‘Oberirdische 

 Kartoffelknollen.’— J. Bebe fa ‘ Niwiteiess fiir die Flora Mahrens 
~—M. Kronfe id, * Uber volksthiimliche Pflanzennamen.’ — E. For- 
_manck, ‘Flora der Karpathen.’ 


ee ee et ta te ee 1) SR ae ea Se den Mahe 


REPEE Re pike heen Re Ue Aaya es cnt jieh eae ep ee 


884 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 


LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
th.—William Carruthers, F.R.S., President, in the chair 
The President, in welcoming the Fellows to the first meeting of 
the new session, made some remarks as to what work had 
done during the recess, and in a Lge tribute commented on the 
loss which Science and the Society had sustained by the death of 
Mr. G. Busk. He afterwards drew attention to stained specimens, 


Ceratium tripos.—Mr. John Murray made further remarks on the 
same, stating that near the Cumbrae Islands immense spuantities 


own observations of the species being found in long chains in the 
ocean, and to Kleb’s opinion that Ceratium was a genus of uni- 
cellular Algee and not an Taniterioan animal, as ordinarily inferred. 


Piceas. He showed that the various forms occurring from the east 
to the west of the continent, which had been hitherto considered 
different species, were cin aes losal varieties of only one species, 
slightly modified according to the altitudes and region they 
inhabited. — There was shown for Mr. W. D’Are y Godolphin 


the yo 8, 
peridium left by oe falling off of the spines.—-The only botanical 
paper read was one of a somewhat technical ‘hacker: on the 
Berberidaces of Faved by Mr. Tokutaro Ito, a native of Japan, at 
present studying at Cambridge University. 


OBITUARY. 

We regret to record the death of Mr. C. E. Broome, of Bath, 
which took place on the 15th ult. We shall give an obituary notice 
in an early issue. His herbarium is Sealant to the British 
Museum. 


We have also to record the death, at Cheltenham, on September 
1ith, of Dr. BY oes mere out. Dr. Holl was a careful and 


= We earn with much pleasure that the beanaerion f Oxford has 
Pade: yo 2 
; the earte of tes honoris causa, on our contributor, Mr. 


INDEX. 


at classified articles, see—County Records ; fx ceaiamegs Bie Ms. Feces 
L 


New Genera and Species published in this 


Aconitum duptenbes 352 
= qualifolium,* 273; 
iridifolium O73 
Secnatichin, new a iba: of, poe 
Acrothecium obovatum, 208 ; 
plex, 203; bibles 203° 


sate Birke nhea dii, 190 


Godefroyanum, 255 
Agapetes — i,* 290; Moor- 
2 Seana 
ew ‘isle of, 256, 429 
Age fa meine plants, 308 
Agrostis, new species of, 156 
Albuca corymbosa, 255; Massoni,* 


Alocasia grandis, 
Alpinia affinis,* Hors daaeas 357 
Also ochaia dissitifolia,* 18 182 
Amblystegium Cas 2 

eags macrodons, 883; vitta- 


53 
FE eticgialice Doryphorus,* 805 
Anemone nudicaulis, 91 
Angrecum 5 


um, 353 
aaace stg = side 
, new s of, 288 
Revacheria cao he "psendo- 
platani, 135 
enaria fe 


a, 88 
Aristida, new meee of, 125, 1 
Aristolochia ridicula, 320 ; ears: 


ame F. H., Hampshire plants, 


Aspleniom seqnibasale, 256 ; bran. 
ide, ); Hortianum,* 
268; 8; jamaicense,* 268 ; Taylori- 


269 
Astragalus casapaltensis, 32 
olla caroliniana, 100 ; cu- 
loides, 100; nilotica, 101; pin- 
nata, 100; rubra, 100 
Babingtos ~ C. C., Pembroke —_— 
and Mr. Holcombe, 22; 
British Rubi, 216, 225 


Bantersology, ¥ recent pooks on, 350 
Bactrodes cardincola, 200 

Bagnall's Soon tbeck of Mo as ses, 151 
Baker, J. G., Relation of British 


chiriquensis,* 243 ; w Cape 
Liliacex, 335 


Belanophers, new species of, 157, 

Balfour’s ‘Plants of Bible’ (rev.), 
29 

oye oe Prof. Philippi’s Researches 


as Si chionostoma, 

Pee R. M., Flora of St. 
Kilda, 213 

Bauhinia ee 189 


on Sparganium 
eager 142, 377; New Surrey 
plants, 346; Callit riche truncata 


in W. Ke nt, 
Belfast om Club ets 223 
Be to Flora 
Teeland, 67; De Vor Flore de 
Belgique (ev. ), 85; Labelling of 
alien a vag Ye Carex helvola 
149; Dis tribution of 
otamo- 
Sei 


Blyxa cans, 158, 25 

Bolus on Ss. a a Ssh 223 

Bomme 

B mae ’s “Date Palm,” 124 

Boottia, new species of, 158, 256 

Botanical Nomenclature, 4 
Boulger, G. 8., John Morris, 64; 

20 


886 
on Kidston’s ‘ Paleozoic Plants,’ 
285 


Braithwaite, R., Bagnall’s 
Handbook of Mowica’ (rev.), 151 

Brecon Plants, 22, 24 

Britten, J., Floobers v. Brodiza, 
49; Jo hn Zier, 101; George 
Jabkson; 1387; W. W. Newbonld 


of Oxfordshire’ (rev. ), 249; ‘Dict. 

of Gardening’ (rev.), 55; Nomen- 
clature of Srokansens, 296 

oan some Bot. Dept. Report 


for 
Brodise, (Hooker), 49 
Bromus frigi 

rownleea "oaagaecarin, 156 
Bryum Lindbergi 


25 . 
* 325; panicula- 
- * 306 : eccaupbatan , 280; 
Pere species of, “ 
Bull, Dr. H. G., 
Onithness plants, 28, 85, 344 


A 
ae 
Be 
bo 


mes 

cm se 128; the age of ex- 
isting plants, 309 

Carex Lovued in Britain, 149 
assell’s ‘Garden Flowers,’ 90 

Castilloa elastica, 93 

Catanthera,* 289 ; hecigtrass i 289 

Cat tasetum, new species of, 

Caten 


% 
= Oo 
+@ 


_ Characez, British, 1 
x ee (t. 263), 1; fragilis, 


ae Gheilacth sli,” 267 
- Chili, sala researches in, 65 
“ Chinese P 8, 17, 53 


INDEX. 


Colignonia biumbellata, 82 


of 
Fungi’ (rev.), 252; ‘ British 0 


mids,’ 254 
Cosmarium ml se 195; deca- 
se fusum,* 194; 
tho pois * 194 
Dcyiaien siedecas & incanum, 382 
Coulter’ s Botany of Rocky Moun- 


g. & 
Bedford, 3, 25, ae 346, 347 
Brecon, 22, 

Bucks , 378 
Caithness, 8, 23, 84, 148, 843, 377 
Cambridge, 4, 223, 206, 345 

3840 


> 
im 
ct 
5 
<q 
° 
ae 


a 
44, 72, 18104, 

144, 176, TiS 220, 227, 228 
Dorset, 1, 142 
Durham 295 
Essex, 376, 378 
ne 225, 378 
Forf: r, 1, 84 


Glam Sascrepis 23, 83, 112, 376 
Gloucester, 24, 142) 230, 345, 346, 


Hants, 1, 3, 6, 7, 281, 845 
sonia: 2, 130, 226 
Hertford, 71, 228 

Huntin, ingdon, 2, 3, 142, 376 
Kent, 346 

Lancaster, 218, 224 
Leicester , 378 


8, 87 
Oxford, "3, 142, 148, 249 
Pembre e, i. 22, 
Perth, 84, 148, 218, 219, 223, 225 
Radnor, 37 
2 


he Shropshire, 1, 143 

; Somerset, 1, 2, 207, 307, 309 
~- . South Ebudes , 308 

Stafford, 3, 14: 

Stirling, 143 

aa 8, 140, 223, 227, 283, 
7 


Surrey, 2, 5, 48, 54, 72, 111, 142, 
143, 221, 293, 229, 232, 346 
Sussex, 11 13, 284 
Sutherland, 1, 3, 148, 348, 377 
- Warwick, 84, ‘12 9, 142, 143, 197, 
ie 218, 22 26, 227, 231 
Westmoreland, 24, 143, 381 
Wilts, 2, 24, 284 


142, 143 
ie ws 224, 227, 231 
of Pot tamnogetons, 
3 5 ae on 4, 
43, 79, 216, 225; New Palak 


Cromer, plants of forest bed at, 
Crommelin’s ‘ Poets in the Garden,’ 
Crotalaria ech 156 
Cullum, Sir 


Cuming’s PPh pine plants, 57, 847 

Cyathea Thurston 

Cybele Renacaneds "399 

Cyrtopera oe hy 

Cylindrina, 

men find new — of, 156 

Cyperus, new species of, 383 

Cyphostigma exse aeviiad 

Cypripedium callosum, 821; San- 

derianum, 1 

___ Cyrtopera papuana,* 354 

Dactylela ellipsospora, 200; mi- 
a, 200 


= oy lea brevipes,” 
- Dalla-Torre’s Tourist’s retin (rev.), 


ism, A. Gray on, 155 
Davallia Sloanei, 37 
wre ng a 238 


Ney die ae ee pie lhe e ga eal ne ae See Mel Se te Cae 


psia Watteatrat, 32 


INDEX. 


387 


Desmids, gsm pad 193, 237 (t. 268) 
Dianthus, Supplement to enumera- 
tion of, "ae ana olenne 301; 

Borbasii, 2: 

Dicksonia prior aca 267; new 
species of, 

i imate profusum, 197 
Diplachne Reverchoni, 255 
Diplodia hedere, 135 
ar pulchella, 298; new species of, 


Disperis, new species of, 
ixon, H. 


» a2 
N., Ross-shire Mosses, 


28. 
Doc idiom, ecb 941; crenu- 


lat 241 
Deine Hendersoni, 352 
Drake del cag Sa i Flore 
i 188 


sand ‘Gloncester 
d 
or thamptonshire 
eh = af osephia, 299 
Dryia nitida, 32 
Du thie’ 8  Sahienges Gardens Re- 
port, 88 


Eatonia, new species of, 189 
Echinobotryum leve, 200 


Egyptian a ancient, 312 
lymus arenarius, 307 ; new species 
f, 255 
* English — — 254 


En Bo 
Epidendrum pristes, 288 
Equisetum ‘torsade in Britain, 54, 


sir puberula,* 326; new species 


Briospherria inequalis,* 132 


a heehe ramo 

nana Chaka 362 

Eucomis zambesiaca, 62 

Eucharis Mastersii, 32 

Eulophia gracillima, * 992; macra, 
15 


Euonymus, new —— of, 256 
Eurya distichophylla, 
Evodia, new species 0 sf 189 

Rin ings, rate of increase in, 


Fawcett, W., Agapetes (ong 291 
Festuca casapaltensis, 32; tex 

255 
Ferns, Jamaica, 14, 33 
Fiji Ferns, 182 


388 


Flower, p ised 5 3s Deer dives nr cae 
in Glam morgan, 8 
ari : Si 307 | 
ma Senecio squilidon’ in S. eae set, 


Forbes’ New Guinea Plants, 321 


f, 93 

a fragilis var. deli- 

“He Aer gos 
in Glamorgan, 23 ; s Morio 
with two columns, 183; iiantviti 
linophyllum, 

Quien Satan’ 359 ; 
Forbes 

Friend’s Ministry of Flowers,’ 90 


er, A. 
cissus in Brecon, 24; 
weeds, 306, 337, 378; Eellobion 
angustifo lium in Cambs, 345 
, hew or sabitigsiins 129, 147 
Fusidium —— 198 
Geotrichum r ot 
Gepp, A. “gipened ts Brit. Mus., 96 
Gibberela cyanogena, 133 
m li 


Gliocladi icolum,* 199 
Goldie, Jo oie. 38! 
Goni niophlebium caudic 


ceps, 91 
Goodale’s Physiological Botany 
rev.) 149 
Goodyera papuana,* 855 
Graphium um penicilloides, 205 

n Darwi 


Gray (Asa) o sm, 155 
Paes * ‘Tichena” ake Iceni: 287 
Grindon’s ‘Fruits and Fruit-trees 


(rev. 
Griselinia alata, 156 
Groves, H. & J., Notes on British 


Characeex, 1 (tt. 26 ) 
Grove, W. B., New or noteworthy 
Fungi (a. — aks ia 129, 197; 
Saccardo Fungorum’ 


(rev.), 24 
Gussonea ase 292 
Gymnoaseus Reesii; 129; ruber, 


combusta,* 294; ebur- 


nea,* 28 inta,* 208 
militaris, 352; variabilis,* 294; 
Vogelii,* fordii,* 295 ; 
new species of, 
Hanbury, F. J., iota of Caith- 
ness & cman , 148, 843; 
EE lon ( e, 184 


k of ‘Plant Dinan 
a 


INDEX. 


Harrison, A. W., Abnormal Wound- 
Lares 3 
rt, H. C., Irish Hawkweeds, 47; 
Teh Hepaties and Mosses, 360 
Hawaiian Flowers (rev.) 27 
TeBenateeitia angolensia,* 174 
Hehn’s ‘ Wanderings of Plants,’ - 
Helicosporium albidum,* 204; lum 
bricoides, 204 
Helleborus foetidus in Glamorgan, 
, 83 


Side nthosporium Hirudo, 202 ; 
hormiscoides, et parvum,* 208 

Hemitelia Hartii,* 243; micro- 
sepala,* 266 ; Sherringii,* 266 

Herbaria, 310 

Hi bert, Geo orge, 296 

Hier m chiclens se, 32 

Hierieia, “i ish, 47, 83; notes on, 84. 

Holsombe, Rev. Mr., 

Holmes’ ‘ Fun gi, 287 

Holothrix pakoreie: 156 ; monti- 
gena,* 295 

Holt, G. A., ener: angusti- 
folium Ase He 

Hooker 


Hooker v. conta 49; H. multi- 


flor 
Byles (Telopea) 299 
a aa ham osesmergeo 42 
isi um lobocarpum, 382 
alan Pinsita; 67 
* Tcones Plantarum,’ 80, 224 
Tlex ficoidea, 256 

patiens, new species of, 256 
Imperata brevifolia, 125 
Trish Plants, 1, 2, 3, 18, 47, 83, 84, 


Isaria sulphurea, 205 

a Bi D., Botanical Nomen- 
clature, 244 
rrenerg Geo orge, he 

Jamaica Ferns, 14, 33, 

Japanese De smids, 193, 987 (t. 268) 

Jenman, G.§8., Jamaica Ferns, 14, 
83, 26 


J enner, J.H.A., Peloria on Ophrys 
apifera, 284 
Touuhik (Dryandra), 299 


ag. Nat. Hist., 
Ann. - Sciences Nat. 31, 91, 
Annuario del Instit. di Rom err 
Bot. C Centralblatt, 31, 61, 91, 125, 
89, 224, 288, 31 ” 359, 882 
re err agree 61, 91, 125, 189, 
see 


Bot. Notiser, 61, 91, 155, 189, 319 


" INDEX. 


Bot. Zeitung, 31, 31, 91, 125, 155, 
189, 224, 251, 288, 312, 352, 382 

Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg., 61, 255 

Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 61, 155, 
189, 255, 320, 382 

Bull. hoes Bot. Club, 61, 125, 
156, 181, 255, 288, 320, 352, 383 

Flora, 31, 91, 125, 190, 255, 288, 
320, 352, 383 


Garden, 255 
“aha Chronicle, = 62, 91, 125, 
156 224, 256, 288, 320, 
852, oy 
revillea, 32 
Icones Plantarum, 30 
J ea mn Soc. 82, 62, 156, 190, 
— aR Mi icroscop. Soc.,91, 288 
Magy Nov. Lapok, 32, 62, 190, 
320, 883 


Midl and Nese 125, 156, 256 

Malpighia 

Notarisia, W, vo 288, 352 
uov. Giorn. Bot. Ital., 62, 156, 
256, 3 383 


Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift, 32, 

91, 126, - 200, 224, 256, am 
820, 3. 52, 8 

Pharmacettia Journal, 91, 157, 


c. N. = Wales, 288 


a 
Kew Seed-list aoa ss bei 
oe n’s ‘ Paleozoic ee (rey.), 


Knight, Jonenes 296 
Knightia Hymands, 299 
Kobresia 
Baheiling of im Species, 111 
qeery Massoni * 396; succu- 
* 326; undulata, “a 326 
88 


Lelia Soloman 


, 288 
, new specie of, 256 
structure of, 


tomita ampullace 
Leptospherites Lao 61 
Lightia, 82 


. Linospadix For 


Linnean Societ2)120 157,100,804 


889 


Linton, E. F., Naias flexilis at Kil- 
larney, 83; Caithness Botany, 
85; Glamorgan Plants, 112; Ru- 

idus in — tain, 308 ; 


tan 
., West gests Bo- 
j New re waa 876 


ae ash new poten of, 156, 256 

Lissochilus sei 293 

Littonia minor, 

Lomatia = jinn 299 

‘London Catalogue of British 
Plants’ (rev.), 184 

pe nls Viburni, 61 

Lowia, 382 

Lubbock’s 
Leaves 

Lugonia i 8, 82 

Marsile a ec of, pel 

iat 281; ancylopoda, 282 ; 
; Berteroi, 282 ; 


‘Flowers, Fruits, ‘and 
154 


cinna,* 279; condensata,* 28 

coromandelina, 282; crenulata, 
275; deflexa, 275; usa, 276; 
distorta, 283; Dr ii. 2815 


hirsuta, 
macropus, 215; mexicana, 279; 
‘muscoides + 288; 


carpa, 275 ; 
quadrata, 281; canaries 275; 
rotundata, 280; prrmera : 


vestita, 278 ; 
M asdevallia astuta, "383; striatella, 


, G., Structure of Lathrea 
ars 260), 257 


Masson’s drawings, 
Masecata leta,* dp "sidiccas 
33 


essere coleus, 1 
mean 120; furcata, 


Megaclinium ma pecans! 292 
elanomina pe: 1382 

Meliosma Fordii & M. patens, 256 

Melodorum a =. oe 190 

Meniscium Hose1, 

Mecnell, B. T., Ei Norfolk Plants, 
Br 


Metzgeria, new species of, 256 
Microstylis bella, 62 
Miller mae F., Floracf Colonsay, 308 


390 INDEX. 


erg $e thes "Pe to Kew, 32 


Morri 

Mortievella polyeephala 129 

Mucor racemosus, 

eens i. von, New Vacciniacese 

m N. Guin 

Mulenbergia, new picbis of, 156 

Murray, G., oodale’s ‘Physio- 
ibdicel Botange: (rev.), 149; 

Books on agecioteched (rev.), 350 

rnc SA Se P., Somerset Rubi, 206 

Mycena Diipesii, 189 

Mystasididen viride, 15 

flexilis at Killarney, 83 


mum,* ; Nockianum,* 
270; paucijugum,* 270; new 
hee of, 
wiedia hinudhicitios (t. 271), 355 
uew 1 Books, 30, 60, 90, 124, 155, 
189, 224, 254, 287, 319, 351, 382 
New British Freshwater ‘Algee, 91 
Ne uinea Plants, 
New or noteworthy Fone, 129, 197 
BR ol 266, 267) 
Phanerogams published in 
1885, 1 
Newton, W. W. aes os = 159 ; 
Bees Rs vse in 
Britain, 111; his ‘Dict, of Gar- 
dening’ (rev.), 55 
Niptera Riccia, 
Nitella cg (t. 264), 3 
Nitophyllum carybdeum, 156 
Nivenia = rates Ase 300 
Nomenclature, Botanical, 49, 296 
N al 8, 338 


James Hannington 
William Williamson Mewiea 
159, 161 ( rt) 
Randal Hib , 160 
ie " Glatins Baward Broome, 384 
_ Harve: ey Buchanan ones 384 


Odo um, 352 
Gnothera psychophila, & 32 
oe ai cores 62, 190, 


Orcuttia, 881 

Orthotrichum Gevaliense, 155 
Pringlei, 255 

Ottelia, new species of, 2 

Paget’s (Sir J.), British ern 


Panicum Nealleyi, 125 
Paranomus pac x 200 
Paspalum, new — of, 320 
Passifiora Walaa a, 383 


e dod 
Peloris i in Ophrys ® itera, 284 
a fibricola,* 198; longi- 


98 
Philippi’ 8 Researches in Chili, 65 
Philippine peng 57, sean 
Phillips, W., tevens 
menomycetes Britannic’ 
186; Cooke’ a 
Brit. Fungi’ 
Phoma phe ach 134; hysterella, 
134; ilicicola, 134; lineolata, 
134; ech ear et 
Phragmic new species of, 288 
bongs me albiflora, * 326; paraeena: ** 


(rev.), 
Soyer awe of 
952, 


Phyllosticta ite 134 
Plagiochila bifi 


=] 

3 
bop 

pa 

‘SES 
ot 
bo 

Ae) 

“pod 


serge ay 183; new species 
of, 91, 256; Thomsonii,* 183 
Po olyporus olex, 186 
Potamogeton,, distribution of, in 
Britain, 139, 3 


Wrightii, 320; natans, 337 


Primula, new rin cies of, 88, 156, 
189 ; Europea 
Proteaces, bend clature of, 296 


Pseudodiplodia* corticis, 197 

Psilopeganum, 256 

Psyllothamnus, 30 

Ptychosperma caryotoides,* 358 

Puccinia carniolica, 32 

Pyrenotheeca, 255 

Ramularia calce 

Ranuneu eulschiclensis 82; Polii,190 

Rattray’s ‘ Fores Sie 

Rawdon, Sir rietnos 

Reader, H. P, eons and 
ia Plants, 368 

Reviews :— 


Sk og Flowers of Hawaii. 
y Mrs. Sinclair, 27 
Masta of ae of Rocky Moun- 
enter ByJ Jd. M. Coulter, 27 


INDEX. 


Fruits a ae trees. 
H. Grindon, 2 
Botaniska-Kalen ee 
Sydow & C. Myhiass 29° 
svn of Bible. By J. H. Bal- 
2 


By L. 


Dictionary « of — By G. 
ichols 
Peetu Cotabaaea: Por 
. Vidal, 57 
Flore Compléte de la Belgique. 
ar. A. de Vos, 85 
Orchid Grower's Manual. By 
B. 8. Williams, 87 
Report on Saharanpur Gardens. 
By J. F. Duthie, 88 


Hepatice aoe By R. 
Pisaidnvical Botany. By G. L. 
ale, 1 
Handbook of Mosses. By J. E. 
Bagnall, oo 
Kew Seed-lis 
Tourist’s Guide mm Alps. By K. 


ii., 184 
iis shtclineackek Tritanbies By 


. Stevenson, 186 
Sylloge Fungoram By P. A. 
Saccardo, 
Flora = Onfordshire By G. C. 


densi of British Fungi. 
By M. C. Cooke, 252 
Palwozoie Plants. By R. Kid- 
ton, 2 
Ravine de Plantas Filipinas. 
By § Ai nae tt 
Books on Bacteriology, 3 
Rhabdospora SAT ise; tine 
sporoides, 136 
Rhamnus rugulosa 


orga new mont of, 320; 


Sesh 
H. N, Williams’ 
"Gr ower’s Manus 


Orchid 


Riella Battandieri, 288 
ipilia Andersoni, 127, 352 
— Synopsis of, 97, 274, 


Rolfe, R. A., Philippine Plants, 57, 
347; a8 lan Selaginee, 174 
Rogers, W ee | OF Fl 


391 
cester plants, 346; Elymus are- 
narius Wilts, 284 
were on Physiological Selec- 
n, 1 
hoes! Ripartiii in Britain, 111; petro- 
190 


phila, 
Roy, J., ye Japanese Desmids, 193, 


237 (t. 268) 
— relation of British to conti- 
ental types, 4, 43, 79 g- 


gp 345 ; new species of, 
er 


Sais arn (Knight, 299 
Sabia Swinhoe 
Saccardo’s Sylloge ee ), 247 
Salisbury, W., 
Salvinina ‘anna, ne auriculata, 99 ; 
2,99 — 98; Hilde e- 
brandi £98: : levi a, 99 ; mini- 
7 WS; mollis, 98 ; gotiomes 
tia, 98;  juptapbialluds, 99; ob- 
longifolia, 67; Radula,* 98; 
Spru 


pru 
Sa cubes new species oe 32, rest 
Saunders, J., Pinguic 
and Carum Ca arviin 8. ‘Beds. 346 
Saurauja Oldhami, 190 
Saxifraga St tolitzke, 88 
Schismatoglottis neoguineensis, 32 
Sel ee new species of, 189 
Scribneria, 189 
paix _dissitas 88; rufus in E. 
Suffolk, 2 
Sedum, new splot of, 32, 88 
Selaginella canilensis,* 273; gra- 
cilis, 255; setigera, 273 
— @ tlopeeuroides, 175; Wel- 
175 


enedio casapaltensis, 32; squa- 
Septoeylindrieum chetospira,* 199; 


P 
sibveking’s 8 ‘ Praise of Gardens,’ 89 
Sievekingia, new species of, 352 
clair’s (Mrs.) 


Sinclair ( ; Indigenous 

Flowers of Hawaii (rev.), 
Somer J aoa e 
Smith, W. 


~H. G. 3B 
8 oranthe (Sorocephalus), ino 
Sorocephalus—=So 

South Enon ees Hist. Cin, 293 


Shathoglottis poner 62; 
stenophylla,* 354 
Sphexrozoma bere ene 


892 


Spororima brassicx,* 132 
Sporotrichum merdarium, 199 
Stachybotrys dichroa," 201 
Stachylidium extorre, 202 
Stachys sylv etme — 283 
Staganospora ilici 

Staurastrum zlobosun,* 237 ; 


eabtali: 


rum,* 
Stellaria nets 1p 
Stemphylium Ma ee. 205 
sone tnlatage te hia e, 299 
Stevenson’s ‘ Hymenomycetes Bri- 
ainsies’ a ), 18 

Stewart, S. A., heh Hieracia, 83 
Stipa Lettermani, 156 
Streptanthus, nee species of, 288 
St. Kilda, Flora of, 213 

utton’s ? Pesmancat Pastures,’ 319 
s, ‘ Botaniska-Ka- 
ake 


ep! aria, 
Tetraploa cristata, 200 
amnium angustifolium* (t. 265), 


eens © con 
Thysanotu y (blaitnees wai 52 
Trichoglottis leontoglossa,* 355 


INDEX. 


Trichosporium murinum, 201 

Trimen, H., Flora of Ceylon, 301, 
32 

Traill’s — .), ‘Studies of Plant- 
life 88 


Tri ahalapis "haieleeon: 88 
Trice perma Hosei, 25 
» 43 


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