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Tas. 484 ‘ > : : F - to face page 81 _ =e ; ; : ; gee a 169 » 486 ; : ; ; . = ee ee GN 2a Portrait OF FREDERICK JUSTEN : ; , 62 = MAxweELu TynpEN MAsTERs . 3 257 Epwarp ArtHur Lionet Batters re 385 - Or all the Plates may be placed together at the end of the volume. The Supplement (‘A Flora of Glamorganshire’) should be placed separately at the end of the volume. THE | JOURNAL OF BOTANY. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. —+—_ OBSERVATIONS ON SARRACENIA. By J..M. Macraruaneg, D.Sc. I.—History or tHe Generic Name. Durine recent years vigorous efforts have been made toward correct determination and application of oe and specific names. This has resulted in the disentangling of not a few complicated webs of botanical history, and has laid ble. we a few botanical suspect that the generic name Sarracenia had other than a simple and exact history; he now finds that this Saige has been a chequered one. Most have been aware that Tournefort wrote the dedicatory name Sarracena, though he wrote the Quebec botanist’s name “ Sarrazin’’; that Linneus altered this to Sarracenia; an that Hoffmannsege protested against both spellings, and suggested that ee genus be written Sarrazenia. The history seems to be as follow n 171 9, Tournefort,* ignoring the older names of Cotlophyllum, Fue. Bucanephyllon, &c., applied by his predecessors, wrote: ‘‘ Sarracenam appalled a Clarissimo D. Sarrazin, Medicine Doctore, Anatomico et Botanico Regio insigni, qui eximiam hance plantam, pro summa qua me complectitur benevolentia & Canada misit.’’ As his description and figure show, he referred only to S. purpurea, and in his generic Sains ote had in view a Canadian medical man and scientist, by name Sarrasin or Sarrazin, who did active work about the years 1700-1720 But in Tournefort’s ‘*Explicatio Nominum,”’ prefaced to his Iusitutiones, i ie * Sarra- cenus, Gallice Sarrazin, Medicine Doctor peritissimus, apud Cana- denses Botanicus et Anatomicus Hogins, acouratis sim a pressed in Latin as Sarracenus, a med hi Sarracena. At the same time, and a Sbaty grencn ss he applied * Institutiones, i. 657 (sphalm. 567) (1719). JournaL or Borany,—Vou. 45. [Jan. 1907.] B 2 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY eo om word for Fagopyrum esculentum, or Buckwheat, to the physici An dtaadinaifon of the Memoirs of the French Royal Academy of Sciences from 1700 to 1720 ona that the Quebec scientist was no ordinary worker. Thus, in Mémoires de U’Académie Royale des Sciences, xix. 48 (1704), a a long communication entitled ‘* Extrait d’une Lettre de M. pork Medeen du Roy en Canada, touchant l’anatomie du Castor, lue cadémie par M, Pitton Tournefort ; de Quebec le 25 Octobre, Mon: the above title and succeeding paper are exactly reproduced in English i in Martyn and Chambers’s History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences, ii. 181 (1742). A perusal of the paper, even in its appa piberd abridged form, shows that the author must have been an excep- tionally acute observer = Lashes aah and have well deserved = encomium passed on him by the French traveller Charlevoix * a l’esprit fort orné et ne se distingue pas moins dans le conseil ane dont il est membre, que par son habileté dans tout ce qui est dans sa profession.”” In Martyn and Chambers’s History and on iv. 258, is ‘* The History of the Carcajou, an American mal, M. Sarrasin, the King’s Physician at Canada, and a Daeeutpenaei of the Academy, from whom we have seen a very rious and exact history of the Castor or Beaver in the — of 1704, has also sent such another of the Carcajou, of which w here give an abridgment”; and then follow two pages of jéseription: In the same volume is a aper ‘Of the American Rat, or Mus alpinus. M. Sarrasin, physician at Quebec,” &c. Tt will be noted i alike in Charlevoix’s account and in the French Academy Memoirs, the name is spelt Sarrasin. But in the original Swedish edition of Kalm’s Travels two correct index page- references are given to Sarrasin; in the English edition both are omitted, altho wr? the descriptions to which the page-references would have guided are retained. In the earlier te the name is spelt recente “se reference is made to his death by eee fever while v the sick vie the hospital “ Quebec. second amie: i 165 (1771)) we read, “Dr. Sarrazin has therefore (as I was told by the eldest of the two Jesuits here) got a small quantity of aie and rye, of the winter corn sort, from Swede From Rees’s Encyclopedia we learn that ‘‘ Sarracenia was 80 named by Tournefort in honour of his friend Dr. Sarrazin, who collected numerous plants in Canada, specimens of which we have seen in the dried collections of the Museum at Paris. While they lay there for ages unnoticed, the discovery of the same plants has been attributed to more recent travellers te indeed could know nothing of Dr. Sarrazin’s acquisitions.” ancher’s Flore Canadienne, i. 80 (1862), is ‘* Dédié par ovamsietont aul * Voyages, p. 97. OBSERVATIONS ON SARRACENIA 3 Dr. Sarrasin, de Québec, qui vers 1780 lui envoya du Canada la premiére Espéce connue.” The date, as well as the latter Bat is erroneous, but Sarrasin may have lived till after 1730, for Kalm was there in 1749, when the Quebec naturalist’s death seems to have been fresh in min In Catesby’s Flora of the Carolinas, in Gronovius’s Piora Vir- ginica, and in Linneus’s Hortus Cliffortianus, Tournefort’s generic spelling is otis, but Linneus (Species Plantarum, ii. 510 (1758) ) changed it to Sarracenia, a terminology that was generally accepted till 1824. Then Hoffmannsegg } introduced alike confusion and doubt into ae siren by confounding the Quebec naturalist with Dr. Jean Antoine Saracen, of Lyons, au a eee that since Tournefort ous his correspondent’s e Sarrazin, the genu should be written Sarrazinia, ‘in sates ee M. sere m ee gallici, Sarrazin”’; accordingly he adopted his see form that time to the present day this tiaras up of the two authors ‘as been largely perpetuated. It seems appropriate, therefore, that the separate identity of the Lyons dikoralist should be clearly esta- blished. Had Hoffmannsegg carefully perused the Isagoge in Rem Herbarium, prefixed to and consecutively paged with Tournefort’s Institutiones, he could not have failed to discover that two natura- Thus, on p. 87 of Isagoge, Tournefort writes: ‘‘Cum Camerario conjungi tl coma a tonius Sarracenus Lugduneus, cujus demum summ t diligentia seo opera si pristinze peste a rire seiniceis: sum amen nitorem adepta unt: eo multum superest ont ‘tell nequeat, si Con- eth git ert mus. Sarracenus enim plurimorum codicum potitus et patente interpretum labore adjutus,” ” &e.; and on p. 65: ‘** Lignonius demum et Sarracenus viri optimi, quorum prior in insulis rnck ren alter in Canada Regis mandato plantarum in- ee incumbunt.” e of the above clear distinctions, Hoffmannsegg credited the ae naturalist with the names Jean Antoine, and this has led subsequent botanists astray. Thus Wittstein, in his Hand- wérterbuch, ed, 2, 787 Yee condenses oe fagent of the genus thus :—“ Sarracenia, L. h Jean Antoine Sarrasin, Arzt i in anderer Sarrasin, Arzt in Quebeck in der ersten Hiilfte des 18. Jahrhunderts, schrieb tiber die Rattiecechichte Canadas.” It will be observed here that Wittstein wrongly credits the dedication of the genus to the Lyon a and only refers to the real recipient of that hoagie It is scarcely surprising, therefore, that ritzel, in his Thesaurus (p. 278), falls into a similar mistake : 2 Sarasin, Jean Antoine, Arztin Lyon, Uebersetzer des Dioscorides (Sarracenia, L.).* Lyon 25 April 1547,} Lyon 29 Nov. 1598.” This mistaken dedication of the genus has been perpetuated up even to the present day, and in careful manuals; in Britton and Brown’s Flora of the N. States and Canada, ii. 159 (1897), we read, ‘‘ Named } Verzeichniss der Pflanzenculturen, 223 (1824). B2 4 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY in honour of Dr. Jean Antoine Sarracin, a botanist of Quebec.” Such mistakes have spelt originated from consultation of Wittstein’ s and Pritzel’s w The subjoined is a brief summary of the facts relating to the two botanists :— r. Jean Antoine Saracen, or Sarracen, a physician of Lyons, Heart nee, who issued a translation of Dioscorides in 1598; b. 25th April, 1547, da. 29th Nov. 1598. Dr. . Sarrasin, physician, anatomist, and botanist of Quebee. Correspondent. of Tournefort, who dedicate d the genus Sarracena "ra ) i C Academy Died at Quebec (about ¢. 1730-1740?). Name by some spelt, but probably incorrectly, Sarrazin. II.—Sarracenta Catessa1 Elliott. In Contrib. Bot. Lab. Univ. Penn. ii. a ated I have traced the ‘hiciory of a very distinet species of t enus, whose home is in the Gulf States. From Elliott’s oe description, Dr. Small and the writer inclined to regard it as identical with Elliott’s S. Catesbei. But Elliott’s type-specimen is now known to exist in the ages Museum, and through the kindness of ae r Rea, I have been able to exis it Study shows it o be a aateal hybrid between S. flava and S. purpurea. Such . hybrid is at times frequent Geoeanort the Southern States, and the writer age recently put ‘ig record * several localities where it is more or less abundan Fully two years ago he discovered a typeal lea of the canis hybrid in the Sloane Her- barium (xciii. f. 74). Consultation of Ray’s Historia, ii, 1344 (1693), shows that that Pinkes described this specimen, and fully appre- ciated its differences in comparison with descriptions and figures 0 S. purpurea, published by Clusius and Parkinson. The s pecimen must therefore have been collected more than two hundred years ago, and is the oldest example of a hybrid known to us in the genus: The Cirecum- Gulf species, formerly supposed to be identical with Elliott’s S. Catesbei, has now been named by the writer S. Sledyet, and the observations made in — UbiEriitions from the Botanical Laboratory accordingly apply to it T1I.—Sarracenza Drummonpu Croom. Our knowledge of this species dates much further back than has hitherto Sato supposed, and opens up nomenclatorial points some interest. Croom aaneibed oti from leaves "meets ed by Deimenaiid in 1885, and from flowers gathered by Chapman in 1886, both collected round oa praia But the plant bad beets collected, described, and named many years before by W. Bartram, . Robin, and by Rafinesque. Biter referring to their records Anais ic be Congress Report, London, 1906. + Ann. N. H. of N. York, iv. 100 (1848). OBSERVATIONS ON SARRACENIA 5 it may be well to emphasize that the only other species with which the present might be confused is 8. minor (varioluris), The geo- graphical range of the latter species is along the Atlantic coastal plain, from southern North Carolina to aa Central Florida, but it never seems to cross the land divide that separates the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains. S. Drummondii, on the other hand, is only known in Florida on the gulf side of the divide, ate near Appalachicola on the east to the Alabama River on the w n his 7'ravels, ed. 2, 417 (1794), W. Bartram ret S. 2 + 4 ras) — < [a>] ° ° oS Lert a oO fas) “a ae 0g pi is “D er i) B oo 4.6 Se ise) rm oe 2 So re round, tubular, and ventricose; but not ridged with RS angles or prominent nerves, as the leaves of the Saracinia flava are; the aperture at top may be shut up bya cap or lid, of a helmet form, which is an ccna of the leaf, turning over the orifice in that singular manner; the ventricose, or infla ted part of the leaf, which is of a pale but vivid green colour, is beautifully ornamented with rose- mole ed studs or blisters, and the inner surface curiously inscribed, or variegated, with crimson veins or fibres. It was past the time for flow od but the plant in any situation is a very great _ curiosity.” The locality and description alike absolutely prove his species to have been identical with S. =e ondit. But, regard- ing S. lacunosa as a synonym of S. mi . M. Harper says,* ‘* Bartram’s dig tase of S. lacunosa is scien complete to leave no doubt as to what species he had in , and his name antedates that of ‘Micheas x by a Seas pair. In : alee paper t he returns to the subject, and gives as synonyms of S. minor, ‘* §, lacunosa Bartr. Travels, 417, 1791. S. vari Michx. Fl, or. Am. i, 310, 1808.” ‘The portion of Bartram’s description which has probably misled Harper is that in whee he says, ‘‘ the aperture at top may be shut up by a cap or lid, of a helmet form, which is an appendage of the leaf, turning over the orifice. Bartram probably saw these plants i © sia atetober, when the autumnal crop of finely coloured eee were being produced, and so sel = that the lid had at first a helmet form in the opening pite The creer wuubdbient by W. Bartram that he found his S, lacunosa near Pensacola, at least two hundred miles west of any locality for S. minor, that the pitchers were of a vivid en colour, ornamented with rose-coloured studs, and that the interior had crimson veins, demonstrate conclusively that his plant esa identical with S. Drummondii, and his name should take prior The French writer, M. nye travelled in the Southern atctes from 1802-06, a nd published an account of his journey at Paris in 1807. He cecil many of his impressions of Pensacola, and (ui. 48) gave a graphic history of his finding the species now under consideration. His locality was probably the same as that from Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxvii. 428 (1900). ' Ibid. xxx. 331 (1903). 6 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY ich W. Bartram obtained his specimens, and which has been raion by the writer. While describing the pitchers accurately, he mistook a. for a floral part—probably a spathe—and so says: ‘‘La fleur et son parapluie, colorés de blanc et veinés de rouge, ne présentent a aucun — de fécondation, ni étamines, ni the following diagnosis:—17 Sarracenia leucophylla Raf. Foliis tubulosis, | strictis, elongatis, teretis, albo coloratis, rubro venatis, intus retrorsum hirsutis, fauce oe on fimbriata en v. il. p. 4 ing insects, who, seeking for the honey, are entrapped within the leaves, and prevented to come out by the rigid thick hairs. Robin —, the paneer bed a flower or spatha.”’ s Bartram’s 8S. lacunosa (1794) and Rafinesque’s S. leuco- igus (1807) alike antedate ahaa m’s name (1848), and both writers sufficiently characterize the speci It seems samara there- esque’s and Robin's Sige or to ani it such a plant sisi in the Pensacola regio TY.—Sarracenta minor Walt. (S. varronaris Michx.). This species was first sufficiently described by Walter under the above name in his Flora Car oliniana, p. 153 (1788). a = aie greater popularity. I do not see, howeve er, that the @ prio ote especially as it has gained fairly wide acceptance. But the Species was known much earlier, and several good ee exist im ihe older ea which long antedate Walter’s time. Thus, in the Sloane Herbari ium, vol. cexiv. 34; are two leaves and three flowers of this species ale, * “Limon congeneri Clusii affinis.” Ray’s escription is no perfect as might be desired, but it antedates that of Walter 1 by “fully eighty aon ten has brought together information regarding the Mr. collector ¥ William Young,t and he kindly drew the writer’s attention ee ee * Florula tga phen 14 (1817). + Journ. Bot. 1894, 332 a q : : SSSR CE ew ne ae ie a tt eee Weta Rp rn Sage er mr ee ae saa aS cha ele 5 Lo ols OBSERVATIONS ON SARRACENIA 7 to the herbarium and book of drawings made by ss which are in the Department of Botany of the British Museum B =. ) with like numbers on the sheets of drawings; but a slight com- parison shows that the specimens and drawings do not saieonsipiids On p. 11 of the herbarium is an example of S. minor leaf, and alongside it a flower that is more likely a small one of S. flava than average one of S. minor, though minute examination would alone determine accurately. But No. 84 in the book of drawings is a rough though quite typical illustration of S. psittacina, so that both Heer must oe been collected by pote before alter's period. On a single page of his Pa pie eeetee Gevdiinten ani” which is also preserved in the Depart- pointed out ae R. M. Harper.* But S. lutea, though probably a nomen nudum, has been more widely published than has hitherto been su spected, and this through the medium of Frasers’ Garden Catalogues. Mr. Britten has reprinted two of these (Journ. Bot. 1899, 185 ; 1905, 829) from copies existing in the Department of Botany, a and Prof. Greene published a third—the latest in date and imcanielte (though not in this case) the most important—in Pittonia (ii. 116; 1890). In the earliest, probably - paren 1794-5, a footnote to the list of —. offered for sale “ Living plants of the above seeds, well as Phtoksi aw Magnolias, hodedeudrbat) the four distinet | species of Sarracenias mentioned in Walter’s Flora Carolina, &¢., many of which are not to be found as yet in any other persons possession but himself, will be ready for inspection in a short time.” In the second Catalogue, bearing date April 8th, 1796, it is mar ‘J, Fraser begs leave to coe ‘ge public that he has completed his fifth voyage from America, and has procured the sea tat plants and seeds, which he ited to dispose of at very moderate prices.’’ Then, on the second ine are offered “ pies Revd te flava, rubra, lutea, and pur- purea”’; so from this it is evident that the name lutea obtained urrency ok atime. We may hazard the conjecture that S. lutea probably originated with the Fraser firm, but for some reason was rejected by Walter in favour of his S. minor. The third Fraser Catalogue merely says, ‘* Sarracenia, four species. n the volume of drawings prepared by W. Bartram for Dr. Fothergill, now in the Department of Botany, British Museum, is a old and characteristic figure of S. minor (p. 68), which must have tibet made before 1780. This may be the plant intended by W. Bartram under the name S. galeata, fers (without descrip- viii). It mus be acres of land about xe in 8. piltitein, and = is quite possible that this was the species he intended by the nam * Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxx. 331 (1903), 8 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY PLANTS OF THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT. By rue Rev. W. Moyte Roeers, F.L.S. Tuxse few notes are supplementary to those of Messrs. Ley and W. R. Linton, published in this Journal, 1906, pp. 171-3, as well as to Mr. J. G. Baker’s Flora of the Lake District, and Mr. A. W. Bennett’s paper in this Journal for 1885, pp. 330-1. They refer to plants observed by me in the district last summer, as all other forms put together. Next after it in frequency came R. Selmert Lindeb. ; and then, I think, my R. lacustris. R. pulcher- rimus Neum. seemed to be the only other common bramble; though hi. Lindebergit P. J. Muell., R. Lindieianus Lees, and a few of the Suberecti were fairly frequent locally. Czsians were all rare, and nearly all the glandular forms ; while R. leuchostachys Sm. was COD- ned to two localities, and I altogether failed to find R. rusticanus e he two counties Westmoreland (Zop. Bot. 69) and Ciumberland (70) are indicated by their initial letters; and what I believe to be ed. _ Ranunculus Lenormandi F. Schultz. ©. Near Threlkeld, Kes : i W. By Goldrill, about midway be ; ‘ ) er; in good quantity. econopsts cambrica Vig. The great abundance of this through- out the district is so remarkable as to justify its claim to be ® denizen at least in both W. and C. It occurs by the River Rothay, PLANTS OF THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT 9 between Rydal-and Ambleside, as we as by remote farms and round the lakes and villages. I saw no Papaver A Fumaria. Cardamine amara Linn. var. lilucina F. B. White. C. By Aira Force, on damp rocks in deep shade; in some quantity. Apparently the var. as Petermann. See p. 816 of. this Journal (1906) for note from the Watson Exch. Club. Rep. 1904-5 pid ji iO ia alpina H. ©. Wats. In great beauty by: Grisedale ves (W. and C.). Polygala oayptera Reichb. W. Patterdale; Howtown. In seve- ral aon but only thinly scattered. C. Gen coin. "The usual hill- side form, aud apparently more frequent up to 800 ft. above sea- level than P. serpyllacea Weihe. But the sparse representation of the genus for several hundred feet blew this level is remarkable. . vulgaris Linn, P. oxyptera is not recorded for either county in Top. Bot. or in Mr. Arthur Bennett’s ‘‘ Supplement (Journ. Bot. 1905); but Mr. Baker, in his Flora, says that he has seen it on Whitbarrow. In the following notes on the distribution of the fruticose Rubi confirming previ records. — fi. jissus Lind angdale; Brothers’ Water to Ullswater, in several places and considerable quantity.—R. suberectus Anders . Rather frequent at Langdale Head by small becks.—*f. sulcatus Vest. OC. Burns, nae Threlkel d; in dense thickets for about fifty yards of exposed et ditch. Undo ubtedly this species, and growing in great luxuri- rast, though, as in some other English counties, with less con- spicuously large flowers than in the type.—R. plicatus Wh. & N. W. Upper Langdale. ©. Threlkeld.—R. Rogersii Linton. W. In good quantity about half-way between Chapel Stile and Langdale Head. Red Bank Wood, Grasmere.—R. incurvatus Bab. W. Kirkby Lonsdale, by River Lune: ; Casterton to Middleton, very luxuriant and in great quantity.—R. Lindleianus Lees. W. By Windermere. In age places round the lake at Grasmere, and between Gras- mere ydal. Between Coniston and Ambleside ‘South Lan- eS A.R.! ©. Watermillock, abundant.— R. rhamnifolius - Wh. & N., sp. coll. W. In two or three spots near Winder and Langdale, butnowhere quite characteristic. C. In one place by Ullswater, near the Westmoreland border.—*R. nemoralis — is : Mueill. C. By Derwentwater, in two places near Friars’ very characteristic.—R. Scheutaii Lindeb. ©. Threlkeld ; requone and identical with the common Scottish plant.—R. pulcherremus Neum. Widely distributed and locally abundant in both counties. —R. Lindebergit P. J, Muell. W. Fairly frequent and vy very luxu- riant at Langdale Head and round Grasmere. C. Watermillock. By Thirlmere, on both sides. Threlke ld. eee lacustris, gp. (vel subsp.) nov. Stem only moderately arch- , Gull greenish red, at first with fairly many long white hairs os and single), glabrescent, swbsulcate, Prickles many, rather short, mostly declining and stout based. Leaves 5-nate, chiefly pedate, small, with long aged byl petioles. gree a spicuously narrow, thin, usually not imbricate, green and s above, paler and at first eG hairy Pepe vines felted) 10 THE JOURNAL OF ——— beneath, nt “Sia oa compound teeth towards the point; ter- minal na y obov ith fairly long cuspidate-acuminate point, nearly or quite half its length; the short hooked pricklets of all the petiolules extending far up the midribs. Panicle long, rather broadly sot eet lax, “racemose above, with patent or subpatent 2-4-flowered branches in the middle, and two or more ascending racemose gnennine below; with many strong, declining and faleate prickles and prickiets on the greenish hairy rachis and pedicels; — ee cleft bracts. Flowers many, very handsome and starlike nshine. Sepals externally greener than in most Rhamni- Tune: ay “dene ely saiile with short stout acicles, and narrow white margin; strongly ae on fall of petals. Petals large, white, broadly obovate but not contiguous. Stamens many, con- spicuously long, white, far detcbainy greenish styles. Frequent and y the lakes and stream s, and in hedges, W. Langdale Head to Bea soices. About Patterdale and the “south end of Ulls- water (immature, but apparently wee South Lancashire. tween Coniston and Ambleside, M. A. R GC. Watermillock. By Thirlmere and Derwentwater. Phreleld. While strongly recalling R. Lindeberyii in such conspicuous characters as the (most parcasiy; by rrr many eher hese uivtele s, which, in spite of the comparative smallness of the bush, make this one of the most conspicuous brambles at oe Lakes, where alone I have seen it. From R. pulcherrimus Neum. and R. me Focke, which seem to be its other nearest silica, “its subsulcate stem, narro leaflets and broad large-flowered and strongly iui panicle sepa- rate it readily. 2. Maassii further differs from it by its “ quite glabrons”’ stem R. mercicus ‘Bagnall var. bracteatus Bagnall. W. Hasedale, M.A.R.! Grasmere, abundant. Near Casterton. C. By Seber Very handsome and uae in both counties.—A. elmert Lindeb. Frequent. W. Patterdale. Langdale. Rydal to Gramnens. Kirkby Lonsdale canoetos ancs. Coniston, M.A. R.! ©. By Thirlmere and Divwinventee. Threl- keld.— R. pyramidalis Kalt. ©. Threlkeld (a weak form). Seen nowhere else.—*R. leucanthemus P. J. Muell.? W. Grasmere; luxuriant and in good quantity.—R. leucostachys Sm. §S. Lancs: -! ©. Nea orce io) B R. infestus Weihe. W. Langdale, in two or three places. — h. Drejeri G. Jensen. W. By stream - valley below Dungeon Ghyll. Strong, with white pplalonoth radula Weihe, *subsp. “echinatoides Rogers. W. Red Bank Wood, 7 sata —R. fuscus N. W. Rydal, in some quantity. neu hystria Wh. & N. W. ‘Rydal, as ——rs +e Na Sofie ie Vee, Sl hai ie PLANTS OF THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT 11 wood border.—R. dasyphyllus Rogers (R. pallidus Bab.). W. and C. Very common from Windermere by Patterdale to Ullswater, and from Langdale Head by Ambleside, Grasmere and Thirlmere to Keswick and Threlkeld. From Kirkby Lonsdale by Casterton towards Tebay.—R. corylifolius Sm. sp. coll, C. Watermillock.— feet Linn. W. By River Rothay, diekeratik Rydal and Amble- side. y River Lune at Kirkby Lonsdale. Apparently uncommon. ik saaition 8 the foregoing (which I felt able to name without hesitation), I saw immature bushes which seemed to belong to *R. dumnontensis Bab., in two or three places in Patterdale (W.), and others which looked like *R. fuliosus Wh. & -N., under trees on the western shore of Ullswater (C.); both of which ~riea be looked for by those who visit the localities later in the seaso Alchemilla vulgaris Linn., a. pratensis cae § millock. Threlkeld. —b. alpestr is (Sch Patterdale. Vv who has kindly came my specimens, thinks that there may be room for doubt o the Cnet Head plant, but confirms my naming of the rete —A. alpina ot W. By Goldrill near its junction with Ullswater at about 420 ft. above sea-level, as well as higher up by Grisedale Beck a Helvellyn. C. On the western shore of Thirlmere, almost to the water’s edge. - Saxifraga aizoides Linn. W. Down to about 500 ft. above sea- level at base of Place Fell. OC. Not far above the level of the water at Thirlmere.—Cotyledon Umbilicus Linn. W. Easedale, near Grasmere, M, A. Cavin ver tictllabiin Koch. W. Tebay, by Low Borrow Bridge, in plenty, M. 4. R.! Not recorded for Westmoreland in Top. Bot. or Suppit.; ioe in his Flora Mr. Baker has the oliowing. note : “ Gathered on Kingmoor (1882) by my friend Mr. W. Duckworth, of Stanwix, Carlisle (W. Hodgson).” Myosotis palustris Relh. var. strigulosa Mert. & Koch. W. Pat- terdale. Rydal. C. Near Threlkeld. The variety frequent; type not seen.—M. repens G. Don and M. cespitosa F. Schultz were both Bate mulus Langsdorfii Donn. Alien. W. Fora considerable dis- tance ae the beck below High Dungeon Ghyll Hotel.—M, mos- chatus Dougl.? A plant, which Mr. Edmund Baker has kindly examined and thinks must be a scentless form of this EF grows luxuriantly in a beck that loses itself in a quarry near Ryda No doubt a ‘garden escape,” though now well matic as a denizen.—Veronica montana Linn. . Grasmere.—Euphrasia oficinalis Linn. Abundant and raragee bales in both counties, but in most cases my specimens were not s ufficiently mature for satisfactory determination. The one Cea as to which there could e no doubt was /. Rostkoviana Hayne. This was in great beauty by becks and in damp meadows at from 300 to 700 ft. W. Lang- dale Head and Valley. Through Patterdale up to the south end of Ullswater, and on Grisedale, below Helvellyn; crossing border into Cumberland. Other forms, kindly examined for me by 12 = THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY the Rey. E. 8. Marshall, are probably (1) E. curta Fr, var. glabrescens Wetts. W. Stony lane below Dungeon Ghyll. Grassy rocky hill- sides at octeeeg Rydal, and Tebay. (2) E. gracilis Fr. W. Stony lane below Dungeon Ghyll. _ Melampyrwm pratense Linn., var. hians Druce. W. and. Abur- dant in many localities between Windermere and Derwentwater. Orchis maculata Linn., type. W. Windermere to Kirkstone Pass. Patterdale, C. Aira Force.—Var. ericetorum Linton. Ma wae opposite Howtown. rex laevigata Sm. W. Patterdale, by a beck to the south- west a the Parish Church, on the eastern slope of Black Rigg, only slightly above the level of Ullswater ; ; very cliaracteristic. Described as ‘‘rare’’ in Mr. Baker's Fiora, where, in addition to one check’ locality, Westmoreland is only credited with the record, “‘in some places about Windermere (IF. Clowes).” *Festuca Myuros Linn. Wall-top in outskirts of Y Kuabloctda: A luxuriant well-developed clump seen only as I drove past, but I believe quite unmistakeable. : mal polypodivides Fée. W. Hill above Grasmere, towards asedal Equisetum sylvaticum Linn. ©. Threlkeld Valley, in great quantity. A REVISION OF BERSAMA., By Epmunp G. ae F.L.S. Genera Plantarum, was as foll lores hermaphroditl regulares in racemum oe — Calyx inferus gamosepalus pentamerus, ob sepala 2 inferiora usque ad apicem bi- entatum coalita 4-partitus. et infera ieubnendatedei pen- camera, petala sepalis alterna estivatione imbricata. Discus ant is hy 5-loculare. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum 5-lobum lobis crassis erectis.—Arbor foliis imparipinnatis, stipulis intrapetiolari- bus, see gd neues One » B. abyssinica, is orb ing: and figured from Gondat daeenee: igre, Abyssinia, eect d by Dr. Ruppell of this there is a ce specimen in the Nation ra janertionints Sateen ee ee oe eee A REVISION OF BERSAMA 18 the gGkihitocdlar ovary attenuate ne into a glabrous pled and the obtuse, subtetragonous stigma. Planchon (Trans. Linn. Soe. xx. 408) retains Natalia as distinct from Bersama; but recent sehen I think correctly, consider these genera should be united. Z the case of B. paullinioides Baker, of which Vogel’s type in the w Herbarium from Sierra Leone and the figir we in Hooker's Niger Flora leaves no ambiguity, I have found several plants referred here from various localities which it seems advisable to separate. Thus I have ventured to distinguish plants from Angola, the Cameroons, and Uganda which have been placed here. I have: not included in the following notes Holst. no. 2481, from Bipinde, Cameroons, which was distributed as a new species wt Bersama but is either Canarium Schweinfurthii Engler, or a close ally. The arrangement adopted by my father in the Fiora of Tropical Africa was to place in the group Natalia the plants with four stamens, and in Mubersama those with five stamens, and Dr. Girke Ve ae a v. 381 (1895)) groups the plants in a similar ut t Hig est ter is by no means absolute, as in certain sunning —for in sta e B. Goyal and B. nyasse—flowers occur with either four or Shaw's mens, in the case of the former in the same raceme, and the shorts may be either four- or five-valved. t seems advisable to leave as undetermined certain specimens where the material is not very complete; and in this connection I ce no. 3884 in Herb. Kew., which is only in fruit; also Gerrard, 0. 1428, from Natal, and certain slates collected by Welwitsch in Atleol The genus is placed in Sapindacea by Bentham & Hooker, but by Planchon, Giirke, Dalla Torre, and Harms, it is placed in Melianthacea. For the purposes of the following revision I eS studied the authentic material in the National and Kew Herbar BrersaMa. Fres. in Mus. Senckenberg. ii. 279, t. 17 (1837) ; Bentham & Hother al. Gen Plant. i 41, 412; Baker in ives Flora of gS al 5, 881; et in Ditanucinwelt: Ost-Afr. ¢ “Natalia Hochst. in Flora, xxiv. (1841), 6 Rhaganus E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei PA. oe 216 (1843), omen. A. Stamens generally 4, rarely 5.* a, Leaf rachis unwinged. * Leaves imparipinnate, generally 2-8- ete: Leaflets obovate, entire, shining, 8-0-5-0-8:5 cm. lon . B, rucens Szyszyl. in Polypet. Rah enii ii. 50 (1888) ; Wood nes Natal Plants, i. 71, t. 88 (1899 Natalia lucens Hochst. in F ct XXiv. 663 (1841). Rhaganus lucidus E. Meyer, l.c. (nomen). - Flowers with 4 stamens or with 5 stamens occur in B. Gossweileri and B. nyasse, 14 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Hab. Sour Arrica. Woods at Port Natal, Drege! ire no. 71! Natal, Gerrard, no. 200! Inanda, Wood, no. 808! Near Durban, Wood, no. 6307! and no. 7392 ; Pehntanss; no. ee Between Pinetown and Umbilo, Rehmann, no. 804 42! Barberton, Golden Crescent Creek, E. FE. Galpin, no. 849! Near mouth of St. John’s River, Bolus, no. 8836 A form with rather Rae: leaflets than type occurs in the woods near the month of the Kei River, Flanagan, no. 4 In this species the ovary above inert abruptly into a rather long slender style; the stigma is clay ** Leaves ey trijugate. ay nai or ovate-oblong, or arrowly ee Gis 50-8:0 cm. long. 2..B. 8 Pitti ertoni, sp. Arbor Estos ramulis sul- catis cicatricibus thane! fidid itil um notatis; stipulis intrapetio- laribus amplexicaulibus ; foliis imparipinnatis sepissime 3-jugis cum Sas rachi tenue exalata; foliolis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis vel anguste obovatis See a ceis glabris margine integris supra nitidis breviuscule petiolulatis apice subacuminatis basi cuneatis costa superne impressa nervis lateralibus Sane ante marginem inter se anastomosantibus; racemo plurifloro apicem versus confertifloro inferne nudo pedune ulo sulcato; Beaitels parvis subulatis; pedicellis calyci subeequilongis ; petaloram lamina pubescenti oblongo- spathu- lata; staminibus 4 filamentis basi dilatatis duorum petalorum infimorum connatis 2 rete bapta stylo inferne canescenti- pubescenti; ovario 4-loculari. Species ab B. paullinioidi Baker differt primo intuitu foliolis asibicetbis: sepissime 3-jugis cum im- pari margine hand serratis, rachi exalata, jes coal minori, &c., ab B. lucente Szyszl. differt foliolis apice subacuminati Hab. §. Ruopesta. Melsetter District. Dhipets forest patch, alt. 8800 ft. “A fair-sized forest tree, flowers purplish pink.” . M. Swynnerton, no. 9! Herb. Mus. Brit. " Leaf rachis 7-0-10°0 cm. long. Terminal leaflet 7:0-8:0 long, 8°0-3:2 cm. broad at the broadest part. Lateral leaflets rather smaller. Petiolule of lateral leaflets + 2-2°5 mm. long. Petals + 8 mm. lon “A fairly large tree, of which several specimens have been *** Leaves 4-5-jugate. Leaflets oval- Rite, cane or chr oo glabrous or glabrate, 3-0-4-0 cm. long, 10-1 3. B. Tysonrana ncihtgt in Icones PI. t. 2267 (1894). Hab. Sour Arrica. Kaffraria, Tyson, no. 6216! Herb. Kew. A very atts: prevrg noticeable on account of the rather small leaflets and almost globose oon very rough externally. The ovary gradually attenuate to the I append a description of a prune allied plant referred to by Oliver, l.c. It seems advisable to await more complete material before naming it ;:— A REVISION OF BERSAMA 15 Arbor vel casas ? poms cortice griseo tectis ; foliis ees subtus ae a nerviis secundariis tenuibus inter se juxta marginem anastomosantibus foliolis terminalibus oblongo-oblanceo- latis foliolis proximis quam distalibus minoribus; rachi omnin connatis ; my erecto ps minus M ile vestito, Riaste Siniteds parviusculo; ovario externe hi Arbor vel frutex B. T1 yorwiila ‘Oliver valde affinis, differt ambitu 1g parum diversa precipue latiori filamentis altius hirtis, &e., Natat. errard, no. 1428! Herb. Kew. Rachi is 10-11-0 em. long. Leaflets 4:0-5°0 cm. long, 1‘6-2:0 cm, broad. Petiolule of terminal leaflets + 7:0 mm. long. Tuterjugal spaces 20-25 cm. long. Pedicels 2-5 mm. long. Calyx 8-4 mm long. Petals + "8 mm. long. we Leaves often 7-jugate. Leaflets ovate or ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, Lage margin entire, reach- ing 8 cm. lo d ne 8¢ oad, ong an 2° 4. B. coriacea, sp. no a sec. cl. detectorem elegantis- sima; foliis + 7-jugis um + ipa Ble labs foliolis glaberrimig utrinque sing sepissime cir o1 joribus quam lat nitis pecies B. intagriflia Rich. affinis. ab. Lower Guinga. Angola, Malange N’Bango thi not uncommon, Geabinesien, no. Tadd | Herb. Mus. Bait. aed Rachis 15:0-25-0.em. long. ming ee 6°0-7°0 cm. lon only slightly pli ‘“‘A very elegant tree, 15 ft. or more high, erectly b leaflets coriaceous, glossy on both surfaces, capsule 4- valve ain re or seeds scarlet with cup-shaped aril.’’—J. sky he position of this plant must remain somewhat doub owing specimens have been obtained, Sal antil B. Leaf-rachis generally winged. Leaves 2-6-jugate. I, elliptical or oblong, apex acutely acuminate or Siicalawe glabrous. 5. B. acurmpens Welw. ex Hiern, Cat. Welw. Pl. i. 173 (1896) 16 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Hab. Lower Gurvea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, no. 4536 ! 1697 ! y. Leaf-rachis winged. * Leaves 7-10-jugate. Leaflets papyraceous, ppt stalked, lan- ceolate or ovate-lanceolate, base more or less cuneate, apex ery cuspidate, remotely serrate, cactane 9-5 cm. long and 3°5 cm. broad. Bracts rather short. 6. B. pautimiomes Baker in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 485 (1868 Natalia scigllintiiige Planchon in FI. Nigrit. 258, t. Xx1X. (849), Hab. Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Vogel, no. 99! Barter! Afzelius! Smeathman! Tree in bush near Toureh, Scott Elitot, no. 4476! Various plants have been referred to this species which appear more or less readily Sete ie I have not seen specimens of true B. _paullinioides Ba ker mr ae Welwitsch, no. 1699, from a Leaves FS sughte: Leaflets pubis, oblong, with a rounded ase reaching 12-0 em. long (or perhaps ‘longer, as leaf material is not very complete). Dantti longer. 7. B. cetostecra Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 92 (1905). . Hab. Upper Guinea. Liberia, Sinoe Basin, Whyte! Herb. ew. ; *e* Leaves + 8-jugate. Leaflets chartaceous, glabrous, ovate- er ae acuminate, shortly stalked, 9-0-11-0 cm. long, 4:0-4°2 ¢ ad. . Preussii, sp. nov. Folia cire. 8.juga cum impar sub- sessili, rachios parte distali alata parte proxima exalata ; foliolis glabris chartaceis oppositis vel passim. alternis ovato- lanceolatis basi p minus rotundatis apice acuminatis margine subint a vel remote serrulatis nerviis a utrinque circa 12-14 ten bus juxta marginem inter se anastomosantibus brevissime aa latis foliolis proximis quam distalibua paullo minoribus; pedu unculis longis plus minus fusco-pubescentibus ; racemo multifloro pedun- culis longiusculis tenuibus strictis quam calyce longioribus; bracteis or sa ; : ; ari 4-lobo; ome hee : locula s B. leiostegia Bint f affinis differt foliolis ovato-lance0 pec latis bed oblongis, staminibus longioribus filamentis super? glabris, &c. Hab. PPER Guinea. Cameroons, Preuss, no. 408! Herb. Mus. B Rachis i in our specimen 83 cm. long. Proximal leaflets + 9 ¢™ : : epee ee epee Y ERNE eS pee on ee ; ae A REVISION OF BERSAMA si long, + 4 em. broad. Distal leaflets + 11 cm. long, + 4°2 cm. broad. Calyx 8-9 m fe ing “es als + 1:8-2:0 cm. “long. Fila- ments of stamens 1:3 “15 m. lon This plant was distributed as B. Oa cma Baker. It differs from this species in several important particulars. The leaflets are an gor different shape, not so markedly attenuate to the base; he raceme is more copiously flowered and the filaments of the stamens Ponta: “ee Leaves + 9-jugate. Leaflets papyraceous, base cuneate, ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, glabrous, 15-18 em. long, 5°0-5°8 em. broad. a Gossweileri, sp. nov. Arbor e basi ramosa, ex cl. de- te ag Folia circ. 9-juga; rachios parte distali alata parte proxima oxalate ; foliolis grag glabris oblongo-obovatis margine inte- gris basi cuneatis apice breviter apiculatis subsessilibus nerviis lateralibus utrinque Wee 12-14 juxta marginem inter se anasto- mosantibus foliolis terminalibus basi magis cuneatis; stipula intra- petiolari; racemo multifloro; bracteis angustissimis quam pedicello brevion pers eee inferioribus s quam calyce longioribus ; sepalis externe tenuiter pubescentibus antico latiore apice bidentato ; petal 5 Talonat lamina oblonga + carnosa ex cl. detectore pallide coccinea; disco semilunari- angulato ; ; staminibus 4 vel 5 filamentis basi dilatatis, stylo subsequilongis; stylo erecto glabriusculo, stig- mate capitato ; ovario externe hirto 4-loculari vel rarius 5-loculari ; capsula lignosa subspherica leviter 4 vel 5 angulata extus molliter brunneo-tomentosa apice mucronata, spermis coccineis basi arillo flavo cag Species B. paullinioidi Baker admodum affinis differt foliolis wale subsens libus mace integris nerviis lateralibus multi- Fab ovario nune 4-locu une 5-loe ulari, — longioribus, ., ab B. dotoetaiea Stapf foliolorum basi + cunea Ks b. Lowrr Guinea the forests of Monts Bella, Angola, Gossweiler, no. 728! 7233! Coll. Carp., Herb. Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew ‘Maas reaching 50 cm. long. Terminal leaflet + 16 cm. long, 5°5-6-O cm. broad. Calyx +6 mm. long. Petals 1:6-1-7 cm. long. Filaments + 1:0 cm. long. The noticeable features of this plant are :— a. The rather long rachis alate in the distal portion B. The papyraceous oemty attenuate to both extremities, and subsessile with entire margin y. The 4- or 5-celled auky. The 4 or 5 stamens with filaments about as long as the style. 5. The subspherical rigor slightly 4- or 5-angled. ‘‘A palm-shaped tree stem branched from the base, branches erect, irenchlots spreading, anton irregularly imparipinnate, com- mon petiole grooved on the upper surface towards the end de- current, leaflets almost sessile, glossy on both sides, lower surface with reticulate venation in relief. Calyx 5-toothed deeply 2-lobed except the anterior. Corolla of 5 imbricate petals four times as Journat or Borany.—Vou, 45. [Jaw. 1907.] c 18 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY long as haga reflected ovet oe calyx, partly fleshy pale scarlet with white margin, stam r 5, connate at the base, much exserted kad quite erect. Style besit and Setting between the ] aments, stigma globular, ribbed on ant. side surface. Ovar superior.’’—J, G. eke Leaves 5-6-jugate. Leaflets oblong or ovate-oblong, base cuneate ha cuneate rounded, glabrous 6-0-7:'5 cm. long, + 3-0 cm. broad, 10. B. ee pen sp. nov. Arbuscula trunco recto crassi- tudine brachii, ramuli ‘nodosi cicatricati erecti motte Raggi coronati secus cl. detectorem ; foliis 5-6-jugis, rachios tenuiter alata, parte proxima omnino exalata, foliolis tenuiter coriaceis oblongis vel oblongo-ovatis nerviis lateralibus sepissime -12 margine integris vel serrato-dentatis supra lete viridibus parum lucidulis subtus pallide virescentibus, verniceo-nitentibus foliolis terminalibus subsesilibu basi insigniter cuneatis <— libus basi cuneatis neato-rotundatis sepissime 2-3- iiligsotabin . ialiay stip intrapetiolaribus sabaainisating racemo multifloro quam folio spe subduplo breviori; bracteis angustissimis ; Sedericelis pubesoentibus inferioribus quam calyce longioribus ; calycis segmentis 4 apice obtusis ciliatis antico latiore apice breviter bifidis ; petalis lingulato- > meh villosulis flave- scenti-viridiscentibus ; disco ~ ogee wy acinar staminibus 4 basi dilatatis duorum petalorum infim ; stylo quam staminibus breviore, sistas peat: coaphtat-% ver unlites subcostato obtuso, egg externe hirto 4-loculari. Species B. paullinioidi Baker affinis differt amgeey foliolorum parum livers, bracteis passe cc oa et longior Ha wer Guinea. Angola. In the primitive forests of the ——- of Serra de Queta, Central angie oe olungo. Fl. Sep ta bint no. 16965! Herb. Mus. A small tree, + 4 m. high. Rachis 12-18 oie: ‘on , only ein +i in the 1 1-2 distal ‘segments. sere nd Agee 5 em. lo rr + 3:0 cm. broad. Bracts 4-5 mm. long. x+5m Petals lingulate spathulate, + 1:3 cm. its The ini in “this plant is larger than in B. Tysoniana Oliver. he leaflets are inclined to be oblong, not tapering so much to both extremities as in B. paullinioides Baker; the bracts are very much longer and narrower than those in the type from Sierra Leone Welwitsch no. 1695, from Golungo Alto, and no. 1696, from Queta, differ in their larger leaflets and entire margins. *eeeKE Leaves 7-10-jugate. Leaflets pblong-! lanceolate, aoe Ee scattered hairs below, 10-14 cm. long, 4-5 em. bro usamparica Giirke in Engler, Pflanzelwelt ne Afr. ©. 252 885); ‘ilazenfaion, iii. v. 380, t. 188, figs b EB cat AFRIca, Miso. Holst, no. 991. Lutindi, ie no. 8300! ies Mshusa, Holst, no. 9004! Upper Konde- land, ‘Umuamba, Likabu-see, Goetze, no. 1821, fide Giirke. 4 ; E POR ee ee ye NET REET 2 eS rer eae = A REVISION OF BERSAMA 19 #ixeee* Leaves 6-7-jugate. Leaflets sessile, oblong-elliptical or ‘oblong entire, with acute apices, reaching 2 and em. broad, but those with flowers smaller. 12. B. maxra Baker, l. c. 484; Icones Pl. t. 2268 (1893). Hab. Upper Gurimas. ‘Gakiacs Island, Mann, no. 1853! Herb. Kew. sek Leaves 5-7-jugate. Leaflets pee glabrous above, sessile, 7°0-11'0 cm. long, 2°6-4:0 ¢ nyasse, sp.nov. Arbor foliis sau cum impari sessili ; foliolis subcoriaceis oblongis apice acuminatis et mucronatis foliolis terminalibus anguste obovatis supra glabris et nitidis subtus mum pilis plus minus vestitis demum glabris costa ‘sages im- oem nervis lateralibus tenuibus arcuatis juxta marginem inter se anastomosantibus margine integris vel subundulatis foliolis latera- libus sessilibus; rachios parte distali alata parte proxima exalata et lus minus rufescenti- pubescenti; racemo multifloro apicem versus confertifioro quam foliis breviori; pedunculo striato ; bracteis angustis pedicello cise sageap Se rufescenti- pubescentibus ; calyce extus ferrugineo-tomentoso sepalis 4 apice obtusis vel subacutis antico latiore statu fructescenti reflexis ; petalorum taiiina oblonga ungue sericeo-albida ; disco semiannulari lobato; staminibus 4 vel 5 flitentis basi dilatatis; stigmate capitato globoso; stylo superne glabro inferne pilis tecto; capsulis lignosis 5- ee spermis arillo eS pec ates munitis, testa corrugat Arbo @ Bak. affinis differt staratiadcs interdum 5, pedicels Ridder calyce longiori et mollissime subferrugineo- tom Hal, BritisH pores Arrica. Nyassaland, Buchanan, no. 280! Ones ; Herb. Mus. Bri A plant collected oo Nir. Scott Elliot in the Shire, no. 8582, is very closely _— to the above e following plant which I have seen in Herb. Kew. pro- bably sia Lgionar be —Mt. Zomba, Sir H. H. ee no. 97! uchanan, no. a18 | Waimea: K. J. Cameron, no. Leaflets 7°0-11'0 cm. long, 2°6-4:0 cm ge hy Raceme with pedunele in ae ote 28 cm. prams Petals + 14 mm. long. Anthers + 4mm. long. Capsule + 8 om — Seed + 7 mm. in diameter. Aril daptlitorn:, vt emer Leaves 7-8-jugate. Distal leaflets oblong vale: ob- long, proximal ovate, subsessile, 5-0-9:0-13-0 em. long, . d. 14. B. va@anpensis Sprague in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxxvii. 512 yet Hab. Uaanpa Protectorate, Koki District, Dawe, no. 882! Herb. Kew ov. serrata. Arbor, foliolis distalibus oblongis in parte Var 3 $ superiore margine argute serratis subtus cinereo tomentosis foliolis proximis ovatis omnibus subsessilibus; calycis segmentis 4 anguste c2 20 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY ovatis subacuminatis antico latiore bifido; petalis quam iis typi brevioribus ; staminibus 4 antheris hirtis; stylo erecto superne glabro; stigmate globoso leviter 4-lobo; ovario nilig albidis vestito 4-loculari. ab. ae Protectorate. Ruchigga, Bagshawe, no, 398! Herb. Mus. ti “« Tree w by white flowers Leaflets eek sda al 5-0-7: ° em. long, distal 9-0-13-0 cm. long, 8°5-4°5 cm. broad. Calyx + 5mm. long. Petals + 1:2 cm. long. B. Stamens 5. a, Leaf rachis generally unwinged (in B. fg ag Fres. occasion- ally winged in the distal portion * Leaves with usually 4 pairs, 3-7-9, of slightly stalked, a lanceolate leaflets generally 7-9-0 cm. long and 2°5-8°5 broad. (ABs nope “rete in Mus. Senckenb. ii. 281, t. 17; Baker in BL “Trop. A ; Engler, ovata seo ti 298. B. abril ‘Richard, FI. A Abyss 847). Hab. Nire Lanp. Abyssinia, Rappath| skaibet no. 1507! Scholoda, Schimper, ii. no. 942! Amba-Sea and Gayeh-Merki, Schimper (1862), n od Gondar, Steudner, no. 1268. Ghabah in Simen, soudaiae o. 1865. Uaeanna Prorecrorate. Toro east, alt. 4200 ft., Bagshaw, no. 1118! Mpanga ives, alt. 3500 ft., Bagshawe, no. 5} Planchon meee B. 24 ifolia on synonymous with B abyssinica Fres., but retains B. serrata Rich. as distinct; in Fi. Trop. Afr. both are Abner wilde pekieies ** Leaves + 7-jugate. eae are lanceolate, glabrous, mat- = entire, apex mucrona 0-18°5 cm. long, 2-4°0 cm broad. Petiolule of ‘Sar er ped 1 cm. long. 16. B. Housrmu Giirke in Bot. Jahrb. xix. Beibl. 47, 35 (1894). Hab. East Troprican Arrica. Usambara, near Mlalo, Holst, no. 2482 ! Bagshawe, no. 879, from Kitara, Koki, is doubtfully placed here, as the flowers are not sufficiently develo oped. rab pe a = nanhet Toneanpe: ppolong-lasmcolate, apex —— gla e 8:0-10-0 em. long, 8-0-4°5 em 17. B. Vorxensn Giirke in Bot. Jahrb. /.c. 86 (1894). Hab. East Trorican Arrica. Kilimanjaro, Volkens, no. 12524. **** Leaves 5-7-jugate. Leaflets shortly stalked, oblong- on apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, 3° 0-6-0 em long, 15-25 mm. broad. 18. 5B. oe Giirke in Bot. Jahrb. ee 424 (1900). Hab. t Tropica, Arrica, Uhehe, Mantanana Plateau, Goetze, no. rive Kinga Hills, Ussangn, Goetze, no, 1275. j E G : J PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA L. VAR. SPHEROSTACHYA ROHL 21 8. Leaf rachis winged. * Leaves 5-10-jugate. Leaflets ovate or oblong-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, 6°0-12°5 em. long, 5:0 cm. broad. 19. B. anponeensis Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL. i. 174 (1896). Hab. Lower Gutvea. Angola. In secondary thickets near Luxillo, Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, no. 1698 ! Var. nov. ugandensis. Arbor parva; foliis + 9-jugis cum impari sessili jugis proximis quam distalibus multo minoribus foliolis oblongis sonapanee subtus ad nervos pilis sparse vestitis, nibus 5 basi 08 Hab. Ucanpa toe Toro, near Mpanga river, Bag- snare, no. 1074! alt. 4000 ft. e with white flowers in vertical inflorescences.” Herb. Mus. Brit. Leaves 20-35 cm. long. mig tt proximal + 5°5 cm. long, distal + 18 cm. long, + 4 cm. broad. Calyx + 8 mm. long. Petals + 17 mm. long, + 4 hl broad. Anthers + 3:5 mm long. Stigma globose. ** Leaves 7-10-jugate. Leaflets ee eee acuminate, 6:0-9:0 cm. long, 2-0-2 m. bro ad. 20. B. Eneveriana Giirke in Bot. ibe ree v. 807, §. v. (1891). B. Englert Giirke MS. ex Engler, bohigchiseeRord. 293. Hab. Hast Arrioa. Fischer, no. 185 A specimen of a tree, 20 ft. high, vortiivted by Scott Elliot on the Nandi Hills, no. she is clearly allied to the above, but differs somewhat in the stipules PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA L, van. SPHAZROSTACHYA Rout. Recentty in going over the proof-sheets of my History of the Dillenian Herbaria my attention was again directed to the plantain referred by Mr. C. E. Salmon, in his paper in this Journal (1906, 126), to the above name. This m ay, as Mr. Salmon suggests, . the plant referred to by Linneus (Species Plantarum, 114) a el Plantago trinervia, folio angustissimo Bauh. Pin. 189, pro my 98”; but is it the plant of Ray, with which Mr. Salmon also identifies it, referred to in the Synopsis, ed. i. p. 126, n. 7 (1690), as “ Plantago an Alpina angustifolia J. B.? Narrow- leaved Moun- tain-Plantain. In mpi Trigvylehau supra lacum Llyn Bochlyn prope Keclesiam §. Perisii. D. Lioyd’’? I think not. Ray places the plant after P. maritima and P. Corene ts Dr. Richardson, who visited this spot with Lloyd, with whom he was also in frequent correspondence, says, in a avi to Sherard dated April 1st, 1726 (see Richardson, Correspondence, p. 289), ‘‘ At the a2 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY top of the Glyder are Trigvulcaugh rocks; on the north side of which, growing out of the clifts of the steep rocks, you'll find the te ae ng angustifolia J. this seems to me a distinct plant fro e@ marine one ay fet are “shorter, narrower, and more Pinid: “tho spikes shorter. I have kept it in my garden ever since I was in Wales with Mr. Lloyd, and it never varies: that from the bishoprick of sean and also from hanes is no other than the marin I have this also in my gar are description appears fairly conclusive as to the plant bing to P. maritima; but we have further evidence. In the eition of Ray ‘ S es (p. 815), Dillenins adds to the origina Plantam hance e rupibus Trigvylcaugh orientem spectantibus in in ovum matali ubi j Hie viret; D. Richardson. Plantagini marin® Ger. tam similis est ut distingui nequeat. Spica saltem gracilior est, quod loci conditioni procul dubio debetur”’: and in his her- barium are plants sent by Dr. Richardson from Durham and Nortiuiibediaua labelled, ‘sane non differt a maritima” ; and also two specimens oermeen on “ Sept. 1727, on Trigvylehau Rocks by rt rewer ’’—the latter are a mes leaved forms of P. mari- not P. lan pottig Ina of Dr. Richardson - aus Oct. ‘a5th, (1726, he says he either: Dillenius had Mei « the high rock Trigvylchy, which is at the very top of t Glydyr that you might have gathered an Plantago alpina angustifolia? J.B, of Mr. Lh en in flower’; he repeats the observations about it ine he made to Sherard, and adds that it has remained con- stant in its characters in his garden. Therefore we may with hout dont identify this plant of Ray as a variety of P. maritima P. lanceolata var. spharostachya is represented in the Dillenian Ros tba being one of the new species added by Dillenius, it stands o P. lanceolata on p. 815, n. 6, as Plantago angustifolia minor Tab, ie 782. His herbarium specimens are from “ pratis Insule 8. F. Gray (Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. ii. p. 293) puts the latte r plant as var. trinervium of P. lanceolata “- eae ck lanceolatite characterized by its ‘leaves narrow, 3-ribbed ” ; while the formet plant is wrongly identified with P. aes L., a slant unknown? it Britain, and practically limited to Central Europe. G. Cuarnipce Druck: When I read Mr. Druce’s note, and in its light reperused Mr. Salmon’s paper, it seemed to me that the suggestion that ? both plants were found in the Llanberis locality was the solution of the matter. I wonder now that it did not eke either Mr. Salmon oF myself when we read his paper in proof that the variety sp/2"?: stachya did not correspond with Dillenius’s remark, “ Plantagini marine Ger. tam similis est ut distingui nequeat”; although PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA L. VAR. SPHHXROSTACHYA ROHL 23 entirely agrees with Hudson’s diagnosis—“ P. foliis lineari-lanceo- latis basi lanatis, spica subrotunda, seapo tereti’”’—of what he considered to be Ray's plant. I regret it did not occur to me, r. Salmon was working at his paper in the National Her- barium, to see whether Buddle’s Herbarium threw any light on the matter, but the possibility of two plants being in question occurred to neither of us. I have now consulted Buddle and the result view On folio 38 of ae x of his Herbarium Britannicum (Herb. Sloane vevrn are t mall Plantains, labelled ape Ae — ‘* Plantago an qavaitioli olia J. B. Lhwyd R. Syn. [ed. 2] 185 a D. Rishardsou cmon in mis loco ibi ou est potius Corono- pus: sive serpentina m a Ger rig ‘An Plantago pak gee J. B. et Lhwyd R. Syn. 185. Plantago vero D. Lhwyd nihil est nisi quinquenervia seeundu D. Richardson. An Plantago angustifolia minor Tab. 732.” The first of these is certain ly sf rent it is not, however, the plant figured by Gerard (ed. Johnson] on p. 425. The second is the plant which forms the main subject of Mr. Salmon’s note. The figure of Tabernemontanus cited is a small form of P. lanceo- lata and may quite well be the var. sph@rostachya. A later hand has added to the note in Herb. Buddle a reference to Ray’s Historia Plantarum, 878 (1686); here the plant is placed next to P. lanceo- lata, and is called « Plantago angustifolia minor CO. B, Park. quin- quenervia minor Ger.’ Ray's description runs: ‘‘ Parvitate sola omnium os tium & precedente differt. Qu. annon loco natali debeatur hee diversitas.” Gerard in 1597 reproduces Taberne- ase s figure (p. 339), but paca it as a variety of P. media; not from t a ikae aionrtiotiod Ae anything but the smallnesse It m may I think still be argued that Ray's ae plant, of which no description was given, was the form of P. lanceolata which so far as the diagnosis goe e montana of Hudson in the first edition “of his Flora Aegis % 65). In his second edition, how- ever, Hudson suppresses montana and places the seerot a: plant which he had referred to it under maritima. The labelling by Banks in his harbariath of one of his Welsh specimens of flies Banks had identified his plant with Hudson’s description, but had referred it correctly to Linneus’s variety of P. lanceolata. Is it worth a distinctive name ? James Britten. 24 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY NOTES ON LIMONIUM.* By C. E. Saumon, F.L.S. V.— Livonium BINERVOSUM. Ir is with feelings of regret, and yet of satisfaction, that I place the above name before British botanists to supersede that given in this Journal for 1908, 72, as L. occidentale ; rion that the Rules of the Vienna Congress should cause another change, and satisfaction that it = become possible to utilize for all time a name eet recalls the memory of that accurate British botanist, G. E. Smi crmalant account of the present plant appeared in Eng. Bot. Supp. t. 2663 (1831), from the pen of this observer, under the name neg binervosa, which antedates Lloyd's S. occtdentalis by thirteen The corrected cag will stand as :— LiMonIUM BINERVOSU Statice cordata G. E. Sm.! Cat. Pl. South Kent, 18, t. 2 (1829) 8. metkatate Hooker! Brit. Fl., 145 paedl aad Sieh non al S. binervosa G. E. Sm.! in Eng. Bot. Sup 881). S. Bayonnensis Grenier, pl. exs. (1886)! fe a DO. » rodr 649 (1848). S. occidentalis Lloyd ! Fl. Loire-Inf. 212 (1844). S. Bubanit Girard! in Ann. Sci. Nat. Sér. 8, ii. 826 (1844). S. Dodartit Bab.! Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 8 and 4 (non Gir.). S. binervosa tn E. Sm. B intermedia Syme !, Eng. Bot. “a 8, vil. 4 (1867) (pro parte). Limonium erat BA are Kuntze, Rev. Gen. ii. 395 (189 1). asicce. —J. Lange, Plant. Europ. Austral. wnt 52, 195! Reliq. Maill. 1614! F. Schultz, Herb. Norm. nov. ser. cent. 1, 184! Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. 2350! Soc. Dauphin, 1882 3433! Magnier, Fl. Select. 2040! Dérfler, Herb. Norm. 4178! F. Schultz, Herb. Norm. cent. 12, 1128! The locality for this species in v.-c. ‘- A at East (Journ Bot. 1908, 72), should be erased, as Mr. F. H. Davey tells me be Perranzabuloe Porth i is in West Sativa” “The earliest record tha I have noted for y.-c. 2 dates from 1839, in Herb. Borrer, with the pee Tintagel Castle Island ! f inervosum certainly occurs in Ireland in the counties ° Wexford, Louth, sm and Meath, besides those mentioned iD my previous article (p. 78). L. BINERVOSUM Var. he . Statice binervosa G. B. § m., 8 intermedia Syme, Eng. Bot. ed. 3; er ope (1867), pro par vis. L. occidentale O. Kuntze var. procerum mihi, in Journ. Bot. 1908, 73. a * See Journ. Bot. 1903, 65; 1904, 361; 1905, 5. NOTES ON LIMONIUM 25 I have examined examples of this variety from v.-c. 5 Somerset North, mg Island, Weston-super-Mare! 1896, D. Fry Sh . W. White), v.-c. 52 Anglesey, Red Wharf Bay! 1858, ; Bickham, and from Dublin, Sutton side of Howth ! aoe ex herb. H. G. Carroll (Herb. Dublin n); ‘ao Son have a slightly different aspect from the Ormes Head specimens L. BINERVOSUM Var. HUMIL Statice reticulata Hooker | Fl. Scotica, 97 (1821) (non al.). S. spathulata Hooker! Brit. Fl. 145 (1830) (pro ec non al.). S. Dodartii mad var. humilis Gir. in Ann. Se. . Sér. 2, xvii. "88 (184 This is the oe referred to in Journ. Bot. 1903, 73, which may now be gs tang agra by the above name; the following characters serve to keep it pa from typical S, binervosum, omitting charac- Eoictos common to both. Plant varying in height from 2-3 inches (the humilis of Girard) to 10-15 inches. Leaves, recalling in shape those of L. recurvum, always smali, narrow and long-petioled, with petiole as long as o longer than blade, oblanceolate-spathulate or more oblong, usually obtusely- pointed or rounded and not apiculate, 1-3-veined; in small specimens, 4 inch long and & inch wide, in large 1-13 inches long and usually less than + inch wide. Scape slender, rather smooth, hardly tapering, erect or peck cenially arcuate, branched from quite near base with a good many barren branches (rarely none). Branches and branchlets usually erect. Spikes distant, erect, rather long, narrow and loose-flowered (in small a shorter, ogether rmin corymb). Spikelets arranged rather laxly ee lovsly in small specimens), 2-3-flowered. Outer bract 14-13 lines long and appa- rently always green and not tinged with purple ; shape, &e., as in binervosum, but longer tn proportion to inner bract than i in that species. Middle bract 14 lines long, otherwise as in binervosum. Inner bract 2}-2% lines long, coloured as outer bract, and more elliptical-ovate than the obovate shape in binerrosum. n accordance with the Vienna poling: Girard’s name humilis must stand for this variety ; it is unfortunate one for a plant ‘ ‘eover, p S. tiheg. a species I have not yet seen from any part of rea iety may be known at a glance by its small, narrow, long- petioled leaves and long, narrow, erect eae and, on closer inspection, by its outer and inner bract charac Distribution.—74. Wigtown. Mull of Galloway! 1823. Goldie (Herb. Kew) ; still existing there in one small p —*83. Edin- burgh. Near Cramond! 1842. G. W. a (Herb, W. Moyle Rogers) ; said to be now lost. 26 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY THE NEW RULES FOR NOMENCLATURE. R readers are now in possession of the Rules for Nomen- pag agi by the opie eee Botanical Congress at Vienna which were issued a Supplement “to last year’s on in this Journal aha elsewhere. Whatever opinion may be formed as to details, it is, as we have already said, desirable in the interests of uniformity and convenience that these Rules should be aca semana The conclusions as a whole are eminently sonable—the ridiculous claim of “ priority of place” pee the jetianiion of names in the style of Linaria Linaria are ruled out of court, and the foolish distinction by which the adjectival form of the name of a person is rt with a small letter while its substantive form has a capital is set on one si e greatest possible care has been taken in defining the Rules and their +d geesrye and although the * recommendations” have pre- sumably not the same binding force as the Rules themselves, we think that es will be generally accepted. The use of carefull chosen ‘ Ro al helps to the ready understanding of the Rules in rom applicatio most important decision is that which asserts the supremacy n and it is open to future soothe dahde to extend it. We have ene 6 protested against the arbitrary closure proposed in various form by German botanists as being an infringement of the law of Seon which in our judgement should alone govern nomenclature, and we fail to see what gain can result from the adoption of the Harms list, if it is to be regarded as capable of indefinite extension in the future. We think that, as the list has been adopted, it should be THE NEW RULES FOR NOMENCLATURE 27 accepted and acted upon; but we trust that-any extension of it 1 the future will be strongly resented, in the interest of that ability which we observe one of the speakers considered would result fr its adoption. Owing to the on yagptaeins of the list, the sik verted ingenuity which has added so many useless synonyms to our nomenclature will still have scope for its exercise; and the honest worker himself will often be compelled by the force of logic to restore names which he would willingly overlook, for, by the wording of the Rules, all names not t definitely excluded are avail- able. Moreover, a considerable number of Seer qong which would certainly be on the list had the compiler been aware of them, will maintain their position owing to their siclaning from it ; thus, among British plants, Radicula of Hi ll, cy ee oe Messrs. Groves in their edition of Babington’s Manual for is barred by the list; and Trichoon od Roth (1798), taken up by Dr. Rendle (Cat. Pl. Welwitsch, 18), must replace Phrag- mites Trin. (1820).* This list of pe will not greatly affect British botanists, for whose convenience we have appended to the Rules a list of those genera as appearing in British books which will be affected by the Index. To this list must be added Per eevee which Messrs. Groves, following some American authors, substitu for Goodyera; this is invalidated My. toed fact that Salisbury ae aon 7 name without any diagnosi o be hoped that any en changes will be effected with "all ee care, and without that haste for the creation of new combinations to bear the name of their manufacturer which has hitherto been somewhat too prominent in work of this kind. Mr. Druce, with characteristic energy and ingenuity, has.at once set to work, and has published in the Annals of Scottish Natural History for Cotas : list of changes whielr he considers ‘‘ma have the advantage of directing attention to the subject, and will allow the suggested names to be subjected to criticism.’ It seems to us that the ‘advantage’ hardly compensates for the unwisdom of ‘“‘suggesting names ‘to be subjected to er riticism ° *; criticism de the numberless ——, synonyms already in existence. This indeed is to oo free t the case with Mr. Druce’s list; in his anxiety to sec combinations he has not waited for the official publication of ae new Laws and thus takes up names of genera which the Laws aoe he even petra this manufacture into synonymy! Nor do we see what is gained by rushing out hat is manifestly only a chad portion of the heen that will be necessary. There are undoubtedly in Mr. Druce’s list names which will have to be taken up; but there are ee which must pass at once into the lumber of useless synonym e have no intention of entering ‘ido a detailed criticism of this - first attempt to revise the nomenclature of some British plants ; but we may deduce from it one or two conclusions of general * The name of the British plant is 7. Phragmites Rendle, 1. c. 28 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY application, which we commend to the notice of others who take up the work. The first is that quotations should be verified: where this is not possible, it should be stated. Mr. Druce, for example, relies far too much upon Richter’: s Plante Europee—a most useful compendium of synonyms, so far as the names go, but extra- ordinarily inaccurate in the matter of citations and dates. Folk never seem to realize that identity in blundering almost always betrays the source of the blunder. Thus Mr. Druce cites ** Mibora minima Desy., Fl. d’Anj. 46, 1827”; this he takes bodily from Richter (the redex pet has a similar reference, but without the date), but in this case title, page, and date are wrong, as any one can see who will take the trouble to look the matter up—the refer- ence is to the Observations sur les plantes des environs d’ Angers, p. 49; published at Angers and Paris in 1818. It may be said that those ho have not access to a first-rate botanical ten sire cheek witha satisfactorily ; but is there any reason why su h folk should enter on the tangled path of synon iin Mor ion Mr. of nets. is a man of leisure, sed the libraries of London are easy of acce n, the botanical side of the work of correction must not be Selscok On the faith of Richter’s synonymy, Mr. Druce invents generally known as F. uniglumis Soland.; but Duval-Jouve (2 Rey. Sci. Nat. ii. 34 (1880) ) makes it clear that, whatever Stipa membranacea of Linnzeus may have been, it is not synonymous with F. uniylumis. Nor do we think Horde bulbosum Li, by which Mr. Druce would replace H. secalinum Schreb., is a synonym of that plant. We would enter a protest against the practice which seems creep- ing in of quoting the Indea Kewensis as if it were a botanical author- ity. he absence of any introduction to that invaluable work is to some extent accountable for the apparent misunderstanding 4S to its object, which is that of an index and nothing more; the entries—e. g. ‘‘ Habenaria chloroleuca Rial. = bifolia "—do not imply that Mr. Jackson has critically investigated the botany of the — = only that some recognized authori rity—a monographer or other—has ma ade the reduction. Mr. Druce cites names— may be added here that a list of British species, drawn up in Svmaae with the new Laws by Dr. Rendle and Mr. Britten, will be aera very _— by the Trustees of a British Museum. This so arranged as to show the synonymy in Messré. pista 8 raison of Babington’ s Motual, in Hooker’s Student's Flora, and in Bentham’ 's Handbook. It w ill be a satisfaction to many will be very few, the changes from the more accepted nomenclature being for the most part a return to that which was familiar twenty or thirty years back, before the recognition of the earliest name under the genus had become general. Ce aes ee 29 REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1905. By A. B. Renotz, D.Se. Tue following additions have been made to the collections by presentation :—170 phanerogams and 80 cryptogams from Malaya, from H. N. Ridley; 48 phanerogams from the Shan States, from Major C. H. Melville; 4 phanerogams from India, from Dr. T. Cooke; 45 phanerogams and 20 eryptogams from Hong-kong, from S. T. Dunn; 188 phanerogams from Hastern Mongolia, from C. W. Campbell; 1954 phanerogams and 186 cryptogams from Western China, collected by E. H. Wilson, from Messrs. Veitch ; 69 phanerogams from Rhodesia, from EK. R. Sawer; 21 phanero- gams from Northern Nigeria, from Dr. Karl W. Kumm; 3 speci- rien of Convolvulacese from Northern Nigeria, from Capt Je Be Gosling; 122 phanerogams and 8 sree from jie from J. Gossweiler; 158 phanerogams and 8 cryptogams from the Transvaal, from J. Burtt Davy; 106 phanerogams from the Uganda Protectorate, from Dr. A. G. Dagenames 3 specimens of Composite from South Africa, from Dr. H.B olus; 4 specimens of Conifers from Mexico, from George Shaw; 11 specimens of violets from the United States, from Homer D. Howse ; 6 phanerogams from Cali- fornia, from Dr. Davidson; 24 specimens of Sarracenia from Dr. J. M. McFarlane, Philadelphia; 249 panera aud 17 crypto- gams, collected in Mexico, 1827-9, b y G. J. Gra , from Mrs. Howgrave Graham; 86 specimens of oa from A. W. Bartlett ; 401 phanerogams and 17 cryptogams from Chili, from G. F. Scott Elliot; 7 flowering plants and 13 eryptogams from Tierra del Fuego, from Capt. Crawshay; 41 phanerogams and 13 cryptogams from the Falkland Islands, from Mrs. Vailentin ; 5 specimens of Azalea critically determined, from Herr J. Valckenier Suringar ; specimens of cultivated plants from A. Perry, James O’Brien, Walter Ledger, and EK. A. Bowles; a section of yew from the Red Bog, near Ballyfin, Queens Co., Ireland, from R. D, Cole ; a leaf of Ceratozamia mexicana and a specimen ‘of Ecballium Ela- tertum for exhibition, from the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew; and 7 specimens of Characew for exhibition, from H. and J. Groves; Tj] 5 ce = 5 a a oO m mY a) B o S 2 5 TY] ° bas] = herrin ; 13 mosses from the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, from M. J. Car- dot ; 24 hepatics from Jamaica, from Alexander W. Evans; 4 new marine alge from the Farée Islands and Norway, from H. G. Sim mons; 24 tubes of freshwater alge, collected by LH. Burkill, lars Lt.-Col. D. Prain; photographs of 7 types of Japanese Sargass a in Herb. Harvey from Dr. E. Perceval Wright; 83 lichens from Bombay, from Rev. E. Blatter; one or two specimens from Sir Daniel Morris, Miss Copland, J. W. Odell, F. Garry, Lieut. Rayner _ Cole, Franklin White, Dr. Britton, Dr. Morrison. Rev. R. P. Murray, W. Fawcett, Rev. J. Gerard, C. Kerr Wilson, Miss ‘Anna Vickers, and J. T. Bennett-Poé; a drawing of a group of plants by 80 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY J. van Huysum, from F,. Justen; and a large photograph of Plidlonapet Sehilleriana for exhibition, from ‘the Hon. Walter Rothschild. The additions to the British Herbarium by -$pereainkee'? have been :—90 specimens from ©. E. Salmon; 160 specimens from Rev. E. 8. Mar sh all ; i aoe of wild cherry tree "shovwlid “ witches’ broom,” from Jas. Saunders; 84 specimens from Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell ; a large colingtion of Rubi collected by the Revs. W. H. Purchas and A. Ley, from Rev. A. Ley; 8 specimens from Miss E. heehee: 23 specimens from G. C. Druce; 28 specimens from A. Bennett; 3 specimens from J. C. Melvill; 4 specimens of willows from et E. F. ree ae wats cg from T. B. Belcher; 9 rare Hepatice from Symers M. Macv 8 fungi and 2 books of erage a ceseriptions of ‘British Robeson and Discomycetes, from Worthington G. Smith; large specimens of Laminaria from Loch Kil, fro ain nry A. Ha — and large specimens from the Scilly tae from C. B. Maggs and R. H. Bunting; about 700 marine alge, mostly from the ae coast of Scotland, from Monsignor Canon Bernard Ward; and single or two specimens from Prof. Oliver, Mrs. 0 ry, W. P. Hiern, C. T. Green, H. i Pugsley, E. Holland, Dr. C. B. Plowright, and Canon H. W. Let The ees tet ns have been made by aus of dupli- cates :—487 s s from South America and Mexico, and speci- mens of iivnas: “Acanthacee, from the Royal Botanic Museum, Berlin, through Dr. Engler; 2888 phanerogams and 227 crypto- gams of the Philippine ilar, from the Bureau of Government Taxte ohadian, Manila, through Prof. Elmer D. Merrill; 137 speci- mens from Brazil, collected by Malme, from the Botanic Garden of the Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm, through Prof. Wittrock; 127 phanerogams and 9 cryptogams, —_ collected by R. Schlechter in South Africa, from the Botanic Museum, Zurich, through Prof. Hans Schinz; Kryptogame Serene Cent. x, XI, from the Vienna Hofmuseum ; 123 specimens, mainly orchids, from New Guinea, from Dr. R. Schlechter ; 64 New Zealand mosses, from T. W. Naylor Beckett; 188 mosses and hepatics of Brazil, . Lindman. The principal purchases during the year were :—1278 phanero- gams and 89 cryptogams from Par araguay, from Dr. Hassler; 88 from Siam, wllscted ~ Dr. Hosseus, from Dr. Wilms; 176 collected by G. Zenker, fem Dr. K. Gilg; 445 grr einer’ sad 73 cryptogams from British Columbia, ‘from ©. = Shae L. R. »O amas 117 specimens ‘Herb: Dandvitopioum (Fascic cle y.), from Koehne; 82 specimens Carices Exsiccate (Fascicles xii.-xii.) and THRINCIA NUDICAULIS 31 Graminee Exsiccate (Fascicles xvii., xviii.), from Kneucker; 26 re Hieracia —— vii. at from Rev. W. R. Linton. 5 eryptogams of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, from Migula ; 160 Muscinee of Cardiganshire, from Painter; 50 mosses of the Malay tala? Res from Fleischer; 200 European Hepatice, from Schiffner; 58 moss a: 186 fungi of Brazil, from Ule; 75 North Ame rican es from Collins, Holden, and Setchell ; 250 sd imperfecti, from Kabat and Bubak ; 20 Ohio fungi, from Kellerm 14 microscope preparations of micro-fungi, from Miss Ai Li, Smith ; 150 micro-fungi, from Vestergren; 50 fungi selecti, from Jaap; '50 Ascomycetes, from Rehm; 100 European fungi, from Rabenhorst, Winter, and Pazschke; 50 economic fungi, from Seymour and Earle; 150 fungi of Germany, 50 Urediner, 50 Phycomycetes and Protomyectes, from Sydow; 150 cryptogams of outh Africa, from Wilms; 400 North American fungi, from Bartholomew, Ellis, ‘and ivorhat 100 Beebe fungi, from Krieger ; 25 parasitic fungi, from Briosi and Cavara; 8 exhibition sheets of water-colour drawings, from Worthington G. Smith ; re water-colour drawings of British lichens for exhibition, from ighle Among the additions acquired by purchase, special reference may be made to 12 MS. volumes containing a classified series of annotated descriptions of the genera and species of British Basidio- ee prepared by Mr. Worthington G. Smith, and illustrated with 185 ink drawings exhibiting the characters of the genera and cohen More than 2150 species are described, thus affording a valuable supplement to the fine series of coloured drawings in the Department. THRINCIA NUDICAULIS, By James Brirren, F.L.S. In his Prodromus Flore Britannica, p. 70, Mr. Williams substi- tutes for the generally received Leontodon hirtum of British books the name L. Leysseri Beck, in this following the distinguished Austrian botanist in stiaaines ring L. hirtum of Linneus to be a different plant. In the course of his disquisition Mr. Williams has a bibliographical note which may mislead future workers and which it may therefore be well to correct, especially as the correction materially affects the right naming of the species Mr. Williams says ‘In the copy of Sp. Plantarum ed. 2 in Herb. Mus. Brit., annotated by Solander, he has written opposite the de- scription of L. hirtum ‘ Hab. ad Petersficla Angliz, in Madera ee TROP thus throwing doubt on the application of the Linnean na o the English plant. The sola so labelled is in Herb. Banks.” In the first place it may be pointed out that Mr. tera means the 1st edition, not the 2nd, and that the only MS. entry the name Leontodon hirtum written by Dryander (not Solander). i. 82 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY the margin opposite —— nudicaulis, which in ed. 2 was placed under L. hirtum (there first wis ublished) as a synonym. The M8. jocality quoted by Mr. Williams appears, not in Sp. Pl. but in the notes on the plant described in Bolander? s MSS. as L. nudicaule : it runs ‘‘ Habitat ad Petersfield in ee Anglise (Alchorne), in Madera ’’—the two last words were added later. Solander also gives, on another Page, ‘ie locality ‘‘ Habitat copiose prope Revesby in Lincolnshir In éalling the eee nudicaulis Solander was adopting the earliest specific name: it e Crepis nudicaulis of L. (Sp. Pl. 805). in his original desrition, Linneus does not refer to the “ Hieracium orsa ra ed. 3, 167, as a syn ate ; but this reference—the first record of the — . dhe pobih added by Hudson (Fl. Anglica 297 (1762) ), who placed Crepis nudivaulis as a synonym of his Leontodon his- bert B and adopted by Linneus in his second edition (p. 1125 (1763) ), bl a Shae renamed C. orienta Seen hirtum, There is no specimen of Crepis nudicaulis the Linnean herbarium, but there is ona. reason to doubt its identity with Be: English plant which, as his citation from Ray “sa io was certainly contemplated by Linneus when he described L. hir Neither Prof. Beck nor Mr, Williams makes any reference to C. uci, although, as has been shown, Linneus himself quotes - as asynonym of L. hirtun; hence it i - eek the oldest specific n ination of Solander’s MSS. ens that by his gate he primerily intended the British plant, as was pointed out by Lowe in a passage to be quoted later. His deseriptions—there are two—were drawn up from Alchorne’s specimen, now in the National Herbarium, and from the Revesby plant ; and he cites the synonymy of Ray and Hudson. The reference to the Madeira plant was added later—I think by Banks; the citation of Crepis nudicaulis was struck out also, I think, later, as had atest himself done i he would, as he usually does in such cases of correction, have altered his own name for the plant, a a twice retained. This addition of the Madeira plant led Lowe into an error which he corrected later; in his Primitie Fl. Mader. (p. 28) he gave the “ Leontodon nudicaule Herb. Banks,” but en in his Flora of Madeira (i, 585) says: * The sheet in B H [Banks Herb.] inscribed = cane poopie manu* ‘ Leontodon nudicaule Mser. Madera ’ ruly the common a ad yf Mipide Roth. var. & Lowe. But wena Sol. "MSS. BHi mixture of this with English in this his original Mad. spec. And his other localities, ‘ Revesby in Lincolnshire ’ and ‘ Petersfield in Hampshire’ show him clearly to have had mainly in view 7. hirta Roth.” I have already stated ne position of this plant when commenting on the name as pud- an smiele * The name is not in Solander’s hand, but in that of one of the clerks employed by Banks, SHORT NOTES 83 lished by Brown in Buch’s Phys. Beschreib. Canar. Inseln, 194 (see Journ. Bot. 1904, _ but for the sake of clearness I print it again here. The synonymy will be :— THRINGIA NUDICAULIS (comb. nov.). Crepis nudicaulis L. Be PI. ‘805 (1 753). Leontodon hispidum B Huds. Fl. Anglica 297 (1762). L. hirtum L. Sp. Ph ed. 2, 1128 (1763). . hispidum B hirtum Huds. rs Anglica ed. 2, 340 (1778). L. nudicaule Sol. MSS. in . Brit. ! Hyoseris Pygman ane in “Ait. Sor rey, ili. at (1789) and in Her s. Brit.: cfr. Low oe Téa Bock oe Nied. piles 1312 4808), Williams, Prodr. Fl. Brit. 70 (1901). The following should be referred to Thrincia hirta Roth : — nee Pale Sol. MSS. quoad pl. Mader.; Br. in Buch Can s. 194 (1825); Ind. Hew, ii. 52 (excl. syn.). Thrincia Pee Lowe Prim. 28 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 100. _ SHORT NOTES. Cystopreris FraGitis in Surrotx.—In Hind’s Flora of Suffolk, p. 420, it is stated that Newman. diisoas this, but without loeality, and the only localities given are ‘Bungay, Moore, 9?” and ‘“‘Yoxford, Moore?’’ In Mrs. Lyell’s recent Life of Sir C. J: “P. ee (ii. 181), Bunbury, writing from Barton to Sir Charles Lyell on Nov. 5, 1863, says: ‘* About a week ago Scott brought me some sare of a fern, which he had found growing on the brickwork lining of an old wall, very near here; it proved to be the Cystopteris fr ayilis, a fern which I had never before seen in Suffo Uk ; ; and which I believe is generally rare in the plains of England.” ‘It may be noted that the Life contains many allusions to and particulars con- cerning Fieahicna, with whom Bunbury was on intimate terms, and for whom he evidently had. much affection ; his name does not appear in the index. (nor, so faras I have noticed, in the text) of Mr. Jackson’s memoir, noticed in this Journal for November last.—= James BrittTen. Piants or Wrsunsury, Caesarre,—in July, 1905, I spent a day or two in the above neighbourhood, when I was accompanied by Mr. A. H. Evans, and we were delighted to see that the ** Moss”? still offers much of botanical interest. The cranberry was fruiting freely, and the flowers of the beautiful - Andromeda were a great delight. Lastrea Thelypteris is still abundant, although L. cristata appears to have been eradicated. In the fo lowing notes plants new to district 6 of the Flora of Cheshire are indicated by Be asterisk ; ive asterisks indicate what.is apparently a new comasz here no locality is given the plant was found in ge OF Bees Voi. 45. [Jan, 1907.) D 84 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Moss, or in the adjoining district. Papaver Rheas L.**var. Pryorti Druce. Corydalis claviculata DC., plentiful, especially on the wood borders. *Polygala serpy Siac Weihe. Steliaria media Cyr. var. neglecta Weihe, Shavington. Arenaria trinervia L., doubtless accidentally omitted from the Flora; it is included in Top, Bot. ** Spyergula ont oe Rubus Lindleianus Lees, in several places between Crewe and Wybunbury; R. Sprengelii Weihe, rather com- mon in the pT bordering the Moss. *Epilobium angustifolium L. *Ribes rubrum L. *Galium elongatum Presl. *G. Witheringii Sm. *G. uliginosum Li. Hieracium sciaphilum Uechtr. *Pedicularis palus- tris L.; Melampyrum pratense L., the red-brown plant common on the Moss seems to be nearer to montanum than to ericetorum, see Flora, p. 219, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 186. : * Pingwicula vulgaris L. * Ulmus montana §m., Shavington, &. Salix pentandra L., with it a hybrid, which, as Major Wolley Dod a dete is probably fragilis x pent- andra *S, purp ae L., «S$, Smithiana Willd., Crewe. Potamogeton pusillus Orch is maculata t ** subsp. evicetorum Linton. Epipactis sane AML ., in the wood at Wybunbury. * Scirpus pauciflorus Lightf., *S. fluitans L, * Eleocharis tah ae Carex diandra Schrank, ihe in several par s of the Moss; C. paniculata L. **var. simplicior And.; *C. Se L., fosalty common and Vicaiie the fruit Ho some plants answering to the Shae of those of irrigua; *C. pallescens L., C. laevigata m., *C. filiformis L., *C. acutiformis Ehrh., *C. riparia an C. Att ata Stokes, as a very narrow- ae plant Arrhenatherum elatius r. nodosum Reichen * lyce ria plicata Fr. and *Alopecurus ayorada Huds., near Crewe, * * Festuca rubra, L., Shavington, &c. —G. Cuariwcz Davce Opnrys Troi Herctubns iv Oxrorpsuire.— In 1905 some school- shildeen at Finstock gathered a curious form of the bee- orchis in that neighbourhood, but it had withered too much before I saw it to oe ig a to identify it. This year it was sent again Mr. H. Powe n I was away, but I was enabled to see that it was a form mest eeaibimaaion ; and at the British cme Her- barium I was enabled to identify it with the above very long gradually ee termination to the oe ‘eiaiait of the perianth and lJabellum gives it a very striking appearance, although no doubt it is not specifically distinct. It appears to — i oe been recorded in Britain previously from Reigate.—G. Carine Parreraria orricinatis L, (Journ. Bot. 1906, 429).—The tee liarity of the stamen-unfolding was pointed out to me many year ago by a friend—not a botanist ; oe one has often amused Abr by touching the stamen with a pin o S Sue and making it jump, and fling its pollen. 2 Sepinest it was a fact well known to bota- nists.—H. J. Rupe. Victa MONOSPERMA pc Bot. 1906, p. 409).—M. Beauverd, of the Herbier rag ance out to me that this name was given in 1841 by Koch to a plant a description of which he published - in Linnea, xv. 721. Unfortunately I overlooked this, but as Boissier Bereta ty 3 Laat ene ee ee Ra el ie. aN a Fo : q INDEX FILICUM 35 (Fl. Orient. ii. 579) and other authorities who on not totally — the name have reduced Koch’s V. monosperma to V. cassu- , there seems no reason why the name shoald vit be adopted fai the new vetch from Porquerolles.—H. 8. Tuo Aspiomia Lintime1.—The following Wadi ce id a new British lichen by Dr. M. Bouly de Lesdain appears in the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, vi. 515 (1906) :—* a iat Li..ier B. de Lesd. nov. sp. cosse; Caithness, Ousdale supra saxa granitica. Leg. Révérend D. Lillie, 1905. Crusta tartarea, circa 0 mm. ‘5 crassa, rimoso-areolata, alba, intus flavida, K— C— C—. pothecia minuta, atra, in areolis immersa, rotunda- deformia, vel lirelleformia. Epith. olivaceum, hypoth. incolora- tum, paraphyses gelatinoso-concrete, asci anguste clavati. Spore 4-6-nées, ellipsoidew, 18-15 B lat. 5-6 crass. Gelat. hym. I, intense cerulescit. Cette espéce a tout & fait Vaspect de Ll’ Aspicilia calcarea dont elle différe par son thalle jauni intérieurement, et par ses spores.” In the same paper (p. 517) Rhizocarpon Lotum Stizenb. collected by Mr. Lillie in Caithness in 1905 is noted as new for Britain and described from Mr. Lillie’s specimens. NOTICES OF BOOKS. Indea piece sive Enumer st omnium generum specierumque Filicum ydropteridum ab anno 1753 ad annum 1905 descriptorum sent synony mis prin dipalibes, area geographica etc. By Caru Curtstensen. Hafniae: apud H. Hagerup. 1906. Fase. xi. pp. 641-704; price 8s. 6d. Fase. xii. pp. 705-744, i-lx; ie 5s. 6d. ‘i mportant contribution to the literature of anee has been in bites of publication since the summer of 1905, nae parts appearing at frequent intervals. With the issue of parts xi. and xii. it is brought to completion. The work is divided inte three sections, which deal with the genera, species, and literature re- spectively. By far ht largest of these is the second fate which consists of an alphabetical enumeration of the species and their synonyms; it poeupies. 670 pages, it necessitated owatda of 22,000 entries, and it comprises 5940 ies. It was the first part of the book to be published, and og followed by the third section, which consists of a catalogue of all fern literature that contains descriptions of new genera or species. This bibliography occupies 74 pages, and is presented in three aspects: first, an alphabetical list of authors with the titles and dates of their papers (the abbre- viated citations pt ha throughout the work receive here their explanation) ; secondly, a geographical grouping of the floras under oaare. Brhpsbiae islands (this cannot fail to be of great assis- tance to those who are in darth of local floras, though all lists are excluded which do not contain descriptions of nov cried and thirdly, a list of genera, with the special monographs which have been written upon them. Finally, we have that section ee the 36 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY book that concerns itself with the genera; though. held back till the rest of the work had been published, it will naturally take its place at the beginning of the volume when bound. It consists of a systematic enumeration of the 149 recognized genera, with their synonymy arranged both chronologically and systematically. It is based on Diels’s classification in Engler and Prantl’s Die natur- lichen Pflanzenfamilien, The type species (if known) is quoted in a prominent position under each genus. Now that the work is complete, it is possible to realize more clearly the great service which Herr Christensen has rendered to pteridologists by collecting and arranging in so concise and con- venient a form such a vast number of citations and synonyms. Among the chief stumbling-blocks of pteridology in the past have ant of correspondence between the rival systems of classification, the lack of coincidence in the ground covered by the genera of the respective systems, and the difficulty of determining the synonymy of the various species. These and other such ones of nomenclature’ need: trouble us no longer, thanks to and exacting a piece of work, however carefully the author may A. G. Indian Trees: an account of Trees, Shrubs, Woody Climbers, Bamboos and Palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. By Drerrich Branopis, K.C.1.E., &e., assisted by Indian Foresters. Royal 8yo, cloth, pp. xxxiv, 767. Price £1 1s. Constable & Co. INDIAN TREES 87 has embodied in his book the observations of others. His work therefore may, save for one omission—that of the Calcutta Her- barium—for which: Sir Dietrich expresses his regret, be considered a complete résumé of our knowledge of Indian trees, using the term in the extended sense which appears on the title-page of the boo An extended notice of the volume could only be fitly undertaken by an expert, but no parte knowledge of the subject is required in order to judge of the completeness with which Sir Dietrich has executed the task he has ee himself. He has not confined himself to the common and important species, aloes these are naturally his primary consideration, but has added in smaller type a large number of others which he tells us he “has “ dealt with in a. very summary manner, ri which a: y diagnosed to ensure recogniti The sequence of ‘orders follows that of Bentham and Hooker but their limitation in some cases is- that of Engler and Prantl. The ‘‘ practical advantage” of the division of certain groups is, as the author says, ‘‘ very great,’’ and we are glad to see Vuceiniacee combined with Mo Pils In the matter of change of names, Sir Dietrich has exercised a conservatism which, although temporarily convenient, may, perhaps be regretted; it is not easy, for example,’ to see why St yne should not be replaced by the earlier Mitra-. gynay although the author says he does not ‘feel justified’? in ng the substitution and in his appendix (p. 711) Se te question... Bat as he book must have been for the most par as it is on so many year experience in Be forest. The ‘tw wo Lice na and also—which is less pith a its amaht. for we presume the heavy paper employed in the volume was rendered necessary by their requirements; they include many gpectes nots we think, Brovianely figured, the more common trees being om tion of twenty-three pages of addenda, ae psa the printing of the book, shows the care that has been taken to bring it up to date, e note among them what appears to bea new species of poplar—Populus glauca Haines MSS.; Nazelea Gageana ‘King MSS.” p. 868) was published in the Flora of the Mala, Lyan Peninsula, but doubtless since Sir Dietrich’s reference was in type. The author modestly says eva ate book ‘is not intended for botanists, it is written for the use of foresters and of practical men,”’ and of course, and ver sae it is the latter whom he primarily considers; but the work will find a place in every botanical ewe. as the most complete —— of the subject of which re 38 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Progressus Rei Botanica. Herausgegeben von der Association Inter- ationale des Botanistes; redigiert von Dr. J, P. Lorsy in iden. Bd. i., Heft 3 8vo, pp. 817. Jena: Fischer. 1906 sion 1907). Tue Association Internationale des Botanistes and its inde- fatigable general secretary, Dr. Lotsy, are to be congratulated on of Botany. It is now some years since the Association took over the Botanische Centralblatt, to make of it a résumé of current botanical publications ; this has served and still serves a useful purpose in giving ae abs eae - ce ye books and papers. The new work supplements the for n giving a general account of ) of work done on the ontogeny of the cell since 1875. His paper fills one hundred and thirty-eight pages, and is illustrated with excellent figures from various sources, many from his own works, others from the works of botanists who have studied in his labora- tory or gained inspiration from his writings. A great deal of matter is compressed into this comparatively short account, an further —— is given a numerous references to literature. Those who hav: t made cytology a special study have in Professor Stracburger’s 8 aseuek the opportunity of appreciating the present position of this recent development Dr. Scott’s ¢ ee hades wi English), ‘‘ The present position of Palzozoic Botany,” does for fossil botany what Professor Stras- burger’s paper does for eet And Kerow gain there is no need : emphasize the special fitness of the author for his task. Carrying n the work started by Williamson, Dr. Scott has, by his ow? effort and the efforts of younger workers whom he has gathered round him, brought acumen: botany to such a position of strength and importance as probably Williamson never imagine u sketch of our knowledge of, paleozoic plants and ‘their ‘affinities, as affected by recent discoveries, fills eighty basen, and is admirably illustrated by thirty-seven figures, iméluding the large double plate of the now fastiliag sastotation of Lyginodendron Oldhamium Mr. Arber’s classified bibliography and literature on palwozoie fossil plants, including some of the more important memoirs published between 1870 and 1905, forms a usefal appendix Lastly, there is the contribution in French by Prof. ese Flahault on the progress of geographical botany since 1884, its present position, and its problems. Prof. Flahault’s ecological work j is well known, and the ecological aspect holds an importa place in his eminently readable account of the position and pro- spects of the study of plant distribution, which fills more thav seventy pages Succeeding — will be issued at intervals of about four months, and each annual volume will contain about forty sheets. The price ie aelaibare of the Association will be 18 marks a volume, | EN a Peas eee tea ey eee es BOOK-NOTES. NEWS, ETC. 89 to outsiders 18 marks. The hm parts of vol. i. will contain contributions on fungi, by Prof. G. Vuillemin; on physiological subjects, by Prof. Fromans and Prof. Noll; on hybrids since Mendel’s time, by Mr. Bateson ; and on tertiary fossils, by Prof. Laurent. A. B; 8. BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éc. Art the meeting of the Linnean Society on 15th November, on behalf of Mr. John Cryer, of Shipley , the General Secretary exhi- bited a series of twenty-one specimens of Polygala amarelia Crantz, selected to show its wide range of form under various conditions. n a communication which was sent with the plants, Mr. Cryer states that this species, which grows on the Great Bear Limestone, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was to be seen the past season in great abundance over an area of about thirty-six square miles. The first six specimens shown were from three to eight inches high from an elevation of 750 ft.; as the elevation increased the height dimi- nished, till the plant became less than one inch high. Blue-flowered specimens were found well distributed over the Wha area; white- _ flowered specimens were unequally distributed; rose-coloured plants 7 were only found in one locality, oe there it was locally abundant. S$Spathulate rosettes of root- salaes e the winter state of the plant. One characteristic of Polygala leeds is that it can grow where there is but little soil for its support. Mr. Cryer has found it growing on what was almost bare rock ; it has the habit of thrust- ing its roots into the cracks and spc of rocks, or between the stones and rocky fragments. Wherever he has found it, with one exception, there has been little or no epee of soil. A figure from specimens sent by Mr. Cryer from Grassington, and a description of the plant and its locality, will be found in this Journal for 1903, p. 113, t. 450. amusing and interesting article on Truffie-hunting by Har- 3 wood Brierley i in the Pall Mall Gazette for Dec. 8 informs us — _ ‘the truffle’s scientific name is ‘ Tuber estivum * and the potato : name ‘ Tuber solanum’; therefore both are tubers, er the aeeclicks is another.” In a subs sequent pa aper the same writer discourses on «the mistletoe, Viseus (sic )a album,” ‘* of which botanists inform us there is one sara only,’ and proceeds to say ‘‘ Is it worth while _ Making a suggestion that not mistletoe, but Loranthus europea was the sacred ovengroan clipped by the Druids?” We think Mr, Brierley, whose papers indicate observation, would do well to refer them to a ame before publishing, so as to ensure greater ac- curacy in detai WE are sad to learn that The Flora of West te gob by Messrs, J. 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Tue following memoir is almost cig d devoted to some notices of plants sent from two regions of tropical Africa, regions in respect of the botany of which the Scion Herbarium has, thanks to the assiduity of various correspondents, assumed of late years a leading position among the great herbaria of the world. One of these correspondents, Mr. Fred. Eyles, has before been mentioned in these pages* in connection with plants from ogee Rhodesia, especially the Matopo Hills. To the labours of the other, Dr. A. G. Bag gshawe, we are already indebted for the con- signments on which is based the recent memoir on the botany of Fre German Uganda Boundary Commission,} as well as for ber of specimens subsequently gathered in the Entebbe district, o which specimens some were described in this Journal last year.t Latterly Dr. Bagshawe has visited the south-western districts of the Uganda Protectorate, and it is with the Gamopetale of the collections there made that the following pages partly deal. shawe’s chief localities and their respective altitudes (in ep, : ow: © Toro. Fort Portal (5000). Durro Forest (about 3200). vepene® Forest (4000). Near Nisisi River (4500), Wimi Forest (35 ae Near Wimi River hig 4000). In Unyoro. Near Hoima (8000). Valley of the Waki River 2500-2800). Neighbourhood of Masinde (8000). Budongo Forest (8000). Sailabe Gg on Lake Albert (2300-2800). Kibera, on Lake _ Albert (2200), : ges Valley of the Kafu River (about 3000). North of ; eae (3500 : n Kitakwenda. Near Mpanga River (about 4000). E This latest exploration confirms the impression derived ss the Uganda memoir mentioned ety as also from the report on Mr. M. T. Dawe’s work prepared at Kew,§ as to the eastward ex- i, pp. im. + Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. pp. 116-227. { Journ. Bot. 1906, pp. 83-90, and pp. 341-2. g Report on a botanical mission thr ough the forest districts of the ae Protectorate. egghate Cd. 2904 (1906). See also Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soe Bot. xxxvii. p. 4 Sevless OF ‘Sota Ves, 45. (Fes. 1907.) E 42 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY our knowledge, as he is still in the field, and parcels from him are arriving at frequent intervals Ps yles’s localities, also with their respective altitudes, Y iaxie (4800). Mazoe, Iron-mask Mountain, an ironstone for- mation (5200-5300). Sebakwe, a open veld (4000). Bulawayo (4500), and the Matopo Hills (500 eedless to say, no full list is ans given, only species consideret new ogame a place, and plants interesting from their rarity or habita Ac i nowledgments are due to Mr. Hiern, who kindly furnishes the description of a new Fuclea RuBIAcEs. e Mitragyna rubrostipulacea Hav. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxx. 73 Toro, near Mpanga Forest; Bagshawe, 1018. Randia malleifera Hiern in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. . 98. Near Hoima, Unyoro; Bagshawe, Vangueria velutina Hiern in FI. Tro a Ae. Rie Bhs Mazoe, top of Iron-mask Macdint: Eyles, Ol. “A tree EY ft. high. ae greenish. Fruit gr Vangueria Bagsha sp. nov. Fruticosa calla eer glabris sat gracilibus “es foliosis mox puberulis novellis hirsutulis, foliis parvis brevipetiolatis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis cuspidulatis apice obtusis basi obtusis rotundatisve sepe aliquanto obliquis tenuiter membranaceis utrinsecus pilis appressis hispidulis spars! uscule obsitis costis secundariis utrinque 4 ascendenti-arcuatis, stipulis lineari-subulatis acutis, floribus in axillis solitariis pedun- culatis pedunculo puberulo juxta medium bracteato, calycis puberwit tubo (ovario) subcylindrico ima basi paullulum aga extus glabro 3-loculari lobis oblongo-lanceolatis longicaudatis quam tubus longioribus extus hirsutulis, ‘antheris subsessilibus sabielia stylo breviter exserto glabro, stigmate tumido truncato leviter angulato. Hab. Mpanga Forest, Toro; Bagshawe, 1009. Folia modice 8-0-5-0 cm x1 a 5 ys cP Sa subtus tipulse tota eo 14cm. bag: tubus 0-5 em. Lovie. 9 ima bast : ‘2 cm. faucibus 0°3 cm. lat. ; lobi 0-9 em . long., inferne 02 scx Filamenta 0-075 cm. long.; anther» ‘ovato- oblong, i ae “obtuse, appendicibus basalibus lnearibus haud exemptis 0-2 lon nado oe incrassatus, sursum gracilior, 0-6 cm. ‘iio "stig ere O'2 ¢ Known nacby “hs small thinly membranous leaves pale below, the solitary flowers, long tails to the corolla-lobes, &c. See ALABASTRA DIVERSA 43 Fadogia obovata N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1906, 105. Mazoe Valley; Eyles, 209. “Plant 8-4 ft. high. Corolla-tube green, tips of segments white inside. Anthers brown. Stigma and berries green.’ Pavetta assimilis Sond. in Fl. Cap. iii, 20. peise cwe; Eyles, 168 A South African "plat recently found by Dr. Bagshawe in the Uganda Protector P. brachycalyx ern in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 169. Durro Forest, Toro ; “es aap 1082. An Upper Guinea pla t (Cameroons to Gaboon). Dr. Bag- shawe’s specimen has aay flowers like those of Mann,1729. The long-flowered form referred here by Hiern (Mann, 2159) may perhaps prove a distinct species. of “sr N. ne aa in Kew Bull. 1906, 106. Maz n Iron-mask Mountain ; Eyles, 203. Plant atsct one 18 TU high. Flowers cream, with sour odour. This is new to Rhodesia, the type having been found near Beira in Portuguese Hast Africa. Coffea (§ pe ett Prerennes) eugenioides, sp.nov. Frutex glaber, copiose ramosus, ramulis gracilibus ascendenti-patentibus bene foliosis, foliis oppositis pro rata parvis brevipetiolatis ovato- oblongis obtusissimis cuspidato- ue en basi Bases aL hae ag tenuiter coriaceis costis secundar trinque a 8 ascendenti- patulis marginem versus aperte foienieatis, sapittey pave e nee lata in acumen breve subulatum exeuntibus vel apice solummodo acutis, floribus in axillis solitariis vel 2-3-nis breviter pedicellatis, calyculo brevi ore denticulato, calycis tubo (aeatlo 0) ex calyculo eminente oblongo-turbinato limbo brevissime necnon o tre denticulato, corolle 5-mere# hypocrateriformis tubo sursum levissime expanso lobis oblongis obtusis tubum eatinstibur vel paullo excedentibus, filamentis quam corolle lobi triplo brevioribus antheris exsertis linearibus cacumine quoque obtusis vel obtusiusculis, stylo incluso iformi ramis exsertis linearibus se Lipa excedenti bus, bacca ob- longa exsucca loculo altero fere evanido 1 Hab. Forest near Mpanga, Toro ; Bischinde, 1076. Folia verisimiliter perennia solemniter 4-0-7-0 em. long., 2°0- 3-0 cm. lat., in sicco supra olivacea vix nitidula, subtus pallescentia; acumen circa 0°8 cm. long., basi 0°5 cm. apice 0°2 cm. lat. ; petioli 0-5-0°8 cm. long., fac. sup. late ac minime alte eduticuladl: ’ stipule mox decidum, 0°4 cm. long. ey mgs Calyculus vix 0- 15cm. alt. Pedicelli crassiusculi, 0°2 cm. long. Flores albi. Calycis tubus 0°15 x 0175 cm. Obesli: tubus ‘ai eas ge ng., basi 0°15 cm. tancibas 0-3 em. diam., lobi 0:7-0°8 x 0-3. em. Filamenta 0-25 em. 7 anthers 0°75 em. long. ste bbe 0°65 cm., hujus rami Ne : em. long. Bacca in sicco 0°9 x 0°6 cm., apice obtusissima, brun To be inserted next C. seahapaegtla Radlk., a Medigeiie species with several differences in leaf and flower. Psychotria maculata 8. Moore in Journ, Bot. 1906, 84. Wimi Forest, Toro; Bagshawe, 1082. E2 44 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY costis secundariis utrinque circa 12 proximalibus patentissimis paucis distalibus arcuato-ascendentibus omnibus prope marginem dichotomis, stipulis parvis inferne connatis ovatis ponininntié ferru- calycem 23-plo excedente faucibus albo-villosis lobis 4 quam tubus atlo Porevisn bar oblongis obtusis extus puberulis, antheris sub- inclusis vel exsertis, ass incrassato, stylo incluso exsertove ramis brevibus spathulatis, ese parva Odette pore coronata levi 2- Bote oe albumine carno: o, Mpanga rae cree oie D near Isunga; Bagshave, 1006, 1 Canis i robustus aa Pgh eras complanatus, in sicco fusco-olivaceus. Foliorum limbus 12-0-17-0 x 5°5-8:0 cm., glandulis pellucidis uieniine. d ioosti fac. sup grt aceus vix nitidulus, altrinsecus dilute viridis; costa centralis “(at costule) fac. g. anicula florescens 4:0-7'0 cm. long. et totidem pu, fructescens vero ex exemplario unico mihi obvio 13-0 x 10: Flores albi vel lutei. Pedicelli 0-13 cm., calycis tubus 0:1 ann limbus 0°1 em., corolla tota 0°45 em., tubus 0°25 cm., lobi 0:2 cm. long. Filamenta nunc brevissima, sc. 0°05 cm. long., nunc 0°15 cm. long.; anthers oblonge, obtuse, circa 0-1 cm. long. Stylus nun¢ 0-15 cm. nune 0:25 em. long.; rami 0:1 em. long. Bacca sicca x 0°55 em. Known by the rote the entire acuminate stipules, the panicu- late a cym appears o Ge a heterostyled species. In spite of the distention in colour of the flowers noted by Dr. Bagshawe, I can see no reason to separate the two specimens described above. Composit, Vernonia pumila Kotsch. & Peyr. Pl. Tinn. 87, tab. 174. Hoima, Unyoro ; ey gent 947. The specimens now to hand permit of a fuller diagnosis than has hitherto been the case. Thus the roots, frequently } cm. } ich may re : h The the stem, are ses ie oblanceolate, very obtuse, callous-toothletted at the margin, soalieidslot Paacilons on the upper face and grey PS AS a ee a a re oy ALABASTRA DIVERSA 45 tomentose below, and 5-7°5 cm. in Jength by 1 cm. (or less) in breadth. V. Mellert Oliv. & Hiern in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, 282. Mazoe; Eyles, 185 ‘‘ Grows 3-4 ft. high among long grass on unburnt veld.” Felicia lutea N. EK. Br. in Kew Bull. 1901, 1 Bulawayo, on schist formation, and on the open veld at Sebakwe; Eyles, 161 and 1216. Aspilia polycephala, sp.nov. Herba erecta, ramosa, foliosa, caule foliisque pilis hispidis patulis copiose onustis, foliis sessilibus subsessilibusve lineari-lanc eo raro apn: latis obtusis basi an- i ultimis involucri anguste campanularis 2-serialis ‘phglis eatehatileal hone obtusis sursum membranaceis hispidis quam interiora oblon ga val oe oblongo-ovata obtusa vel obtusissima omnino vel fer cartilaginea et puberula vel apice hispidula sidite ipigidriinla,” tiguli is 5 ex involucro emi- nentibus rotundato-obcordatis albis, acheniis oblongo-turbinatis appresse sericeo- ape, pappo Lisa fimbriato additis setis duabus brevibus inter Hab. Fort "Portal, Toro ; “ Bagshawe, 993. Planta saltem semimetralis. Caulis robustus, deorsum ~ sulcatus necnon glabrescens, solum versus ia Fol modice 3:5-5°0 cm. long. raro 6:0 cm.), 0°6-1:'4 cm. lat. (rari adusque 2:0 vel etiam 2°5 cm.), in sicco viridia, integra vel gkadats denticulata, margine ciliata, firme membranacea. Glomeruli circa 8—4-cephali, summum 20cm. diam. Peduneuli circa 0-2 cm. long. Capitula circa 1-0 em. hes Involucri phylla exteriora 0°75 cm., snbariors 0-6 cm. long. Receptaculi palee 0'8 em. long. Ligule 45 cm., 5- -nervose, nervulis laxe reticulatis percurse. oe corollarum tubus 0:4 cm. long., dimidio inf. attenuatus, 0:0 iam. superne 0-1 cm. diam. vel paullulum ultra cheenia aia, 0°45 cm. long.; pappi cupula 0:05 cm., ariste 0° 1-0-15 em. long Differs from A. helianthoides Oliv. & & Hiern, which also has hits ligules, in the narrower sessile or subsessile ‘leaves, the congested heads, somewhat different a oe five ray-florets, &c. pilia Eylesii, Caulibus e rhizomate robusto erectis sparsim ramosis gracilibus scabridis, foie sessilibus lanceolatis vel pedunculis scabriusculis folia magno superantibus fultis, invo- lucri abbreviati 2-serialis phyllis ovato- ablbngia acutiusculis appresse scaberrimis inferne cartilagineis superne Pease om receptaculi paleis apice paring acutatis, ligulis circa 12 involuc cedentibus, PaPPO vissimo lacerato-ciliolato siaiineie, Ha ; F. Eyles, 164 Plant cresseiabel 20 cm. alt. Folia 3°5-5°0 em. long., 1:6- 2-0 em. ee petioli lati, scaberrimi, 0-2-0°3 em. long. Pekuitenti 46 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 50-80 ha long., ngs Capitula circa 2-0 cm. diam. Involucri phylla x 0-2 © Receptaculi paleew 0-6 cm. long., dorso murzineg Cilioate, Ligule vivide aurantiace, obovato- oblonge, 2-8-dentate, 0-8 em. long. Disci corolle com ania vix 05 ¢ long. eters jade immatura 0°15 cm. long., gla Near A. zombensis ae er, Which has similar foliage, but oe of longer and relatively narrower leaves, different ligules, Berkheya Adlami Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 7514. oe sa Sebakwe, in open moist vlei; /’. Eyles, 118. to Bhodesia, the type having been raised from seeds sent from Daccnbdire urg. There is in the British Museum a specimen from Bulawayo of what is evidently this species (Rand, 149), but in so early a state that no sa was made to determine it. An Sitdimediate home for the plant is Pietersburg, Transvaal, where it occurs in grassy plains, aasoéting to the ticket accompanying & specimen kindly communicated to the Museum recently by Dr. Bolus (herb. no. 11096). CAMPANULACER, Lobelia stellarioides Benth. & Hook. fil. ex Hemsley in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, 470. Fort Portal, Toro, at 5000 ft.; Bagshawe, 987. is plant was also collected by Mr. Scott Elliott (no. 7594) on Bivona: at 5800 ft. Cc mazoensis, a nov. Caule e tubere ovoideo enato volubili gracili inferne squamis parvulis sparsis exemptis nudo superne bene folioso Maki. foliis lanceolatis apice mucronatis basi in petiolum brevem sed distinctum breviter angustatis margine serrulatis membranaceis glabris, floribus in racemo terminali elon- gato volubili laxifloro dispositis, bracteis anguste linearibus pedi- cellos subeequantibus, calycis s subhemispherici puberuli lobis quam corolla multo brevioribus inter se aliquanto inequalibus linearibus vel anguste lineari- amie obtusiusculis, sacilka extus puberule petalis ima basi connatis inferne liberis superne connatis lobis ob- longis obtusis saticis quam reliqui paullo longioribus, filam entis petalis brevissime adnatis, ovario semisupero, stylo crassiusculo inferne dilata' H Mazoe, alt. 4700-4900 ft.; F’. Eyles, 2 Tuber 8-0 x 1°5 cm. i basis squamuligera circa 7:0 sae long. ; eeu 0°1-0:2 cm. long. Folia modice 6°0-7:0 ¢ long., 1°5-2-0 em. lat., in iki brunticsocites, ameter allen serraturis st callosis ; petioli circa 0°5 cm. long. Racemus circiter 200 cm. long. Bracteew + 0-4 cm., ame gy 0:5-0°6 cm. ong. Flores rubro-punicei. Calycis tubus 0:2 x 0-22 em.; lobi 0°4-0°5 cm. long. Corolle « tubus” 0-7 em folie basi 0-33 cm. stylus 0°3 em., sti igma 0°12 cm . lon In the flower this is a like é glandulifera Hochst., but the foliage is entirely different ’ : : . | ALABASTRA DIVERSA 47 Under the above number is sent : second career with fibrous — somewhat rp and narrower leave d flowers a little maller. As there seems no snodhtand difference se the two etunie, this is ieckalia a first year’s plant. PLUMBAGINEX. Plumbago Dawei Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 522. Near mouth of Mpanga, Toro; Biganines 1187. SaPoTacEz. Sideroxylon (§ Evsmrroxyton) oblanceolatum, sp. Arbuscula ramulis sat validis cerebro foliosis cito glabris, foliis oblanceolatis obtusissimis basi in petiolum distinctum gradatim sericeo- ie lobis inferne connatis ovatis obtusis, corolle tubo lobi ovato-oblongi obtusi paullo breviore, filamentis eiktlie feokbde insertis filiformibus antheras oblongo-cordatas apice obtusas paullo excedentibus, staminodiis 5 parvulis lanceolatis acuminatis, ovario ovoideo-oblongo 5-loculo appresse villosulo in stylum brevem crassum villosulum exeunte, H urro Forest, Toro; Bagshawe, 1087. Folia sepissime 10-0-17-0 x 3°5-4°5 cm. eg secundarise utrinsecus circa 20, patule, juxta pt te ‘are , pag. sup. impress, pag. said parum eminentes; costule afi Detelalea. : petioli 0°8-2°0 cm. long. Pedicelli ditea 0:15 ong. ores viridescentes. alys humectatus sich ounkinel ih in toto 0:25 a i . long. Corolle tubus 0°15 em. long. ; lobi 0'2 x 0°14 cm. “ahaa 0-2 cm long. va paullulum ultra ; anthers 0°15 cm. en Staminodia circa 0°065 cm. long. Ovarium 0°225 cm., stylus m. long. Distinguished nae ia oblanceolate leaves with their peculiar cloth- ing beneath, the obtuse anthers, small acuminate staminodes, &c. Soa Euclea Eylesii Hiern, sp Frutex pumilus plurimum glaber dioicus, ramulis gra eaathibes. pailide virhlibes subglaucescenti- bus minute glanduliferis foliosis, foliis linearibus apice acutis vel subobtusis apiculatis basim versus angustatis subsessilibus vel bre- viter petiolantibus rectis vel subfaleatis sepissime oppositis nonnun- quam suboppositis alternisve patulis integris coriaceis glabris glan- dulis sessilibus parvis minio-rubris utrinque seh ve = oe Paleo 8 2-4 mm. latis ; % floribus femineis tetrameris 3mm 6 mm. longis bracteolatis aggregatis, pedunculo communi -5 mm. longo, pedicellis 1-2 mm. longis lateralibus hae bracteolis vabiclidis circiter 1°5-2 mm. longis caducis, calyce su hemispherico breviter lobato pallide virid? coriaceo glabro éxttis minute glandulifero 1 mm. longo 1-5 mm. lato lobis obtusis vel 48 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY subapiculatis, corolla campanulata vel poculiformi ochroleuca 2°5 mm. longa 2°5 mm. lata glabra vel setulis paucis e extra ducta profunde quadrifida segmentis obovato-rotundis —— (ut desuper Nee contortis 2 mm. longis 2 mm. latis, s minodiis 0, pistillo 2 m . longo, ovario ovoideo-globoso ao " glandalosn- tomentello sia simul setis erectis crassis albidis hispido 1 mm. longo 1 mm. lato 4-loculo, stylis 2 erectis contiguis glabris carnosis apice caged 1 mm. longis, stigmatibus marginalibus, ovulis solitari Hab " Sebakwe, Mashonaland; fF. Eyles aoe male plant and the fruits of the pals pane are at present unkno ecies in general appearance resembles FL. linearis Zeyh, a a is reals distinguished from it by the deeper lobing of the —W. P. H. oe urtjiensis Hiern in oa Bot. xxxiii. — Toro, forest near mouth of Mpanga; Bagshawe, 117 can difference between this and the sone published E. latidens Stapf. OLEACE2. Jasminum abyssinicum DC. Prod. viii. 811. Hoima Road, Ent tebbe ; Bagshawe, 806. length, while in the other (Schimper, 169 and 915; Volkens, 770, and others) they reach only half-an-inch or very little more. J, igre R. Br. in Salt, ee App. lxiii. is a nomen sora type specimen, which is in the National Herbarium, seems to Mr. Britten and myself not different from J. mauritianum Bojer, already known from various parts of the Nile land botanical province of Africa. Since no description of the true J. abyssinicum was issued ihe to the Prodromus nae given above, t that hame must stand bit the authority of A. et e Candolle. @ mazoensis, sp.nov. Arbor ramosa ramulis ultimis . Mazoe; F. Eyles, 202. “ Tree 20-40 ft.” sec. ‘ok: detectorem. Foliorum rhachis 1°0- 8-5 cm. long., pars proximalis basi leviter dilatata ibique cirea ov gp DRS Spey eee ALABASTRA DIVERSA 49 0°15 cm. lat., alibi 0-1 cm. vel minus; foliola modice 8:0-3:5 cm. long., sub apice + 1:5 cm. lat., exstant minora equidem 2°0 x 08 cm.; coste secundarie ubringue cirea 6, costule prominule, eleganter reticulate. Cyme 38-0-4:0 cm. diam. Flores albi vel dilute punicei. Calycis tubus 0° 95 cm. long., 0:28 em. lat. Corolle tubus 1:0 cm. vee humectatus basi 0:22 cm. faucibus 0°35 cm. lat. ; lobi 0°5-0°6 cm. long. Anther@ subincluse. Ovarium apice puberulum ; siylon shine: sursum dilatatus, 1°15 cm Known from its allies among other oo by the small leaflets with eae ile slightest trace of a wing to the rhachis of the leaf, and the extremely small calyces. APOCYNEZ. cern ugandensis Stapf in Dawe, Bot. Miss. Uganda Prot. tab. 3 ter near mouth of Mpanga, Toro; Bagshawe, 1184 Flowers yellow in bud, white when open, fragrant. Fruit light green sa golden spots Pleiocarpha Bagshawei, sp. nov. Frutex scandens, glaber, foliis cuhone vel 3-4-nis lanceolato- oblongis apice cuspidatis ipso obtusis basi in petiolum brevem breviter angustatis papyraceis costis secundariis utrinque plurimis patentibus pag. sup. olivacea facile ag. inf. dilute viridi difficile aspectabilibus, cymis axillaribus sessilibus paucifloris, calycis lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis vel leviter emarginatis, corolle tubo quam calyx fere 4-plo longiore faucibus parum dilatato Timbi- lobis obovatis pl cauamne tubum vix semi- equantibus, filamentis paullo infra fauces insertis caer oblongis loculis basi obtusis, ovario ovoideo Fis e carpellis 2 inter se liberis sistente, ovulis quove in locu urro Forest, Toro ; pia va Sighs limbus margine leviter sts eh 10-0-12-0 em. long., 3°5-4:0 cm. lat.; costa centralis fac. sup.*impressa fac. inf. valde Bakery ; ck 0-5-1-0 cm. long., crassiusculi, supra Senet Cyme circa 1:5 cm. diam. Flores albi. Calyx totus 0°25 c¢ long.; lobi 0-17 x 0-12 cm., crassiusculi. Corolla tota 1:8 os long. ; tubus intus sursum pilosus, 0:9 cm. long., medio 0°125 cm. superne 0°175 em. lat.; lobi 0-4 cm. long., 0°3 cm. a Ovarium 0:12 cm. long. Stylus ‘glaber, 0°3 cm., stigma 0-06 c sg ay According to Dr. Stapf’s clavis (Fi. Trop. Afr. iv. sect. i. 97), this must be inserted next to P. bicarpellata Stapf, but the lace of Dr. Bagshawe’s plant are somewhat different in shape, and often ternate or quaternate, the aR lobes are larger and broader, the corolla-tube broader and the lobes also broader and shorter. It might easily be aan at a first view for P. Welwitschii Stapf, a species which, however, on account of Me: short corollas with small lobes, is placed i in another part of the g Gabunia odoratissima Stapf in Re “Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 526. ge panga Forest, Toro; Bagshawe, 999. r. Stapf himself kindly named for me this recently published species. The type specimen was found in Western Ankole. 50 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY — yngea Holstit Stapf in Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. sect. i. 146. Tor mpy g a near Isunga ; Bagshawe, 1079. A ee with ssiste appre in this cleactiahe . “9 Stapf. With all the specimens, intermediate as diag are in locality, are also intermediate between the extreme forms. Funtumia latifolia Stapf in Fi. Trop. Afr. iv. sect. i. 192. Hab. Mpanga Forest, Toro; Bagshawe, 1011. ASCLEPIADER. Tacazzea Bagshawei 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1906, 88. M iver, Toro; Bagshawe, 1060. The type specimen was gathered by Dr. Bagshawe at Entebbe. Raphionacme Bagshawei, sp. nov. Summum spithames caule e caudice longe tuberoso crasso erecto gracili primo minute pubescente deinde glabro, foliis subsessilibus oblongis obtusis basi breviter angustatis utrinsecus in nervis puberulis margine albo- ciliolatis, cymis axillaribus sessilibus ee paucifloris, pedicellis flores excedentibus gracilibus ut calyx et corolla griseo- -puberulis, ealycis lobis abbreviatis lanceolatis acutis, corollee mediocris tubo medio levissime dilatato calyci longiore limbi lobis oblongis obtusis mox patentibus demum recurvis, corone phyllis quadratis apice cuspidulatis inde in appendicem filiformem elongatam ex cet filamentis corone phyllis insertis applanatis antheris magnis ¢ niventibus late ovatis obtusis, stigmate incrassato late sate conoideo, folliculo —— Hab ny re above Kibero on Lake Albert ; Bagshawe, re Caudex um 18:0 cm. long., hujus pars infera 10 metiens in vate: circa 1°5 cm. diam. dilatata. Folia ete ain, long., 0°5-O°7 cm. raro 1:0 cm. lat. py ak sicco olivacea m sepissime 1°0-2°5 cm. long. Flores albi viola tincti. Calyx 0° Corolle tabus 0°38 cm. long., 0°25 em. diam.; lobi wgte g., Z3 gium 0 mp van kindly looked at this rather pester lant for me, consi t to be nearest R. — roar that t they do mt tan! them till quite at the top of their P quarai lower portion, instead of arising from the tube of the corolla o from the base of the coronal leaf, ‘ ors ALABASTRA DIVERSA 51 ioe ok Whytei Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 5898. In river-bed at Mazoe; Eyles, 204. Soi zambesiaca Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 308. Butiaba Plain, east shore of Lake Albert; Bagshawe, 852. S. platystigma K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. 1438. Near Kafu River, Uganda; Bagshawe, 958. re angustissimum K, Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. i. 128. tae a ation d, Entebbe; Bagshawe, 809. Dist. Central Africa from Niamniamland to Nyassaland. S. eximium N. EK. Br. in Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. 870. Toro, near Misisi River; Bagshawe, 966 ‘‘ Herb three feet high. Flowers have unpleasant smell.” S. Carsoni N. KE. Br. in Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. 366. Mazoe; Eyles, 2 Asclepias Phillipsia N. E. Br. in Kew a 1895, 219. Near Fort Portal, Toro; Bagshawe, 985. A. Schweinfurthii N. E. Br. in iw Bull. 1895, 253. Fort Portal; Bagshawe, 1014. A, fulva N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, 254. - Ry Pech Toro; Bagshawe, 10 Av lant of straggling habit, upwards of four feet in height Ment stoutish, leafless at its lower half. Root not seen. A. denticulata Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 384. Valley of Kafu, Uganda; Bagshawe, 826. A. sige! ae & Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soe. Bot. ser. 2, iv. 28, 2 Bahakwe? olin 169. A. lineolata Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 336. Sebakwe; Hy/es, 166. Cynanchum altiscandens K. Schum. in Abhand. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894, 64. Kast ees at 4500 ft.; Bagshawe, 1105. Tylophora sylvatica Decne. in Ann. Se. Nat. Sér. u. ix. 278. North of Kakumiro, Uganda, and East Foro; asiaids 951 and 1105. Ceropegia albertina, sp. nov. Planta glabra caule volubili incrassato laxe foliato, foliis Grovipetlintis neh ovatis basi cordatis apice brevissime cuspidulatis crassiusculis saltem in sicco margine leviter undulatis, cymis axillaribus Secivicletin pauci- (circa 5-) floris, pedunculis crassiusculis folia squantibus vel subequantibus, floribus mediocribus pedicellatis glabris fusco- — ealycis alte partiti aoe lanceolatis acuminatis, corolla prope basin Poiana sursum infundibulari ad 4 lobata tubo or aullo constricto intus vila lobis lineari-lanceolatis apice connatis, pone pills exterioribus inferne connatis obcordatis ut phylla interiora angus ligulata et elongata gynostegium superantibus, polliniis teenie 52 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY roideis interne marginatis caudiculis ae latis glandula dola- briformi polliniis breviore, stigmate plano. Hab. Butiaba Plain, west eae. of Lake Albert, alt. 2200 ft. ; Bagshawe, 848. Folia circa 2:0 x 0:15 em., glandulis Lag een creberrimis donata, coste secundarie utrinque 4, tenuissim eek costule —— equidem 2-0 cm.), lobi 0°75 em. long.; tubus inferne ig superne n! : ay diam., medio 0'-4 em. Corone exterioris pars connata m. long., @jus lo bi 0- + em.; phylla interiora 0‘18 cm. long: Pollinia 0°03 long. Follicu A very well-marked ae in habit somewhat like C. distincta N.E. Br., but with much smaller leaves and quite different corollas. on aaa gracilibus ad nodos aliquanto tumidis bene foliosis, foliis parvis oblongis vel oblongo- sirarcygiewncl he ppm apice ipso mucronulatis basi in petiolum “brevem cu oartatis coriacels ad rie Poliorun. chai 2:0 renee 1:5)-4:0 x 1-0-2°0 cm. ; petioli cirea 0-2 cm. long., subtus tumidi et albi. ae summum 1-0 x 1°5 em. Bractew + 0-1 cm. long. Flores galbani. Calyx 0°15 cm. long», fere 0°2 cm. lat. Corolla tota 0-4 cm. long.; tubus 0:2 cm. long et totidem lat.; lobi 0-2 x 0:075-0-1 cm. Filamenta 0-035 cm. ong.; anther ere subexserte, 0-06 em. lo ong. Ovarium ovoideum, wgre 0-1 cm. long. ay sicca 0: 8x 0-7 cm., glabra, subnitida, in sicco minute rugulata h strongly iota as the other basal pair. They run ei for a short distance—less than a ashy ag cage they at 5 Pa eect] “is ah epcaee 5 SOME SPANISH AND BALEARIC PLANTS 58 branches they a. oad Hee way up, from the other pair are numerous and very pro In foliage this is erg like S. Atherstonet Harv., but the leaves are usually § somewhat larger and more conspicuously nerved ; also the inframarginal nerves are much stronger. The flowers ‘of 8. Atherstonei, however, are quite different. (To be continued.) SOME SPANISH AND BALEARIC PLANTS. By Crepric Bucxnaty, Mus. Bac. Oxon. THE ar ae is a list of the more noteworthy plants collected by Mr. J. W. White and myself in the Balearic Islands, between April 28rd and Ms “sth, 1903, and between Aug. 8rd and 17th, 1904 ; and in Spain, by myself, between April 13th and 28th, 1904, and between Aug. 24th and Sept. 6th, 1905. On these occasions we gathered a large proportion of the endemic Balearic plants, besides a eduisidavidlile number of those common to the ee region. On our return from Majorca to Barce- lona in August 1904, w e spent a short time on Montserrat, which I had also visited i in the preceding spring, on each occasion finding some of the rarer plants of that beautiful and interesting mountain. We are much indebted to the late Sefor J. J. Ro odri iguez, of Mahon, who has contributed so much to our knowledge of Minorca plants, and has discovered so many rare endemic species, for introducing us to several SS of that town who are interested in botany, amongst them to Sefor A. Pons, without whose kind assistance, on oth our visits, we should have been unable, in the short time at our disposal, to reach the stations of several of the rarer and more inaccessible Our thanks are also due to Mr. Clarence Bicknell, of Bordi- ghera, for his kind and hs assistance in planning our tours, and for the loan of books an To avoid repetition I give a list of the localities visited. In sities: The neighbourhood of Mahon and Villacarlos, the Cala Mesquita, the Albufers, the Isla Colom, the homes of ’ Algendar and la Val. In Majorca: Porto Pi and Torre den Pau, near Palma ; ior Port, Couma de Mameliouda, Barranco de Soller the Val de Ternellas and Ariant near Pollenza, the Monastery of Lluch, and the mountain route through the Gorg Blau to Soller, and Missin In Spain I visited Pozuelo, near Madrid : Guadala- jara, Aranjuez, Alicante, Elche, the coast near Valencia and the Castellon; Oropesa, Wciteiinn: Barcelona, and Montserrat. The species which I believe to be unrecorded for the Balearic Islands are distinguished by an asterisk, and those which are peculiar to those islands, or to the Iberian Peninsula, by the sign t ; 54 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY in the case of plants which are also found in other parts of the Mediterranean region, the names of the countries or islands are added in bracke Ranunculus macrophylius Desf. hse the Barranco de Algendar. tHe likora ivi Ait. Dowis de Mame liouda. aie dierent in appearance from the Corsican plant, H. corsic is W elphinium gem Willd. (D. Requient i . Hillside on the way from Pollenza to Ariant. (Iles d’Hyé Paonia corallina Retz, var. I Caihesentonis ‘Wille. Barranco de Algendar. +Malcomia patula DC. Pozuelo. The plants from this locality were found along the course of a small stream which flows from Pozuelo to the river Manzanares. t Brassica balearica Pers. On rocks near the = 2 Lofra, above i Pozu Diplotaxis virgata Cav. Bank of the Tagus epi it anjue + Alyssum granatense Boiss. & Reut. Low hills near the Masai nares, Madrid. Carrichtera Veille DC. Cultivated land, Porto Pi, Mr. J. W: White. (Sicily, Greece, &e. mag ie —— Boiss. & Reut. Between Palador and Palma, J. W (France, Spain. + Iberis foment DC. “Dr ry hills, Aranjuez. + Lepidium suhulatum L. Aranjuez. Lees Carrerassii Rodr. Mahon. Helianthemum umbellatum Mill. Near Torre den Pau. Cabo Salou, near Tarragona. (France, Greece.) —t+H. asperum Lag. Hills near Guadalajara. —tH. squamatum Pers. Aranjuez.—H. Serre amb. (H. origanifolium var. Nyman). Sandy ion near Torre den Pau. Spain. t Viola Jaubertiana Mar. & Vig. On rocks in the Gorg Blau. A remarkable species, with ihick leathery leaves like those of the ivy: —V.stolonifera Rodr. Barrancode Algendar. Allied to V. odorata, but larger in all its parts, — with very long stolons.—tV. Wil- kommii R. On rocks, aie + Frankenia Reuteri Boiss. anjuez. ‘ velutina Pourr. a dhaiiseiae 8. & 8.) Gorg Blau. (Corsic tGypaophia oe uthium L. Aranjuez. Very abundant along the side of the r + Dianthus ‘Brown Boiss. Rocky hills, Alicante. a astium dichotomum L. Cultivated land between Pozuelo and De ee campestre Willk. Villacarlos and Mahon. (Spain, + Malva minoricensis Rodr. (Lavatera minoricensis Camb.). Cala Mesquita. tHypericum Cambessedesii Coss. On the dry bed of the Torrente Malluch, Liuch, where it follows the course of the stream for many SOME SPANISH AND BALEARIC PLANTS 55 miles. Gorg Blau, Barranco de Soller — H. balearicum Camb. Found in porens in April in the Val de Ternellas, and in August at Lluch. (Liguria.)—tH. isigula L. ear Me lencia, whence it is _ exported to Mitactties for medicinal purpose + Erodium Reichardii DC. Gorg Blau. v Winiaclietias et rara species.”’ (Vyman).—+E. supracanum L’Hérit. Montserrat. +Rhamnus balearicus Camb. Val de Ternellas. —1+R. lycioides L. Cabo de Salou, near Tarragona. }Retama spherocarpa Boiss. Between Pozuelo and Madrid. +Ononis hispanica L. fils. Rocky hills, Alicante.—O. crispa L. Near Mahon. (Spain. | Lotus tetraphyllus L. fils. — = Algendar. : + Hippocrepis balearica Jacq. Miram E } Astragalus chlorocyaneus Boiss. & Rent. Road to ae Tarragona. tA. Poterium Vahl. Near Mahon, Val de Tern *Vicia lanciformis Lange, Fl. Hisp. No. ? 3605, Val de Ternellas, April, 1908. The only stem which was gathered is 4 dem. long, with leaves 7°5 cm. long, all having five pairs of narrowl linear- lanceolate leaflets attaining 3°5 cm. in length, which are gradually attenuated to an acute point without the slightest tendency to become truncate or retuse ; stipules semisagittate, without teeth ; pods em. long, with a few meade hairs. Lange’s plant _ differs in the lower leaves i aving one pair of leaflets and the upper _ ones four pairs; in the stipules ge two teeth at the base, and in the substance of the leaves being ‘* almost pellucid.” It appears to be a little known plant, marked as a doubtful species by Will- komm, and united by Nyman to V. angustifolia, from which it differs in the fate, ee attenuated leaflets, and in the biel caghes _ oe the tube.—tV. bifoliata Rodr. Cala Mesqui us casius L. In the hedge of a lane leading to a ane Ss oen Soller and the port, May, 1 Cucumis ASlredeese cs On the sea-coast, Benicasim. (Granada, Murcia, Greece.) Pataseis serpyllifolia DC. Montserrat. (France, N. Italy.) Mesembryanthemum crystaliinun L. ala Figuera, Mahon. eran, Italy, &e.)—M. nodiflorum L. Cala Figuera, Mahon. _ (France, Spain, &e. +Saaxifraga catalaunica Boiss. & Reut. Monts 4 “aueingges, scabra Coss. oe the are, EL San to de las __ tPastinaca lucida L. (Camb.). Couma de Mameliouda, Barranco la Val. ‘‘ Species spores spectabilis, egregia’’ (Nyman). The Corsican plant is P. oe olia DC Kundmannia sicula DC. 7A ge pastinacefolia Bert. Mira- mar. (Beotia, at Sicily, & Bulbocastassins incrassatum los Near Palma, J. W.W. (Beeotia.) tPimpinella Bicknelli Briquet. Ariant, near Pollenza. We were guided to the only known station of this distinct and interesting species by Raphael Muraghes, of Pollenza, who assured us that we _ were the only botanists who had visited the spot since its eae by Mr. Clarence Bicknell. oe 56 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY + Bupleurum wo Coss. On a bank near the top - Re Barranco de Soller.—t+B. angulosum L. (B. pyrenawn Gou.) A the Se ens iT B, AEs senageel L. and the fine B. jie cosum L, are also abundant on this mou Lonicera nade ogee’ var. thispenica Boiss. & Reut. Pozuelo. Rubia peregrina var. tbalearica Willk. Val de Ternellas. +Galium pe abeaat Cav. ontserrat. Centranthus orbiculatus Dufr. Barranco de Soller. A very distinct- spire plant, but united to C. Calcitrapa Hs Nyman. ephalaria ‘balearica Coss. Barranco de Soller ‘Seeks Rodriguezxti Willk. Cala Mesquita. Artemisia herba-alba Asso. Aranjuez. (France.) }Helichrysum Lamarckii Camb. Rocks at the Col de Lofra, above the Barranco de Soller. ( Bellium bellioides L. On the coast near Mahon. (Corsica, Sardinia. : + Pulicaria hispanica ee Pozuelo.—P. dysenterica var. hispanica Willk. (P. uliginosa Stev.?) Pozuelo. (Greece, Turkey, &e + Centaurea spaliaaiapotie Dufr. Marshy ground near the sea, Valencia +0: hysopifolia Sine Aranjuez. — +C. lintfolia Vahl. Near Tarrag acobi Dufr. On the sandy sea-shore near Valonsia, or e. aeiiatia L., from which it searcely differs, 8 vals the branches bearing several heads, and in the entire radica Hishabtion Lyehnitis Scheele. Montserr +Barkhausia Triasii Camb. Barranco i Soller. Roadside n rs tCrepis montana Willk. Val den March, near Somme 4ollikoferia resedifolia Coss. Alicante. (Sicily.) Campanula speciosa Pourr. Montserrat. (France. Ambrosia maritima L. ‘* Huerta de Valencia.” (Italy, Greece.) tErythrea Barreliert Dufr. (E. major Hfgg.) Near Tarragona.— +E. gypsophila Boiss. & Reut. te ~b uez.—F. maritima Pers. vat: erubescens Willk. Porto Pi, J + Digitalis dubia Rodr. Val “a ‘Ternellas. a Barreliert Bor. El Desierto de las Palmas, Cas- tellon. tLinaria filifolia Lag. Pozuelo. Sibthorpia africana L’ Hérit. Barranco de Algendar. (Crete, i Odokehis longiflora Vahl. Low hills, Aranjuez. + Ceratocalyx macrolepis Coss. Cabo de Salou, Tarragon +Teucrium lancifolium Boiss. Torrente de Malluch, Egat —tT. subspinosum Pourr. (1', balearicum Coss.) Gorg Blau.—t7. bui- folium Schreb. Rocky hills, Alicante. Lavandula dentata L. Belver, Palma. (Spain, Sicily?) t Scuteilaria enna peg Mar. (S. balearica Bare.) Couma o Mameliouda, — ia sieasifolke Benth. On rocks, El Desierto de ls Palmas. — M. jiliformis Benth, Val de Ternellas, Barranco 4 | : ag | EDI go d's.) SOME SPANISH AND BALEARIC PLANTS 57 Soller. (Corsica.)— +M. Rodriguezii F. & J. Barranco de Al- gendar. tLysimachia minoricensis Rodr. Barranco la Val. The only known locality. Hp: dre linifolia Li. Pozuelo. t Cyclamen balearicum Willk. Abundant in many localities. Statice ej - ms b. (S. Limonium var. macrociada Boiss.) Benicas (France, Italy.) — S. ovalifolia Poir. _ Coast between Mahon =a Villweaciaae In the pa be -groves at Elche, near Ali- oem ae are specimens of the Mahon a in the herbaria at Kew and South Kensington, collected by Porta and Rigo, named S, lyehnidifolia Gir., but they differ greatly fee that species as described, and from Tpeciniae gathered = ropes France, in company with . C. E. Salmon, and s med by him. The Mahon plant atinitié 4 dem. in height, and ns : eondly rhomboid- eee leaves ge suddenly contracted into a winged petiole, 5 cm. ong, and a ae with long branches and short spikes. The Elche ane att ains 6 dem. or more, with leaves of the same general outline, but much longer in proportion to the breadth, reaching 12cm, long. In other respects the two plants are so similar that I have little hesitation in nam ing them both as a resi ve. —S. Girardiana Guss. On the seashore, Benicasim. (Fran S. Gougetiana Gir. On the rocky coast between Mahon and Villa. carlos. This saree well with specimens collected at Ciudadela, aa of Alicante, A ennai species resembling 8, aaciiaia in miniature.—S. delicatula Gir. Boiss, l.c., t. 155 a. On the sea- shore Bois to the town of Alicante, wees it must soon become extinct.—S. minutiflora Guss. Porto Pi. Agreeing with specimens in the Kew "oe collected at Soller Port by Bas tek AN (Italy, Sicily.) —S. virgata W. Porto Pi, where it is very abundant, and attains a iatge Also on the coast at Cala Mesquita, We nica : Val, and in Bact at Valencia, Oropesa, and oe ase int (France, &c.)—S. minuta L. On rocky ground, Porto Pi, forming large tufts. (France, Spain.)—+S. furfuracea Lag. On the rocky coast 7 north of Alicante.—+S. dichotoma Cav. t the foot of the hills at _ Aranjuez. This pig Bg sc is also Suttdant along the railway near that town.—S. echioides L. On low hills near Aranjuez. ‘On the coast at Oropesa.—s, "feria L. The Albufera, near Mahon. (France, Spain.) NK tn glauca La. (Obione glauca Moy.) On the seashore, icante . Emex Bs Camp. Cultivated ground, Palma. (Calabria, reece, sitianer papillari is Boiss. & Reut. Pozuelo. }Daphne velleocides Rodr. Isla Colom, Minor uxus balearica Lam. Barranco de Soller. (Granada, rae Journau or Botayy.—Vow. 45. [Fes. 1907.) F 58 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY _— bia polygalefolia Boiss. & Reut. Roadside on the way to Kals from Tarragona.—t FE. flavopurpurea Willk. El Fuente den Sime [Ma hon. — +#. medicaginis Boiss. Abundant in cultivated ground and on the roadside between Palma and Soller.—tE. imbri- cata Vahl. var. B. angustifolia Willk. Illus. ii. t. elxvi. £. ii. Roadside near Pollenza. Soller Port. Abundant in cultivated ground at Lluch. — +£. imbricata Vahl. var. y. parvifolia Willk. l.¢., f. ill. uit These tw and are cylindrical and mon givin ga — meals sha- greened appearance to the plan The leaves are coriaceous all rigid, with a strong iaadeacy to ace involute, but differ much in — — size, and in the character of the margin, which varies from ire i erose or strongly dentate. The forms may ; at i— es] 5 et = © ° eo ° = ® 5 © oe = 4 os eo = 34 ° E | my = entire, 15 mm. x 15 mm. = i. Pithyusa L. cumbent or ascending, slender, much branched from the base; leaves obovate-oblong or obcuneate, obtuse or truncate, mucro- ere abate serrate-dentate at the apex = var. y: parvifolia A plant gathered by Mr. Clarence Bicknell as £. Pithyusa on the coast at Calcatoggio, Corsica, has elliptic, acuminate, eroso- dentate, flat leaves, 15 mm. X 7 mm., which are of a thinner pase an show the veins; it would be better placed near FE. imbricata V latifolia, as in EF. Pithyusa the leaves appear to be always enti with involute margins. A specimen of FE. Pithyusa var. pro G. & G. (E. bonifaciensis Req.) in the herbarium of Mr. J. White, from Bonifacio, Sardinia, has acute entire leaves, 21 mm. * j m., and resembles E. imbricata var. lanceolata, Grenier oi" Godron’s description of this variety is: ‘‘ Upper cauline leaves ova nas scite, ae : leaves are papillose, but here are conical ’ give the Se a softer r, more velv ety appearan ‘ga measurement of the leaves are ‘parth taken. from oviitbons. ‘Tilas. j 29. y 4 1 } SOME SPANISH AND BALEARIC PLANTS 59 or lanceolate; plant higher, with stronger and straighter stems.’ Lastly, specimens of Ff. Pith, yitts gathered by Mr. J. W. White and myself on the coast at 8. Maxime, near Fréjus, and at Port Vendres, have several stout decumbent or sesendin stems from the same root, which bear umbels oe stout branches with densely imbricate, acute, entire leaves, 15 mm. x 4°5 mm. Several weak plants of this which were gathered in capt might be easily taken for E. imbricata var. parvifolia.—E. Chamesyce L. Lluch. (France, Spain, &ec.)—*H, prostrata Ait. (FE. perforata Guss.). Between paving-stones in the streets of Villacarlos, where it: was pointed out to us by Sehor J. Andreu Gahona. It is recorded as E. Chamasyce L. by Rodriguez in the still iepabiiched Florula de Menorca, but the transversely sulcate seeds and the connate stipules clearly distinguish it from that species. It has been found in Sicily and Portugal, but has not, I believe, been hitherto iden- hat in the Balearics. It is a native of tropical and subtropical ee (Sicily, Gre Tr plies palustre L, In marshy ground near the sea, Valencia. Rare in ne south of Spain eucojum Hernandexii Camb. The Albufera, Minorca, Soller Port, Majorca. (Sardinia.) Smi aspera var. tbalearica Willk. Val de Ternellas. Urtion —. var. thalearica Li. Barranco de Algendar. e.) Asparagus horridus Li. (A. stipularis Forsk.) Barranco la Val. (Spain, § Sicily, &c.) — A. albus L. Soller, Porto Pi. (Spain, icily, &c.) Dracunculus crinitus Schott. (Arum muscivorum L, fil.) Isla Colom, Minorca, where this strange-looking plant with its large lurid flowers is a troublesome weed, arex rorulenta Porta. On rocks and under walls in me ae de Mameliouda, Soller. Allied to C. Hailleriana Asso, b distinct in its widely creeping stems, slender habit, veer in vere under side of the leaves being sprinkled with *“ crystalline globules ike dew.” Porta describes the style as “ bifidus,” but Herr Kikenthal, to whom I submitted specimens, says this “ist wohl Fiction,” as it has the aed three stigmas. The C de Mameliouda is probably a new station for this rare little sedge, as it does not appear to have been noticed since Porta discovered it on the Puig Mayor, Majorca. eteropogon glaber P. On the coast at Benicasim, Castellon. (France, ltaly, &c. ichinochloa colonum P. B. Sandy seashore, Valencia. (South Italy, Sicily.) Arundo Plinii Turr. On the bank of the Turia at the new waterworks near Valencia, where it grew with Hrianthus Ravenna, ‘Sporobolus pungens Kunth. On the coast near the Barranco la Val. This occurs near Palma, but has not, I believe, been recorded for Minorca. (South France, ‘Spain, Ttal » Fr 2 60 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY NOTES FROM CORNWALL. By W. Bortine Hemstry, F.R.S. Tux records of the colonization of Cotoneaster microphylla Wall. in various localities (see Journ. Bot. 1905, 244, 274) reminded me that in 1904 I found it at Fowey, growing over the rocks in the excavated road between Fowey and Menatilly, and near the former pl It was in fruit, and I brought away only a small specimen to verify the species. Veronica angustifolia A. Rich., a native of New Zealand, | also against this one that I lighted on in Cornwall. Ido not mean by this that no other New Zealand plant has been found wild in this country ; indeed, I remember having seen Phormium tenax outside of cultivation somewhere in West Cornwall. I do not know whether anybody has examined the wild cabbage use the term generically here—that grows on the cliffs below the road leading from Fowey to Readymoney, and reported upon it. I had long been familiar with the appearance of the cabbage 02 Dover and Walmer clifis, though I had not critically examined it, but it looks like a true cabbage as distinguished from a kale. The Fowey plant struck me as being quite different, and more like @ kale, but I could not get specimens from the old plants, as they were on, to me, inaccessible parts of the cliff. I had this cabbage under observation for a month in 1904, and in 1905 I landed at Fowey for a few hours, partly to look at it again. As near 4% I could judge, looking down upon the plants, the largest were six his is doubtless an unusually luxuriant specimen. he Fowey cabbage is not only perennial, but shrubby, I should ar. I think J am right Near Bodinnick, on the steep left bank of the Fowey, there * very luxuriant vegetation, due no doubt to the superficial spring® which keep the banks and flats more or less saturated. Taking the road to the left of the landing-place from the ferry, there are some A NEW LIMONIA FROM UGANDA 61 open level spots on the otherwise steep = i and there, in a sort of wild garden, I met with clumps of Coniwm maculatum magia nine me tan feet high, with relatively thick anise h place were foxgloves and Scrophularia aquatica ards of s serie feet high, and other plants of unusual vigour, bisladins the colonized Enothera grandiflora (syn. O. Lamarkiana). A NEW LIMONIA FROM UGANDA. . By Epmunp G. Baker, F.L.S. Limonia (Crirropsis) ugandensis, sp.nov. Frutex spinescens, spinis rectis patentibus quam rhachios parte posteriori brevioribus ; foliis swpissime quinque-foliolatis imparipinnatis bijugis cum i pari sessili ambitu subsimilibus iis L. Preussii Engler sed minoribus elliptico-oblongis vel elliptico-obovatis coriaceis margine undulatis vel obsolete crenato-serratis nervis lateralibus mate inconspicuis subtus subprominentibus haud procul a margine conjunctis apice acutis utri rinque attenuatis ; floribus axillaribus ss Aiiemebiniin brevi spe circ. 6- = ; ealycis lobis 4 brevibus margine anteriori minu- tissime serrulato paullo inequilongis; petalis 4 albis punctatis valde imbricatis concavis rotundatis crassiusculis ; staminibus 8 in seriebus 2 instructis petalis brevioribus ; filamentis crassis antheris fere equilongis; ovario 4-loculari, stigmate crasso, stylo subnullo, ovulis in quoque loculo solitariis. L. Schweinfurthii Engler (mihi solummodo ex descriptione cognita) hac differt foliis quinquefoliolatis nec trifoliolatis ab L. . Preussii Engler foliis minoribus et stylo subnullo ab L. — Engler petalis oon et foliolis ne apice longe attenua Hab. Toro, Mpanga Forest, alt. 4800 ft., Dr. apshices, no. 1007, Herb. Mus. Brit.; South Buddu, Dawe, 899, Herb. : Re pe eee Kew ‘Spite 1-5-2:0 em. long. Leaflets 7°0-11°0 cm. pone: 8°5- 4:7 cm. broad. Lowest ms node of the rachis 4:5-6-0 cm. long, upper internode 3°0-3°5 cm. long. Pedicels rather thick, 2°0— 8:0 mm. long. Calyx lobes 1 ‘0-2: Omm.long. Petals 6-0-8-0 mm. long. a of longer stamens + 2:0 mm. long. Anthers -2°5 It differs from both the species figured in Dr. De Wildeman’s Fiore du bas et du moyen Congo by the leaflets not being so attenuate at the apex This is the “ Ci itropsis sp. nov.?’’ of Mr. Dawe’s Uganda list (p. 89) —_ South Buddu. It has lime-like fruits + 2 cm. in iamete 62 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY FREDERICK JUSTEN. (WITH PORTRAIT.) AurHoueH not strictly speaking a botanist, the late Frederick Justen was so well known to botanists and took so active and was added in 1863 the natural history business carried on # 45 Frith Street, Soho, by William Pamplin, who retired in that yeat n whom an account will be found in this Journal for 159. to regard with pride the fine collection of books in the Department of Botany, to which he made numerous donations—the last being the magnificent Codex of Dioscorides printed in faesimile and issued at Leyden in 1905; he was also much interested in the collection of drawings in the Department, to which he gave various additions. ; Justen’s principal service to botany, however, was the part he took in securing for the National Herbarium the splendid set of Welwitsch’s Angolan plants, which ranks among the most valuable of its contents. In 1878, Welwitsch by his will, of which Messts: -Carruthers and Justen were appointed executors, directed that the t represents Welwitsch’s work more fully than that at Lisbon, 48 latter has been in part distributed to other herbaria. al ge who, while thoroughly capable in business, was not absorbed by it to the exclusion of wider interests. j _ For the accompanying excellent portrait we are indebted to o friend and neighbour Mr, Cribb, who is to be congratulated on : successful snapshot, as Justen had an objection to being P se graphed. ow iar: neath wana eimai imuemabaitetina ad iiatataiianami aa a i Soe We hn NR RIES tad FREDERICK JUSTEN 63 NEW AND RARE BRITISH HEPATICA. By Symers M. Macvicar. Ricota See Lindeb. var. psrupo-Frosti Schiff. Osterr. bot. Zeit. lv. 8 (1905). Mr. W. E. Nicholson recently hit me a Riccia gathered i him at Horsted Keynes, Sussex, 22nd September, 1906, the habitat being on the mud of a large pond. The violet colour of some of the fronds had weiouted to him that the staat was rather R. Huebeneriana than R. crystallina, to which he had previously referred it. On examination I found the plant to be nearer R. Huebeneriana than any other species known to me, but, as it differed somewhat from my continental ene in aie former having acute leaf-lobes, and in the structure f the perichetinm. As to-the leaf-lobes, I cannot find that there ° any constant difference. C. BryAnii has frequently — obtuse lobes, and C. inteyerrima has them often rather acute. he leaf- cells do not show any difference. With regard to the bs im- portant mark—the structure of the innermost involucral bracts~_ although Herr Kaalaas’ plant has sometimes more — lobed bracts than any I have found in C. integerrima, ther other hand many of the bracts which are indistinguishable from those of = latter plant C. Bryhnii, m ‘ue cathe mes given to him as the latter oa was pr involucral bracts which he oe is not sadn to O. Bryhnii. the Addenda, p. 854, he quotes a remark from Pr of. Schiffner: « Your Ceph. piriflora is quite certainly identical with C. Bry Kaal.!” M. Donte _kindly sent me a specimen from Montigny-€ lucral bracts are very obtuse in this plant; the leaves are alse rather obtuse. In fact, it oti ——— my specimens of - - tegerrima than that of C, Bry The highly connate, very ened bracts and bracteole of C- ne taper ima will at once distinguish it from any other of our descri “t spec Mr. Nicholson is to be congratulated on the discovery ech a& ag ern addition to our flora. MR. J. G. BAKER. Tue Naturalist is publishing an interesting series of biographical sketches entitled ‘‘ Prominent Yorkshire Workers.” The subject of the Taney biography is Mr. John Gilbert Baker, of a Mr. T. Sheppard gives a sympathetic account, accompanied by an ex- cellent portrait which the kindness of the editors and publishers of the Naturalist allows us to reproduce. Our readers may like to contrast it with that reproduced in this Journal for 1898, p. 244, from the portrait by Mr. J. W. Forster 68 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. XLI.—Tae ‘. ~ a OPEN ARE PPS SS ' CONTENTS : PAGE ‘ e ok New Species of Splachnobryum, Rubiacer. By Banta ue ; be a pg aoe = oe oe Moors, B:Sc., F.L.8. . x ay HE rae TxOS, Y wie a oe ! ne DB aS Te tak LF . -g1 | Doctor eS of Quebec. Ses i M. L! Fern. Callymenia Larteria, n.sp. By E. “MM. Homers, FL.S. (Bla ted84n) 85 Bibliographical eee .—Plants Alnbastra geome —Part XIV. By = PENCER LE M. labi anticum gre 1:0 cm. long. ; posticum 0-7 cm. long., hujus lobi prepeesn aie, 0°15-0-2 cm. long. Anthere leviter exserte ; filamentorum pars connata 0°45 em,, 96 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY libera 0°6 cm. long. Stylus breviter exsertus ; ce lobi cras- siusculi, 0- soo em. long. De calyce fructescente eo. ooks much like C. decurrens Giirke, but differs in the shortly § SonenostemonorpEs) polyanthus, it nov. Veri- similiter oy baceus caule erecto rariramoso minute pubescente, parvulis cito deciduis lanceolatis vel anceolato-linearibus acutis minute pubescentibus viridibus, floribus parvis breviter pedunculatis, calycis florescentis parvuli campanulati intus nudi tubo limbo equi- m . . re) . . ed obtusiusculis anticis quam reliqui paullulum brevioribus omnibus viola tinctis extus aes geotrhmn intus albo-villosulis, corolle extus snl eta tubo prope medium valde curvato deorsum tenuissimo um campan “ieagt infandibala 1abioy gatigs quam posticum cym- bifseme magnopere incurvum breviore et 4-lobo, filamentis ima basi connatis, nuculis nubeotundié a onthe fruct. antice maxime gibboso sursum gradatim attenuato occlus Hab. In stony ground on the fee Hills, at 5000 ft.; Eyles, Planta saltem 80 em. alt. Folia 2°5-3°5 x 1:2-1:5 om., pilis glandulosis microscopicis creberrime donata, in sicco viridi- flaves- li centia ; petioli + 1:0 cm. long., basi aliquantulum dilatati, wie pubescentes, Bricaatnk ee 15-0cm. long. Bractew 0-2 cm. long. Calyx florescens 0°15 em. long.; © tiatisosis 0:3-0 Le long., bas 0-2 em m., ore O-'1em. Ke Flores heliotropini. Corolle tabi pars pple “f 8 x 0-075 em., pars expansa basi 0-1 em. faucibus fere 0°4 c ; labii antici 0- 85 em. long. lobi laterales abbreviati, saeiiesion jaerilicee 0-1em. long. ; labium posticum 0-5 cm. 10ug. Anthere 0-05 em. long. Nuculw vix 0-1 cm. diam. ., leves, pallide. Though quite different in habit and foliage from C. nyikensis Baker from Nyassaland, there is much resemblance between the two i SS the inflorescence. Among other points may be mentioned the smaller flowering and longer and narrower fruiting calyx of the Bhodasiart plant, and its corolla with a larger and basally much more narrow tube. Coleus (§ § ) mat v. Herbacea caule ascendente sparsim ramoso ramis foliosis te “glanduloso- pubescentibus pilis longioribus necnon aug ia intermixtis 10 nodis barbatis, foliis longipetiolatis a ribus late ovatis obtusis basi age e cor es: rarius trune margi rosse crenato- serra mbranaceis pilis a epprosrie ieabenedtia albis utrinque ricco beeitiestasiti: circa 7-floris pedunculatis gubdistantibus ‘ ‘ou F i) cE ’ a © 2 iW’ is ; : : : SEER eT Fe. ae a OE ne re So Pe A ne eeeralpeee ALABASTRA DIVERSA 97 sat laxis i in paniculam gracilem terminalem folia longe excedentem postici lobis 4 brevibus obtusissimis labio antico posticum excedente cymbiformi. Hab. Boren Hills. No. 1024. lanta saltem 30cm. alt. Folia 4:0-5:0 cm. long., 3:0-4:0 cm. a (raro ohiieae 6:0 cm. lat. et tune late rotundata), juniora circa 2:0 x 2:0 cm., basi 3-5-nervia ; petioli modice 3-5-7:5 cm graciles, albo-pilosi. Panicula circa 12‘0 em. long., minute glan- duloso-pubesc cae adjectis pilis paucis strigosis albis : verticilla- strorum stipites 1:0-1:5 cm. long. Bractew ime petiolate. in toto 1:0 cm. long. ; relique 0: 3-0°5 em. Pedicelli tandem modo 0-2 em long. Flores violacei. Calyx florescens 0°25 cm. long.; hujus lobi 1:5 em. Calyx fructescens 0:45 cm. long., antice “manifeste gibbosus. Corolle tubi ee tenera 0-4 cm. long., 0-075 cm. lat. ; pars ampliata 0:4 x 0°3 cm.; labium posticum 0:2 cm. anticum 0‘6 cm. long. Filamenta a Beneiti connata. Nucule ovoider, brunnee, leviter nitescentes, 0-1 cm. long. abit inflorescence tiv as of C, someon Welw., but the leaves ae Aves! different and the flowers sma his t a good member of the section, inane as the ripe calyces aN no § ote of turning downward; but I do not know where else to put i Achyrospermum parviflorum, sp. nov. Herbaceum caule erecto sursum ramoso nablecell primo minute fulvo-tomentello dein pubescente ntor seems foliis ovatis acuminatis a basi rotundata subito vel paullo magis gradatim in petiolum sat longum gracilem haud alatum attenuatis margine serrato-crenatis ri oem pag. verticillastris a me scrutatis 5-floris, bracteis late ovatis brevissime cuspidulatis apice ipso obtusiusculis minute glanduloso-pubescenti- bus margine ciliatis, calyce recto extus pubescente fructificante parum aucto limbo Plane bilabiato labii antici — eri se omnino liberis quam postici nceolatis obtusius culis, corolle | parve tubo breviter exserto ne fegre "anmplidoale extus pubescente labio postico rotundato emarginato antici lobo in- termedio late oblongo-obovato mes — bifido, stylo incluso, stig- matis lobis ambobus brevissim uculis puberulis harum squa- mellis se ipsas excedentibus spathulat is vel oblongo-obovatis mar- gine terminali longiuscule ciliatis ab. Budongo Forest, Unyoro ; iaper 927. Foliorum limbus solemniter 6-0-9‘0 em. x 2°5-5:0 em, (accedunt folia alia minora juvenilia + 2°5 x 1° 3 Ci ), glandulis pellucidis Journat or Borany.—Vor. 45. [Marcn, 1907.] I 98 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY copiosissime obsessus; petioli summum 2:5 em. long., minute pubescentes. Spicastra 2-3-3-0cm. long. a oe 0:5 x ot opm 0-2 x 0:175 cm. Anthere 0:05 cm. ibis, Stylus "BB em. long Nucule modo non 0:1 em., earum squamelle 0-125 cm. long Nearest A. athiopicum Welw., an Angolan species, which has winged petioles to the leaves, lar er and somewhat differently shaped bracts, larger calyces of which the ete front lobes are con- nate nearly to the top, larger white corollas, Leonotis longidens, sp.nov. He rba tt caule erecto valido sparsim ramoso alte quadrisulcato minute pubescente ramulos breviores bene foliosos dilute fulvo-tomentosos hac atqne illac gig- nante, foliis manifeste petiolatis oblongis vel oblongo- -Janceolatis obtusis basi rotundatis margine crenato-serratis firme membrana- s atule conientalits, erbaillaibtts stan tibus multifloris ex axillis foliorum summorum aliquanto angustatorum ortis, bracteis es calyces brevioribus angustissime linearibus apice breviter spinoso-acum!- natis pubescentibus, floribus pedicellis Giravianithter inaidentibus, ealycis tubo superne ophee amplinto pubescente ore 8-denta 3°0 em. ns posticus 1:25 em some. Corolle tubus 2:0 em. long: 0:8 ot iam.; labium posticum 1:5 cm. long. ; anticum 0°7 ¢™ long., fere glab A species easily recognized by the pale orange flowers, together with the very long and prominent posticous tooth of the calyt- The affinity seems 1 be with L. mollissima Giirke. 99 NOTES ON THE “LIST OF BRITISH SEED-PLANTS.” By James Brirten, F.L.S., & A. B. Rennie, D.Sce., F.L.8. Tue following notes have been drawn up to explain the more important alterations in nomenclature which have been made in the List of British er Plants and Ferns just published by the Trustees of the British Museum. The general plan and scope of the List is explained in the pitetaes arets to which these notes are supple- mentary. As stated in the preface the alterations are mainly due to the adoption of the earliest specific name, in accordance with the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature adopted by the Botanical Congress at Vienna in 1905, and to a careful investiga- tion of the literature » the subject. This has led us to restore Miller, and 8. F. Gray—has been Lunuiaell apprec iated by con. tinental workers. We have occasionally corrected the authority on which a genus or species stands in British pe The number prefixed to each genus is that which it bears in List. 4, Aponis annua L. Sp. Pl. 547 (1758) ; orgs Dict. ed. 8, n. 1 (1768). This name must stand for autwmnalis L. (Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 771, 1762) and authors. A. annua L. originally included two names a@stivalis and autumnalis. Annt st be retained for one of the two, and Miller was the first to sense it to this plant. Ranunouuus prvaricatcs Schrank, Baiersche Flora 104 (1789). Alarge as name, according to Pritzel, was Pierre Joseph, not “D.,” Garidel; or the frequent ee to Dr. Richard ‘iconetidn quoted in this Journal only asad upon old Ale rata at a an on other loca . P. Penhallow, “ Review of Canadian Botany from the First opr ‘aie 4 New ger nee to the Nineteenth Century,” part i. (Trans. Roy Can. v. sect 1887, 45-61). [The same section pepe a — “étude bio raphigue’” on Michel Sarrazin,”’ by the Abbé Laflamme (pp. 1-23), who states that the name was spelt age nora f Sarrasin or Carranins but thinks the atter the ° originals spelling. —Ep. . Bot.) - Inst. i. 657 (1700). "The ‘author of the article which suggested these no fae says: ‘In 1719, Tournefort, ignoring the older names of Coilo- phylium, cabo. Bucanephy ion igh anplies by his peeiaeenes ‘sire ‘ Sarracenam,’” &c.; thus implying. that name Sarracena start the Institutiones of 1719, ‘high ed the inivd ioe and issued eleyen aes file the dea th of Tournefort. pg tnmeroerttey at least one of the “older orgs But tenes it not rather mean Dominus ?—Ep. Journ. Bor.| 118 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY arrangement of Canadian botanists Professor Penhallow not only gives Sarrasin’s full name, but the exact date of his death :— ‘«‘ Saprasin, Micuen.—Born in 1659; died at sitet Sept. 9th, 17384. Pisiisian at the Court of Quebec in 1730 ‘ Thus it would appear that, instead of being ae, as Dr. Macfarlane’s discussion makes out, for a theoretical Dr. ‘ D. Sarrasin, of Quebec, who died “ Gans c. 1780-1740?” the genus Sarracenia (Sarvacena) was dedicated by Tournefort to Dr. Michel Sarrasin, physician at the Court of per who was born in 1659, and died at Quebec, Bebtentber ‘oth, cage Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. XLII. — Puants or tue ANTILLEs. Ix the admirable bibliography with Wepa Dr. Urban has enriched the Symbole Antillane, I find no mention of a book recently acquired for the library of the Nev. ‘York Botanic Garden, as to whose authorship Anna M. Vail, the librarian, lately wrote to me. Miss Vail, eaten transcribed the title, added a description of the ext which I quote : ** Voyages to the Maieira - and Leeward Caribbean Isles; with Sketches of the Natural History of these Islands. By Maria R****** Edinburgh : Printed - Peter Hill and T. Cadell, London. 1792, “Tt is a narrow 8yo, with 9 pages of preface and 105 pp. of text. The lady dedicates bing little book to Mr. William Smellid member of the Antiquarian and R Royal Bocieties of Edinburgh. * (He died on the 8th an Mee Bi See Bory d was buried on the 9th; see Laflamme, l. c. SHORT. NOTES : 119 Park, four miles south of Dumfries, who had married, in 1791, Maria Woodley, daughter of William Woodley, governor of St. Kitts and the Leeward Islands. The lady was only nineteen, but had a taste for literature, and was anxious to publish an account of her own voyages. Burns gave her a letter of introduction to a printer, and proceeded, according to his wont, to write love-so ngs about her. Karly in 1794, at an entertainment held at Walter flects credit on both the writer and her subject.” Mr. Skan adds that Maria Riddell edited The Metrical Miscellany, published in 1802. JAMES BRITTEN. SHORT NOTES. Nores rrom Cornwatt.—Mr. Hemsley’s interesting observations (p. 60) on the Wild Cabbage growing between Fowey and Ready- money afford an opportunity for expressing suspicions that I have had about the origin of these plants since first examining them more than ten years ago. Their r gigantic proportions, Sea, al character, and one more or less pinnatifid leaves, on Bd ich are foreign to genuine Brassica oleracea, have orced m Jie con- clusion that shiey névigtninted from outcasts fro some of the gardens that abut on the cliffs above. en Sh the cliffs at Polruan, just across Fowey Harbour, as well as at Looe, a few miles farther east, plants occur about whose indigeneity there can be no question; these are of much less stature, have short, rounded leaves, and are not nearly so long-lived. Four sheets of such specimens are now bet me, on one of which the petals are nearly as large as those on the Walmer plants in H. C. Watson’s Herbarium. m sealpleanit about the Fowey plants are correct, would appear to follow that the plate of B. oleracea in Eng. Bot. was prepared from a specimen of similar status, as the leaf Gaare ore is both long and pinnatifid. The occurrence of Cotoneaster microphylla Wall. by the side of Point Neptune Road; leading from Fowey to Mena- billy, is easily explained. With Erica vagans, E. mediterranea, and Several other ornamental species, it was planted there when the road was cut to cover and Sect | the bare rocky sides. In several parts of the county, however, I have seen it flourishing on walls and hedge-banks, where it is ‘certain it was never planted. Same observation applies to Veronica angustifolia A. Rich., Leyces- teria formosa Ara Santolina Chamecyparissus Linn., &e. — F. Haminron Dave 120 "HE JOURNAL OF BOTANY and Mr. Pugsley, who afterwards saw a dried example, was of the same mind. eG GC, difficulty kept apart from F. densiflora (p. 18). In another field, some miles away, near Pitstone Hill, F’. densiflora, I’. officinalis, FP’. Vaillantii, and F. parviflora flourished together, but no interme- diates were noticed:—C. E. Saumon. © NOTICES OF BOOKS. Haandbog i Norges Flora af Axen Buyrr.. . udgivet ved Ove Daut. Med 661 illustrationer. Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag. 8vo, pp. xi, 780. Kristiania. 1906. — Tuts may be taken as a second condensed edition of the Norges — Flora of M. N. & A. Blytt (1861-1877), which appeared in two parts, with an index and supplement in 1877, consisting of 1848 pages, In the present work of 780 pages the descriptions are much short- ened, and also the distribution. The 661 illustrations, although only measuring about 8 in, x 2, are mostly excellent in catching the habit of the species, especially the ferns. The descriptions extend to about 1388 species and 186 subspecies. The classifi- cation is that of Engler and Prantl. he author has consulted all the recent Scandinavian floras ; the northern limit of species is given from that laborious work of Norman, the Arktiske Flora. The vexed question of nomenclature alled H. borealis ; Carew caryophyllea Latourr. = C. precox Jacq., C. verna Chaix. Potentilla verna L. contains Hi in very dry seasons, may possibly occur in England, as was sug- gested many years ago by Dr. Trimen, ; _Of the critical genera, Rubus has 14 species with 4 subspecies; Hieracium, 88 species and 81 subspecies ; Salix, 24 species an 2 subspecies, with 32 hybrids; Carex, 85 species, 12 subspecies, and 18 hybrids. | POSTELSIA . 121 tic gives a very and British botanists will find it well worth adding to their works of reference, ; _ Artuur Bennett. Postelsia : the Year Book of the Minnesota Seaside Station. St. Paul, i 1906. Pp. 364. 33 plates. We gather from Prof. Conway MacMillan’s short introductory note that this is the second issue of a year-book by the Minnesota Seaside Station at Fort Renfrew on the Vancouver coast, the first year-book having been published four years ago. The present Volume contains seven papers covering a wide range of subjects. The principal novelty is to be found in a paper by Mr. R. F. Griggs, in which is established a new genus of Algse— Renfrewia, closely allied to Laminaria. om the latter it is separated ‘‘be- cause of its simple discoid holdfast without haptera, which, together with its small size and evident simplicity of structure, marks it as one of the most primitive of the kelps.” The type is R. parvula, & new species, and with it are associated R. solidungula and R. yez- toensis, formerly known as Laminaria solidungula J. G. Agardh, and LL, yezzoensis Miyabe. Miss Henkel’s paper on Tide-pools is concerned more with geology than with botany. And Mr. Hall’s eer on the Geological Features of the Station does not touch on tany. ‘I'he Western Helvellinew of Miss D. 8. Hone are fungi which were collected in the western United States and Canada, and Include four species of Geoglossacer, two of Helvellacew, and one of Rhizinacew. Mr. A. W. Evans, in treating of the Hepatice of Vancouver Island, gives a résumé of previous work done, to wit, Mitten’s record of three species (1865), Pearson’s of fifty-five species (1890), and Underwood's of sixty-six (1893). Mr. Evans has revised these older records, and, having received fresh material from Port Renfrew, is able to raise the total to seventy-one species, and he thinks that more may yet be foun 2 PUK fers of Vancouver Island, giving a list of thirteen species which Occur spontaneously on the island, and a table showing their dis- tribution in the great coniferous: forest of Western America from 122 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Mr. CG. O. Rosendahl publishes the results of his Observations on Plant Distribution in Renfrew District of Vancouver Island, his object being to set forth a few main facts bearing upon plant ecology and plant floristics without unnecessary details. He treats his subject under the following main headings :—(1) Marine forma- tions; (2) Formations of the beach ; (3) Formations of the forest- country ; and these are further subdivided. He then gives an enu- meration of the plants collected, and points out that the chief mass of the island vegetation is composed of gymnosperms; that the monocotyledons are more numerous than the dicotyledons; and that the ferns are profuse in number, but poor in species. It is, we suppose, to show off the half-tones of the plates that the paper is so heavily mineralized. The volume is the heaviest one for its size that we have ever held in our hands. A. & E. 8. G. Die Selbsterhitzung des Heus ; eine biologische Studie. Von Dr. Huco Miexe. 8vo, pp. 126. Jena: Fischer. 1907. Wuen scientific research is directed to the elucidation of long- familiar phenomena, the interest aroused is prompt and keen, espe- cially if the explanation offered meets all the facts of the case. The heating of hay or corn too hastily garnered, which may even result in spontaneous combustion, is one of these natural happenings well been tobacco-leaves, where it is a factor in the ripening process; and in hotbeds of manure, which are valuable to the gardener. Hops, take on the characteristic odour of decaying fruits. In six days the highest temperature, 68-5° centigrade, was reached at the centre of RECENT AMERICAN NOMENCLATURE 1238 nation by careful cultures proved that these were chiefly a form of Bacillus coli, B. calfactor, n. sp., and Oidium lactis. These three were the characteristic micro-organisms causing the fermentation of the hay, but others were more or less constant, and they were isolated and cultivated. Actinomyces thermophilus occurred in great abundance, as white specks and streaks on grass still fresh and full of sap. Thermomyces lanuginosus appeared when the tem- gillus fumigatus, not exclusively thermophil, but growing best at blood-heat ; Mucor pusillus, which requires considerable warmth to induce vigorous growth; M. corymbifer, occasionally met with in laboratory cultures or on diseased bodies, though its true habitat is now proved to be heated plant remains. Most of these thermophil bacilli and fungi are more or less pathogenic, some of them danger- ously so. It is a new discovery that they are thus constantly being generated in nature. Miehe is of opinion that manure heaps and plant remains may be the hot-beds of other bacilli, and that tuber- culosis in animals may be propagated in this way. Other chapters are devoted to self-sterilization: it was found that the organisms died off completeiy. The reason of this has not been satisfactorily demonstrated. The fermentation of tobacco, respiration, heat, &c., are also discussed at some length. r. Miehe has made a valuable and interesting contribution to bacte- riology, fungology, and agriculture; and the carefully tabulated experiments and illustrations enhance the value of his work. A. L. 8. Recent American NoMENCLATURE. Tue eleventh volume of ‘Contributions from the United States National Herbarium” issued last October is devoted to a Flora of the State of Washington by Prof. C. V. Piper, and is the result of his study of the plants of that State during a period of twenty years. It is a handsome book of 637 pages, with numerous illustrations showing aspects of vegetation, and is evidently exe- cuted with great care. The introductory matter contains brief biographies of the principal ‘“ botanical explorers of Washington” ; some of the statements as to the whereabouts of collections require modification—e, g. Scouler’s plants are not at the British Museum but at Dublin, and the most complete set of Douglas’s plants is in the National Herbarium at the British Museum, not at Kew. We régret however to observe that Prof. Piper owns no allegi- ance to the Rules promulgated by the Vienna Congress, but ‘‘aims to follow the recently proposed Philadelphia Code.” This seemed 0 us a new authority, but Prof. Piper informs us that it is the 124 ’ THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY ‘Code of Bothiiical io Seep ’* sioned by a number of Ameri- can botanists. and: submitted to. the “Congress as a substitution en bloc for the Code of 1867. We made some allusion to this in do not fall in with the decisions arrived at by the intent assembly after — careful discussion, the confusion which we—in common with ci — - ists—had hoped was at an end will still prevail so far ap n plants are concern ries It is not even 9 m et ie ad ° i=] 0Q o et oe © Spo BB oO ae ie) 2 _F 4 - Oo s- o e. tT er et ma eS = + © wn Oo 5 oe 7-2 al? =) 28S ~_ < — Qu "oO Qu leon] ° i=] a Gartait other perme har which have mae some American authors are observable in Prof. Piper’s book. The system of seiemeibaats is in fall force, and it is ;hoe impossible to tell whether the eed fe Sheree os an the second trivial is to be considered a subspe or a variety. Such a combination as ** Festuca rubra iitaibeliana (Schultes 3) Piper, Cont r. Nat . Herb. 10, 3, 1906,” contains in itself objectionable feelin contrary to the ruling of the Congress, which implicitly condemned trinominals, laid down that “* when two or more groups of the same nature are n other r respects the Rules are ignor ang we have duplicated names—* Phegopteris phegopteris (L.) Underw. ” (note the omission of the capital initial to the repeated name) ; and the generic names which it was decided to abandon are in full force—how is Peramium to be justified ? (see Journ. Bot. 1906, 896). We have noted in sent American floras the citation of what necessary featur with the result that w such entries as * The Festuca in question already ae two a pstin ante oo bigs} secunda Seribn. and F. rubra garded as @ variety of L. Sa wing 1 ust be called-L~ Salicaria var. gracilis Turez.(in Bull. Soc. Nat. 235 [1844]) not L. Salicaria var. inter medium Koehne (in Engl. Bot. J Jahrb. j i. 327 (1881]).’ BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. behaviour of tendrils, as those of Bryonia dioica, displaying one specimen which had varied the torsion four times and showed ten receives eight species from the genus Ptyssiglottis Hallier f., and eleven others are added from the Kew collections; they form a very homogeneous group, are eminently shade-loving plants, and exhibit anisophylly in a very marked degree. The headquarters of he genus are in Borneo. Very carefully done, and we are glad to observe that the work of Miller in his Gardeners’ Dictionary is receiving due recognition. b n g “ Miller Gard. Dict. ed. 7 (1759) n. 1,” Dr. Schinz, however, falls Into a curious error: there is no such name in the work, which, Moreover, does not contain trivials, which were added only in the eighth edition. A. rotundifolia appears in Stokes (Bot. Mat. Med. (7 te (1812) ), and is of course antedated by A. glutinosa Gaertn, ah? : 126 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Tue Trustees of the British Museum have just issued a List of British Seed-plants and Ferns, compiled by Mr. Britten and Dr. Rendle in accordance with the International Rules of Botanical a plant, no matter under what genus it was first described. This has resulted in a few alterations, as British botanists have generally used the specific name first employed in the genus accepted ; these alterations have been made only after careful investigation of the literature of the subject ; a detailed account of the more important will be found in this number of the Journal. The compilers are not so Sanguine as to suppose that their conclusions are free from error, but they can at least claim that the List is the result of an extensive and careful consultation of botanical literature, for which the fine library of the Department of Botany has afforded exceptional oppor- tunities. The arrangement of Orders is that of Bentham’s Handbook, which is followed in the Public Gallery ; for the limitation of genera and species, Messrs. Groves’s edition of Babington’s Manual is fol- lowed ; the nomenclature of the latter work is adopted except where this is not in accordance with the Rules. The List has been shortened by the exclusion of (1) Channel Island plants, which have no claim to be considered as belonging to the British Flora ; (2) critical forms of Rubus, Hieracium, Euphrasia, and Salia, for which reference must be made to monographs; (8) introduced plants which have not become thoroughly established ; (4) plants formerly found in Britain, but now extinct. Tue death is announced of yet one more botanist named Ropert Brown. This last sharer of an honoured name is the subject of @ notice by Mr. L. Cockayne in a New Zealand paper—the Lyttelton Times—to whom we are indebted for a copy. Unfortunately, long as it is, the notice is singularly deficient in definite information. Brown ‘came to the colony more than thirty years since ’’—we al not told whence—and “ for a number of years followed his pursuit as a shoemaker, but latterly that was abandoned altogether, and his time was passed with his microscope, in his beautiful garden, or away in the wilds over the length and breadth of New Zealand.” He de- walked, botanizing, all the way from Kaikoura to Blenheim Brown at his regidence at St. Albans, near Christchurch, Dec. 18, 1906. Mr. F. N. Wiuiams is publishing in the Bulletin de U Herbier Boissier a “ Florula Gambica,” for * the area comprised within the present political limits of the colony of the Gambia, as finally settled in the Anglo-French agreement dated October 1905." The collections enumerated date from 1750, in which year four plants BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 127 were collected by Adanson ; ‘the earliest record of a plant for the colony is in Dillen’s Hort. Eltham. p. 869, t. 227, f. 358 (1732), where Sacrindcbce globosa Schum. & Thonn. is described re cultivated specimens under the name of Spermacoce verticillis globosi is, A specimen is preserved in Dillen’s herbarium at Oxford.” Tue news of the sudden death at San Remo on Jan. 28 of Orro Kounrzg, in his sixty-fourth year, will come as a surprise to a who have so lately received his latest brochure issued in Janu and bearing the portentous and characteristic title, Motivisnte: Ableb- nung der angeblich vom Wiener Kongress 1905 angenommenen in- in re, was Seiden botanist of no mean ebikty in 1867 earliest books, ae in Soe year, were a Flora of Seine and a critical revision of German Rubi which was followed in 1879 by Methodik der ear iene: und Rubus—an elaborate work. He vate monographed Cinchona and Clematis, and his most important tk—the Revisio Generum (1891-98)—contains numerous descrip- “ee of new species obtained during his travels in South America and elsewhere, when he made large collections. But it is in con- peor with the revision of nomenclature that his name will chiefly € remembered, and it is to be regretted that the intolerance of his views and the intemperance of the language in which they were stated led to a somewhat insufficient appreciation of his labour and “ea This Journal, in which several of his papers have eared, has always recognized the importance of his work, te withstanding obvious shortcomings i in taste and temper; the Lexi. which, in conjunction with Dr. von Post, he published in 1904, should, as we said when wae ib find a place in every botanical ary: Two very pretty little halferown (net) books come to us from Mr, T.N. Foulis of Edinbu neh, belonging to ‘‘ The Garden Lovers’ Series.” The first—A Garden of Pleasant Flowers—consists of descriptions of the most fama garden flowers from Parkinson’s Paradisus, compiled and arranged by Mr. Alfred H. Hyatt. We have often thought and said that such a selection might well be made, if only on account of the delightful a ong written by Parkinson and most authors of his time, and here it has been well made. The me to the reader, and a small part of he introdue- tion on ** The Ordering of the Garden of Pleasure ose we think, title-page is an unfortunate misprint. The vol also bes i688), Es whisk Lord Rosebery contributes an “ peseipehich i In each of these books 128 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY _» Mr, T. E. Warrnam has prepared a successful series of stereo- scopic photos of plants in their natural colours, which he has lent for exhibition in the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum. ‘The series includes a number of orchid flowers and other objects, as well as some general views, s ines as aria ae in a wood, water-lilies on a pond, and a border of herbaceous plants. WE are indebted to a correspondent for the following example of ‘science as she is taught ’’ by our popular magazines. It is from the Royal Magazine for April, one of Messrs. Pearsons’ publications, and is accompanie ied by a figure of Dionea, labelled ‘* Dronca Muset- ula.’”’ :—* In the vegetable kingdom we find a counterpart which exactly corresponds with the mouse-trap. The plants (if plants they be) [!] which exist by enticing on to their leaves flies and other small insects, exude a sweet gum which, when a wandering insect alights upon it to a partially entangles its legs. In the effort. to release itself the insect struggles violently, and its wings become involved with the same fr substance. The time occu- Then the aru uncloses and throws out the skeleton that remains.” Dr. Norpstept, — is a member of the ‘Commission de — Nomenclatu eg Cryptogamique” appointed at Vienna to report to - Congress of i910, has published Boteilate Notiser, 1906, 97-106) an important paper on ‘The Starting-point of the Rosmoelatae of Desmids,” in which the matter is exhaustively and so far as we. can judge very sanely discussed. He sums up his paper thus La “T propose the following rules for the nomenclature of the Desmidiacew. 1. The nomenclature begins with The itish Desmidiex by Ralfs 1848. 2. The authors of names given earlier, pte accepted by Ralfs in Brit. Desm., must always be quoted a5 — uch (e, g.—Ehrenb. sec. Ralfs in Brit. Desm.); except if the iden- — tifieation of the name in Ralfs’ Brit. prin and in the works of the older authors be very doubtful. 8. Exceptions, The following — earlier specific names have priority and must be retained :. Closterium Libellula Focke (if removed from Srv: and Desmidium cylindricum Grev. (Didymoprium cyl. Ralfs 1845). The rule 8 is natur ally not . quite necessa i i Or several other sections of alge there are ‘also standard works from which their pomenslas can begat I will hows singfors 1900; in the tables nearly all the known species are re- jiteroorat Hagan Ed., et Flabault, Ch., Revision des Nostocacées oh BRITISH ed. by A. G. TANSLEY, MWA, FLS, Edit ASSISTANT ee or Bor sity CoLLE IkGE, Loxpow. nte ae of December ‘oak Destores ments in Plants, by Francis Daawie —II. On so: oor Gucdtions af Nom p Method. Plerdospers and Angiosperms, by LIVER. joan Penal _ Cycads (Review), by W. C. W. The Flora of ‘Lake Tanganyika, by A. G. 6. The x, _ Nucleus s of the Yeast Plant Subscription- Prive, eg per annum (ten numbers) post free. e of single number, 1s. 6d. 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From ore ns Soe pon in we ait be had ‘at £1 1s. each. the order is received. e charges for special separate copies are as under :— mae te copies an 4 rr - ye 5s. | 8 pace, 26 copies ba - 6s. 5 50 76 "100 83. 100 eater number of iW ee charged in n equal Proportion Separate Titles, rs, &c., € : articles supplied as printed in the Journal, a and not remade ee is poten ly iess. London ; WEST, NEWMAN é 00. 129 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. By Epwarp Griizert, M.D. 1.—Tue Svuserectt. Berrore venturing to make any comments on the British Rubi which may be noticed by eminent students of the British Flora, it seems to me only Drones that I should give some slight reasons for my boldness. The main one is that I have worked very hard the last ten years (with the exception of one when I was very ill) in the and at my own and the National Herbaria in an attempt to dasccisine the position every Rubus I could find held in the Rev. . Rogers’s Handbook of British Rubi, and in the London Cata- logue wi British Plants. In this effort I have had the kind and essential assistance of Mr. Rogers himself. _ Neither was I quite a astonished at the variety to be found. A pe eer proportion of them he was unable to refer decidedly to any species or variety known to him—even one of the most abundant, which he proposed to call R, tonbr idgensis. The effect of all this work and comparison of notes on my mind has been a strong impression that the variety of forms of Rubi is practically unlimited, and that many of them are so closely inter-related that it is impossible to separate them distinctly, or to assign every vadividual to a distinct place in ony scheme of arrangement; in fact, that this distinctness is not to found in nature with regard to a large proportion of them Another impression is that the genus is one of wonderful adapt- ability to its surroundings—extremely “plastic” one may say. eaves of the same bush seem fs me further evidence of this great instability. run the same bush I have known alter its — So much in two successive years that specimens from it in eac - those years would have been supposed to come from quite differ Rubi, if their source had not been known. Is not this adaptability of the Rubi the chief source vf their ubiquity ? third impression which has grown strongly upon me is that JournaL or Borany.—Vou, 45. [Aprm, 1907.] L 180 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY the Rubi cross very freely; and, if so, of course not only would the hybrids be very various, but each kind of hybrid would vary a good deal, thus adding confusion to the confounded. It has been told me that it is pure theory to suppose any Rubus to be a hybrid. Is it not just as much’so to suppose it to be an i admitted to cross. Why not then all the intermediate ones ? am not unlikely to be mistaken; but I fancy I have noted the e Rubi:—A striking here and there, and not large numbers, about the same spot, as commonly happens with the distinct species; fasciculation of the branches of the panicle; and sometimes some a norma ity in growth. Whet fertile than other Rubi, I cannot say. I have not observed that they are. In California the fruit-growers have found that certain horticultural varieties of fruit trees are incapable of se/f-fertilization, and that their fertilization can be secured by planting other varieties near them. Is it not likely therefore that the same end may be attained in the same way in nature? What an endless and con- tinually changing variety this would lead to! some distinct and exact spot in any regular scheme of arrangement; and also by the remarks that b made in the course of doing so. Is not the provision of a cl of Egregii—very unlike to one another—a clever device to lessen the difficulty? Never- theless careful attempts to form a complete classification must be a most valuable, perhaps essential, step towards an accurate know- ledge of any difficult genus. ere are certain species (or forms) which stand out conspicuously from all the others, and are easy to name and re b But there are still more numerous inter- 0 out being identical. These are the ones that do not lend them- selves readily to classification. The difficulty is increased, more- over, by their being usually far less abundant, and consequently much less frequently seen. Thus the eye cannot get so familiarized with them in the fresh state. My own observation has led me to suspect that this thinness of distribution is the main cause why 50 many have been recorded for only a very few counties, rather than a want of wide distribution. I have found so many of those supposed to be rare in a very small space near me. It needs con- NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI T3r that those given for the rare species accord with suggestive fre- piri Ss think) with those of the commoner species which they mos mble. few words on what have appeared to me reliable or omen signs of specific difference among Rubi. No one who has rv much can have failed to notice st much the leaves ream not only in the same Rubus, but even in the same plant. This may be well seen in Rf. Ideus. Lux Raeatiie ime the leaves larger, nia especially wider, and the serration coarser. Leaves may be ovate or obovate in accordance with the vigour or want of vigour in a Rubus. Felt is a somewhat uncertain thing, its deve- lopment being apt to fail if the bush or a part of it grow in the shade. The colouring of the prickles where the sunshine can reach them appears to me to be remarkabl — os each Rubus, and well worthy of notice in determining the spec ecies in which the sepals ssiste nar this fails to happen when fertilization of the carpels does not take place (often, if not lways). The comparative prominence of the stamens and styles is an uncertain thing (as it seems to me), depending upon ae luxuriance of the plant; when this is high the stamens (and petals too) being longer. The hairiness or hairlessness of the petals is sometimes a eee distinction. aving made these general . sepmayecg on the Rubi, I now venture some on a few individual Rubi: R. Inzus L. The distinctive characters of wg var. 2 flr. besides its crowded aciculi, or prickles, seem to be smaller size, tortuosity of the stem, greater hairiness, no Geitoinsation to the leaves, which are much more rugose, and yellow sip The colour of the prickles may be either “tawny,” drab, or purple. Picante wild on Tunbridge Wells Boman seiieke is really Re us Lindl. and R. susrrectus Anderson seem to me very doubtfully distinct. Plants in which some of the supposed dis- tinctions of one are combined with those of the other are found. sunny place and when in a fii sha . Sudre points out that Hall’s description of his nessensis will apply equally well to either jissus or suberectus. The specimens of them in the «T ype Set of British Rubi”’ do not seem to ait the distinction clear If the specimens of R. suberectus and R. jissus in the national collections are examined, it will be seen what difficulty there has been, and what uncertainty after all, in deciding to which species Some of them belong. In the Handbook there is also a plain intimation that the same difficulty will occur. The same remarks will apply to the distinction between A. sulcatus, on the one hand, ig 132 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY and suberectus, plicatus, and the white form of R. nitidus, on the Now I have found in woods at Lingfield R. suberectus, and also a Rubus of similar tall, strage ng growth, &c., but with leaves, ose the leaves, stem, os: prickles of fissus and corylifolius will be seen on comparing ogers’s descriptions of them. If my plant is such a hybrid, aE ‘course it obscures the distinction between sub- erectus artic SSUS 5 = it is not, then those two can hardly be distinct. Testimony in favour of the former alternative is, I think, furnished by the fact that this plant in the same woods is very variable ; in some cases resembling suberectus much more than /issus ; in others, or os hamulosus; and is indistinguishable from specimens of R. us in the national paliéolions. But it is always tall, reek and large-leaved. M. Sudre has recently sent to the British Museum specimens of the same plant, which he calls sulcatiformis, and thinks is really suberectue X casius. Is fissus distinct from it ? R. suneatus Agen appears to me an ill-defined species. I have found it, I beliey n the border of a wood in the neighbourhood of fissus or Sihererth’ _ either of which it might well be a Le straggling form, such as is found of other Rubi when growing eep shade and on rich soil. One specimen, indistinguishable be me from one in the ‘ Type Set,” was referred by Mr. Rogers to R. plicatus Bertramii. The probable explanation seems to me " be that any of the three—/issus, suberectus, or plicatus—may assume the characters of sulcatus ree i somewhat exceptional, but ety circumstances. It may be found more or less like and indistin- guishable from any one of ork From that fact, and from speci- mens I have gathered, I infer that R. sulcatus has been artificially formed out of white Suberecti whose axes have been spun out an in ed enlarged by growth in damp shady situations among ot 8. The smaller, var. hemistemon (P. J. M.), has a less hairy ois there. The bracts, too, are smaller and undivided. It 1 Cc maller, grows more erect, less among other bushes, but more in open ground, unsupported, and in large grou It flowers pres forms may occasionally be found. But I will venture to say that these two varieties are more different and distinct than are many NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI 133 Rubi commonly held to be ‘sham nts Another form of plicatus, or resembling it, is not u about here. It is o lower growth, and has very enineiots doa, very strongly hooked and decurved jiriedatea and leaves Mr dou bly and acutely serrated. This form is not, however, very distinct from the last. I i it has i bebn: mistaken for R. aode: and may be R. ham losus L. R. Rocersn Linton. A specimen lent me by Mr. Rogers, hai in his ‘Set of British Rubi” at Kew (labelled opacus), and on two which I have gathered, are all precisely alike; but none halve the cordate leaves or crowded prickles mentioned i n his Hand- book. Mr. Rogers himself cannot always distitigaieh even living hemistemon from ee . Sudre considers it a subspecies of affinis. I have not a ery free acquaintance with it, and may be wrong in suspecting it eid be a hybrid betwee nitidus (Wh. & N.) and affinis (yartly from its very thin distribution where I have found it), or a mere variant of the former. It has aciculi upon the calyx like nitidus. What I have described as a ‘“‘ third form’”’ of plicatus appears to me to have been included by Mr. Rogers in his description of R. niriwus, and is probably R. hamulosus ‘of Lefvr. & Muell. This is a much commoner plant here than the true nitidus, and appears to me much more like plicatus than it is to the other form of nitidus or to opacus, I suspect strongly that I have ood. lansids pewoes it and he ectus, affinis, Balfourianus, and Sprengelii. Ther ume intermediates, perhaps hybrids, also between it pee plicatus healt which combine their characteristics in different ways. Not improbably, I think, plicatus Bertramii is one of these. Luxuriant Bon straggling specimens of it, moreover, have been name given to different Rubi. M. Costa considers R. integribasis, R. hamulosus, and R. holerythros to be all varieties of nitidus, I have occasionally met with another plant bearing _ the appearance of a cross between R. nitidus or hamulosus and one of the other Suberecti, especially afinis. Some of the asiiiions labelled R. opacus in the national collections and the “ Type Set” are just like these; others so labelled differ from those; and taken 184 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY as a whole there seems to me nothing definite Hoes them, except some general resemblance to R, nitidus. One label ed opacus in doubtfully, by M. Sudre. Mr. agate’ s description of opacus applies well to typical R. nitidus. Have not one or more hybrids mie Tathonee under its fold as well, while others related on one side t them have been assigned places as varieties of some other Pisa or even as distinct pees themselves ? There appears to me to reign even more confusion about R, nitidus than about the other Swberecti. Mr. Rogers describes it first as having ‘nearly straight or falcate siiolles.? But a few lines lower he says, “the typical plant, with its strongly hooked ae has bright pink oad though there is a white variety, whic . hamulosus. This last plant I believe to be common scat Punbrid ge Wells; but I Linis never seen the pink one. In one spot only om I found a plant exactly like the illustration of R. nitidus in the Rubi Germanici of Weihe & Nees, and as like a i rom Dr ke very distinct plant. In the National Herbaria, however, are speci- mens named opacus (Focke) differing from that; yet, I submit, pS ne IgE from others, ~oenad integribasis, Briggsianus, & var. of sae aad and plica o be intceinibiatin (hybrids, probably, I sugg est) sebweed 2 ides aia one or other of the other Suberecti, especially R. affinis. I have found isolated specimens of them our common where afinis and plicatus are abundant, and pores snetl ; oe is to be found; and I have been sufficiently puzzled by th R. inreeriasis P. J. Muell. is another of the inditne group of plants between afinis and Pte or the other Suberecti. But I gather that there are also other sources of error in siltiess with it. One is a plant I have oH Which suggests to me strongly 4 cross between plicatus (or hamulosus) and Balfourianus, Another is a weakly a { once found and thought to be R. integridasis, we opinion which was confirmed by finding te specimen like it § named in the Nation al mea rium. * is, however, different Bie any other specimens of me sige consideration y sesciaiasb are correct, it follows At R. integribasis figures in the national collections under the names of six other Suberecti also. This, I should gather from what I have found in NOTES ON HALORRHAGACE 185 the field, duly oe: the sp ep state of things, but that its relationship to nitidus and affinis is the most frequent. When its petals have a tint of lilac, as sicriibaatd by Mr. Rogers, it has been noticed by me to have also other a3; of a connection with Bail- fourianus—a very common Rubus here affinis is “abundant here, and 4 a very distinct species. R. holerythros Focke I have not been able to make out as a distinct species. The name seems to have been applied to luxuriant specimens of afinis, and to intermediates abi Ara oe occurring between afinis and s ham nis dumnoniensis and xX ca? lemehiin, ee I pat be giasoublly upon our comm Mr. Rogers says that R. rhombifolius Weihe, which pes a so Dr. Focke states, R. carpinifolius B roseus, cannot a s be dis- tinguished from R. holerythros. It seems to me that hers is good reason to think this is because they are both hybrids of affinis these hybrids are as much like one as the other, holerythros and Bids siege they are a hybrid, variable as hybrids always "Tt Pail thus be seen that the reputed rarity of a Rubus runs very much with its thinness of distribution and its indefiniteness of distinction. (To be continued.) NOTES ON HALORRHAGACE. By James Britten, F.L.S. Last rae Dr. A. K. Schindler - visited the National Her- barium and went through our Halorrhagacee, making interesting notes upon the sheets. He had not seen the Herbarium before which supplement the information therein given. The notes follow the order of the monograph. Hatoracrs scapra Benth. The type of the species—Goniocarpus scaber Koenig in Ann. Bot. i. 547 (1805) (Ludwigia octandra Banks erb. !) from Macao, D. Nelson, 1780—is referred by Dr. Schindler to ‘hig var. a elongata. H. Meztana Schindler. R. Brown, Iter Austral. no. 4554. H, ra Schindler. Walter's ae: on which this is based, was distribnted - Mueller as H. tetra H. ook. f. No. 44 16 of ‘Bien s collection (from Port Foekeabay ‘sonaiitd of a ee named by Schindler respec- tively H. tetragyna var. genuina, H. tetragyna var. bicallosa, and H. teucriotdes. No. 4115, from “ D pertorated granitic mountain, Bay I. 186 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY South — Jan. 1802,” is H. tetragyna var. foi Schindler, which is not localized in the monograph. A sheet of specimens aiiesrod ey Banks at Cape Grafton in 1770 contains H, teucrioides and H. ee var. genuina. H. acerecata Buchanan “var. a pirrusa (Hook. f.) Schindler.” There Sia seem to be some sa she about this name. e H. tetragyna var. diffusa of Hook. f. was based on the plant called by Banks and Solander Cercodia pr cna but this Dr. Schindler names (in herb.) H. aggregata var. incana, applying the name ie LoneiFrouia Schindler. To this Dr. Schindler refers Brown 4419 and 4420, from Port Jackson, which Bentham placed under H. agyna, H. satsorores Benth. Dr. Schindler does not cite under this Brown’s specimens (no. 4432) on which Bentham’s description was largely based. The citation of the name as “ H. salsoloides (Reichb.) Benth.’ seems unnecessary, as Reichenbach’s name in Sieber’s exsiccata and in Stendel’s Nomenciator was a mere nomen atin H. pirrusa Diels. Dr. Schindler refers to this the plant distri- buted by a C. P. Andrews (no. 288) as H. teucrioides. H Brongn. var. capreolicornis Schindler. _To this are to = referred Brown’s plants from Port Jackson and Port Dalyrmple (nos. 4480 and 4481). H. Levis hg este Brown's Grove River plant (no. 4427), placed under H. alata in the Flora Australiensis, is identified by Dr. Schindler with his H. levis. TEN abbr Benth. Dr. Schindler places here the plant named H. Gossei F, Muell. in Journ. Bot. 1897, 165 and Journ. Sinn: Soc. ier 190. H. srevitosa Schindler. The plant distributed by Mr. C. P Andrews (no. 289) as Meionectes Brownii is — here by Dr. Schindler ; it was collected bys r Perth, W. Australia. H. plex R. Br. MSS. (H. pusilla var. (2) subaphylla Lesiie Fl. Austral. ii. 481 On the sheet of Pecan Dr. to arte pi ‘* Haloragis simplex. Oalyx oe quadripartitus. Lacimle vix sent enna: erectee subulato-lanceolate plane acutiuseule glabree rion age wing et ccen a Petala epigyna gs saccata, navicular m laciniis calycinis alternantia usque plus triplo tenainnbaa” "labels rubicundis basi in unguem brevem NOTES ON HALORRHAGACES 187 angustum attenuata decidua. Stamina epigyna petalis longiora; filamenta 8 equalia capillaria tenuissima glabra pallida distincta ; anthere basi insertw, oblonge glabre staminee biloculares loculis Apponibie mew Aengieaasna les dehiscentibus. Ovarium inferum obtuse tetragonum glabrum ; styli quatuor filiformes erecti eequales stanninibit (etiam petalis) breviores longitudinaliter hispidi; stig- mata simplicissima acuta. Flores alterni, sessiles remotiusculi (iuternodiie plus duplo breviores) tribractea. Bractes erectse pera ranacese fusce, exterior ma ajor r fere longitudine floris, concav: oblonga acuta; laterales 0 ovarii Giver longitudine subulato-lan 68: late planiu seule. Cali simplex vel basi parum divisus erectus glaber sulcatus 3-5- pollicitis viridis subaphyllus. Squamis tan- tum bracteis exterioribus similibus aiceruts distantibus iSietiabters, Radix fibrosa.’’ (No. 4438. Brown gives as the locality ‘“‘ Bay I. South — Jan. 1802.” Mr. C. P, Andrews distributes (no. 287) under the name ‘“‘ Haloragis pusilla var. subaphylia”’ che looks like the sii plant from ‘swampy ae Albany,” but the material is insufficient for examinatio osa Lab. var. angustifolia Schindler. Dr. Schindler refers no, 4451 of Brown’s collection to this variety H. panrcunata Br. and H. tanceotata Br. were not seen by Dr. Schindler when preparing his monograph and their position therefore doubtfu oe he notes that the former (no. 58) should follow H, foliosa (no. 8 dracelacat A ‘Vorsoen Schindler (M. pedunculatum Hook. f.) in part. To this Dr. Schindler refers the plant distributed by Kirk (no. 551) from the Bluff, South Island; it is only recorded from North Island in the monograph. Brown’s plant (no. 4441) from King’s Island, Tasmania, named by Bentham M. pedunculatum, is referred by Dr. Schindler to his var. angustatum = M. amphibium, which he records only from Curdie’s River, Victo M. propinqguum A. Cunn. var. a genuinwm. Dr. & hindier refers here Brown's Port Jackson ris (no. 4448) included by Bentham under M. verrucosum. No. 4442 is M, verrucosum., ELATINOIDEs Gaud. ce plant distributed as “* Ceratophyllum um L.” in the very badly — ae Bang’s “ Plante Bolivian ’’ (no, 800) should be placed he Gunnera Lopata Hook. f. Dr. Sehindlet places Dysemone lobata Banks & Sol. as a synon ir Joseph Hooker’s description was based upon this and on specimens collected by himself on Hermite slan Dr. Schindler named the Banksian specimens in the Herbarium G. magellanica, of which they are clearly small examples. A comparison of these with Parkinson’s drawing made during the voyage and cited by Hooker (1. ¢.) under lobata shows that the two do not correspond; and a ees among the duplicates resulted in the daminniy of two small specimens which are identical with the Hermite Island plant, to which Solander’s description also applies. Dr. Schindler did not see Parkinson’s drawings, in which both Species are represented ; rae quotes that of G. magelianica | D. inte- 138 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY pee Banks & Sol.) ‘‘ex A. DC.”; both however are cited by Hooker. The very small size of the specimens of G. magel- lanica mislabelled D., ‘sate no doubt explains the confusion which occurred. D. lobata Banks & Sol. thus represents two species, Gunnera Losata Hook. f. Dysemone lobata Banks & Sol. Icon.! MSS.! et Herb. (pro parte)! et ex Hook. f., 1. c. (pro parte). G. macetianica Lam Dysemone lobata Banks & Sol. in Herb. Mus. Brit. a maxima parte)! non Icon. et MSS.; et in Herb. Vindob NOTES ON THE FLORA OF FLINTSHIRE. By A. A. Dauuman, F.C.S. Havine devoted some ae time to the elucidation of the Flora of Plintshiro (v.-c. 51), I have deemed it advisable to place it results of such work on record. Comparatively little attention productions we are chietly indebted to J. E. Bowman, of Wrexham, who contributed a number of Flint records to ‘the ‘New biog Guide and Topographical Botany, and the late Robert Bro e latter compiled a useful list of ‘‘ Flintshire Plants not recorded i in is i some acceptable information, and al veral plants hitherto hap ipi for the county, and these are fnaabited in the follow- The iia tchire records in Topographical tsi are largely based on a “ catalogue” of ‘‘ plants seen in the county of Flint, # which was supplied to Mr, H. C. Watson by J. F, Lovins All “ records” traceable to this source will be ignored by me, just as his is to be regretted that the second Lesa of Topo neat g Botany is rather misleading. A number of F i ond plants appe earing therein, and to which no authority is appended, are merely “ te- cords ”’ of this same person, which have been extracted, minus the _[* For further information as to Robinson, see Journ. Bot. 1904, 300.—Ep. Journ. Bot.) , NOTES ON THE FLORA OF FLINTSHIRE 189 : parm ge from ed. i. of that ne To quote Watson’s own ords: “ Better is it—over and over again I would repeat,—far better i is it to overlook and ignore a banded alleged facts, if only five or ten of them are likely. to be bad, to be false and misleading, although the other ninety may perchance be sound and valuable. If the vitiating grains cannot be winnowed out, must remain for a time undistinguishable, let the whole be rejected. The author of a local flora, the reporting secretary of a provincial society, the editor of a fact-recording journal who allows his work to be adulterated by the errors of incompetent pontelbabors) is so far giving the stamp of his own authority to what is worse than valueless.” In addition to the main part of the county, which I may term Flintshire proper, there are two detached portions, the larger being geographically in Shropshire, and the smaller situate in Denbigh- shire. so hough politically both are regarded as scmuntivic ings part of the county = oa I confine myself in the Flora to the natural division, or Flin er, t.¢. v.-c. 61. It had been my intention 0 give some se i notes, together with a short physico-botanical account of the ¢ county, but I defer this to some future occasion. Some little investigation on the Fungi and Alge is also omitted. ot being resident in the county my work is necessarily con- siderably handicapped, a nd of an intermittent nature. I would take this opportunity of snivitiaip assistance and information towards a complete Flora of Flintshire, which I hope to prepare in due valuable assistance, and -especially in connection with Crypto gamia; to the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers for the determination of several Rubi; and to Lord Mostyn and his agent Mr. Pickering for facilities for livactigating Llyn Helyg. My thanks are also due to Mr. J. C , Curator of mde ‘Lord Derby Museum, Liver- pool, who kindly extracted several records for me from the her- mentioned sp esties and new county records are indicated b asterisk ; those recorded in Top. Bot. but without the citation of any authority have a + prefixed. ‘There is no list of hepatics, mosses, or lichens for the county, - a have not prefixed an asterisk to their names. ‘The initials W. & coe groongend and Dallman) indicate that the record rests on the joint authority ; where no authority follows, I alone am responsible for such record. Clematis Vitalba L. About the ruins of Greenfield or Maes Glas Abbey, and the old mill at the back, August, 1906.—Thalictrum collinum Wallr. pier rocks near Rhydymwyn, at about 6 —* Anemone nemorosa L.—Ranunenlus Lenormandi F. Schultz. Near Rhydtalog ; ef the stream below Ysceifiog, W. d D.; near Rhesyeae. —R. ert us L. Marsh below Rhuddlan Castle. — *R. Ficaria L. — R. D stroll Godr. Mill-race, Wern Mill, near Nan- nerch ; stream below Ysceifiog, W. d D.—+Caltha palustris L. 140 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY + Papaver Rheas L. and +P. dubiwm L. — *Chelidonium majus L. Frequent curougnots most of the county, but generally in the vicinity of houses. * Neckeria Weak Scop. ‘ Naturalized on a wall about two miles North West of Mold beyond Rhual, July, 1885, Robert Brown,” Herb. Brown; near Rhydymwyn, an escape.—tN. claviculata N, EH. Br. Caergwrle, an old station * Berberis vulgaris L. Seve ral ape near the summit of the arses Hill, Mold ; doubtless planted her heiranthus Cheiri L. In quantity on 1 the ruins of way rere Castle. — + Nastur dan pagers R. Br. —N. palustre DC, Str belo ow Ysceifiog, W. dé D.— *Arabis hirsuta Scop. Rhydym ae — *Cardamine hirsuta L. Rhydymwyn. —tC. pratensis L. ily Hi vulgaris DC. Rhyl; Rhydymwyn.— *Cochlearia Armoracia L.— Sisymbrium Sophia L. Rhyl. — tS. officinale Scop. — tS. Alliaria Scop.—t Bursa Bursa-pastoris Weber. Reseda lutea Lb. About the Denbigh Cement Works near Caerwys, amid doubtful surroundings,— R. Luteola L. North of Bagillt; nears Coed Talon Heli anthem martfolium Mill, ‘ Roel below the ruins of Diserth ae July, 1885, R. B.,” Herd. ola mala Li, Marshy pound about three miles south- west of Hauareh: —tV. Riviniana Reich.—* V, silvestris Reich. ‘* Woods by the banks of the River Alyn, about 1 rie West of Rhydymwyn, 17th May, 1877,” Herb. Brown. — V. hirta L. ‘* Limestone banks in the i Valley between Rhydymwyn ad the Loggerheads, 25th May, 1881, R. B.,” Herb. Brown.—V. tricolor L. ‘ Weed in culti- vated field near Brithdir Mawr, eh alone of Moel Fammau, 17th May, 1877, Robert Brown,” Herb. B {Polygala vulgaris * Saponaria officinalis L. About thirty plants close to the road, a short Aber south of Caerwys; about the old mill behind Green- field Abbey. — +Silene Cucubalus Wibel. Roadside near Ewloe; Cilcain, — 8. nutans L. ‘ Waste ground by the Lead Mines, West base of Talargoch Hill, about two miles south of Prestatyn, July, 1885, R. B.,’’ Herb. Brom. — tLychnis dioica L. — *L. Flos- cucult L. Marshy ground near Pant- -gwyn- -bach between aa and Plas Captain; Llyn Helyg.— *L. Githago Scop. Corntfie ld near Bryn n Ffynnon, south-west of Nannerch, August, 1906.—”* saben glomeratum Thuill.—+{C. triviale Link.— * Stellaria Holostea L.—tS: graminea Li. — Arenaria verna L. Abundant in ire vicinity of lead ines and old workings. —*A. trinervia L. — *A. serpyllifolia Lis var. £ leptoclados Guss. ‘* Old wall between “Giyaunyageor an Bryn, towards Prestatyn, July, 1885, R. B.,"’ Herd. Brown; Nan- n ? 8 *Montia fontana L. Hope Hill, 1904 ; Caergwrle ; damp ground above Rhesyeae. + Hypericum perforatum L. Walwen.—tH. dubium Leers. “ West slope of Coed-yr- Esgob, about 14 iia south of Prestatyn, 24th August, 1885, R. B.,” Herd. Brown; a common plant in many parts of the county, especially on limestone. — *H. humifusum L. NOTES ON THE FLORA OF FLINTSHIRE 141 Maes Mynan; near Nannerch. — *H. Androsemum L. ‘* Wooded steep banks of are ra 1} miles inland of Flint, 80th August, 1894, R. B.,” Herb. Brown. — H. hirsutum L. “ Slope of Coed-yr- Esgob, about two ‘nls. south of iaetone July, 1885, R. B.,’ Herb, Brown. —H. m um Li. ‘Slope of Coed-yr-Esgob, about two miles south of Prestatyn July, 1885, ‘R. B.,”’ Herb. Brown. Malva moschatal. Near Nannerch; ‘Cileain ; Mostyn ; Rhudd- lan ; Caergwrle—+M. — L. *Tilia vulgaris Hayn *Radiola linoides Roth. Damp gravelly ground near the boat- house at the east end of Llyn Helyg, here, as in Carnarvonshire and elsewhere, growing in company with Centunculus, altitude 600 a August, 1906, W. é D. — *Linum usitatissimum A weed in cornfield south- west of Nannerch, September, 1906. — iL. ‘athe. n Li. | Clouds sanguineum L. ‘Abundant on the West slope of Coed- gf amnanss about 14 miles south of Prestatyn, July, 1885,” Herb. Brown ; on limestone ionic in the Leet, between Rhydymwyn aes the Loggerlends, an old s n.— +G. pratense L. Near Cil- n.—tG. pusillum LL. “ Neat th iekighons point of Talargock Hill, at 8 miles south of Prestatyn, July, 1885,” Herb, B dissectum 1. Among slag in the hollow above the briakworkioa above Coed Talon, 1905; roadside near Wern Mill, near Nannerch,—t G. lucidum L. —+G. Robertianum L. — +G@. m walle L. — +Frodium cicu- tarium L’ Hérit.—E. maritimum L’Hérit. “ Sandy hedge cop i narrow lane leading from Ty-Newydd farm to the sea shore, a = distance east e Rhyl, July, 71885, Robert Brown,” Herb. Brown.— *Oaalis Acetosella L. tIlea Agaiifoliue L. Ishould consider this wild in some parts of the county, especially the en ae portion. *Acer Pseudo-platanus L.—*A. campestre L. In quantity in Wared Wood about one and half miles death east of Northop; Caergwrle ; several trees i in hedge near Plas nerch, 1906; near toe Bedw, south-west of Nannerch.—*Medi- cago sativa i, By the railway, west of Glan- yr-Afon, 1906. — tM, lupulina L,.—*Anthyllis ‘Velaumita L. Lixwm, August, 1906; near Rhyl,— *Trifolium procumbens L.—T’. fragiferum L. Below Rhudd- lan Castle.—*Ononis repens L. Near Rhyl.—0. spinosa L. Adjoin- ing the road just beyond the Cheshire boundary, towards Queen’s Ferry, August, 1906. — *Lathyrus cneoncage no nh. Side of lane one mile north- -west of Nannerch, August, — tVicia sylvatica ‘* West slope of Coed-yr-Esgob, about 4: ees south of Presta- tyn, July, 1885 Robert Brown,” Herb. *Prunus insititia Huds. Side of a ie on of Moel Plas Yw, 906. *Rubus Ideus L. Near dp tg 1905 ; mountain okeeh about , One and a half miles north of Moel Arthur; near Nannerch; Rhy- dymwyn ; Nant-y-Flint, —- *R. BAGNALL, ALLS. niien: WEST, NEWMAN é Con 64, Hatton Gard JOURNAL OF BOT BRITISH AND FOREIGN EDITED BY JAMES BRITTEN, K.S8.G., F.L.S. CONTENTS _ PAGE Bi ane ke inte 4 169, of Potamogeton new toBritain, sag op img nto np ogee of the Orders, Genera, and peers By A. & CL ond te Pe ae ee ee Note on Coffea Engleri, &c. By K. 197 Pile eee ee 7 | Suppremmyr.— A Yor , of Glamor: Snort Nores.—Glyceria Foucaudii { ire. By H. J. Rrpperspet, Hackel in Hampshire—British © M.A. (eoatinue. LONDON _ WEST, NEWMAN & CO., 54, HATTON GARDEN, DULAU & CO., bn BOS SQUARE Price One. 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The charges for special separate copies are as under :— ue i ta 4s.| 4 pages 25 copies 5s.| 8 pages 25 copies 8s. 0d. 0 eT es ee oe ak hae iis 100 ” 7s. + 100 ” 8s. bhi 100 bg 10s. 6d. - _ number of pages to be charged in equal proportion. Separate — a Wrappers, d&c., extra. ie MPR NMA forts Se - ee a aor Lee eee oe Tab.485. Journ.Bot. West, Newman imp. Three Interesting Ascomycetes. del. nley lith w.B P. Hig 169 THREE INTERESTING ASCOMYCETES. By W. B. Grove, M.A. (Puate 485.) 1. DasyscypHa canescens Mass. F. F. iv. 346. (Fig. 1.) Lachnella canescens Phill. Disc. 259. Peziza canescens Cooke ex Phill. 1. c. Some specimens of this Discomycete, which I found in March on dead wood at Studley, presented a very peculiar appearance under a lens, on account ie their hoary aspect. With a low power of the microscope this was seen to be due 4 numerous brown hairs, many of which ee at their tips an amorphous shining- white mass, which recalled the crystals of Stalaes of lime borne on the hairs of D. ciliaris, with the exception that the lumps were very irregular in shape and size. Under a higher power these masses were found to consist, not of crystals, but of a number of fusiform conidia, and many similar hyphe were seen on the surface of the surrounding wood, bearing the same masses a conidia, and presenting the appearance of a species of It this be a correct determination, the specimens are depauperate ones, their leaves, for instance, being only half or one- third ‘as large as those of the type. But the specimens are not good ones, and I think it safer to name them as above 2. Note on a smatu CoLLEcTION From SoMALILAND. Mr. G. W. Bury, whose collection is the subject of this note, + Res at Berbera and the Wagga Mountain. Among the mopetale is one spa believed to be new, and there are a few ues worthy of reco Rusracez. Pavetta Phillipsig 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1899, 869. Berbera. PLANTAGINEZ. Ceratostigma speciosum Prain in Journ. Bot. 1906, 8. Berbera. SoLaNnacEs. Solanum carense Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. pt. i. 105. Wagga Mountain. (This species was also collated tbs diced Delamere at Dadaro and Lé, alt. 8700 ft.) ACANTHACES. Ruellia discifolia Oliv. in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 1511. Berbera Barleria Hildebrandtii §. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1877, 69. Berbera. Justicia diclipteroides Lindau in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx Wagga Mountain. VERBENACER Lantana concinna Bak. in Kew Bull, 1895, 223. Berbera. Lasiat Orthosiphon gofensis §. ‘Moers in Sac: Bot. 1901, 263. Wagga Mountain. Bs . TWO NEW JAPANESE POTAMOGETONS 238 Orthosiphon (§ Vircam1) Buryi, sp.nov. Ramis foliisque pube densa griseo-brunnea obductis foliis manifeste petiolatis parvis —-o obtusis apice induratis basi rotundatis leviter cordatis mar crenato-serratis, spicastris racemiformibus folia — enscdioetitte piloso- pubeseentibus, verticillastris circa 5-flori bracteis parvulis oblongo-ovatis breviter acuminatis extus pilo a pubescentibus coloratis diu persistentibus, pedicellis nEbbas calyci subs#quilongis cito decurvis piloso- pubescentibus, calycis rvi anguste campanularis piloso-puberuli intus calvi lobo postico ovato-rotundato acuto colorato lobis residuis lineari-lanceolatis late- llulum brevioribus lle leviter amplificato labiis latis tubum plus quam semiequantibus postico 4-lobo lobis breviter rotundatis, staminibus subinclusis, stigmate amine clavellato. Hab erbera, Somaliland; G. W. Bury. ere at Kew, Soenatteut wilt exact locality ; Major Appleton adix sat validus, circa 10°0 cm. cg og sparsimn fibrilliferus. Foliorum limbus + 1:0 x 0.8 cm., firme membranaceus; hujus coste fac. inf. prominentes; petioli 0°2-0°5 s wong Spicastrum nondum profecto evolutum 6°0 em.long. Bractesw + 0:2 cm 2988. long., basi vix 0:2 cm. superne 0-3 cm. lat. ; jolene posticus 0: 2x tubus 0-8 em. long., basi 0°15 cm. superne 0:25 ¢ om. lat. ; labium anticum 05 x 0:4 cm., posticum 0°5 x 0°5 em., hujus lobi circa 0:15 x 0-15 em. Anthere reniformes, 0. 08 cm. at. Near O, mollis Bak., from which it differs in the comparatively long and slender pedicels, the calyx with longer teeth, the longer coro e two Eppoltae geen are both of them scraps, and without iesitinin calyces eucas paucijuga Bak. Berbera. (To be continued.) TWO NEW JAPANESE POTAMOGETONS. By Arraur Bennett. remote. §o I here give his name to a fine species from Japan that has remained without a name because of the want of material, for the reason that as time goes on greater caution is needed in multiplying species. I am now enabled to frame a description, Rendle having sent me an example to name pion ippon, and the Abbé Faurie a good specimen from Corea. It gathered as long ago as 1863 by Maximovicz (Herb. Baagoe!), avy has passed Journat or Borany.—Vot, 45. [June, 1907.] s 234 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY under the name of P. natans L., as so many specimens of its nearest pre P. amplifolius Tuck. have in America. . It has the maison development of the stipules noticeable with the Americ nm plant; but the lower leaves are much less developed than in that species, although the plants are alike in facies. Potamogeton Fryeri, sp.n. Stems simple (?), 0°5-1 m. long, stout. Lower leaves mostly lance-linear, variable, often folded and arcuate (as in amplifolius), 7-veined, the central one compound with elongate-areolation, with numerous cross-veins, the outer ones often branche Upper leaves (floating) long petioled, 1-14 dm. long, oblanceolate to elliptical, the blade decurrent on the petiole, with- out a joint, acute or subacute, 21-34-veined, connected by very numerous branched sub-veins, the whole surface of "ths leaf ith irregular netted areolation. Stipules 5 cm.-1 a ong, subacute, very strongly striated with numerous sa veins with cancellate areolation between; even when ‘the stipules are nearly decayed the thick frayed fibres are persistent. Peduncles 1-1-5 dm. ong, swelling upwards, but contracted at the base of the spike. Spikes 2 cm. long, race hea sepals (perianth- tena orbicular. Fruit (not quite mature) 5 mm. long by 2°5 mm. broad, without teeth o met Se : winded face straight, with a soba style (1°5 cm. long) lightly curved to the dorsal face; dorsal face sera: central keel (carina) prominently and s dharply winged, the two outer keels slightly bese ged. Embryo semi-annular slightly ecnintrioted: in the middle, very large, ets ao up the fruit with the exception of the style- base and fruit Habitat. —— Kinch, Nagasaki, May and June, 1868, nese in herb. Baagoe!; Shirkawa, July, 1877, Faurie, no. 28; Nippon in valde Haan, June, 1905, Faurie, no. 7184. ins in aquis Ouen-san, July, 1906, Faurie no. ads Plant in appearance between P. natans L.. and P rae ir Tuck., differing from P. amplifolius and ?. pulcher Tuck. by the winged fruit, wubusiés ventral face, the embryo only semi- aoalar: and the much smaller lower leaves ; and from all other species by the winged fruit and semi-annular embryo. en the wings are so develo oped it is a usual condition in the genus that they are crested or waved, but this is o here. The stipules are re- fibrous parts; and the floating leaves for their structure, the ion areolation is very close and compact, making the leaf very str “The fruits are (so far as I know) very remarkable for the ex- panded wing of their dorsal face; this must develop very rapidly towards the maturing of the fruit, as in the earlier stages I can find no distinct appearance of it. Potamogeton Franchetii, sp.n. Some time before his death Herr Baagoe, of Nevsted, Denmark, sent me a drawing and speci- men of a Potamogeton which M. Franchet had named “ P. natans L.” I at once recognized it as one sent me by M. Faurie, ce beter there is @ poor specimen in the Kew Herbarium. We d it should bear M. Franchet’s name, and that Herr Baagoe ikoele Daath it; NOTE ON LYONSIA - 235 but he died before he could carry out his sectesiladins and I am informed that no — ion can be found among his MSS., so it remains for me to do In facies P. Fr anchetti is like large poe of polygontfolius, and also like some flaccid forms of P. natans; but the fruit an structure, &¢., of the leaves are quite diferent, It may occur in —— under the name of natans or polygonifolius s 9-12 in. high, with racer stout ‘stems. Leaves lasidiiolain to lanceolate. ovate, 13-24 in. long x 3-1 in. broad on petioles 23- -43 in. long, semi- -coriaceous, without “the joint at the ase as in natans te Stipules acute, 1- —1} in. long, semi-persistent. Spikes 14 in., on peduncles 23-8 in. long, slightly diminishing up- wards. Fruit large (three times as large as in polygonifolius), Lt lin. long x 14 lin. broad. Ventral face slightly, rounded, dorsa lunate, shouldered so that the apex is nearly level with the style, with a sinus between. Central carina slightly produced, with a semi-acute wing, laterals nearly obsolete, base of the fruit with two non-prominent bosses. Fruit oblique-obovate, semi-compresse Habitat. Japan: Yososka, in orizetis inundatus (Nippon), = 1844, 1866- 1871, A. ae no oath Savatier, Plant. japon Hirmnushria, Mus-aski, T. Makino, Herb. Ziich (Dr. Schréter) ; ‘ Dickson 2881). Tinlocalized), i in Herb. Kew, NOTE ON LYONSIA. By James Brirren, F.L.S. A comparison of the specimens of Lyonsia a ne National Herbarium with Robert Brown’s types and MSS. has led to the discovery that L. straminea of his Prodromus has Son misunder- stood by all yooant writers, the name having been misapplied by them to a plant distinguished by F. von Mueller as L. reticulata. When establishing the genus (in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 66) Brown named no species, but in his Prodromus (p. 466) he ibe the name L. straminea, without eepenn but with an indication of the localities where he had seen it growing. Alphonse De Candolle — vili. 401), Siostne agua s species, gave a description of = pian drawn up from specimens communicated by Allan Cun- Sean In 1860 prio sien of Expedition to R. Burdekin, 16) dis- tinguished a ralian species, L. reticulata, which he described as adi he bes of the corolla clothed inside entirely with retroversed hair,” thus differing from his notion of L, ede of which he says ‘‘ flowers bearded only distinctly at the fa character re sag shows clearly in his figure tara Secale wldcrirstied Br. (Ic. Pl. Vict. t. 58 (1864-5) ). Penthiam (Fl. Austral. 821 (1869) ) ea Btasler s names for the two ae adding L. reticulata the n cod “ This oo was confoun I. straminea by R. Des and others, but well Masiervistied by F. Mueller. A. De Candolle’s deatiiption of L. straminea in s 2 236 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY the Prodromus is taken from A. Cunningham’s specimens of L. reticulata.” It is however evident from the material in the National Her- barium that Mueller eae incorrect in his interpretation of Brown’s L. straminea ; this of course is not remarkable, seeing that, as has already been stated, Brown published no detailed description of the species; but.it is strange that Bentham, who consulted Brown’s specimens—an might have consulted his MSS., though I do not think he did so—should have adopted Mueller’s determination, — lly as he alist had observed that De Candolle’s de- scription referred, at any rate in part, to Mueller’s L. reticulata. t is the specimens from Hunter’s and Williams Rivers, which Bentham places under reticulata, that Brown himself has labelled ** Lyonsia straminea Prodr. 466"—and it is these which he de seribes in his . under that name. Moreover the very beauti- a pom ving. Pe ronunety Bauer, aha (doubtless on Brown’s rity) L. straminea, is of the e plant, the characteristic oi sine of the lobes of ‘the aati ane admirably shown. An authentic specimen of an Cunningham’s:L. straminea also (as rightly understood by De Candolle) belongs here; and, if further sv ge pipe be needed, it is furnished by the exact correspondence of all with specimens of Mueller’s L. reticulata named by himself, collected by Beckler at Hastings River on the sched to the estuary of the Burdekin. On the other hand, Brown’s specimens from Port Dalrymple, which Bentham accepts as his L. straminea, were never so named by Brown himself. The plant is separately described though not named in his MSS., and his label has ‘‘Lyonsia cfr. stramineam.”’ plant to which it originally belonged, while that ales Te) considered by Mueller and Bentham must receive a new 0 propose to call it L. Brownii, Brown having first recognized ‘the two species. The two plants will stand as follows: Lyonsta srraminea R. Br. Prodr. 466 (1810), MSS.! et herb. !; A. DC. Prodr, viii. 401 (1844); Ferd. Bauer, Ic. Austral. 100! L. reticulata F, Muell. Pl. Exp. Burdekin, 16 (1860)! Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 521 (1869) : ; pier Queensl. Fl. 989 (1900). “ Ad littora Newcastle Inlet and ad ripas fluv. th Pater- sons et Williams Rivers, Nov. rie ”; BR. Br. MSS. et Herb. mi Ser (pro maxima parte); « Keppel Bay,” R. Ses Herb. L., Brown (nom. nov.). L. straminea F. Muell. Pl. Exp. Burdekin, 16 (1860), Ic. Pl. Bho . = Ate -5); : Bintheas, Fl, Austral. iv. 821 (1869); " Liyeke ae stramineam. In Upper Island, Port Dalrymple, Jan. 1804.” RB. Br. MSS. et Herb. no. 2866 (pro parte) ! 237 A NEW BRITISH MOSS (FISSIDENS ALGARVICUS Soums). By H. N. Drxon, M.A., F.L.S. In 1868 Graf zu Solms-Laubach described a new species of Fiske gathered by himself two years earlier near Silves, a town of Algarvia, in the south of Portugal, under the name of F. algar- vicus. Its specific rank is maintained by Schimper in the second edition of his ASeiatpil and by — recent writers, but some subse- quent authors have referred it as a variety severally to . pusillus ena (Boulay) and F. incurvus “piatke e (Husnot). Mitten (Journ. in n States that it is the same as F. intralimbatus Ruthe, but gives n reasons for that assertion. (He refers to it as ‘ F. sds bebik Ruthe, Hedwigia, 1870, re-described by Schimper as /. ai rvicus C. de Solms; but there are no specimens so named in his her- m,”’ apparently overlooking the fact that FP. algarvicus was originally described by Solms-Laubach himself two years prior to Ruthe’s s publication of F’. introlimbatus.) F. Sardagnai Vent. (Rev. Bry. 1883, 93) is also compared by its on with F. algarvicus, which, however, he considers clearly distinct. some aera (Laubmoose ... iii. 671) says of F'. Orrii (Lindb.) Braithw. (re- ferred already by Mitten to nor ff. tequendamensis), ‘‘ Vielleicht identisch mit F. algarvicus Solm One need have a pretty sate in Gordian knots to attack such a problem apceiasoal sly, my part its solution might well have been left to our Scaan confréres in bryology, but for the recent ie of F. algarvicus in Britain. Early this spring Mr. ery sent mea fa pet pe mosses gathered by himself and his Taathies near Exeter, and among them was a small Fissidens . Ww — , leg. Corbiére, issued in the Musci Gallie, No. 812; and I as Subeequen tly able to compare it with an authentic specimen in the British Museum Herbarium from eager nr himself— eep red clayey soil. The question then arose as to the true position and pelationshive of F. algarvicus, as to wh confine myself to a brief statement of the conclusions I have arrived ch saat attempting to justify them with any degree of completen P. ali rvicus as : am convinced, a good toa quite distinct from either F, viridulus ke incurvus, OF F. pusiiius. The mos the leaves in the upper ar but the actual sae is always more or less abruptly pointed, or even subobtuse and apiculate; in F algarvicus it tapers gradually to an acute acumen, giving a very 238 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY characteristic appearance ag the plants, especially the sterile shoots. e leaves are extremely narrow. Another feature is the — border, unusually stoi seca for the small size of the plant; no only is it of several cells in width, but it is actually thickened a times, as in the section Pachylomidium. is, however, onl occurs in the best developed lence, and does not perhaps altogether justify its inclusion in that section. It is this stout border which prevents the leaves from agri. up when dry as do most of the smaller species; they are indeed in the dry state often very little ird c Schimper, indeed, pe escribes it, ‘‘reti tenui ut in F, bryoide,” a somewhat inaacurate 2a which oe I believe, led to a good deal of the contend synonymy above referred to. In both Musci as in the Detoushire specimens—conspic¢ ously laxer and more irregular than in F’ bryoides and th ole species to which F. darian has at times been referred. Venturi’s description of the in F. pusillo et ineurvo.’ In the vaginant lamina especially the 4 leaf-base. The capsule is minute, erect, and symmetrical. For other details I must refer readers to the published descriptions. e characters ir ws I think, serve both to indicate the marks by which the plant may be distin nguished, and at the same time to establish its title to specific rank, A word or two must now as to its Foe aie to the species referred to at the commencement of this article. description o algarvicus given Py sees er with a similarity in the names of the localities where two plants were ound, induced Mitten’s supposition. Both were indeed found during the same year in Algarvia by Graf zu Asie labesh but hile “F. algarvicus was gathered near Silves, I’, intralimbatus was found near Tavira, at least one hundred and twenty-five miles its subordination as a variety to of the three species—F’. pust +» F. incurvus Starke, and F, vente Wahl.—to which it has been at times referred. The form of the leaf apex, together with the strongly oo and even thickatiod border, and the areola- in my opinion further — Lael of these than they in their turn ee Separated from one an The resemblance of F’. algarvicus to oa Orrii Braithw. gpa phylium “Orrii Lindb. Rey. Bry. 1880, p. 97) at once struck me A NEW BRITISH MOSS 289 although at the time I knew the latter only from descriptions and rom Braithwaite’s — e. This r ee BF, i sa d had also ngland, would, indeed, favour Limpricht’s suggestion. I am doubtful, however, if this identity can be maintained. I have examined the specimen of F’. Orrii in the British Museum (Glas- evin, D. Orr, 1854, herb. S. O. Lindber erg), and while the close ny between this and F, algarvicus is Tl there are ene of difference which can scarcely be neglected. "The nerve n F’, Orrii is much stouter than in F. algarvicus, and runs out into 8 a nerve usually becomes more or less evanescent at apex, and the cuspidate point is formed almost entirely by the confluent borders he | In ¢ of the leaf, consequence of the.stoutness of the nerve, the leaves are still ta rigid, and when dry less altered than in algarvicus. The capsule also in F. Orrii is inclined and curved. in FF, Orrit qu to that of F, algarvicus, especially in the unusually lax and elon- gated igre . the vaginant lamina. _ * idenitisal with F, algarvicus. Ath oogh Ihave not seen specimens of j turi. e difference in size is not, however, of any importance, for, apart from the fact that a similar x age of size is found in other ; lgarv hay smooth or almost so: but it is sect a difficult to iret the value of this distinotion without having compared specimens. The 240 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY algarvicus also. Finally, he refers to the difference in casino but this distinction is die n Schimper’s comparison of the cells of F. algarvicus with — of. F’, bryoides, which, as I have stated, is incorrect, ae s, therefore, nothing to separate them the sculpturing o f the 's spores described by Venturi, and without wishing to detract from the value of this ioacen I do not think, t the best, it is a sufficient one on which to base a specific difference The synonymy would therefore stand thus :— Fisstpens atearvicus Solms, Tentam. Bryol. geograph. Algarvie, . 41 (1868). F, Sardagnai Vent: Rev. Bry. 1883, F’, incurvus var. algarvicus Hus n. Fi. “as *N. O. p. 54 (1882). F, pusilius var. algarvicus B Boul. abhi France, p. 529 (1884). I desire to express my oe for assistance to Mr. A. Gepp, Miss A. L. Smith, and Dr. G.R CEPHALANTHERA LONGIFOLIA Fritscn. Assumine that the generic names Cephalanthera and Epipactis are to be retained (see p. 105), another name must replace that of C. longifolia Fritsch, which is chosen in the List of British Seed-plants for C. ensifolia. In the Abridgement of the Gardeners Dictionary (1771) Miller describes, under the ill-chosen name of Serapias latifolium ‘* spear-shaped leaves,” and ‘the loose spike of white flowers, localizes it « Hertfordshire,” from which county it was first reported by Hales in Gibson’s Camden of 1695 (teste Flora Herts). Therefore I contend Cephalanthera latifolia (Miller) must replace C. longifolia Fritsch. I have not been able to consult the eighth edition of Miller's Gardeners Dictionary of 1768, where probably the name will also be found, but the Abridgement precedes by a year Scopoli’s Flora Carniolica, where he names Ser apias longifolia. G. CraripcEe Druce. ight more useless synonym, Pat oaiay, "tnd , Mr. Druce’s well- This bein ae cessary to prevent, as far as ae its further cout, by decpenck aieaa ite ‘accion CEPHALANTHERA LONGIFOLIA 941 S. latifolium first appears in Miller’s Gardeners Dictionary ed. 8, with the diagnosis “ bulbis fibrosis, nectari labio quinquefido clauso, foliis lanceolatis nervosis corpse de followed by the syno- nym ‘* Helleborine latifolia, flore albo clauso. Raii Syn. [ed.] 2, 242,” and the locality ‘‘ discovered first in Hertfordshire.”’* In his ‘Buglish description Miller, as Mn. Druce points out, refers to the “ spear-shaped veined leaves ” and the “ loose spike of white flowers”; this, with the absence a any reference to ensifolia, probably led him to the conclusion that that plant was intended. Against these, however, must be set the ‘ flore albo clauso”’ of Ray and the ‘* shut” flower of Miller, and the latter’s remark—*‘ There ‘‘H. foliis prelongis angustis acutis phrase, unmistakeably characterizing a plant which under no cir- cumstances could accurately be called latifolia, further difficulty is suggested by the locality, for C. ensifolia is not — to be a Hertfordshire plant. It was first recorded as eb in R. Syn. ed. 2, 242 : ‘‘eandem nuper accepi a D. Kales in artfordia invent ; this is quoted in the Flora Hertfordiensis one by the way, the Diggeswell plant is rightly referred to C. grandiflora), and a ce es ality, ‘‘Handpost farm, Hemel Hempstead,” is given on the authority of a Mr. Hamilton, but is stated to require SeperaiOn, which it never received. The entry ‘ Herts” in Top. Bot. is, as Watson’s MSS. show, based only on Fl. Hertf. In the Flora of Hertfordshire these two ones: are combined in an extraordinary manner,—thus: ‘‘ Handpost Farm, Hemel Hempstead ; Eales, Gibson’s Camden, 826”; and it is stated that search for the plant proved vain, though Ophrys muscifera had been found in the locality. What, then, was ses a ——— Mill.? This can hardly be doubtful. In R. Syn 4, the words “‘ eadem cum priore’ [C. grandiflora] are vided ~ the description of ‘‘ H. latifolia flore albo pesaat and i iP cr sige that r. Druce himself has until prelongis angustis acutis.” Any doubt on the matter, however, is finally ‘set at rest by Miller’s own specimens, bearing his descrip- tion in his own hand: these specimens, which we did not see until most of the foregoing note had been written, are unmistakeably O.4 snandteets under which they are correctly placed in the National rbar He Ep. Journ. Bor. * The reference is to R. Syn. ed. 2, 242; ‘‘ Found by Dr. Eales near Digges- Well in Hartfordshire.”’ 242 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY DONAX AND SCHUMANNIANTHUS. By R. A. Rotre, A.L.S. | i nen Monograph of the Marantacee in 1902 (Das Ponce eich, iy. 48), Schumann had not seen a Philippine ex- ample of his siecbait ‘established genus dctoplanes :—‘ Findet sich nicht auf den Philippinen (sehr viele Sammler),”’ (p. 34). One of the species, however, does occur in the Philippines, and as its history has been somewhat confused it seems desirable to place upon soon the facts discovered in comparing some material from that ountr Blanco, in 1837, enumerated Maranta arundinacea L. as a native of the Philippines, — he had some doubt Sn its identity, ets remarked: ‘‘ Sera mas bien la especie Tonaat 880, enumerated four Philippine species of lenis Mz. Aichitties Wall., M. grandis Miq., M. arundinacea L., and M. ramosissima Wall. The first and last are synon mous, and represent Donaax Arundastrum K. sige um. (but not the original o Lourei which I have suggested was rather a variety of the first, represents the plant enumerated — though it is different from Miquel’s plant of the same na It is well figured by Naves under the name *« Maranta gerne L. Blas co = ? Phrynium dichotomum Roxb.” It has since been enumerated as Cli inogyne grandis Benth, et Hook. f a, arose from Bentham’s identification of the Philippine with e Sumatran plant, which proves to be erroneous. mann, who pointed out that there were two species of “nat an ‘bastern and a western, had apparently not seen a ) example, and referred Maranta grandis Miq. to t rere A. canniformis K. Schum., but authentic specimens at Kew show that it belongs to the western plant, which he called A. Ridleyi. This discovery necessitates a rearrangement of the synonymy, but there is a further complication in the gen he identity of Donaw Arundastrum Lour. has long been the subject of speculation. Gagnepain has pointed out that Schumann’s identi- fication of Phrynium dichotomum Roxb. with Loureiro’s plant was probably erroneous, as the latter’s ieeieiaiie of the fruit agrees with Actoplanes, and his inclusion of Arundastrum vel Tonchat Seytan Ri as a synonym of Donaz is cited as confirmatory evidence. Gagnepain further redescribes psd drundastrum K. Schum. (non Lour.) under the name of Schumannianthus dichotomus Gagnep. A comparison of Loureiro’s type at the British Museum (which Gagnepain had not seen) confirms the view that Donax Lour. an Actoplanes K, Sebi, are identical. It is fori that the last element of doubt about the genus n be removed ; all that now remains is to restate the synonymy a the species, for Gagnepain refers all to Donax iretdadon Lour., DONAX AND SCHUMANNIANTHUS 243 te briefly mentioning Actoplanes Ridleyi K. Schum. as a second ecies He also speaks with great doubt about the inclusion of Thalia canneformis Forst., but the type of that is also preserved at the British Museum, so that its position is not uncertain. It may be added that there is a fine original drawing of Roxburgh’s Phrynium dichotomum preserved at Kew, with one of the allied P. virgatum Roxb. a The following is the revised synonymy :— Donax atl mice Lour. F]. Coehinch. p. 11 (1790) pe poem umph.) ; Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Be Beg TF Thalia canal mis ae in Syme’s Embassy to Ava, i. p. 478 (1800), cum tab. ; ed. 2, iii. p. 805, t. 21 (non Forst. f.). Maranta grandis Mig. Fl. Ind. oe Spal p. 616 (1860). Phrynium peer Koern. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. Xxxv. pt. i. p. 104 (1862) fit, Clinogyne grandis Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. iii, p. 651 (1883) (excl. syn. Koern.) ; Baker in Hook. f. Fl, Brit. Ind. vi. p- 258 (partim). Dona Ks andis Ridl. in sue As. Soc. Straits, xxxii. p. 176 (1899) (excl. exempl. Bor Actoplanes Ridleyt K. Baktum. in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Marant. p. 85 (1902) (ae exempl. Born.). A. canniformis K. Schum. l. c. a 34 (partim). 2. D. cannzrormis Rolfe, comb. n Thalia ag Oe Forst. f. Diode. p. 1 (1786); Willd. Sp. Pl. i. p. 16 (1797). Liythuria canneformis Raf. FI. “sastgg “a a% 51 (18 squint Tonchat Willd. Sp. Pl. yp goat (non ubl.); Blume, Enum. Pl. tae. . 86 (1 827 M. crnitaca Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 1, p. 7 (1887) (non Linn.); ed. 2, p. 5; ed. 8, i. p. 9, t. 3. Phevitie earns Koern. in Regel Gartenfl. vii. p. 85 1858). P. dichotomum Koern. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. xxxv. pt. i. p. 104 (1862) (partim). Maranta dichotoma Naves in Blanco, FI. ly ed. 8, Nov. Appx. ). ; M. ramosissima Naves, l. c. (non Wall.). Clinogyne grandis Vidal, Phan. Cuming. Philipp. pp. 4, 152 885) (non Benth. ‘et Hook. f.); Vidal, Pl. Vasc. Filip. PP. 275, 899 (1886); K. Schum. et Lauterb. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzg. Siidsee, p 286. Actoplanes santiforie Schum. in Eng]. PAlanzenreich, Marant. p. 34 ) tim Arundastrum vel Tonchat ‘Seytan. Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. p. 22, t. 7 (1750). Both the species appear to be common and widely diffused in respective areas, and observation in the field may throw thei reertle light upon their geographic limits. At present, however, 244 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY D. Arundastrum appears to extend from Sumatra rperas to Singapore, Malacca, Perak, Pahang, Rangoon, and the aman Islands; and D. sanndformis from Jay va, Borneo, and the "Pl iilip- pines, eastward to New Guinea, the Aru Islands, Admidalty Islands, Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides. D. canneformis is very common in the Philippines, being found in Mindanao, Palauan, Mindoro, as a and in numerous provinces i The foregoing have been so completely Scitaned with Phrynium dichetormete Een. ., now referred to Schumannianthus Gagnep., sion of the synonymy of this genus also seems desirable ;— ki Sonnaxanaas picHotomus Gagnep. in Bull. Soe. Bot. Fr. li. 6 (1904) (excl. fuegnil Philipp.). Piri scot Roxb. Asiat. Research, xi. p. 824 (1810) n.); Koern. in Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xi. P. aio, t. 8,9; et in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. xxxv. pt. i 104 | partim) ; Horan. Mite Scit. p. 11 (partim). Gnas dichotoma Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soe. i. p- ni (1812) ; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 258 (partim Thalia dealbata Link in Jahrb. Gewachsk. i. pt. 8, p. bi (1820) (non Fraser). T. dichotoma Willd. ex Lin Maranta dichotoma Wail Gabe n. "6614 ag 8). M. ramosissima Wall. l.c. n. 6615; et in Pl. Asiat. Rar. iii. Donax ccna um K.Schum. in Engl, Pflanzenreich, Marant. p. 88 (1902) (partim). Ga a ‘alee Cuming, 495, from the par one as this species, but the specimens belong to Donaw canneform 2. 8. vireatus Rolfe, comb. nov. Phrynium ister Beals Asiat. Research. xi. p. 824 (1810); Fl, Ind. Maranta essed ahs Moon, Cat. p. 1 (1824). M. virgata Wall. Cat. n. 6616 (1828); A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. ; Wight, Ic. vi. p. 17, t. 2015; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl p. 820. Clinogyne virgata Benth. et. Hook. f. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 651 (1883); Baker in Hook. f. Fi. mer ae vi. p. 258; Hook. f. in Trim. Handb, Fl. Ceyl. iv. Donax virgata K. Schum. in Engl. Aa ERE Marant. p. 83 (1902). A POINT IN NOMENCLATURE. By James ee F.L.8. fetal by the jad sited ‘of combining the varietal name with that of the Species. An example will show more clearly and A POINT IN NOMENCLATURE 245 more briefly than any description the practice against which, it is suggested, some stand or protest should be made. It does not seem to be explicitly condemned in the Vienna tage although Article 26 excludes it by implication r. Burkill’s recent paper “On er tia angustifolia Ham. and its Allies ” (Journ. Asiat. Soe. Bengal, ii. no. 8, pp. 863-381, Aug. “oO a their distribution.” Mr. Burkill has examined a vast mass material, and the botany of his paper may be accepted as satis- factory: it is his nomenclature which is open to criticism. pprehension unde os : rkill seems to labour with reference to Hamilton’s * plan It does not appear that the specimens sent by Hamilton to tacaibeck were dn plicate”; David Don describes them as ‘part of the fine sallisetion of specimens made during his residence in Nepal, in 1802-3.’ + They were at any rate the types of the Prodromus Flore erect Don in his manu cl. D. Hamilton seriptis. Ommnes attenté observavi in Museo Lambertiano; earumque descriptiones et methodica Sispositi pre- ciquam hujus opusculi partem constituunt.” In talogue o i ; Supplied the materials for Prof. D. Don’s Flora of Nepaul”’; it was purchased for the British Museum for £9, and conta ret gst. toa MS. note by Mr. J. J. Bennett, who incorporated it with the National Herbarium—‘‘ 340 plants noticed in Prodr. Fl. Nepal. Mir Burkilt does not seem to have recognized that the National Herbarium contains the type of 8. angustifolia ; he quotes the hrough our herbarium, w collected by Hamilton in jek * Mr. Burkill says ‘Francis Hamilton (afterwards Buchanan- “Hamilton),” : having overlooked Colonel Prain’s clear demonstration that the combination of names is ‘* erroneous and unn caret ce Bot. Gard. Cale. x. 2, Ixxv A tIn ole in at fe Barkly following the Index Fl. Sinensis, cites ‘‘ Hance, 7561 ¥ ” cra the number of Hance’s specimens in his herbarium—that cited by himself when establishing his Ophelia vacillans (now referred to S. angusti- folia)—is 11387, 246 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY There can be no doubt that Hamilton’s Swertia angustifolia, as esi ly by his specimen, is the type of the species, for that ecimen was the only material which Don had before him when he drew up his doscripeon of the species. Mr. Burkill eens the name, but—and this is the main point of these remarks—he places under it a vast synonymy. In his clavis the species has no diagnosis except ‘leaves linear-lanceolate” separating it from pees the third of which is named “ var. gi ls tes Burkill (S. angustifolia Ham.).” Moreover, the specimens examined are in like. manner divided among the varieties, the seithatnie species being thus left destitute of description or locality. For all = ara purposes, re it is in this case impossible to cite a ‘* binom or binary na ” for a any individual plant belonging to the econ: ; and the fae rained by Hamilton himself S. angustifolia (and the type of the species) must be referred to as ‘‘ S. angustifolia Ham. var. poe ee na Burkill ” m of course aware that it would be easy to cite precedents for this 1 method of treating a species: Linneus’s Ophrys insectifera oe Valeriana Locusta are instances, but in these cases the specific as Article 51, no. 4, of the Vienna Rules. Dr. Hackel in his mono- graph of 4ndropogonee and elsewhere vies his larger species “ed varieties, of which the first is always styled a genwinus and is thu apparently intended to be regarded as the typical form; but oe as in the case of Mr. Burkill’s Swern, it does not seem possible to cite the binomial alone for any specimen. Other instances might easily be cited; my object is not, however, to multiply instances, but to call attention to the inconveniences which must arise if this method of nomenclature should become common. It is to be regretted that the matter was not discussed at Vienna, but this and other matters will doubtless receive attention when the Congress meets again in 1910. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. XLII.—Roserr Brown’s ‘ Propromvs.’ J. H,. Maen, of the Botanical Gardens, Sydney, wrote to me any ask ing me to ear my the truth of the tradition — Robert Brown had withdrawn his Prodromus from sale on account of a criticism oem it had Tiel. on the score of its Latinity, j = a R is tradition, which in the form communicated to m by Mr. Carruthers will be found in this peak for 19038, p. 252, is embodied in a remark by Martius in his éloge of Brown ; of this a translation by Henfrey appeared in the Annals and Magazine e of _ History, 8rd Series, iii. 821- ‘881 (May, 1859), which runs us :— ‘While scientific men called this work a liber aureus, and accepted it with unmixed praise, as marking a new epoch, a critic BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 247 n the Edinburgh Review pe mons with its Latinity, and the Seer st withdrew it from cireulat o this statement Henfrey meee the following footnote :— ‘« The statement here repeated by our excellent author, although frequently made during Mr. Brown’s life, and Maurie for by high authority, is, we have reason to believe, founded in error. The original edition of the ‘Prodromus’ remained for many years in the hands of the publishers; and the remaining copies were at last withdrawn from sale only because Mr. Brown was desirous of keeping them in reserve to be given as presents to those botanists to whom he thought they might be most useful.” In order to set the matter at rest, so far as the supposed criticism went, Mr. Daydon Jackson has examined not o only the Edinburgh but the other Reviews of the period, and has found no notice of the Prodromus in any of them. The real reason for the non-continuance of the Prodromus seems to be that given by Francis Buchanan (once Hamilton) in two of the letters included by Colonel Sry . his very interesting sketch Of the life of that botanist issued in 905, of which I hope to give some account later. Writing to Wallich in 1817, from Callander, Buchanan says that ‘in this country’’ there is not ‘at present any encouragement for works on natural history, so that the first volume of Browne’s [sic] Prodromus Flore Nove Hollandiw, a most scientific work, finding no sale whatever, he has stopt short.’’ Again in 1821 Buchanan writes: ** Brown’s work on the plants of olland, one of the pices sessions that has of is appeared, would not sell i in London, and he was so mortified that I believe he will publish no more of his Prospodtas fPeodsom us] .”’ Sir Joseph Hooker, commenting on the statements of Martius and Henfrey, says: ‘Jn 1856 Mr. Brown informed me that the Prodromus was printed by himself, costing him about £100, and that after about 26 copies were sold at 18s. each, he recalled all the remaining copies. I made a note of this at the time, and inserted it in a copy which he gave me in 18 o much interest attaches to everything Si daca with this “liber aureus,’ to adopt Martius’s phrase, that the following particulars, from a memorandum in Brown’s hand in the copy of the Prodromus in use in the National Herbarium may be worth printing. It would appear that the book was published early in 1810, but the sake is not stated. The cost of printing 250 copies was £98 14s, 44d.; “advertizing in Morning Post and Chronicle” cost 12s., on the covers of the Botanical Magazine and English Botany a: a og tae each. Twenty copies were delivered in March ‘to Miles and Hunter eet Johnson & Co. [whose names appear on iy title-page St. Paul’s Churchyard.” Nine copies were rner, Mr. ra Dickson, ‘Aiton, Femina and Bauer, Francis Bauer r, Koenig, Linnean Society, Mr. McLeay; Mr. Law of Edinburgh, Wernerian Professor, Trinity College, Dublin, Mr. . 248 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Cal ey.” The entry re" “ga is very brief : — copies were sold at 18s. each on May “Mr. M.”; May 24 to Mr. Woodward and Sir Thomas Gulla, ; on July 6 to Mr. “omen - James Britten. SHORT NOTES. British Rust.—It may be useful to supplement Mr. Moyle Rogers's general criticism of Dr. Gilbert’s position (pp. 210, 211) by a few particular examples.— R. /issus Lindl. is cannot be suberectus X cesius, being seer in some districts in meee from which R. ce@sius is absent. The jissus which I have seen sparingly in Berks and EK. “Kent is not quite like the pours northern plant, but comes nearer to R. suberectius.—R,. Rogers inton. This, again, ie certainly not afinis x nitidus The Scottish counties in which it is most plentiful produce ne of the ae n with tru ee w, in the hea ntry between Godalming and eee Surrey, holerythr “* a local Seandent _ produces plenty of large, fine fruit (in my experience, the numerous bramble-hybrids are at least partially sterile) ; rhombifolius ap occurs in some scattered spots, at a long distance from the one very limited station known to me thereabouts for afinis, Under such circumstances, the hybrid theory mentioned above is clearly untenable; m oreover, it does not agree with the characters of holerythros and rhambifoliue as a whole.—The main lesson which I draw from Dr. Gilbert's paper is that it is dangerous for ‘‘ local botaniste to igang sri confidently from the special phenomena of their own neighbo hood, without due regard to wider researches.—Epwarp 8. Mspeaiies Irish Puants.—In the Irish Naturalist for April Mr. Druce has some sieieeling notes on plants observed during his visit to Ire- ast autumn. Of Sisyrinchium californicum, sida and figured in this Journal for 1896, pp. 8366, 494, Mr. Druce writes :— ‘In the locality where the Rev. E. 9. Marshall Risbowseed it at Rosslare, in the greatest abundance over many acres. It must be remembered that a few vom south of the stsege for this Western American species is Carnsore Point, on which, as my driver said, there had been more reir ihe meer any point in Ireland. It is easy, therefore, to imagine a wreck of Indian corn, as ~- see case of the e Polygonum sagittatum, drifting on the coast at or near Ross- lare, and in this manner bringing the seeds of the Californian species. The plant seeds very freely, and one could not walk a amongst it without scattering the seeds. Moreover, I pray eter several pads of earth which had been scattered from the feet of : ' éni e ows woul established, Moreover, the locality is subject to floods, and these would also assist in its dispersal. The fact eile that the plant SOME INTRODUCTIONS 249 is completely established, but I have no doubt in my own mind tha to some wreckage containing Californian produce we must attribute the occurrence of this Western American species in Irelan The note on Polygonum sagittatum, which Mr. Druce found abundantly in the Kerry locality recorded i in Cybele Hibernica, shows how local names may originate : ‘‘ By a piece of good luc I am able to throw some light on its method of so Sai ro “ the Trish flora. On my return from Derrynane, I gave a lift on my car to a man who, see ing my vasculum full of this are said, uvon have Dada’s Weed.’ I asked him what he meant by using that name. He replied by rn was wrecked on the coast near Castle Cove. The corn was obtained by the man’s father-in-law, who had a mill about a mile or so up the small stream. The corn was duly ground into meal, but the next year the Polygonum began to appear, and sprea rapidly, so ey in time it was called by the children ‘ Dada’s Weed.’ Im i i its being conveyed by animals into the neighbouring bog, while the stream itself carried the plant, or the seed of it, downwards to its outfall into the sea. Had the course been longer, a greater Be 8 of the country would have been occupied by this invader.” Druce’s paper also includes the description of a new variety o Agrostis canina var. levis Hackel in litt. —‘‘ ‘Differt a typo foliis omnibus planis latiusculis (circ. 2mm, latis) prorsus levibus, paniculee ramis : ipempt gt famesngee levibus, spiculis majus- culis.’ This grew near the mit of Brandon, and at once attracted my attention, scitietisg me somewhat of the A satged scotica, which I gathered on Ben ‘Eay, in Scotland, but I found differed from it in several particulars. * Desleaee Hackel therefore names it as a new variety.” NOTICES OF BOOKS. Some Intrropvuctions. Introduction to Plant Ecology. By the Rev. G. Henstow, M.A., .S. Small 8vo, cloth, pp. x, 130. “Price 2s. Stanford. Wild Fouts in Their Seasons. By P. Epwarp F.L.S., F.S.A. With 80 coloured plates Pott 8vo, feather, pp. x; 263. Price 5s. net. Cassell How to Study Wild Flowers. By Guorce Henstow, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. With coloured plates end other illustrations. Third impression. 8vo, cloth, pp. 225. Price 2s, 6d. Religious iety. Tract Soc Henstow’s object in writing his Introduction to Plant Ecology is to introduce the subject to soa of botany in schools. n the earlier chapters, which are more especially to Journat or Borany.—Vou. 45. See 1907, T 250 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY teachers, the author insists on the educational value of ecology, or “the study of plants in their native homes,” as an out-of-doors object-lesson. As an introduction he takes an imaginary class out for a walk, and calls the steearton of the students to the different points of interest in connection with the soil and the plant-life supported by it which arise during the walk. Ecology is in this sense indistingsiistiable ff om the ‘‘nature-study”’ which has come to the fore in recent years. discussing the value of morphology “ slbee beane in ecology in chapter iv., the author wisely insists on the importance of morphology as the basis of ecology, and iteual Be ecthinaniae = teacher to utilize classification as well as morphology ‘ for ound “an onal purposes ; since it is in ihe processes : weighing peel ters between different wena &e., that the elements of sie and judgement come into play.’ In another Eau (v.) Mr. Henslow complains that labeigecy work is treated too inde- pendently; if the study of plant-life in nature is the ultimate u elementary work on practical physiolog y of plants are adversely criticised from this point of al as also are other instances of modern methods of teaching botany. The larger portion of the volume is devoted to a general account of the various plant-associations which are regarded as examples of the direct response of the plant to environment, and a chapter on aa ecology is eapreesinga in which the view taken by the author n his book on the Origin of Floral Structures is maintained—the Sees of the eal form, size, scent, relative position and shape of parts being regarded as the direct cinta of the responsive action of the flower to the simulating influence of the agent of pollination. Mr. Henslow’s little book will serve to give an idea of the methods of serious nature-study from the botanical side, though it necessarily leaves untouched the slabieaiss methods of the more advanced ecological school. ‘This floral chronology by the author of those am olumes, ‘ Familiar Wild Flowers,’ is the outcome of observations extending over a long duration of tim a and conducted under the most favourable circumstances. Such a book will supply a very useful guide to the Nature- lover of ante tastes. It is evident that if one would seek any particular plant by some more effective method than the hope of stumbling upon it som e day by a happy it shoul success. If, for Serhoni we are aware rats under no circumstances nuary, Wi at once released pein what would otherwise plo been an ati prodta be quest, and are free to spend our energies in other and more profitable directions. It is on these salient SOME INTRODUCTIONS 251 points—the probable ar the likely place—that the volume in question brings welcome a Such is the information supplied by pe publishers on the wrapper of Mr. Hulme’s latest book. We ourselves should hay thought that seclusion yee the world in some suitable asylum would have brought more ‘‘ welcome aid”’ than this volume could afford to the idiot (and to his friends) who would hunt for water- lilies upon cottage roofs; but the author himself tells us that the book owes its existence to a desire to — for this class of person, which is evidently more numero s than we could have supposed. ‘‘It is borne in upon us,” he pha in his preface, ‘‘ that some neophytes would also find a locality clue useful, thus saving them from seeking Water Lilies on the cottage roof or other unlikely spot, and that a chronological guide wou uld be no less helpful, so that one could realize that it was a task foredoomed to disappoint- ment to seek in sultry August for the tender flowers of the opening year, or to antedate by some few months the glorious flush of Heather crimsoning as far as eye can reach some breezy common or. moorland slo ee From which it will be seen that Mr. Hulme has a very fine style. Messrs. Cassell have vast ey in catering for the public : ‘*those delightful volumes, ‘ Fam i owers ’ ’’—even modest men nowadays have ceased 6. a dumb concerning their no new form will no doub t prove attractive. It must in fairness be said that the little book is beautifully printed, attractively bound, and of a size most convenient for the pocket. iterary part of the yolume were as good as its outward appeara sae we should have much to admire and little— indeed ig criticize; but edition, His eaarladae of plants is scarcely more intimate— in ie scoala spring sae aecenaly to be found, its special abitas: ‘balag the woods and moist dells”’ (p. 39) ? It cannot be pleaded that the exigencies of space have necessitated this brevity, for a large part of the book is occupied by padding such as the passage already quoted from the preface, or that (p. 126) on rysimum orientale, which ‘‘came up once in our garden in Wilt- shire, and we could only conclude that a seed of it must by chance have arrived with some flower-seeds which we had sent to us from 252 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY copie It is an interesting plant, and we were greatly pleased to see i Again, when speaking of Buttercups (p. 45) Mr. Hulme ites raboctiriels no characters for distinguishing the various species, but limits R. acris to “ the hedgerow”’ (!), and speculates whether a Buttercup found in flower in December ‘‘ was in impatient anticipation of the spring, or & laggard pect ie to admit that that season was at last over ’—in December ould be easy to extend this st parece but enough has been said to show that for instructive purposes the book is Payer useless. Yet we have no doubt that it ‘will be praised in the newspaper pres *—indee, =the publishers already ievertion: that ** Countryside tells : ‘This book ig invaluable’”—which un- ees too often a where it ought to guide, especially science is concerned. The proofs have not been ca refully read: e.g. Erythrea Centaurea (twice), Artemesia (twice in bodies, where one of tine pages refers to Armeria vulgaris, which is omitted sgn the index); on p. 29 the poet “Clare” is referred to as * Clara’! We noticed Mr. etre ote s How to Study Wild Flowers on its first appearance eleven years ago, and are glad to see that it has arrived at a third impression. It is well-informed, instructive, and in the main accurate, and provides for the intelligent observer the kind of information in which Mr. Hulme’s pretty little book is entirely dking: This impression contains twelve double-page coloured plates of useful plants, stent derived from some foreign source, which do ii appeal to There are numerous helpful woodcuts in the text; we paiiet: however, to see that the in- accurate naming of these, which in in our former ‘Alias we ventured to anticipate would “be corrected in the next edition,’’ continues. There seems no excuse for continuing to label as Daphne Mezereum, Gentiana Pneumonanthe, Euphorbia” Peplus, and the like, figures h and other errors—e. g. the Linnea is not now ‘ represented on the wall of the staircase of the Linnean Society’s rooms” (p. 129)— which, though not of the first importance, detract from its value. Progressus Rei Botanica, Herausgegeben von der Association nie Tan des botanistes, redigiert von Dr. J. P. Lorsy in Leid , Heft 2, 8vo, pp. 319-582, tt. 24. fe Fischer. Tus second part of the Progressus contains three communica- tions. r. L. Laurent, of the Marseilles Museum, contributes an account in French of the progress of angiospermic paleobotany PROGRESSUS REI BOTANICE 253 during the past decade; Mr. W. Bateson writes in English on the r. Friedrich Czapek describes in German the progress of the physiology of plant-nutrition since 2 1896. Dr. Laurent divides his subject-matter into four sections, under the titles—Investigations, Methods, Facts, Results. e regions investigated include in the southern hemisphere the extreme south f South America, where Mr. Dusen has studied ste beds of presumed oligocene age, and Australia, where Mr. Deane finds Brazil, and Colombia, chiefly by Mr. Respoibeardt, and the results indicate a great homogeneity in the flora, which resembles that of the present day. In Japan, Mr. Yo koyama has found in beds o neocomian age plants which are a continuation of the upper jurassic types and analogous to those found in Kurope n discussing methods, Dr. Laurent adversely criticizes the prints of fos leaves, often fragmentary or badly preserved, with those of recent plants, a practice which led to the description of numerous species of little or no value, and to general conclusions which a more care- ful study does not uphold. The character of the venation of the leaf remains the most important ¢ shanes for the worker in this field, as flowers are very rarely preserved, and fruits when found are not associated with the foliage, and the author lays stress on the importa of a careful comparative study of the venation of the various ae en of the same flora, and of these with known types in other flor As regards ay one of the most important has been the gradual driving back of the origin of angiosperms right to the beginning of the cretaceous age. But u to the present there i is no trustworthy information as to the aiguve antiquity of the two great divisions, aE ic a and Dicotyledo ons. The presumed a ancient Mono- cotyledons have been based on ine complete material and yield to further indy, while the Pr otorhipis, the presumed primitive Dicoty- ledons originating in the Lias, are now — as ferns of the Platycerium type uestion as to the former presence of Proteacee in Europe remains still wipers Dr. Laurent draws attention to a remarkable point in this connection ; while on th structures in the Proteacee are well adapted for preservation as fossils. In discussing results, reference is made to the first appearance of Gamopetale. Facts observed prove their great ae aee as Verium and Viburnum are eontied from cretaceous beds; but the g majority of their representatives are unknown to u us, while, on the 254 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY the fewer number of woody genera in the gamopetalous as compared with the apetalous orders. This view is supported by the fact that the woody “fete wees are precisely those which are represented in tertiary and cretaceous beds. e most important — results are the emphasis of “the uniformity of the flora of the cretaceous period, as shown by the similarity of the types found in = old and new worlds respectively, and the indications that this period was succeeded by one of great differentiation Mr. Bateson’s paper is an accou nt of the progress in the study of heredity and a which followed the oe of Mendel’s work in 1900 in the publications of De Vries, Correns, and Tschermak. The iniotael which this new branch = sclence— Genetics as sit has been called—has aroused was strikingly shown in the success which attended the Internatioual Conference held last summer under the auspices of the Royal Horticultural Society. The report of aot Conference recently issued by the Society shows even more for than Mr. Bateson’s essay the importance of this phase of bioloigel investigatio: Finally, Dr. Cz apek’s contribution is a valuable epitome of the work done on the subject of plant-nutrition during the last ten years. The subject-matter is systematically arranged in nine chapters, and occupies more than one hundred pages. Saga BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on 18th April, 1907, Mr. James Saunders showed a series of lantern-slides of “ Witches Brooms,” which he explained are usually caused by one of three agents: parasitic fungi reeset and Haoascus), parasitic rare and gnarling. The illus rations shown were of trees affected by parasitic fungi, the ese rm of which permeates in the woody tissue of the diseased plants. They included Silver Fir, Norway pruce, Common Elm, Hazel, Hornbeam, Birch, Elder, Hawthorn, and Wild Cherry (Pr unus avium). The Silver Fir was from N orfolk, but all the others from South Bedfordshire and North Hertford- shire. Mr. J. C. Shenstone cave a paper “On the Cicological Functions of Stolons and ae mous Flowers.’’ He pointe out the advantages és. the plan sab the colony-forming habit, such as ite more certain coitoation pave greater power of holding its own against competitors, instancing as examples Bellis st Thymus Serpyllum, eh Berri per ennis. Further mples were dwelt upon in the cases of Urtica dioica, Adoxa priaircare ure and the violets Viola fo eaia and V. canina, where = ser - cleistogamonus flowers co-operate in keeping the colonies com the same meeting Mr. A. O. Walker introduced a oa poit of ‘* The Conservation of existing Species by Constitutional or Physio- logical Variation giv ing greater power of adaptation without per- e ppos two healthy men going to an unhealthy climate; one proving im- BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 255 mune to the local diseases might conceivably transmit that quality to his children ; the other, fa ilin ng a victim to the climate, would leave no descendants. As instances he brought forward the case of Crepis taraxacifolia, long known in Wales as a rarity, which in 1896 onwards became extremely abundant at Colwyn Bay. He con- sidered that this might be accounted for by a different variety, morphologically identical, yet ns eg ira distinct, having been introduced, and, by its ability to adapt itself to its surroundings, had rapidly extended its area of es, epee case was of C a’ mine pratensis, usually stated to grow ist meadows, which accurate as regards North Wales, bail i ‘a: Kont its aseurie habitat is coppice woods, the second year after cutting the undergrowth. It is frequent on dry banks, on masses of roots of trees or shrubs, probably as xerophilous a station as could be eeate At the meeting of the Linnean Society on 2nd May, 1907, Professor E. B. Poulton eaae the probate of The will of Richard Anthony PH Sie (1761-1829), and manuscripts of Dr. W. J. Burchell, which had been ean presented to the University of Oxford by Mr. F. A. Burchell, of Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa. The General Secretary exhibited, on at of the owner, two portraits of John Fraser by John Hoppner d Sir George Raeburn—the latter being the unacknowledged Bairoc of the lithographed photo in Hooker’s Companion to the Botanical Magazine, ii. p. 800 (1836). A note accompanying the exhibit stated that Fraser’s herbarium was presented in 1849 to the Linnean pues of which he was a Fellow, by his son, but was disposed of in 1863. This, however, apparently refers, not to Fraser’s own herbarium, of which nothing is known, although (see Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 802) he evidently had one, but to the impor- tant herbarium of Thomas Walter, which was presented to Fraser by Walter, and was ac equied by the Trustees of the British hinge Society’s collections in 1868. Last year we called attention to the very interesting series of papers on London Botanic Gardens, which Mr. P. E. F. Perrédés, F.L.8., was then publishing in the American Journal of Pharmacy. These have now been issued in a neat volume of a hundred pages, with thirty-one illustrations, as No. 62 of the publications of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories. The gardens discussed are Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens, and the Chelsea Physic Garden—the last-named, on account of its longer history and greater interest, occupying half of the book. Mr. Perrédés has brought together a great deal of interesting information about the gardens and their various curators, and his account is careful, and, as far as space will allow, complete. Itis to be regretted, however, that there is nothing in the shape of an index of names of the persons commemorated—an omission which detracts from the use- fulness of the book. Tue first volume of the new edition of the Imperial Gazetteer of India, which has just been published by the Clarendon Press (price 6s, 256 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY a contains the very interesting sketch of the botany of the Indian ire which was issued separately in advance in 1904 with the authority of the aaeorteet of State, and from which we gave some extracts in this Journal for that year (pp. 221-227). As we then said, the essay gives an admirable idea of the constituents of the Flora, which exhibits that masterly power of summary which Sir Joseph displayed in the celebrated essay on Island Floras and in o his works. It is perhaps to be regretted ew ee Sangeet in this form has been delayed for three years, as some respects this prevents it from being quite ‘‘ up-to-date,” but § it is and will remain an excellent epitome ‘of our knowledge of the subject. The sam volume contains pan on the physical aspects, geology, ie rology, zoology, ethnology, languages, religions, and population— all evidently well iad thoroughly done; it contains nearly 600 pages and ny cheap at 6s Tue Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell has left Aberdare ; ommanics sions shane be addressed to him at St. Michael's College, Llandaff. Rererrine to our note on p. 160 as to the deciability of giving a list of members and their addresses in the Repor and Botanical Exchange Clubs, Mr. George Conde. ee Secretary of the former, points out that such a list is given in the ‘‘ List of Desiderata ’ which is sent to each member of the Club, and which we had not previously seen Since the note on p. 214 was written, we have received a Memo- randum on the American Sey berry Mildew issued by the Board of A fiealtited, which urges upon growers the necessity of taking every possible precaution ‘id prevent the spread of the disease. The statement is confirmed that the rae has appeared in Worcester- shire and Gloucestershire, and growers are advised what steps to take to destroy the fungus, or to modify its ravages. The Boar also issues an illustrated leaflet, which is intended to assist growers in identifying the dise Tue Liverpool Botanical Society proposes to undertake a Flora of South Lancashire, i. e., a that part of the county south of the Ribble. Mr. W. G. Travis, Secretary of the Flora Committee, will be glad to receive help a any kind in the way of records, speci- mens, &c.; his address is 107 Delamere Street, Liverpool. Tux Queensland Government has issued a volume on The Weeds and Suspected Poisonous Plants of Queensland, by Mr. F. M. 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His garden, of which he published a catalogue under the title Hortus Duroverni, was arranged on the natural system, and he made experiments in hybridization in various serie oe Passiflora, of which genus his son became the monographe Maxwell eg was educated at King’ s College, penton where he took his degree of M.D., after which he became sub-curator of the Fielding RE at Oxford. While here he devoted much attention to the flora of the county; a paper embodying the results of his observations was published in the Transactions of the Ashmolean Society, to which he had previously contributed, in 1857. He practised his profession at Peckham in 1856, and from 1855 to 1868 lectured on botany at St. George’ 8 Hospital. It was while at Peckham that he became interested in Vegetable Teratology—a study in which he always took great interest and on which he pub- lished numerous papers. His book on the subject bw published by the Ray Society in 1869; a German translation by Dammer appeared at Leipzig in 1886. In 1860 Masters became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, to whose Transactions and Journal he contributed many papers, among them valuable memoirs on Passt- floracee and Contfere—orders with which his name will always be associated and in which he took a 2 sata interest. Papers from his pen appeared in numerous scientific journals—many of them in our own pages, beginning with our first volume, to which he was almost the last surviving contributor. His chief literary work, however, was of course connected with the Gardeners’ Chronicle, of which he became part editor with Thomas Moore in 1865 ; after Moore’s death in 1887 the Chronicle was entirely under Masters’s direction. Since the paper was established in 1841, many re eee have ppeterel | in the field, but the Chronicle has always held its own, sai has been the only horticultural journal which has steadily given prominence to the scientific side of horticulture. Masters Nekys sought the co-opera- tion of botanists, many of whom—Mr. J. G. Baker and Mr. Hemsley, for example—published largely in his paper; for many eee the portion relating to orchids was ance ee superintendence G. Reichenbach ; and the number of new species published cs the seventy years of the Chronicle’s asian has been very JournnaL oF Botany.—Von. 45. [Juny, 1907.] U 258 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY which he was Congress Secretary ; the Quinquennial Conferences at Ghent and similar meetings else: where; and especially the Royal Hortigaleetsl Society, of whose Scientific Committee he was Chair- man for many years before his death. Perhaps the most peice feature of Masters’ 8 apa was his extreme kindness to those with whom he came i I remember being struck with this when I was first ‘ossodaend to him at the Kew Herbarium nearly a — ago. He was always especially considerate to the young m t Kew, whether in the herbarium or in the gardens, encouraging sthems to write and helping i many now well known in the botanical and horticultural world made their first literary scipistanasse in the pages of the Gardeners’ Chronicle. His ae manner conveyed the im- pression of timidity; and he had a strong objection to anything which in his judgement savoured of po opores & This tes Seat of one whose relations with him were a casual and official, is confirmed by those with whom he was in daily association. I am indebted to the proprietors of the Sartnes Chronicle for permission to reproduce the accompanying portrait, from a photo- graph taken in 1897, which appeared in the issue of that paper for Jane 1, accompanied by another Paar taken in 18738. James Britten. NOTES ON BRITISH HEPATICH. By Symers M. Macvicar. Lorpnozia Bavertana Schiffn.—Jung. Floerkii Web. et M. var. ge Schifin. Krit. Bemerk. tiber Jung. collaris N. ab KE. pond Sepon Sa 1900, No. 8). Since publishing this plant as watiaty, 2 f. Schiffner has examined further material, which has vf ced cae to consider it entitled to rank as a species with the other members of the barbata group. He goes fully into the ques- ee in the critical notes in Lotus 1908-1905 which accompany his + eur. exs., Series ii. -iv. Herr Arne ell, in a valuable oe a on NOTES ON BRITISH HEPATICE 259 intermediate forms between L. Baueriana and L. 2 a pea have been found, but that such forms do occur in Scandin One of these is canto’ in his Hep. eur. exs. No. 142. . Ina in instances in Scotland, especially from the extreme north, I have seen specimens which were difficult to distinguish from L. lycopodi- oides, while one gemmiferous plant from Windy Clough, West Laneashire, sent to me by Mr. Wh wed closely approached L. Floerkii; but in the ne io of cases it can be readily distinguished from both speci As Arnell remarks, it is fortunate to have those forms which were formerly doubtfully placed to one species or to another of this group, recognized as a separate species, with the further advantage of being able to make more concise the characters a distinguish the others. very variable species ; none of the characters hey fnl in distinguishing it from L. lycopodioides, It is usually a smaller plant, the leaves are more symmetrical in shape, and more fre- quently “ao three-lobed ; lobes more deeply divided, gene instead of broadly Se edbant and more frequently ending in se long bristle, sinus more often gibbose. Male plants and gemm@ are common, while both i stated to be very rare in L. sascarile The gemme form red clusters on the margins and apices of lobes of the uppermost leaves, and are mostly irregularly 3-4-angled, but some- times are ovate-oblong or oval. ae airs eb of the two plants in Britain is also different. So far as I have seen in Scotland, L Baueriana is a subalpine species, reat is almost confined to the east, centre, and north of the country, from Berwickshire to Caith- ness and Sutherland. It is uncommon in the South-east Lowlands and Fife, frequent north “‘ the eae and rather common in parts of the East Highlands and Caith It does not appear to be common on the hills, but ascend ey at least 2600 ft. on Ben Lawers. Among the many English specimens of this group which I have examined, there is only Mr. Wheldon’s West Lancashire plant which I would sdnaites as belonging to ait | Sea L. lycopodi- vides is enbizely an alpine species in Bri It is one of our rarest species, and is only known from a hog tosalities { in the High- lands. The specimens from snbalpine ape Lee: an I have seen in herbaria under this name have been L. Bauweriana, except in one case, where it was the male plant of Le Suinquedentat (Huds. aueriana differs from L. Floerkii in the leayes being much more ‘frequently four-lobed, one or more sot the lobes being ‘usually bristle-pointed. There - ih a a cilia at the base of the postical margin of the leaf, and male plants and gmme are common, The leaf-lobes in L. Floerkii are ooo acute, but never bristle- pointed; at the base of the postical margin there is usually, though not always, only a tooth or es male plants are uncommon, and gemme apparently do not occur, This absence of gemm in Floerkit agrees also with the results of my examination of the plant in Britain. L. Floerkit has been found in most of the counties of Scotland. u 2 260 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY It is common in many parts of the southern ame epee in the central a eager neckdhia sage bicarei to both west and east sides. It is rather common over the east, cee and north of the country to Shetland, iad ie hills to 4000 ft. It is very ra in the West Highlands north of the Clyde watershed, and is almost absent from the Hebrides. Although it has an eastern diotibation, especially marked to the north of the Forth and Clyde, much confined to that side of the country as is L. Bauer- iana, and its wide distribution over the south of Scotland is quite different from that of the latter. It is widely distributed over the northern half of England, but I have not sufficient information to give particulars. Lory HOCOLEA ALATA Mitt. ex C. E. Larter, Trans. Devon. with permission for their publication. I take the following notes of his from the above Transactions ._- ‘‘ This hitherto undescribed species has the aspect of Lophocolea bidentata, but the angles of the . . “So different in its perianth from all other British species, yet nearly allied to the L. coadunata of Swartz from Jamaica, having, like it, e floral leaves and amphigastrium oval, yet appearing different in seeolaticti, and also in stature a little more robust.”’ He men- tions that the plant is monoicous, and refers to the var. alata of Synopsis Hepaticarum, of which “ no specimens are available,’”’ and which ‘‘ appeared to the authors of that work to be a monstrous variety of L. bidentata.” The drawings consist of an enlarged figure of a perianth, nose and piece of stem with leaves and under- leaves. Below t e leaves was written: “cells all same size, twice the size of 2- hereroer but this has inadvertently been omitted in the terse The locality given is Lynmouth, August, 1875, W. Mitt Mitten’ stated in a letter to Miss Larter that 2 only oes : small specimen of the plant “on half an inch of soil.” He dently could not know that it varied considerably in as SnAastérs which he considered to be of consequence, and this makes it necessary to ab croscihnicr ae status. Since the publication of the species I have seen a number of specimens of both it and the portend related L. siete ata i rom different vite of the ry, and I have especially to thank Miss Larter for much trouble taken in procuring many specimens of the former in various stages of growth, from North Devon, not far from the original “pe: In judging the position of the plant, the perianth alone not a sufficient distinction, but the ogee characters of the periant ene and bracteole must be ta In L. cuspidata one es of the perianth are cecasonll winged and dentate, but probably never to such an extent as is seen in well-marked specimens of L. alata, though the size of the wings varies consider- ably in the latter. In the former, one frequently sees only two of the angles with more than one row of cells, and all the angles i usually only obtusely keeled, while in the latter the three angl NOTES ON BRITISH HEPATIC 261 appear to have always more than one row of cells, and one or more always winged and frequently dentate. The wing varies in size, but is often composed of a single series of 6-9 cells superimposed on a gomcag thickened to the extent i several layers of cells. The arl divided, and with the cuspidate points shiteces than in L. cuspidata, orm, in my opinion, a more valuable distinctive ee than does the perianth alone. The bracteole is by no means always oval as in Mitten’s figure. It varies considerably in shape, and not rarely has a tooth on one or both sides, but it is nearly always less deeply lobed than in L. cuspidata, Mitten i is evidently mistaken in giving the leaf-cells as twice the size of those Pe oe bidentata. They do not appear to be larger than in L. cus The plant is generally dark green, and with the leaves ake ‘broader ‘had in the most commonly pale- Bivated L. cuspidata, but this is nota reliable distinction. I sent a small specimen of the North Devon plant to Prof. Schiffner. He remarked on the variation of its characters, and that the mouth of the perianth was similar to that of L. cuspidata, of which he eatin it to be only aform. He also stated oo it had no relationship to L. coadunata. It appears that more than one species has been diesuribied as Swartz’s plant, and it is probible that Mitten had not seen the true plant of Jamaica. The descrip- Hap of er by Herr Stephani in the recently published part of Spec, 146, does not at all correspond with L. alata, and it is men- tioned that the plant which Spruce di under Swartz’s name does doubtless not belong to it. I sent a specimen of L. alata to Herr L. suspidati are subject to considerable Yaviatin. and t that such differences are only one of degree, I think that the former can hardly be regarded as of specific rank. I should feel inclined to look upon it as a subspecies of the latter. alee this ma - in all the specimens which I have seen of both plants from vario localities, I have rarely found any difficulty in “Gstnguishing etween them. Their distribution in Britain iffer n ch northwards. It is evidently rare in Scotla nd, and has only been ound, so far, in the southern counties. On the other hand, L. cuspidata is common and widely Fa ee throughout nearly the whole of the low-lying rhe of Scotla L, bidentata (L.) Dum., is dioicous, ‘ai seems rarely to be found rare! arn in 1 Brita I hay of L. ala from the following localities :— Sussex: sutetad localities, 1905-1907, W. E. Nicholson. Cornwall: Castle Horneck, Penzance, April 1, 1907, W. FE. Nicholson. North Devon: Berrynarbor, 1907, Miss 0. -H Lark rter. Somerset: near Failands, March, 1907, Miss A. Fry. Stafford: near Armitage, March, 1900, H. P. Reader. Pembroke: St. Ishmael’s, January, 262 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 1906, and Dale, March, 1907, A. Brinkman. West Lancashire: near Caton, 1899, J. A. Wheldon. Kirkcudbright: Holme Glen, New Galloway, January, 1895, J. McAndrew. Berwick: Tower Dean, Cockburnspath, Fiacasy 9, 1904, W. Evans. SoaPAnta aes Sa ) Schiffn. Martinellia obliqua Arnell in he Bryol. 1905, p. Herr Arnell has kindly confirmed eh of a specimen ‘of this Scapania from Ben Vorlich, Dumbarton- shite, July 4, 1901. I have also found it in my nie ‘barium re other localities. It is readil “8 See ea from 8. undulata by its oblique age deourrent antical lobe of leaf. The postical lobe is also more decurrent the nian of both lobes are fect a entire, purplish tinge in parts of os tufts. S. paludosa C. Mill. is at once distinguished by its highly arched commissure of the leaf. The postical lobes are also occasionally dentate, and the plant is light Ltr Z Prof. Schiffner states in his Bryol. Frag. xxii. in Oesterr. Bot. Zeit. 1905, se = at te is most nearly related to S. wliginosa, and, in fact, m s having seen intermediate forms; butas the former retains te prrarsioa in similar places to those in which S. uliginosa is found, and as the 3 daasrigitioni “of the latter would not consider that it should be treated only as a variety. Well-marked specimens differ from 8. uliginosa in colour, flaccidity, in the larger antical lobe of a different shape and more obliquely inserted. In packet gathered on Ben Lawers there are some stems which IJ should place to S. obliqua, oh some which appear indistinguishable from S. uliginosa. On the other hand, a specimen from Ben Doureinn, Argyllshire, which ze mae ve be S. obliqua, bears comparatively little resemblance to S. uligi The localities, ee ere Ben Vorlich, in Britain, at present t 700 ft. West Inverness: Roshven, Moidart, alt. 2500 ft. June 24, 1900, S.M.M. I should also feel inclined to include a plant gathered on Snowdon, alt. 2500 ft., May, 1904, by Mr. Pearson, which was con- sidered to be a me form of S. uliginosa by Herr C. Miller, as Mr. Pearson informs me. Also possibly a plant found by acon 01; oe oe — is too small to distinguish with sihaaly from uligino, A RIVULARIS Nees var. SIMPLICIOR A eal Lindb. x eee “Bett, Oversigt af eo Vetensk. Akad. Handl. n. 2, 58,1877. M. Levieri Jack é t Steph. in rie n. gee 32, p. 496, . In characteristic specimens of this variety the mode of branching is Met different from that of the plant which is usually regarded as the type. The stems are long, with a few irregular UGANDA RUBIACE 2638 cesses which are often elongate and es As pap a marked, the habit is more like that of M, levig It is anae plant than the type, and the colour is dive. pre, frequently becoming eta green when dry, and occasionally shining. The stems have a border of 2-4 greatly thickened reddish pe ler, wh attention to this character in Bethefte z. Bot. Centralb. p. 108, 1902, appears to reverse the two plants in regard to this condition. It varies considerably, doubtless in accordance with the wetness of the locality. M. rivularis varies so much that some of its forms are difficult to place. I give the ar of the specimens in my Clyde, January, 1902, P. Ewing. Mid Perth: Finlarig Wood, Killin, July, 1900, P. Ewing; Culdees Castle, September 27, 1901, . Evans; Falls of Ness, near Muthil, September 30, 1901, W. Evans; Buchanty, c. fr., November 5, 1903, R. H. Meldrum, Ireland—Down: Magheralin, ho dan ong C. H. Waddell. An- trim: Drumragm ond Wood, Toone, July 4, 1899, H. W. Lett. Monaghan : Gai haadintie: July, 1900, 0: H. Wadd ell. . RivuLARIS Nees var. rmrorensis C. Jensen in Bot. of the Feroes, Part i., Bryophyta, p. 124, 1901. ‘ Tufts dense, opaque, deep green or partly brownish green; plant 2-3 ¢ entim. lon ng, aera ihe pinnate, dens e-leaved, branches obits auricles alf as broa stipul ute, 0 r trigones at the angles, the interior filled with chlorophyll, upper cells 0-018-0°020 millim. broad, smaller than a oni typical form, where they are 0-020-0-032 millim.” (C. Jens., loc. cit.). A plant found by Mr. Symington Grieve on ‘‘ rocky web shores of Sand. water Loch, Bixter, Shetland, August 28, 1902,” agrees with a specimen of this sie from the Feroes, kindly given to me b Herr Jensen. The compact, partly brown tufts are very different from what one isisailly associates with this species, and unlike any specimens which I have seen from the mainland. ALABASTRA DIVERSA.—Parr XV. By Spencer te M. Moors, B.Sc., F.L.S. (Continued from p. 233.) 8. New anp Rare Uaanpa Puants. now resume the task of publishing an account of Dr. shawe’s Uganda Gamopetale. The localities of the plants to bo mentioned are largely those or near those of my last paper,* to * Journ. Bot. 1907, p. 41. 264 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY which the reader may be referred, with the reminder that the dis- “ag concerned are Unyoro, Ankole, and Toro, particularly the RusiacEz. Gardenia lanciloba, sp. n Fruticosa, elata, glaberrima, rnodiaetbait pid wate} manifestis “High -axillaribus ate pa- Ss ima basi attenuata inde gradatim dilatata lobis 4 vel 5 quam tubus Hab. Toro, Semliki Forest, near Baranga; Bagshawe, 1281. Frutex (ex schedis cl. detectoris) biorgyalis. Folia 7°0-9:0 x 2:5-4:0 em., fac. inf, pallidiora; costa centralis supra plana, subtus prominens; costs secundarie plane, utrinque 5-6, aperte forni- cate, raro subrecte ; petioli 0:5-0°8 cm. long., validi. Stipule circa 0-7 cm. long. Pedunculi 0-2 em. super axillam cauli inserti, cm. long., primo aaubidentst cito patentes, sub fructu incrassati. Ovaitern 0-5 em. ong. Flores primulini. Calycis limbus in toto 1:5 cm. long. Anthere lineares, fere 1-0 cm. long. Stylus circa 2°8 cm., stigma 0‘8cm. long. Bacca he limbo exempto vecbond 35x 2° 0 em. Semina + 1:2x0°7 cm.; testa coriacea; albume ear UGANDA RUBIACE 265 Hab. Kibale Forest, Toro, 4500 ft.; Bagshawe, 1284. (Also at Kew, Entebbe; E. Bevin 868). Foliorum limbus solemniter 10-0-16-0 x 8-0-10:0 cm.; costx secundarie utrinque ¢ — 8, pauce basales subapproximate, omnes rege ascendentes, u trobique tee petioli sepissime 2°5- 1:0-1'7 4°5 cm., pubescentes. Stip em. long., longitrorsum nieiadeeane Corymbus allie exclusis) 2-5 om. long. Pedicelli ‘5 cm. long; ovarium f em. long. Calycis limbus 0-2 cm., lobi 0°5-0°6 cm. long. Corolle dilute lutew rubro-lineate tubus irca 2°5 cm. long., inferne 0-7 cm., supe 6 m.; limbi lobi circa 1°5 ng ere faucibus insertw, oblonge obtuse, 1:3 cm. long. Stylus 2: 5 cm. long., stigmate 0-7 cm. haud exempto. Fructus circa 9-0 The affinity is with G. wonpatertn Hiern, but this has so many points of difference as to render details unnecessar Flowers fleshy, with — of over-ripe apples, faint yellow with red streaks. Mr. Brown’s note, however, says that the flowers are ee: spotted lined? There is therefore some variation in t espect. Oxyanthus oxyearpus, sp. nov. Frutex elatus, rariramosus, glaber, efooevnee bene foliosis or 9 ended deinde subteretibus in nodis tumidis novellis summum leviter puberulis, foliis pro rata parvis anguste ovato-oblongis apice cuspidulatis ipso obtuse acutis basi in petiolum brevem angustat is tenuiter coriaceis, stipulis inter se liberis a basi lata subulato-acuminatis extu of 0 basi puberulis ceteroquin glabris, floribus mediocribus in racemis parusitiovis bracteatis admodum mecsren a ordinatis, benstois parvulis ovato- lanceolatis acuminatis dorso puberulis margine ciliatis, pedicellis f lobis inter se subequalibus lanceolatis acuminatis, corolle fe) lobos longe excedente utrinsecus glabro vel fere glabro, filamentis brevibus antheris linearibus apice renee aero loculis basi obtusis, ovario 2-loculari, stigmate anguste fusiformi lobis oblongis predito, bacea ovoidea sursum attenuata apice obtusa subtereti 1-loculari peri- carpio ehensverte in sicco olivaceo circumdata, seminibus numerosis. Toro, forest near the Semliki river ; Bagshawe, 1800. Planta sec. cl. detectorem plus quam biorgyalis. Folia seepissime 8:0-9:0 x 3:0-3'5 cm., in sicco viridia ; coste secundarie utrinque 6-7, patule, juxta —— arcuate, parum prominule ; petioli m. long., sup. excavati. Stipule 0-5-0'7 cm. long. ag 3-4-flori, + 05 em. long., crassiusculi. Pedicelli circa ‘3 cm., bractere circa 0°4 em. long. Flores dilute viridescentes. Ovarian 0-2x0175 cm. Calycis limbus 0°45 cm. long.; hujus Bacca 2°5 em. long., saummum vix 1°5 em. diam., apice sub calyc persistente ad 0-4 cm. angustata, in sicco longitrorsum striatula, pallide subnitens. Semina brunnea, 0-5 x0°5 cm. Easily distinguished from 0. spectosus DC. by the short inflores- cences, the relatively broad corollas, and the pointed berries. 266 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Oxyanthus Bagshawei, sp. nov. Fruticosus, cores ramulis compressis deinde subteretibus in nodis aliquantulum tumidis, foliis majusculis anguste ovato- oblongis apice obtusis ae te canaliculatis, stipulis late oblongis obtusis mox a latere ee longe excedente extus gaits intus deorsum pape o, filamentis abbreviatis antheris linearibus apice ac s basi sagittulatis, ovario 2-loculari, stigmate anguste fngitstia Tobis lanceolatis brevi- us, bace Hab. Toro, forest-bank of the Semliki River; Bagshawe, 1285. Folia i in ome lete viridia, pag. inf. pallidiora, adusque 20:0 x 8:0 cm.; cost secundari# utrinque circa 10, basales apertissime Eiocaias a patuli-ascendentes, marginem versus a eer omnes supra plane subtus eminentes; petioli + 0°5 cm. long. Stipule circa 1-5 cm. long. Racemi 7- flori, validi, compressi, 8:0-3°5 cm. long. Pedicelli + 1:0 oe long. Flores virescenti- albi. Calycis tubus (ovarium) 0°35 cm. long.; limbus 0°3 cm. long., egre 0-4 cm. diam. Corolla tota ‘bumeotate 19°5 cm. long.; anthere 0-9 cm., stigma 0-7 cm. long., hujus lobi 0125 ¢ Near O. formosus Hook., from which it differs, inter ,. in the inflorescence, the broader ieee and the c ah anthium myrtifolium ov. Fruticosum, glabrum ramulis patuli-ascendentibus gracilibus sat —o aa ad nodos tumidis, foliis submediocribus ovatis ale leviter cuspidatis ipso obtusis basi obtusis rotundatisve coriaceis supra nitidis castaneis ap ovario depresse husilaplueroali quam x longiore, calycis limbo ciliolatis, corolle parve extus leviter glanduloso-puberule tubo brevi sat lato intus juxta fauces annulatim barbato limbi lobis tubum breviter excedentibus anguste ovato-oblongis obtusis cito reflexis, staminibus subsessilibus antheris ovato- oblongis basi bre- aii — dfiais glabro, stylo leviter exserto glabro, stigmate era Toro, forest near mouth of the Mpanga; Pagshavwe, Folia 8-0-5-0 x 1-7-3-0 cm.; coste# secundaria utrinque 4, ascendenti- patule, marginem versus aperte fornicate, utrobique aullo eminentes; petioli 0-2-0-3 cm. long. Stipule 0-3-0°4 cm. ~ okie Florum virescentum fasciculi 0: 7-1:0 cm. diam. Pedicelli 0°5-0'6cm.long. Ovarium 0-1 em., calycis limbus 0-075 em. long. Corolla in toto 0°45 em. long.; tubus 0-2 em. long., ima basi UGANDA RUBIACEX 267 0°125 cm., faucibus 0°175 cm. diam.; lobi 0°25 cm. long. Fila- menta 0-1 cm., anthere 0-15 cm. long. Stylus 0:4 cm., stigma 0-12 cm. ~~ This can be at once Se from C. Schimperianum A. Rich. my the smaller leaves, the fewer-flowered fascicles, the po oe and a alee a graveolens, sp. noy. Fruticosa, elata, ramulis rigi- dis ps “foligsis pes sordido cito circumdatis glabris novellis OobD- obtusis basin versus gradatim a mg coriaceis glabris eximie nervulosis in sicco nigrescentibus fac. sup. nitidis inf. aliquando griseo-viridibus, sti pulis eorsum dilatatis sursum angustatis extus minute puberulis, floribus in cor opus ci brevibus pedunculatis sublaxifloris griseo-pubescentibus d ot bracteis parvis subulatis minute pubescentibus, vetted ellis calycem equan- tibus vel quam is bie vines ovario ovoideo calycis limbo fere ul tubo calycem breviter excedente latiusc ats uni iformi lobis 5 oblongis obtusis cito reflexis tubo duplo longioribus, filamentis corolle ori — me exsertis apice acutis, stylo breviter exserto pilosi- sculo, stigmate anguste fusiformi ae e bifid . ‘Toro, forest near mouth of Mpanga ; Bagshawe, 1178. Folia modice 8-0-10°0 x 2°5-3:0 cm., pauca che venilia + 6°0 0°15 cm.; cece secundari# utrinque 9-10, ascendentes, jets marginem leviter fornicate, ut ae elegant pauobique eml- nentes ; peti “adusqee 1°5 cm. long. vel etiam paullo magis ; stipule 0°5-0°6 cm. long., pedir sarciaseirien: “Oeepiite 5:0-8°0 4:0-5:'0 cm. Bractew inferiores circa 0°3 cm. long., superiores imminute. Pedicelli swpissime 0-1-0-2 em. long. Flores albi, 0-14 cm., ima basi levissime coartatus; lobi 0-4 cm. long. Stylus 0-5 cm., stigma circa 0-3 cm. long. Bacca sega er puberula, calycis limbo persistente onusta, 0-4 x 0° In general appearance resembles P. sree s. afost from Rhodesia, but the flowers are different in several respects. The very short corollas are a ae feature of the species. Pavetta albertina, Verisimiliter fruticosa ramulis validis glabris cortice aibido” raee circumdatis novellis puberulis, foliis pro rata parvis noo op sina te boson emcee oblongis obtusis basi in petiolum brevem cuneatim membranaceis glabris in sicco viridibus, stipulis a basi fate sinete persistente in appendicem vem lineari-subulatam deciduam subito excurrentibus apicem ramulorum validorum brevium vel perbrevium dense umbellatis, pedicellis Nae puberulis, calycis puberuli tubo m limbu ue medium in lobos accytihives obtuse acutos diviso, corolle glabree tubo angusto uniformi quam lobi oblongi obtusi duplo 268 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY longiore, filamentis corolle ori insertis, antheris epee stylo longiuscule exserto paver stigmate anguste clavato integro. ‘Hab. of Mizizi, south-east of a Albert ; Bagshawe, 1318. Folia solemniter 4:0-6:0 cm. long., 1°5-2:0 cm. lat. ; secundarie utrinque 4-6, ascendentes, parum aspectabiles ; ‘cupule circa 0°3 cm. long. Um go Planifore, circa 3°0 cm. diam. Pedicelli 0:1-0:2 cm. long. Flores albi. Calycis tubus (ovarium) 0-1 cm. long.; Taibis totus 0° Tl = ., lobi 0:08 cm. long. Corolla in toto 1:7 em. long.; tubus 1:1em., lobi 0-6 cm. long. Filamenta para ete ag 0°15 cm. long. ; anthers anguste lineares, phe apiculate, 0-5 cm. long. Stylus 2:2 cm., stigma circa 0°25 ¢ ong. Evidently not far away from P. lasiopeplus K. Schum., which is described as ha aving smaller leaves, bimucronulate stipules, flowers on longer pedicels in umbels with a number of bracts at the base, calyx- limb divided nearly to the base into subulate lobes, &c. It is also near the plant called by me P. grumosa, another of Dr. shawe’s discoveries; but this, besides drying black, has a different calyx among onl points. : (To be continued.) HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS. By tHe Rev. E. F. Linton, M.A. Some years ago there were those still among us who doubted al occurrence of hybrids among plants in a state of nature, and aper on the abject one might have been expected to furnish she of their being naturally produced. There is no need of this from the particular to the general is an old fallacy. In the case of Salix we certainly have an instance in which a forms have been mistaken in the past for species which were of hybrid origin. All these being apparently fertile (if female), there was some reason for the botanists of a generation or two ago regarding them as species a varieties. Now we know, from observation and experi- ment combined, that the large majority of these forms were pro- duced by hybridization, e genus Mentha, also, several forms have been published and ropeatealy described as species or varieties which are hybrids ; in this genus the hybrid sew ttnaite are sterile, and the form is g I ers. rence between the cases of Saliz and Mentha brings me to one object I have in preparing this paper. I wish to suggest a line of observation which may not only be of some ieee but HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS 269 NE redeem the subject of it from a charge of barrenness. While in hybrids we find fertility the rule, and in Mentha hybrids sterility, there are genera in which it is not quite clear what the rule is: do we, for instance, know the habits of Rose in ne re- spect ? The testimony is somewhat conflicting; and t suggest another question wanting solution: whether the eal of sterility or the reverse always holds good throughout a genus, or an er? en there are genera where it is still = ge sane whether some of the forms are hybrids or species, as in Pyrus (Sorbus). Such ie nag stand in need of experimental dicaticent rather than observa I on Fgialiaed to think with regard to hybridity in plant life that we must not expect to be able to reduce all cases to one rigid rule ; and therefore we must not draw inferences as to the habits of one genus from the habits of another. The botanists of the earlier half of last century either refused to believe in natural hybrids (as Sir J. EB, Smith with the Willows), or held that, while the cross-offspring of varieties was fertile, the cross-offspring of species was always sterile. They were too servile to the idea of uniformity in nature ; and these prejudices long stood in the way of progress being made in pen the chen : hybrids and the part they have played in the economy of The last edition (ninth) or “the London Catalogue of British oer made an attempt to distinguish the forms which were accepted a hybrids with a x placed between the names of the parent ipsaiag: : but there was no consistency of method; the work aad ot be called up to date; many a still stood in the list eeibeersd as species, and some few were lettered as varieties. In the next ete (tenth) it should bar pobaible to make some advance towards complete enumeration of British hybrids, and a consistent method of ‘exhibiting them in the list. With this object in view, as well as that mentioned above, I propose to catalogue here all the phanerogams which are known or believed to be of hybrid — in this country, and some others which have been under suspicion or question, so far as I am acquainted with them, in the hope that other observers ma ea upple- ment the list, remove queries, and record fertility or sterility where that seeps is not ascertained No attempt is made in this paper to represent the geographical distribution > of the hybrids that have been recorded for Britain. have to thank several friends who have given me help, especially the Rev. EK. 8. Marshall for very numerous comments and criticisms, and for all the observations Moyle quoted from Dr. Focke’s Pflanzen- mischlinge; the Rev. W. e Rogers for a list of Rubi; Mr. Alfred Fryer for a Seleshion Sates on Potamogeton; Mr. Arthur Bennett for a most helpful list of hybrids in the same a also the Revs. A. Ley and W. = Linton, and Mr. G. O. Ranuncunace®.—Thalictrum. Rouy & Foucaud (Fl. de France) report that Dr. Focke autives T. odoratum G. & G. from 7’. fetidum 270 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY and 7. minus. From limestone —_ W. Yorks, Mr. A, KE. Bradley - sent me a series of specimens, some of which were 7. collinum Wallr., some 7. odoratum, and one les a near approach to 7’. fett- dum; but I am not sure of the latter for Britain yet. Ranunculus Baudotiti x Drouetiti, R. Baudotii x heterophyllus, R. — xX trichophyllus, and R. peltatus x Lenormandi are given by Messrs. H. & roves in Bab. Man. ed. ix.; pow the last- named i is ai to be partially fertile (Journ, Bot. 1901, 121). Pap. Ex.—Papaver dubium x Rheas was once issued by Mr. G. adicheia if I remem me rightly, the a ae og on the shape of the capsule ma g-PoR forms with similar intermediate capsules in Norfolk, "but did aot arrive at any conclus FuMARIACEz. —Funaia densiflora X Yb teat is et (p. 120) by Mr. C. E. Salmon from near Wendover, Bucks, who says the area were sppasently quite barren, as oH as ‘saeiasd ate in c FER£.—Cardamine pratensis X flexuosa was reported from between Kew eee Mortlake by Mr. George Nicholson, and issued raphe eis’ Bo — Exchange Club (Rept. 1879, p. 5) as var. Hayneana Welw. A similar plant was found in Shapwi ck by Rev. . Linton, which we regarded as this hybrid without any doubt. On n growing a root at Bournemouth for two seasons, it proved per- fectly Zeki’ Cochlea Mr. Marshall once reported a hybrid from his garden at Milford, but he tells me he is not sure that any have occurred eee CIsTACER. Se ny ie Chamacistus x polifolium (H. sulphu- reum Will), B n Hill, Bleadon, N. Somerset; referred to in the Rey. R. P ay s Flora of Somerset. Viotacem,—Viola hirta X odorata, local, but not very rare the Rev. W. R. Linton at Shirley in the garden and neighbourhood, and is sterile.—V. Riviniana x ericetorum, more widely distributed than the last. I have met with it three times at least in Dorset ; always sterile.—V. ericetorum x lactea was sterile near Bourne- mouth, and probably elsewhere.—V. Aggy ig X stagnina was, I believe sterile om separ: Fen. To these, Mr. Marshall — me, y be added tea X ee ag “dabeeexel by W. A. Shoolbred on Tidsnham Chase, v.-c. 34, W. Gloster. Dr. Focke ign this hybrid (V. lancifolia Thore - Riviniana Rehb.) is alleged o have been observed in France.—V. arvensis x tricolor, which I a put on record for Dorset, produced what looked like good seed and capsules well-formed ; it is doubtful whether there is specific difference between these. I have also seen in Dorset both V. arvensis ewe a and V. tricolor form (Blandford) esd by some garde ; HYLLACER.—Silene, Darwin (Origin of Species) says a ville g ieaat hybrids Bey been made between species of Dianthu HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS 271 none have been produced in this genus, though olin attempted. One was formerly reported bétween S. anglica . and S. quinque- vulnera L., but withdrawn in the last London Catalogue. I cannot both plan em. to ghily diagnosed. There are several Dianthus hybrids aac in rice Flore de France. Lychnis alba x dioica has been occasionally met with. Rouy & Foucaud report ~ oe hoe and there in France with ‘hep parents; and Focke says it has been found in many parts of Germany. Mr. Druce alle me that it is fertile. Hypericace£, — Hypericum we ts : linarifolium. Miss Dawber sent a plant to the Watson Botanical Exchange Club in 1888-89 from St. Catherine’s, Jey, labelled i, linavifotium Vahl, which Mr. Bennett said, in the -Report, was nearer H. ae j aramegee 3 whether it was. not the plant Syme referred to (Engi vol. ii. p. 156, 1864) as strangely intermediate between shits ‘ae species, some specimens approaching to the one parent and some to the other. My specimens of the gathering were H. linari- folium, but there seems good reason to believe that Syme, and perhaps Miss Dawber, had lit upon the hybrid. Leeuminos2.—Medicago silvestris Fr. Nyman st eg this to have sprung from M. sativa L. and M. falcata Fr., o have become fixed ‘ogee the latter. Rouy & Foucaud (Fl. rr 4 t. Vv. . 12, 18) recognize the hybrid, and call it pseudo- “epg Rouy & F., but place M. silvestris as a variety under M. falcata Rosacez.—Rubus. The hybrids which have peed observed in this genus are ae numerous, even in this country, where no great amount of attention has been paid them. They were not placed in the London Catalogue (ed. 9), though several had been ascertained by the Revs. W. Moyle Rogers, A. Ley, W. R. Linton, R. P. Murray, and myself previously to its issue. Those now given are a limited list which the Rev. W. i eet kindly supplied, and which he considers may be relied o ing and most of them in the living state, and had hein all i in his herbarium :—R. holerythros F. x Sprengelii Weihe; Surrey.—-R. Lin pci Tide x bg Weihe; Derbyshire (I add Dorset),— R. rusticanus Mere. affinis 1 @ IN. nus Rogers; and Cornwall. — R. rusticanus x corylifolius Sm. ; 7 tie ; pro- ably frequent.—R. rusticanus x leucostachys Sm.; many localities in Dorset, Hants, Glamorgan, Hereford, Worcester, Derby (I add Suffolk, E.).—R. rusticanus x holerythros; Surrey. — R. isc x argenteus W. & N.; Somerset.—R. rusticanus x mutabilis Genev. ; ey.— R. Hissicaiie ~ Lindleianus « ; Surrey. — R. leucostachys x foliosus W.& N.; Kent. — R. leucostachys x diabetes: es urrey. — fh. leucostachys X pulcherrimus Neum.; Surrey. — R. leucostachys X Sprengelit; Derby. —. R. iacottiael x Marshalli F. & R.; Surrey.— R. mucronatus x infecundus Rogers; Here- 272 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY . ford.— R. yaaigretiere: Gelert x rudis W. & N.; Derby.—R. casius L. x ideus L. ; Dorset, Hants, Surrey, Staffs (I add Sussex). Thes are sufficient? to show that a fair number of British hybrids Bo and are certified by Mr. Rogers; I do not wish to throw do ubt upon others that have been recorded by omitting them here. They may be perfectly barren, as I have seen a large bush drupes which may contain fertile seeds; e. 9: the Rev. Marshall and I saw a large colony of R. c@sius x ideus north of Arundel in 1901, and could only find one single drupe each in the whole lot. It is not andikely that some of the numerous . dumetorum wae are hybrids or of Schad origin. I have seen 0 ne of these in large quantity on Breamore Down, Hants, seg i ied aa judged both by Dr. Focke and myself to be yor Geum intermedium Ehrh. The plant I am familiar with in Lg and Nbc is undoubtedly G. rivale x urbanum, and this is oubt the common view. Mr. G. C. Druce assures me that it is is lavtlle a its seed is offered by the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Potentilla produces in this country the three hybrids between P. ocumbens, reptans, and silvestris. Mr. Ma oie thinks that some of those that have been met with may be secondary crosses with the parents, and quotes Focke to the a i that fruit is produced, though sparingly, in this group of hybri In the genus Rosa, M. Crépin held distinctly that some forms were of hybrid origin, notably the groups of R. involuta and R hibernica. The latter name has been given to forms of R, spinosissima X canina or X glauca; while R. spinosissima hybrids with R. mollis and tumentosa vars. have given us R. involuta and many of its vabtetlod: There is recorded besides R. het mpinellifolia x rubiginosa from Kent and Perth; and Mr. Marshall also aa me that Major Wolley-Dod has found a rose which seems to . tomentosa X tomentella, and that Mr. Rogers considers R. ps site rusticana to be R. arvensis X systyla. With regard to fertility or otherwise, Mr. Marshall has noticed the fruits falling off before maturing in some R. involuta forms; Rev. W. R. Linton has noticed R. mollis x spinosissima in Chee Dale quite sterile. On the other hand, Mr. Baker describes the fruits of several R. involuta varieties; Mr. Druce believes R. mollis x spinosissima produces fertile seeds. My own impression is that some rose hybrids at least are fertile. Lord Penzance has pronucee several striking hybrids between R. rubigi- nosa L,. and sund old-fashio ned garden roses ; and Mes srs. pt HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS 273 is a. the case —~ wild roses, and usually so with those are under cultiva a us Aria Ehrh. ee long been supposed by some botanists to oie: hybrids with P. Aucuparia Ehrh. and P. torminalis Ehrh, . Koehne is an advocate of. several ecg in this Sorbus section resulting from hybridity. Dr. Focke says (p. 145), “ P. Aucuparia x scandica Bab. is Sorbus hybrida L., one of the few hybrids which were righ determined by Linné’’; and he gives other examples, The Rev. A. Ley, who knows the British forms in the field better than any of us, holds, on the contrary, that none of our Sorbus forms are real hybrids, adducing the fertility of our various plants as sepia ibaa Judging, 7 himisgpi from what is stated above with reference to hybrids of Geum Rosa, we i ~~ assume the fertility a a plant to be sonaninive evidence again hybrid origin; and, on the whole, I am inclined to believe * P. pinnatifida Bhrh. are hybrid forms of which P. Aucuparia is one parent, and that some of the plants waiol are called Sorbus latifolia P. are P. Aria X torminalis. Perhaps some botanic garden wi experiment. ratea oxyacantha monogyna is only a cross between varietie DrosgRacE Pala osera anglica X rotundifolia (D. obovata Mert. & Koch), saa only on very soft boggy ground in my experience, It is remarkable that D. rotundifolia L. and D. inter media Hayne should oe no — ugl together. Ona —Epilobium has produ ced numerous combinations which es 2 correctly stated 4 in the London Catalogue, ed. 9. . hir- sutum L. eure via E. lanceolatum, montanum, aldara: and parviflorum ; reiflorum Schreb. with roseum ; nome montanum L. with #. siciuvee palustre, parviflorum, roseum; E. lanceolatum Seb. & Maur. crosses with F. ee obscurum, pavtiflarim: and roseum ; EF. adnatum Gainebas with EF. Lamyi, montanum, obscurum, sees e, parviflorum, and also, as a garden hybrid at Milford, Surrey, E. lanceolatum; E. obscuriem Schreb. crosses with F. palustre, patina, dnd roseum; E. Lamyt F. Schultz with EF. See montanum, obscurum, and pealonin E. palustre L. with FE. par florum and roseum; E. alsinefolium Vill. with E. anagallidifainn, montanum, obscurum, and palustre; E. anagallidifolium Lam E. obscurum and palustre. Mr. Marshall has no additions to aie ve i apa. ait he tells me that he believes Epilobium hybrids to rule, completely sterile. Mr. G. C. Druce states very pontienly that they are fertile. I must confess that I am rather puzzled by this Sa ata for I incline to wi Marshall’s view. I have seen ae the right condition for — an opinion, but those few ee to me to e producing i O see Rusracez.—Galium Mollugo x verum has ccourred in several places, aiid is, I think, our only hybrid in the gen Rov (Fl. France, viii. 19, &¢.) gives @. sekveleaieut Wolf. ; is Sahwike ge et Kerte Fl. Erlang. (1811) as the name for an aggregate Pile between forms of these two, with many named varieties. He also ’ Journat or Botany.—Vot, 45. [Juny, 1907.] x 274 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY cords G, hghi x verum. I see no reference to fruit in the brief deaeipties omposita.—Hrigeron acer X canadensis, reported by Rev. E. S. Marshall rm 164), does not appear to be known for France, but is given by Focke for several places in Hast Germany.—Senecio vul- garis X squalidus is perfectly fertile, and has become something of a weed in the Cambridge Botanic Garden; so in learn from Mr. R. I. Lynch, who adds that he believes S. albescens (S. cineraria x Jacobea, see Journ, Bot. 1902, 401) to be also quite bere le. 05 duus crispus X nutans (C, Newbouldi H. C. Watson), occurring here an there with the poh = sterile in my experience.—Cnicus palustris xX pratensis (C. Forstert Sm.) was sterile in Westm eath.—C. hetero- phyllus x palustris ( C. Wankelli Reich.) is vivant! by Nyman for axony, Bohemia, &c.; and as C. Carolorum Jenner by Dr. Focke for England, E. tein Styria, et and Russia.— C. acaulis x arvensis (C. Clarkei H. C. Watson) and C. acaulis X pra- tensis (C. Woodwardii H. C. “Wateon) are ar as Britis Hieracium in the London sete 2 has two hybrids indicated i in the usual way, viz., H. anglicum x hypocheroides and H. boreale x sciaphilum. Of the latter I know nothing, but understood that it s ‘ ‘ e Rev. A. Ley writes to me that ie has found undoubted wild H. corym- bosum X boreale, and one or two hybrids have come up in his Hawkweed garden spontaneously; but I have no particulars of these. Under cultivation Mendel and Schultes have eter hybrids in this genus; but neither the Rev. W. R. Linton, nor 8. Marshall, nor Mr. F. J. Hanbury, nor myself, who have ‘all culti- same time, have been able to detect any hybrid among the numerous seedlings which were allowed to flower; we are none of us opposed to the theory of hybridity accounting for the multitu- dinous sortie, if the evidence prove favourable ; but in our several sad Pore the supporting evidence has not been forthcomin ACEE.— Vaccinium Myrtillus x Vitis-Id@a (V. internat Rathe) 1 believe has not been reported from any but the original 8 Erica ciliaris x Tetralix (EF, Watsoni Bentham). I did n examine this plant for fruit when I had it, but assumed its seeatig (perhaps too rome! ; it agen no seedlings during the years it was in cultivation with me, and in a native station near Parkstone, port I observed the plants of the hybrid continuing to flower e time after EK. ciliaris had entirely ceased; FE. Tetralix had Bonet still earlier. EF. Mackaii is, says Foc ke (i. c., p. 282), ‘‘ evidently a hybrid of EZ. Tetralix L.; the other ae : pres iliaris Li. ?).’ gathered H. Mackati, or seen it taiih gathe red, as I have done, would agree that any of these suggestions hits the mark. HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS (275 E. Stuarti Linton was described in Ann. Se. Nat. Hist. 1902, 177, as being derived from FE. Mackaii and EL. mediterranea (Journ. Bot. 1902, ce MBAGINACE®.—Limonium vulgare Miller x L. humile Miller (State Limonium X rariflora) was reported by me from Bosham, ssex (Journ. Bot. 1902, 41), and a to by Mr. Marshall, who saletl it with me, and by Mr. C. E. Salmon. Primutace®.—Primula vulgaris Huds., P. elatior Jacq., and P, veris L. form hybrids each tore! the others. Mr. Marshall quotes Lloyd (Fi. de l’ Ouest, p. 255, ed. 3) as saying of these three species and P, variabilis Goupil: “ ‘Cos plantes cultivées rae produisent des hybrides 4 l’infini’’; but he thinks that in a wild state the hybrids are usually sterile, if not invarintlly, * The Polyanthus of the garden is prolifically fertile; but though I have long grown P. acaulis x veris on light soil and heavy, I do not think seedlings have ever sprung up round these, as they do about Polyanthus and primrose. Mr. Druce, however, tells me that this hybrid is fertile. Anagallis arvensis x cerulea has been ma to mind recently by we Seyret 4 epee mows much acumen, by James Edwards (Jow 1906, 368), Ai refer to Mr. ren experiment (Fl. Norfl, p- 117-118), long familiar to rimmer crossed the two, and ‘‘raised a few plants hens bicis dat yo flowers, but yielded no perfect seed.”” Gaertn also er A, arvensis and ca@rulea several times, and found iam abactataly: sterile (Darwin, Origin of Species, chap. ix.). his Boies as to ow will serve, if the hybrid should be observed in ae in Ieee ee — Gentiana oe HSE x germanica (G. Pamplinii Did (B. C. Report, p. 879 (1892), and Fi. ae pe ay a described ea Berks Fsiihene and reported also by Jackson from Hants (B. FE. C. Report, 1895, 490, and 1897, Ser” Boraeinace®.—Pulmonaria angustifolia L. from the New Forest and P, officinalis L. from West Suffolk produced a hybrid in Bae crm.—Verbascum Thapsus Li. has been known to cross spontaneously with V. Lychnitis, V. nigrum, and also in my garden (at Bou papa ier with V. pulverulentum Vill. The latter appeared to be perfectly sterile. Darwin dsp the hybrids of Verbascum est remarkable sterility. We have two more hybrids occurring in this country, which V. nigrum vases with V. Lychnitis ulverulentum Vill. Dr. Focke’s testimony is on the side of sterility i in me genus, tnstaneing V. nigrum x Blattaria, V, Lych- nitis x Blattaria, and irgatum X nigrum (artificially produced by Gaertner) a ‘all being esl. He mentions that Darwin found y, Thapsus X eee which he planted in his pee m to be ‘‘ quite infertile when left alone; but when fertilized by the pollen of a parent, it produced a tee capsules with 2-5 seeds, whereas the capsules of V. Thapsus contained over 700 seeds.”’ Similarly he x 2 276 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY states that V. Thapsus x nigrum is ‘ completely —— small abortive capsules occur. through fertilization with one of the parents.” Sterility, therefore, may be regarded as the. ‘lie in this genus. Linaria. repens xX. vulgaris is said by Mr. Druce to be fertile. Euphrasia. Mr. F. Townsend published tne following hybrids i > _ ae close of his monograph on the genus (Journ. &e.):—H.. Rostkoviana x nemorosa Tow wns. (E. glanduligera Welsh) A Rostkoviana x brevipila (EZ. notata Towns.); FE. gractlis a (E. difformis Towns.); E. occidentalis x vies ge (#. pratiuicola Towns.); Fi. br sbipite X scotica (E. venusta Towns.) ; an E. scotica X gracilis (E. electa Towns.).. The Rev. HE. S. "Marshall adds, from Mr. Townsend’s MS. note- sige E. brevipila x curta, from Carnarvon, Kincardine, Aberdee W. Inverness, &c., an E., brevipila x stricta, froth Carlow, Kilkeany, Dubin; Tipperary, as having been entered without a query; and believes that he has himself gathered E, brevipila x foulaensis on Ben Laoghal, W. Sutherlan e Lasratz.—Mentha. In this genus we haye owed so much ceeasional help heat A Fee bec les in determining British M. longifolia too, and we have the resultant i in gardens and that has gone out of cultivation. ‘A portion of its charneteristies is found in M. rubra, M. piperita, M., gentilis, &c.”" aquaticc crosses on the one hand with M. / be at Bien fy s M. : pabeedoke Willd. and on the Continent some all 8; and on the other strong underground suakers shey faa send out. ‘To this we may attribute a certain stability of character, greater than we should expect in plants of hybrid origin, which has led to certain hybrid forms passing so long for speci Scutellaria galericulata minor I apts is sterile. — Stachys palustris x sylvatica, long known as .— Lamium hybridum. x purpureum, which es crater been a to take as a with §. uae Sond. The how a form of S. purpureum with more dee i cut oars whic is dict the ns stron and I do not feel poaitive which is S. d (To be eer 277 FORMS OF SALSOLA KALI. By O. E. Saumoy, F.L.S. In this Journal for 1904, p. 26, Mr. G. C. Druce mentions that he found S. Kali var. tenuifolia Moa. -Tand. at Southwick, Sussex, n 1900, oe with Atriplex rosea, and considered that both were iueedanee plants. This was undoubtedly the case as to the latter, which was bank there many years ago (see Arnold, F'l. Suss. 67, plants were found and kno very inch of the coast between Shoreham and Brighton, thinks ‘the localities are confused in Mr. Druce’s notes. A. rosea grew near the harbour, Shoreham, amongst quite a different spot, and was not associated with aliens or other rubbish- or wore bles. to see more of the plant than dried examples offered, I sists a visit to the locality in August last with Mr. Hilton and Rey. E. Ellman. We were pleased ‘to find the variety men- which it appeared to differ in being softer to the touch, in its long slender leaves (an inch or more) 3 and in ed id pete uniformly glabrous or nearly so. There seems no reason whatever to doubt its being just. as much a seni * the Atr iplen ‘tieintata ‘with which it was associated in hace groun It is not easy to find a satisfactory name for the specimens gathered, owing to the divergence of opinion existing in books. potent, up first Mr. Druce’s suggested name, ‘ Var. tenuifolia the original description in DC. Prodr. xiii. part 2, 188 4848), is as follows: ‘*Suberecta, aspera aut glabra, viridis, foliis longis tenuibus subfiliformibus, alis brevibus pallide roseis— Folia interdum 4 poll. lon nga.’ This diagnosis does not seem to fit our plant very nae SLT as the leaves, though narrow, can hardly be called ‘‘subfiliform,” but it fits uncommonly well the plant distributed by the "Watson aseite e Club in 1900, and recorded in the 1899-1900 Report, p. 18° as ‘ S, Kali Le var. ide a DC. Waste ground west of the Doe ks, towards Hessle, a at mA . Yorks, y.-c. 61. Identified at Kew. Oct. 1899. C. ert ” bars original description of 3. Tragus L. (L. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 822 (1763) ), * foliis spinosis lmvibus,” vo with the Sussex Plant; it is placed by Moquin under his S. Kali Ten. B Tragus— sub- erecta glabra viridis, alis subbrevibus subroseis vel roseis (9, Tra agus .).—Interdum ale dilatate et brevissime in eodem caule (var. miata Koch).” he common form of S. Kali in Britain appears to be scabrid. Syme (Eng. Bot. ed. 8, viii. 4) says, ‘‘ Plant (in the form which occurs in Britain) with the stem and spe of the leaves clothed with cartilaginous spreading hairs’; Hooker says AM ps Fl. 348), ‘pubescent or scabrid’’; an Babington tbe 51), ‘* minutely h air ry.’ This would seem to be the S. Kali Ten. a hirta Ten, 278 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY (Moquin, J. c.), ‘procumbens vel ascendens hirta aspera viridescens, alis dilatatis vix coloratus. (S. Kali L.)”” Grenier & Godron (Fl. de France, iii. 82) complicate matters by retaining S. eee L., and placing under it S. Kali y tenut- olia Moq. Reichenbach (Fl. Germ. Excurs. iii. 583, 1832) may be consulted as to the forms of S. Kali, and also Koch (Syn Fl, Germ. et Helv. ed. 8, ii. 521, 1857), who bases his varieties upon differences in the perigonium, and ignores hairiness or leaf form ys pisntet ar Europ. ii. 165, aor — the following synonymy r S. Kali L. var. Tragus (L.). M S. Tragus L. Spec. PL ed. ii. wren (1763). 8. spinosa Lam. Fl. Fr. iii. p. 40 (1778). Kali f. glabra Dethard.*Consp. Fl. Megalop. p. 25 (1828). S. Kali B brevimarginata Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. ed. ii. p. 693 44 R 1844), : eae ao Todaro, Fl. Sic. Exs. n. er li B calvescens Gren. et Godr. Fl. Fr. iii. p. 81 (1855), ; Rais b. marginata Celak. Prodr. Fl. Bohm. p. 155 (1871). extensive distribution given any not include Britain, but deabiintse France, Holland, and Germ is note may call etbrition to the ries that S. Kali is a plant that shows interesting variations, and I hope that British botanists, when gathering Salicornias (to which a good deal of attention has been given lately), will not omit to examine and report upon the pre cietira Saltol S. Kali . Tragus will probably be et to occur in other places gti ol shores and in various herbari Hr nAnH Ee : SHORT NOTES. Gymnapenia X Le Granpiana G. Camus.—In this Journal for 1899 (p. 360) I drew attention to a plant found by me on the chalk escarpment north of Sevenoaks, which appeared to Mr. F. J. Hanbury, as well as to myself, to be a hybrid between Gymnadenia wend a3g and Orchis maculata. In the Joutnal for 1902 (p. 297) v. K. F. Linton mentions specimens in his herbarium from Ba: anid end Oswestry which he identifies with this hybrid. I am also informed that a similar plant has been found in the extreme north of Scotland, the Orchis parent in this case being O. maculata subsp. ericetorum Linton. This year, having obtained three speci- mens of the Sevenoaks ‘plant i in a living state, I took them to the Botanical Department of the British Museum, where I was enabled to consult what had been published on the subject. The plant was described and named by M. E. G. Camus in Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, xxxvii. 215 (1 (1890), in an account of pra found by him at Neuvy- -sur-Barangeon (Cher), almost in the centre of France. He describes two new hybrids, one being x Orehis Sausaiana (O. SHORT NOTES 279 coriophora X ms _reareen and x Gymnadenia Le Grandiana C conopsea X O. maculata). The following is a translation of description of ‘the latter: ‘‘Dises of the pollen-masses free, enclosed in a pouch. Tubercles of the root two-lo slender, leafy, two decimetres in height, not hollow. Leaves ieaeey lanceolate, somewhat channelled above, obscurely spotted only at the top; bracts reddish, one-nerved, about as long as the ovary. Flowers few, in a short spike, lilac-coloured. Upper perianth-leaves equal, lanceolate-acuminate, the two lateral ones patent, ascending, not spotted. Lip oblong, three-lobed, the middle lobe entire, rather longer but narrower than the lateral lobes, with streaks and spots symmetrically arranged. Spur filiform, at least as long as the ovary, and pointing downwards. Plant exhaling a faint odour of vanilla.”” The Sevenoaks plant, if some allowance is made for the well-known variabitity of hybrids, agrees fairly well with the ‘above description. 1e number of flowers and length of spike obviously depend on the luxuriance of the individual ; ‘the lateral sepals are usually rather horizontal than ascending, and are spotted. The ground colour of the flower resembles that of G. conopsea, the G, conopsea ‘ e ovaries seadtiy" swell if pollen, even that of Habenaria chloroleuca, be applied, but I cannot say whether good seed was formed. I am persuaded that a am search in places Hanar PErrson. [Mr. Peirson’s specimen, with enlarged drawings of the flowers, is ag ae in the public gallery of the Tr of Botany.— Ep. Journ. Bor.] CxpHauozietta patuta (Steph.) Schiffn. mm Brirarmy. — When botanizing in Crete in the spring of last year I gathered a Cephalo- ziella nage ghee perianths, which Prof. Schiffner kindly identi- fied for s C. Bawmgartneri recently described and figured by him in Verh. ‘es K.K. Zool.-Bot, Ges. in Wien, 1906, p. 273. Prof. Schiffner has subsequently oa as (in Oesterr. Bot. Zeit. 1907, 48) that ‘this species 1s the same as Cephalozia patula whet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1905, 210, and this latter specific na consequently has the priority. Shortly after I had received this identification, I gathered an hepatic on a very familiar part of the chalk downs close to Lewes which appeared to be identical with the Cephaloziella from Crete, and which identity Mr. 8. M. Macvicar 280 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY and Prof. Schiffner himself have since fully confirmed. It i little uit that I should have first gathered in Crete a Saat which gr within ten minutes’ walk of where I have lived for years. C. “pile is eee moe to C. integerrima (Lindb. ) Warnst., recently recorded as British by Mr. S. M. Macvicar OnERS Bot. ike cells, the more Sone ia lobes of the leaves, and in the more pointed and more ee denticulate pericheetial bracts. The margin of the leaves and bracts is, moreover, always erect in C. patula, while it is not infrequently recurved in C. integerrima. O. patula appears to be a truly éatepolous. plant, and generally reaches its best development near Lewes when growing directly on blocks © chalk, and it has its headquarters in the Mediterranean regions, vis ae is Alia! distributed. C. integerrima,,on the other hand, damp clay or sand, and although it has been found as far ate ie Italy it appears to have its headquarters af northern urope, being recorded from several localities in Scandinavia. In the original description, C. patula is said to be dio ainities while Prof. Schiffner describes his C. Bawmgartneri as pseudo-dioicous, a term which he uses to cover those cases where a monoicous plant, by the subsequent separation of the male and female stems, presents the appearance of being dioicous. I found comparatively little ascertain. C. patula will probably be found over a considerable re of the chalk and limestone districts of the South and West of gland where suitable conditions occur. The locality near Lewes steep estuarine cliff, where the solid chalk Le here and tite through the turf. It is associated here with Seligeria cal- carea, Various species of Weisia, and Lophozia har biniie. In Crete, where it grew on the limestone, it was generally associated with Weista calcarea, W. verticiliata, isa turbinata, and Mesophylla stillicidiorum.—Wa. Epwp. Nicnoison various botanists and others, which are preserved in the Botany School at Cambridge. Among them is one from Joseph Woods, dated Oc tag 1855, in which the agate Rpt occurs :—‘“* I find on loo SHORT NOTES 281 oe: ta aaa Stalk shorter than L. Neithane marked differ- r part & without Bract or Awn oboy? cuneata. Bip. Soecursly dentate. Leg. equal Calyx 3 tink this cailian to be mollis.though the seeds. are.somewhat different.’’ When h wrote to Babington, Woods had evidently care to the conclusion _ that the plant was O. reclinata. The specimen is an unusually — branched and spreading one, and the pate is Pathak longer in pro- portion to the pod than in most of our specimens, but we do fas “se any doubt that it is correctly referred to O. reclinata.—H. & J. pte: NuM RIpARIuM L. in New Zeauanp r J. D. Hooker (Handb. New Zealand. he p. 482, footnote) vee “ The Euro- pean H. riparium is stated (FI. N.. Z., ii. 109) to be possibly a native of New Zealand from very imipebfoct specimens collected at Hawkes Bay by Colenso. I do not now find the which were. very small and incomplete, and TL think that the identi- fication is better suppressed.” The occurrence of H. riparium in New Zealand has apparently not been confirmed penile Paris dee does not include New Zealand in its distribution ; while Cardot (Mousses de Vile Formose, 1905) gives the distribution thus : ‘* Toute l’Europe et Amérique du Nord. Asie: Japon, Tonkin, Thibet. Afrique: Algérie et files oak ae Indiqué aussi en Australie, & Cuba et & I’ile Kerguelen.’ It may therefore be inter- esting to record its ainbticie 1 in Ravebiaber,, 1905, on mud at the bottom of a creek, alt. 800 ft., near Hunterville, north of Marton, Pb Island, by Mr. Chas. J. Burgess. It was sent me by Mr. Burgess, and, though the nerve is rather weak for H. riparium, there can be no doubt of its identity. It is one of the aquatic forms, resembling var. longifolium Schimp., except in the less finely acuminate leaves; possibly var. elongatum B. & 8. There are speci- mens in the H erb. Mus. Brit. from Swan River, ma coll. Drummond, and from Rereaelon Land.—H. N. Dixon PERSAL IN a 14 Cuammsyce L hoe in his Natrad idory of Piants, gives Euphorbia as an example of a genus in which the Pane ie forcibly expelled, but I do not know if the sioiin has been noted in the smaller species of the genus. . Chamasyce is a ig) aicig annual very alee allied to our E. Peplis. I grew it last yea my garden, from seed of speci- mens gathered in i004 by the Rinplisthes tee of Verona. Wishing to collect some seed for sowing, I brought a plant or two indoors and placed them on a table with their roots in water, and next da found the seeds and capsule-valves strewn for some distance round the plants. Observation showed that this was due to the expulsive action of the capsular walls, and I found on measurement that the seeds reached distances varying from fourteen to twenty-five inches. As the seeds are extremely small and light, measuring just 1 mm. in their longest diameter, the while | capsule rarely exceeding 2mm. in diameter, this implies a high degree of mechanical energy, taking into account the size of the structure thcved the more so 982 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY as, in the conditions obtaining, the plant was probably considerably oe vigorous than it fit uld be when undisturbed and in its normal habit Ph GY OF Sy FonTANA (p. 211).—In Mr. Riley’s note on this lant’ the kind of habitat is excellently described, and I might add that i ery many situations where I have seen it in — well-aerated watery places. Mr. Riley, however, says :—‘‘ The factors, therefore hist 8 seem to be necessary for the growth of this plant a appe ar to be a spongy bog with a — ao trickle of ater.” Montia does not grow in bogs.—Wm. OPHRYS MUSCIFERA Var. virEscENS.—A living pas Seine of a clear green variety of the Fly Orchis has been given to Me I Walker, 2, Brownswood Park, Green Lanes, N. It Ks Seal in‘a small copse at Wye, near Ashford, Kent, by Mr. G. W. Harris, the joint discoverer with at Walker of the rare Ophrys hybrida Pokorny in Britain two years a, In the normal form of the species the antenn-like petals shat the entire lip, with the exception of a white wandons blotch in the centre, are dark purple; but in the variety is pigment is etititel suppressed, leaving these organs light emerald-green in colour, rather more yellow than the sepals, which are in their normal green state. There are parallel cases in ae a and other genera, where the suppression of dark brown markings leaves the flower yellowish green in colour, and those se yim rms remain constant fect year a year. In this case the eae aah is probably permanent, and as the bes has — left may be possible to ascertain this fait season. The variety sens Skbsadinipty rare, only a single record having been discovered. this relates to a greenish form r ager as having been found in Baiteartaid by H gb arta (Fl. der Schweiz, p. 874). The ye specimen is preserved at Kew, together with a coloured drawing of it.—R. A. Rone. NOTICES OF BOOKS. The Dillenian Herbaria: An Account of the Dillenian Collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford together with a Biographical cree +a Seana Selections M4 om his Pas pbins sow? dence, Notes, By G E Druce, Hon. , Curator of the palais feena "Edited, with an inteedustion: by S. H, Vines, M.A., F.R.8., Sherardian Professor of Botany in the University. Oxford : “ — Clarendon Press. 1907. 8vo, front., pp. cxii, 258. Pric Tue contents of this excellently: speiuti volume are sufficiently indicated by the title-page here transcribed; but this, full as it is, gives an inadequate notion of the trouble and care which has been spent upon Le book. Of this the lion’s share—as indicated by Prof. Vines in the interesting introduction in which he gives an estimate et the work of Dillenius and of the place which he occupies THE DILLENIAN HERBARIA 283 in the history of British Botany (or more targa A of Botany in Britain)—has fallen to the lot of Mr. Druce, who, with charac: teristic industry, has throughout given the ebobas sgilediyras of e plants mentioned by Dillenius in his correspondence or de- scribed in his published sone as well as of a plants preserved in the University Herbar this must have involved a vast amount of labour and oem ~ ‘the whole to be a vietintalis ‘done. He has also indicated what appear to be “first county records ’’—a matter for which compilers of county floras will be grateful to him, although it might perhaps have been left to them in the first ed, k i instance. If, indeed, the book is open to criticism, it is on th mewhat uncommon ground that it contains too much rather than too litt we cannot but regret that Mr. Druce has be unable to resist the temptation which so easily besets him, and has ean the opportunity to publish a number of new combinations, some at least of which cannot stand. The earlier portion of the bo ok, after an excellent biography with notes, seer a hitherto sunpublished account of a journey from London to North Wales in 1726, selections from M correspondence, including the letters to Samuel Brewer preserved in the library attached to the National Herbarium, to which atten- tion has more than once been called in these pages, and letters from Littleton Brown, Richardson, and Haller. Mr. Druce refers to but does not posse six letters in the Sloane MSS. addressed by see nius a Sloane, Scheuchzer, and Brewer; he will find one to p. 35. The fiientiicalon of the plants in Dillenins’ 8 (the third) edition of Ray’s Synopsis follows the correspondence ; in this Mr. Druce ee the help of specialists, but the bulk of the work so far as the phanerogams is concerned is his own. The identifi- paced are of course based on the Dillenian herbarium, except for the fungi, which are not represented therein; these e from Dillenius’s drawings. It is in this part of the work that we find the new combinations to which we have ee Pea of which we think have been printed without due considera For — on P. 115 we find five new combinations orien " Helle- —a name ado ted for Epipactis, as Mr. Druce informs us by lett tier (there in no explanation in the book) on the eon ra that Hill emplo A the name for the genus as restricted by post- Linnean authors. t a reference to the British Herbal (p. 477) shows that Hill seals restores the name for the plants to which Linnezus applied the name Serapias—‘‘he takes away the received name and calls it serapias,” are his words; and although it happens that the British species described by Hill all belong to the group sub- sequently segregated as Kpipactis, Hill had no intention of so restricting it, but used it as synonymous with the original Serapias of Linneus. ecause when Hill intended to differ from the Linnean conception of a genus he ee 72) er o (2) ee o 2 >) Le] S a © 6 cr ‘‘ Linneus makes this a species of /inum or flax, though it con- 284 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY tradict the whole generical inp Uti It seems a pity to have — ined and so to have giyen further currency to the untenable ame Kaleria scieaeen Peses (see Journ. Bot. 1906, 104), and it might have been mentioned that ae unpublished engraving was reproduced i in this Journal for 1905, t. 474. But as a whole there is much to admire in the thoroughness and care with which Mr. Druce has executed this part of the work, and British botanists will find it valuable as - means of connecting pre-Linnean nomen- eae with that now he irae of hg Hortus Elthamensis are next eats: we we have an identification of the herbarium of the Historia Mus- corum—algze, mosses, lichens, &c. f this work the original awings are in the National Her a except the last six, te of which are only gakege by proofs, while four, as a note in the volume tells us, were ‘‘not drawn but were etched and a immediatly upon od copper = peat * Mr. Druce says (p. xxxv) ‘* The original drawings were said to be among Sir Joseph Banks’ s collection, fs see note 27," which states that they were “ bought at the sale of Robert More.’’ There is no discrepancy in the two statements, as the volume was bought by Banks at More’s sale and became no. 56 of his collection of MSS. The book concludes with an index of the names of the plants mentioned ; there is no list of the various persons — to, an its absence constitutes the only defect in the volum e are rd a that the Clarendon Press should have waee so impor- t a feature in a book of which the biographical interest consti- ois an important portion of the usefulness and value. Such an index is the more necessary because the table of contents is, for a work of the kind, regrettably meagre. Cytological Studies in Cyanophycee. By Natuantet Lyon Garpner. Swaps of California Publications. cet ae ag iil. No. 12, pp. 2 a. plates 21-26. November 10, 1 of discovering some clue to the pervs of the cell- nucleus, eytologst have lately manifested much interest in the Cyanophycee, there being a controversy as to the presence of a nucleus, its structure and functions, as to the structure of the cytoplasm, the presence of chromatophores, and the nature of the granules. In his recently published C yiologbinl Studies in Cyano- phycea, Dr. N. L. Gardner has done much towards settling these contested questions, and to this end he collected and studied over one hundred species of Cyanophycea. One of the chief difficulties whidkt he had to overcome was the elimination of the sand that adheres to these small alge ; and the various methods by which he effected this he describes in detail, as well as the methods of killing, CYTOLOGICAL STUDIES IN CYANOPHYCEE 285 fixing, and staining which he found to be the most ee a By prolonged experimentation he at last discovered : method o differentiating. by staini rn an the granules from the sae . matin, thus avoiding what had been a source of nih confusion to previous authors. The v ery best differential chromatin-stain proved to be Ehrlich’s Siinintoxytin n, freshly prepared, made from Gribler’s hematin. With this it is possible to stain the chromatin without affecting the granules. An excellent summary and digest of ait work on Cyano- phycee cell-structure is given, special attention being devoted to the recently published views of Kohl, Phillips, and Olive. A brief comparative analysis of the conflicting conclusions of these. authors on the respective points at issue is added. e lack of unanimity in their results is shown by Dr. Gardner to be due to their failure to differentiate ri structures present in the cell, ory their eagerness to recognize a complicated mitotic nuclear divisio r. Gardner own study of hs protoplast of the Cyanophycea- veel ine convinced him of the constant presence of the following three structures: The nucleus, being large, has its shape influenced by that of the cell. And the author ahawe that in the Cyanophycee a series of nuclear structures is revealed—passing by very gradual steps from a simple searcely differentiated form of nucleus, which divides by simple direct division, up to a highly differentiated form, which in dividing shows & primitive type of mitosis, and approximates in structure to the nucleus of the Chlorophycee and the higher oo A new v type a n pleted in the filamentous forms by the gradual ingrowing of the ring-shaped cell-wall. In some cases the aivision of the chromatin seems to poor the ingrowing of the cell-wall; in others it accompanies and keeps pace with it; and in still others it is, as it were, passively constricted and cut in two by the ingrowing cell- wa In its structure the chk ae of granules, chromatin, and an seleitiatic ground substance in which the two former sub- stances are imbedded. The aire demonstrates two kinds of granules in the. ae a3 associated with the chromatin in the nucleus, and never n the mature spore ; and the other (pro- bably food chaterial) sy iesatit in the vogetnti¥e cell, but always ce in the mature spore. One of the products of assimilation glycogen. No definitely 04 mit chromatophore is found, the syeopladin holdin ng the colouring matters. No oe con- tinuity between the vegetative cells appears to e It is impossible in so limited a space to senda an adequate account of the results set forth by Dr. Gardner in this important and illuminating addition to our knowledge of the minute structure of the Cyanophycea. A. & E.S. G, 286 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. Ar the Anniversary Meeting of the Linnean Society on May 24 e two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Linnzus—the Secretary laid before the meeting a copy of a letter from Linneus to Professor Pietro Arduino at Padua, with an introduction by Dr. G. 6B oni, and a paper by himself on a MSS. List of the Linnean Herbarium prepared by Linneus in 1758-5 with a Cata- logue of the genera now existing in the Herbarium. The aren edal was awarded to Dr. tba of the Buitenzorg Garde At the meeting on Jun 6, Dr. Carruthers, the Pegeseantative of the Society at the recent Pie celebrations 1 in Sweden, gave an account of the proceedings, beginning on the 21st May at Lund, the excursion by special train to. Rashult, the return to Elmhu It for supper, the further journey south to Hessleholm_ %6 meet Be train from Malmé, and the subsequent night journey to Stockholm sala. Next he described a pecs journey miles Haitienthy with his travelling companion . Daydon Jackson, and Lieut.-Colonel Prain. The events of the ‘tw following days were set out, includ- ing the celebration in the Aula of the Upsala University, where he presented the Linnean Gold Medal and the Society’s Address. On Friday, the 24th, the University conferred various degrees nea e distinguished visitors; the botanists honoured were Mr. Carruthers, Mr. B. D. Jackson and Mr. F. Darwin, who were honing Doctors of Philosophy: a laurel crown, made of leaves from a bay-tree planted by Linnmus, was placed on the heads of the newly appointed doctors. Mr. Jackson also received the Order of the Polar Star. Early on Saturday the delegates left for Stockholm, but the special train was too late to permit of the Bergielund Botanic Garden being visited; at two the event of the day took place at the Kungl. Musikaliska Akademi, where Count Moérner, President of the Kungl. Svenska Vetenskaps Akademi, after eulo- gising Linneus, spoke in English and announced that the Bi- Sona Medal of the Academy had been awarded to Sir Joseph k On Friday, 7th June, the President and Council held a reception in the rooms of the Society. Nearly three hundred guests were Sais! amongst them being His Excellency Count Wrangel, the of manuscripts, books, sees relics, alas, &e., of the gen store naturalist, which belong to the Socie onnection with the Linnean Bicenten wie an exhibition has been arranged in the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, comprising an interesting series of portraits of Linnewus, a number of autograph letters and original MSS., together with specimens of animals, plants, and books from ne own collection at the Linnean Society and the Department of Bot We beg to offer our respectful a to Sir Joseph Hooker on the completion, on the 80th ult., of his eighty- be a BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 287 Sir Joseph, we are glad to know, is in the enjoyment of excellent health and is still at wor Herr Dorecer (III Babichyases 36, roi has issued two more fees at the adm irable series of Botaniker Portrits, of which we last year commended the earlier scetalmnonts. Nothing could be better than these ed can ce printed as they are ob card with facsimiles of signature, and accompanied by a short but scooblaan biography. E ae fascicle (of ten) costs 5 marks; single portraits cost 1 mark each. The third part contains two “of Rudbeck, four of Liieriestit (with facsimile of his writing), Haller, Scopoli, N. J. Jacquin, and Allioni; the fourth, Wulfen, Ingen- Housz, "Hedwig, Gaertner, Kélreuter, Schreber, Pallas, Ehrhart, Thunberg, and Lamarck. The excellence of the work is as remark- able as its cheapness Messrs. Rout.eper send us an extremely pretty little Garden Aatholay; ‘beautifully printed, elegantly got-up, and of just the size for the pocket. e selection of extracts, in prose and verse, many from unhackneyed sources, made by Miss Rose’ Gardner, is so good that one is sorry it is not batters but there are serious omissions—e. g. there is tthe from Mr. Robert Bridges, although some of his verses, such as ‘ ‘The pinks along my garden walks are eminently fitted for inclusion ; while we could well have apa such early Victorian affectations as “Dora Waitin ng,’ by Mrs Mer r known by her maiden name — A. Twamley) under which aho published much verse, some of it quite pretty. e appearance of the book is slightly iarred: by placing ‘ by per- mission of,” &c., at the foot of so many extracts ; the usual method of acknowledging these en bloc sa 0 preface is to be preferred. But the book is cheap at half-a-c , and will give pleasure to many garden-lovers wa the weativas will not allow them to enjoy their gardens. ere is & stag wa misprint on p, 125, where : obra ” should read ‘‘ Now her Mess LAU AND Co, peice & . shilling volume of Lectures to Sugar rent i containing a summary of seven lectures ‘‘ delivered by the officers of the Imperial tc of Agriculture at Bar- bados seven years ago.” They deal with the natural history and cultivation of the sugar-cane, and its insect pests and fungoid iseases. Three are by Prof. J. P. D’ Sieg Be and one each roe Sir Daniel Morris, and Messrs. J. R. Bovell, H. Maxwell-Lefroy, and A. — ard. Tux new edition of the late Rev. M.H. Arnold’s Flora of Sussex, which we piatheriree (Journ. Bot. 1906, 289) as in preparation, has appeared, and realizes the forebodings we then expressed as to its unsatisfactory nature. As we pointed out (op. cit. 185) when Sussex, Mr. Arno ad in no way kept himself au courant with our knowledge of the botany of the county, and this is evident throughout the new edition of his Flora. With competent editing it might have been made a useful book; as it is, it can only be regarded as a pias to a satisfactory Flora of the county. Inthe 288 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY short prefatory note written just before his death, Mr. Arnold, we think rightly, protests against ‘the growing practice” of in- cluding casuals in our: lists ; ; but when he adds, ‘‘ I exclude them altogether,” one wonders why such things as Melilotus parviflora and Brassica monensis have been added to this edition, an Thlaspi perfoliatum is retained on the fe of an introduced speci- men from Newhaven in Borrer’s herbariu There are numerous omissions—e.g. Vicia gracilis and Laianen hybridum—and many strange entries—e. g. Ranunculus intermedius and R. lutarius appear as tw The Appendix, pean in tabulated form the non-Sussex species that occur in Hants, Kent, and Surrey, is absolutely ay as no attempt has es made to bring it up to date since 1887. It is much to be regretted that the Miss Arnolds, who have produced the book, did not submit the proofs to some botanical expert; the three plates contributed by one of them cannot be considered satis- e book (pp. 154) is egy: by Messrs. Mitchell & Co., Arundel, price (to subscribers) 4s. 6d. ALEXANDER So LE, who died + his ee. at Hiaiiond, Glasgow, on June 5, was born in that aity.i in lf After a busi- ness career in Glasgow and Calcutta, he loamy to Glaus and graduated B.Sc. at the University. His love for natural history led him to take up the study of the mollusca, after which he turned to botany, to which he devoted himself with much energy, especially in its topographical aspect. He conducted hyper at classes for ladies, and had a large herbarium; he was an amiable and gene- rous correspondent, and sent out saunicable | specimens. Most of Somerville’s work was published in the Transactions of the Glasgow Natural History Society, in which body he took much interest and was at one time president ; other papers appeared in the Trans- actions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and notes from his pen will be found in this Journal; he was treasurer of the Watson Botanical Exchange Club from 1900 until his death. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1881. Sir Direrricn Branpis, whose important volume on Indian Trees we noticed on p. 36, died at Bonn (where he was born on March 81, 1824) on the 28th of May. He was educated at the Universities of Copenhagen, Gottingen, and Bonn, and in 1856 was appoin Superintendent of Forests in Pegu; prio - > this he had published papers on ERE rhvis and other subject n German periodicals. From 1864 to 1883 he was Inspector- ‘General of Forests to the Indian Orioiaen His work, he tells us in the book already referred to, was purely practical, and never left him ‘leisure for collecting systeriatioally or for working out scientific problems ”’ ; nevertheless, by his knowledge of the literature of the subject aul of the material accumulated by vege ue be enabled to produce the volume which may be looked up s his most important memorial, as, apart from his official pork: he did not contribute laces to botanical literature, He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1860 and was knighted in 1887. Edite a A. G. TANSLEY, MAF FLS, Assistant Proressor oF Botany 1n Univers ®, Toxvox. Contents ais rite 3 Number (April-Ma a he ie Taschen Sete Study, by es Roperrson, D.Sc. (Plate I.) —-Double Bundles and Die my; some considerations 0 on the ‘Comparative Morphology of teat Traces i. N. THoma ysiol M i . (with e text). 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EDITED BY JAMES BRITTEN, K.S.G., CONTENTS — Phleum pratense L. var. pi Jord.—The Koeleria ; ¢ spk aoe << “British Phanero- . By the Rev. t. F, ena MA e% epee : om THE JOURNAL OF. BOTAN’ BRITISH AND FOREIGN EDITED ay zs JAMES BRITTEN, K.8.G., Pel. —___+—_—_ , Tite Journat or Borany was established in 1863 by Dr. Seotnanins n 1872 the editorship og: by Dr. Henry Trimen, who, isted during part of the time by Mr. J. G. Baker and Mr. Spencer : Moore, carried it on until or end ie 1879, when he left England for — Ceylon. Since then it has been in the harids of the present Mditor. _ atic botany, observations of ev ery ainence has from the first been given au British bolas 8 fely be said that gepbe of primary importance bearing — ubject has remained unnotice aphical masiters sy aia received and continue to receive — iderable attention, and the history of many obscure publications been elucidated. 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A eae 25 copies 5s.| 8 pages 25 on 8s. Od. H 50 c : * ; 50 vy 6s. Pee 50 9s. Od. 100 eae eT * rs yo PO Pees 100 Pe tie er ‘number of pages was ite seetee : os proportion. Separate Titles, Wrappers. i d Cdeccee in the Journal, a and =~ re-made ups the 3 cage : 289 THE GENUS CRATEGUS IN NORTH AMERICA. By Pror. C. §. Sareent, F.L.S. Firreen years ago American botanists recognized wih, species and a few supposed varieties of North American Crateg These, with a few exceptions, had been described in Europe, er chiefly from cultivated plants; and the arrangement of the species published in 1888 by Torrey and Gray in their medi of North America has been practically adopted in subsequent publications on the In 1882 Engel ibe Aineriaias ora. In 18 ngelmann, however, described C. brachy- poesnton ue-fruited species of Louisiana and Texas, first collected any years earlier by Drummond; in rt Fa Chapman described two species which he had found at Rome, in northern Georgia; and n 1896 Green eag is his very disti bet "C. ialignd of the Rocky Mavatains. Abou s time our interest at the Arboretum in the genus was roused “a the fact that plants raised here from seeds col- lected in various parts of the — differed tape peed from any of the described species. It was soon seen t different plants of their Seotetodde in the time of _ ripening of their fruit, and in . the nature of the fruit and the form of the nutlets, aa that these clisractere = constant and sould.t be depended on as distinguish- g | Following ap the investigation, it was found that these seedling plants in the Arboretum were identical in all these characters with the wild plants from oie Bale they had been raised. These facts led to a more careful study of the genus in several States, with the result that about five os Sa species have been described in the last eight years. It is not surprising that botanists, looking at the genus through the eyes of Torrey and Gray, or reaching their conclusions from the study of the seanty and generally incomplete material found in herbaria, have regarded the makers of all these species with pity, and have tried to throw ridicule on this investi- gation and its results. To those persons, however, who examine _ the plants in the field even casually, the fact is soon apparent that the genus pinkiiins st many very rotate forms, whether these are to be called beg or not. These distinct forms or species fall into —— — groups, and the plants of these groups can be recognized at a glance. For botanists with broad ideas in regard to the limit ‘tio of species or twenty groups may so ee twenty species, under each of whic can be grouped a num subspecies and variehite, while tee described by K. Koch in 1854, and until recently entirely over- looked by American botanists, wil serve pene to illustrate the varieties which are now known to occur in one of the large groups. The Pruinose are distinguished ra their bates SSipetiens, often green, sometimes angled and generally pruinose fruit, large flowers, and Journat or Borany.—Vou, 45. [Aveusr, 1907.] Y 290 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY long-petioled leaves sparingly glandular only towards the apex. In this group eighty species have already been described. These fall into two secondary groups: first, those having flowers with twenty stamens ; and, second, those having flowers with ten stamens. The plants of these secondary groups are further distinguished by the colour of the anthers, some of the plants in each having rose- of the plants in each of these subdivisions have few-flowered corymbs and others many-flowered corymbs, and that in both the - ad 1 such characters are constant from year to year, and so far as it is possible to judge at this time they are transmitted to seminal offspring. The origin of these many forms I cannot pretend to account for. The theory that they are hybrids of recent origin, however, can hardly be accepted. All the forms are constantly and abundantly prolific, and the seedlings that have been raised at the Arboretum hybrid Crataegus. It is interesting to find that the principal groups of the genus are often confined to distinct geographical sections. For example, the largest group of the north-eastern States, the Tenwifolie, does not occur in the southern States, except at high altitudes, or west he Flave group is found only in the THE GENUS CRAT#GUS IN NORTH AMERICA 291 small area, while individuals of allied species may frequently occur within a es feet of one ano While Crategus is certainly ec common in eastern North America, its distribution is by no means general. Colonies occur, as at Buffalo and Niagara Falls in New York, where in areas of a few acres fifteen or twenty distinct forms, belonging perhaps to four or five of the primary groups, grow together with many individuals, while outside of such great colonies it is often difficult to find a single plant over nee adjacent regions. It is probable that the ment and clearing of the country, for Cr ategus is not a true — plant and thrives and spreads only in open situations. That they are not more abundant and more generally distributed, and that the large colonies are pica found on the waste eround in the neighbourhood of towns is due, no doubt, to the fact that farmers, especially i in the ipaheth. Siete and Canada, consider the presence of thorns on their land as indicative of bad farming and cut them down as fast as they appear. The study of the ape presents rie difficulties. Herbarium specimens, unless they can be made in both spring and autumn rom the same plant, so unless they pe accompanied with accu- rate notes on the colour of the anthers, have no practical value. Many of the species look so different in the spring and in the peta that it » te sential to number carefully each plant from specimen taken. Collectors willing to undertake such trokblassiaeé ey pas not to be found in much of the vast region over which Crategus is scattered; and the blooming period of the different forms which may occur in any given region may extend through several ie and as each species remains in flower for only a few days, such a region must be visited seem times in order to secure the Sowets of all the forms; while in the autumn the ripening of the fruit in any given locality ay extend from August to November. Many visits have to be made, therefore, to a station before sufficient material for the description of all the is necessarily small. The difficulties are increased, moreover, b the fact that Crategus does not flower every year, and that the fruit is sometimes destroyed by insects or disease. Much work has c a reg BS States it is more ea probable that forms ae Ate differ from those that have already been described, and m will be needed ee elucidate the characters and dictbdlien | of the genus in this ¢ y: The eotigaion at best can only be carried on slowly and with full Se crledae “of all the characters of each plant described. The importance of deliberation has already been shown, and the diffi- x2 292 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY the field. Since the autumn of 1899, 2469 lots of Crategus seeds have been planted here. Careful records are kept of each sowing, and herbarium specimens are preserved, taken from the plant from which the seeds of each sowing were gathered. About five hundred lots of these seedling plants have now been permanently planted out, but among these are many representatives of widely distributed species raised from seeds gathered in different localities, in order to show the existence of any variation that may occur in such species. A comparative study of these cultivated plants when they are old enough to flower and produce fruit should make it possible to dis- tinguish the different forms, and to determine the value of the field- work which has been done in this genus. PLANTS OF KE. PERTH AND S&S. ABERDEEN. By Rey. E. 8. Marsgat, M.A., F.L.S., & W. A. SHootzrep, F.L.S. Tuese notes are the outcome of a week’s work at Blairgowrie (EK. S. M.), a week at the Spittal of Glen Shee, and nearly a fort- night at Braemar in July, 1906. In such well-worked districts we could not expect to find many novelties, apart from critical forms ; for help in working out these we are indebted to Mr. Arthur Bennett, Rev. E. F. Linton, Rey. W. R. Linton (who saw most of the hawkweeds), Rev. A. Ley, and others. Supposed new vice- comital records are starred. 89 = HK. Perth; 92 = §. Aberdeen. Ranunculus Drouetit F. Schultz. 89. The plant at New Mill, Lunan.Burn, mentioned in Fl. Perth. is not this species, but Rf. heterophyllus, which also occurs in Fingask Loch. — R. Lingua L. Stormont Loch ; locally abundant. Radicula Nasturtium-aquaticum Rendle & Britten var. siifolia a. 89. Near Ardblair Loch.—R. palustris Moench. 89. A orm with remarkably cut leaves, growing by Stormont Loch, may be var. pinnatifida Tausch ; but we have seen no description. * Barbarea intermedia Boreau. 89. In fair quantity and fruiting well by the Shee Water, below the Spittal, so that it bids fair to rites ee we-do not know of any previous occurrence in cotland. _ Geranium sylvaticum LL. 89. Near the Spittal we found growing with the type a few specimens which appear to agree with var. Yannert Briquet, a new variety for Britain, excepting the foliage. In Rouy’s Flore de France, iy. 81, it is thus described: ‘‘ Feuilles PLANTS OF E. PERTH AND S. ABERDEEN 2938 de la var. y [angustisectum Beck], ou méme plus étroites, sto semblables a celles du G. rivulare ; fleurs médiocres, a pétales d’u rose pile veinés de rose foncé; pédoncules glanduleux.” The flowers eee =a like those of G. versicolor L. Rosa mollis X spinosissina. 92. Left bank of the ee near its junetion with the Dee; flowers white, sparingly produced yrus Aria Ehrh. 92, An old tree, growing out of the rocky bank of the stream below the Linn of Quoich, looks truly native. Galium erectum Huds. 89. Native in a opetee near nan Lornty Burn, about three miles from Blairgowrie. — sylvestre Poll. 92. On the old coach road, near the top of the of Aine Pass, growing on limestone at 000 ft. *Hieracium Pilosella L. var. nigrescens Fr. 89. Glen Shee.— Hi. gracilentum Backh. 92. High rocks ee: Corrie Kander, Glen Callater; a form with pure yellow styles.—H. chrysanthum Backh. var. microcephalum Backh. 92. Scattered among the heather, descending from Lochnagar to the Dhu Loch, an 2600 to 2800 ft. ; usually small and one-headed in this station.—*H. nigrescens Willa. var. commutatum Lindeb. 89. Lochy Burn, Glen Shee. 92. Glen Callater. Very scarce os both places. —*H. submurorum Lindeb. 92. Stream-side (1800 ft.) in mae Callater; leaves not quite typical. — H. lasiophyllum Koch. corm and plentiful on slate rocks a the shooting-lodge, Glen ‘blag n.—Var. euryodon F. J. 9. Sandstone rocks by the Ericht ¢ rv t Graighall, Blairgowrie. —*H, aden F. J. Hanb. 89. Shee Water.—H. Sommerfeitii Lindeb. 92. Abundant and well marae in the _ om h H. aggregatum Backh. 92. Stream-side (1800 ft.) in Glen Callater; scarce. — H, variicolor Dahlst. 92. Glen Ey; also H. Pictorum Linton, anda form of *H. eee abi — gers cr tee oe 92. Glen Clunie, a mile or two above Bra —*H., rivale F. J. Hanb. 89. By the EK ricky near Craighall ; ecooulias foes; Rosticns towards H. Pictorum in some respects. — *H. petrocharis Linton. Dahlst. 89. Coolah Burn, Glen Beg, and streamlets in Glen Shee (1200 to 1500 ft.).—*H. sarcophyllum Stenstr. 89. Coolah ge the form near expallidiforme and acrogymnon, mentioned in W. | Linton’s British Hieracia, p. 55.—*H. dissimile Lindeb. 89. Rat bl frequent in Glen Shee and Glen Beg; not quite typical, but like the form of "¥ Killin district: — *H. porrigens Almq. 89. Glen Shee ; named 6 W. R. Linton with some little doubt, as being perhaps ga cons another plant, which is ar H. digphanun Fr.—*H . Linton. 92 r the um Fr. var. sejunctum 92. Linn of Conan zie.—*H. pinnatifidum Lonnr. : very scarce. —*H, oe fags var. dedalolepium Dahist. 9. Abundant on shingle by the Shee Water, a mile and a half striking plant; the coriaceous leaves being beautifully tinged with violet- purple, especially beneath. Flowers deep golden-yellow ; 294 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY ligule-tips glabrous.—*H. diaphanoides Lindeb. 89. Shee Water and Lochy Burn (the type is new re Scotland). —*Var. apiculatum Linton. . Lochy Burn; very r —*H., barbareefolium Lonnx. ? 92. By the pt just below Teen W. Be 3 Linton writes that te o op ° — oO a < s M4 et m =| =] ° i] ot oO ae = mn oO fo) wm ot Be @ pac} = @® x m ot 8 ° i=] OQ od << 2 =] Qu Qu o oO =} ae Rg in outline. Styles greenish livid.—*H. erwin Lindeb. var. placerophyllum Dahlst. 89. Rocks by the Ericht, near Craighall this variety was not oe before from Scotland.—Var. Lomgicidiatwm F. J. Hanb. In two Glen Dee localities, as well as a new 0 Glen Clunie; it italy belongs to H. sparsifoliwm rather hal H. rigidum. Styles yellow or greenish yellow hinanthus eden ge Druce. 92. Plentiful in dry, grassy ground, Glen Dee, near Allan-a-Quoich.—R. borealis Druce. 92. Rocks in Glen Callater, at 2500 ft i i Seige um pratense Li, var. ap Druce. 92. Frequent near raem itinthe aquatica L., var. 92, A mint found growing on the stony bed of a backwater of the Clunie, a little above Braemar, has the very sweet scent of M. citrata Ehrh., but lacks its numerous Betula Gur maa Thomas (B. nana, male, x pubescens, female). 92. One fine tree, by the Callater Burn, at 1700 ft., comes very near the form pet found in the same glen (1886), which grew higher up. Two smaller trees in Glen Slugain are probably the same combination, but decidedly oe ze pubescens. A very curious little shrub occurs at about 2800 ft. in wet, peaty ground on the descent from Lochnagar to the Dhu hoe oe Habit creeping- rooting ; hardly 6in. high; leaves small, nearer to B. nana (whic is, no doubt, the female parent), varying in shape from broader hairy ; without inflorescence. It differs greatly from B. alpestris Fr., and may be an undescribed form of the hybrid. ‘Salix cinerea L, 89. Ascends to 1700 ft. in the Lochy Burn. Unlike S. aurita and S. eae: is usually quite a lowland species. — S. lapponum L. 92. A lar hago about 10 ft. by 8 ft. across, and with very white foliage, ous ts at 2400 ft. by the Allt- Lochan-nan- Eoin, Ballochbuie Forest; it is probably the form which Smith called 8. Stuartiana.—*S. aurita x nigricans, 89. Near Spittal of Glen Shee. — S. aurita x ph peck 89. Two female bushes by the Lochy Burn, at 1200 or 1800 ft.—*S. caprea x repens. 89. By a streamlet in Glen Sia, at 1260 ft. An erect bush, about 4 ft. high, much nearer to S. capre Hoc -~ ae By the Callater Burn, at about 1750 tt. A procum oped plant, approaching S. repens, which was probably the female parent. The PLANTS OF E, PERTH AND S. ABERDEEN 295 Armadale (W. Sutherland) willow, so named by Dr. Buchanan White, is certainly S. cinerea x repens, as Messrs. Linton have stated.—S. herbacea x tiiebowiies 89. Lochy Burn, at 1400 ft.— Rock *S. herbacea X nigricans. 89. y bank of a streamlet in Glen Shee, at 1500 ft.; a trailing vor in fine fruit. The foliage blackened much in drying. —*S. herbacea x repens. 89. Not un- common in Glen Shee, between 1200 and 1500 ft., with the parents ; more or less intermediate, but varying a good deal i in poaege I might easily be passed by as a Vaccinium. 92. Between Loch Callater and Lochnagar, at 2500 ft. We also eter Mr. Linton’s original S. cernua on the Little Craigindal.—S. lapponum x repens. . The plant published under this name in 1893 was cultivated, and proved to be only S. lapponwm; but we found two specimens of the hybrid by the Lochy Burn, so the record can stan Juniperus communis L. 92. A procumbent bush on the rocks of Little Craigindal has the foliage of this, but ee more like J. “ara sm and is probably var. intermedia rehis latifo olia X maculata, 89. One specimen ooeurted with ihe parents in Glen Shee. m Schenoprasum L, 92. By the Clunie at Braemar ; cer- wae an outcast or eaeese escape. | uncus castaneus Sm. 92. One fine plant, high up in Corrie mee us Tabernemontant Gmel. 89. pcan | plentiful on the ee went side of ae Loch; a rare species inland.—S. fluitans Pe an Burn, near Mar 1 : Carex remota . 89. Marlee. —C. helvola Blytt. 92. The locality for this on Lochnagar, at 8500 it., 5 very closely with C, : : e for a scribed by Syme ; bait we failed to find the latter after a careful search. Hews ever, we were fortunate enough to detect C. helvola at 8300 ft. in the northern corrie, close by a fine patch of C. Lachenalit, and associated with C. curta. We have no doubt that it ii; and Herr Kikenthal names te specimens cain both stations ‘‘ C. canescens x lagopina; very characteristic.” Rev. E. F. Linton has cultivated roots received from Mr. F.C. Crawford, which remained sterile. The pale yellow colo of the spikes is well-marked, especially in dried specimens.— Cie ood. var. fallax F. Kurtz (u (under C. canescens L.). 92. By obiaaiconti Eoin n (2500 ft.), Lochnagar. ‘ Differs from var. robusta Blytt (= ae Ng by its slender habit and small spikelets ’’ Kilkenthal 4 tt, (Fries gives Blytt’s variety as robustior), Herr mr gs Me places Sie a sedge sent by Mr. C. P. Hurst, n Ben Lawers, at 2900 ft., which matches specimens distributed fe Mr. Druce as C. helvola, var.— C. aquatilis Wahl. . Near Spittal of Glen Shee ; a form ‘intermediate between type a var. virescens And. 92. Corrie Kander, on wet slopes at about 2800 ft.; a small state, which is named forma angustifolia Kiikenth. ined. — *C. aquatilis x Goodenowii. 89. Near Spittal of Glen Shee, with the parents.—C. Goodenowti J.Gay. 92. A strict, 296 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY black-spiked plank: from the banks‘of the Chiara Braemar, ‘ forma fuliginosa R. Br. = C. melena Wimm.”—*C. Goo enowit X rigida. ochnagar, in two places, with C. ilove: also with C. rari- flora Sm. pa sage es in a swamp, at 2800 ft., descending to of C.1 oan gsr: var. pais (Parn.). 92. Glen Balfouri Parn. 92. On exposed rocks by int ‘Clunie, ft. *Glyceria fluitans R. Br. var. triticea Fr. 89. a Loch ; Stormont Loch. *92. Marshes in Glen Dee, near Allan-a- gauich. —*G. declinata Bréb, 89. Muddy ground noe Fingask sep: alpinum L. var. decipiens Syme. 92. Lochnagar ; Little Craigindal. Chara aspera Willd. 89. Black Loch, near Blairgowrie Nitella opaca Agardh. 89. Abu ndant in a mill-lead heehee White Loch and Fingask Loch. HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS. By rue Rev. E. F. Linton, M.A. (Concluded from p. 276.) Potyconacea. — Polygonum. ah Marshall EN me of P. minus Be Persicaria and P. eX Persicaria (B. E. C. Rpt. 1892, p. 384), the latter ‘* teste Bate, and prob: ably the former also, collected by Mr. Druce from Abingdon, Berks, September, 1892. have not detected any in Britain. The P. minus x Persicaria which I issued from a gathering at Wareham, September, 1891 (B. EF. C. Rpt. 1891, 848), I proved to be P. minus; so elongate in the wild state that Mr. Ar. Bennett doughs it a variety. My speci- - mens of posenentel hybrids show great sterility. Dr. Focke says on P. minus x Persicaria, ‘‘ very floriferous, but sterile or very pigs al fertile, * mex conglomeratus xX maritimus, Worthing, Sussex ; ‘* seems to be fairly fertile,” Dr. Focke. Rey. A. Ley’s Hoarwit ithy plant is, I think, rightly named R. conglomeratus x sanquineus (R. Ruhmeri Haussknecht). R. conglomeratus x obtusifolius I gathered at Witley many years ago, and think tha ut the * 8 Pcobg is Wallr. from Kew HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS 297 gathered at Witley in ea with Mr. Marshall.—R. pulcher x rupestris (B. FE. C. Rpt. 1876, p. 81).—R. obtusifolius x pulcher, West Head, E. Cornwall (B.E.C. Rpt. 1877-78, 18.).—-R. ¢ Hialstanes- now Be: erispus X pulcher.—R. crispus x sanguineus I have not seen, but I have . of R. erispus x viridis from Malvern, Wor- cestershire an nor, I. crispus Xx obtusifolius fdiec aoutus. L. and is sai y reid, ite, in the Flora of somicie, to fruit freely in that county ; tins Rev. 'R. P. Marr my, however, thinks it fruits only sparingly, and Dr. Focke says, “fruits mostly im- erfect R. domesticus x obtustfolius (R. conspersus Hartm.) is 60 said to be fertile like R. pratensis in the B. EF. C. Rpt. 1872-74, Dp. Oe where some good notes on Rumex by J. Boswell Syme occu covering a better intermediate, near Somerton, in which the leaves are m = or less evergreen, though like D, Mezereum in shape and veinin ren ENTACEH.— Betula pubescens x verrucosa (B. ‘a Bechst. ?). To this hybrid Mr. Marshall refers specimen s of his own cue om Lawers, Mid-Perth, and Blair Athol, Perthshire, and of my gathering from Breamore, : meet e also informs me that we have three hybrids of B. nana x pubescens:—1. B. intermedia Thomas (nana, male x pubescens, female); 2. B. alpestris Fries (nana, female x ibe, male); and 3, a dwarf plant which ap- pears tohim a new form. Mr. Marshall ‘ells me that the late Prof Babington wrote He him about 1889 that B. intermedia formed quite woods in Iceland ; so he infers it is probably fertile [see p. 294]. Salix. In Journ. Bot. , p. 880, the following sentence ecurs: ‘* Nowy according to Wichura, the hybrids of Salia repro- anes themselves like pak species ’’; and the inference is drawn that Hieracium species have ire! multiplied and established in the same way. ave already shown how unsafe it is to apply the rule of one genus to another in voli to the characters of hybrids. But the above dictum, attributed to Wichura, is far too general a statement, and can easily be rebutted. Not to rely too much on the well- know wn variability of some willow hybrids, such as S. viridis Fr. or 8. lutescens Kerner, I have myself crossed the two sexes of S. aurita x Lapponum, and reared the offspring, only to find the greatest variability in the results of one sowing. The hybrids which occur spontaneously in Britain may be shown most clearly by enumerating the unions which each species has been known to make :— S. pentandra hybridizes with fragilis and alba (?). S. triandra with fragilis, alba, and viminalis. S. fragilis with pentandra, triandra, and alba. 8. alba with pentandra? and triandia and fragilis. S. purpurea with viminalis, aurita, cinerea, phylicifolia ae repens. ‘ 298 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY es on with triandra, purpurea, Caprea, aurita, cinerea, and repen S. Lépehaadl with Caprea, ae eigen phylicifolia, Arbuscula, repens, lanata, Myrsinites, and h S. Caprea with viminalis, Scosbeati aurita, cinerea, phylicifolia, nig — ponies and Myrsinites S. a with purpurea, viminalis, oa gto i ah cinerea, nigr icans, pio _ Myrsinites, and herb S. cinerea with purpurea, = Tinea Caprea, aurita, nigricans, pylioifolia, and rep . nigricans allie, aur rita, cinerea, phylicifolia, Arbuscula, Myrsinites, and her S. phylicifolia wit purpurea, rn Caprea, aurita, cinerea, repens, Arbuscula, Myrsinites, and herbac S. Arbuscula with Lapponum, hevibotes phylicifolia, and herbacea. S ens with aig hate viminalis, Lapponum, Caprea, aurita, cinerea, Beate otis and h with Lapponum, BENS and reticulata. S. Myrsnites with 1 Lapponum, Caprea, aurita, nigricans, phylict- folia, oa herba S. herbacea “with Lapponum, aurita, sha icans (?), phylicifolia, Ar Pecan repens, lanata, Myrsinites, =~ reticulata. S. reticulata with lanata and herb Besides, a few triple hybrids ot Ted noticed, such as S. pur- purea X aurita X re (S. sesquitertia B, White), S. lutescens x nigricans, and S. aurita x cinerea x repens, which Mr. Marshall has recently Sepdital | to me, The hybrids in this genus are fertile, and have been crossed with one another for the sake of experi- ment. In this way Max Wichura blended six strains of willow Populus canescens Sm. has been reckoned a hybrid, and is given in De Candolle’s Prodromus as very probably produced by P. alba x P, tremula. OrcuiDacez appear to resemble Salices in their great PAREN of aseeiae gk and in the fertility of the hybrids. Hanbury tells me that in the cultivated species many of the hybrids are just as fertile as the original species. All do not equally well produce good pore: rtaaeees but many hybrids will cross with — hybrids, so that you may have four or more species blended in one. I have no erties to Sk that British erect are fertile ; pe rule they have only been found very sparsely, and the natural inference would be that ee do not Sepecduns dhatistves. — Epi- pactis atrorubens x latifolia, one plant on limestone near Tongue, ermany, Russia).— Orchis incarnata x latifolia, Mr. Marshall believes, is recorded from Sussex; and it occurs in the Avon Valley near Christchurch, where both species are rather abundant, and some plants intermediate.—0. latifolia x maculata occurs. I have gathered it near Odiham and near Milford in Hants. — O. latifolia X ertcetorum grows in a wet meadow in Edmondsham, Dorset.— HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS 299 O. abe ed x Habenaria conopsea was observed near Sevenoaks y Mr. Peirson in rn and described in an interesting note in this Journal (1898, 860).—0. ericetorum x H. conopsea has been gathered by Mr. Marshall in W. Sutherland, 1900, oe at Clova, Forfar, 1904; also in Berwickshire by Mr. G. C. Druce (Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1907, 100). Another Habenaria hybrid is albida X conopsea, first published for Britain in this Journal (1898, 852), and previously recorded from the Austrian Alps. Specimens from Arisaig, ees were submitted to Mr. Rolfe and myself by Major A. H. Wolle ey-Dod, and we both arrived at the same oe independently. I grew my root and flowered it for three years, and noted that it matured no capsule; from eS oo might be inferred, or the absence of the right moth. at date this hybrid has been gathered by Mr. Marshall at Tongue, and at Scullomie, W. Inverness.—Ophrys apifera x Arach- apifera X aran ifera nd O. Arachnites x aranifera are recorded in the Flora of Kent (1899), with full particulars and comments. — natural hybrid between — : ial and O. muscifera was found on + Downs Kent, described and figured in the Orchid a (1905, 233) and in this Journal (1906, 847). Found long ago in Germany, and figured y Reichenbach. Juncacex.—Juncus effusus x glaucus (J. diffusus Hoppe) has long been known, and is recorded from thirty-six vice-counties. I have always found it sterile. — glomeratus xX glaucus was found by Rev. Linton 10% myself twenty years ago in two parishes in rfol was ile. The k; : arshall once gathered i in Tené what he believed to be this ee as both supposed parents were present, and J. effusus was absent. The inflorescence in the Norfolk specimens was almost as much condensed as in -. conglomeratus.—J. acutiflorus x lampro- i Bromf.), em forms large tufts at Symond’s Yat, and is more bution, is completely sterile. ypha latifolia Li. var. shee Syme may be a hybrid between our two species. At any rate, I have long believed specimens I gathered in the orb eed sie near Bletchley Station and called media to - ae hybrid. Natapace®.—Potamogeton. In this para genus hybridity is believed og our best judges to have played an important part in producing what are now well-established forms or “species.’’ The hybrids are usually sterile, setting it may be an occasional fruit (I found only two in a large number of specimens of P. salicifolius the Rey. A. Ley and I gathered in the Wye); and Mr. A. Bennett tells me of a fruiting P. decipiens Nolte from neat Burwell, Cambs, as a very exceptional case. The following notes on this genus are from has also contributed several valuable notes, is quoted by name.— P, natans X lucens (P. fluitans Roth).—P. natans x Zizi (P. crassi- 300 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY folius Fryer).—P. span pe ea Bab. non Laestad. (P. Kirkii Syme) ’ erp by Fryer to be probably P. natans x polygonifolius.— Grifithii Bennett is sere a hybrid; fide Fryer (P. poly stg jin ae P)ig it is P. peed x —— according to Ascherson & nown for ssneteneney oe as only one station Anglesea.— P. Drucet Fryer (P. natans x alpinus ?). — P. Sane EP. coloratus ay gracilis Wolfgang). —P. lanceolatus 8m. On this Mr. Fr ryer writes to me: ‘‘ Certainly a fie? ns No two forms of this from different — ey ae ur Cambridgeshire form is P. heterophylius x Friesi deserves a segregatename. Smith’s plant (7. e. “ yee esea lant) is avidently P. heterophylius x pustilus. am inclined to assign the same origin to the Iris And he adds that he - seals inclined to think that local pecu- liarities 23 a parent plant are imposed on its hybrid offspring. — P. rivularis Gillot (P. hiteeupsleg ies x siecle ?), fide A. Bennett, who ae me P. lanceolatus = P. heterophyllus x Friesti ?— P. heterophyilus X natans (P. Tiselit rae — P. faleatus is put to P. heterophyllus (subgramineus) x nitens 8 falcatus by Asch. & se bner (i. c. p. 328). Mr. Fryer, sah does not offer this or any other solution, remarks, in /itt., “Tt has ra its characters for in the original locality, and also under cultivation Saree it fruited.’ "—P, nitens Web. Mr. Fryer Sc is to be always ybrid of varied parentage, and questions whether it ever bears ars than an occasional perfect fruit, never a fruiting-spike. Mr. Bennett ascribes it to P. heteroph yllus x perfoliatus.—P. lucens X prelongus (P. Babingtonii Ar. Benn., P. longifolius Bab. non Gay). —P. lucens ri perfoliatus (P. decipiens Nolte ee — P. decipiens Nolte var. afinis Ar. Benn., Mr. Bennett now cage is probabl PS ae xX nitens = P, cere = — MS., but (he Bk Asch. & Graebner (p. 380) place it under P. perfol iatus x lucens LE ya p. pte.).—P. saci Wolfgang (the ae form) is thought by Mr. ryer t a By unknown origi Mr. Bennett believes Wolfgang’s aks o be P. soe x lucens.— P. angustifolius x heterophyllus (P. varians ans ex Fryer).—P. anqustifolius X coloratus (PB. Billupsit Fryer).—P. pralongus x poly- gon ifolius (P. Macvicarti Ar. Benn. Ann. Ses Nat. Hist. 1907, ee —P. crispus x perfoliatus (P. Coop eri Fryer and var. Jacksoni er).—P. crispus X prelonyus (P. nciaien Wolfgang), see paper Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1907, ee —P, crispus X obtusifolius (P. Bennettit Fryer).—P. crispus x Frriesit (P. Lintont Fryer).. I have remarked above on the general sterility of the hybrids of this genus. It is not impossible that sterility is the universal rule here, and that the exceptions are due to fertilization by the pollen of one of the parent plants. For Mr. Bennett on this point observes that ‘in many (hybrids) the flowers do not open, and in others, when they do, the pollen is bad.” this is always the case, we cannot attribute fertilization to the hybrid, and can hardly do otherwise than fall back on a parent plant for the male element. HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS 801 Cyperacen. — Scirpus carinatus Smith is reputed a hybrid between S. trigueter L. and 8S. lacustris L., being found in tidal estuaries where these two both occur. The abs ore of any modern desorption of the nut (see Bab, Man. ed. ix.) points to its probable erility. "Oa arex paniculata x remota (C. a ea Marg oP Weihe).—C. paniculata x vulpina, discovered by Rev. E. 8. } all in Surrey, and determined by Pfarrer Kilkenthal, with weese castes I agree. —C. muricata x remota is said by Mr. Marshall to have been collected by Mr. Druce, and he tells me that Focke calls it “‘ perhaps the commonest Carex-hybrid,” which of course is not the case with is so scarce, almo st. unknown, in fact, in bien n, that ene probable those of us are right who identify C. avxillaris Goodie = a x vulpina, which is perhaps the commonest sedge- hybrid — Carex muricata x vulpina is my solution of a sedge peel by Mr. Marshall in 1892 at Clymping, W. Sussex, and issued by him as C. muricata L. I suggested C. axillaris, which Mr. Marshall was inclined to accept, till under cultivation it pro- duced a shorter spike, more like a —. a muricata, Pfarrer Kikenthal named it later (C. vulpina L. nemorosa Rebent., calling it a shade form. The plant is, wares, wanting in some of the chief characters of C. vulpina, and in these respects it approaches C. muricata, which parent it most oe of the two. —C. remota x vulpina is what I sos eee C. axillaris pee fim this Mr. Marshall concurs. — C. divulsa x vulpina was originally found by Mr. R. F. Towndrow at Newland, Malvern, Worcester- shire, in 1889; one plant only, which died out. It did not attract much attention, perhaps renee Babington Pecrseme it (Wats. .E. C. Report) to C. divulsa, of which he said i pce the oe (With one of my specimens a piece of C. divulsa st at , an is may have happened with the sheet submitted to the Pieter I have many specimens of this gathering, and fertile nuts are by no y M specimens, though r rather immature, are borne out by Mr. Town- drow’s.gathering.—C. helvola Blytt is in the London Catalogue list as a species ; was thought by some to be C. curta x echinata, but w more usually regarded as C. approximata x curta. The cultivation, whose compact diiline, now flowering (ear « a recall Th C. approximata, which was preseni in 1 the o origin nal s ear. pected to result from C. echinata and C. curta, but would be a very surprising result from C, approximata and C. curta, both of which 802 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY at the same stage have narrow oval or elliptic nuts with no acuminate beak. The spikes are lax, with the lower spikelets remote, differing obviously from the Lochnagar plant in this; an as ow I ee o. approximata has not been found on the Breadal- —C. x Hudsonii? Specimens sent me by the Rev. . Be Riddelsdell fect Crymlyn Bog, near Swansea, may be this, unless it is merely C. Hudsonii Ar. ‘Benn. starved into sterility by the poisonous fumes of chemical works. I also am inclined to believe that a plant from which Mr. R. A. Phillips sent me ee: geet rie tes from Castle Connell, Co. Limerick, x Hud — C. acuta a . occurs just north of "the milwagi? Ohvistchurch, 8. s, and at Wareham, Dorset, and I have seen specimens — eae localities; Mr. R. A. Phillips sent it me lately from Banagher, King’s County.— C. trinervis, from Ormesby Common, No rfo lk, E., was sterile in its native locality and aitoctod with Puceinia, and continued so in my garden. I have long entertained the ae that this plant is not C. trinervis Degland, but C. Goodenowii x flacca.—C. aquatilis x Hudsonii (C. hibernica Ar. Benn.). See stots. Bot. 1897, p. 250. —C. aquatilis x rigida, moorland near Clova, Forfar.—C. aquatilis eo. 2 an salina (C. Grantii Ar. Benn., l.c. p. 250).—C. atilis x Govodenowii, known from Clova, Forfar, Caithness, and Spittal of “Glen Shee, E. Perth (B. E. C. Rpt. 1906, 246).—C. Good- enowit X rigida has been gathered by Mr. Marshall from the White Water, Forfar, 1904, and so named by Pfarrer Kiikenthal “in spite of its apparent fertility,” an also on Lochnagar, 1906; and by myself and the Rev. W. R. Linton in Glen Doll, Forfar "1890, near the Dhu Loch, 8. Aberdeen, 1889, and on Meall nan Tar- machan, Mid-Perth, 1891. I agree with the naming of the first- named gathering, but demur to the supposed fertility; my speci- mens show flat unfertilized nuts.—C. fulva Good. is stated to be a hybrid of C. flava and C. Hornschuchiana. Mr. Marshall ig three hybrids of this group: C. lepidocarpa Tausch., C, Gideri Ret and its var. edocarpa, each crossing with C. dina, aaa he considers hy last to be the most frequent. — C. acutiformis x riparia oO occur frequen i = oy sont of the parents eens mei But I have not s r heard of it till the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell sent me oc ae ito m Peterston, Glamorgan, labelled C. riparia L., which I have no doubt are this hybrid. This led me to recognize the same hybrid with much probability in specimens I had laid in from Brandon, Norfolk, as C. acutiformis Ehrh, var.— C. acutiformis x rostrata—so I interpret a puzzling plant gathered by Mr. C. Wate _ near Tewkesbury, Glos., in 1902, and labelled C. acuta L., which it somewhat resembled.— C.7 s6thn, X vesicaria is believed ey Mr. Marshall to be the solution of C. involuta Bab.; and Messrs. Groves (Bab. Man. ed. ix.) allow it as sosdibl correct. The form of the hybrid I have gathered at Wareham, Dorset, is not ae and seemed to me peculiar in having its stigmas included; it was, of course, sterile. Speci- mens have been sent me as Peas between C. flava aggreg. and HYBRIDS AMONG BRITISH PHANEROGAMS 803 C. pulla Good., but so near one parent or the other that I have not tear rally satisfied. Graminace®. —Alopecurus geniculatus x pratensis (A. hybridus apres, eda’ near Ronilwoihts Warwickshire, named by Hackel, whom Mr. A. B. oe oe it, and from Aithiiegs, Staffs. Voine Bot. 1901, 284 E. C. Rpt. 1900, 650). spp littoralis Sm. is, I think, undoubtedly Agrostis palustris Huds. olpogon eee esf. have seen it with these su noes parents at Porche S. Hants, and also at Littlesea, Dorset. From the latter baal I grew a root for three years in the garden, nd as no seedling occurred, I assume it is sterile-—Ammophila baltica R. & §., Norfolk and Northumberland, has long been x coasts of the North Sea and the Baltic, everywhere sparingly. Habit of C. arenaria, but recalling strong epigeios by the loose, brownish inflorescence. Occurs by the North Sea on islands from which C, epigeios is now absent, but probably grew formerly. Is totally sterile. C. arenaria = Psamma arenaria R, et Sch., Ammo- phila arenaria Link, &c.’’ The seeds of seaside grasses can be carried about in so many ways, by gales, tides, and wading birds’ muddy lieves that these solutions, or, at any rate, the first two, are correct, —Glyceria fluitans x tige (G. pedicellata Townsend) is perfectly sterile, fide Rev. W. R. Lin Mr. Marshall tells me that Mr. Townsend from the first seapostel hybridity, and latterly was con- vinced of it.— Festuca loliacea Huds. stands in the London Catalogue as I’. elatior x Lolium perenne. I think the hybrid, as I have found it, has usually been fF’. pr ve x I. ago sal ae acutum C. Agropyron — R. & §.) is given by Messrs. Groves in Bab, Man. without note of hybridity, but we have for some years been secitinng to ‘he view that most of our plant, so-called, i 2 48 junceum x repens. ‘It has received many names b nical writers, and is the 7. acutum for the greater part of our British lists,’’ writes Mr. Druce, who, however, thinks it needs one more, and ddaoiniviathe it ‘A. Hackelit mihi, A. repens x junceum forma cristata Hack. in litt.” (B. E. C. Rpt. 1906, 252). o this paper on shai: among Phanerogams, I add such few sich as have reached me n Hybrids among the Cryptogams at the end of the London Castine: PoLyPoDIACE® -—Asplenium Trichomanes x Ruta-muraria ee Cler- monte. Syme - germanicum Weiss has been thought to be 4, Ruta-muraria x ¥ aopeenttionale, a view held strongly by the iy. R. P. Murray. ‘A. Kerner has suggested that it may be a hybrid which has become fixed’’ (Focke). — Lastrea remota Moore has been 304 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY suspected of being L. Filiv-mas x spinulosa. ss sale “es sparingly in voens districts’? (Focke). Syme (Eng ed. vol. 12, p. 82, 1886) has a remark to the effect that he sia L. gondilova is a a nen = L. spinulosa x dilatata; L. wliginosa to axs and L. remota pe sna L. spinilosa ee Gata i pe mit a L. Filia-m The Rev. A. Ley wrote on L. glandulosa: ‘*It does not seem ioe anes to attribute it to L. spinulosa x dilatata, although I have never seen it growing except where both thesé species are present within a short dis- tance’? (B. H.C. Rpt. 1899, p. 616). I have not had much oppor- tunity of studying sees supposed Lastrea hybrids.—Polypodium vulgare var. serratum Willd. is, according to Timbal- oy P. vulgare x Aspidium aaciwa 4 an . cambricum L. was con sidered by. him to be P. vulgare x Pteris aquilina (Focke) ; and Mr. Marshall, who gives me this Sprecacging thinks the latter at ey not very unlikely, as it seems always to be without fructifica- tion. I do not feel inclined at present to express an opinion Equisetace%.—Equisetum arvense x limosum “is @ very sid spread and — er frequent hybrid, occurring in different forms es kee E. littorale Kuel., H. inundatum Lasch, I. Kochianum G. Boeckel ” (Pooke). See Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 65, t. 273. NOTE ON ROSA HIBERNICA. By James Brirren, F.L.S. In me Index dacagses the papteesoe of Rosa ee is Siren as ‘Sm. Engl. Fl. ii. 893” [894] (1824). This is odd in view of the numerous ae references given for the lant j in the Fngls Flora—Engl. Bot. t. 2196 (1810), Smith’s Compendium, ed. 78 (1816), Woods in Trans, Linn. Soc. xii. 222 (1817), na Lindley’s As hs 82 (1820); to which may be added Ait. Hort. - w. ed. 2, ili. 261 (1811), and Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia (1814-15). The n ao is cae aladbnad to Smith, who in his first publication of it in Engl. Bot. says :— ‘* Discovered many years ago in the county of Down, about Belfast harbour, where it grows abundantly, by our often- mentioned friend John Templeton, Esq., who consequently found himself entitled to the reward of 50/. so ‘ibowally eae by the patrons + botany at Dublin for the discovery of a new Irish plant. We opt the name by which Mr. Templeton ‘aa rmuncsict wild piace to us, for the singularity of the anecdote, and that hte al not rob him or his countrymen of a particle of their onou Pet the above quotation is i clear that the name was sug- gested by Templeton, but it seems to have been generally over- looked that he actually published i it with a ‘fall ‘description and an excellent figure, in vol. iii. of the Transactions of the Dublin Society, pp. 162-164, where he says: ‘‘ As it has not been before described, NOTE ON ROSA HIBERNICA . BOA I may perhaps be allowed to give it the name of Rosa Hibernica.’ he authors of the Cybele Hibernica seem to have overlooked this sentence, for (p. qe they 5 ne ‘R. hibernica Smith ’’ as the name rf - plant, an :—‘' First published in the Dub, Soc. Trans. ay ages ne (803 T1803} and fea named R. hibernica by mit The ‘* pi of £50” is more correctly stated in the Cybele to have been ‘‘ five guineas, Irish currency”; the entry in the Dublin Transactions (iv. 199) runs :— ** For producing Native Plants of Ireland not hitherto described. R. Scott, Esq., M.D., Professor | Three new species| £ ss. d, of Botany, T. C. D. of Mosses. 1s is I John Templeton, Esq. A new species of ‘1 | Rose. P abut The fruit on the E. Bot. figure of R. hibernica is from a drawing sent by Templeton to Sowerby with a letter, preserved in the Department of ag which is printed in the Supplement to this Journal for 1903, Scott published a of his mosses in the same volume of the Transactions, p. 158, with a figure of each, but these seem to have as of Turner Muscologie Hibernicea Specimen (1804), which is dedicated to Scott. It would appear however that the former should cel attributed to se. ‘ aritima. 1€ aig friend Mr. Turner has affixed the trivial name Seaeed was sent to Turner. The references to the species should there- fore 4 Grimmia maritina 8m. ex Scott in Trans. Dublin Soe. iii. 158 (1808). Dicranum Scottianum Turn. ex Scott, Scott's third plant is altogether Joubtful; ‘it may as he suggests be a Ri secanhag Tur r (op . cit. vi.) makes special gy ase nag of the help he ak ris Scott and Templeton, to the former of whom he dedicates his book, which he says was begun at his. 2 enon i— « Viris amicissimis, Roberto Scott, M.D. Botanices, Eblanex, Pro- fessori, W. Stokes, M.D. Sacro -Sancte Trinitatis Collegii Socio, Historie Naturalis ip indefesso, et Johanni Templeton, Arm qui, Hibernie septentrionalis incola, regionem illam montosam et quo Flora Hibernica mox est expectanda, summas et habeo et ago gratias.’ JournaAL or Borany.—Vo1. 45. [Aucust, 1907.] z 306 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY SHORT NOTES. abot or SENECIO ALBESCENS (S. CINERARIA X JACOBHA). —In the Rev. E. F. Linton’s be ene paper ©. 274) the fertility of Sencoto albescens is set down as unpro r. Linton overlooked the following inked on page “is of the Flora of County Dublin, published three years ago, where the question is set at rest:—‘The Killiney Bay hybrid penta perfect fruit n small quantity. Of five plants which I have grown from its soos gathered on the sea-cliffs near Vico in 1902, one retained all e prominent characters of the hybrid, shes: the others ap- he in varying degrees more closely to S. Jacobea.” In further proof of the fertility of this natal hybrid between a native and an alien species of Senecio it may be of aa oe to n Seeds gathered in 1905 from a hybrid grown in my garden, and itself the product of seed taken from a hybrid parent in its natural station - Vico, — proved fertile, and produced one strongly marked hybrid plant. This, unfortunately, died after reaching a height of thes inches, so that I have been unable to raise a third generation of the hybrid——Narnaniet CoLaGan. ae NTIA FONTANA L. (p. 211).—Although the habitat of this widely diffused plant is typically as Mr. L. H. Riley ths described above, yet, in its two forms, minor All. (erecta Pers.) and major All. (rivularis Gm.—repens als sa is able to live and maintain ‘toalt in many varying conditi of dryness and moisture. The enumeration of the following "baatiGed from my own herbarium should s eae to confirm this statement. Ina n a hillside, 600 ft., Salop. 7. On the top of a dry hill, 900 ft., the Buckstone, West Gloster, on Old Red Sandstone Con nglomerate, in short turf, with heather, gorse, Polyricim juniperinum, ke. Mr. West remarks (p. 282) that Montia does n It might be well to limit that assertion a “on Sphagrm,” or “in Sphagnum-bog.”—E.LEONORA ARMITA PHLEUM PRATENSE L. VAR. PRECOX ‘To rd.—In June 1905 a very well-marked variety of Phlewm pratense was found on the limestone at Cave Dell, ee Derbyshire. This proves to be var. precox Jord.—E. Dras Tae Koreria or Ben Bera —In the Memorials of Babing- ton a reference is made to the “ Koeleria on Ben Bulben supposed to be valeriaea”’ [sic]. In the index this is altered to “valeszaca.’ : "ced say that through the kindness of the Curator I have seen e specimen in Babington’s Herbarium from Ben Bulben and find it is not K. valeszana, but is miles to the plant which I DER EINFLUSS DES KLIMAS 807 gathered on that range last September, and which is now being examined by Dr. Domin. It belongs to wor Asin negates and is not the common aah Cae sis CuaRIDGE Dru Scua@nus nigricans L.—It may be = interest ee report that in July “1906 this plant was fo ssid by me between Clevedon and as whence it was recorded in 1842. It is of rare occur- rence in Somerset, and has long ae ny tig te be extinet in the above locality— Mary A. G. Liv NOTICES OF BOOKS. Der iar des Klimas auf den Bau der Pflanzengewebe. Von ARL Hou“TeRMANN. Pp. 244, 16 plates. Leipzig W. Nes for Price 12 marks. HIS work, mir to 244 pages, will be somewhat of a dis- sppolasmant to him who purchases it in the expectation of reading a general seen of the effect of climate upon plant-structure, e book almost exclusively deals with the results of some observations made in Ceylon. . Holtermann has evidently imitated A. F. W. Schimper’s style of work and drawn largely upon that botanist’s ideas, but hardly with success or adequate appreciation. Schi nd r had an artist’s gift of setting forth the main facts of his case to pro- uce a bold and true picture, and of avoiding excessive detail. a in attempting the same method Prof. Holtermann seems to m take important points for trivial details ; for instance, after attack: ing Schimper’s view that the vegetation near the sulphur springs of Java are xerophytic, he states that the amount of salts present is often insufficient to evoke pig: that ober of the various t the eieion of the fumaroles is not such as it ok “brthactive devices against gma eee Yet he gives no convincing illustrations, on analyacd'o f the soil, and no evidence against the quite probable possibility that minute doses of sulphur dioxide can evoke xero- Again, he makes the interesting statement that a detached shoot of Cyanotis fascicularis, when laid on a table, gradually withered during the day, but recovered its fresh appearance and turgidity during the night. From this he concludes that the shoot absorbed dew. Yet there is no evidence supplied that the shoot increased in weight during the night, nor that the regained turgescence was not due to mere ite of water from the eous tissue to the green cells, nor that there are any cells capable of absorbing dew. Later on, Prof. Holes goes on had say that in Ceylon there are various plants possessing aqueo tissue, and haying a power of absorbing dew and of thus pitatig i in weight. The proof of the prevalence of such a widespread utiliza- tion of dew would have been a notable addition to our knowledge 808 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY of plant-life in the a ae neither names of plants nor statistics are given. Yet one more case may cited. After describing and figurin = familias devices for sail protection— including coatings of hairs and of wax-like substances, youn stipules, leaf-sheaths, concave oR bases, peg- ae hp oe at the bases of leaves—the author i Bs on to say: ‘ these pro- tective devices I have Gas able to establish ee fact that when ’ eye! ad ; + ans hough scattered about the book are interesting isolated seoaaaee s that seem to be new, very much of the text, even the spaced ee is already well known, as would be recognized if the serait were more fully cited. The first fifty pages deal with climate in Ceylon, and give some useful Cesare ade statistics on transpiration. next Secti asta bag with the consideration of man- r with. We are told that most botanical writers regard aqueous tissue as a means of depressing transpiration, and stress is laid upon the very familiar fact that in reality its function is to prevent green cells from dying. But the main object seems to be to show lower face of the leaf, have strongly developed cuticular ridges, but are ‘‘ not xero ok ytic in character”! Bruguiera gymnorhiza is described as having a thick cuticle, but not so thick ‘dass ich, wie rr and improbable assumption ‘that the cell-sap of all the cells of the leaf is equally concentrated as regards common salt,” ang further sustains his argument by informing us that no Ses n_halo- phytes washed by sea-water have means of depressing transpira- DER EINFLUSS DES KLIMAS 809 tion ; and he even instances Salicornia herbacea to ui ey his iew ! These examples suffice to show the unconvincing nature of the , which continues with consideration of the pa Pate of the solfataras, sea-shore, inland forests, patanas, parasites, and e epi- phytes, among w ehiah are isolated facts that are both. interesting as subsequent to the author’s, and later a similar original concep- tion is brought out in "relied to Mr. Wright’s suggestive work on leaf- fal ) Upon leaf-fall and periodic diate in thickness of wood, Prof. Holtermann adds n “sii ng so far as the reviewer can see, novel in idea or in fact. He ords $e tty observation made b Carruthers, who noted that a chocolate-tree seven years old showed at the beginning of the vegetative season in tropical trees, adopts the familiar theory put forward by Hartig in connection with temperate trees ; but he Fees be it (in spaced type) in manner too narrow and dogmatic, thus: ‘‘ At the commencement of the vege- tative season it is absolutely necessary for new conducting chan- nels to be produced rapidly, since the tracheal elements, which : i e commence to grow, and in a very short t time the mass of foliage is sire larger than formerly.” This proposition is nothing than an assumption, because it neglects two facts: first, the of water stored in the wood of the tree ; secondly, the possi- bility that the tree may perhaps, by in Saad rapidity of current, temporarily do without any sudden increase in channel. Later on rof. Holtermann makes an astounding misstatement in reference a a suggestion due to Hartig, to whom he attributes the opinion that there is ‘a connection between the formation of annual rings and the production of heart-wood”’; and then he laboriously pro- ceeds to overthrow this obvious delusion. Hartig, of course, never sought to establish any such relation, but he did show that those temperate trees which produce heart-wood, and in which the con- ducting channel consists of a few an nual rings, the so-called “spring zone”’ is especially porous, and «did ingeniously i aie Ul nists. I changed habitat on Fea the author has to agree in results with Schimper, yet without any justification he suggests (once Sce assertion,’ and adds shat ‘a could not find stone-cells in this 810 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY plant, but did find them in S. Plumiert. What plant does Prof. Holtermann mean by the latter? One species known as S. Plumieri is identical with S. Koenigz, atnotla species known as S. Plumieri is quite a different plant. This final Section of environment upon plant- shina! tone ses no material contributions to the knowledge of ‘direct adapta . n fact, the book, with its pelacmindptlons, its hasty conclusions, its incomplete ig and its treatment of previous workers, seems to belong to the class “in which the voice of intention rinks itself heard penoseli the mask of insight” (Schopenhauer). Percy GRooM. Lectures on Plant Physiology. By Dr. Lupwic Jost. Translated by R. J. Harvey Gisson, M.A., F.L.S. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907. Pp. 564. “Os. net. Jost’s Vorlesungen uber Pflanzenphystologie, which Eee treatise it is nevertheless a masterly summary of our knowle of this subject. It has, moreover, ifualities of Teidity ada ng whic eee Gi ating conte ast wit effer’s more elus pages. translation of Jost was therefore to be desired, and iti is fitting that the desire should be met by the Ginreiidon Press to whose Wc o botanists are already so indebted. nglish translation by Professor Harvey Gibson occupies pages, about 130 pages less than the original. This compres- sion is secured at the expense of the reader ; for so close-set are the lines that it is not easy to follow their sequence. The illustrations are old and worn. Many are from well- known sources such as the Prat coc aa and are certainly, so rned, superfluous. f black ‘group Sea (p. 185), the igures = Ste (p. 268), the blurred Mimosa (p. 513), may be cited as examples of the man figures dwells aatoeaky' in their present state; might be muss with cogs aay! it is doubtful whether the spark was worth doing on these terms ; for, on such terms, it is hardly bist even to do justice to the book itself, still less to remedy its defects. Occasional sentences in epee brackets by the author do not succeed in bringing the book up to date. Thus the chapter on assimilation contains no reference ‘6 Usher and Priestley’s work nor to the recent researches of F. F. Blackman. Neither in the bibliography to the chapters on Heredity and Variation, nor in the BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 811 chapters aise lb is aria made of such names as those of n, ae Punnet, Sanders. The student is referred to no Secon English or American work on Genetics, not even to De Vries’ ‘‘ Species and Varieties, bier Origin by Muta- tion.” The brilliant work of the Third Report is ignored, and we are told that “ Mendel’s law of segregation is however not of universal application. There are hybrids which do not segregate, and also others which segregate in different proportions.” The segregation of hybrids would provide a Mendelian night’s entertainment. The subject of manuring with artificial manures receives nine- teen lines. Kainit is written “cainite’’ (p. 101). Phosphoric and nitric acids are said to - amongst the chief garry Basic slag is thenamei and it is stated with respect to lime that “one sibel never fear a easy of that mineral in The bibli ee ignores Rothamstead, and is silent as to Hall; but refers the student to aes. s Saasaenacar te 95 me h Our aes ss ‘ihe stream of physiological research may be small; but its place must be marked on any map published in this country. The actual translation is fairly, but not wholly, satisfactory. Growing point (p. 285) instead of growing-point is not a happy innovati he inw igni c inno * ard significance of manuring” (p. 101) illustrates a tendency to t of unnecessary “ Tran for ation . 1) is not elegant. ‘ Vines treated with coppe 88) should Mabie read “ treated with a copper salt,” since rit appears from the next sentence that it is a solution which i d present tenses rub should m- fortably in the sentences which follo More serious objection must be taken to the loyment of the word me rphosis as the equivalent of the German ‘ Formwechsel. e word is already heavily weighted with meaning, is rich in historical asso- ciation, and is too old to bear new meaning for the Cat oer of which good poste already exist. A reckless use of italies—as man as seventeen age—is a feature of the book; saiealives ~ to be specially, asa not Scahuieely, favoured in this respec FREDERICK KEEBLE. BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. Tue Editor, Mr. Carleton Rea, is to be congratulated on the appearance of the Transushiens of the British Mycological eee for the season 1 (Worcester, 1907, pp. 133-189, 3 coloured 812 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY his address by giving some delightful historical notes on the Forest, and then takes up the subject of Mycetozoa, describing in turn the methods of spore dissemination and germination, the life of the swarm-cells, and the development and cytology of the plas- modium. A valuable pepe is contribute y . Emile Boudier, oe and pia ran on many of the figures, on the nomen- clature, form, and colour of the fungi. His remarks are replete all w f helpful | of British Lycoperda ies the field.”” He takes up each character in succession and lists the species under the different character- roups. The paper is a decided boon to field-workers, who have not found Lycoperdon an easy genus to deal with; but it would have been more readily helpful if it had been arranged in ger : form. Papers by W. B. Allen on Trametes a as A Cotton on British Clavarig ; and by Carlton Rea oe ae are also included, as well as the coast i list of “ Fangi new to Britain.” A number of these are also new to science, and have — n figured by Mrs. Carleton Rea, to whom the Society is again naaae spomciaky nn present number forms the close of the seco an index of this and previous parts is acai con ait a list of members of the Society.—A. L. 5. e received lately ane further communication on the Board of American por erry Milde e Boar ca a a is look-out for the first eon of atti “ The disease,’ we are . Salm ! berry Mildew, issued by the South-Eastern Agricultural College, speaks with no uncertainty. The author is s fighting the a me of growers and of people with authority. His aim is to induce the Board of Agriculture to carry out the following measures: (1) ne prohibition of all further importation of diseased Laisa! stock ; (2) the compulsory destruction of all diseased bushes, compensa- tion being paid where nec Mr. Salmon again describes the appearance of the disease, and gives advice to those growers whose bushes have been = alrea We have received the Report of the Watson Botanical Ex- change Club for 1906-7, from: which we hope at a future date to. publish some extracts. Contents of Double Numbér ¢ (April-May).—The Bue ides fenetic Stedy, by Acnzs Rosertson, D.Sc. (Plate I.).—Double Banlles a -tomy: some considerations on the Comparative Morphology of hg a i h - on the Evolution of the Filicinean Vascular System. _ II. —The Hotryopetie ar A. G. Tanstey, M.A. (wi ith 19 figures in the text)—_Rrview: two books on ‘The — Principles of Botany.”—The Central ee for the Study and. ices of British Vegetation: Report for 1906 (W. G.S.). 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[UNDER this heading it is proposed to publish items of ae formation which accrue during work in the National Herbarium, and which it seems worth while to place on permanent emery as elucidating the history of some of the plants citi therein, and specially of the older types. The Notes will be contributed by members of the se ve others ; ae e forming the present instalment are by ritten.—Ep. Jou ‘*CAMELLIA AXILLARIS Rox cb.” The p figured under this name in Bot. Reg. 349 and fait ae dar (th in Feb. 1819) is, as pointed out by Dyer Journ. Linn. . xili, 330, Gordonia anomala. The diagno sity feaiicr Ker’s description (Bot. Reg. 349) i is latinized from ‘Roxburgh MSS. in MSS. Banks conservato”; Dyer (/.c.) says ‘I have tried to trace this MS. in Roxburgh’s hand, is taken from vali ii. p. 1522**, Sims quotes the same description as from “ Roxb. fl. Ind. inedit.., ” but re not mention the Banksian library. The word ‘ «down why” i rendered by Ker “ sericeo,” by Sims “ villoso.” According to Ker, r, it was pee Eure by Roxburgh from Pulo-Penang to the ee Garden. Dyer (/.c.) says “if it was obtained from Penang, it can only have been from a garden”; this may well have been oe case, although Roxburgh distinctly says ‘‘a native of Pullo-pinang.’ Poni TITES AMG@NA Solander ex Miers Apocyn. 8. Amer. 18, When revisin wr I came across this plant, Vohigh was first published by Miers (/.c.). Its general appearance at once suggest nh that it did not belong to the order, and a closer inspection indica ubiacee for Mr. Spencer Moore examined the “epoca and ty it with Rudgea eriantha Benth., a p d, curiously enough, by Miers a who oo Be arom it and whose specimen is accom- y a pencil dra of dissections of the flower. It must ever te remeniber we that the memoir on the Apocynacee was Miers’ last work, published in his eighty-ninth year, and that it contains abundant evidence of failmg memory. A careful ex- ‘non vidi’ are in several cases appended to descriptions of plants which Miers himself wrote up in the Herbarium. Ceratites is‘ duly retained in Apocynacee by Schumann (Engler & Prantl, iv. 2, 144), and no doubt seems to have been hitherto expressed as to its position. Crepis pramMoRSA Tausch. Babington includes this plant in his Flora of Iceland (Journ. Linn. Soc. xi..315) with the following note: “Solander states that he found it at Hafnarfjord. It is included in all the lists from the time of Kénig; but no localities JouRNAL oF Botany.—Vou. 45. [SepremMBer, 1907.) 2a 314 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Shanta made for Banks iy Pinks Millen who Seine im on morsum wit . c@esvum me OL which Banks and Solander’s hypnordes L., S. nivalis L., Leontodon autumnalis L., Hieracium cesium Fr., Erigeron alpinum L., bitch pele Seated L.; aires islandica L. Of the Gentian two forms are figured—one with white or flesh- sales ed flowers, the bite of a red- oabpis hue throughout, including the blossoms. The imen of G. tenella spec in Solander’s collection is, as Babington says (I. c. 318), ere dert, sit not in Solander’s ee although the name a sis one in nthe = aie Kewen description in Solander’s MSS. and a drawing by Parkinson (gla andi ig dis lato included Cook’s plant under the oe DichipTERA sah nme Be sd this Seemann (Fl. V 183) places “ D. floribunda Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined) p. 203,” of which he transcribes the description. There being no usstdey'6 of D. frondosa Matic Banks and Solander, T ad p24 ] Banksi by Sigismund Baestrom when incisor the MS., or possibly made after the transcription. The entry under D. frondosa in Vit. should be restricted to the words “ ‘froin Tahiti (Forster! Sites and A ociuciat ” the synonymy and description belong t ERinvs FRurescens Mill. Dict. ed. 8, n. 4, is the type of Capraria cuneata Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 47—usually cited as of R. Brown , although his name is in no way cted with it in Hort. Kew. It is identical with C. Sanifrajapole. Schlecht. & Cham.—the name adopted in Bot. Biol. Centr. Amer. and else- where. If the plant be retained as — from C. biflora the name and synonymy will be as follow NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 315 Cua FRUTESCENS, comb. n soadage nairattia Mill. Diet. es 8, n. 4 (1768), et in Herb. ete rit.! Capraria ctor Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 46 (1812). C. saxifragefolia Schlecht. & Cham. in Linnea v. 105 (18 seg oe hhc Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gott. (1881) x Ben rodr. x. 430. Miller’ S ot was eet at Vera Cruz by Houstoun. Erinus tomentosus Mill. Dict. n. 2, is retained in the Kew Index, but is reduced by Bentham (in DC. Prodr. x. 383) to temodia lanata Ruiz & Pavyon, whieh must bin called 8. TOMENTOSA. This was a tae at Vera Cruz by Lruczna For Benth. Bail (Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 94) Sghitty taies this species on aon Mimosa glandulosa of Solan der in Forster's Prodromus, p. 92, no. 565 (nomen), on the for it is certainly there (p. 349). But the description shows that it there refers to Serianthes myriadenia Planch., and this is borne out by the fact that the same plant in the Banks & Solander col- lection the name Mimosa glandulosa. Leucena Forster (the M. rete of Forster) : “debaribed on the same page of the MS. . littorea and the specimens are labelled by Saas M. Liettird lis. Neither is wins by Seemann as having bee nares by Banks & Solan MACHIA PACIFICA F. Mucll Phyt. N. Hebr.18. This name en in Pax and Knuth’s monograph of Primulacee in ited Pflanzenreich (p. 312) among the “species non vise.” It i bina ifica o n it. 1 in the work referred to, but quoted in the Index Kewensis with “(nomen)” attached. I think however that the plant is described, although the way in which the description is Me bbie leaves this open to ate Here is the passage: . Lubinia pacifica Seem. sp. nov. in Herb. Mus. Brit. from the Isle of Pinéd {Mt Gillivray !). The later has pe Besa ciel of L. spathulata Vent.; spathulate entire, dotted an ranous leaves, axillary solitary ao and calyx segment densely covered with black dots. Th he flow seem to be white. yx-segments ovate-oblong, acute.” I have examined the specimen in the National Herbarium, which doe not appear to differ specifically from 7 spathulata (L. mauritiana Lam.), although it is more lax in habit than any s L. mauritiana that I have seen. It ec be noted that Le siaeila Wall. Cat. n. 1491, referred by Pax & Knuth doubtfully to Centunculus minimus is, according to the specimen in the National Herbarium, Anagallis pumilus. ‘“ MARATTIA TERMINALIS Soland.”” This name is given by at least two authors—Drake del Castillo (Illustr. Fl. Ins. Mar aa Gg 316 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Pacif. 164) and son oe» (in Annali di Bot. ii. 92 (1905) )—as a synonym of ae te ma parviflora + oot t., in this following d ta. Solander wrote Merretia, intending no doubt to commemorate Christopher Merrett (1614-95), after whom he subsequently named Merretia lucida (Corynocarpus levigata Forst.). Neither Marattia nor Merretia will be found in the Index ering from which, by a curious oversight, all the numerous n f Banks & Suiarider given as i age bate in Sir Joseph Fibakse’s s Flofa Noni Zelandie are omitte SARCOCEPHALUS stated K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. IV. 4, 59 (1891). In his note on this plant in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 377 (1907) Mr. F. N. Williams says: “The identity of the plant can be traced from the type specimen in the University of Upsala, which is the actual Sierra Leone specimen received by Afzelius from Winterbottom in 1798.” Mr. Williams oO m Haviland’s remark in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiii. 4 (1897) and to have overlooked my correction in this J SeiR for 1897, p. 338. As I have there shown, the type-specimens are in the National erbarium; there is no reason to suppose that Winterbottom ever ‘ollsated "a any plants, and the specimen in Afzelius’s own harbatiorn | at Upsala bears ‘a different name (see Journ. Bot. 1. c.). cephalus esculentus, as stated by Sabine (Trans. Hort. $ 4 his specimen in the National Herbarium is named generically by eis and J. J. Bonnet saa the trivial. ti MICRADENA DC. Prodr. iii. 334. This species is feinirind as isting by Master fin FI. Bras. xiii. 538 and in Trans. Linn. Soc i. 628), who, however, says he has not seen it. He did not veienize that it is identical with 7. Purwpuru DC. MSS. which he refers to 7. pinna tistipula Juss. in both the papers Shee and also on Pavon’s specimen in the National Herbarium (fro Herb. Lambert); on this De Candolle founded the species pub- lished by him as 7. micradena and on which, following Pavon’s MS. ort he wrote T. Purupuru T. PINNATISTIPULA Juss B. P This name is erroneously attributed to Smith by | fates (U. ya Smith, how- mae ee the name as a synony P. pinnatistipula Cav.— rie Pepon. 194), < whom the Index Kewensts sctopeisact attributes P. pennipes. The vaniiks stands as: Tacsonia becnped he Juss. 8. pennipEs DC. Prodr. iii. 334. enntpes Sm. in Rees Cyclop. xxvi. n. 48 (1813), in T’. pennipes M. J. Roem. Syn. Pepon. 194 (1846). 317 ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HEREFORDSHIRE. By tue Rev. Aueustin Ley, M.A. Tue following notes deal with plants sph sagen for the ae in the Flora of Herefordshire published in 1889, in ‘* Addition the Flora of Herefordshire’ (Journ. Bot. 1894, 07), or in “ 2 fordshire Rubi” (Journ. Bot. 1896, 155). Notices are also inserted of a few plants already recorded for the county if deemed of sufficient general interest. The writer offers thanks to the Rev. W. ogers for untiring aid in Rubus, and to Rev. RB. Linton for jivaltiable aelp in Hieracium; to Mr. E. G. Baker for assistance in ci Pansies and Roses; to Messrs. R. Towndrow, Spencer H. Bickham, Miss E. Armitage, Mr. Winterbourne, of Leominster ; last, ot feat, to Rev. C. H. Binstead, late Vicar of Breinton, now of Whi thourne, without whose diligence and knowledge the additions to our moss list would have been few and meagre. Unless where otherwise stated, the records stand on the authority of the writer of the paper. + is prefixed to plants thought to be introduced, and * to those unrecorded for the county at the places mentioned above. In nomenclature and order, the la plants follow the London Catalogue, ed. ix.; for Rubus, M r. Rogers’s Handbook ; for rhea Mr. W inton’ s British Hieracia; for the Mosses, Mr. Dixon Handbook iets have been used. Ranunculus Lenormandi F. Schultz. Bog in the Queen’s Wood, Gorsley, 1898. The only record for the plant except on the high moorland of the Black Mountain.—Caltha palustris L. *var. latifolia (Schott). Observed at Sellack and King’s Capel in the south, and at Lyonshall in the north of the county. Doubtless neral, . Fumaria densifloraDC. Ross, 1897, Mr. H. Southall! Ledbury, Bickham.—F, pallidiflora Jord. Garden weed at Ross, 1871, Herb. chas! Weston-under-Penyard, 1898 ; confirmation of the old record for the same een in 1849. ie Seems Pugsley. heed writer has vheara which he assigns to the type from Ludford Park, to *var. ambigua Pugsley from King's 8 Capel, to *var. muraliformis Cl. _ St. Weonards and Hun ‘barea *arcuata Reich. seg many years of watching and Sultiyntion of these plants, the writer feels justified in publishing the oe localities as, in his judgement, undoubtedly belonging to this species:—Ross, wall-top at the Cottage Hospital, 1895, and sthooquent ¥ years ; King’ s Capel, in a grass-field, 1902. The ate in this plant is sh ce and shorter than in B. vulgaris . Lepidium *ruderale L. Waste ground at Colwall, 1906, ickhan ool *lutea L. Colwall, 1896, Miss Roper ! 318 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Viola *segetalis Jord. Tillage at Sellack, 1906. —V. *Paillouait Jord. ae r Brilley, 1905.—V. *pallescens Jord. ‘Tillage at ‘Sellack, 1 .—V. *sepincola Jord. (V. odorata x hirta, subodorata). “ar more tei than a cognate hybrid V. permiata Jor erry Wood, Fownho white flowers, 1877. Other examples pro- bably to be aera to this hybrid have been found at St. Weonards (1875), Colwall (1885), Mr. R. Towndrow!, and Great Doward (1893).—V. sylvestris Reich. - statement in the Flora of Here- ton sits that this violet is less common near Ross and in other parts of the county than JV. Riviniana Reich., has been shown by longer experience to ae incorrect.—V, t ricolor L. Native in hilly pastures in the north-west of the county: The following segregates have been identified with some certainty :— -*monticola Jord. Tillage, Brilley 1905; a very large-flowered state, due probably to manuring of ate oe Under cultivation in poor soil 3 bias become much sm V stit Bor. Ti llage a SWabunela, 1880; Great Doward, 1908. V. *contempta Jord. Upland pastures at Deerfold, 1882, and at Byton, 1902. ¥; *hispida Lam. Deerfold, 1871. V. *carpatica Bab. Shobdon Park, 1886. V.* een pred: Jord. Tillage. Hope Mansel, 1880; Sellack, 1906. Polygala *oxyptera Reichb. Dry hills, rare. Great Doward, 1890, 1894; Cusop Hill, 1898, ie. W. M. Rogers! Not extreme oxyptera, which would hardly be likely to occur in Herefordshire, but the plant 8 2 hills, which is nearer to P. oxyptera Reichb. than to P. vulgaris L. Silene * Mutdas i Very rare in the county. ‘In the grounds at Wych Point, Malvern, apparently native,” Mr. A. J. Crosfield. Stellaria nemorum L. Damp river-side ver at the Great Doward, in abundance, 1899, and subsequent years. This plant was certainly not to be found at this station in previous years; but, judging from its goeeocneee it must have arrived several years before 1899. — S. ie “var. ae Koch. Colwall, 1895, ne (as S. diene pitz.); Sellack; Great Doward, &c., 90 doubt sda initadhibis the county, although pre- viously unrecorded. Claytonia t*sibirica L. and C. +*perfoliata Don. os two are establishing themselves as weeds at etic deli ick *Spartium junceum L. In abundance in a railway: oatthie at Ledbury Station, Bickham. First noticed on the railway at Dymock, West Gloucester, whence de spread to Ledbur Trifolium repens L. var. *Townsendi Bab. In turf at Moccas Park, 1904, Bickham! ‘Authenticated by Mr. Townsend. pire@a Ulmaria L, *var. denudata Bonn. King’s Capel, 1905, with the epee Probably widely distributed. Rubus ideus L. var. obtusifolius Willd. In the gerden at Wal- for Vicarage 1896 ; APs cise a form rotundifolius Bab. icatus Pp *var. hemistemon (P. J. Muell.?). Bog in Lyonshall Park Wood 1900. ce ‘ ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HEREFORDSHIRE 819 - *nitidus W.& N. Shirl Wood, Eardisland, 1878. R. afinis W.& N. Hackley Common, Sarnesfield, sate R. carpinifolius W. & N. In hilly parts of the county, rare. Howle Hill in the south; Lyonshball and raven neighbourhoods in the north-west. The localities mentioned for this bramble in Journ, Bot. 1896, p. 156, in wet thickets Pepeune = oaiabsacel to R. leucandrus Focke. See below, under that s R. dumnoniensis Bab. In plenty in a rough paskars near Lyon- shall, 1897. Ri. *mercicus Bagn. Foy parish near Ross, 1903.—*Var. chryso- axylon Rogers. In the north-west of the cP the ; Mosely Mere near Kington, “1896 ; Almeley, 1901; Brilley, R, villicaulis sp. collect., subsp. rhombifoliue W. Sellack, 1904. R, *sciaphilus Lange. Lian ntywain, in Llangarren parish, 1886 ; wood border in the lower part of the Honddu Valley, Monmouth- _— 1903; hedge, St. Weonards, 1899 *leucandrus Focke. Recorded in ‘Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 156, as z. ‘carpinifolius W.&N. Widely distributed both in the south and north-west of the county. R. thyrsoideus Wimm. Scattered thoughout the county. Lodge Grove, Bishopswood, 1896; Holme cence ae and at Acon ary Common, 1904 ; Broxwood near Pembridge, 1902. R. pubescens W. The typical plant me Howie Hill, near Ross, R. macr ophylius W. & N. subsp. Schlechtendalit (W.). — *Var. macrophylloides Genev. Widely distributed in Herefordshire, espe- ially in the north-west. Gorsley in the south-east; Whitfield Woods ash the west; Shobdon, Ayme =< and Lyonshall in the north-west. — Var. Sia 48 ate Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 159, must be withdr rawn plant there mentioned was typical R. *amphichloro sP. J. Muell. In the centre of the county at . *Questierit Lefv. & Muell. ‘Riggs’ Wood, Sellack, 1894. Old ee beds in Lyonshall Park; a form. The Sella ck plant was al; that at Lyonshall aed "antypiea but was attributed to tite species by Rey. . Ro R. a Lcdeeniond Blox. Rare : - oaly known at one station on the West a eon are Bishopsw rtifolius Muell. & Wirtg. *var. danicus (Focke ). ioe ssatlored over the oe. Holme Lacy; Ullingswick ; Prestei First found, 1893. —*Var. mollisimus (Rogers). e South’ and wannie of the county. Welsh 2 se Little Doward; Bolston; Mordi- in 1900. R. — Schleich. *subsp. lewcanthemus P. J. Muell.? Rare. St. Weonards, 1906. ta chennai Focke. The typical plant seems to be rare frenebons Britain. Howle Hill, near Ross, 1906. *Lettei Rogers. A bramble closely allied to this Irish form is sasacsans in Bolston Wood. The following careful note on this bramble has been prepared by Rev. W. M. Rogers:—* The Bolston 820 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Gelertii. From the very constant slant of Ooiantien “Dow and e gradually acuminate aie abd narrower base, the toothing also teed deeper and more finely pointed; and by the much longer ultra-axillary panicle top. These characters, though not very distinctive when taken singly, give in combination a considerably different look in the two plants, and each form seems constant to a remarkable degree.’ First found in 1 *addenanthus Boul. & Gill. Rare. Carey Wood, Brock- hampton, 1 ite R. * Boreaanus Gen Rare. Longclose Wood, Little Doward, 1904 ; Stanford "bak, ‘both in Herefordshire and ‘Worcestershire, 1902. R. cinerosus Rogers, R. pulcherrimus Neum. forma setosa, Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 157. Widely and thinly distributed. Woods near ae : Maiabiichdvons ive; Big Wood and Criseley Vallets, tfi R. mucronatus Blox. *form. — sete Ley MS. (see Hand- Thi mento i th in the cath west re the county, and deserves * Gelert, Frider. Equally common in the county with R. criniger Linton, with which it was combined in the paper on British Rubi in 1896. Little Doward ; Eaton Bishop; Aymestr o abundant in the south-west, south, and east parts of ~ reir was in Adjoining districts of Monmouth and West Gloucester. ~ *melanoaylon Muell. irtg. Eee rare in the county. pen syelikian at Moseley Mere, near Kin 1896. Scattered oe over the neighbouring Welsh counties et enon! Glamorgan, an en. Ri. «Dre rejeri G. Jensen. Rather rare, and known only in un peeing forms. Welsh Newton ; ow — nards; Caplar con R. radula W. salen: anglicanus Rogers. mae Puttridge Lane, Ross, 1887, Herb. Purchas! St ations for this plant mentioned in ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HEREFORDSHIRE 821 both in Hereford and Worcester; in abundance. I am assured by Rev. W. M. Rogers that the Sapey omnes on santos! with the Dorset bramble to which this name has been. ed. R. Babingtonii Bell Salt. *var. pyiloths yrsus (Frider). More common than the type in Herefordshire. Great Doward, Walford, Fagin Yatton in the south and centre; St. Margaret’s in the R.. * Bloeamii Lees. Very rare in Herefordshire. Ullingswicke, 1898, 1900. R. fuscus W. & N. *var. nutans Rogers. Very “ne? Ivington, in abundance; Lingen; Byton. First noticed in 1 R. pallidus W. & nore var. leptopetalus Rogers, R. The Wirtg. Journ. Bot. 1896, . longithyrsiger ‘Bab, *var. botryeros Rogers. Rare, but (as an aggr egate species) widely distributed in the county. Great Doward; Putley; Shobdon ; Whitfield Woods: these localities are in each division of the county. . fusco-ater W. Found in several stations in widely separated parts of the ae Bishopston Hill; Richard’s Castle; Brampton Bryan ; Garway Hill. R. distr dase ; Muell. & Wirtg. Westhide Wood, 1894; a plant answering with much exactness to Rev. W. H. Painter's Stafford- shire plant thus named. See Handbook of British Rubi, p. Marshalli Focke & Rogers *var. semiglaber Rogers. Ra Bishopswood in the south; Kington and Brilley in the north. First noticed i in 1885 . viridis Kalt. Still one of the rarest Herefordshire brambles. Big Wood, bea: a 97. °R. Bellardit W. & In abundance in a wood in Cowleigh Park, 1905. A nclrcpa re x Bellardii—in abundance in the same wood. R. hirtus W. & K. The Ieee plant in Big Wood, Whitfield, 1906.—* Var. eager = Muell). sas 39 Howle Hill, Ross ; ; first in 1885. known in any other s R. *minutiflorus P. 3 ; °Muell Woods, local. aekiccousl Park Worcestershire bondi: One of the “bat nin of our native brambles. i. ss on A. i. ‘var. ee ae A. Ley. See Journ. Bot. 1902, 69. Up the present (1907) unknown beyond the Big Wood, Whithela, where this striking plant exists in great abundance. R. *tereticaulis P. J. Muell. Very ra Big Wood, Whitfield, at a single spot, 1905. Elsewhere dine for Britain only from Sprowston, Norfo R. dumetorum W. & S. *var. raduliformis A. Ley. Near Ross; Wormbridge; Brilley; Whitney, Bickham! First noticed in 1905. Probably widely distributed.—* Var. trianguiaris A. Ley. Rare and local. Upper Sapey Common; in Herefordshire, and more abun- dantly in Worcestershire. Recurring in Wyre Forest, near Cleo- 822 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY bury Mortimer Station (in Worcester),.—*Var. — (Rogers). Widely spread ; very abundant in the hilly western districts, especially in the valleys of the Monnow and Craswall Brooks, but not confined to these parts. Great Doward in the south; Holme acy in the centre; Whitfield in the western parts. —Var. diversi- Suppos different parts. : R. *Bucknalli White. Rare, and known in a single district only. Mordiford, and near Yatton ; first in 1895. On these plants he Rev. W. M. Rogers remarks :—‘ Indistinguishable from A. Bucknall, so far as panicle is concerned; but the stem is much less densely hairy, and lacks the resinous "exudation characteristic of Mr. White’s plant.” Mr. White himself recognized the Here- oes plant as his species. Recorded in Journ. Bot. 1896, 223, i ee Balfourianus Blox. Certainly a native of the county, and locally abundant in hedges near Ross, where it fruits freely. Poterium +polygamum Waldst. & Kit. Wynds Point, Silene Crossfield. sere _ On the mollis-tomentosa section of this genus, see a paper by the writer in Journ. Bot. 1907, 200. In view of this paper it is leche advisable to give particulars with race to each iit of this grou R. mollis Sm. Rare in the county, and only known in the hilly western and northern parts. Wormesley in the centre; Mary Knowl and Richard’s Castle in the north; Black Mountain in the t. Rh. submoilis Ley. Much more common than the last, and county. in some fourteen stations scattered over the whole of the coun ssa Deség. var. resinosoides Orépin. Rare, only known in two dictricts. Sea tei gh Park Wood, 1888; Linton Ridge, 1900. The elaelahine a is a handsome form. with aan ta iia sine ae sided fruit. Cowleigh Park, Malvern, Ri. pseudo-moilis Ley. Rather common throughout the whole county. The Cowleigh Park station near —- , from which the plant was described by Mr. Baker, was in ordshire at the date of the petonsios of the Flora of Herons heres ut has been placed in Worcestershire by the readjustment of eels boundaries which followed the Local Gusantacel: ye fi, Sherardi Davies. Rare in Herefordshire. Gorsley in the south-east; Orcop in the south-west; Burghill in the centre; Aymestry in the ate of the county. mata Ley. Not common, but widely spread in the east, contra and veoh peste No station is known in the ut r extreme west of the co Ohne Sm. ates and distributed throughout the whole county. ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HEREFORDSHIRE 3823 sylvestris Woods. Much the same in its distribution as Rh. seabriuscula, se far less abundant. a Sm. The most common member of the group throughout the county. sa Rau. Rare and local. Aymestry, Kimbolton, wed more aa Westhope, and one or two other localities. The plan here placed under the name of R. farinosa Rau are none of prea t eer differing from Rau’s plant in not having the peduncle quite Paris communis L. var. Pyraster (L.). Further investigation fy) . eat D Penyard Park Wood, Ross; Haugh Wood, Mordiford, Dr. Wood. This interesting etl bean be supposed to be anything but a native plant in the nty. The writer has watched it for four “eh < oO Re oO © es wm io) 5 ‘er & & oO Do Ler 3 Oo © co A oat [o) 2 ar J oe oo es 2 > is) 8 Oo <_ oO Lard Qu @O co —— © ze fa) cu S oO &. Fa ae yet seedlings occur in the vicinity of the older um treflecum L. “var. albescens (Haw.). A ena ‘pert of the 8. relies growing on old walls, in stone quarries, &c., in Here- fordshire appears to be the S. albescens of Haworth. "There is, however, no indication pe this stonecrop has any claim to be accounted native in the c Heracleum Sphon dgliue. L. ‘var, angustifolium Huds. Bosbury, pieoe. oes Foxley, Moccas, Bickham. Abundant and commonly istri Galium *erectum Huds. Rare. Pasture between Oradley and Leigh Sinton, just within the Herefordshire boundary, 1898, Town- drow!—G. Mollu ugo Li. *var. Bakert re, only known in - the southern districts. Grass-field, Tretie, about 1890, B. M. Watkins ; rough field-border near Sellack ; Scabiosa Columbaria L. In one new leased the Ridgeway, Eastnor, Towndrow ! Solidago Virgaurea L. *var. cambrica (Huds.). On no Sem of the Black Mountain ; Olechon Daren, 1886; Red Dar *Var. Seeing Koch. Lowland Woods ; Great Doyenk 1904 ; Whitfield, 1906. In this genus the Rev. W. R. Linton’s Handbook is mens followed for the order and nomenclature of the orms. H. Pilosella L. nigh concinnatum F. J. Hanb. nae ee with the type, but less common. Hope Mansel; Great Doward ; Breinton ; Eardisley ; Honddu and Grwyne Valleys of the Black Mountain.—*Var. nigrescens Fr. Usually on wall-tops, rare. Waill- top, Brampton Bryan, 1902; the typical plant of Fries. Hope Mansel and Great Doward ; with dark shaggy heads, but the hair less black than in Fries’s plan The Great Doward plant is gee is Mr, Linton as H. Paleten ianum Mér. ophyllum Koch (H. grout Jord. Fl. Heref. 193), Still ard - the Great Doward Hill at the stations for which it was recorded in the Flora, but aca elsewhere. — Var. plani- 824 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY igen F. J. Hanb. (H. pallidum Fr. = Heref.). Great Doward, § several stations; unknown elsewhere. Both the above, with H. stenolepis and H. pachyphylium, me ‘found also on the West Gloucester side of the River Wye at Symonds Yat.—* Var. euryodon F, J. Hanb. With the type at the Gens Doward: occasional. H. *rubicundum F. J. H. On the Red Daren, Hatterel Hills, first in 1886. Abundant at several stations in the Breconshire portion of the Black Mountain. H. pachyphyllum Purchas (H. cesium Fr. Fl. Heref.). Locally abundant on the Great Doward, but confined to this hill. H. *stenolepis Lindeb. On limestone rocks, very rare. Great Doward, along with the fou ; acaceing forms, but a less common. Usually disineuiehed from the preceding, not only by technical characters, but by the flatness of the head when in Stomont First distinguished in 1897. H, * pellucidum mg k Native in Me age on railway-banks rocks; more common in the western than in the eastern districts. Great Doward, atcdaantlyes ; Sellack ; Lyonaball Park - abundant — the cliffs of the Black Mou tain.—*Var. lucidulum Ley. On ain rocks; not found in the be country. On the Ffiwddog wee e the Black Mountain, abundantly; first in 1898. dds — Almq. *var. seb K. Johanns. Native in woods, on railway-banks and rocks; rare. Great Doward ; Woolhope; ae Hill; Upper aap ; Lyonshall Park Wood, with H. pellucidu ies Piabilaviions Dahl. On mountain rocks, locally abundant in the Black Mountain. Taren-’r-Esgob, on the Ffwddog range, 1898, and a years. This plant, and its variety cuneifrons Ley, are much more abundant in the Breconshire portion of the Black Mountain me in that falling within the area of the Here- fordshire Flor. A. *pla syihipllu Ley. On mountain rocks, only in the Black Mountain district. Red ie Haitterel range, first about 1897 ; Taren-’ r-Esgob, Ffwddog ra - “euprepes F. J. Tatts my ere — with the two last; locally abundant in the Black Mountain. Near the Hay Bluf, Hatterels (but within Herefordshire), 1896; Taren-’r-Esgob, Fiwddog range, 1898, plentifully. - pinnatifidum Lonnr. *var. vivarium Lonnr. Rare. Walford 9 the south ; Lyonshall Park Wood in the north. First observed 898. —* ‘Subsp. scanicum Dahl. Rare. Great Doward in the sdath A gmt in the north ; and Taren-’r-Esgob in the west. First in 1 i. *aciaphilum Uechtr. Common? Until very lately confused with H. cacuminatum Dahl.—*Var. amplifolium Ley. In wood also on mountains; widely distributed. Great Doward, Penyard Park, and Caplar in the south; Westhide Wood in the east; Hatterel Hills in the west.—*Var. strumosum Ley.. 1 ds; rare n woods at the lower end of the ae Valley in the. three counties of Hereford, crea and Brecon, 1908 H. *cacuminatum Dahl. Common in woods and on hedge- ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HEREFORDSHIRE 825 anks. Distribution not yet ascertained, but known to be widely distributed in the county. —*Var. barbareafolium (Lénnr.). Less n than type. Sellack ; Pembridge; probably in many other Toil ities. . septentrionale Ary.-Touv. (H. corymbosum Fr. Fl. Heref.). Banks and field-borders ; rare. org rren in the south; Hard- wicke in the north-west. First fou H, stictophyllum Dahl. var. tpt F., J. Hanb. (Fi. pit 526, as “* H. gothicum Fr.” ; Journ. Bot. 1894, 208, as “* H. folium Lindeb.).”’ The name should be as above. ed “Hils, 1886 ; Taren-’r-Esgob, 1900, on the Breconshire bor H. tridentatum Fr. Exe lu de all the stations mentioned in the Flora, p. 195. Rare in Herefordshire. Gorsley ouseaas 1893; fine and typical. . rigidum Hartm. *var. Friesiit Dahl., forma. Road-banks, south, west, and north of the county; not k n districts. The stations mentioned in the Flora under H. triden- tatum must be transferred to this plant.—*Var. scabrescens Dahl. pla Very rare. Roadside in Brilley parish, 1900; cultivated since H, é Fr. The form far most common in Herefordshire seems . “fall nies that fier Eu-sabaudum, of Zahn, characterized by having its stem very hairy from base to heads, ‘including the phyllaries eee Ml A plant answering to H. obliquum of Jordan in being less hairy in all its parts, and habs smaller lanceolate raced ove on i wey Daves, Hatterel Hills. Another form, whi on to ta the var. eminens of Jordan, with glabre- sce cont stem HF ine the iy es ovate broader, and coarsely toothed, pee in saver places in woods. Bolston Wood, 1888 ; Haugh Wood, 1891. This form is common in es. Hypocheris “glabra L. Native? very rare. * Chiance's Pitch, Colwall, 1902, Towndrow ! sperugo 8 Set L. Alien. Ledbury, in considerable quantity, 1903, Bic Limosella sialon ia Po mene st Sellack, 1904, 1905, W. R. Linton, A. Ley. Very rare in the ¢ ha longifolia Huds. var. N’ silence (Strail), Flora, 527. This is the prevalent form of M. longifolia throughout Hereford- ire. —Nicholsoniana X viridis—occurred on the river- k at Hereford in M. hirsuta Huds. *var. subglabra (Baker). On the Wye, Great Ae ae: on t 0 he Lugg, r Probably common. — M. *gracilis gr Riverside thicket at the oO ativ Origanum vulgare L. var. megastachym (Link). Great Doward, abundantly ; Aymestry, ving _ type. More abundant than the type throughout Herefor Calamintha *arvensis oe Very rare in the county. In the grounds at Winds Point, Malvern, Ovossfiel eld. Salvia *pratensis L. Very rare; native? Bank on Backbury Hill, 1904, Bickham. 826 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY _ Aristolochia Clematitis L. Still (1906) in existence in the station at Ross at which it was first observed in 18 urialis annua L. Leominster, on recently moved soil, Urtica dioica Li. *var. microphylla Hausm.? Not rare in Here- fordshire. Weston-under-Penyard, Sellack, Carey, Breinton, and other stations. See, on this plant, notes in the Report of the Botanical Exchange Club, 1905, 184. A verticillate variety of U. dioica bearing all its leaves in threes is common, but always as single stems growing among typical plants. Habenaria albida BR. Br. Very rare, only in the Black Mountain district. Head of the Cusop Dingle, 1899; also a single specimen of the hybrid albida x conopsea, Dr. Wood ! Grwyne Valley ; again in Brees Na s Pseudo-narcissus Lu. Me pepidle at Kardisley in large Guiles : : alas a robust form bearing a crown with recurved lobes and perianth nearly or quite ee he with the crown, Rev. C. H, Binstead ! This form is not the var. b. lobularis Haw., the “Tenby Daffodil.” Gagea fascicularis Salisb. “One new station. Colwall, 1899, Mr. W. H. Jones, Towndrow. Piaget pratense L, *var, nodosum (L.). Ledbury, 1902, Bickham. a cristata Pers. Rare. Marcle Ridge Hill, in two spots in foir abundane 8 m Filix -feemina Roth. *var. Watsont Syme. In woods he Gevyna Valley, about the year 1875. The Grwyne specimen gave well to Watson’s type-specimens. The writer has searched in vain in the Grwyne Valley for the plant in recent years. Muscr. Ditrichum *tenuifolium Lindb, Very rare. On dried mud of a large pool in Moccas Park; once found.—D. flevicaule Hampe var. densum Braithw. Expos sed limestone on the summit of Cherry , bb ope. _ Seligerta Doniana C.M. Still only on oo the Ross dis- trict. ‘Sha dy rock, Caradoc, Sellack, 1906. — S. acutifolia Lindb. var. longiseta tinh: Rare; only at one oe With S. pusilla B. & 8. at the Great Doward, 1898. Dicranum fuscescens Turn. *var. fulcifolium Braithw. On con- glomerate rocks, Penyard Hill, Ross, 1898, Miss E. Armitage ! Grimmia orbicularis Bruch. One new station. Nash Scaur, Knill, abundantly, Binstead |! — G. subsquarrosa Wils. One new station. Crib-’r-garth, Hatterel Hills, 1898. Fhacomitrium heterostichum Brid. *var. gracilescens B. & 8. Huntsham Hill, 1906, Binstead ¢ Armitage | edwigia ciliata Ehrh. var. viridis Schimp. Roofs at Nash, near Knill, Binstead. Acaulon muticum 0. M. Very rare. Open fallow near Pentwyn Farm, Brilley, 1905, Binstead & Ley. haseum Floerkianum W. &M. One new station. Shucknell Hill, 1903.—P, curvicolle Ehrh. Little Doward Hill, Binstead. ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HEREFORDSHIRE 827 feeae recta Mitt. Little Doward and Shucknell Hills; Fown- hope, Binstead. Tortula lamellata Lindb. Fownhope; Breinton, Binstead.—T’. rigida Schrad. One new station. Fownhope, Binstead.—T’. *cunei- folia Roth. Rare. Breinton; Brobury Scaur; Bardisley, Binstead, —T. Vahliana Wils. B reinton Common during several seasons ; Bishopston, Binstead. — T.. angustata Wils. Rather rare, usually — on hedge-banks. King’s Capel, 1903; Breinton, Binstead! im 6 fully ; Rowlstone, 1906, Binstead ! Bioluder the stations given in sare Bot, 1894, 210; these refer to 7’. subulata Hedw., form. Barbula recurvifolia Schimp. One new station. Nash Scaur, near Presteign, Binstead! — B. *gracilis Schwaegr. . Walls and stones, especially limestone; rare. Nash Scaur, near Presteign, 1897, — Binstead ! wall in Hereford, 1905; stone at Almeley, Binste «po fe pws Hampe. Rare; one new station. On conglomerate rock, Penyard Hill, Ross, 1898, Miss EF. Armitage ! Weissia *crispata C. AL Rare ; confined to limestone districts. Great Doward, 1903, Dixon; Nash Scaur, Presteign, Binstead |— W. mucronata B, & S. Rare; ; one new station. Aconbury Camp ber ve : eh ee serves Lindb. On limestone, rare. Great Neca Hill, 19 Jlota crispa Brid. Rare, and in minute quantity. On wych elm, Pengethly, Ross, 1899; Aymestry, 1905, Binstead ! — U. phyllantha Brid. Rare. Shady damp tree-boles, Great Doward, 1899, 1900. Orthotrichum affine Schrad. *var. fastigiatum Hib. Rar . Near Bollingham Chapels on Binstead. Willow-boles fi the river, Great Doward, 1906. Aulacomnium androgynum Schwg. Rare i “ei the county. Hedge- bank, Dadnor, near Ross, Miss E. Armitage Philonotis *capillaris Lindb. Banks, rare. Nash and Corton Wood, near Presteign ; Whitcliffe, Ludlow, Binstead ! ebera Tozeri. Schim mp. One new station. On the Wye at Clock Mill, Bredwardine,. Binstead. Bryum pendulum Schimp. On ant-hills, Eardisley, Binstead ; wall-top, Great Doward, 1905. — B. *uliginosum & 8. Ver rare. Wet willow-holt, Pontrilas, 1893, 1906. — B. intermedium Brid. Rare. Riverside, Bredwardine, Binstead ; ct Doward, 1900.—B. caspiticium L. var. sibriodtion .& 8. e new station. Corton Wood, Presteign, 1905, Binstead !— B. villa e L. *var. macrocarpum Hiibn. Stream-side at 2 orci oe 1906. Not rare. —B, *rubens Mitt. On the ground in woods; rare. Warm Hill Wood, Walford, 1861, teste Divon, Herb. Fiechani Caradoc, Sellack; Winforton, Binstead: Corton, Presteign, Binstead ! — B, *alpinum Huds. Very a On sand by the Wye, at Clock Mill, Winforton, Binstead.—B. *Mildeanum Jur. Very rare. On the e Grwyne, both in Herefordshire and Breconshire, Binstead & Dixon, 1908. Mnium *riparium Mitt. On boles and stone by the Wye, rare; 3828 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY on stone at two spots on the Great ag Winforton, on willow- boles, Binstead. — M. *subglobosum B. & §. Moorlands, not rare. On both the Hatterel and Ffwddog ranges of the Black Mountain, Binstead, Ley. Fontinalis *seriata Lindb. In the Wye, rare; Breinton, 1874 ; Clock Mill, Winforton, Binstea “ Heterocladium heteropterum B. & S. *var. fallax Milde. Rare. Penyard, Ross, 1899, Arita, “Binstead ; Great Doward, Dizon! Brilley, ‘‘ abundantly,’ Binstea Thuidium recognitum Lind. On limestone soil, rare. Hope Mansel, 1895, Binstead, Ley; Woolhope, Miss EH. Armitage ! Pylaisia polyantha B. & S. Shady oo and rotten wood, rather rare. Rotten willow, Much Fawley, near Ross; Woolhope, Miss H. Armitage; Bucknall’s Wood Madley, c. fr., 1905; Sarnes- Brachythectum glareosum B. rs 8S. Great adehetnd é Ha ., Miss E. Armitage; Dormington Quarries, c. fr.— B. albicans B. & S. Three fresh stations. Penyard Hill, Ross, Miss E. ‘droid Fownhope; Winforton, Binstead. sete I salebrosum B. & S. *var. palustre Schimp. Damp meadows, ep clayey wood walks; rare ? Damp meadows at Eardisley, c. fr., Binstead; near Le ominster, Rev. W. E. Thompson! wood walk, inmore Binstead | acne ‘in uncertain forms in which the seta varie a mooth to ro ypic in Herefordshire.—B, velutinum B. . “var. shdcuaclite B. & 8. Great Doward, 1902, Dixon.—B. plumosum B. & 8. Scattered in small quantities over = lowland parts; nowhere common except in the Black Mountai Welsh Newton, Miss EF. Armitage! near Winforton, Binstead ; Waltersions, 1906, — sa Eurhynchium speciosum Schimp. Rar new stations. Stones in water, Great Doward, 1906; damp aout walk, Caradoc, Sellack, 1906. — FE. prelongum B. & 8. *var. Stokesii L. C. ed. iii. Shady wood, Caradoc, Sellack, me — FE. Swartzii Hobk. Shady wood, Caradoc, Sellack, c. fr. “9 Shady wood, Eaton Bishop, 1905, Binstead | Almeley Dingle ; Kardisley Dingle, c. fr., Binstead. — P. Borrerianum Bye. ar. collinum Wils. Rare. Warm Hill, Walford, 1900. Amblystegium *Juratzke Schimp. Common? Breinton; Manse cy,¢. fr.; Pontrilas, abundantly, c. fr., Binstead ! This ae is as yet imperfectly understood, and its distribution has not been well worked out. The specimens obtained at Mansel Lacy were pronounced by Mr. Dixon to be ‘good and charbotatlssins!s Doward, c. fr., 1899, teste Dixon, Binstead! This rare species is usually found on mountains, and has been detected i in the Brecon- shire portion of the Grwyne Valley by Mr. Binstead. ypnum riparium Li. *var. longifolium Schimp. On stones in a pool at Sellack, 1906.— H. molluscun Hedw. *var. condensatum Schimp. On shady millstone grit at Howle Hill, Ross, 1906.— A. *giganteum Schimp. On moorlands; very rare in Hereford- ALABASTRA DIVERSA 329 ais Moorland at the head of the Olchon Dingle, Hatterel ills. Fiytotoiad um brevirostre B. & 8. Very rare; one new wipe ee ds near Brilley, 1898, Binstead i. squarrosum B, & 8. * — Hobk. Very rare. Shady stones in woods near Briley, inste Since the eee of this paper the following moss has ben detected in the county :-— Bra nchythécisik sataouieg B. & 8. Very rare. On rotting wood at Whitbourne, Binstead & Ley. This an moss is unrecorded for any of the neighbouring counties. Insert also the following :— Hieracium eth ons Almq. *var. Cinderella Ley. Widely spread in the county. The ligules in this plant are very narrow, and stand apart from each other much more than in other species, giving the fully expanded heads a star-like appearance. ALABASTRA DIVERSA.—Part XV. By Spencer LE M. Moore, B.Sce., F.L.S. (Continued from p. 268.) 3. New anp Rare Ucanpa Puants Se. ComposiTz. Notonia opima, sp. n Erecta, fere orgyalis, glabra, ca valido crasso in peer eras striato, igs inferioribus (radi dali ?) magnis late obovatis obtusissi S sensim sessilibus cet seine capitulis pro rata magnis multi- pappi sit ectlé nape seabridis wih is. Hab. Semliki Valley, Toro ; ‘re pegs 276. Folia inferiora 20-0-22-:0 x 10-0-12-0 cm., in sicco lutescenti- brunnescentia; coste secundi codlnis utrinque rea 7, in sicco parum aspectabiles, leviter arcuate; folia Giaetines 40-100 x 2-4: Corymbi circa 20:0 em. long. ractex ovato-oblonge, obtuse, 1:0-3-0 cm. long. Capitula profecto pansa 4:0 em. diam. Involucri phylla 2°3 cm. long., . dem. lat. Calyeuli phylla dum pee lanceolata, circa 1-7 cm. long. Flosculi aurantiaci, in sicco equidem szepe rosei. Corolle in toto 18 cnx long.; lobi acm obtones, obtusi, 0-4 cm. long. Columna staminea ad dimidiu JOURNAL OF Botany.—Vou. 45. (SepTember, 1907.] 28 330 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY suum exserta. Styli rami 0-45 em. long. pepensing f 0-125 em. long. haud ma Sp Achsenia 0°4 cm., pappus ong. A very fine plant, differing from N. wudeioand A. Rich. chiefly in the foliage leaves and: the involucre of 19-20 narrow orange- bordered leaves ASCLEPIADEZ. Xysmalobium reticulatum N. EB. Br, in Kew Bull. 1895, 251. Tn grass land near Mbarara, Ankole; 1 Leaves remarkably broad in comparison “with their rei i 9-3-3:3 em. long and 1:4-2:3 em. broad; indeed, sometimes they are almost if not quite as broad as long. This is a very variable species as regards foliage. Schizoglossum cordatum, sp. noy., syn. S. Petherickianum Oliv. var. cordata S. Moore’in Journ. Linn. Soc. ee Hab. Foot of Kabuga Hill, Toro ; Hohehoidé: The chief differences between this and S. Puinerse Raw are mentioned in the reference as above. The most important of these ome is the pedunculat Fnflorbonenée f S. cordatum, all the specimens of the other having sessile umbels, characters of sufficient ce to warrant their use in the careful clavis drawn up by Mr. N. E. Brown (Flor. ee Afr. iv. sect. i. 35 fac selves, instead of ending below the top. Cynanchum fraternum N. BE. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, 256. South-west of Lake ee ee Brachystelma Bagshaw: -nov. Planta humilis caule e latis scream sree enuatis extus “piles erulis basi a ulis 2 sence sng re corolla magne ii panireniaes mee glabro tusissimis antherarum dorso incumbentibus idque paullo exceden- tibus, stylo apice convexiusculo. Hab. wenda, Toro; Bagshawe, 1223. _ Planta 3-spithamea. Tuber ex Shei el. lectoris circa 8:0 cm. diam, et 2:5 em. alt. Caulis indivisus incrassatus, adusque 7:5 cm. ALABASTRA DIVERSA 331 long., maxima pro parte sub solo pein wsioag: Rami 0-2-0°3 em. diam, Foliorum limbus 4:5-8-0 cm. long., 0-4-0-7 em. lat., sicco dilute lutescenti-viridis ; patie circa 0 5 em. lon ng. vel wien Calycis lobi 0:5 em. long., basi 0- 12 em. lat. Corolle tubus 0-3 em. ong.; ore 0°5 cm. diam.; lobi em. long., basi 0-6 cm. lat. Coron phyllorum cupula 0:12 cm. alt.; hujus lobuli circa 0-05 x 0-045 cm.; phylla interiora. 0:1 em. long., antheras ad 0-035 cm. excedentia, Pollinia ovoidea, 0°5 em. long. arkable plant, with close ace nity to B. Johnstoni N. E Br. ts aay distinguished by its longer leaves, flowers without pedicels, smaller calyx-lobes, considerably shorter lobes to its less copiously ney: ogee lobulate (not toothed) outer corona, and the leaves of its inner corona distinctly exceeding the anthers. The fruit of both species is unknown. - apes dusky green in its free portion, dark red within [7. e. in the centre], as is corona. The plant has a rather fetid smell. Tuber dried, pounded and taken as medicine for pains in the chest.” Sg Laaarons Ilysanthes albertina, sp. n Annua, parvula, erecta, minu- tissime puberula, caule aiplici oe satpid ramuloso gracillimo, foliis sessilibus Segond Ee usve parvis linearibus nonnunquam rarissime denticulatis aliter integris, pedunculis gracilibus folia sepissime excedentibus, calyce tubuloso in lobos 5 semidiviso lobis lineari-lanceolatis leviter acuminatis, corolle albee tubo —— ullo excedente labio postico deltoideo-ovato apice brevite oO acuminati inter se subequalibus suborbicularibus, staminodiis basi gibbosis complanatis apice acutis omnino si eriferis, capsula parvula anguste oblonga sursum attenuata valvis tandem maxime diver- gentibus, seminibus minutis Hab. Near Ngusi River, Take Albert Edward ; Bagshawe, 1383. Planta summum vix 10:0 cm. alt., pleru mque hum milior. Folia omnia opposita, 0-3-0-6 cm. ie. crassiuscula. Pedunculi circa 0-5 cm. long. Calyx modo 0:2 em. long.; lobi circa 0-1 cm. siti fusci. avolies tubus 0:3 em. long.; labium posticum 0:2 cm. long., basi 0:15 em. lat., hujus lobuli 0:05 em. a labium anti- Antherarum locu i oidei 0-05 cm. ins. Staminodia 0-08 cm. long. Stylus iabsclaats, hujus lamellz 0:05 cm. diam. Capsula 0-4 cm. long. Semina 0:02 cm. diam., brunnea. Differs from I. ap Sanaa Skan chiefly i in the narrow shortly acuminate lobes of the calyx, the shorter corolla-tube, and the bilobulate upper lip of the corolla; from J. andongensis Hiern also in the calyx and upper lip of the corolla, The staminodes and the small narrow capsules with their minute seeds are additional points wherein it can be distinguished from both these species. ee Brillantaisia grandiden sp. nov. Planta elata ramis validis tetragonis puberulis, enh inferioribus maximis latissime 282 332 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY ovatis obtusiusculis basi alte cordatis margine lobulatis an ass lobulato-dentatis utrinque costa costulisque fac. inf. minute pube- scentibus exemptis minute pu is olo sursum ite late quam naps to breviore etsi sat — suffultis, foliis tibus, paniculiss subthyrsoideis folia .super swepissime exce- dentibus, calycis lobis corollz tubo brobiontinas aliearibus (postico lineari-oblongo) obtusiusculis minute pubescentibus, corolla majus- ap i 32-0 em. lat., supra late viridis subtus viridi- -griseus ; cost secundi ordinis utringue circa 12, late arcuate ; lobuli triangulares, apice cht 15-20 cm. long. ; sore interdentalia + 2:0 “lat. ; petioli deans circa 12-0-15°0 em. long., hujus ala sub limbo circa ek o em. lat. Folia ee circa 10-0- x 0 x 6:0- cm., summ minuta. Bra vates + 0-8 cm. long. Pome ken a bcioua: pilis elandoss besvtbue a sparsissime induta, adusque 20-0 cm. long. Calycis lobi inter se inequales, 0:5-0°8 cm. long., 0:05-0-1 cm. lat., pesos usque ad 0-715 cm. lat. Corolle purpure tubus 1-2 cm. long., 0:5 cm. lat.; labium anticum 2°6 em 3 om. lat.; hujus lobi sictie lanceolati, obtusinse lobus intermedius anguste ovato- renee: obtusissimus, lobi om em. long.; labium posticum 2°4 em. long. Fila menta 29 of long., antherz 0-7 em. Staminodia 0-7 em. ngs horum uate cassa 0-1 cm. long. roe circa 3-2 cm lobes, and the relative sizes of corolla-tube and lobes. The affinity is with B. salviiflora Burkill. rachystephanus coeruleus, sp.nov. Herba prolixa saltem semiorgyalis caule sat gracili tee ad nodos tumido frequenter ramoso ut ramuli minute puberulo, foliis ellipticis apice acuminatis tubo stricte ottaaaies calycem paullo excedente limbo t zequante labio postico integro antico breviter 3-lobo. H pamba River, Lake Albert Edward ; Bagshatwe, 1378. Foliorum lamina + 10-0 em. bone 3°5-8°5 cm. lat., juvenilia vero minora; coste secun trinque circa 8, ‘inferiores ap- pr roximate, superiores dieknten fac. sup. subplana, fac. inf. valde ALABASTRA DIVERSA _ 333 eminentes etsi tenues; petioli adusque 35 cm. long., sed sx breviores. Spicee 6-0- 10-0 em m. long.; internodia sua inferiora 0-5- 1-0 cm. long. Folia floralia 0-6-0-8 cm. long., in si¢co griseo- ‘ ‘5 em. 7 exserta; anthere pelongse 0:2 em. long. Discus 0-05 em. alt. Ovarium se NcamR ovoideum, odin pressenutiian, glabrum, 0:14 cm. long. Stylus glaber, circa 1:5 cm. lon A ve dis er ed easily recognized by its slender spikes of — blue flow ollen- gett “have some nice echinulations around the pores, ethareios they are = sm Isoglossa rungioides, sp. Herba ep deorsum lignosa caule sursum Heaeis foliato serene: ad nodos aliquanto tumido secus lineas duas pubescente aliter glabro val fere glabro, foliis ellipticis vel ovato-lanceolatis apice cuspidato- vel breviter caudato-acuminatis basi in petiolum brevem acuminatis in sicco viridibus tenuiter membranaceis fac. sup. fere glabris fac. inf. in costis pubescentibus, floribus in spicis oblongis sepissime ramulos breves brevissimosve terminantibus dispositis, bracteis amplis uminatis calycem excedentibus margine scariosis, calycis lobis lineari-lanceolatis (postico paullo latiore) acutis margine ciliatis, corolla tubo calyce paullulum breviore amplo labiis tubum fere duplo excedentibus labio antico ad } lobato labio ates ovato breviter 2-dentato, ermal loculis inequialtis, capsula oblongo- ovoidea acuta 1-3-sperm H Forest near the Ngusi River, ott Albert Edward ; also near Hoima, Unyoro; Bagshawe, sti 1461. Folia a + 10:0 cm. long., 4:0-7:0 ¢ zig > costwe ae ce utrinque circa 8, utrobique arnt? petioli adusque long., sed sewpius breviores. Spice solemniter ne 5-2°5 em. ar Bractez 0-8-0-9 cm. long., summum 0-7 em. lat., margine ciliate. Bracteole 0-6 x 0-225cm. Flores albi valet rubro- Saeais. Calycis lobi 0:4-0:45 em. long. Corolle tubus 0°35 ¢ . long., 0:22 cm., diam., labium anticum 0:6 cm. long., hujus Sty (quorum laterales ullo longiores necnon angustiores) 0°15-0-2 cm. long. ; labium posticum 0:55 cm. long. Antherarum loculi lineari-oblongi, long. Pollinis grana normalia. Diseus 0:05 em. alt. Ovarium vee rulus, circa 0: . long. Capsula 0-7 em. ‘long., 0:35 cm. lat., sursum isahapatia, Nearest I. substrobilina C. B. Cl. but quite different with its scarious-edged bracts among other features. The ha = si appear- ance are Baa of some Rungias, hence the trivial na Bagshawei, sp.nov. Frutex 1}- herent! ramulis prolixis cebraginis cortice cinereo mox obductis florentibus rari- foliosis, foliis longe petiolatis ellipticis obtusis basi gradatim extenuatis in sicco viridibus membranaceis supra fere glabris 334 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY subtus askin ad nervos puberulis, spicis ad apicem ramu- lorum abbreviatorum quam folia multoties breviorum sitis pau- cifloris pu ubeseentibs, bracteis parvulis lineari-lanceolatis lan- ceolatisve sursum nuatis extus atotione ee ee te ycem oe excedente sursum levi m oe data pubescente palato intruso labio antico fere ad 2 lobato lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis lobo intermedi o- feriore in calear breve obtusum exeunte, ovario ovoideo-oblongo minute pubescente, capsula sat etic inferne columnari superne expansa pubescente abortu 2-sper Hab. Mouth of Mizizi when ee: naga Bagshawe, eos Foliorum limbus 13-0- . long., 65-75 em. lat. ; — secundarie utrinque 5-6, aatniidii: arcuatee ; petioli 3-5-5: de long. Spice florentes 1:5-3-0 cm. long. Bractex 0-3 cm. rotons = bracteole 0°2-0°25 em. Calyx 0:25 cm. long., ine eh 0-2 cm. Corolle tubus 0-7 cm. long., basi 0°25 cm., faucibus 0°5 em. diam. ; ; labium anticum 0-6 cm. long., hujus lobi laterales 0. 1, cm., lobus intérmedius 0°32 cm. long.; labium sticum late ovatum 075 em. long., lobi 0-15 em. long. Anthere circa 0-15 cm. long. Discus fere O-Lem. alt. Ovarium 0-15 em., stylus 1:15 em. long., hic basi pube- Som wp eee apice mucronata, 20 em. long. — expansa 0% afc 0:25 em. lon Guiackahin species, the flowers being railiot chelie er < ahaioda as that genus is understood by Bentham and Clarke, only greatly reduced. The pollen is normal. I know nothing likely to be mistaken for this. r. Bagshawe describes the flowers as ‘‘dusky yellow-red.” He also notes that the flowering branches are mostly leafless, which is the case with two of the three specimens he sends. (To be continued.) ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CRYPTOGAMIC PLANTS.* By A. R. Horwoop. A communication by Mr. W. Bell, read before this Section, on the flowering plants indigenous to Charnwood Forest that have apparently become extinct within the last century, includes so lucid and exhaustive a topographical es historical description of this area that it is quite unnecessary to show what changes have taken place in the Sa rete or rR PENH of this inter- esting region. It is sufficient to remark that n cryptogams, as Es pheenogams, Charnwood possesses a chara ‘Micali flora of i own, certain species being confined to that region and not beeing elsewh here within y.-c. 55. - * Read before Section K of the British Association, Leicester, hug, 1st, 1907. ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CRYPTOGAMIC PLANTS 535 ke the. various phyla of the so-called flowerless plants ? _—_ fhighost to lowest, one by one, and trace in each group their and present constituents, would be both interesting and valu- be done in detail in every case, as each group has not received the same attention at the hands of local botanists, and in fact in the case of the Myxothallophyta, the Schizophyta, ign A Bacalla- riales, Gamophycee, and perhaps it should also be said of the fungi, especially the micro-fungi, much work yet remains to be done. ut it may be stated as a general rule—with the reservation that infusorial organisms may be said to be of universal distribution— that in these cases also (and special reference is made to the “ Alge ” and ‘ Fungi”) the species of plants found on Charnwood Forest differ from hada found in the sak irri rains “8 the species thus confined to the mountainous region—whether alge or fungi—are subject to the same changes of climate, Aety by dis- other artificial agencies, as the lichens, hepatics, and mosses, we ar is well established, igh disappeared from these causes. it o the latter that t ommunicati ion is mainly confined, n gro a iaHioe group, though it a, pataghb be added that pals the factor that causes the disappearance of the latter may affect only one and not both of the former groups. It will be best to deal first with the lichens, which more than any other cryptogams demand the best natural conditions in their struggle for viata whilst it will be more convenient also to deal with them here, in giving some general faa si the universal disappearance of cryptogamic plants om Charnwood Forest within recent years. It is well know aie lichens require district have given place to others. With the increased impetus given to the mining trade in ae Bo ageirgrge Coalfields, new collieries soon sprang up, and in a few years, where formerly all Collieries. At Coalville the industr increased enormously, Snibstone and Whitwick possessing jeveesl shafts, whilst ooue r west, in the older part of the coalfield, at Pegg’s Green, Swanning- ton, the Calcutta Pit, Cole Orton, and to the north at Lount, Heath 336 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY t the huge quarries at Bardon, where half this famous hill is being blasted away by drilling and other operations, and this is also the case further south at Croft and elsewhere. us, as a result of the extension of mining and other indus- tries and the advance of civilization, the systematic botanist has to face the gradual extinction of all lichens, and, sooner or later, that of most hepatics and mosses, in those regions where at one time they flourished best. This fact was first pointed out to me by the Rev. H. P. Reader, M.A., of Holy Cross Priory, Leicester, who has long studied and helped me to study the cryptogamic ind every whe coal and the diffusion of sulphurous gases which injure the leaves tinction of local plants exists, it seems a fitting occasion to draw attention here to this new factor of destruction.} _A paper was read last April, by Mr. P. Frazer, at the meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers on the sources of injury to vegetation in the neig urhood of manufacturing works. + Since this paper was read Prof. Tansley has drawn the writer’s attention to a paper read at Bradford in 1900, by Mr. Albert Wilson, dealing with the effect of smoke on vegetation generally in the North of England. In the abstract of his paper Mr. Wilson menti on mosses and hepaties as com- pared with that on highe —* $m imu en many mosses are In a vegetative condition. Great diminution in their abundance and luxuriousness in the neighbourhood of large to i sure of bark- loving species to smoke influence, and the cause. Threatened extinction of Ulota and Orthotricha.” This bears out the foregoing statements as to the a ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CRYPTOGAMIC PLANTS 337 Not only in Leicestershire is this the case. In the Black oe where in former days a g cryptogamic flora was to Even in the = of i heii factories are few and far between, the same paucity is to be noticed. Thus it paboeee the lichenologist ‘articulanly and the student of other groups of Cryptogamia, to hasten to complete the syste- matic study of the local floras still lingering on in the less popu- lated districts of the British leaoae. for in years to come this will be impossible. LICHENS. same agency which has caused the disappearance of so as distinctive characters are in these cases based largely on the shape, size, and number of the spores; and it is difficult in this case to be sure whether a plant formerly recorded is not referable in a perfect con t or tliat of of these indeterminable specim This does not obtain, however, largely except in the pote peer cig consist - numerous species. The earliest record of a Leicestershire lichen is to be found in Ray’s Synopsis, 1724, where Alectoria ener is mentioned on the authority of Petiver as occurring in ey Forest. This ‘is Arrangement a British Plants a Dillenius (Hist. Mus tnbigi he te fined to that ‘distri, now pee there :— 0 v biatorinum, Sphinctrina tremelloides, S. anglica, * Coniocybe Darfarates, Spherophorus compressus, S. fragilis, S. coralloides, Stereocaulon coralloides, S. denudatum, Alectoria jubata, Platysma sepincola, P. ulophyllum, Parmelia Mougeotii, P. incurva, P. olivacea, Lobarina scrobiculata, Stictina s 45. Lobaria nature of the effects of increased smoke, and also extends has the North of England oe a here indicated as particularly affected by its agency. Prof. Tansley informed the author that in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield this year he baw ni that hand were almost conspicuous by their absence. 338 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY that have not been me with of recent years, v tae flaccidum, C. glawcescens, C. nen, O. granuliferum, C. cristatum, C. ‘exrsmgnnte Leptogium anaes L. tremelloides, Calicium chrysocephalum, C. melanopheum var. ferruginewm, C. trachelinum, Trachylia stiponell Beomyces roseus, B. erugimosus. Of the genus Cladonia several species have not occurred in fruit, seo as so much depends in this ee on this character, and ese 7 peat ee DL. geld oe L. parisiensis, L. albella, conizea, L. expallens, L. P. multipu . leuca, P. Wulfeniz, also Urceolar La Pata and of the genus Lecidea, L. flexuosa, LL. conglomerata, L. phebecth L. fusco-atra, L. confluens, L. verruculosa, a; Lightfoot, L. cyrtella, L. lutea L, diluta, L. caradocensis, L. abietina, L. foveolaris, L. pachycarpa, L. milliaria, L. carneola, L. endoleuca, L. effusa, L. parasitica. Of the genus Opegrap a, O. lyncea, and OQ. viridis, Stigmati- dium crassum, and of the genus Arthonia, A. lurida, A. spadicea, . punctiforms, a eptpasta, A, pruinosa, Graphis elegans, G. inusta, G. sophist No species | of “Bados carpon has — hag found, and the pci i of Verrucaria do not no nt as ear to be still survivors of the former lichen-flora, viz. :—V. epigea, V. immersa, V. setae he V. AMER V. chlorotica, V. nitida, a olivacea, V. umbrina wg: clopma. In estimating the number of extinctions it is, of course, possible that in some case S species have been recorded in error, but, apart from that eventuality, it is obvious from the foregoing list, which supplements the list of undoubted extinctions, that the lichen-flora of Leicestershire—and this remark may well apply to all the other midland counties—is fast diminishing. HeEpatica. f the hepatics of Leicestershire it may be stated Snes with aE since the publication of the flora in 1886, e fifty have been recorded or met with. Of these probably two, 5, Sphar ll carpus Micheli (= terest) and Dumortiera hirsuta require to be expunged as err Of kr the following appear to be extinct, viz. : Blasia prodier a Marsupella emarginata, hopninie incisa, My ia NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI 339 anomala, a setacea, Frullania tamarisct, Anthoceros There are vent a few which have not been met with recently, which may require to be added to the foregoing list, viz. :— Lophozia befiekai, ai bicrenata, L. gracilis, Cephalozvella byssacea, Odontoschisma sphagnt. USCI. The following mosses do not appear to have survived in Leicestershire ati prope some time anterior to the publica- tion of the flora in 1886, viz.:—*Campylopus subulatus, *Dicrano- ee Cres; wa, Gtbitne? 0 ovata, Rhaconutrium protensum, Schis- tostega osmundacea, Bartramia ithyphylla, *Breutea arcuata, *Bryum ‘i Beiatonk *B. alpinum, Mnium cuspidatum. M. stellare, Neckera crispa, N. pumila, Pterygophyllum lucens, *Pterogoniwm gracile, Antitrichia curtipendula, Brachythecitum plumosum, EHurhynchium speciosum, a en zum brevirostre, H. lorewm. The existence of the following species rests on somewhat rice hs carga and they may possibly be regarded as sda oweisia ipl 4cea, * “Orthotrichun straminewm, Mnium serratum, * * Hurhyn- chium tenellum, *E. stri e following have ist aah seen of late years :—Sphagnum cymbifolium, *S. squarrosum, S. acutifoliwm var. rubellum, ie a Polytrichum nanum, P. seen, *Archidium t tre Dichodontium pelluci cau Fissidens pustllus, Rhacomitrium fasciculare, R. canescens, Acau pt ~Lepie ie apis ium, # Orthotrichum letocarpum, 0. NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI (S a) By Epwarp G. Ginpert, M.D. (See pp. 129, 210, 248.) I pip not expect my kind friend Mr. Rogers to follow me in all my speculations as to the real relations existing between many of the Rubi; but I think he is wrong in supposing that there is a fundamental difference between him and me about them. I, too, keep to the lines indicated in his Handbook. It is that book which have been made upon d : Without his Handbook I could have done nothing. He points out repeatedly the intermediate character of one or other of his species or varieties; or its tendency to vary, so that it becomes difficult (or even impossible) to distinguish it from some other. oe * Where an asterisk is prefixed no specimen of the plant is known to be in existence. 340 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY with these remarks, observation in the field strongly suggests to me that the intermediate character may often be meres and thus we may sees a step further in our knowledge of the genus. The fr t oceurrence of forms intermediate between well-marked but sneaky allied species suggests the idea of hybridity, especially as the supposed hybrids vary more than well-defined species ; re 78 $ in ‘dis: direction towards one or other of their supposed par What I notice is this: that in a lane, a wood, or on a common where some species of Rubus is predominant, there is to be found a sprinkling of forth clearly bearing the stamp of that one, but neighbourhood. If this be not due to crossing, nly other a of it s o me to be that they all, through the f environment, have a tendency to tho su se shicigaters which the most abundant one there. has already assume To apply phere secretin to the Suberecti. Mr. Rogers points out that R. fissws “ becomes more like &. swberectus in damp shady places,” such as * the latter grows in. nd in damp woods at Lingfield R. suberectus. I also find near it a Rubus which strikin ngly | combines the characters of R. Suderarl and R. cyclo- phyllus Li ndeb. M. Sudre, of Angers, has sent to the British erectus X R. cesius. He calls it R. suleatiformis. It very much resembles tall FR. fissus. R. sulcatus gro margin of a Hie carina wood; but the leaves are much less hairy, and it look a luxuriant large-leaved R. plicatus with drawn-out internodes. Has not the existence of R. sulcatiformis obscured the distinction between R. fissus and R. suberectus? At all events, that distinction cannot be made out by a painstaking comparison least have not been. This can hardly be from any o pier cause than that the baahdhcy between them is ill-defined in mater or obscured by hybrids. The only other Suberecti or Subrhamnifolit I sate found here which stand out distinctly from all other Rubi are R. nitidus W and R. afinis W. & N. Ot aang which t find more sparingly a nd more variable, T have been led by nature and by plicatus sometimes, sometimes nitidus x Balfourianus ?).. I believe I could give good reasons for my suspicions. NOTES ON BRITISH’ RUBI | 341 May I say here that I have included ei R. nitidus R. hamu- losus L. & M.,; as Mr. Rogers does. It i uch commoner than the true on W. & N., and, if I am right j in my determination, very disti om. the common level of R. fruticosus the well-defined species appear to stand up — ene ridges. In the spaces between these ridges appear (as it were) the low rounded elevations of the inter- mediates spreading laterally from ridge to ridge. I feel rather flattered to find that the Rev. E. S. Marshall lesson long ago. But can repeated and minute oe ee of all the specimens of bedabhe es at the British Museum from all parts of the British Isles, not to mention pers ime visits to the north, south, east, west, and middle of those islands, be strictly ealled “local” researches? Perhaps 80, as the islands are comparatively small. But I have also, when it seemed desirable, referred to Continental specim eins, and compared them with my own, especi proll ay valuable series sent by M. Sudre to the’ National Herbar Mr. Mar shall's spbiie vation that R. cesius is not found in the Scotch counties where Rf. fissus occurs is very interesting, as tending to show that, if zane should not be a distinct’ species, it is o nishd mee a variety of swberectus than a hybrid. 8's om a ct e has not noted prtes he ha not noted c@ésius. This is tances 1. think, of something more than an accidental coincidence nave specimens from a plant growing near _ suber ectus, again compared them with the following from whi hem indistinguishable, viz. some specimens of cher and some of sub- erectus at Kew, an udre’s. x sulcatiformi Mr. Marshall’s observation that there is no R. affinis or R. nitidus near R. Rogersi in Scotland is noteworthy, as M. Sudre has Ly the Rev. W. R. on specimen in the “ Type " to be a of R. affinis W. & N., and I had before that thought. it was eeahey a hybrid of ies. with plicatus or nitidus. Mr. Since writing the above I have been = Lingfield and carefully scruti- nized — wonderful patch of suberect Rub Its stems reach a height of eight feet, and are very erect; but its seme al purple fect, thorns are those an pr as are its mop te ofte ri 2d leaves. Intimately mixed with it is a great deal of R. Baljourianus, nnd close “A some peat But could not this year find any specimen in whic e appearance of crossing seemed so clear as it had done on a mi occa orig Naverthisless, the ge rickles of corylifolius bear a striking resemblance to those of jissus; and it occasionally has a 7-nate leaf, one of the leading characteristics of jissus. It and its close a ee rbene: also flower like jissus and suberectus, earlier shat any other 342 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Rogers very kindly lent me a specimen of R. Rogersi, which proved to be exactly like one or two which I have gathered i in Kent and Sussex, and a specimen in the ‘Type Set’ named “ opacus”; but none of them have the cordate leaves and crowded prickles mentioned in his Hogayoor: It must, I should think, were Tepe or not. R. Rowersis i is common about Tunbridge Wells, and I have identified it (I believe) with Dr. Focke’s Rf ammobius, which is considered in Nyman’s ees ai to be + plicat, of which I had looked upon it as a variety. he National Herbarium there are at least two specimens, each named by Sy authority ammobius, and by another Rogersii. It varies muc r. Marshall may be interested in the fact that R. Marshall is common about Tunbridge Wells. Being of striking features, its s. k, exemplified than by the following facts. There is in the British Museum a specimen named JL. leucostachys x imbricatus by the Rev. W. M. Rogers, Dr. Focke, and Mr. Marshall in combination ; a. few sheets from it is another of the same plant gathered by the same three gentlemen at the same pier and on the same day, bu named Rf. leucostachys x Mars I have lately ascertained the fe ea in ame of R. montanus Wirtg. (named &. senticosus Koehl. by M. Sudre). I found it four years ago at a Wells. It seems to be the same as ) suspect it to be a hybrid than a separate species. This brings it into pice with R. opacus and R. affinis var. Briggsianus, both which are closely related to R. _— W. & N. I find that in the “Type Set” at Kew a specimen of “ R. nem. Silurum” from the two Linton’ s is just intermddiate between Mr. Rogers’s and a specimen of R. opacus. What could be more likely, if they are both Te Ny of R. nitidus, as there are other reasons for suspecting? In Nyman’s Conspectus, R. montanus is made a close ally of R. aes 343 SHORT NOTES. oe ene ANTHROPOPHORA R. Br. 1x Nort Somerset.—In last as conducted by Mr. A. E. G. Way théougt the Clifton “ ei bot rden,” where he cultivates the majority of British flowers and is remarkably successful in his treatment of orchids. Among many other species I saw a fine patch of Aceras, number- ago in a rough pasture on high ground spe Portishead and Clevedon, on the ridge that overlooks and runs parallel with the Channel about twelve miles from Bristol. Mr. Way at that time used the land as a game Lipeas and fears that his keen-eyed ke nder The Carboniferous Limestone rock crops out thr ss the turf here and there, and carries a Se tarts cakiation of Helan- themum Chamecistus, Trifolium dubium, T. filiforme, Spirea Fili- pendula, Thymus, &c. Portions of the ground are separated by shifted m time t is naturall interest, seeing that this orchid is essentially an Eastern Counties plant, apparently unknown hitherto farther west than Berkshire. But I notice that Mr. Preston, in his Flowering Plants of Wilts, Opurys TROLL sidlintis —My ret acquaintance with this variety of the bee-orchis was made through a specimen collected in “ ss Folly Wood, Clifton, 24 ose 1851,” by the late J. so Cun marked “ Drone Orchis.”’ In later years I began hear mention of a “ Wasp Orchis ” among y ung people cereal bo the Gloucester side of the river in 1900, and in J July of this ei (1907) a patch of about a dozen plants occurred in one spot, and 344 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY one in another, all by the Port and Pier Railway, under Clifton Down. e whole of these localities are in the Avon Valley below, and within two miles of, Clifton Suspension Bridge. I have descriptive floras. I judge, therefore, that it must be remarkably Orcnis ERICETORUM Linton.— For some years past it has appeared to me that Orchis ericetorum, which I now regard as a distinct species, and O. maculata had a different period of flower- in mM ; 99 rz = oO er a oO nm & B oO Ey o _ 5 > ed & 5 be | la} FS similar difference in the flowering stage. In this at the junction of the tertiary with the cretaceous formation, both orchids occur in situations favourable for comparison in this . This year I was on the look-out for the first flowering of several plants, and came across O. ericetorwm beginning to pgecie on the 10th of May. It was not till the 14th of June that with plants growing in t e neighbourhood and in the e season. barium series has plants from different latitudes and altitudes, and of various seasons. Our floras give May to July as the flowering season of O. maculata. This is correct for O. ericetorum, which in hilly districts or northern counties linger on through all July. But O. maculata does not flower in May, feel assured, and does not usually begin in southern counties till the second week in June, and should rather be described as flowering June—July.—E. F. Linton. menta, round or oval in form and dark in colour, -were also to be found on the thallus or in the openings. Remains of three insects occupying the cavities were found: a species of mite (Acarws), a spider, and one of the Diplopoda, Polyxenus. The two latter.were’ SHORT NOTES 345 only occasionally present; the mites were ii connected with the deformations, and are sseoe oa to be the origin of the abnormal growth, though it may be occasionally due to minute wu found mite. The Professor regrets his inability to examine the British specimens, &. scopulorwm var. incrassata from the Channel Islands, South-west England and North-west Ireland, and R. cuspidata var. crassa from the Channel Islands, North England and North- spermogonia, the holes of two dimensions in the thallus, the formers. There seems no reason to doubt that these varieties are merely gall-bearing forms of their respective types.—A. Lorrain SMITH. New Locatitigs or Figen LICHENS. por arg, over a series of lichens Eres e by Mr. W. West, of ted and col- st I T have found hideaak some specimens emai new ce the dis- tricts. One of these, Pertusaria gyrochezla, was found on Clesham, _ a mountain in Harris, 2500 ft. high, the highest in the Outer cies was founded by Nylander, on a specimen was collected again by the Rev. J. M. Crombie, at a later date, from the same locality. T am unaware of any other record for this very striking- lookin lichen. On the rocks of the west coast of Lewis Mr. West has collected plants of Ramalina Curnowti Cromb., distinguished by the black base of the rae and the blac mp rmogonia. It has been recorded hitherto only from hern localities, the Channel Eilat, Scilly, a Il. thallus and fruits fave no doubt of its identity. Crombie notes it as rare in the islands of South-west Ireland. It is most com- monly found on maritime rocks in the as ii Islands and the south coast of England.—A. Lorrain Smit CUTELLARIA ALPINA L.—I am not aware that the extreme roniabiling’ in colour of Scutellaria alpina has been put on record. Coste, in his Flore de la France, says simply, “ fleurs bleues avec lévre inférieure blanchatre.’”” Having examined some hundreds of these handsome flowers this summer, I find M. Coste’s descrip- tion somewhat misleading. The colour of the flower is hardly JourNAL OF Borany.—Vou. 45. [Sepremper, 1907.) 2c 346 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Prunella grandiflora. or Calamintha alpina as ly as anything ries from a light mauve, ot even lilac, through every shade of- purple to a deep. violet. he Mont Cenis district, In t where the plant is very plentiful from 6000 to 7500 ft. above the i i i the t year, I found some plants with the lower lip completely white, but this form is very rare. At Mont Cenis, near the summit redder than others. situations the leaves are sometimes nearly glabrous, but even in the sha he bracts are generally tinged wi le. Although the increased brilliancy in colour of flowers, and especially the reds, blues and violets, as ascends tains is well known, it is a somewhat rare thing to find flowers normally white assume a pinkish tinge in the high mountains o-day, at Moncenisi me inflata alpine plants found in the Pyrenees, the Alps of Central and Southern Europe (particularly on limestone), and again in the Altai region of Northern Asia—H. 8, Taompson. - Tue Box 1n Enatanp.—In Robson’s The British Flora (York, 1777) I find the following stations given:—‘On Box-hill near Rosa HrBErNicA (p. 304).—The following mention of this plant in Templeton’s original locality occurs in Mason’s Parochial Survey, iii. 183 (1819) :—*“ Some time ago a beautiful bed of wild roses grew to near an acre in extent, beneath the road to Richmond Lodge, was more accurately observed, and it was found that the rose was a non-descript. It is now called the Rosa hibernica, and a description of it is given in the Transactions of blin Society.” The writer was the Rev. W. Holmes, Vicar of olywood, in which parish the locality is situated. The spot is greatly changed by a road and railway which run through the “POPULAR BRITISH BOTANY 347 “acre” of roses which are now only to be met with in one hedge. —H. W. Lert. : LENE CONICA IN SurrEy.—Mr. George Massee recently gave me some plants of Silene conica, which were gathered by him on Hockham ear near ipley, urrey. I cannot find any previous aa Sie Se ot the county, and it is very rare i ing cou f Kent and Sussex. From the nature of the locality it is cident Teaiet in Surrey.—A. B. Jackson. NOTICES OF BOOKS. Popunar BritisH Borany. Flowers F the Field. By the Rev. C. A. Jouns, B.A., ELS. Revised throughout and edited by CLARENCE Euiorr. With 92 coloured illustrations by E. N. Gwarxiy and 345 cuts in the text. 8vo, fancy cloth, pp. xx. 316. Price ~ 7s. 6d. net. Routledge. Wild Flowers of the British Isles. Illustrated and written by H. Isasex Apams, F.L.8. Revised by James HE. BAGNALL, A.L.S. With 75 coloured emo Demy 4to, pp. xv. 168. ; mann. Manual of British Grasses. By W. J. Simeon. With a coloured illustration of every species and many original diagrams by J. Gorpon. 8vo, pp. 180. Price 6s. net. Biekbkic, Marshall & Co. [1907. ] THE practice of reprinting early editions of books which have passed out of copyright has been a subject of discussion in the literary a s, especially in connection with the works of Ruskin, which, a e time inaccessible to folk of small means, have now, in shit Sher forms, been brought within the reach of the most limited urse. An instance of similar procedure is brought to our er. A notice of thi (p. 195), and aiboaen vs “felt bound % express our Bir. i om the previous editions, might well have paid greater attention umerous matters of detail, the usefulness of the book from a poteical bps was duly recognize No h tribute can be paid to the edition now issued by Messrs. Routledgs, The name of Mr. Clarence Elliott, who has ‘edited and revised throughout,’ is unfamiliar to us further testimony to his qualifications—or rather disqualifications —for the task is needed than that supplied by the volume itself His preface is a literary curiosity, as will be evident from the .348 -THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY following sentence: ‘To have made a thoroughly —— work eemed undesirable, for it would have meant so muc pulling to pieces and putting together again, that the properene= ‘classic, the simple book in which for so many years keen un- and cessfully the names of the plants which they collected, would no longer have remained.” The fact that Mr. Elliott has not even troubled ‘print the name of his author correctly—he spea the book as ‘‘ John’s whenever he has occasion to refer to the author—is eal of the extraordinary carelessness which ramps through the book. The specific names under the figures almost always have a capital, while in the text, in cases where they ought to have one, it is not employed. There is no a in the — to the se the names do not correspond. Misprints abound—e.g. “ Chic A sees nok “Cyptipedium” (index); “Marsh Plum thistle”’ (p. 163); aa: . 48); “ Achillia” (p. Tow “ ochrolucea” (p. 228). very ee age- heading “Glumacew ” we have Aracee and other orders which are not cage rent the figure of Draba verna (p. 23) is upside-down! Many of the i in the text were wisely discarded as far back as 1871 by the S.P.C.K. as inadequate—the Society would do well, by the way, in future -editions, to carry the process further—and the lettering of these is not always accurate—e.g. the two Chrysanthemums are included under one name on p. 174. é have not a copy by us of an early edition, 2 the claim on the title-page that the volume before us has been ‘revised our flora as sla. ys alpina; we detect, however, Mr. El iott’s hand in the ark on Ononis: ‘Several more or less distinet Oo vious to Mr. Boulger’s is observed here; Cyperacee and Graminee are ae gene spac ‘e the It is ronan Be important that the real value of a book of this kind should be plainly stated, because the reviews in the ordinary POPULAR BRITISH BOTANY 349 newspaper press. are usually written without expert knowledge, and thus mislead; the Westminster Gazette, for example, from which - better things might be expected, thinks the edition “ altogether a very desirable one. The quarto volume entitled Wild Flowers of the British Isles, illustrated and written by sir H. Isabel Adams, and revised b r. Bagnall, is in every respect a beautiful book. The coloured plates fully justify the statement that they ‘constitute a triumph or modern methods of colour-printing,” and testify both to the artistic skill and botanical knowledge of their author. eh seldom if ever seen the substance, so to speak, and the habit of the Marsh Marigold an Wallflower, to n nl among y; although here and there the plates are a little too much cigs and the colours somewhat too subdued t nly draws well, but her caligraphy is excellent; the characters of the orders were in some cases written on the plates, and ne names are always given in the same elegant lettering. No greater contrast could be found than that existing between these aaend studies from life and the feeble prettiness—not always even that— of the plates referred to in the preceding notice. The descriptions are short, but careful and sufficient, as might be expected in a book submitted to Mr. Bagnall’s “Sour type another volume is in mean dbaiboieor Mr. G n’s book on Grasses. will not, we think, soa facilitate the study of the order, partly because of its extra- rdinary arrangement, which renders it almost impossible to consult. Three “chapters” are devoted respectively to an “index to Aes including synonyms,” an “ index to genera’? and an “index to customary names”; to these last two chapters (iii. and xili.) are devoted, the former referring to the ene this is not stated—which themselves are not lettered. But the figures appended to the names in these indexes do not refer to ce pages on which the is cribed, but to the number i rs i t is des ut “Chapter ii. List of British Grasses,” which list oo no reference to the body of the work! Thus ‘“ Oryzoides, Leers “ Leersia 1,” “Rice Grass, 1,” and others merely “indicate that the plant is numbered 1 in the list on p. 11! It is only by hunting through the book—for no cross-references are any- where given—that we aa that the genus is described on p. 61, the species on p. 108, each also appearing in the “ tabular view’ on pp. 140, 143! aes therefore, wishing to use the book must first sit down and make a practicable index. ‘The “index to species” contains a large and absolutely useless number of names which find no mention anywhere in the book— 850 THE: JOURNAL OF BOTANY thus under 72 to which “Caudatus, Mygalurus” is referred, we find only Festuca Myurus, nor is any indication anywhere given that this is a mere synonym, unknown, we think, in British books. rrhenatherum: where, one wo onders, ene such names be “ cus- wash ary” ?—the text does not explain en we come to consider 9g botany of the book, we fin d that “The Order and its Tribes,” “The Tribes and their Genera” and “The Genera and their Species,” form three chapters, and that the last is “ arranged alphabetically for ease in reference” ! The first of these begins: “The grasses have a botanical order to themselves, Graminex, which is one of two orders—Cyperacee being the other—forming the Glumiflore, the most important and most widely distributed group—cohort or series, or whatever it may be called—int to which the monocotyledonous plants have a divided.”” This, with a sentence from the preface—“ For its for the labour they involved ’—and this on Avena fatua (p. 78)— _— re affords a noteworthy instance of the limitations of Sowi ts confirm A word must be said as to the plates; these, although crudely coloured and not well drawn, form the best part of the book, and may be useful to the beginner who wishes to be spared the trouble of working out his plants. Die Purpurbakterien. Dr. Hans Moriscu. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1907. Pp. vii. and 92. Four plates. Price 5 m Tue author of this treatise has conducted a series of researches on a ser interesting group of colour bacteria and now publishes his res The group gh from other bacteria, in that 7 pout ge more or ‘Tae. elena were made with many vaitreret cul , and an entirely new group of these organisms that does not lay down sulphur was discovered and diagnosed. BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 351 . mber of new genera and species are named and the dif- lore. eee of the purple biteria: are examined, and their of chemical and physical -~ finding two new pera green, which he names Bakterio-chlorin, and the other Bakteries purpurin. The former shane chlorophyll green but gave a easily, and was demonstrated to be one of the Karotin group. The illustrations represent the sara ra colour crystals and the spectra ee by the two colouring m hoe - BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ¢e. At the meeting of the Linnean Society on 20th June, Dr. weep gave an account of the plants collected on Mt. Ruwenzori . Wollaston (1906) from the paper by himself: and of ea ‘E. G. Baker, Spencer Moore, and A. B. Rendle. The plants were soe from two camps—one at about 3500 ft. above sea-level on the south-east slopes of the range between o July. Dr. gives notes on the vegetation at different altitudes from 3000 ft 15,000 ft., and has brought back some photographs showing the na of the count ane different aspects of the vegetation. to 8000 ft. is found the largest forest of the range; a large Dom- beya is noticeable, and one of the finest trees is a Podocarpus. Above 8000 ft. the forest thins out, and is gradually replaced by a belt of small tree-heaths and Podocarpus. _The bamboo-zone begins on the east side at shout 8500 ft. and continues up to. 10,000 ft. The big tree-heaths begin about 9500 ft., at which level a number of wa orchids were found, with, numerous. ferns. From 10,000 ft. to 11, ft. moss is plentiful on the ground and trees vt i gain Sete 2 ft. deep: here were found two tree-Lobelias. In. the next oui feet Helichrysums, — tree-heaths, and tree-Senecios are the most conspicuous plan The heaths cease about 12,500 ft., but the Senecios con- re "sloibet to 14,000 ft. Another Lobelia appears at about 12,500 ft., and is found on the steepest slopes almost to the snow- line. Helich rysums, sometimes forming bushes four or five feet high, grow luxuriantly. A small Arabis was found at 14,000 ft., and a rush, a new species of Poa, and mosses, were found growing © m to the level of permanent snow 352 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Unper the title 4n Introduction to Practical Botany (price 2s.), Messrs Dent have issued, in their Series of Mathematical and volume, the work of Mr. E. H. Davies, B.Sc., of the County School, arry, Glamorgan. It consists of seventy-eight lessons, in eac of the observations made o w obtained. The book should be useful to teachers in elementary and secondary schools. Tue first volume of the useful series of articles on the recent progress and present position of some of the many aspects of modern botany, issued under the title Progressus Ret Botanice, under the able editorship of Dr. Lotsy, of Leiden, has been con- mgs with the issue of a third part. immunity and the specific action of bacteria, &c., in the last ind i y from the botanist’s point of view, should encourage the editor and the Association Internationale des Botanistes—under whose r its publication has been ed. We hope that the editors will provide in the Catalogue a bibliography of the papers and collee- tions upon which the Census is based e r part of the present report is occupied with an enumeration of the exchange specimens divided among the members of the club, and a number of instructive critical notes on the plates are inserted in the list. We greatly regret to announce the death of Mr. E. A. L. Batters, which took place at his residence at Gerrard’s Cross 00 ~ aus. 11. 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Most naturalists have taken a great interest in the observa- tions of De Vries on the variations of Ginothera, as observed by him in Holland, which have been summed up in his classical gone new species a se i e of the greatest ance to the philosophical biologist, and if it can be sho that Vries is mistaken in his conception of “species,” it remains as it stood before. any are the localities where the Evening gi pees, has eeanguaei itself in this country, and it would be of very great i to test at different spots the results arrived at b the ebhied Dutch naturalist, an easy and interesting sabe of work wd our local botanists. e had an opportunity of looking into the matter at two diffe elite splines, and I have found the results so different from those obtained by De Vries, that I think it desirable to place my observations on record, as an incentive to others to pursue the investigation. To begin with, I have not been able to confirm the distinction established by De Vries between GZ. Lamarckiana and Ch. biennis which I find to be con ceased by every possible transition, the , ij eh ire species _ ne of the order of continuous variation. Further, in observing the behaviour of Pit Lamarckiana in a sandy locality on the eench om I do not find a Sig — cing here and ) ra DeVries there would be an end as well-marked varieties. When Vries argues “that his new species are as satisfactorily esta- | Biished as those of many authors, he is right only in so far as the species to which he alludes _— proposed by uncritical botanists upon herbarium specimens without any knowledge of the variations displayed by these lane if studied in the open on a large material. t has been thought before that Cd. — = only a icles variety of GZ. biennis ; also that it may be a hybrid, al- though, as observed by MacDougal, it a been Piupesad with what species GZ. biennis would have hybridized to produce . JOURNAL OF Botany.—Vou, 45. [Octopsr, 1907.] 2D 354 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Lamarckiana. But we know of the numerous hybrid and mongrel combinations produced in he allied Epilobium, wild and culti- vated Ma P state of uncertainty it is futile to speculate on what constitutes - the gate form of CH. bien I submit the following observations to the consideration of botanists. "The Specimens on elgeiee they are based are preserved in the N coon Histo I am under sblicabions: se Dr. Rendle for giving me every putenie in the department of which he has charge. I.— OBSERVATIONS MADE AT SouTH KENSINGTON. The part of the Natural History Museum where the collections preserved in spirit are stored away, known as the Spirit _— was erected twenty-five ‘puede ago on the waste ground at the of the Museum, which was previously occupied by the Intemational Exhibition : ke It was then a wilderness in which numerous wild flowers have gradually disappeared. The Evening Prim- rose has, however, See itself, in small numbers, most of su been able to observe a road many specime _ The plant answers well to the type cecalby called Ginothera biennis in this country. It was identified as such for me by a botanical colleague in 1883, and, so far as I can rescttank its general habit and the size of the flowers vo the same then as they are now. Specimens with very large flowers, such as we tion in the herbarium of the British:Museum, labelled Ci. biennts, do not differ very materially from the plants which grow round ou institution, and I should never ~~ 2 ubted the correct deter- ination were it not for the appearance of MacDougal’s work Madonis and Hybrids of the Ginotheras. (Washingt, 1905). * Cf. De Vries, Species and Varieties, p. 575 (1906). ON THE VARIATIONS OF THE EVENING PRIMROSE 355 In the praiseworthy attempt > settle the question of the Sa habitats of the various forms of Onagras which have been to the front by De Vries’ s work on mutation, he has nt. e I had under observation. I therefore submitted a plant to Prof. De Vries, who kindly informed me that my Evening Primrose is a “ ZH. biennis L. as it oce verywhere in Europe it i i Tanné. The CZ, snonere of ‘ Si CH. biennis found in the United States, but which has not yet been studied or described.” Two flowers from the — — of Amsterdam, which Prof. De Vries was so good a for comparison, differ only in being a little larger, yo ‘petals ‘measuring 27 millim. against 24, which is the maximum length in the flowers observed me. It is therefore with the sanction of Natural History Museum grounds as the true found it impossible to distinguish any oats marked varieties among the plants which grow under my eyes. they present a great amount of variation, which I think deserves being lace on recor In some plants the buds are closely grouped together, in others they stand wide apart, forming or not long spikes above the open flowers ; in some the stalks or the midrib of the leaves are pink or crimson, in others there is no trace of such colour. pie it is pe a ” with lack te gi dealt. “The length "of the petals varies between 10and 24 millimetres. The pistil ay be as long as, longer, or shorter than the stamens, and in some buds just before open- ing it projects aye distinctly. I here ite De Vries’s wn words a 319) in defining his Gi. Lamarckiana from “Dass sie e [the new species of the Lamarckiana group] niher verwandt sind, als mit Gi. biennis, Ci. muricata, ch. sores * Further on, however, one of the mutants of G!. Lamarckiana is described as iy. brevistylis ed a p. 43) Bb in which the style does not project, or but slightly projects, beyond t 2nd2 356 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Knospen oberhalb der Spitze der Antheren.* Wenn sich die Bliithe éffnet, breiten sich die vier Narben im Kates aus, dabei die Antheren in der Regel nicht beriihrend. Bei @. biennis dagegen liegen die Narben in der Knospe mitten zwischen den nd einen Tag vor der Entfaltun ng (et Kvouin offnen.” + The following table shows to what extent De Vries’s , definition of Gl. biennis can be relied upon :— MEASUREMENTS OF FLOWERS FULLY OPEN oF (@nothera biennis Linné (fide De Vries). Two specimens from the Botanic Garden of Amsterdam, received from Prof. De Vries, July, 1907. A. B. Cc. D. ‘e 27 14 14 26 2. 27 9 13 26 vere Fine specimens from outside Spirit Building of Natural story Museum, South Kensington, July-August, 1907. A B. Le 24 11 13 24 2. 24 10 12 24 3. 21 10 10 21 4, 20 12 9 22 5. 9 10 27 6. 19 13 12 19 7 19 11 11 21 8. 19 9 11 20 9. 18 10 11 21 10. 18 10 10 23 11. 18 9 11 23 12 17 12 12 21 13 17 10 11 22 14 17 9 15 16 10 10 23 16. 15 9 0 22 7 15 9 10 19 18. 15 9 9 rckiana from St. Cast onions on, No. pe I have — that, sities a pistil is much longer = the stamens, the stigma does project beyond the petals in os Som the point of opening. There = therefore, yespey 8 in both ‘*s me criterion for agin stony of the ‘ elementar patina it = adopted “os aeibionsss (Mutants and Aa owe p. 52) :—‘* The ev ening-prim of eastern North America, from w Sestahay all of the pshctan cultivated ‘in * * a - i biennis, acreage and eruciata, in which the flowers are Re ogres | small, : ht eng : hedetia sea in which the flowers are large an stamens are much shorter than = _— & condition which with some accessory structures favours cross-polling ON THE VARIATIONS OF THE EVENING PRIMROSE 357 A. B. 6. D. 19. 15 7 8 22 20. 15 6 9 20 21. 15 5 8 20 22. 15 4 9 20 23. 14 11 10 20 24, 14 7 9 24 25. 14 6 9 22 26. 14 6 9 19 27. 14 6 8 18 28. 14 5 ce 22 29. 14 3 10 26 80. 13 8 9 20 31. 13 7 9 20 82. 3 5 9 20 33. 13 5 7 20 34. 12 3 7 20 35. 10 3 7 17 A. Length of petal. B. Length of style neo from tube). c. Length of filament. vp. Length of tube in millimet These examples have been picked from different plants and mostly at random. It cannot be said that the variation is dis- continuous. e great variation in the length of the pistil appears in buds on the point of openings: which either show nothing of the stigma, or show a greater or less part projecting Berens the petals. In one case the stigma projected 4 millim. out of a bud the petals of which measured 15 ent of conical part of bud 6, length of tube 20, length of ovary 1 I have received (Sept. Toth and 11th) from Mr. U. R. She samples of four plants growing wild near London. The first, ite: Uxbridge, may be referred to the var. Lamarekiana, the fully o open flower showing the following measuremen 44 26 19 44 One of the buds, ready to open, shows the stigma projecting beyond the petals; whilst wtvsueel in a same condition, has the stigma completely enveloped by th The second, from Acton, eb ot the typical GZ. biennis as owing in England, but the pistil is much longer, so that the tower would fall under the definition of the Lamarckiana group f De Vries :— 19 16 11 20 The leaves a very smooth, with pale pink midribs. The third and fourth, from a brickfield between Acton and Willesden (collasted by Mr. A. Le ydell), I also regard as ‘yp pical CZ. biennis; their flowers gave the ‘following measurements 21 ll 27 22 13 13 27 There is no pink in the van The typical Gi. biennis, as ing wild in and around London, is generally shemeetariaed rte its long a enceike with 358 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY iennis. The “grossere Gestalt” of the flowers (Mutations- theorie, i ii. p. 477) is no cheng’ since in a flower of CZ. scintillans sent to me by Prof. De Vries the petals measure only 22 millim., hog they measure 27 vailiva in specimens received from him s CE. biennis. How is a — to carry out his work in tt of such contradiction he study of the above examples entirely confirms ly opinion ~paaire by Mgr. Léveillé (Mon. . m1 19a Za caractére se rencontre & peu prés chez toutes les espéces qui présenten nt une forme 4 grande fleur et une forme & petites fleurs. arent suaiieiee la grandeur ou la petitesse des fleurs comme dee pera susceptibles ad’ sik “einployés dans la classi- fication, de telle sorte que l’on ne saurait y voir qu'un caractere accidental cnet tout au plus 4 l’idée de variation. ne s Onothera la grandeur des fleurs et la présence de eg ne ah md fournir un caractére sérieux pour établir une espéce, pas e pour une variété stable. Il est impossible de savoir ott finit P 0. fruticosa et o commence la pumila. On trouve chez la pumila des styles égalant ou méme dépassant les étamines tout aussi bien que des styles plus courts que celles-ci. D’ailleurs, ainsi que nous l’avons déja dit, chez ce les espéces d’Onothera, on trouve la forme & grandes fleurs et la forme & petites iho et souvent des intermédiaires entre tes deux. Ce sont li des variations sans import ance que nous nous refusons 4 siogiaiees a titre de variétés. From what I have seen in the @. biennis growing in South Kensington I can fully endorse what has been said by the distin- guished French botanist, and I am further strengthened in this opinion by the observations I have made in Brittany. IT.—OBsrERVATIONS In Brittany. with me De Vries’s famous aok Mutations- Riwia and I endeavoured to determine the varieties + this ON THE VARIATIONS OF THE EVENING PRIMROSE 359 Ginothera with the aid of the descriptions and figures it contains. But I did not succeed, and felt highly perplexed at the great of which th : to the conclusion that, having run wild, these Ginotheras were reverting to the type of Gi. biennis, and at the same time producing n by D the characters kadus ed by him in support of his “elementary species, ve that the flowers at least occasionally varied on the same plant beyond the limits assigned by him to his Last fee I went back to La Garde St. Cast, and found the Cinotheras isge “het spread. sae ie a fs greg were not so numer as ould have wished, to people thes picked stay, sibbakte the finest of ne {dihoreecdnods, I examined a large number of them, and was again struck by the enor- mous variation they exhibited in size and in the shape of the various organs. I dried a — series of gage which I have deposited in the Natural History Museum. I have examined them again, and feel more convinced than ever of tie: futility of attempting to define species among them. It would be also quite impossible to divide them into two groups—Z., Lar "Be Vien, oe and GB. bienni : specimens poreu ng to the size of the gen et ctive o other characters to which I shall allude further on, the arrange- ment being nee same as in dealing with the South Kensington flowers. All the flowers here recorded are from different plants, with the exception of three (marked *) which are from the s intone cence, their measurements being given to show that con- siderable variation in the length of the pistil may exist in the same plant :— SS Om oo bo > os iS] Oo —" @ rs 360 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY A B. Cc. D 9 40 28 20 40 10 40 27 20 41 11 40 25 18 42 12 39 26 18 38 13 8 34 19 38 14 35 20 14 37 15 33 25 18 36 16 32 11 15 32 17 31 31 17 37 18 31 25 15 38 19 31 19 16 36 20 31 16 16 40 21 30 19 14 29 22 30 15 15 38 23 30 0 15 30 24 28 20 15 36 25 28 17 15 38 28 6 12 33 27 26 12 15 45 28. 26 10 10 33 29. 25 6 12 41 30. 25 5 12 31 31, 25 0 16 28 32. 23 15 12 28 33. 23 12 12 38 34. 23 9 12 33 35. 23 6 13 31 36. 22, 17 11 81 37. 22 8 11 37 38. 22 7 11 29 39. 21 4 10 35 40. 21 4 10 82 4}. 20 8 11 31 43.* 20 4 10 32 tabulated above, the range of variation in the length of the tube 10 to 22 millim. In the large flowers (petals 33 to 48 millim.), the pistil is always much longer than the stamens, as in the (2. Lamarckiana of De Vries,| the variation in the length of the * Range of variation as observed at :— ; A. B. C. D. South Kensington 10-24 3-13 7-13 = -:17-27 St. Cast .. ee 20-48 0-37 10-22 28-45 t The following are the measurements of two flowers of the typical ON THE VARIATIONS OF THE EVENING PRIMROSE 361 style being 20 to 37 millim., that of the filament 16 to 22 ae smaller flowers (petals 20 to 30 millim.) the pistil is eaaaate te as long as or shorter than the — ms, but there are ex- ceptions (Nos. 21, 24, 25, 32, 36); the range of variation is 4 to 20 millim. for the style, 10 to 15 millim. for the filament. The tube is gat generally shorter - oe in the larger flowers than in the smaller ones, just as in yee typical CE. bennis, but there is ay absolute in this paees ing the flowers alone, there is a earagiete oe continuous peseasee between i. biennis and Gi. Lamarckiana, a before me shows the impossibility of distinguishing the two forms on the wakes length of the pistil and stamens, as has been pro- posed by De Vrie I may add that T have compared some of the above flowers with the examples of CZ. biennis and G?. Lamarckiana received from Prof. De Vries, without being able to — any difference beyond a greater length of the tube in the latte e ripe seed-capsules vary grea aia in _ form, and colora- tion.+ In_the large-flowered specimens (Nos. 2, 6, and 8) they measure 25 to 32 millim. in length, and 7 or vei illim. in diameter, and (as in Gi. rubrinervis of De Vries) they are a striped with red. In No. 1 the fruit is narrower and shows no red. No. 35 the ripe corse measures 31 by 6 millim., atid is striped with reddish. e largest ccm (42 by 7 mi lim.) are found in No. 38, and they are striped with reddish. ~ shortest capsules (23 by 7 — are found in No. 19; ther no red on them But here again I have iaiad these different Fries connected by all possible gradations uckered or crumpled leaves (as in CG. oblonga of leaves, which is a of its presence or absence in the seed-capsules, and varies irrespective of the size of the flowers. Some plants are etanaret for the og and narrow shape of the E the Botanic Garden of Amsterdam, for which I ates bina a Paok a Vales —_ re B. Cc. D. B4 24 19 35 29 18 16 29 Something similar obtains in the heterodistyled Primula elatior, as m lamented friend L. Errera has shown (Rec. Inst. Bot. Bruxelles, vi. 1905, p. 225) hat the expanded part of the corolla is generally a little larger and the tube shorter in same proportion, in the m this excess i the diameter of the corolla is coupled with a i i intensity of the coloration. As pointed out by Darwin (Diferent Forms of Flowers, p. 49), — heterostyled species when cultivated are apt to become homostyled ; but amongst the varieties of Auriculas distributed by bgprielen the long-styled form a rate, as it is not valued, which seems to show that the fact observed by > Pataa! is _ < general application in sed gen us paced t e South Kensington specim f CH. biennis, their length varies between 04 and 31 milli om and their areplist ibd tte between 6 and 7 millim. they are never striped wit 362 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY leaves (as in GZ. muricata L. and GE. elliptica De Vries), and these are most conspicuous for that character, even at a distance (Nos. 26 and 32), but then, if we abide by the —. standard of De Vries, some would be referred to the (i. biennis group, others to the (H. Lamarckiana group. No. 2, as tepirds the leaves, connects this —— wit . Lamarckiana st point out that the plants which bore flowers (Nos. 25 and 27) so different in the length of the pistil, did not differ aa sige from each other. t, I bows tried hard to refer all these variations to the hema species” of De Vries, but without success. Actin on the principles advocated by De Vries, it would be possible to —— a further number of new species, in addition to recognizing CE. . Lamarckiana in the restricted sense, but their definition would be ve shaky. s I feel tolerably certain that no Ginotheras have been intro- jaca in the locality since the few large-flowered plants were seen by me in 1899, I have come to the conclusion that, at St. Cast, If some of the mutants can be shown to be merely ears to an ancestral type, how can the spans rie looke ) species ? ey also may be reversions to some type out t of aie a form of obscure origin like @. Lav ns ea was first evolved, cape a ve 9 ate crosses between varieties of the polymorphic oo; 8, which would be be in accordance with the results of ees rs Valituarhiis and Nau Since my cg Sine a Britany I have read Mr. Charles eras s paper on “The Evening Primrose on the Sandhills of St. Ann on-the- ies North eae hire” (Manchester, 1907), from whigh tT see he also has experienced difficulties in reconciling his plants with the ‘MeiniGors given by De Vri He found variations in the petals and pistil, as wall as in the leaves, some plants having the midribs of a pinkish red or light crimson colour, but this character of 7. rubrinervis was not associated with the brittleness assigned to that species, or with red streaks on the capsule. He also mentions plants, by no means rare, with lighter yellow flowers than Lamarckvana, and only half their size. In one of these forms with small flowers the stigma was longer than usual, and its four ee lay at the base of the corolla, the style being nearly suppressed, the anthers showing fully half an inch above the pistil ; this forts Mr. Bailey takes to represent De Vries’s brevistylis. In the other small-flowered form the stigma and anthers were of _ height. This aes doer, I should say, represents the ical Gi. biennis, to which Gi. Lamarckiana may revert. It eems, however, to judge from Mr. Bailey’s weiiabe, that the Beant Primrose does not exhibit on the sandhills of St. Anne’s CAREX AND EPILOBIUM IN THE LINNEAN HERBARIUM — 363 anything approaching the amount of variation it does at St. C St. Cast is a charming resort, easily reached from St. Malo, and if some botanist should feel inclined to combine a seaside holiday with the study of the Ev puis Primrose, I may perhaps hope to see these observations extended by one more competent than m To s roe m up, I would suggest oe ee of the Mutations- theorie pert based on false premisses. De Vries has assumed, without any justification, that iMastkera Lamarckiana is a natural species. The fact that i America, favours the probability that it was produced by crossing various forms of the polymorphic @. biennis, i = eae! been introduced in Europe. If it be so, and the onus probandi the contrary rests with the mutationists, we ave no cages a mutations in the phenomenon observed by De Vries, but simpl one of those cases of Mendelian disjunction of hybrids to aiuah he was the first to call the attention of the naturalists of the present generation. The characters of several parent forms, which may, for all we know, have originated through fluctuating atent in some 1 a CE. amarckiana and reappear in different combinations, thus pro- ducing the appearance of distinct “ species,” each definable by several characters, springing up under our eyes. CAREX AND EPILOBIUM IN THE LINNEAN TERBARIUM By Rev. E. §8. Marswauu, M.A., F.L.S. In the course of carefully reading through my copy of Hudsgn’s Flora Anglica, ed. 2 (1778), which is mainly based on Linné’s Spec ed. 2, I was led to suspect that some of the n: commonly applied to our British plants could not stand Having recently been able to spend some time in examining the ce) im: nera, and Species Plantarum, ed. 1, I now ve sibare to submit certain resulting conclusions or suggestions ; 23 it seems likely that a systematic collation of the Linnean Herbarium as a whole with the two editions of Spec. Plant. and of Fl. Anglia would yield valuable results. ough it is true that in many instances the specimens of Linn. Herb. do not represent Linné’s description, I believe that their vidential value has been unduly depreciated; and it is clear is collection, comparatively small and imperfect though it was, as a foundation for the descriptions, as the her- barium numbers agree with those of Spec. Plant. Where the names are in his own handwriting, their authority must be 364 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY reckoned as very considerable—a point on which Syme strongly insisted. r. F. N. Williams writes to me:—‘ Whatever is the right- usness in rejecting the names in Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2, the ith in al cases of the master’s matured ideas, in favour of those found in ed. 1 (e.g., Adonis estvvalis and autumnalis) ? Why A.—CaREXx. chordorhiza (sic). This 32 Senin: 5. wliginosa ; but the | desertion and localities given in Spec. Plant. cannot refer to C. dorhiza, and rather point to Schenus compressus L. (Scirpus sone Pers., 1805; S. Caricis Retz., 1779). 0: leporina. The type-specimen is C. Lachenalii Schkubr : a some authors apply to one ands the other of these two spec However, _ Hudson’s i peters and localities show that : ame as equivalent to C. ovalis. C. muricata. Neither the ‘vitor specimen nor the god tion taltiag with our plant so-called (C. contigua Serre. keg: has pencilled against it, “spicata Huds. Mr. P G.” come under it as a va soceag As Sebi specimen , named C. Ypetoare CAREX AND EPILOBIUM IN THE LINNEAN HERBARIUM 365 gines fossarum,” C. contigua being usually a _ of rather dry situations ; but, no doubt, like C. divulsa, it oceur, h. 11. C. canescens. ne : different species are thus named in Herb. Linn. The fi se nin which is written ‘ ‘Norfole.”), annotated by Smith as ‘“ divulsa—Good. & Fl. Brit.,” is certainly The second bears this Saiuekigitledl: :—“11 canescens 4 secre in pencil—by Smith ?] spiculis subrotundis in summo culmo pec brevissime pediculatis,” and 4 is C. fusca Tap Cu bawmit Wabhl.); as is an attached sheet, subscribed “ La with ‘tip addition “ ler vera, J.H.S.” The casi Mie in Spec. antes ed. a m Flora La ica 332 does not ippow fit C. curta Good. at all; the other hand, a tracing kindly sent Bri ge 117, also cited, and name be Loeselius ‘‘Gramen Cyperoides spicis curtis divisis,” represents a remarkably remote-flowered and subdistichous curta. As tending further to et ee Linné did not really regard curta as his canescens, may entioned the reference to Micheli, Gen. 69, t. 23, f. 10, i wae Speier arex nemo- rosa, fibrosa radice, caule ex uisite trian srpcthoek spica a divulsa seu interrupta, capitulis solitariis preterquam ultim C. curta is not (or very sare) a woodland plant, and the bev description fits C. divulsa adm y: Additional ight is afforded by the specimen in Herb. Linn., given as “10 brizoides,” and underwritten “ Lapp. S.” Against it rb. Lightf*. Dr. has narrow leaves and pa ale-brown glumes, thus somewhat resem- bling ass slender Soot ttish Alpine oes = curta which has been named by Kiikenthal C. canescens L. var. fallax F. Kurtz; the fruit is not fully formed, but I am in clined ‘to consider it as either C. Gebhardi Hoppe, 1826 (C. gp tbe Sieb., 1842, C. canescens var. xs inet ahl., C. curta var. brunnescens Pers.) or C. vitilis Fr. It should be remarked, ae passant, that vitilis is not known to be a British plant; the original specimen from Lochnagar was almost pterand C. helvola Blytt (curta x Lachenalit), the other alleged localities ee to C. — ms var. robustior Blytt or var. i lax Kurt This called brizotdes, evidently mistaken by Linné for the ¢ true Sentra of amie and southern Europe, is so very near cwrta that he would not separated it from his canescens, had he understood by saaeaoens: ‘has is com- monly suppo Although the matter is by no means free from difficulty, I con- sider that C, devulsa has far better claims to be reckoned as C. cane- course will be to dro op the Linnean name —— as too un- certain and ambiguous, and to adopt C. curta Goo 12. C. flava. This is represented by a well- poole plant, bear- ing three culms. Female spikelets three, approximate, the male spikelet sessile, springing from between the two uppermost; fruit 366 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY much inflated, —— — the lower with an abruptly deflexed beak. It is wha e regarded as the type, and differs much in appearance from C. lebiden carpa Tausch. C. distans. Inscribed — vol. 3, p. 77 [or 22, I am not sure which] , No. 5 Seguie The shiet is, I think, our ‘inland-distans’, and not ~ const plant (C. —— yas 0. C. atr Against the type-specimen is cilled “non vera,’ and (in another > hand) ‘“ ustulata ” (atrofusca Schkuhr), which is correct. The description in Spec. Plant. proves that this was an error of identification. An attached sheet consists of two specimens of C. pulla Good. and one of young but very charac- teristic C. rigida Goo C. saxatilis. The type-sheet (annotated “sic videtur”’) and a second unnamed sheet are both excellent pulla. The cita- tion in Spec. Plant. ed. 1, from Fl. Lapp. cannot et anything else ; nor does the aust been (quoted from ee appear contra- dictory. Taking into account the specimen of C. rigida above- mentioned, I am convinced that C. cpalie L. ought to displace C. pulla Good., rather than C. rigida Good 29. C. panicea. The type-specimen is our usual form. second sheet belongs to var. twmidula Laest.; a third (penciled “Muhlenberg No. 33”) contains two distinct, presumably Am rican, species, not at all closely allied to panicea 27. C. cespitosa (so spelt in Spec. Plant.). The type-specimen consists of two flowering stems, without leaves or root. Fruit veinless ; glumes ovate-oblong, much exceeding it (this is contrary to the long description in Fries, Swmma Veg. Scand. p. 227), blunt, darkish brown (not black) with a paler centre. Certainly neither Goodenowit, acuta auct., nor elata All. (Hudsonii Ar. Benn., stricta Good.), and apparently the true plant. A second sheet is good C. soeasnew C. i The type-sheet consists of three culms, all . and young; the only one sufficiently advanced to repay xamination is distinctly tristigmatic, and has the glumes of C. acutiformis Ehrh. kaeinsong Good.) rather than of C. gracilis Curt. (acuta auct.). On mpanion-sheet are two specimens (‘ex oriente, Nasselquist *) cof me cai Willd. “is one of C. acutt- formis, determined by Asc From - c. Plant., ed. 2 ea ae rather fully :— “28. Carex spicis — eae femineis sub- sessilis, ‘avec obtusiusculis. c. 769. Carex spicis erectis oblongis seopiliticts alternis foliolo florali brevioribs superioribus pense 9 i ulgar aris. Fl. Lapp. 330. Gramen oo folits caryophyllzis, vulgatissimum. Raj hid f. russa. Carex a cis masculis superioribus numerosis, femineis inferioribus : sea eee unica androgyna. Roy. lugdb. 75. Carex maxima, spicis plurimis remotis longis. Fl. Lapp. 329. [There are three othe less imporant references under B. Hatntat in Europa ubique : a in siccioribus, B in aquosis CAREX AND EPILOBIUM IN THE LINNEAN HERBARIUM 367 While the herbarium evidence is strongly in favour of identi- fying Linné’s species with acutiformis Ehrh., the description in FL : : the publication by Ehrhart proves that he understood acuta L. in the generally accepted ore te the safest course, that fol- lowed by Kiikenthal, is to drop th e acuta, writing C. gracilis Curt. and C. acutiformis + ee “i ag ase species affected. 9. C. vesicaria. The type-specimen is our vesicaria. Attached are two half-sheets ; = upper I believe to be very immature panicea ; the lower is named by Smith “ inflata Hud. Mr. Woodw*.” I mascula erecta lanceolata, capsulis ovatis acuminatis calycis duplo long : nglis, bottle Carex” (Bottle Sedge is eee in use for C. ampullac The Linnean specimen already m tioned is excellent C. spectrin Stokes, 1787 (ampullacea G co 1794) ; the references to Ray and Morison under C. vesicaria B. an y. of Spec. Plant., ed. 1, also appear to mean this species. ja rently C. inflata Huds. should be retained for C. ampullacea Good. B.—Epinosium. E. angustifolium. This is represented by a weak, narrow- asi: small-flowered state much like the alleged E. rosmarini- folium fron Glen Tilt. I suspect that it was gathered in the far rsutwm is the ordinary plant; but f. is represented by E. Lamyi F. Schultz, as determined by Haussknecht, who identi- s H. virgatum Fr. with E. apenas the obscurum of Fries prec agree not Schreber’s faiag ss ‘but E. Lan myt. The de- scription of E. Se B. in Spec. Plant. ed. 1, can only apply to HE. parvftorum Sch . tetragonum. "The t -specimen is a slender H. rosewm Schreb., ‘with remar kably narrow, almost lin moscenceeitay leaves. In Spec. Plant. ed. 1, the short descriptio Epilobiu foliis aaa soe ns denticulatis, imis cupoaitis caule tetra- gono. Sauv. pose siliquosa glabra minor. Bauh. pin. 303.” cere e 2, “ lanceolato-linearibus ” is altered into “lanceolatis.” This, to my mind, compe suiky upsets the conten- tion that Linné intended E. adnatum Grisebach ; especially in most striking specific ch aracter. On the other hand, the £. tetra- gonum of Flora Londinensis is good E. adnatum ; and I believe that the name FH. tetragonwm Curt. is unobjectiona 7. HE. alpinum. The type is a rather small but ‘well-marked E. lactiflorum Hausskn. (determined by Haussknecht). The de- scription in Spec. Plant. (ed. 1 and 2) :—* Epilobium foliis oppo- sitis ovato siliquis sessilibus , caule re ente’ cannot cover E. anagallidifolium Lam., but fully agrees with Haussknecht’s species; and, by the rule of priority, his name must give way to E. alpinum L. ‘“ Habitat in Alpibus Helveticis, 368 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Lapponicis” merely shows that Linné had not learned to dis- tinguish the Scandinavian and Arctic E. alpinum (lactiflorum) from E. anagallidifolium and E. alsinefolium. I may add that the plants figured by ae as anagallidifolum and alpinum are both referable to the former SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF PHAOPHYCE. By A. D. Corton, F.L.S. Tue object of the present communication is to bring forward some observations on certain little known or imperfectly deseribed members of the Myrionemacee and Ectocarpacee, and at the same time to record three er not hitherto known to occur in this count The pla nts dealt with belong to genera consisting of small and inconspicuous species, concerning the morphology of which our see is still far from complete. To the systematist also se genera offer a fruitful field for investigation, as is shown b the fact that during a short period of collecting, not only were ee species added to the British flora, but several unfamiliar forms were met with, some of which may prove to be undescribed. Until our knowledge of the life-history and variability of previously ai ig is more complete, the advisability of dealing with rms as distinct species is questionable, and for this son an Rcabalik of the latter is deferred, sates the present notes are confined to species which are alread kno e species recorded for the first time as British are Ascocyclus win Sved., Hecatonema diffusum Kylin, and Streblonema effusum ‘; "Aacooros AFFINIS Syed. Ostersjéns hafsalgflora, 1901, p. 107, g.1 On Laminaria ilar Lamour. Cawsand Bay, Cornwall, Aug. 1906. New to B cyclus, and distinet from any veicaay it does no appear to have since been recorded. The 2S iciettaata features of the species are the size of the ascocysts and plurilocular sporangia, which measure 30-50 x 8-12 » and 40-50 x 6 p respectively. The British Specimens agree with the diagnostic characters, except in one particular, v2z., the width of the sporangia, a point which will be referred to later. The material was found fairly plentifully on a frond of Laminaria which had begun to decay ; the spots formed by the plant measured 4-1 mm. in diameter, and were scattered irogularly over the frond between plants of Myrionema sp. and ema aecidioides Fosl. Specimens of different ages w ia pane varying from those previous to faces fication to acne! in which the crop of spores had been libera SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF PHHOPHYCE 369 © This being the case, an examination of the basal disk was rendered ema type, irregular than in most species; the cells may be brought out very clearly by staining with gentian violet.* In the young plants the growth is usually regular and even, but in the older parts cases in other instances an almost pinnate arrangement is exhibited, an the outline of such thalli is markedly lobed. The cells of the older parts are usually 6-10 » wide, and are of the same length or one and a half times longer, whereas the growing cells at the margin wr usually ts x 7-8. True dichotomy of the marginal cells was not obse The featles beans the three organs mentioned by Svedelius, vzz., hairs, ascocysts, and sporangia. In the British material these bodies agree pecnlnke with his description, except that the sporangia are usually somewhat larger, averaging x 8-10 pw instead of 30-50 x 6 ». Sporangia of the smaller size nel ictal and there is every t Lem ooh en the two. The sporangia are typically uniseriate; but in the case of some old plants in which the first crop of spores had been liberated, a second crop of eared, e nt. These biseriate sporangia were, for the most part, of the same size and form as those of the previous crop, though in one or two ge they exceeded them in size. The yp at cts t of the ascocysts and hairs agrees with that Jesated for other species of Ascocyclus: both appear early, and some may be wally grown before the earliest sporangia develop. In two cases stalked ascocysts were observed, and in ‘syed instance an ascocyst had become sapthte } in the upper par are coatadanas filaments are usually absent, but in more in on plant a few of these bodies were note Ascocyclus affinis, though a sharply defined species, is thus found, when an examination is made of a se ble number of plants, to vary within certain mig as to the form of the basal disk, (2) the size and form of - bondieer and (3) as to the Eocene or absence of erect Seana a GLoBosuM Batters, Cat. Brit. Mar. Alg. p. 41. Aeoogces sa Reinke, Algenfi. p. 46; Atlas, p. 20, tab. 17 Phycocelis globosus De Toni, Syll. Alg. vol. iii p. 582; Rosenvinge, éme Mem tcrospongium globosum Reinke, Alg uxi em. p. Kieler Brucht, 1888, p. 20. Myrionema Mobeia Fosl. New or Crit. Norw. Alg. 1894, p. 180. . The best method for making preparations: of this and similar ales is by using nye ne jelly that has been stained with gentian violet, as de- scribed by the writer in the New PE agen. (vol. i. 1902, p. 129). In the case of the pote species the whole plant, af e hours, takes up th violet, the ascocysts and basal di 7s staining most deeply. This method, successful as it is with Ascocyclus afinis and many other species, is of no value for other closely allied plants, which for some reason refuse to take the stain. staining is perhaps dependent on the presence of certain forms of JourNaL or Borany.—Von. 45. [OctoBER, 1907.} 25 370 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY The only ai record of this species in Britain is from the Isle of Cumbrae (Batters in Grevillea, vol. xxi. p. 21). The present cag collected at Swanage in April of this year, were growin hodymenia palmata, and mixed with Hecatonema diffusum. The plants were of small size, and of the type described by poss ate on the same host. Hecatonema globosum is to be found in most of the recent works which attempt to give a complete list of the alge occurring in the various countries of Euro e, and, as will be seen from the citations above, it has been placed in five ‘different genera. Man writers have remarked on its variability, and also on the possibility of more than one species being included under that name. In Reinke’s original plant the upright filaments are of considerable length, consisting of 10-14 cells, the sporangia being produced o the ends of the ultimate branches (vide Atlas, tab. 16), whereas in ing borne on short stalks consisting of 1-3 cells. Jonsson also (Mar. Alg. of Iceland. Bot. Tidskrift, vol. xxv. 1903, p. 147) states that he found a form m gr “: on Rh odymenia palmata “« precisely orm producing minute balls (as indicated by the specific —— whils t the form on Rhodymenia is flattened, and bears a close resemblance to a eronaed The present — Pies the third time this form has been recorded; the record from three different countries, and in each case the ant was growing on Rhodymenia palmata. For these reasons it has been thought ore to separate the plant, _ to regard it as a distinct variety to be characterized as follow a4 globosum =~ NANUM, V. ere ‘At typo differt ramis erectis brevioribus parum ramosis, sporangiis sessilibus aut breve pedi- cellatis. Rami meben circa 100-150 y» longi, simplices vel semel a icoak porangia terminalia aut lateralia, sessilia vel pedicello 1-3 articulato suffulta With regard to the systematic position, the genus to which the pee sd Meee by Batters seems to be the most suitable. Hecatonema, as remarked by Sauvageau, possesses the upright growth of an Retocarpae and the basal disk of a Myrionema. The that ee only some but all of the thallus cells give rise to upright grow HECATONEMA DIFFUSUM pode Algenflora der Schwedischen Westkiste ‘1907, p. 39, fig. 10. pe Ehodymenia palmata Grev., Swanage, April, 1907. New to Brita To this species the writer has referred an alga found on Rhody- memia, the specimens agreeing in all respects with those dicourihe = SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF PHEOPHYCEX 371 under that name by Kylin. The plant is allied to H. maculans Sauv., but is distinctly smaller. Notwithstanding the well-known variability of form exhibited by the alge of this genus, the author is inclined to agree with Kylin in regarding the — as distinct, and Hecatonema as the best genus in which to place Additional evidence FOOLER Ten es the same species, and I think it likely it may be my P. Teppert (Journ. Bot. 1887, 178), which has much the facies of a shal atone, and i is often so named. If the Torrey Herbarium ‘specimen is from the “ Khasia Hills, alt. 45000 ft.,”” collected by Hooker and Phometa, it is Pode epperi, which at am is re- corded only from Asia and Australia. AutitupEs oF PotamoGEetons.—The following list of altitudes f various species is a contribution to a subjec rs roe t is eh attended to in the genus. In all cases I have seen specim with the exception of those of the Geol. iped “40th Parallel Botany, — Washington :— P. natans L. Britain, 2500 ft.; Turkestan, 6000 ft.; India, 9000 ft. ; California, 6000 ft. Pi polygonéfolius. zane 2200 ft. P. americanus Cham. evada, U.S.A., 6000 ft. P. Tepper A. Benn. Khesia (India), 46000 ft. P. fruitans Roth. Sikkim ane 9000 ft. : 000 P. rhe A. Benn. New Zealand, 2500 ft. P. lucens L. Britain, 1100 ft.; Spain, 9750 ft. India: Kumoan, 6400 ft. ; ‘Recheie 5-6000 ft. B. prelongus Wulf. Britain, 2500 ft.; France, 1730-2690 ft. ; Jura, 3500-3800 ft.; Switzerland, 6500 ft. P. angustifolius Bertch & Presl. India: Kashmir, 5150 ft. ; Himalayas, 640 P. heteroph yl Schreb. Britain, 1600-2300 ft. U.S.A.: Montana, 7500 ft.; Utah, 10,000 ft. 374 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY P. alpinus Balbis. Britain, 1500-3300 ft.; Switzerland, 6000 ft. ; Austria, 4500 ft. U.S.A.: Colorado, 8400-11,370 ft rs foliosus Rafn. U.8.A.: Utah, 4300-7500 ft. Prete een Rafn. Mexico P. perfoliatus L. Britain, 1100-2300 ft. “Asia: Pamirs, 8700— 12,350 ft. India: Kashmir, 5—6000 ft.; Kumoan, 6-13,000 16s Tibet, 8-15,000 ft. N. America, 4000 ft.; 'N evada, 9000 ft.; Utah. P. crispus L. Britain, 750 ft.; Tirol, 2000 ft. India: Punjab, 3000 ft.; Kashmir, 5150 ft.; Pamirs, 12,350 ft Sage densus L. Britain, 1020 ft. P. ont haga Mert. & Koch. Britain, 600 ft.; N.W. Hima- layas, 9000 ft P. pusillus L. Britain, om ft. India: vteoere 5180 ft. P. pectinatus L. Britain, 600 ft. India: 1000 ft. ; Tibet, 15-17,000 ft.; Pamirs, 13- 14, 000 ft. U.S. rie “Dakota, 3413 ft. ; Nevada, 6000 ‘ft. §. America: Venezuela, 15,500 ft formis Pers. Europe, 6500 ft. ; Hautes ae India, fh. ALSWAs ft. ‘ ng. U.S.A.: Nevada, 4000 ft strictus R. A. Phillipi. Chili, « 24° 8’ 8, lat., ”” 10,700 ft. confervoides Reich. U.S.A.: New w Hampshire, : P. muricus a (in Vid. Medd. For. Kjob. 181, 1903). Asia: Pcie, 13,000 ft i 28 amblyophyllus Moyor on Vid. Medd. For. Kjob. 181, 1908). Asia: — 8700-12, ; s L. ae sent by Dr. Small from Florida (Coll. Mears, and Carter, Noy. 1903) are of a stronger growing form than those of the New England States, but not varying sfcontly 8 es named; but others are very distinct, and 1 ee to name s L. var. FLoRmDANUS. A very odd form of lucens, Oo Canada. In Europe, branches are often thrown off from the flowering-stem with short leaves; but these are almost invariably P. nat Some penton made in an dielheisk er by Mr. West (Proc. R. NOTES ON POTAMOGETON 375 reverse be pleaded ?—natans as a . higher form of polygonifolius. Again, altitude is suggested as making some modification; certain it = to some extent, especially if in shallow water, but I have ans from India from 9000 ft. altitude Nee ona roe sited ri Surrey specimens; and so wit P, ocureatus Raoul! in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1 ii, i117 (1844), and Choix, Pl. Nouv. Zel. 13 (1846). P. gramineum R. Brown! Prodr. Fl. N. Holl. 348 (1810), non a obtusifolius Bentham! Fl. Austral. hie ah (1878). A form (latifolius) of this species occurs in the Murray River, South Australia (leg. i li se ste double ee can hardly be put on paper, yet is easily recognized by the , the varians of America is the varians o Britain, save for ens minor differences. Ascherson & Graebner make it Zizi x heterophyllus, though the land form gathered in a ditch in Cam- bridgeshire that had not been dry for thirty years before is essentially towards heterophyllus. Messrs. Ascherson & Graebner record it from Silesia, the Rhine Province, and Sweden. I have it from Ireland (Donegal , 1889, H. C. Hart), and Miss ‘Armitage gathered it in Pembroke * in 1902. In America the variability of the plant is remarkable. Dr. Morong sent me a series of specimens “collected in one season from July 10th to Sept. 25th, that you may see how Poedrgnl the see varies during the season; a from the same spot.” The actual dates being July 10th— 25th, August 11th, Sept. 1st—1dth, 25 ie Beyond the reference by Dr. Morong in his N. Am. Naiad. 22 (under P. Faxont) and 27 (under P. spathuleformis), “4 do not think there is ror, suggestion (other than my own in thi —— for 1900, 128) with regard to hybridity in this genus in ha But Dr. Hagstrém considers he has some North sa hybrids. SHORT NOTES. Potuen or Hysrip Vioters.—A short account of some observa- tions which I have made during the last two seasons upon the pollen of various hybrid violets may be interesting. Opinions have been ex- pressed that the pollen of hybrid violets i is always abnormal—ill- shaped and devoid o whereas my investiga- tions lead me to believe that, although sc some such grains may thus described, the majority are spherical in shape, quite sound and full. The first exe I examined was the hybrid Viola odorata x * Given as Sistioteies in error in bu to Top. E Bot. 85. 378 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY hirta. Here the pollen-grains, taken from the unopened flowers under a one-eighth inch objective, were certainly normal. V. floribunda Jord. is considered by some writers to be a hybrid between V. ache x pier ta: I believe, however, that it is in reality a good species. In this case, and in that of a plant rom Banwell, Somerset, with ms purple highly scented flowers which I take to be a cross between V. subcarnea and V. hirta) Sea oak ie pollen is produss a: In V. be x re ne = Walton ith maining some time in water (one to thre aioe some of the grains sion of the pollen-tube. It is clear therefore that, stiobigh otiteds hybrid violets are infertile, mee abortive a of the pollen es always be regarded as a diagnostic character in discrimi- brid.—E. 8. GREGORY. nating between the true pedias and the hybrid.—E. 8. OPHRYS fast (p. 343).—There i . what looks like an excellent figure of an original rca (in the herbarium of the Zurich eae said to be the only Spats one yet published, in ax Schulze’s Die Orohilineie Deutschlands, Deutsch-Oesterrichs sd der Schweiz (Gera-Untermhaus, 1894). The German des- long-acuminate, neither ae nor reflexed, with a purple-red stripe in the m om yellow at the margin. Column_ greenish, ‘SHORT NOTES 379 O. aptfera that I have come across, either fresh or dried.—Epwarp 8. — RSHALL. P.S.—Since writing the above, Mr. J. W. White has kindly lent me an excellent pen- ee by Miss F. Cundall of the Bristol plant, which is clearly a variety of 0. apifera, differing from t only in the lip. It agrees well enough with the description of var. Trollit Reichb. fil., but is not by any means identical with leafy, the s $ narro acute, the 4 oars pane as broad at the pose more tapering, ee rather lon as represente . Schulze’s figure, is also brite aie hie of RANUNCULUS agg a Schrank.—In the “List of Seed- sae and i ” Mr. Britten and Dr. Rendle have, in deference the o ie Cal agree ado ted the name of Dunit Waarcosias Schrank for the species heretofore gene- rally known in this country as R. circinat Sibth. It appears to us, however, that the name of BR. circinatus should be retained, and to elucidate the point a review of ha evidence seems desirable. referred RB. divartcatus Schrank to R. trichophyllus Chaix, quotin fi. divaricatus Koch, non Schrank, as a synonym of R. cir esetns: In a recent letter to us Mr. Hiern has pointed out that R. t phyllus Chaix and R. divaricatus Schrank are both paisa on on te same plant, 7.e. Haller’s No. 1162. In og rae: former no t follows :—‘‘ Der Stengel schwimmend; Die Blatter zusammen- gesetzet, tellerférmig; die Theile haarférmig, auseinanderstehend. Auseinanderfahrender Hahnenfusz. Ranunculus caule fluitante, petiolis unifloris, foliis ga sagen age Se Hall. hist. n. 1162. Foeniculum aquaticum Tabern. 187, ganz gut.” Schrank’s diagnosis is equally applicable ¢ ai R. trichophyllus and R. circinatus, with the exception of the “tellerformig,” 2. e. salver-shaped, which more aptly descri ‘bes as leaves of the latter se, other authors the evidence seems overwhelmingly in favour of the opposite view. To begin with, no one having A. circinatus in view could possibly refer to Taberneemontanus’s figure as ace. good,” it being in fact an senate representation of B. tricho- phyllus. Again, the citation of Haller’s type brings in Barrelier Ic. 566, which is also R. trichophyllus. The strongest point, however, in favour of FR. circinatus only not being intended by Schrank is that Haller described a var. 8 of his No. 1162, which from his citing Plukenet’s figure (t. 55, {. 2) there is little doubt is 380 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY intended for R. circinatus, and if Schrank discriminated R. cir- = he would have quoted the var. 8 rather than the type. It therefore be concluded, we think, that Schrank did not Sligartiniviats between fi. tricho ophyllus and &. circinatus, but that he merely took up Haller’s species, which had been already named trichophyllus by Chaix, and this being the case, it appears to us that £. circinatus Sibthorp must stand.—H. & J. GRovzs. New Variety or SperGULA ARVvENSIS L.—A small form of nig has ‘Sek under or ee some years, sent me “ee Guernsey first oe W. pth n 1890, when I wrote a description of = thinking it was at edt i new to Britain. For veveral years I waited for fuller itera and for ripe fruit ; and then in the ales season fruiting specimens were given me e by Mr. White from Jersey, and Miss Dawber from Guernsey. I e t however, maintained the dwarf habit, a “ was prostrate in this vu —_ Koch. thanks are er for com- specimens with nate in eau British abeietin of var. a hicenag: Lang ich differs from the new variety in being a white-margined ; and also for giving me the original description of var. gracilis Hi. Petit, which is chiefly distinguished by the acute sepals. I append a description :— SPERGULA ARVENSIS L. var. nov. var. Stems several, 1-6 in. long, gover or deatititiont, Hosni tae short. Leaves 4-4 in., rigid, eg s long as the internodes. Flowers 4 in. diam. at the e of the few-flowered cymes, smaller upwards ; sepals broa aly ovate-oblong, obtuse, glandular-pubescent on the back. Capsules subglobose, lowest (largest) 4 in. diam., smaller upwards, on icels twice as long, more or less; seeds densely rrr tat seca than the type, wing black. This variety grows on dry ar the shore in Guernsey and Jersey, and is soon over, lowering i in April and even in late March, and fruiting in May. It is not much earlier than the type, which also fruits in May in dry sunny spots in Hants and Dorset, but the latter goes on springing up through the summer and — and fruiting as late as — and November.—E. F. Lin CALAMAGROSTIS mig Rothin fest This plant, which is sabia for Essex in . Bot., I saw in August growing sparingly on the swampy border nes a pond in the parish of Maplestead, North Essex.—G. Cra E DRvce. BRANCHING IN Bia: Mr Ridley has a paper on this subject in the Annals of Botany for July, which contains observations additional to those published by Sir D. Morris in Journ. Linn ). Neither writer refers to the interesting note by H. O. Forbes published (with a plate) in this Journal for 1879, p- 193, on a cocoa-nut palm which at about that date had twenty-five living axillary branches, with scars of fifty-two. SHORT NOTES 381 PaRIeETARIA OFFICINALIS L. (Journ. Bot. 1906, 429; 1907, 34).— Dr. Vigurs points out that the action of the stamens in this plant was fully described by Curtis in the Flora Londinensis, who says : “The curious manner in which these flowers shed their pollen, or evilining d dust, is known to most botanists, but may be n fe) readers ; each filament has a peculiarity structure which nna it highly elastic ; there are four of them in number on their first appearance they all bend inward; as soon as the e th instantly fly back with a degree of force, and dis ee ‘ little cloud of dust. This preoes is best seen in a morning when the sun shines on the plant, in July and August; if the ent be large, numbers will be seen exploding at the same instant RCHIBALD Sr1ncuarr.—In the parish chure cape. Penarth, Glamorgan, there is a well-preserved tomb bearing the following : : h inscription :—‘ Sacred to the memory of Archibald Sinclair of the of C , who was one of the Harbingers of His Majesty orge III., a justly celebrated Ps scientific botanist. He died Oct, the 7th, 1795, aged 64 year I can find no —— - his work either in the Biographical Tadex or elsewhere, and s glad to obtain some indication of his claim to the eo a ap- . TRow, eh n unable “ cig any reference to him in Fabio licatats —Ep. Journ. Bor.] Souta LancasuireE Nores on have found Sparganiwm ne- glectum Beeby in two localities near Walton recently. Since ats discovery in West Lancashire by M a meng: an ompson temporary oe siding, but no fresh ballast was brought, so far as I could ascertain. me _ had ino not occurred in Fazackerley, about two miles away. It is not recorded for the eis side of the Mersey in the Flora of Liverpool.—y. A. WHEL ona PYRAMIDALIS IN Co. Down.— Whilst botanizing recently n company with Mr. J. Glover, in the woods of Mount Stewart, near Grey Abbey, Co. iste we observed Orchis pyramidalis L. in fair quantity at one point. In the Cybele Hibernica the only record for the county is « Ballyholme "73, two plants.”— A. A, DALLMAN. 382 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY = NOTICE OF BOOK. The Trees of ate mente and Ireland. By Henry Jonn Ew E.B.S., a TINE Henry, M.A. open ga “Privately Printed. mvs a “k II.: 1906-7. Price £3 3s. TuesE handsome volumes, the result of much ee and — together a vast amount of information, much of it, in Dr. Henry’s portion, hitherto unpublished ; the work is well printed on see a little consultation with folk versed in the arts of book-arrange- ment and book-production, the volumes as a whole distinctly fall short of the comparative perfection which they might easily have attained. interest connected with structure, fertilization, and other sent excellent index. r. Elwes and Dr. Henry adopt no kind of arrangement—the first four genera treated are Fagus, Ailanthus, Sophora, and Arancaria; there is no index to the volumes, and the table of contents is not arranged alphabetically, so coe one must yun through it in order to know what is and i in the book: even species belonging to the same genu pote in different volumes. The authors might at least, by fsaien each genus on a aEE. hand page, have afforded purchasers an oppor- tunity of arranging the work for binding in apples order, but this has not been done. The biblio aphy is comparativel poor ; the descriptions are full and doubtless excellent, the aa An is nor ip it right to cite “Schlechtendahl, Linnea”—it should be TREES OF GREAT BRITAIN 383 “in Linnea’; “var. Chesthuntensis”’ (p. 1 A twice), ‘raised b William Paul of the Cheshunt Nur ursery,” should ope via bs Cheshuntensis ; “ Lee’s Botany = Wovesslarshirs” (p. 1 « Mr, R. 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We think the Vienna rule as to the employment of capitals for names eed from per- sons should have been observed ; we are glad to see that Kew has now aeee into line in this respect. o parts have been issued of Mr. Ridley’s Materials for a Flora ap the Malayan Peninsula, dealing with the neha hme Of the value of the , to which we may recur, there can be no doubt; but it is to be regretted that the convenience of ives who use it has not been more ie considered. — part is paged of the this sort are so drtaeaciay overlooked—e. gy. in the indexes to the ron of Das Pflanzenreich, the genus-name is always mitted from the headings of the index pages, thus hindering really consultation. 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From 1896 to 1906, bound in cloth, can be had at £1 1s. e AUTHORS’ SEPARATE COPIES. —Contributors are presented with six = Sue of their papers as printed in the Journat or Botany. Authors who require _ more are requested to order from the publishers, and to notify this and state the hatabet required at head of their MS.; otherwise the type may be distributed before ‘the order is received. ‘he charges ior special mega copies are as under :— re wert a copies re 4 = zs copies 8 pages 25 sees nl See 58 Se. 50 ” rT] ? 100 100 “Se A00% 108. Ga, A greater sche of pages to be =. in — er Separate Titles, rs, &e., For articles supplied as Pit in the Jo i: and not re-made up, the charge is —— less. London : WEST, NEWMAN é CO., 54, Hatton Garden, E.C. 385 EDWARD ARTHUR LIONEL BATTERS. (1860-1907.) (WITH PORTRAIT.) E brief paragraph in the September number announcing > seades death of Mr. Edward Arthur Lionel Batters must have me as a painful shock to readers of this Journal. All who had the privilege of knowing re personally, of associating ive him in the collection of marine alge, or of hearing his view $ upon questions of systematic distinction, must have felt that he was in the prime of his mental and bodily capacities, and had still many years of work and happiness before him. Stricken unsuspectedly with an attack of blood-poisoning which rapidly developed, he succumbed in three days, even before the danger of the case was recognized. Born on December 26th, 1860, Mr. Batters was the fifth son of Mr. George Batters, of Enfield. He was educated at King’s College siiga London, and Trinity Hall, og i where he studied law; he proceeded to the degrees of B.A. and LL.B., and was called to a Bar at Lincoln’ sInn. But having no taste for the career of a barrister, and not being dependent upon his pro- fession, he abandoned law and devoted himself largely to the study of British marine alge. Natural History had indeed always attracted him even in his cadet: years, as may be seen from the following extract from a mage written i. his aunt, a resident of Berwick-on-Tweed :—‘‘ He was only seven yea rs‘ old when his a died. In those eadly: yea blots her death she spent with us [at Berwick]. Her favourite haunt was By. the ssadilie gathering seaweeds and fossils. t young to pronounce long names, he would often find fossils oi know them by their indentations. He first gained his love seaweeds from his mother. And he began in earnest when acy young, on being given Mrs. Gatty’s book, to search the shore and cave-pools. for specimens. As his father was a self-taught geologist, so he was equally a self-taught algologist. His knowledge was intuitive. He had no help from anyone.” Before entering his study of alge. Shortly after this he made the acquaintance of Mr. E. M. Holmes, who has supplied the following information to the editor:—The only man who knows Batters’s early days better than I do is Mr. R. I. Lynch, Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge. It was through him that I made Batters’s acquain- and there re up a floating seaweed (Dasya Muelleri, if I remember rightly). He tried to identify it at Cambridge, a getting no aks from the botanical staff there, applied to Lynch, who told him: ‘If anyone can help you, it is Mr. Ho on sae Lynch knew me at Plymouth as an algologist before he went to Cambridge. Iwas able to identify it; and there sprang up an JourRNAL OF Borany.—Vou. 45. [Novemper, 1907.| 2F 386 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY se eaeree te¥ and friendship between us. Batters was not married at the time when I identified the Dasya, mee a — = pa were Gers renee indicating the groups and species. This work he did well, being a first-class sepa saber Pimead. he taught I knew Batters, the plants that should be looked for in the north, and many of these they found. Batters, having a keen eye an being an excellent draughtsman (he comes of = artistic family), found also several new species and described them. Concerning them I gave him what help I could, and when I could not deter- mine what they were, being too busy, teaching Materia Medica, &e., I Sar a ee — to send them ee species apg indicated ; and in it a new classification was EDWARD ARTHUR LIONEL BATTERS 387 Memoirs, pt. i. (1892) pp. 25-28; and yet another, Schmitziella, an endophytic alga of the order Coral linacee, in the Annals of Botany, vi. (1892) pp. 185-194. In 1892 he gave oe tid. to Mr. Massee in editing Grevillea, taking charge of the portion Seated to alge, wig contributing to t important Scalar: to aicinoes was F the « aa ‘aa of the British Marine Alge,” which was issued as a Supple- ment to t pies Journal in 1902. It is a list of all the species of Gai Weods own to occur on the shores of the ec Islands, with the localities where they are found. This is the most ex- haustive exposition of the systematic akticeinent and of the local distribution of the British marine alge that has yet been published, and was the framework on which he intended to build the much-needed handbook which we all anxiously awaited from ais ‘ him, and I Ss so eminently competent to produce. It was indeed currently supposed that his manuscript for this was almost r for press. But a thorough Pui has clearly shown eady for p that nothing more than a fragmentary beginning of the work was made. Possessed of an unfailing memo ua e was easily able to ie in his mind all that wealth of facts and details which he so weer a ba the disposal of those who questioned him. This wonderf wledge, save in so far as it is roughly recorded in his field ee Peake is all lost. is herbarium is estimated to contain upwards of 10,000 British and 3000 exotic specimens, and includes the collections of Mrs. Mary P. Merrifield and of the Rev. John Hutton Pollexfen, M.D. An obituary notice of the latter was contributed Mr. Batters to this Journal in 1899 (pp. 438, 439). He also possessed more than 3000 microscope-slides. These, with his herbarium and manuscripts, are now lodged in the British Museum wit view to their acquisition Mr. Batters possessed great powers of organization. A f years ago the affairs of a coal-mine in which he was ra Te were left in a state of confusion on the sudden death of the chair- man. Mr. Batters was appointed to gi eee chair, though ee nothing of the working of the In a few months ad obtained a complete mastery of A the details, and soon feed in putting the whole business into such excellent working order as to astonish and delight the grey-beards on the oard of directors. As mentioned above, Mr. Batters inherited artistic ability, which he sees ait in various ways; for instance, he recently executed some admirable sion -carving from his own designs, though picnatecihed 3 in the oth as a friend and as a ahd he will be sorely missed. His kindly, modest, unselfish nature made him beloved by every- 2F 2 388 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY one sage whom he came in contact. In his particular branch of his loss is quite irreparable. Such a good systematist and : w both — aptitude and years of observation and study. His name is commemorated in the genus Battersva founded by Reinke in 1890 (Ber. deutsch. bot. Ges. viii. p. 205) upon a Ralfsiaelike brown alga of the family Sphacelariacee collected near Berwick. A. & E. S. Gupp. NOTES: UPON HIND’S FLORA OF SUFFOLK. By C. E. Satmon, F.L.S. Waist preparing an article upon the flowering plants of Suffolk for the Victorian History of the county, it seemed a suit- able time to take advantage of Dr. Hind’s Suggestion in the Herbariur his Flora :—*“ Whilst the Flora has been in progress, a test of the correctness, or the contrary, of ‘the genera and species as set forth | in this wor By the kind permission of the Museum and must be compared side by side with the Flora; erase note must be taken that the comments refer only to the plants from the localities cited and not to the species generally. e opportunity has been taken to add a few records (distin- guished by an asterisk) which appear to be new to their respective divisions of the Flora: all the other plants may be found in the pswich Museum I wish t o thank, for much critical a = a A. Bennett, ; acee@, &e.), Ri Saliz, te.) Rey. E. 8. Marshall (Carex, ke), sad Rev. W. Moyle Rubus). -31.+ Ranunculus confusus Godr. 5. ee form R. salsuginosus Hiern. 5. Walton. Specimen mens ag probably R. heterophyllus Web. var. submersus (Eitan — fh. i Godr. *3. Southwold, 1896! Form R. marinus Fries. 3. Benacre = a late state of R. Baudotii Godr. — R. penicillatus Hiern. Form fi. pseudo-fluitans Hiern. 1. Mildenhall = R. pel- tatus Schrank var. * waasoillates (Hiern).— R. Flammula L. Form R. pseudo-reptans Syme. 1. Thetford Warren. Not this variety. ay senee L. var. B. tomophyllus Jord, 1, Wangford=Boreanus ord. 42. Fumaria confusa Jord. 3. Bradwell. Hopton = F. offict- t The prefixed numbers refer to the pages in Hind’s Flora. NOTES UPON HIND’S FLORA OF SUFFOLK 389 nalis. —F’. muralis Sond. 1. Fakenham = shade-grown F’. offici- nalis. — F’. Vaillantii Lois. 1. Edge of heath, Wangford = F. aig Lam. Barbarea stricta Andrz. 1. Thurston. ahd the leaflets are different in shape. Among other points, the long corollas of J. Roberti are worthy of mention. An immature fruit, 3-0 x 2:0 em., accompanies the specimen. PoDOSTEMACE. I brought from Matto he two of these rae but, by some oversight, no mention was made of them in my Memoir Trans. Linn. Soe. Ser. 2, vol. ¥). For calling ay attention to this sep eat I am indebted to Dr. Rendle, who also gave me the following names :— Lonchostephass elegans Tul. in Arch. Mus. Par. vi. 98 ixed to stone in bed of R. Paraguay about Santa Cruz (Barra dos Bugres) ; 709. Mniopsis scaturiginum Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Attached to stone in bed of R. Paraguay shaw Saute Sri pees EUPHORBIACES. MM. Chodat and Hassler have given (Bul. Herb. Boiss. 1901, p. 395) the pies ravi rivinoides to specimens absolutely identical ah those of Moro 407 DR. ST. BRODY’S WORK IN. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. By James W. Wuirtt, F.L.S. A VALUABLE asset in Gloucestershire botany appears to have been fine unregarded for many years in a collection formed by Hes at Dr. O. St. Brody during his residence at Gloucester, which w housed in the City Technical Schools. This herbarium is entnely Deedee to plants of the county ; it furnishes evidence of m areful and accurate work (which the author’s muc eaettae” publication the ae of Weston-super-Maro—did not suggest) ; and it gives mber of new records. These were — ‘made chiefly in the Bristol sti, atte the Severn shore at the assages; on that little seaboard which confers upon aie hatin some semblan ce of a maritime county. There at plants seem to have remained unnoticed by Thwaites, Stephe and other Bristol botanists although they might have Teaihed the ground more berate an St. Brody could from Gloucester. This reflection, of course, rests on me also, but somewhat less strongly perhaps, for I bai had the satisfaction of finding several of the species, without, however, realizing their importance; and one or two had become iy on ore my time. The discovery of these specimens is well timed, in view of a recent announcement by Glo me. Seer of their anion to prepare a com- plete county - The follo airing paias by Dr. St. Brody appear to be topographical additions to vice-county 34 :— a lathyroides at Near the Old Passage; June, 1867. m maritimum L. Severn shore; Tuly, 1 1869. Now extn in the county. "ts 1887 there was a fair number of plants on a shingly beach below the New Passage. In October, 1901, one "plait only could be found; excursionists and visitors to the neighbouring tea-gardens having rooted out the remainder. One plant still there in 1902, and in 1903. But a little later there came a heavy storm on a high tide; the waves swept the beach from end to end, and then the last trace of this species in Glou- cestershire disappeared. Galium erectum Huds. Heath near Dursley; June, 1864. This pay ee my own gathering of the plant on Breakheart Hill, Dursley, by nearly forty years. Valertanella dentata Poll. var. mixta Dufr. Field at Dursley ; July, 1865. Arctium pubens Bab. New Passage; July, 1864. Salsola Kali L. Shore, New Passage; July, 1870. Almost Pen extinct. I have never met with a specimen north of Portis Obiowe portulacoides Mog. Shirehampton ; aye 1867. Swete likewise records it from Shirehampton in the Flora Bristoliensis prior to 1854. I also saw a small quantity on the Channel side of Avonmouth railway-station in 1879. This was soon afterwards destroyed when work commenced on the first Avonmouth Dock. one has since been seen in Gloucestershire. 408 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Polygonum Rati Bab. (as maritimum). Shore, oo Passage ; July, 1865. The presence of this plant in the county had never been ie gala It is extremely doubtful if sealer specimen can be found Sparganium natans L. In the Berkeley Canal; July, 1865. Juncus maritimus Lam. arshes, New Pas iets July, 1869. The species is stated by Swete (Fl. Brist. p. 83) to have been seen by himself in Shirehampton Marshes, West Gloucestershire ; but St. ner s specimens are the only ones I have met with from leum arenarium L. Sandy shore, New Passage; July, 1866. Another plant that has almost certainly disappeared from Gloucestershire. There are a number of other giesnenesd items of less impor- tance in St. Brody’s collection. A specimen of Salvia pratensis from Wyck Cliffs, dated 1849, forms a via confirmation of, or or easing 8 with, Swayne’s record for the oiplaiis at that place nearly a century earlier. ca a - Sel Somersetshire plants which this botanist may h hen living at Weston-super-Mare in early life. Could ner shoes be found they would be most welcome. So nomadic and needy a person, however, might not have burdened himself with baggage of the kind. Several of the more unlikely sp ies stated by him to grow in North Somerset—Antennaria oica and Atriplex laciniata, for instance—have recently turne by: and it seems to me that St. Brody’s reputation for botanical accuracy should soe much higher than some of us have been accustomed to place n a “ Report of Piaired towards the Completion of the Flora of Gloucestersbite,” communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, April 2nd, 1878, by G. 8. Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.8., it is stated that prior to that dati Mr. Harker had made a thorough examination of “this grand collection (of St. Brody’s], comprising 1036 species and 105 varieties, which was meant to be the basis of a County Flora, but the plan was abandoned, as was also a Flora * ara commenced by Mr. M. J. Barrington- Ward.’ ok oe aware if any notes that Mr. Harker may have made diitng his destin tion were ever published ; or, indeed, og any further progress was made with the projected County Flor REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1906. By A. B. Renpte, D.Se., F.L.S. Tue following additions have been made to the collections by presentations :—100 phanerogams from the Director of the Royal e from J. Stanley. Gardiner, Esq.; 468 phanerogams from Uganda, from Dr. A. G. Bagshawe; specimens illustrating the life-history REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM 409 of Crocus for the Public Gallery and a species of Statice from E, A. Bowles, Esq. ; 20 specimens of Polygala amarella, illustrating variation from J. Cryer, Esq.; 3 phanerogams from India, from . Cooke; 3 specimens of cultivated plants and 3. enlar ed photographs, from Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P.; 126 phanerogams and 7 cryptogams from Jamaica, from Dr. N. L. Britton; 109 phanerogams and 1 eryptogam from South Rhodesia, from Miss L. Gibbs ; 22 phanerogams from South Africa and Rhodesia, from Hof, Crosfield, Esq.; 208 phanerogams from South Rhodesia, ts sts n, from H. HE. Weaver, Esq., M.I.C.E.; 272 phanerogams, 15 cryptogams, and 28 fruits from South Rhodesia, from C. F. M. Swynnerton, Esq.; 261 phanerogams and 7 cryptogams from Mt. Ruwenzori, collected by Dr. Wollaston, ee the subscribers to the gt eee Expedition ; 9 phanerogams from South Europe, from H. Stuar Thompson, Esq. hanerogams and 7 Paper from ‘British East Africa, from A. Cholmle ey, Esq.; 4 specimens of cultivated ree from T. O’Brien, Esq. ; 66 pianerogums and 4 crypto gams hepa States, from 8. A. ‘Dur e, Esq.; 2 reproduced copies of lin’s portrait of Linneus, reer W. Carruthers, Esq.; 50 Huropean —— from the Council of the Linnean Society; 47 K. Cornish, ; 24 marine alge from Sidney, ; H. Lueas, Esq.; portraits of Elias Fries an G. Agardh, from G. Murra ; Esq ; marin ee mosses from the National in the Great African Lakes by Dr. W. C. Cunnington, from the Tanganyika Committee through Professor Ray Lankester; and single specimens from Prof. J. B. Farmer, Franklin White, Esq., and Herr Per Dusén The additions to the British Herbarium by presentation hava been :—7 specimens of Fwmaria from H. W. Pugsley, Esq. ; 220 agree from Rev. E. S. Marshall: 72 specimens from Rev. J. Riddlesdell; 15 specimens from C. E. Salmon, Bad: 49 mae from G.C. wine Esq.; 18 specimens from A. Bennett, s of mari gee near Dover, from Miss G. E. M Mitchell: 21 hepaticee from Westmorland, fro H. Pearson, sq.; 2 mosses and a hepatic from W. R. Sherrin, Esq. ; and one W. R. W. &. ‘ White, E. M. Holmes, A. B. Jackson, S$. 8. Buckman, H. R. Yates, Arthur Lister, Miss A. Lorrain Smith, C. P. Hurst, and Dr. W. H. Lang. Among the acquisitions by presentation special reference may be made to the lichen-herbarium of the late Rev. J. M. Crombie, 410 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY presented by his widow, and containing about 5000 British and foreign lichens, his MSS. and correspondence, and about 30 bound volumes of lichenological sinha by Nylander, J. Miiller, and other sari he following additions have been made by exchange es ie 136s specimens from South hice from the Botan Museum, Zurich, through Prof. Hans Schinz; 6 specimens of Allophyllus from Tropical Africa, through Dr. Engler; 3 violas from Texas and Mexico from the National Museum, Washington, Nort through Dr. B. L. Robinson; 142 phanerogams and 4 cry by Ferdinand Bauer, and Kryptogame Exsiccate cent. x 1, aah from the Vienna Hofmuseum, through Dr. A. Za hibru seals 249 = ia lanuauetion and 30 cryptogams from Botanic Gardens, Singapore, through H. N. Ridley, Esq.; 150 ferns collected in the Philippine Islands by E. P. Copeland, from the Bureau of Agriculture, Manila, through Prof. Elmer D. Merrill. The principal purchases during the _ were :—233 phanero- ms from Gunong Tahan, Pahang, from H. C. Robinson; 200 specimens Flora Stiriaca Exsiccata ee iii. ii. 2¥i,), from Hayek ; 233 specimens from West Indies, series III., 1904-5, from A. H. — 96 specimens from omaliland, nse G. i W. Bury 2 Ss Shaw; 165 phanerogams and 39 eryptogams from Bolivia, collected by Fiebrig, from Dr. R. Pilger; 215 specimens, including 10 cryptogams from Siam, collected by Dr. Hosseus, from Dr. Wilms; 1000 specimens including 119 cryptogams, ssn ie his v. U ‘ SHORT NOTES 411} Smith ; 15 water-colour drawings of British lichens for exhibition, by Highle ey. Among the oceper” by purchase special mention should be made of the cryptogamic herbarium of the late William Phillips, containing about 10, 000. Bui ish and exotic fungi, 800 lichens, 53 alge, and 3200 drawings of fungi. SHORT NOTES. LINARIA ARENARIA DC. In Encuanp.—This species, hitherto only known from a limited area of the coast of Western France, where it occurs on the maritime sands of Gatteville de la Manche, Neuville, Se eae &c., and is represented in the Reliquiz Maill. no. 1502, from Cherbourg, was Basch spt to Dr. by Mr. F. G. Fisher, who discovered i r Westward Ho, in North Devon, and was ide ntified at i National Hrbatiuin, to which specimens were taken by Dr. Smith. Mr. Britten told me of this coum ct ery, and I went down to the locality to form an opinion as to the claims of the Linaria to be considered indigenous es The plant occurs over a small area, perhaps two hundred yards long, — among sand and large pebbles, with ripper scabrum, Lotus corniculatus var. crassifolrus, pe Me Eryngiu va he ca Glaucium flavum, Plantago Cor nopus, P. lanceolata var. s herostachya, Phleum ee Poly gonum maritimum, &e., but with no introduced s i are traces of traffic near the place, but I think oy & to cart away shingle. Although Senecio squalidus has been d Bideford, and there is still some amount of tz raffic eee een the French ports and Appledore with Barnstaple, the locality is well away from these places. There is a considerable amount of drifted timber on — beach, but the ra sige the plant grows is well above the of the highest ti The whole area of this district is not pete cally old, as it appears that the dunes are of comparatively recent formation. My opinion is that, unless intentionally sown, the plant is native here, as it has no claims to beauty or utility, eect are influencing causes in the introduction of many species. It is to be hoped that anyone visiting this spot will be careful in ease ca this plant, so that it may not be eradicated.—G. Cra . We hope to publish ena a figure and description of this inter- esting plant.—Ep. Journ. Bor OLCHICUM VARIEGATUM L. cate 1849 Mr. Edward Pearson, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, found a Colchicum, apparently wild, in con- siderable quantity on the under side of a large plantation very Rai way Station, Shropshire. He has had it in his garden ever since, where it flowers freely, but apparently does not perfect seed. It increases rapidly from the root. The plant proves to be Colchicum variegatum LL, The same species is also reported as growing about 412 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY three miles further south, near Stokesay Castle. Can any local botanist wel seat the plant is still to be found in those parts ?— WwW Puyntopy or THE CaLyx iy Myosoris patusrris.—l lately gathered specimens of Myosotis ee on the banks of the river locally rig as the Gipping, where it flows through the Glebe Meadows at Barham, in Suffolk. They showed well-marked shyllody: of We calyx, poe er with a isin ot decane of the flower-spike. The calyx-lobes were twice the size of those of the ordinary form. Every inflorescence boris ie this plant showed this variation in equal degree. The corolla also showed a Ipswich it is now called the Orwell, though 4 is said 1 Gippe wyche was the old name of the city E. Aucustus Bow A proposeD ExcHancse Cius ror LicHens.—With fe excep- tion of Mr. Crombie’s Senanes (1895), the second ene concluding part of which is in active preparation by Miss A. L. Smith, little progress has been made in the study of the Lichens of these by the formation of a Lichen Exchange Club, on the lines of those already existing for mosses and flowering plants. Another reason for the formation of such a Club is found in the gradual extermi- nation of lichens through smoke and other means to which I have ares in the September number of this Journal. Mr. A. A. further a for the scheme dcakgh the pages of this Journal. Preliminary steps have already been taken, and I shall be glad to receive ie names and addresses of those carvan in the scheme, Seether _ any bein ee for the working of the Club. These may be se ss at Ivanhoe, Gwendolen Road, Leicester.— A. R. aca Juncus pyemzus Thuill. ny Cyprus ?—In this Journal for 1905, p. 332, I pointed out that the specimens at Kew oma by specimens seen by Boissier” (see B olssier, Flora Orien- talis, se 5). Ihave now seen Boissier’s own specimen at Geneva, cise abo is studying the tt of Cyprus, has also ex- amined the specimen in Herbier Boissier and is quite of the same — —H 8. THompson Lin EC Salmon.—Readers of the Journal will be ‘glad t to learn that this rarest of sea-lavenders still survives THE FLORA OF GLAMORGAN 413 at its original station in Portland Island. In 1902 I eould not find any of the plant, and reported its destruction as stated by Mr. GC. E. Salmon in these — eer 3 . 68). Possibly I was then a little too nas tan r I did ‘imate near enough to the no between two quarries where the cliff-edge has not been cut away ; and there, on the extreme overhang of undermined rock, the plant preemie itself, although sadly reduced in quantity from the display I remember to have seen thirty years ago oe the demand for an stone so destructively revived—JamMEs W. WHITE. A Revuteri Boiss.—On the 11th Assia 1906, I found maritimus, Veronica scutellata var. hirsuta, and Riccia crystallina. Additional evidence given by Mr. F. N. Williams, who has ex- 29s the plant, points, I think, to its being a native plant. He :-— Although differing in appearance from the very glandular fois of this plant you have previously sent me (vide Ex. Club Rep. 1902), they belong to S. Reuter?, and ar like the original hie ae specimens than the Lancashire plants.” his was in solr to ‘heldon, who sent Mr. Williams a aa v IA BI ak nard’s Bay, Isle of Wight, close to the rege in ro cates grassy und. This is I believe the first record for v.-c. 10. The plant was reported from near rire in spas’ which i ig ‘the only record for the mainland of Hants.—J. F. Ray. Fungus Flora of Yorkshire, 1905, i ar as an interesting addition to the county of York. —Ww. ivan NOTICES OF BOOKS. The baat of Glamorgan. Edited by A. H. Trow, D.Se., F.L.S. Section I, Thalamiflore. Cardiff : Lewis, 1907. 8vo, pp. 43. Price not, stated. Ir can have happened but seldom—if indeed the occurrence be as we believe, unique—that two floras of the same county should proceed concurrently, not only without reference to each other, but apparently in ignorance of each paar sexistence. Gla- morgan, however, is being thus favoured ; for simultaneously with the publication in our pages of Mr, Riddelsdell’s enumeration, 414 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY modestly entitled A Flora of the county, comes the first part of what is styled The Flora, compiled by a special Committee under the editorship of Professor Trow of University College, Cardiff, ublished in the Transactions of t the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society. his Committee was appointed in 1903; Mr. Riddelsdell’s oun for help in his compilation appeared in this Journal for Febru 1904 ; and the work of both has been carried on Didupendenth gs 1 Mr. Ri paciesh s or has, as he tells us in his preface, “ mainly a personal character,” but includes the specimens preserved in numerous he site he ae in accordance with general practice, divided the eae into districts (which has not been attempted by the Cardiff Committee), and has excluded introduced species (which are given in an appendix) cE which he places many plants native in other parts of the country but alien here, and doubtful records. The Cardiff Committee consisted of nine members, who “ at once authorized the issue of circulars to local botanists ce them to become corresponding members and furnish lists of the no dis ement to the Committee to say that few if any of their names or those of the numerous “active corresponding mem- bers” are familiar to British botanists, nor is there any indication that their specimens have been submitted to any competent a two common i andl well-differentiated spaeisa are fiat sell under- ense, Linn. gdh Peek, Ditias Powis. J. S. and 5 5 H T. Frequent. Flora Rhondda. Frequent i in tem and ‘ay places, Barry. Common, Southerndown. Miss Sully. G. wain? W. C. arvense does not appear in Mr. Riddelsdell’s list; a fact which seems to show that its recorders can hardly claim implicit Although this Journal appears in the list of works consulted, it would appear that this has been done aie, incom letely. For ul THE PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE 415 not easy to see what is gained by such an entry as that of Stellaria palustris, where the statement “all the records are probably as followed ey the records of three correspondents for three os oie localiti We can only Kei that eset as parts of the Flora, if it be Gontinwed, wil be conducted on erent lines, and that care will be taken to include records only feokti those who are at least able to discriminate bet our common Cerastiums and to identify correctly plants so distinet as Stellaria palustris. On the present lines, the only result of the work will be to increase the in- even in his portion we find things that surprise us—the inclusion of Paonia, for example, although itis rightly stated to be a Somer- set plant, and the designation of Corydalis lutea as ‘ rupestral.” The Principles of Horticulture. By Wirrep Marx Wess, F.L.S. London: Blackie & Son. Mr. Webb had set iaittinedt the task of writing a book on elem ny, with a spice of entomology and a little nature study: the little book before us would have had some reason for its existence. But when the author om us that he has written horticulture seem to be conspicuous by their absence, and certainly no attempt is made to explain the scientific reasons ide Witte some of the most common garden practices. eé mere examina- st oy the parts and tissues of a plant is not horticulture but and some of the very best cultivators in the kingdom wear find a difficulty perhaps in describing the ie — grow in ee botanical language. If Mr. Webb had ned as botanist phenomena that gardeners are accustomed . meet with almost every day. It is true that “rule of thumb” methods obtain to a pera These are important points that Mr. Webb would ae as well to explain; as it is, he has, as we have already and merely produced a conglomeration of elementary botany, mology, and what is termed “nature study ”—the present ie Sat many so-called Bhool a 416 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. Mk. S. A Stewart, who resigned the poreorslip of the Rees m, in May las a ee erbarium and paleo logical collection to that institution. At th as aairnel meeting of | the ee Natural History and Philosophical Society on Sep. 27th many tributes were paid to tewart’s work, especially in con- sealer with the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club, of which he was one of the founders and on whose committee he served for forty years. Mr. Stewart's address is now 342, Springfield Road, Belfast. Dr. J. ReyNotps GREEN'S cle gonuaeece ye Pies steed Physiology, which was commended in this Journal on rst appearance In 1 assed into a second edition. The differences — this and the original issue are very slight, as but few changes were necessary. It is published by ‘Wocken J.& A. Churchill price 10s. 6d. net. Flowering Ae and Shrubs, by Henry Hoare (Humphreys ; price 7s. 6d.), is a Bea Prniot: siiaked little quarto volume con- taining a mipnttly calendar, a descriptive portion arranged alpha- eee under the Latin names, and lists of trees and shrubs uited various localities. It is illustrated with plates by Gertride Hamilton, somewhat ced coloured, but occasionally —e. g. Chimonanthus—excellent. e descriptions are somewhat meagre and sometimes contain quaint remarks—e. g. it is said of Cercis Siliquastrum: “Some say that J tha hanged himself from one of its abst but one prefers to connect no episode so painful with it” Pror. J. B. cee of the Royal College of Science, has been appointed —_ of the Gardeners’ Chronicle in succession to the late Dr. ers. 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GUID ee DHE 1 T DUNN, Be PLS. ; BRITISH AND FOREIGN EDITED BY JAMES BRITTEN, K.S.G., F.L.S. CONTENTS Botanical Exchange Club Report, 1906. “Notes on Limonium. — os C. E. gies F.L. woes . Notes on the ‘‘ List of ‘Baga 7 Plants.”’—Il. By . RENDLE, D.Se., pee & JauEs anne OF. LS. » 433 Nortce” or Boox :— disc a tdeiet Bellardi, By R pee Die Badenian fer _ Pavnson, F.R.M.S. — Peta 5) nm Dr. Oswanp = Book Notes, News, he: DULAU & a0., SOHO SQUARE tie 2 "Prive One ennui and Bightpence BRITISH AND FOREIGN EDITED BY JAMES BRITTEN, pe os F.L.S. HE JOURNAL or Borany was established in 1863 by Dr. Seemann. 72 by Dr. Henry Trimen, who, ay ‘safely be said that nothing of primary importance bearing this: eee has remained unno tic ed. a) mpetent critics: in this as in every other ct a strictly fdapoddent attitude has been maintained. While in ay officially connected with the Department of Botany of the eet the Journal has from the first been as enables m t utili ze its pages for recording facts of interest and importance _ which the Museum contains. — it became necessary to increase the size of the Journal, owing umber of papers sent for publication: the number of pla » Same time augmented. i ions cil be dt post free} and singing stage irae: later than the 2 24th of 5 t to Wrest, Newman & Co., 54, Hatton Garden, Ssarog ion epabheation and "books rs review to os : The cde ay Reaiee feet ial Sd ‘ cimestor voes can still be had, price 14s, each, or set. From m 1606. to io 1006, send in op es can be had at £1 1s. each. ORS’ SEPARATE COPIES.—Contributors ate presented with ‘papers as printed in the Journnat or Borany. Authors whor > te copies are as under:— 8 we = oe 8s. | 9s. | Journ Bot. Tab.487. PF Ly seg ge West, Newman imp. _ Germination of Poplars. 417 THE GERMINATION OF POPLARS. By Fuorence H. Wooniwarp. | (Puare 487.) Tar genial summer of 1906 is thought to have had a beneficial yo ane number of Poplars which ripened seed in 1907, although more unfavourable oaeiaibions for the diffusion of pollen than the wet cold spring of this year can hardly be imagined. @ ex- treme rarity of Poplar-seeds in this sak may be caused by the dicecious character of the genus, for it frequently happens that trees of one sex are abundant in a district, while specimens of the opposite sex are entirely absent. In my experience pistillate trees are generally less common in England than staminate ones, another hindrance to the production of seeds. In natural forests and uncultivated land where the trees are indigenous, the distri- bution of the two forms would probably be more equal. There is no doubt, however, that the a fine hae wder of the pollen-grains is often carried by wind to a great dis- tance, for I am informed that the lange pistillate tree of Tomas migra at New Ross, in Ireland, from the seeds of which I have tree a planting, especially in botanic maere and the proximity of of different species, natural hybridisation might frequently ok and in many cases the complete origin of seeds might be difficult to ascertain. The first seeds which germinated under my care were from tree growing in the Queen’s Cottage ground at Kew, the pect of which were developed early in April, and were sent to me under the name of Populus nigra. I recognized them, however, to be those of P. monilifera Ait., to the staminate ‘form of which oench, twenty-five years earlier, gave the name of P. canadensis ; and an examination, later in the year, of leaves from the same tree confirmed my opinion. Without going into the vexed question of species, variety, or hybrid, or attempting to discuss synonymy, I shall in _ paper refer to the tree as P canadensis. specimens of the fruit were sent to me, and proved ays an measures less than one-eighth inch in length, and staminate trees attain a height of 130 to 140 ft., and a girth of more than 18 &., with fine spreading heads visible over the tops of all other trees in the neighbourhood. Specimens of P. canadensis as large as JOURNAL OF Borany.—Voun. 45. [DecemBrr, 1907.]} 2H 418 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY this are abundant. in Lincolnshire, and are not more than eighty It seems probable that the pistillate form of ° R =) _ =) © 2 << “itinéidh ana is generally admitted to include the plant known to British botan as P. verna, and that the specimen in the Linnean betbarttri is that species, we have retained the name in preference to P. Tabernemontani Aschers., which is adopted by Schinz & Thellung. . Rosa vittosa L. We do not follow Schinz & Thellung in abandoning this name on the ground of confusion. There is no confusion as regards Piiaeus botany, though the name is ad- mitted a Lael nam 136. EpILoBIUM PARVIFLORUM, ROSEUM and oBscuRUM Schreber Spicil. Fl. oa 1771. It is necessary to quote these names from the Conspectus at the end of the volume which serves as an index ; in the — of the work the species ape under Chamenerion KE. aupinum L. We agree with Mr. E. 8. Marshall in following Hisawibnaene s monograph of the genus (p. 159), where it is shown that the plant in the Linnean herbarium is JF. lactiflorwm, and that the Linnean a a includes both mesic natch tt and lactiflorum ; therefore the e alpinum should be retained for lactiflorum, and the British ‘pli stands as EH, pejeyisoremene: Lam. Eneyel. ii. 376 (1788). 143, Corynepon Umpinicus should stand as C. Umsinicus- VENERIS 148. Drospra. Schinz & Thellung have called in question our use of Hudson’s names, There is no doubt, from the citation of y and the English name—Great Sundew—that Hudson's D. anglica (ed. 2) is our largest sundew, and that his longifolia repre- sents intermedia, in spite of his oie of Parkinson’s figure of the Great English Sundew. In his first edition Hudson followed Linneus in applying the name eae tue to the aggregate species, in his second edition separated D. anglica 177. Daucus gumMireR. The reference should be to Allioni in Mise. Taur. v. 182 (1774). 179. Torttis Anruriscus. The reference should be to Gmelin Fil. Bad. i. 615 (1805). 184. Puysospermum Cusson (1787). oe earlier name for this genus is Danaa All. Fl. Pedem. ii. 34, t. 63 (1785). The —— therefore stands as D. connuBIENSIS ernst Fl. Alp. Marit. : v.99 ~ 6), where an exhaustive account of the synonymy is ae ho in tert of G. hercynicum Weigel Obs. 25 (1772), on the ground that saxatile is localized by Linneus as a Spanish coast # NOTES ON THE ‘LIST OF BRITISH SEED-PLANTS”’ 439 including Willkomm and Lange (Prodr. Fl. Hisp. ii. 316), and the plant in the Linnean herbarium is our British species. G. AsPERUM Schreber Spicil. Fl. Lips. iii. (1771) is an earlier arr for G. UMBELLATUM Lam. (1788) and G. sylvestre Poll. 776). 205. Prt rae ae Hill. For this must be reaper P. nysrrpus Gaertn. Me ey. & Schreb. Fl. Wett. iii. 184 (180 Linneus diateieraloned the female plant as fae tlago Woride (Sp. Pl. 866) ; the male plant he called 7. Petasz 211. Linosyris vutearis DC. The synonym hate vulgaris Bernh. should read A. Linosyris Bernh. 212. Invia vunearis Trev. For this name must be substituted ii Seta me Bernh. ex Schinz & Thellung in Nh oi aria f. Ges. Zurich, li. 498 (1906). J. pit L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1240 ( (1763) is universally recognized as a synonym of L spirei- folia L. Syst. (1759), hence the original trivial squarrosa (Conyza squarrosa L.) must be adopted. It cannot, however, be cited, as is usual, as J. wae Bernh., as that name occurs only in synonymy under J. Conyza DC. (Prodr. v. 464). . PULICARIA oo teins Aschers. is based on Inula prostrata oe a still-born name for J. Pulicaria L. The name must stand s P. vunearis Gaertn. Fruct. ii, 461 (1791). 214. Finaco aermanica. The reference should be to L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1235 (1759). 219. Marricarta piscorpEa DC. For this must be substituted M. suAvEoLENS Buchenau Fl. Nordwest-deutschl. 496 (1894) (= Santolina suaveolens Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 520 (1814) ). 0. Arctium puBENS Bab. (1856). A. INTERMEDIUM Lange Danske Fl. 463 oie is an earlier name for this species if the plants are identical 237. ARNOSERIS MINIMA. The reference should be to Schweigg. & ops Fl. Erlang. ii. 73 (1811). 240. Turincia NupicauLis Britten. The authority for this oth are regarded as dist species, as is the custom wit British and most pas sheer poesia If combined, as suggested by Schinz & Thellung, the authority will be Lowe in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soe. iv. 28 (1831). 237*. Lacruca muranis Gaertn. Fruct. ii. t. 168, Schinz & chiceaaarat there is on p. 363 a de spe been with reference to Linneus’s Systema under the name ‘ Chondrilia (Lactuca in Icon.) turalis.’ Turalis, as shown by the plate, is a misprint for murals, but by a further error is corrected in the errata to rwralts. 241*, Crepis succistFoLiA Tausch. This must be replaced by ©. monuis Aschers. Fl. Brandenb. 385 (1864) (= Hieracown molle Jacq. Fl. Austr. ii. 12 (1774) ). 440: THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 949, Hreractum saBaupum L. This should be replaced by H. BOREALE Fries Novit. — Suec. 77 (1819). 256. Azauea L. Sp. 150.. Linneus has six species, the first five of which are now ; referred to his a Pactsipiie nie (l.c. 392); the last is A. procumbens. In the of “nom conservanda” (Vienna Rules) Loiselewria Desv. “813 not “ 1840" ’) appears as superseding “ Chamecistus Oeder. Fl. Dan. t. 9 (1761),” which however has no existence as a genus in the work cited. We do not understand stn Rules to say that Linneus’s genus Azalea must disappear, which it would do if A. procumbens were not Se 267 GALLIS TENELLA. The authority should stand as Mire Far Veg. 165 (1774). 276. For Cenraurion Gilib. read Centaurivum Hill. iANA AmaRELLA L. There is no doubt that the Schmidt, abandoning the Linnean name as an aggregate species. 283. Cuscura Epiraymum should be cited from Murray Syst. ed. 13, 140 (1774). 294. Myosoris. Schinz & Thellung regard M. lutea Pers. Enchir, i. 156 (1806) as synonymous with M. versicolor Sm., but F i plant. The reference to M. versicolor should be to Engl. Bot. t. 2558 text. Mr. Druce (in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1907, 243) takes excep- tion to our use of M. scorpioides L. for the Water Forget-me-not. species of Myosotis, recognizing two varieties, arvensis and palustris, the latter being the water form. Hill (Veget. Sh vii. 59, 1764) a aesiaay the land and water species, using Linneus’s species-name scorpioides for the latter. Later, in his Herb. “Br it. 170 (1769), ba substitutes Linneus’s varietal name palustris for scorptoides, which he cites as a synonym. 06. ScRoPHULARIA UMBROSA Dum. (1827). We follow con- tinental botanists in assuming the identity of this with the earlier S. alata Gilib. Fl. Lit. i. 127 (1781). 317. Veronica Buxpaumi Ten. (1811-15). We follow the general consensus of European poag- in PP akepa the earlier - Tournefortii Gmelin Fl. Bad. Als. i. 39 (1805) as synonymous. 331. Sracuys elegy es ee should be to Tre- visan Prosp. Fl. Eugan. 26 (184 337. Liwontum pinned ‘Mill. (1768) must be replaced eres eam Dumort. Fl. Belg. 27 (1827); see Journ. Statice Armerta L. must be = Mil. Died. 8, a-8Q469), 0 (cts tet Bt aaa NOTES ON THE “LIST OF BRITISH SEED-PLANTS ”’ 441 367. Untmus auaBra Huds. (1762). Schinz & Thellung wish to ara se i for this U. scabra Mill. (1768). Hudson’s een is the Wye m; he has only two species, campestris and glabra Ss Betuta. 8B. penpuna Roth Tent. i Germ. : 405 (1788) must replace B. tegricene Ehrh. (1791). For B. asa, Schinz & Thellung prefer use B. tomentosa Reith & Abel (1790), regarding alba L. as a nomen confusum. 372. ALNUS GLUTINOSA Gaertn. 1791. For this must be substi- tuted A. rorunpiFroxiA Mill. Dict. Abridgm. ed. 6, n. 1, 1771. 386. PoramocetTon Zizi Koch (1827). For this must be sub- 845, a the By is ar mentioned there in synon . FLABELLATUS Bab. (1851) is antedated by P. InTERRUPTUS Kitaibel ex Schult. Oesterr. Fl. ed. 2, i. 328 (1814). 393. aT a should be A. PuANTAGO-AQUATICA L. 404, TANA. As shown by Celakovsky (Lotos, 1870, iv), rer islet Schmidt is not a synonym of H. chlorantha Bab. but a form of H. b bifolia ; hence the name H. mon- tana must be ae d. The earliest name is Orchis virescens Zollikofer in Gaud. Fl. Helvet. v. “497 (1829); and the plant must stand under Habenaria as H. virescens Druce in Ann. Scott. Nat, Hist. 1907, 244. (405. OpHRys faba H. G. Reichenb. Schinz & Thellung abandon this name as a nomen odiosum, which they say could not be used in ayes school-floras. } 411. Epreactis. In his Dillenian Herbaria, 115, Mr. Druce substitutes Helleborine — for Epipactis, and we agree with this substitution, the reasons for which will be pointed out in the next number of this J ad The species will therefore stand thus :— enone Hill (Brit. Herbal, 477) 1756 1. H. tarironia Druce Dill. Herb. 115 (1907). 2. H. a Druce I. c. to 2 e view & bar sgild expressed in Lie ss ournal we HALANTHERA GRAND niv. Wien ¥, Iii Y legr) on the ground that ee Dama- sonium Miller (= C. Damasonium Druce) is complicated and 449 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY that might arise siiction not to S. Damasonium but to S. — which has been referred to C. longifolia Fritsch and was e first a doubtful plant (see Journ. Bot. 1907, 240). Any doubt t that might remain is, however, removed by Miller’s specimens of his two plants which are in the National Herbarium and both is untenable, for Crantz’s genus H’pipactis has no claim to con- sideration, peer as it does not only the Serapias of Linnzus, but other Linne re genera, namely Ophrys, Neottia, and Her- minim. We note that Schinz & Thellung quote us incorrectly as citing peeibaenade grandiflora as of Babington. 414. CorautorReuizaA. This genus was established by J. J. oe + = a de Corallorhiza” 1760. He ames the spec A, which must stand, as the Linnean trivial Onealerbied Gar Ophrys) i is inadmissible. 5. Mataxis patuposa Sw. should be cited from Vet. Akad. ome x. 127 (1789). 422. Crocus oFFIcINALIS Hudson (1778). Schinz & a ae substitute the name C. albiflorus Kitaib. (1814), but we see reason for departing from the view we agit taken, the grounds tbe whi - we have stated in this : gro (p. 106). 428. Asparacus oFFictnaALIs L. For the British plant the restricted name A. MARI ist “Mill Gard. Dict. ed. 8, n. 2 (1768), st opted. 430. PoLyGoNATUM OFFICINALE All. Mr. Druce (in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1907, 242) points out that J ppc adopts his sugges- tion, which we did not accept, that P. odoratwm (Mill.) Druce should supersede P. officinale All. Headds that doubts have been en saat as to the identity of Miller’s plant, and these doubts are cra Mr. Druce unfortunately proposes ogee! name P. angulosum, “since Convallaria angulosa Lam. Fl. Fr. iii. 268, 1778, is earlier than P. officinale All. Fl. Ped. [i.] 131 (1785),” but C. angulosa Lam. is a still-born name, being an arbitrary change by Lamarck for C. Polygonatum L. 431. MAIANTHEMUM BIFOLIUM must be cited as of Schmidt FI. Boem. iv. 54 (1794). 443. Muscarrt racemosum Mill. Schinz & pCa point out that Miller’s name is of doubtful application, and in the additional fact that Miller's specimen is an immature ‘lens of M. comosum, it seems best to cite the name as of Lam. & DC. Fl. Fr. ed. 3, iii. 208 (1805). 447. Juncus ostusirtorus Ehrh. An earlier name for this is J. suBNopuLosus Schrank Baiersch. Fl. i. 616 (1789). NOTES ON THE “ LIST OF BRITISH SEED-PLANTS ” 443 457. ERiopHoruM PonysTacHion L. Sp. Pl. 52 eae Lin- neus cites Fl. Suec. 1755, which includes the following “ Linagrostis panicula ampliore Tournef. B. L. panicula minore Tournef. y. L. palustris angustifolia, &e., Scheuch.” Lamarck (Fl. Frang. iii. 555 (1778) ) —— gc s name to Linagrostis paniculata ; this is a still-born n Roth (Fl. Germ. ii. 63 (1789) ) separated the plant —s vantele 7 chantielled leaves— | fH. polystachion L., and have used E. polystachion for the chs dis- tinguished as E. angustifoum Roth. inneus’s EL. polystachion therefore represents the following :— E. polystachion L. (restrict. Roth (1789)) [ = E. latifolium Hoppe]. #. spied Roth Catal. ii. [259] addend. (1800) = E. poly- stachion L. v: E. fiegidascfoleton Roth (1789) = E£. oe L. var. polystachion Auctt.]. In our List, therefore, H. polyst sachin L. should stand as E. an ne tek Roth Fl. et ii. 63 eg and #. paniculatum Dru s HE. ponysracnion L. Sp. bad ct. Ro 2 459. Care C. muricata L. We retain this name notwithstanding Mr. E. 8. Marshall's note in this Journal (p. 364). We consider that he lays too much stress on the specimens in the Linnean herbarium, neither of which, as he points out, is the plant which we understand by the name 22. C. vitinis Fr. is not a British plant. 26. C. acuta L. In view of the gen —_ expressed doubt as to the Linnean a we follow Asc n & Graebner (Syn. Mittel- a Fl. ii. pt. 2, 90) and other ontinental a. in ing shite name in favour of C. gracilis Curt. FI. abandon fase. 4, t. 282 (1783). 33. C. rusca Allioni. Allioni gives no description of this, but puts it in a section with spicis sexu distinctis, whereas the plant of his herbarium, which is the aay known as fusca in Britain, has the top spike androgynous (see L. H. Bailey in Torr. Bot. Cl. i. 63). Allioni cites Haller & Scheuchzer, but these re- ferences do not represent the plant of Allioni’s herbarium (see ull. Herb. Boiss. 7, 399). oa earliest available name is C. polygama Schkuhr Riedgr. 84 (180 61. C, Hornscnucntana Hoppe. = earlier name is C. Host- a DC, Hort. Bot. Monsp. 88 (1813), but De Candolle cites C. pas Host Gram. iv. t. 35, p. 53 (1809). As C. fulva Good- enough in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 177 (1794) is, as he himself states 444 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY (op. 2 g ads (1797), founded on error, the name must be cited as t, who accurately defines the plant. 66. °C. FiniroRMiIs L. Ascherson & Graebner (Syn. Mittel-Eur. “i ii. 2, . Lae out that this is a very doubtful plant and adopt the name C. LAsrocarPA Ehrh. in Hannév. Mag. ix. 132 (1784). 69. C. A Good. Mr. E. 8S. Marshall points out (Journ. Bot. 1907, 366) that this is identical with C. saxarmis L. Sp. Pl. 976 (1753). 71. C. rostrata Stokes (1787). An earlier name for this plant is C. mwrnata Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 412 (1778). In his first edition Hudson included references to Morison Hist. Oxon. and y , e a Dastad: whose specimen is in the National Eunbart 466. ANTHoxANTHUM PuExit Lecog. & Lam 1847. An earlier name for this is A. ARIstatuM Boiss. Voy. Esp. “ii, 638 (1845). 474. PHRaGMITES ComMmMuNIS Trin. Mr. Druce (Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1906, 228) proposes a new combination, P. sulgarsi which is accepted by Janchen. This is based on Arundo vulgaris Lam. Fl. Fr. iii. 615, a still-born name oe if Phragmites L.). 476. CALAMAGROSTIS LANCEOLAT Arundo canescens Weber in Wigg. Prim. "Fl Hols. 10 (1780), paitinet= described as distinet Si A. Calamagrostis L. is now referred to that species. Hence canescens is the earliest available trivial under Calam- biti and the ae stands as C. cANESCENS Druce in Ann. Scott. t. Hist. pi 6, 228. 479. PoLYPOGON LITTORALIS ae The reference should be to Oomnaas Fl. Brit. ed. 2, 13 aes . WEINGAERTNERA. es ame being excluded by the , the species stands as Gonvinie maps CANESCENS Beauv. mee 159 (1812). 489. Meuica. We follow Hudson (FI. Angl. ed. 2, 37, 1778) in our use of the names for the two species, which he was the first to PTE ee Festu as wiscitala Forsk. Mr. Druce has shown (Journ. Bot. 1907, 164) that his combination—F. memBranacea Druce in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1906, 229—must stand for this species. Se FE. re L. Schinz & Thellung abandon this name in b.; but Hu of F. arundinacea Schr at son, who separated ra petttonais af Angl. 37, 1762), retained the name elatior for the plant known later os P. arundinacea Schreb., and there seems no Larne to abandon 500. omelet MOLLIs Parl. mer seems no that Bromus hordeaceus L. Sp. Pl. 77 (1753) is synonymous with B. mollis L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, Tie (1762). In Sp. Pl. ed. 2, ahaa SILENE ELONGATA 445 reduces B. hordeaceus seeks a variety 8 of B. et taeinaece which (see Hackel in Kerner Se iii. 142) is regarded as a onym of B. mollis. Therefore hotdiaiots is the earliest trivial tng the species, and oe name stands 8. HorDEACEUs Gren. & Godr. FI. Fr. iii. 590 (1856). 516. Pontypopium MOLLE All. (1785). In restoring this name we followed Luerrsen & Christ. Schinz & Thellung do not regard 1857) based on Aspidium alpestre Hoppe, ‘Mbbie, however, ie quotes the name in synonymy. SILENE ELONGATA BeEtwarpt. By Rospert Pavutson, F.R.M.S. Tuts plant, which occurs on rocks in shady places in the aS Savoie e, was flowering during last August in the higher parts of ee Vallée de Chaviére and on the upper part of the route from Pralognan to the Col de la Vanoise. In habit it is qui distinct from typical Szlene acaulis L. in not forming moss- gushons: 2 in spreading as a loose mat over the surface, and in ai m the crevices of rocks. The flowers are on lon peduncles, Phe carry them far above the general bevel of the procumbent stems; the petals are deeply notched, and of a light reddish-purple colour. The capsules were not fully fo Bad so late as t P. : ird week in Au gg Pt no comparisons of these oul the valley stretching from Pralognan to the Col de “Chavire (fifteen iicoeines hee closely associated forms of Silene—S. e pe de . exscapa All., an ryoides Jord.— when i t Apart from ths question as to what constitutes a species, it seems well that attention should be called to a plant that must frequently puzzle the botanist in the Alps of Savoie and Dauphin Occasionally intermediate forms may be found, but they were not very evident in the valleys mentioned. Ina letter from the Baron Perrier de la B&thie, Professor of Agriculture at Albert- ville, he says: “Je reconnais qu’on trouve quelques specimens embarrassants entre ces formes, surtout entre les S. bryoides Jord. et S. —— All.” May it not be that such closely allied forms hybridize? - S. elongata is omitted from De Candolle’s Prodromus, and from 446 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY Mr. Williams’s monograph of Silene (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxii.), but it finds a place under S. acaulis in Grenier et Godron’s te de France (ii. 215), to which it is also referred in the Inc Kewensis. It may be worth while to reprint Bellardi’s Tennrti tion, as his Osservaziont Botanieke heise in which it appears (p. 60), is net commonly accessible : ‘“ SILENE ELONGATA, caulescens, foliis linearibus, petalis emar- ginatis, Catia subpelviformibus. Nob. “Luogo. Ho trovato questa pianta sopra le piu elevate mon- tagne di Usseglio, vicino a Lautaret, e nell’ anno scorso ne’ monti subalpini di Montpanté. serv. Questa Silene ha molta affinita colla spezie chia- mata dal ae Silene acaulis, e colla Silene exscapa della Flora Pedemontana. Si diversifica perd da tutte due par essere fornita di un te. che si eleva all’ altezza di tre o Song dita, e sostiene due o tre conjugazioni di foglie lineari. Non forma un cespuglio denso come le due precedenti, ed ha i i rami distant alquanto gli uni dagli altri. Il suo fiore é un po’ pit grande, ed il calice é pit turgido; del resto é affatto cons a quello della Silene acaulis. Con tutto cid subbene alla stessa elevazione wee osservato cespugli della 8. — e aelia aeicate in siti poco distanti, non vorrei sostenere che non possa essere un’ insigne v variet& di quella, e della re del Signor Allioni, dopo le gg ete osser- vazioni fatte intorno alle varieta, a cui va soggetta la S. acaulis, la quale nello orn cespuglio proveniente da una sola ele ce mi presento ae oe simili alla Silene exscapa, altri con il fusto alto un’ oncia e pit, altri con fiori rossi, altri di un rosso pit dilavato, ed altri pevisthacnants bianchi. Ho creduto intanto conveniente distinguerla, affinché consti appresso i Botanici la memoria di tal pianta e possano meglio sopra di essa determinare il loro partner colla scorta di ulteriori osservazioni. RUBUS MUCRONATOIDES. By tHe Rev. Aveustin Ley, M.A. Handbook of British Rubi, p 55) as a halen of Ri; ucronatus having recently proved to possess range in the British Isles, it becomes desirable to direct furthiey attention to it. have the concurrence of Mr. Rogers in publishing it t species, and append a full description: 2 en UBUS MUCRONATOIDES Ley in Lees Handb. Brit. Rubi, 55 (1900). Stem low, arched, angular, with few scattered hairs and BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB REPORT 447 with mucronate crenate a Panicle pyramidal, or straggling with the side branches, much lengthened, — es flowers very mor glands. Flowers | ; distant long, oldie lly hairy, margin ciliate. Stamens white, soon rose-coloured at base, longer than the green styles. . Sepals reflexed in flower and fruit. From its nearest ally, R. mucronatus Blox., this plant is dis- tinguished by the angled stem, stronger and more unequal arm ture of stem and rachis, gradually Gsditings and partly lobate terminal leaflet res coarser serration, broader straggling panicle, and reflexed se LOCALITIES 2 Horbfordl Kington, Kinnersley, Brilley, and other stations in the north-west; first in 1884. Black nan district. Radnor: Corton and Prestei gn. Hast Inverness: Nai and Hast Ross: Rosemarkie! 1898, Marshall. Ireland: Maiiaeatie il The Scottish plant is a rather stouter form ; ee Trish agrees in all points with the plant of Hereford and Radno BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB REPORT, 1906. [THE Report of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1906, “ by the Editor and Distributor, the Rev. W. R. Linton,” issued in April, is prefaced by the “ Secretary’s Report,” containing a acntont of “the chief items of botanical interest of the a This is signed y Mr. Druce, who, although only announced i Cranes of oo Club, apparently combines with this the seeccketiel office in at least one instance, and more frequently in the list of ae: siderata, Mr. Druce finds an opportunity for indulging his passion for new combinations—with, it is to be feared, the too frequent lish page in rt a list ; and no oon can justify the erection of the hich Messrs. Colgan & Scully wrote Polygonum per al euteeio f P. sagittatum into a synonym as “ Poly- gonum sagittifolium olga & Seully’”’! This, by the way, appears in a note of Mr. Druce’s in the Report proper, and we “tg surprised the editor allowed it to pass. If such synonymy is to be recog- nized, Mr. Druce may add yet further to the names ne which he stands in loco parentis: we find in the desiderata list ‘“‘ Agropyron lepens,” which by analogy must be quoted in future as “ Agropyron lep " We that Mr. sme has anticipated criticism and secured another name by giving as a synonym of his Salvia Marquandii, Gibblichets ci in this Sosictoddls as recently as December last, “ Salvia Verbenaca var. Marquandit.’ 448 - THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY The Report as usual contains a variety of interesting notes on the specimens received and distributed, from which we extract a few of those of more general interest. As usual, there are a number of opinions about critical forms of Rubus (4 pages), Rosa (4 pages), Hzeraciwm (5 pages) and —_ genera, a for these reference must be made to the Report it ditor and Distributor for 1907 i is nao Rey. H. J. Riddels- dell, St. Michael’s nace Llandaff.—Eb. Journ. Bor. the stumps quickly produce an abundance of strong succulent shoots. These, in the earlier years of Laine growth, whether they be oak, hazel, aspen or lime, bear lea of unusual size and shape. In the case of the two last- Re ba trees the difference in area, outline, and texture between these stump-shoot leaves and ordinary foliage great that the former would hardly be recog- nized if the conditions ae produced them were not known. I send herewith examples from 7. cordata stumps in illustration. Most of them are 5-7 in. i ‘er th and nearly as broad. They oni: rane exceed their petioles, in contradiction to one of the ain characters that distinguish the species. There is, moreover, an ni Sigiecation of oe and of geo one-sidedness, besides the a lon well marked in the stump-shoot leaves of Populus tremula, which make a still greater contrast with the suborbicular normal leaves of that tree. I think one must assume that these are examples hypertrophy due to an excessive supply of oad and food-material under pressure. When a tree is coppiced the stump is so sur- am with sap that many adventitious buds form along the vitally active cambium layer, and these buds, stimulated by the meroeiiites that escape the usual fate of underwood for a a ufficient time flower freely and bear plenty of fruit.—James W. ri CHEMILLA VULGARIS var. FILICAULIS — Near bas ae Tunnel, Leicestershire, May 12th, 1906, v he sent for distribution last year being of i Bde eae see a staan are contributed for this year of the usual type for comparison, though in all other respects they exhibit the characters of the variety to an equal extent, It may almost be said to be the type of the BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB REPORT 449 species locally, A. pratensis Schmidt being of comparatively rare occurrence in Leicestershire or the sisters generally, whilst it seems that the converse obtains in the southern and western coun- ies, the var. alpestris (Schmidt) being est confined more or less to the north and west of England, and seldom or rarely in the central WA i sy R. Horwoop Erica Macxatm Hook. On Craigga-more, a stony moorland hill of . & J. G.). 6. Newton sandhills. . Cowbridge. Barry, D. . Welsh St. Donat’s. A river form at Peterston, in River Ely. Tlandaff Hb. Cardiff.—Var. truncatus (Hiern). 8. Crumlin Bog. 5. Kenfig Pool. — Var. peniciilatus (Hiern). To this var. are ” probably to be assigned all the records of R. fluitans. Messrs. Groves have placed here ee from 6. Ewenny pee. 8. Canal at Penrhiwceiber. 9. Caerphilly, stream by the ca *R. Baudotit Godr. 1. Frequent in rte marshes and on the burrows yon Oxwich to Llanmorlais. 2. Loughor marshes. 5. Port Talbot, Aberafan, Kenfig Pool. 7. The Leys, Cadoxton, 8. Cardiff Recep Pengam marshes, Grangetown. Penarth Road, Cardiff, H ‘diff. “em sasha ool 1, Rhosili Down i in — quantity. (8. Storrie’s records are probably in error for R. Bar R. Lenormandi F. Schultz. Secuadk. nn districts 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 8,9. Among the hills occurs a form ye alias A. lutarius in its more deeply divided upper leaves, and cup-shaped flowers. 1. At Rhosili, a plant which Messrs. Groves suggest is a hybrid R. Lenormandi. x lutarius, growing with both species. R. hederaceus L. 1. Frequent at = sea level, on the sands and elsewhere; also on the downs; often with R. Lenormandi. 2. Loughor, Mynydd Garn Goch. 3. Crumlin Bog and the ceca hills, but A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE not much. 4. Neath, W.M. R. Crumlin Pee, hills above Ave Perddyn. 5. Baglan, Aberafan,and-Margam moors. 7. Aberth Barry, D.! 8. Near Aberdare. ses Cardiff, fi Bot. 1884 p. 257. 9. Penylan, Storrie; Craig Llanish R. sceleratus Li. 1. Gowerton, Sanoceas Point, ray Llanmadoc. 2. Loughor marshes, Pontardulais. n Bog 4,Neath. 5. Baglan, and Margam moors. 7. Cado a “ ‘Cabal Aberdare to Penrhiweeiber. Grangetown, and Hast Moors, Cardiff. Other places about Cardiff, Storrie. St. Fagan’s,.D.! Various parts of the Rhondda Valley, Rhondda £1. R. Flammula L. Common.—Var. radicans Nolte. 4. Pontnedd- fechan, Hb. Mus. Brit. 65. Kenfig. 6. Portheawl sandhills. 7. a 8. Welsh ‘a peels ingua Li, . Penmaen, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc, 1893; sche error. 38. eoeaty Bog and Tennants Canal in plenty. 4. Neath Canal, Eagee Crumlin Bog, Resolven. 5. Kenfig Pool, Gute h.; now gone. 7. ‘Ina wet paren meadow on the left going to the Mill” from Gowbeides, Lightf. 1778. St. Hilary, Cardiff’ Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. Talygarn, W.F. Evans. Near Coedriglan, Storie. R. auricomus L. 8. Frequent in the woods about Swansea R. acris Probably general; ascending to the high mountain cliffs of Glyn Neath gd Tre ee Recorded from all districts. ur most frequent forms are Var. Boreanus Jord. 1. iainnstos and N.Gower. 3. Swansea to Killay. 4. Glyn Ne =) oe = = — a ee Pe, To) ° B. napistrum — crdlaie from all districts except 5.— Var. iecsiale Asch. 4. Aberdylais, 8. Cardiff Docks. Diplotaxis muralis DG. 3. Sw Data 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely, frequent. 8. Cardiff Docks. Rhondda Fl. says this is frequent in the Rhondda Valley.—Var. Babingtonit Syme. 1. Langland Bay, Caswell Bay, and Oystermouth, W. M. R. 3. Swansea, Hb. Bicheno. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely. 8. Cardiff Docks, Aberdare. Penarth, Hb. Cardiff. Se eat ee ee eee ee A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 11 Capsella Bursa-pastoris Medic. In every district: ea gener- ally introduced, but native on 1. ae rd Burrows. 38. Sketiy and Crumlin Burrows. 4. cee Coronopus didymus Sm. Mumbles, Hd. ae xo to Penard, G. C. D. Daria and recat Bay, W.M.R B Cromlin Bog. Llandwr Marsh and Fabians Bay, Guiteh: Sues frequent, Dillwyn. 4. Neath, Hb. Babington. Cadoxton, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl and neighbourhood. 7. Cowbridge. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, Hb. Thos. Clark. 9. Pwllypant, Hb. Cardiff. Doubtful native. C. procumbens Gilib. Also doubtfully native. 1. Pitton, Pavi- land, Rhosili, Llanmadoc, Penclawdd. 8. Singleton Marsh, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot Docks. Pyle, Hb, Motley. 6. Porthcawl, frequent. 7. Many spots along the coast, Flemingstone Moors, Beaupré, Cow- bridge. 8. Car diff Docks, Hb. Cardiff. 9. Pengam marshes. *Lepidium wer here 4, Neath, Hd. Motley. 7. St. Donat’s, Storrie. 8. Penarth, Hb. Cardiff. L. campestre ‘Br. 1, Port Eynon. 38. Banks of Neath Canal, Gutch. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Barry, Cadoxton, Porthkerry. 8. Liwydcoed, sete side. ‘Common. Penarth, Ely, St. Fagan’s, &e.,’’ Storrte. 9. Pwllypant and Cefn On, Hb. Cardi L he eterophyllum Benth. 1. Penclawdd, Paviland. 9. Loughor river gravel above os: 8. Common at Swansea on the sea shore, Flower. 4. Railway side, anmasdeain, Glyn Neath. Pontneddfechan and Pontwhalbe, foods. 5. Railway side between Pyle and Port Talbot. 8. Aberaman. Frequent, Cardiff and Penarth, Storrie. Mardy, Bodringallt, &¢., Rhondda Fl. Thiaspi alpestre L. ng ” About Poniseddteshit and Aberpergwm, : Tsiedale’ nudicaulis Br. 8. Swansea, occasional, Dillwyn. ? extinct. Hutchinsia petrea Br. Limestone rocks on sea sands ; very sei and scarce. 1. Penard Burrows, &c., and ruins on them. San at Lilanmadoc. Rocks near Wortts Head, Tower’ in J. Bot. ery . 180. Crambe maritima L. Extinct, I believe. 1. Rocks about Port Eynon, B. G. 5. Sandy shore between Neath and Afan rivers, Gutch. Kenfig River, Hb. Motley. 6. Between Sker and Porth- cawl, Dillwyn. 7. The Le wi St. meer t's, &e., Storrie. akile maritima Scop. Swansea Bay, Oxwich, &c. ont genydd Burrows. Whitford fae ” Balthonse Point. 'B& 4. Oru lin Burrows. 5. Port Talbot, Margam Burrows. 6. Portheawl sands. 7. Sully, Bary, the Leys, &c. gett Storrie. 8. Cardiff, Hb. Car Dapheliat maritimus Sm. 1. abies rye Penclawdd. Hb, Brit. Mus, 1887. Perhaps native here. 5. t Talbot. 7. Aberthaw, Storrie. 8. Penarth, Storrie. Casual * abentlaes: RESEDACER, Reseda lutea. 1. Oxwich to Port Eynon. Paviland, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1892-8. Llanmadoc. 38. Frequent on ballast heaps 12 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE and waste ground. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl sandhills. 7. St. Athan’s Road. Barry, D. Cowbridge, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. Cardiff Docks. ite Storrie, Penarth, &c., Ho. Cardiff. 9. Llanbradach to Caerphilly. R. Luteola L. Well distributed onan the Districts, and native on the Gower coast and elsewher CisTACcEz. Helianthemum marifolium Mill. Mostly on limestone sea clifis. 1, Pwlidu to Rhosili on cliff edge and face. Langland Bay, More. Cefn Bryn, Dillwyn. re with hile flowers on the Worms Head, Diliwyn. 2. Cockett, Gutch. H. Chamacistus Mill. 1. General along the limestone cliffs, but not quite so close to the sea as the former species. 6. Hwenny Down, a form much simulating H. marifolium. 5. Cornely, Mythogtbotl Ogmore Castle. Near Portheawl, Lioyd. Southerndown eastwards, Storrie. 7. Frequent by the coast. Also about Cowbridge. Aubrey ~ — between Cardiff and Cowbridge, W. F. Evans. 8. Morlais astle. VIOLACER. Viola palustris L. 1. Fairwood Common, Killay, Bhosili and os Down, Lianrhidian. Penmaen, Swansea Sci Welsh St. Donat’s. Llantrissant and Dubeatewe. Hb, Cardiff. 9. Lisvane, Llanedan, Caerphilly Common. Llanishen, Storrie. V. odorata L. Probably well distributed except on the coal measures. 1. Lilanmadoe (old red sandstone). Mumbles Road. 2. Penllergaer. 3. Swansea to Killay. 5. Pyle. Graigafan, Ho. Motley u. 6. Cornely, ee Porthcawl, Lioyd. 7. Ystradowen, Wenvoe, Cog. Barry, D. 8. Escape near Aberdare. Penrhys Road, Gigaaarnet Wade. &e., Rhondda Fl. Leekwith Woods, Welsh St. Donat’s, Garth Wood, Taffs Well, Ystradowen. Cardiff, Cardiff? Nat. Soc. Proc. 1878. Storrie’s “frequent all over the district,” is not, I believe, true of the “Hills.” 9. Lilanedan, Caerphilly, wood on Craig pote Ruperra.—Var. imberbis Leighton, 3. Swansea, frequent, lower & Lees.—t, alba. 1. Parkmill, Penard Church. 5. Ba glan. 6. Court Colman, R. W. Llewellyn. 7. Barry, D.!. 8. Near Ystra- dowen, Mrs. Owen. These localities are doubtfully native. ’ hirta Ls. 1. Limestone in Gower in plenty; and on the old red sanauanie. at Llanmadoc. 5. Sade at Port Talbot in plenty, far from any limestone ; sands at Kenfig. Cae Gam, Pyle, Hob. Motley. 6. 8. Cornely, Porthcawl sands, Ewenny Down. 7. Frequent, Lavernock to Fontigary, Nash Point. 8 and 9. On the limestones. *V. calearea et a ar 6. Ogmore Down *V. sylv am. 1. Shadier spots on ange ets in Gower, plen- tifal, Sct Je less abundant than V. Rivinia Seldom Ei ~ the sea. Behind Pwlldu Head, Parkmill, apn Fe &e. 6. Ewenny. 7. Porthkerry, Wenvoe, Dinas Po owys. 8. Morlais Castle, foo on A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE ¥5 limestone and millstone grt, Pontsarn, Taffs Well in plenty, Leck- with, near Welsh St. Donat’s. 9. Between Taffs Well and Caerphilly. Caerphilly and Pllypant, Hb. Cardif{.— x Riviniana. 8. Tafts Well, Morlais Castle. . Riviniana Reich Very frequent throughont the county, ascending to the high cliffs in Glyn Neath and the Rhondda Valley. Heenedon from all districts.—f. villosa Neum., W.&M. 1. Limestone ower.— Var. flavicornis Forster. The small yellow spurred oo L. Furzy banks of cliffs in Caswell Bay.—Var. nemorosa Neu W.&M. 1. Wood and lane aa Llanmadoe, Parkmill, furzy heath at Beoncidan Bay, lead 4. Glyn Neath, Neddfechan Glen, Perddyn ‘Glen. 6. Ew nny. 7. Mareross. 8. Aberdare, Mountain Ash, Mortis "Tydfil, Taffs Well. . ericetorum Schrader. 1. Common in sand by 3. Crumlin Burrows. 4. Jersey Marine. 5. Aberafan, Sandi Kenfig. 6, Ewenny, Candleston, Deithiaw sands. 7. Sully Island. 8. a a, 1. Rhosili, fide W. H. Beeby. as 1. Rhosili, Frog Moor. Mr. Bee by has so named the sane Snciden i in J. Bot. vote p. 312, as V. stagnina Kit.; the latter record therefore disappear Mu V.° tricolor L. 1. sable; Lloyd. 8. og ger ag en strayed, nee Hendrefoilan, Swansea, Hb. Brit. Talbot Doe 6. Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Ystr ea wen, ‘alk Aberthin. = Aberdare on waste ground. Rhondda Valley, ditto, Rhondda Fi, Cardiff, Cardij’ Nate "Soe. Proc. 1878. St. Fagan’s, — Ely, &c., Storrie. 9. were Hb. Cardiff. V. variata Jord. 8. Aberdar V. arvensis Murr. 1. Oinwish; fields on the cliff. 8. Common near Swansea, Gutch. 7. Barry, D.! Llantwit Major to St. Donat’s. 8. Waste ground, Aberdare. Peterston. Cardiff, J. Bot. 1884, p. 257. 9. Pwllypant, Hb. Cardif— —Of the forms ethic under agerecate V. arvensis we have V. subtilis Jord. 6. Porthcawl. 8. Aber- dare.—V. Desegliseii Bor. 8. A form very close to this at Llwydcoed, Aberdare.—V. obtusifolia sot 8. Several spots at Aberdare.— V. ruralis Jord. 8. Liwydeoed, Peterston.—V. segetalis Jord. 8. Several places about Aberdare and Hirwaun.—/. arvatica Jord. 8. Liwydeoed, Aberdare.—V. agrestis Jord. 7. Llantwit Major to Monknash. 8. Llwyd asso, Hirwaun.—V. Timbali Jord. 8. Plants close to this form at Aberdare. But it “ doubtful if V. arvensis and its forms are native anywhere in Glamorgan. V. Curtisit Forster. 1. Rhosili Bay, Whitfor Burrows, Brough- tonsands. Penrice, Ball. 8. Crumlin Burr 4, Jersey Marine, W. R. L. in J. Bot. 1886, p. 876. Briton. paxil sands, Lightf. 5. Baglan, R. G. Llewellyn! Aberafan, Port Talbot, Kenfig sands. 6. Merthyr Mawr Warren : in one place a form with flowers almost wholly — i not (I think) var. Pesneaui Jord. Porthcawl sands. oo amity itea Ee 4. Near Lilynfach, Storrie. 8. Ystrad, Hb. Ganacf er) amena(Symons). 8. Near Pontypridd Rockingstone, Hb. Cardif—The record in Top. Bot. probably refers to Dillwyn’ 8 ‘* V, lutea,” i. é. V. Curtisté Forster. 14 ; A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE PoLYGALACES. Polygala vulgaris L. 1. Very small form from parts of the lime- stone in Gower at Penard and from Rhosili to ing eh Head. Type frequent. 2. Frequent. 8. Near eye ea, Banks of Neath Canal, Gutch. 5. Aberafan, f. 6. “ Eonaly. Ewenny. 7, 8, 9. Frequent. P. oxyptera Reich. 1. Downs near Penard Castle and Pitabe tr in other places, Flower ¢ Lees. Port Eynon, Whitford Burrow 6. Sker to Porthcawl, J. Bot. 1902, p. 249. 7. Wenvoe, Sully Iaand: 8. Morlais Castle. 9. Taffs We Il. *P, serpyliacea Weihe. Frequent in the county. CARYOPHYLLACER, Dianthus Armeria L. 4. Banks about Briton Ferry, Flower. 5. Cwmafan, Hb. Motley. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. *D. deltoides L. 9, Rhymney railway-bank at Llanishen, Storrie. Silene latifolia Britten & Rendle. Frequent.—Var. puberula yme. 8. Near Crumlin Bog. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Liantwit Major. Flat Holm, J. Bot. 1891, p. 345. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, Aberdare in plenty. S. maritima With. 1. Frequent on the cliffs of the south and west of Gower. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Southerndown eastwards, Storrie. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Barry Island, Cold Knap, Porth- kerry. Flat Holm, Hd. Br. Mus. 8. Penarth westwards, Storrie. Plenty on ed Fawr, Treorchy, in the Rhondda Valley, at 1500 ft. elevat S. anglica Ta: “1. Cornfields at Oxwich and Horton. igs Port Eynon, Hb. Brit. Mus. 8. Fields near Swansea, B. @. 5. Mawdlam. Kenfig, Hb. Motley. 8. Frequent on hallanks Cardiff, narod, Storrie. Very persistent in districts 1 and 5, and perhaps nati (S. nutans L. 7. Ll peeeng Cowbridge, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. Authority insufficien Lychnis alba Mill. 1. Rhosili, native. 7. Swanbridge, native. Otherwise ee adventitious. No records for districts 2 and 9.— x dioi 5 t Talbot. 7. Sully. L. dioica ae ral, L. Flos-cuculi a Geuiil and fairly frequent. Moenchia erecta G.M. & S. 8. Rare, E. Moors, Storrie. Needs confirmation Cerastium tetrandrum Curt. 1. Pwlldu round to Penclawdd, frequent on cliffs and burrows. 38. Ske re Burrows. 4. Jerse Marine. berafan, Port Talbot, Kenfig. 6. Porthcawl sands. 7. The Leys, Barry Island, pox Island, ‘Svanbrid ge. C. pumilum Curtis. The only record is that *: “Top. Bot. Supp. 1905, which Mr. Bennett says refers to a plant gathered in 1885, by Rev. E. F. Linton, who, however, tells me that he cannot recollect it, or locate i it. . semidecandrum L. 1. On sandhills, &c., from Pwlildu round to Whitford Burrows. 38. Sketty Burrows, Crumlin Burrows. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 15 5. Aberafan, Port Talbot, Kenfig sands. 6. Porthcawl sands. 7. Barry Island. 8. Penarth, Llandaff, &., frequent, Storrie. C. viscosum L. oO ane, general. — Var. apetalum Dum. 5. Porthcawl. 7. Barry Islan C. vulgatum L. Recorded Teanally raping to the high seena cliffs. — Var. pentandrum Syme. 1. Broughton Burrows. 5. Kenfig sands, Aberafan, Port Ta jbot. Fide F. S. M. — Var alpinum M. & K., but not in its extreme form. 8. Aberdare and Cardiff Docks, not unfrequent. (C. arvense Li. 7. Dinas Powys, Storrie, Flat Hol 1891, p. 845. 8. Penarth, Storrie. Frequent in Rhondda Valley, agri Fl, Evidence insufficient. yosoton aquaticum Moench uent in watery pes — Sansea, Flower & Lees. Not seeds by Watson. 8. Pete ton, ra (Stellaria nemorum L. 8. Gutch’s record refers to ries as it stands, though it is ot impossible that the plan Glamorganshire, Messe is only a few miles away. Top. Bot t. very justly queries for v.-c. 41. 8, Rare; near copper- -works, Cardiff, Storrie. A very “auikely locality. Bodringallt Woods, 1900, Rhondda Fl, At present we must exclude “the plant from the county list.) S. pare Villars. General and frequent; very variable. All districts.— Var. Boreana Jord.. 1. Frequent on burrows and cliffs. 6. 4,5. Sands. 6. soot turf, 8. Cornely. 7. Barry Isla: a — Var. major Koch. 1, Wood, Enaninidee.. Near Penard, G.C Ho lostea L. 1, 4, 8, 9. General and fairly common. Records from ‘all districts. S. palustris Retz. 9. ‘Common in wet places. Llanishen, &c.,”’ Storrie. an a goo nea L. Records from oe districts. ae Var. macropetala Wiest. See Rep. B. E.C.1 903. Aberd S. uliginosa Murr. Frequent in 1 ~ 4, 8, 9. Also in 8 at Ysta- lyfera. 7. Stalling Down, Cog. Barry, D! renaria triner sas L.- 1, 2/8; 9. Wall distributed. 3. bores a Swansea to Killay. 4. Resolven, Pontneddfechan. 5. Baglan, . R. Pyle, Kenfig. 6. P awl to §. Cornely, Merthyr aie, “Ewenny. 7. Ystr se i aga Lavernock, Barry. dun Par isbsclale (Guss. Not uncommon near the coast. 5. Pyle to Port Talbot, SMawdlarn: 6. Porthcawl and 8. Cornely frequent, Merthyr Mawr. 7. Barry Island, Sully Island. 8. Aber- dare, Ystradowen. Honkenya peploides Ehrh. 1. Swansea Bay. Oxwich. Pavi- land, Swansea Sei. Soc. Proc. 1892-8. Broughton Bay, Whitford Burrows, Penclawdd. 2. Marshes ee Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 38. Crumlin ere 4, Briton Ferry sands, Lightf. Jersey Marine. 5. Aberafan, Port Talbot. 6. Newton sandhills. Soaseteltots; Storrie, 7. “Bully Island, Barry Island, The Leys. 16 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Beane maritima G. Don. 1. Three iy Bay. Oxwich Marsh, Hb. Br. Mus. Worms Head and cliffs of Gower facing westward. 2. ion hor marshes. 38. Salthouse Point, Flower dé Lees. 5. Port Talbot, Hb. Motley. 6. Porthcawl, Woods. 7. Barry Island. Sully, &c., Storrie—Var. debilis Jord. 6. Porthcawl, apparently this var.—Var. densa Jord. 1. Burry Holm, apparently good samples of this var. 6. Porthcawl. *§, apetala Ard. Not frequent. 1. Oxwich, Gowerton to Pen- clawdd. Killay to Penard, G. C.D. 2. Gowerton Common, Penllergaer. 3. Flower & Lees’ record must refer to S. procumbens. 6. Porthcawl. 7. Ystradowen. 8. Aberdare, Mesiitain Ash, Cwm- pare, eeibaee: Cooper's Fields, Storie. —Vav. prostrata §. Gibs. 1. Llangenydd. 6. Porthcawl. *§. ciliata Fr. 1. Plenty on the cliffs, Pwlldu to Port Eynon. S. nodosa Fenzl. 1. Oxwich and Penard Burrows, Whitford Burrows. 3. Sketty Burrows, Flower. 5. Sand all along the coast. 6. Porthcawl sandhills. 8. Taffs Well, Storvie. 9. Caerphilly Common, Storrie, sae glandulosa Bess. 5. Near Port Talbot, Spergula arvensis te SS S. vulgaris (Boenn.). 1. Oxwich. 2. Cockett. 3. Near Crumlin Bog. 5. Aberafan, Port Talbot Docks, Margam Moors. 7. Barry, D.! 8. Abardane, Cwmaman. S. sativa (Boenn.). 1. Paviland, Horton. Near Loughor. 5. Port Talbot, Mawdlam. 6. Newton and gee i Bot. 1902, p. 816. 8. Aberdare, i in several spots. : Alsine rubra Crantz. 8. Tennants Canal, Swansea, Hb. Cardiff. Quarry near Greenhill Turnpike, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porth- eawl, 8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks, Taffs Well. Penarth, &c., ie. A. media Cr. 2. Loughor, Hb. Motley. 8. Muddy shores near Neath Canal, Gutch. 6. Porthcawl. 7. St. Athan’s Road to Llantwit Major. Barry, Storrie. 8, Penarth, &c., vos 9. Pengam 8 under the variety. gs. neglecta Kindb. 1. Penclawdd, Gceanen Worms Head. Loughor marshes. 6. Port Talbot Docks, Sano 6. Polhoet 7. Aberthaw. 8. Cardiff Docks. angetown ae margin néita le H.G.Reich. 1, Gowerton. Penclawdd, £. F.L Lianmadoc (f. glandulosa). 2. Loughor marshes. 5. Port Talbot Docks, both forms, Margam Moots glandulosa. 7. Aberthaw. St. Sp Road, f. glandulosa, 8, Grangetown, 9. Pengam mars ae rupicola Hiern. 1. Mewslade Bay, Worms Head, Burry Bs gk a8 tet) eth L. 5. Sandy wastes between Pyle ina and the b. Bicheno contains a s e pecimen from ‘ babies Or ee Dr, Turton (the authority for B, G. made serious mistakes. But I do not believe that in the above Staaten any » possibility of introduction exists. The likelihood of error is A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 17 much reduced, if not eliminated, by Bicheno’s specimen. And I believe the record to be a good o ne. 8. Near Canton Common, Storrie. Probably introduced. PortuLacez. Montia fontana L.—a. repens Pers. 1. Veryfrequent. 2. Gow ton Common, Mynydd Garn Goch, Pantyffynon to Boutataleis 3. Ystalyfera. 4. Hirwaun to Glyn Neath, Neddfechan Glen. 8. erases at te the jy hills. 9. Caerphilly Common. erecta Pers, 2, Liangyfelach. 4. Hirwaun to Pontneddfechan. 5. Shallow fae of the Afan valley between Pontrhydyfen and Cymmer. 8. Rills and streams, Aberdare, Hirwaun, source of the Rhondda Fach, Ystradowen. 9. Caerphilly Common. HypERICINEZ. Hypericum Androsemum L. Frequent. H. perforatum L. Probably general in dry warm spots, ascending to 1500 ft. at Craig-y-llyn.—Var. angustifolium Gaud. 1. Oxwich, Parkmill. 5. Near Mawdlam. 7. Barry Island. H. maculatum Craniz. 1. ‘Clyne igs W.M. R. Oxwich, Parkmill and neighbourhood. 2. Upper Loughor River, below Pantyffynon. Penllergaer, Lae we Sci. a Proc. 1895-6. 3. Com- n near Swansea, Ball. 4. Glyn Neath, Neddfechan Glen. 6. Merthyr Mawr. 7. Sully, Woods. 8. Frequent i in xno valley: Peterston, Ystradowen. St. Fagan’s, Llandaff, &c., Sto 9. Lan from Caerphilly to jit Pie near Ruperra, Llanishen. tae Babing. tontt Groves. 8. H, quadrangu wm so uent, all districts. ef, winks ge ei L. All districts except 6, frequent m2. 2, 8. H. pulchrum L. 1, Heathy spots, frequent. 2. Penyrheol, Penllergaer, Pack piteibn to Pontardulais. 3. Singleton and Neath aa al, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 4. Frequent, senate to Craig-y-llyn. 6. S. Cornely and the downs near. 7. Stalling Down, Ystra- dowen. Barry, D. Flat Holm, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. 8 and 9. e H. hirsutum L. 1, Parkmill. 3. Neighbourhood of Swansea, Flower é Lees. 6. Ewenny. Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Frequent. 8. Leckwith Woods. Cooper's Fields, Storrie. *H, montanum Li. 1. Oxwich, Nicholaston Parkmill. 6. a penis 7. Cold Knap. Mostly close to the lodes LL. 1. Downs and commons in plenty, bagmehien Bay. . arapiary 8. Crumlin Bog, Lightf. Singleton and Port Tennant, utch. §&. Mynydd Sylen, "BD: Motley. 8. Hirwaun, Aberdare, Welst St. Cont s Ystradowen. Pontypesdd, Storrie. 9, Penylan, Storrie. Caerphilly Common. Matvacez. Althea officinalis L. 1. Oxwich, Gowerton, Whitford sands, Llanmorlais to Lianrhidian. 2. Loughor marshes. 7. Aberthaw, Ddaw estuary near St. Athan's Road. Barry Island, Woods. Barry to the Leys, D ca oF Borany, 1907. [SurppLement.] c 18 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Lavatera ce oy 1. Native in Mewslade Bay and on cliffs adjoining. Paviland Cave, Gutch. = gland Bay, W. M. 6. Porthcawl mn hills, Hb. Motley. - . Flat Holm, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. 8. Ballast or planted, Cardiff and Penarth. Malva moschata L. 1, Cheriton to Llanrhidian, Reyne to Paviland. Caswell Bay, W. M. R. 2. Pantyffynon. Com mon near Swansea, Gutch. — Port Talbot to Pyle, Kenfig. 6. Porthcawl to 8S. Cornely. 7. Sully, Barry Island, Porihlicttys Llandough by Cowbridge, Cowbridge to St. Athan’s Road. St. Fagan’s to Peterston, Ystradowen, Aberdare, Taffswell. Llandaff and ero tee 9. Lisvane.—Var. intermedia Gren. & Godr. 4, Neath. Near 8. Cornely, Porthcawl to Merthyr Mawr. 7. St. Athan’s Road. Llantwit Major, Cowbridge. 8. Aberdare, Ystra- dowen, Peterston Moor. 9. Llanishen. M. sylvestris L. 1. Native a cm at Port Eynon. Generally ee, throughout the coun ndifolia L. Native: a J. Bot. 1905, p. 92. 1. Port eee, very small, forming part of the turf of the sand-hills. Pavi- land, Swansea Sci. Soe. Proc. 1892-8. - Rhosili, and round the coast to Llanvhidian. 8. Singleton, ng 5. Aberafan, Hb. Motley. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Near e, Ogmore Castle. 7. Swan- bridge. Barry, D. The Leys, rho Cowbridge, Llantwit Major. Flemingstone and St. Athan, Storie. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff, Cardiff Nat. Soe. Proc. 18738. TILIACES. me Shoe: platyphylios Scop. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. Notnative, even if cor T. erctite Mill. 1. Three Cliffs Bay, cliffs near Pwlldu Head. Wood between Gower Inn and Penrice, Flower d Lees. 8. Ystalyfera. 4, afi of be OE ae Gorge. Woods about Pontneddfechan, BG, Dyffryn, Hb. Motley. 7. Hedges at Barry. 8 Werfa Wood, Maret fot Epiateilly this species. INEZ, Radiola linoides Roth. 1. Frequent. 5. Sandy hollows, Mar- gam sands to Kenfig. 6. St. Eudes Major, Storrie. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s. E. Moors, Cardiff, Storri Linum catharticum L.A dwarf seen i grows on the cliffs of Gower. Records of type from all district L, angustifolium a 1. Port Eynon a5 Oxwich. 8. Frequent about Swansea, B.G. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl sands to §. Cornely. 7. Shore near Boverton, Cadoxton, Porthkerry. Swanbridge and Colhugh, Storrie, pg se Geranium sanguineum L. 1. Sands and limestone cliffs of the Gower coast, in plenty, from Pwllda to Llanmadoc. 6. Dunrayen, Tre. *G. pratense L. 38. Near Swansea, Moggridge. 4. h » Moggridge, 4. Glyn Neat and Pie tishsa. Moorland W. of the Perddyn ey Ley. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 19 5. Port Talbot to Pyle. 6. Dunraven Park, Cardift Nat. Soc. Proc. — 7. Merthyr Dyfan. Sully &c., Storrie. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, t G. pyrenaicum Burm. fil. 8. Between Swansea Ferry and the Race Course, Flower é Lees. Between Swansea and Crumlin, N. B. G. — 6. 8. Cornely, Dillwyn. 8. Penarth Ferry and E. Moors, torrte. G.molle L. All districts except 2. Itisa ore —- of the Burrows, where it often varies with nearly white flow G. pusilium L. 1. Oxwich, Llangenydd. 38. Sketty Burrows. 4. Glyn Neath. 5. Port Tal bot. 8. Aberdare. E. ares. Cardiff, Ab. Cardif. 9. Frequent Penylan, Roath, &c., Storr rotundifolium L. 8. Swansea, Flower. 6. Pyle to Newton ele E.S.M. 8. Cardiff Docks. Penarth Ferry, E. Moors, &c., t sectum L. Probably yoo but with considerable gaps in disthibotion: No record for distr G. columbinum L. 1. Llange oer Paviland, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1892-3. Langland and Caswell Bays, W.M.R. 8. Between Ferry and Port Tennant, Gutch. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely, eo 7. ro common. 8. mee a Ystradowen. Cardiff, G. mL, Common on the aa as 3. Swansea. 4, Danianabdetibi Bhigos. 6. Laleston, St. Bride’s Major, Ewenny, Ogmore Castle and neighbourhood Southerndown, D. Near Set cawl, Lloyd. 7. Sully. St. Hilary, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. Aberdare, Morlais, Merthyr Tydfil. Penarth, St. Fagan’s, &c., Storrie. Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Fl. G. Robertianum L. Common and well distributed, rising to the Rhondda ra 1500 ft.—Var. at a auct.angl. 1. Limestone cliffs, Pwlidu. america E.F.L. 6. Port Talbot, Hb. Motley. 7. The Leys, Porthker Erodium cicutartum t) Hérit. As an aggregate, common on the sea coast: much less common inlan ecords of the aggregate from on ey 1 and 8 are plentiful. Bib erafan, Port Talbot. . Porthe Sker, J. Bot. 1902, p. 249. 7. Barry Island, whee gary, The ee 8. Llandaff, Penarth, &c., Storrie. Cardi ocks.—Var. cherophylium Cav. I believe that under this ore gate come specimens from 1. Caswell Bay and Pwlldu Head, Pen- clawdd, Llanmadoc sands. 4. Crumlin Burrows. 5. Sands, Kenfig. Port Talbot. 7. Barry Island. 8. Cardiff.—Var. triviale Jord. 1. Penard sands, 1889, Hb. Babington. 5. Port Talbot.—Var. Lesrige mage Bosch. 1. Common on the burrows and sands of Gower, with the type. 8. ‘‘ Geranium cicutarium fi. albo frequently upon the sea sands near Crumlin Bog,” Lightf., is probably this. 4. Briton Ferry Road Station, Herb. Brit. Mus., specimen labelled E. mos- chatum. 65. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl sandhills, Merthyr Mawr sands. Sker, J. Bot. 1902, p. 249. 7. Barry Island. *E. moschatum L’Hérit. 1. Port goat and =e at Horton, native. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Cardiff Docks.—Var. minor Rouy & F. 5. Apparently this var. at Pos Talbot Docks. 20 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE E. maritimim L’Hérit. 1. Langland Bay to Llanmadoc, sands ‘and cliffs. 3. Near Swansea, Westcombe. 5, Mawdlam.. 6. Sker Point, Hb. Motley. Southerndown, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1876. 7 Flat Holm in plenty, Lightf. Barry and St. Donat’s, Storrte. Oxalis Acetosella Lu. Generally distributed in shady spots; up to Craig-y-llyn. In all districts. ILicinez. Ilew Aquifolium L. Common. CELASTRINEZ. Euonymus europaus L. 1. Three Clifis Bay, Oxwich a and Point, Llanmadoc. Langland Bay a Oystermouth, hi 8, He sdges Swansea, Flower ¢& Lees. 4. Frequent about Neate Flower ¢ Lees, 6. Limestone at Onan Castle. oe he Storrie. 7. Barry, D!. Cowbridge to Llandough, Wenvoe. 8. Taffs Well, Leckwith Woods. St. Fagan’s and mane Wyiladé,. Storrie. 9, Cefn On, Penylan, Storrie. RuaMNEZ. Rhamnus catharticus L. 1. Clyne and other woods, Flower. Penrice, B.G. Oxwich Bay, S Snanilos. Langland Bay, W. M. &. 7. Flat Holm, B. G. fh Hilary, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc, 1882. . Frangila Li. 1. Clyne Wood, Flower. 8, Crumlin Bog. 4. Gilfach, Neath. 5. Mynydd Emroch, Hb. Motley. 6. Near Porthcawl, Lioyd. 7. Flat Holm, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. This list, however, does not give R. = ticus there. 8. Aberdare to Pen- rhiwceiber, frequent, Peterston Moor, Garth Wood od, Liantrissant. a” Whitchurch, Hensol, Pontypridd, &e., Storrie. 9. Lian SaPINDACES. “Acer campestre L. Frequent: but no records from 8 & 5. Lyeuminos2. Genista anglica. 1. Clyne Common, W.M.R. 2. Gowerton, Mynydd Garn Goch. Loughor, Hb. Bicheno. 4. Rhigos, Woods. Glyn Neath. 5. Bryn, H. H. Whitehouse. 7. Beaupré, Cardif Nat. Soc. Proc. tg Llantwit Major, Hb. Cardiff. Lavernock, Barry &e., Storrie. Ystradowen Moor, Aberdare and neighbousiioul common ; auakels Yard, Mountain Ash. G. tncovin Lh. 2. Meadows, Penllergaer, Gutch. 8. Llandwr and Forest Marsh, Gutch. 4, Hirwaun Common, hills above Per- ddyn Gorge. 5. Pyle to Margam. 6. Bridgend, Monknash to Llandow, near Southerndown Road Station. 7. Near Monknash, common in eastern half of district. 8. Craig-yr-allt, Hb. Cardiff. Lavernock, Penywaun ining Pics ema Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1873. Pen arth, &c., Storrie. 9. Roath. ound, europaeus L. Sosthtat roe ik ascending to the very high rou Gallit Planch. Well distributed and locally common. Re- fan 8 from all districts. It rises to the top of the hills at Aberdare, say 1 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 21 (U. minor Roth. Mr. F. A. Lees, in J. Bot. 1879, p. 84, says that he found it in Glamorgan, in 1871: but in 1904 he wrote to say that he now withdraws the record as uncertain. Specimen labelled Ulex nanus from Worms Head, 1844, in Hb. Motley, is, I believe, very stunted U, Gallii. Sarothamnus scoparius Wimm. Native; but er frequently planted. 1. Local in Gower and hoes: e.g. Langland and Caswell Bays and Clyne Common, W. M. R. Parkmill ania Oxwich, Pen- clawdd. 2. Fairly common. 3. Ystaly fera. Near tata and near Poppit Hill, Gutch. 4. won hills above Aberpergw 5. Lower Afan Valley i in many pla 6. Mer yr Mawr. N at “Po rtheawl, Lloyd. 7. Cwrtyrala, Cardift Nat. So ae 1867. Dinas Powys, D 8 an ommon,. Ononis a L. 1,7, 8. Frequent. a Pontardulais, Gower- ton. 8. Swansea. 4. Jersey Marine. Neath, W.M.R. 5. Aberafan. 6. Doithoawi to S. Cornely, Bridgend and eivird: 9. Dall ypant, Storrie. Lisvane, meg te uperra.—Var. horrida Lange. 4. Briton Ferry, Hb. Brit. Mus. 5. Sands at Aberafan. 6. Sande at Porth- cawl. 7. ys. O. spinosa L. 2. Fields near Penllergaer, mer Sci. Soc Proc. 1895-6. 3. Neglected pastures in the neighbourhood of Swansea, Flower ¢ Lees. 7. Barry, Sully, Swanbridge, Lavernock. 8. Penarth, Lavernock. Cogan, &c., Storrie. *Tri igonella ornithopodioides DC. 1. Short turf of limestone cliffs at Rhosili. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, &c., Storrie, and Ynyshir, Rhondda Fi. Medicago lupulina L. Common, but no records from high ground or from distriet 9. rabica Huds. 1. Mumbles and Gower, Lioyd. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl sands, apparently native. "barry Storrie. 8. Taffs Well, Cardiff Docks. Penarth, &c., Sto (M. minima L. 1. Oxwich Bay, Flower Lees. Sale adtbe of this, Top. Bot. I have not rediscovered ve 7. Barry, Storrie. 8. E. Moors and Penarth, on pope Hb. Car Melilotus officinalis Lam. 1. Near Sehcumae Langland Bay, W.M.R. 8. Swansea, Pia Lees. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Near Porth- eawl, Lloyd. 7. Barry, Barry Island. Ystradowen, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. Aberdare, sae Penarth, E. Moors, ch ete ie. M. Petitpierreana Hayne. 2. Gowerton. 38. Swan 6. 8. Cornely. 7. mor Woods. 8. rene Aberdare, otaties " Ballast at Cardiff, Storrt Trifolium pratense L. Common. The var. sativum Schreb. occurs on ballast and waste ground in a ago T. medium L. 1. Rhosili, Gowerton . Mawdlam, Baglan. Frequent elsewhere ; but no records for L. squamosum L. 8. Ca rdiff, docks. ‘and moors. 9. Pengam moors, in great — T. arvense L. 1. Oxwich to Port Eynon, cliffs. 8. Swansea. Sketty Burrows, Flower dé Lees. Ystalyfera. 5. Aberafan and Port Talbot. Baglan, R. G. inedllgh't 6. Porthcawl. Near Southerndown, Storrie. 8. Cardiff Docks. Hirwaun. Introduced 22, A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE on railway ballast ~ Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Fl,—Var. prostratum Rhosili much Ab Pigg ornely. Road from Pyle to Newton N me he. 7. Sw aiertees Cold Knap and Porth- kerry much. 8. Ballast plant at Cardiff, Storrie, and in the Rhondda Valley, dak Fi, abrum L. 1. Frequent on coast. 8. Swansea and Sketty Burrows, Flower. 5. Aberafan. Cornely to Mawdlam, /. 6. Porthcawl much, 8. Cornely, Southerndown to Ogmore Castle. 7. Swanbridge, Cold pose Porthkerry. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. 9. Near Rumne °y ridge, Storrie. *T. glomeratun L. 38. Swansea 2 Sketty Burrows, Flower. 8. Aberdare. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrt a repens Li. gumen T. fragiferum Rhosili, ne Pegg a Me Lanne 3. Singleton and ee ‘of Neath Can al, Flow 5. Aber Kenfig Pool, Hb. Motley. 6. Pwlleawl, Hb. Aslan 8. Cath Storrie. 9. Pengam Moors near Rumney Bridge, Hb. Cardiff. T. procumbens L. and T. dubiwm Sibth. oo saa *T. filiforme L. 1. Fairwood Comm Pen Ley. Rhosili, very common; Parkmill, Oxvich, mBayankietine io “Pavi- land ear Swansea, J. Bot aero p. 112. 6. Lawns at aacia and Baglan. 6. S. Cornely. 7. Lawns at Cowbridge and Waxivon : ares 8. Blaennant, at 1000 feet; Lawn, Aberdare. Penarth, Llandaff, &c., Storrie. 9. Caerphilly and Castle, and hills close by. Anthyllis Vulneraria L. 1. Frequent. 2. Gowerton. 8. Marsh near Singleton and Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot to Pyle. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely. 7. Frequent. 8. Aberdare, Taffs Well, Ystradowen. Bodringallt, Tylacoch, Sag part &e., Rhondda Fi. Ballast, Cardiff and Penart h, Storr 9. Cra g Llanishen. Pwllypant, Storrie.—Var. ovata B ab. Lb Rhosili. lee coccinea Li. 1. Rhos a Mewslade Bay. Langland Bay and Newton Cliffs, -M.R. 38, Swansea, Dillwyn. ¢ Patou to Sker. 8. Near Cardiff, Hb. Brit. Mus Lotus corniculatus L. Common. — Var. “ay eatin Pets. <1. Penard, Oxwich, Mewslade Bay to Rhosili. 5. Marg 7. The Leys —Var. villosus Ser. 1. Gower Coast. 5. Abani Burrows. 8. Abe rdar ye F tints Waldst. & Kit. 8. Cardiff marshes. ; L, uliginosus Schkuhr. Frequent in both glabrous and hairy orms. (L. angustissinus L. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. Evidence in- sufficient.) ae den perpustilus L. 8. Near Swansea, Swansea Sci. Soc Proc. 1891-2. 5. Ba glan, R. G. Llewellyn! Aberafan, Waechonse. 7. Sully, Ba arry, Storrie, 8. Ballast nig Cardiff, Storr i eg Seat glycyphyllos L. 7. Cold Knap! 8, fase ex- inct, Hippocrepis comosa L, 1. Limestone cliffs near Penard. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 23 *Onobrychis viciefolia Scop. 7. Sully, looking native. Nash pole Coast by Llantwit Major, probably native. meee Hb. Cardif. Barry, D.! Fontigary. 8. St. Fagan’s, Storr Vicia hirsuta §. F. Gray. 3. Fabians Bay, Gutch. Cultivated ground near Swansea, Flower & Lees. 4. Resolven. 5. Bag Port Talbot. 6. Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Cadoxton, Barry Cowbridge. 8. Aberdare, Taffs Well. Hirwaun, B. A. Williams. Blaenrhondda, Bodringallt, &e., Rhondda Fl. 9. ‘Llanishen. V. tetrasperma Moench. 8. Swa ansea, Flower dé Lees. 6. Newton. 8. Frequent, Cardiff, Penarth, St. Fagan’s, &., Storrie. Rail- ae side near Blaenyewm Tunnel, Rhondda Fl. 9. Llanishen, udry. r, Cracca L. Common.—Var. incana Thuill. 7. Nash Point. V. Orobus DC. 2. Penllergaer, a ., Gutch. 4. Glyn Neath to Hirwaun. Vernon Park, Nicholson. 8. Cwm Selsig, Rhondda Valley. Aberdare, frequen nt. V. sylvatica L. 8. Near Swansea, Moggridge. 6. Bridgend to Penyfae. 7. Lianbleiadian, Penllin, W. F. Hvans. Near Cadoxton, Storrie. 8. Near Cardiff, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1878. Caerau, St. Fagan’s, &e., Storrie. Llanharry. Penrhys Brook, Bodringallt Woods, &e., Rhondda Fi. Penarth, Wats. MSS. V. sepium L. 1,4,7,8. Common. 2. Cockett, Penyrheol. 8. Crumlin Bog, &c. 5. Pyle, Port Talbot. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. 6. Bridgend, Porthcawl to 8S. Cornely, Hwenny. 9. Llanedan, 1. Fre- qdene 2. Goward Penyrheol, Loughor. 38. Ystalyfera. Swan- sea, Gutch. 4. Neath. 5. Sands, frequent. Foel-y-Mynyddau, Hb. Motley. Tand 8. Frequent. 9. Rumney, Pengam, Storrie.— Var. Bobartii Koch. 8. Aberdare. 9. Lianishen. V. lathyroides L. 1. Near Penard Cas tle, Hb. Wats. 8. Swan- sea, Gutch; but a doubtful record, Phyt.i. 380. 6. Porthcawl, J. Bot. 1902, Ps 816. 8. Frequent, Grangetown, Penarth, Storrie. 8 . Comm . sylvestris L. 1. Dadgland Bay, Hb. Cardiff. Caswell Bay, Hb. Brit. Mus. Oystermouth Castle, Flower. Oxwich Wood, &c. Dillwyn. 6. Merthyr qe Bridgend. 7. Bwicrhetiey Porth- kerry, Dinas Powys. Sully, Hb. Cardiff’. Wenvoe, D.! Cowbridge to Bridgend, W. F. oak: as Lavernock to Penarth, on cliffs, plenty. St. Fagan’s, Storrie. Caerau, Hb Cardiff. L, palustris L. 1. Lianrhidian, J. Bot. 1891, p. L. montanus Bernh. 1. Rhosili. Clyne Wood, Shuaan: 2. Loughor, re Gutch. 4. Craig-y-llyn, hills from Aber- pergwm to R. Perddyn. 8. Aberdare, frequent, cliffs of the Rhondda Valley. Se ace Rhondda Fi. 9. Penylan, Wedal, Llanishen, Pwllypant, &c., Storrie. — Var. tenuifolius Reichb, fil, 8. Aberdare, frequent. 24 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Rosacez. Prunus spinosa L. 1, 2, 4, 6,7,8,9. Frequent. 38. Ystalyfera. 5. Port Talbot. *P, insititia Huds. 1. Llangenydd. 2. Pantyffynon. 4. Rhigos. . Baglan. 6. Bridgend, } “stbariel to Llandow. 7. St. Donat’s to Nash Sire Cowbridge, Wenvoe, pectic Frequent, Storrie. (P: m 7. Near Porthkerr ry, D.! Cwm George, Storrie. 8. Near epetdite. Liandaff, Penarth, Coedriglan, Pi Storrie. dct doubtful.) erasus L. 1. Llangenydd. 2. Penllergaer. 7. Wenvoe. 8. "Taffs tis Storrie. P. Padus L. 2. Penllergaer, Loughor. 3. Near Swansea, Moggridge. S fey BE Wilary, common, Glyn Neath, Neddfechan len St. Hilary, Gigman Bridge, &c., Storrie. 8. Menthe yall, “Aberdare. Glyn Cymmer, Rhondda Fl. , 2, 4,6, 7, 8,9. Frequent. 38. Crumlin Bog. hs record for 5.—Var. denudata Boenn. 1, Parkmill, Llan- rhidian, end Eynon. 4. Glyn Neath, Neddfechan Glen. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Bridgend. 8. Peterston, Pontsarn, Aberdare, Pen- ive "Tafis Well. 9. Caerphilly, Llanishen S. Filipendula L. 8. Penarth, Heolymynydd, near Ham, Storrie. I have seen no specimen.) Rusus. In addition to a records made in Journ. Bot. 1906, p- es yy ee Eas been noted :— calleepaee, 4, Perddyn Gorge, Melincourt Glen * Res sive. 8. Ynyshir, Bodringallt, ‘Midehondde, Blaen- rhondda, Rhondda Fi, *R. nitidus Weihe & Nees subsp. opacus Focke. 2. Mynydd Garngoch, a plant which only differs from good opacus in having the basal leaflets sessile - nearly so fi. cariensis Génév, t via ean: Gowerton, Fairwood Com- mon, Parkmill, Reynoldstone to Paviland, Horton. 2. Common. 3. Sketity, Ystalyfera, 4, Melincourt Glen Rf. incurvatus Bab. 3. Ystalyfera. . Lindleianus Lees. 1. Gowerton. 8. Ystalyfera. 4. Pont- whalby. 6. Monknash. R. argenteus Weihe & Nees. 1. Gowerton, Parkmill. 2. Ve common. 8. Crumlin Burrows and mer Ld Ystalyfera. 4, Pont- whalby, Rhigos Hill, near Jersey Mari R. rhamnifolius Weihe & Nees. ai aia on. Killay to Penard, G.C.D, 2. Gowerton, Mynydd Garngoch, Penllergaer. 6. Monk- nash.—Subsp. Bakeri F. A. Lees f. elongata. 4. Hieos. R. nemoralis P. J. J. Muell. var. Silurum A. Ley. 2. Gowerton Common, plenty on Mynydd bags Sie Penllergaer. 3. Ystalyfera. R. pule herrimus Neum. 8. Ystalyfera. R. Sere Koehl. subsp. Selmeri ag a 2. Mynydd Garn- goch, a small form, in prot: 4, ae R. tear Focke. 38. Ystalyfer Ri. Godroni Lec. & "Tats Whiaoe a form going off to var. robustus. 8. Hirwaun,a form with sxecplietatte hairy stem,—Var. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 25 foliolatus wt - Ley. 8. Ystalyfera, aE i and the surrounding hills. — Var. robustus (P. J. Mue 1. Clyne ommon, a fonat with very round leaflets. . “Pontwhalby, Rhigos Hill. R. rusticanus Mere. 1. Gowerton, Cefn Bryn, Reynoldstone to Paviland. 2. Common. 8. Sketty, Town Hill, Swansea, Crumlin ae Ystalyfera. 5. Hills behind Port Talbot. 6. Monknash. 7. Dinas Powys to Sully Island, Cadoxton, Wenvoe, Fontigary, Lavernock. 8. Leckwith, Penarth. R. pubescens Weihe. 4. Pontwhalby, form R. macrophylius Weihe & Nees var. ‘prplnbaths (Lees). 4. Rhigos. Rh. Mesitelte Muell, & Wirtg. var. *danicus Focke. 2. Penyrheol, Gorsei — Var. mollissimus Rogers. 2. Pantyffynon, f. umbrosa. Near Gorseinon, Mynydd Garngoch. Loughor, form fR. iricus Rogers. 2. Loughor River, several places cong Beakel tet and Pontardulais, differing from the Irish plant the “ long petioluled and somewhat cuspidate- acuminate term. it, and in the strongly ascending panicle branches,” W. M. R. RR. pyramidalis Kalt. 1. Reynoldstone to Paviland, Port Kynon, ats moor near Burry ose, 2. Pantyffynon to Pontardulais. 3 Rh. leucostachys Schleich. 1. Killay to Penard, G. C.D. 2. Common. 3. Ystalyfera. A Pontwhalby, Rhigos Hill. — Var. leucanthemus P, J. Muell.? 8. Ystalyfera. R. lasioclados Focke var. angustifolis Rogers. 2. Pantyffynon, Mynydd Garngoch. — Var. longus Rogers & Ley. 2. Gowerton, Mynydd Garngoch. 3. Yotalylore. 4. Rhigos Hill. *R. adenanthus Boul. & Gill. 8. Aberdare, a plant which re- sembles the Gorey Bay plant oe ig than the Cheshire plant does, W. M. R. Fis “— ales R. cinerosus Roger « Pontartl ais, not typical. *R, Gelertit Prides vo "pene ds. possibly this. 8. Aberdare, . though usually the panicle rachis is less densely prickly and hairy,” W. M. R. R. Ae Kess Gelert subsp.*curvidens A. Ley. 2. Se tg with panicle rather untypical. nage ar r Valley near Pantyffy and Pontardulais. 4. Pontwhalby. S Ahsan: not quite ee -— Subsp. vestitiformis Rogers. 3. Yst talyfera R. melanoaylon Muell. & Wirtg. 4. Pontwhalhy, nearer type than other Glamorgan plants, JV. oh R, 8. Aberdar R. infestus Weihe. 38. Ystalyfer, R. Borreri Bell Salt. 6. Monknash, pg las R. Drejeri G. Jensen subsp. Leyanus 2. Common, 8. Ystalyfera. 4. Pontwhalby, Rhigos Hil “Melin. court Glen. 6. Merthyr Mawr. R. ericetorum Lefy. var. cuneatus Rogers & Ley. 2. Penllergaer. 8. Above Sketty. 4. Pontwhalby, Rhigos Hill. R. fuscus Weihe & Nees. 3. Ystalyfera. aoe egos Rogers. 8. Penywaun near Aberdare, First record for R. rosaceus Weihe & Nees var. hystrix Weihe & pe 3. Ystaly- d Journat or Botany, 1907. (SuppLemenz.] 26 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE fera. — Var. infecundus Rogers. 2. Pantyffynon, Penllergaer. 4, Saeed halby. Koehleri Weihe & Nees subsp. dasyphylius Rogers. 2. Pontar- dulais, Gowerton. 3. Ystalyfera. *R. serpens Weihe. 4. Bisay haicits, Glyn Neath, 1897, A. Ley. R. horridicaulis (P. J. Muell.) Rogers & Ley. 4. Pontwhalby, Rhigos Hill. *R. tereticaulis P. J. Muell. 8. Fedwhir near Aberdare R. dumetorum Weihe & Nees var. diversifolius (Lindl.). 2. BR. Loughor in some quantity Pontardulais to Pantyffynon. — Var. raduliformis A. Ley. 1. Llanrhidian. R. corylifolius one 1. Parkmill, Reynoldstone << 2. Gowerton. 4. Pontwhalby, Resolven, Melincourt R. casius L. 1. Reynoldstone to Paviland. 2. Coinage 8. Ystalyfera. 4. Resolven, Melincourt Glen. 5. Hills behind a 8. Llandaff. e. eum urbanum L. 1, Frequent. 2. Pantyfiynon to Pont- ardulais, Gowerton Common, Penllergaer. - “et meng 4, Pontneddfechan, Glyn Neath, Resolven. yr Mawr, Bridgend, isan Down, Ewenny. Near Poatliie sl, Lie 7, 8, 9. Frequent @. rivale L. 8. Ynyspenllwch Bridge, Ynysgerwn, Dillwyn. 4, ey a ae 1500 ft. Perddyn Sig ey, Neddfechan Glen. Glyn Neath, D.! 7. Cwm George, Storrie, 8. Side of R. Cynon below one Merthyr to Morlais Castle, Pontes, Pontypridd, Storrie. ee ag Penrhys Brook, &¢., Rhondda Fl. 9. Near Ruperra, mE hae eca Li. 1, 8, 4, f 8,9. Frequent. 2. Rely rae to Piensa Fre eke . 8. Cornely, Ewenny, and the own. Potentilla sterilis Garcke. Common .verna L. 1. Caswell Bay. Cliffs between Port Eynon and Worms Head, B P. erecta Dalla Torre. 1, 2,4, 8,9. Common. 3. Swansea, common, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 5. Soni Hb. Motley. 6. Porth- cawl to 8. Cornely. 7. Cadoxton, Wenvoe, Stalling Down. Ystra- dowen, W. M. R. aks whe stl rr Well distributed, though not common.— x reptans (= ta Nolte). 7. We ish St. Donat’s. 8. Caer- cae tly Pia te P, suberecta Zimm.). 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, str P. reptans L, Common. — x erecta (= P. italica Lehm.). 9: Caerphilly, Craig Lianishen. P. Anserina L. Common; ~ var. sericea Koch being rather commoner than the type, I b eliev omarum palustre Li. 1. Faivwend ge og Killay. 2. Penller- ies Mynydd Garngoch. 8, Crumlin Bog. Singleton Marsh, Mill, Hb, Swansea. ‘. bis nfach. 6. Near Porth- pe Lloy d. 1%, Barry, Cowbridge, &c., Storrie. 8. Cardiff, Cardiff? Nat. S08) Proc, 1882. Hirwaun, Peterston, Welsh St. Donat’s, A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 27 Ystradowen Moor, Llantrissant. 9. Caerphilly Castle, Hb. Bicheno. Llanishen, D. Alchemilla arvensis Scop. 1. Common. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 4. Wall at Glyn Neath. Neath, W. M.R. 65. Frequent on the sands. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. 6. S. Cornely, Ogmore Down, Ewenny. 7. Frequent in east half. 8. Aberdare, Morlais Castle, Garth Wood. Cardiff, Ely, St. Fagan’s, Storrie. 9. Caerphilly, Craig Llanishen. As vulgaris L. Aggregate: 2. Penllergaer, Swansea Sci. Soc, Proc. 1895-6. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 8. Cardiff, Storrie. Ystra- dowen. 9. Rhymney.—Segregates: a. hares (Schmidt). re Glyn Neath, R. Perddyn. 6. Ewenny. 7. Cold Knap. 8. Aberdare, Merthyr and Pontsarn, Peterston ; Forest Wood, viseatinwnel 9. Frequent.—b. alpestris(Schmidt). 4. neal Neath, Rhigos Hill, Perddyn Gorge. dh — a Park, D Aberdare, frequent, —-* rey Hir .—¢. jilicaulis Bose 4, Glyn Neath. arn Agrimonia Eupatoria eh; Frequent. 8. Swansea, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 4. Neath, W. M. R. 5. Margam iy Port ae. 6. Portheawl to S§. Cornely, Bridgend, Ewen 7. Frequent. 8. Hirwaun, Ystradowen, Lavernock, Penarth, Geangetown Oneiais Leckwith, Storrie. 9. Craig Llanishen, Ruperr A. odorata Mill. 1. Oxwich ar Bishoxivton, Hb, Watson. 2. ee ag 4, Perddyn Glen, 4. Ley tertum Sanguisorba I. Frequent on the limestone ne ees et ola red sandstone in 1,6, 7,8. Also 3. Sketty. 5. Kenfig Sands. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, Grangetown. Penrhys, uae Ferndale, &c., Rhondda Fl. Sanguisor ba officinalis L. 2, Pontardilais to Pantyffynon. 3. Liansamlet and other places near Swansea. 4. Hirwaun to Neath, Craigyllyn. 8. Meadows and wet cliffs of Aberdare and Rhondda Valleys. 9. Caerphilly Common. Pwllypan Rosa spinosissima L. 1. Clyne Common, W. M. R. Rhosili Down, and sands and cliffs rai Oxwich to Llanmadoc. 3. burrows. 5. Margam sandhills. 6. 8. Cornely, Ewenny Down, Porthcawl sands. Southerndown, Radbieg 7. Barry Island, Mar- cross, Nash Point. Fontigary, Sto (R. villosa L. 4. Vale of Heaths, Fleer dé Lees.) R. tomentosa Sm. 1. Llanmadoc. 2. Pantyffynon to Pontar- dulais. 8. Not uncommon, Dillwyn. 4. Neddfechan Glen. Vale Aberdare Valley, sepe. Caerphilly to Taffs Well. Onctpbilty Penylan Lane, Storrie, — Var. subglobosa (Sm.). 8. Aberdare.—Var. 2 aban Sion 8. Aberdare. *R, eglanteria Le 1. madoc. 8. In the Swansea list, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. sate "2, 6. Llangynwyd, Storrie. 7. Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. 8. Near Aberdare, Storrie. 9. Lis- vane, Storvrie. *R. micranthaSm. 4. Neddfechan Glen. 7. Bonvilstone, Storrie. 8. Taffs Well. Whitchurch; Greenmeadow, Storrte. 28 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE - *R, obtusifolia Desv. 4, Glyn Neath. 5. Shore at Port Talbot. 8. Liwydcoed. R.canina i. The agarogate very common.—a. lutetiana (Leman). 1. Langland Bay, W.M.R. Port Eynon to Oxwich, SA &e, 2. Gowerton. 38. Ystalyfera. ont ea, J. Bot. 1890, p. 157. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Hevaany Down. 8. Aberdare Valley, Peterston. — f. andegavensis (Bast.). 8. Aberdare. —b. surculosa (Woods). 1. Frequent, Dillwyn. Banks of the Penclawdd Canal. 2. Penller- gaer, Dillwyn, 6. Bridgend, Gutch. 7. Llantwit, Storrie. 8. Taffs Well. —c. sph@rica (Gren.). 8. Llwydcoed to Hirwaun.— e. dumalis (Bechst.) ). Probably the most frequent form, 1. Three Cliffs Bay, Quoity Green, a ado oc. Langland Bay, W. M. R. per... 5. Port Talbot. 6, Near fone eed, if " Cowbridge, Aber- thaw. 8. Visine. Peterston, Taffs Well, ta oe Caerphilly, Ruperra, Craig Llanishen.—i. urbica (Lema n). 3. Near Swansea, J. Bot. 1890, p. 157. 4. Neddfechan Glen. 7. Barry, Cowbridge. 8. Aberdare, Peterston, Taffs Well.—j. dumetorum (Thuill). 3. Near Biase, J. Bot. 1890, p. 157. 8. Aberdare. *R, glauca Vill. var. subcristata Baker. 1. Oxwich Bay. 6. S. Cornely. R, stylosa Desv. var. systyla (Bast.). 1. Three Cliffs Bay. Near Gower lun, Hb. Motley. Pen . ie. ne Flower & Lees. Cas- well Bay to Langland Ba ; dt Nottage, Bridgend, ay). 8. Cornely, Merthyr Mawr. 7. ibeatae. Nash Point, Porthkerry, near Llantwit Major. 8. Leckwith Hill, near Ystradowen, Peter- . arvensis Huds. Frequent. — Var. ovata (Desy.). 7. ee bleiddian. — Var. islmanteata - Bast-)- 1. Pengwern Common. 9. Llanishen, Cefn On, Rup Pyrus torminalis rete 1, Penrice, B. G. 4. Neath Valley, B. G. Briton Ferry, Gutch. 5. Margam, Hb. Motley. 7. Wenvoe, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1878. 8, ame Storrie. Aria Ehrh. 4, Neath Yaley,B . G8. Merthyr nee B. G,— Var. rupicola Syme. 1. Pwlldu Head, Oxwich Bay Craig- -y-llyn, de EynonGam. 8. Daren Bwllfa, Padell-y- Fetch, wae Fawr Tre rehy. P. ducuparia Bheh. Common in the uplands, and recorded for all dist tricts. *P. communis L. 17. Barry, sircaigrwetg &c., Storrie. 8, Aber- dare, and also f. spinosa. Leckwith, Storr ‘Malus L. var. mitis Wallr: As a ‘tae on pie acerba DC. 1, Hedges in Gower. Langland Bay, W. M. RB Loughor, Penllergaer. 38. Xeielviers, 4. Neath, Giyn oath, Perddyn Gorge, Craig-y-llyn. S. Cornely, Ewenny 7. Cow- bridge, Llandough, Aberthaw, Soild Porthkerry. 8. Pontsarn, Merthyr, Aberdare, Taffs Well. 9. Cefn On, Lisvane. Crategus Oxyacantha L, Common FRAGES Saxi _ (Sazifraga aizoides L. 6. Maesteg, ae Motley. Perhaps should be confirmed before being definitely admitted.) A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 29 S. tridactylites L. 1. Common. 8. Swansea, Flower & Lees. 4, Jersey Marine, on sand, Pontneddfechan. 5. Sands. 6. On the limestone, frequent. 7. Aberthin. Llantrithyd, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8, Llandaff, Hb. Cardiff. Limestone near Merthyr, plenty. 9. Roath, “~— *S. granulata L. 8. Copse near Aberdare, Pontsarn. Below mr ee. Storrie. cides L. 4. Craig-y-llyn. eget the Dinas Rock, N. F. pet ts 6. Glyn Corrwg, NV. B. . Morlais Castle, and down nearly to the river, Padell-y- bwich ie -Hirwaun, Graig Fawr Treorchy, : Chrysosplentum staat Pa L. 1,4,8. Common. 2. Pont- ardulais to a 3. Swansea, ‘Fiowir é Lees. Ystalyfera. 5. ‘ Graigafan, Hb. Motley. 7. Stalling Down. 9. Caerphilly. 0. pestle sist L. 4. R. Perddyn, N. F. ice te 8. M. Tydfil, Ho. Watson. 9. Lianishen, 7 de mynydd, Sto ( Parnassia atlas L. 8. Bog near hospital, Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Fi, 9. Lianishen, Pwllypant, Storrie. Confirmation desire (Ribes alpinum L. 7. St. Donat’s, Storrie. 9. Caerphilly Castle, Storrie. Gutch’s record is from Caermarthenshire. *R, rubrum L. 1. Mumbles and Gower, Lioyd. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 8. Garth Wood, native. Aberdare, Ystradowen. Outcast sewhere. *R, nigrum L. 1. Oxwich, Parkmill. 2. River gravel above Pontardulais. 6. Porthos Lloyd. 7. Wood at Wenvoe. By R. Ddaw, Storrie. 8. Aberdare. Llantwit Fardre, D.! Blaen- rhondda, Rhondda Po 9. Caerphilly. CRASSULACER. Cotyledon Umbilicus-Veneris L. Common. SE ggusmie ts cop. 4. Craig-y-llyn. S. purpureum Tausch. 1. Frequent on the Gower coast. 3. Llandwr Marsh, Gutch. 7. Cowbridge, Llantwit Major, Storrie. 9. Lianishe 8. Aberdare (escape). Padell-y-bwlch, Hirwaun. en, Storvrie. (S. villosum L. Glyn Corrwg, er S. anglicum Huds. 1. Penard,G.C.D. 5. Aberafan Mountain, Hb. Motley. ie Sully, tiiry, Prathanty, Fontigary, &c., Storrie. Fonmon, D.! S. acre L. Very commo *S, sewangulare L. 5. abuses of R, Afan, Hb, Motley. Appar- any native. *S,. Forsterianum Sm. 8. Banks of Neath Canal, Gutch. 7. Llandough, Cardig’ Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882.—Var. virescens Lon. Cat. 4. Craig-y-llyn. DRosERACEE. Drosera rotundifolia L. 1. On the moors and commons, hig 2. Gowerton Common. Near eg ess aah Swansea Sci. Soc. Proce. 1895-6. 8. Frequent, Flower. 4. Liynfach. 5. Cwm Bychan, 80 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Hb. Motley. 8. Scarce on the hills near oe Welsh 8t. Donat’s, Ystradowen. Cwmpare. Llanharry, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. Mardy, Pontygwaith, Rhondda Fl. 9. Cacephilly Common. Liani- shen, Storrie. D. anglica Huds. 8. Crumlin Bog, Hb. Brit. Mus. Townhill, Gutch. D. intermedia Hayne. 1. Rhosili Down, Cefn Bryn. Clyne a rehete Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1894-5. 2. Gowerton Common. . Crumlin Bog, B.G. 5. Cwm Bychan, Gutch. 6. Liangynwyd, ie. = Welsh St. Padaase gsalbweri Blaenyewm, Rhondda Fl. HaoraGez, Hippuris vulgaris L. ae Llangenydd, Oxwich. 8. Crumlin ie and Tennant’s Canal. ort Talbot, Margam marshes. 6. Mer thyr Mawr. 7. Barry, Dat 8. Leckwith, Storrie. Hirwaun, B. 4, ( ol agate verticillatum L. 8. Crumlin Bog, Swansea Sct. Soc. Proc, 1891- 8. Leckwith, E. Moors, Storrie M. spicatum L. 1. Oxwich, Cefn 7 Whiteford ee Rey- noldstone to Paviland. Fa irwood Common, G.C. D. 2. Penller- gaer, and R. Loughor above Dontatiniais 3. Sean Bog. Resolven. 5. Port Talbot, Kenfig Pool. 7. Cadoxton. R. Ddaw, Storrie. 8. Aberdare, Peterston, Welsh St. Donat’s, Ystradowen. Leckwith, Storrie. *M. alterniflorum DC. 1, Pitton. 4. Llynfach. 8. Se Merthyr Tydfil, Welsh St. Donat’s. St. Ffagan’s, Hb. Dill (Callitriche palustris L. (C. verna L.). 8. Swansea, Gawhe 9. HK. Glamorgan, eo pee sears ) *Q, stagnalis Scop. 2. Common. 3. Crumlin Bog, Ystalyfera. 4, Neath Abbey, W. ee R. Nedafochan Glen, Melincourt Glen. 7, _Lianbleiddian, Cadoxton, Barry to Bonvilstone. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun, Grangetown. 9. Caerphilly, Llanishen.—Var. serpylli- Crumlin Bog. 4. Llynfach. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Aberdare to Hirwaun. 9. Caerphilly. — Var. pedunculata DC. 1. Pitton. 8. Swansea, J. Bot. 1886, p. 112. 5. Port Talbot, Hb. Brit. Mus. 8. Aberdare, Ystradowen. C. obtusangula Le Gall. 8. Crumlin Bog. 5. Stream betwee Pyle and Port Talbot, Hb, Brit. Mus. Margam Moors. 7. Llan dough and Cowbridge. (C. autumnalis L. 8. Gwernllwynwith, Gutch. 4. Near Neath, Gutch, 7, Cadoxton Moors, Storrie. 8. Leckwith. Storrie.) LyTHRaRIEx, Peplis Portula L, 1. Frequent on the downs; Penard Burrows. 2. Mynydd Garngoch. Loughor Down and Groes Eynon, Hb. Motley. 8. —— Burrows. Llandwr Marsh, Gutch. 4. Neath, We wes un Common, B. A. Williams. 65. Port Talbot. 8, Welsh St. Donat’ s, Ystradowen. Cefn On, Pontypridd, Storrie. Lythrum Salicaria L. Well distributed, but not common A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 81 ONaGRARIEX, FE pilobium angustifolium L. 1. Fairwood Common. 2, Gower- ton. 4. Cliffs of Craig-y-llyn, Glyn Neath, graph tes Neath, ; . Aberafan. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. Nash Point, Llantwit Major, Liandough. Barry, D. Owrtyr Ata Cardi’ Nat. Soc. Proc. 1867. 8. or eis za fe tang aa K. hirsutum L. Com "Aberdare. E. parviflorum Sahiteh,. "Well distributed ; aa common.— FE. montanum L. Common.—f. minor aprica. 8. Aberdare.— X obscurum. 8. Swansea, 2g, Bot. 1892, p. 297. 8. Aberdare.— X parviflorum. 8. Aberdare. — x roseum. 8. Swansea, J. Bot. 1892, p. 297. 8. Aberdare. *E. lanceolatum Seb. & Maur. 5. Aberafan. 8. Aberdare. E. roseum Schreb. 8. Crumlin ans’ and Port Tennant, ~ cl Swansea, J, Bot. 1892, p. 297. 4. Nea 5. Baglan. 8. Aberdar *K, adnatum Griseb. 5. Port Talbot, Aberafan ti stony). 8. Aberdare, gh nr Grangetown. a aerphilly Castle X obscurum. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aber FE. obscurum Schreb. Apparently frequent, but no record for 6. ee palustre. 1, Oxwich, probably t . palustre L. 1. Oxwich, a "Getn Bryn, Llanrhidian. 2. Penllrsue. 8. Crumlin Bog. 4. Glyn Neath, Rhigos. Melin court Glen, W. M.R. 5. Keng, Hb. Motley. Marga am. 6. Near Portheawl, Lloyd. 7. Barry, D.! 8. Fre requent about Aberdare, Merthyr, Treorchy Graig Fawr, Etisal, ora St. Donat’s, Ystradowen. 9. Caerphilly pe sae pate Lisvane Circea lutetiana L. Com Cucursitacez. Bryonia dioica Jacq. 1. Rarein Gower, Swansea Sei. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 8. Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, and Castell Coch, Storrie. UmBELLIFER2, Hydrocotyle vulgaris L. Common; no record from 7. Eryngium maritinun L. 1. Oxwich, Broughton Burrows. Penard, G. C. D. Paviland, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1892-8. 8. Cramlin Burrows. Swansea and Singleton, Gutch. 4. Briton Ferry, Lightf. 5. Aberafan, Hb. Motley. 6. Porthcawl. 17. Monk- nash, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. Sully, Barry, the Leys, &c., Storrie, 8. Penarth, Storrie, (E. campestre L. 65. Port Talbot in three places. 8, Banks of Taff near Cardiff, 1848, F. Brent in Hb. Brit, Mus. Quite possibly native.) Sanicula europea L. Fairly common. Conium maculatum L. 1. Frequent. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 4. Jersey Marine. 5. Aberafan, Port Talbot. 6. Nottage, near Mer- thyr Mawr, Ogmore Castle, Ewenny. 7. Frequent and characteristic of the idl series, especially the cliffs. 8, Cardiff Docks, Taffs Well. Penarth, Storrie. 9. Caerphilly Castle *Smyrnium Olusatrum L. 1. Gptermbail, hedges about Brough- 82 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE es re Castle. 7, Flat Holm me, ay Bot. 1891, a 345. Sully, Porthkerry, Cog, Cold Knap, Aberthaw, St. Dona 8. Cardiff, Penarth, Lavernock, Leckwith, Storrie. I think Habits in 1 and 7. £ ge . 4. Neath. 5. Port Talbot 6. Merthyr Mawr. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Merthyr Dyfan, Sully, Cadoxton, Lavernock, St. Athan’s Road. 8. Cardiff — Lavernock, Penarth, Grangetown. Leckwith, Storrie. 9. Pengam marshes A. Milasor un Reichb. fil. Common.—Var. pseudo-repens H. C. Wats. 1. Clyne Common, Hb. Brit. Mus, A. inundatum Reichb. fil. 1. Cefn Bryn, Fairwood Common. 2. Gowerton Common. 3. 2 ae J. Bot. 1886, p. 112. 6. Porth- cawl, Lloyd. 8. Welsh St. Dona we (Cicuta virosa L. 8. Sw Regal oe Sci. Soc. Proc. 1891-2.) Carum verticillatum Koch. 2. Very common. 38. Swansea, abundant, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 4. Hirwaun Common, hills above Neddfechan and Perddyn Glens. 5. Cwm mawr, Hb. Motley. 7. St. Lythan’s Down, Nicholson. C. majus — & Britten (Conopodium denudatum eels cP Or 0 Ue eres t. 8. Crumlin Bog. Singleton, Gutch. pee 6. * Petr lini gga Koch. Mawdlam to §. Cornely and Nottage. 7. y, Merthyr vai: Swanbridge Sison i Sto ¥ 8. “diferent frequent, Flower & Lees. 6. 8. Cornely to Nottage. 7. Freque 8. Lavernock. (Sium latifolium L. 8. swank Dillwyn. 6. Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. St. Hilary, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. E. Moors, Penarth Road, feckwih, Storrie, Bodringallt, Bwllfa, Rhondda Fl. Evidence poor. _S. erectum Huds. 1. Parkmill, Oxwich, aoe Bay, Llan- rhidian, 2. Loughor marshes. 38. Crumlin Bo Jersey Marine. Neath Abbey, W.M.R. 5. Margam Moors. 6. Merthyr Mawr, Ewenny. 7. Flemingstone Moors, Cowbridge, Llandough, Llantwit Major. Barry, D.! 8. Grangeto wn. Asgopodium Rudagrart ia L. Frequent; probably native in 4, Perddyn Gorg spaces $0. Onwiety “angen Bay, W.M.R wn Hill, Gutch. 4. Rhigos. 6 vgs pi Ewenny. 7 TV enicde Aberthaw, au owys, Storrie. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun, Morlais Castle, Ystradowen Moor, Llantrissant, Penarth, Lavernock. aff, dc.» Storrie. 9. Graig Llanishen. — Var. disscte With. 5. Craigafan, Hb. Motley. 6. 8. Cornely. 8. Ystradowen, Aber- dare, frequent. (P. major Huds. 6. Paria. Lloyd. No specimen seen.) yrrhis Odorata Scop. 8. Hilly pastures, Dillwyn. 8. Several apote past Aberdare, sometimes looking quite native. M. Tydal, Cherophyllum temulum L. Common, A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 38 iG Se Lam. 1. Llanmadoe, cliffs. 8. Penarth and Cardiff, gan: C. sylvestre x Com eh custlen cg Mil, "Sometimes native. 1, Langland and restyled esol V.M. R. Parkmill, Port ot hap 2. Loughor, Hb, Motley. 8. Swansea, casual, J. Bot. 1890, p. 157. 4. ee Masine; Neath, W.M.R. 5. Port Talbot Dotks 6. 8. Cornely. Porthcawl, J. Bot. 1902, p. 816. 7. Flat Holm, J. Bot. 1891, 345. Barry, D. Sully, Cold Knap, Dinas Powys, Aberthaw, St. Donat’s. 8. Cardiff Dick Aberdare, Penarth. Crithmum maritimum L. 1. Cliffs, Oxwich to Broughton Bay. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Sker = Dunraven. 7. Swanbridge to Nash *, Mus CEnanthe Jistulosa se 3. Singleton, Gutch. 7. Flemingstone Moor. Barry, D. 8. so eetonm Glyncornel, Bodringallt, &c., Rhondda Fl. 9. Lisy. (d. pimpinelloides "L. 8. Landore, B. G. 8. Cardiff, Storrie, = next secures: probably.) G. enalit C. Gmel. Common in the salt marshes and eaty, Cour all along the coast. Also 7. Merthyr Dyfan, ado Gi. a L. Comm Aithusa Cynapium . t. okey Penclawdd. 2. Loughor. 8. Swansea, Flower & Lees. Port Talbot Docks, Mawdlam. 8. Aberdare, Welsh St. Donat’s, Ystradowen. Cardiff, J. Bot. 1884, p. 257. ra es &e., Storrie. Pontygwaith, Aberllechau Woods, Rhondda Fl. 9. Caerphilly. In the large hedge form a native plant. Silaus pratensis Bess. 5. Pyle. 6, 7. Frequent. 8. Aber- dare, Lavernock, Penarth. Angelica sylvestris L. No record for 5. Otherwise common *Pastinaca sativa L. Always an ace except 8. Cliffs, Laver- nock to Penarth, plentiful and nati Heracleum Sphondylium Li. Guiniton: —Var. angustifolium Huds. 1. Penmaen. 8. Aberdare. 9. Lisvane. Daucus Carota L. 1. Coast, frequent. 2. Gowerton, Mynydd Garngoch, Pantyffynon. 3. Swa ansea, Hb, Bicheno. 65. Port Talbot. 6. §. Cornely, Porthcawl sands, Sontherndown, near Laleston. 7. Common. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks, Taffs Well, Lavernock, Penarth, Grangetown. Penrhys Brook, Bodringallt, a Fil. D. gummifer Lam, 1. Penard, Gutch. Mumbles, Hb. Br. Mus. Oxwich. 6. Dunraven, Storrie. 7. St. Donat’s. Lavernock, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. Fontigary, Colhugh, &c., Storrie. Torilis arvensis Link. Be ea Flower & Lees. 8. Aberdare. : g Com T. nodosa Gaertn. 1. Coast, csDelioli to Llanrhidian. 38. Swan- sea, Flower. 5. Kenfig. 6. $. Cornely, Southerndown. 7. The Leys, Cold Knap, Barry. Sully, Swanbridge, Storrie. 8. Penarth, &e., Storrie. Penrhys Brook, Rhondda Fi. Journan oF Botany, 1907. [SuppieMent.} é 84 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE ARALIACER. Hedera Helix L. Common. > CorNAcER, Cornus Po bn L. 1. Common see ae 8. Por Tennant, Gutch. 6 and 7. Common. d 9. Frequent off i coal measures. 8. ineeoael: Rhondda oe CAPRIFOLIACES. Adoxa Moschatellina L. 1. Killay, Black Pill to ae Blue Anchor, &., to Llanmadoc. 8. Swansea, Flower & Lees. 4. Perddyn Glen. 5. Baglan to Port Talbot, Pyle. 6. "Ewer 7. Sully, Storvie. Barry, D.! 8. Aberdare, “Merthyr to Morlais, Leckwith Woods. Cardiff, secs 9. Penylan, Storrie. Sambucus nigra L. mm Viburnum Opulus L. 1. Killay, &c., Parkmill. cra eer Bay, Wott hs 2, 4¢8,.9. a 3. Ske etty. 6. Bridgen 7. Wenvoe, a a ad V. Lantana L. Lan ngland Bay, W.M.R. Caswell Bay. 6, 7, and ee aioe of 8. Commo Lonicera Periclymenum L. Common, from seashore up to highest mountain cliffs. Rusracex, Rubia peregrina L. 1. Very common on south coast; Llan- madoc. 38. Swansea, Hb. Babington. 6. Ewenny, Monkna sh. Southerndown, Cardi’ Nat. Soc. Proc. 1876. 7. Common. 8. Penarth, Hb. Cardiff. Taffs Well. Castell Coch, y Aa *Galium boreale L. 4. Craig-y-llyn, A. Ley. 8. Castell Coch and Penarth, Storrie. . Cruciata Seop. 1. Common. 2. Pontardulais to Pantyffynon. 8. Crumlin Burrows. Fabians Bay, Gutch. Glais to Pontardawe, Swansea Set. Soc. Proc. 1898. 4. Rhigos Hill, Glyn Neath, Resolven, Neath. 5. Pyle. 6. Ewenny, Porthcawl to 8. Cornely, Llandow. 7. Liantwit Major, Ystradowen. Barry, D.! 8. Fairly frequent. 0. Cefn Ons Ruperra, Rudry, Llanishen. , 7. Commo 8. Swansea, Hb. Cardiff. : Abeeatan and Port Talbot. 8. Morlais Castle, Peterston, Lavernock, Penarth, Grangetown. 9. Llanishen, &c., Storrie.— Var. maritimum DC. 1, 8, 4, 5, 6. Frequent on the burrows. 7- The Leys westward, Stalling ‘Down, Barry Island. G. Mollugo L. 1. Rhosili, Llangenydd, Parkmill, Mumbles Road. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Ewenny, Newton sandhills. 7. Very common. 8, Aberdare. The lowlands. Sar graig, phrase he., Rhondda Fl. 9. Penylan, &c., Storrt G. saxatile L. Common on the hills, scarcer ‘elsewhere. *G. umbellatum Lam. 8. Morlais Castle, plen G. palustre L. Comm bona VAs elongatum (Presl.). 1. Oxwich. 8. Killay, Crumlin Burr 4. Neath. 5. Baglan Moors, Port Talbot. 7. Llantwit a 8. Peterston, Aberdare. — Var- A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE B5 “aeriaties (Sm.). 3. Swansea, Flower dé Lees. 4. Neath, W.M. R. G. uliginosum L. Rhosili. 8. Swansea, Flower & Lees. 5. Baglan a Aberafan iy the moors. 8. Peterston, Mountain Ash, Rhetiie G. ‘cent, Common ; but no record for Asperula odorata L. 1, Bishopston to Black Pill, Lianrhidian. Penmaen, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1898. Cly ood, itch. 8 Glanrhyd Woods, Pontardawe, Swansea Sci. Bis, Proc. 1898. Port Tennant, Gutch. 4. Rhigos Hill, Ysgwd Hynon Gam, a Pontneddfechan. 6. Portheav, Lion ya Vs Wenvoe. Barry, D. 8. Fairly common. 9, Lisv A, cynanchica L. 1. Sa nails and cliffs, common; Langland hed to Srouphian Burrows. 3 and 4. Swansea to Neath, Gutch. he and 6. On the burrows. é 8. Oottiely, Ogmore Down. 7. arr i, 1). Sherardia ag L. 1. Cliffs and sands, ss. Bay to Liangenydd. 38. Swansea, fields, Flower & Lees. 5. Port Talbot, Kenfig Sontack c. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely, Candlectot Ewenny. 7. Porthkerry, Dinas Powys, Sully, Llantwit Major to St. Donat’s. 8. Aberdare. Leckwith, Llandough, Penarth, &., Storrie. Ystrad, Rhondda Fl. 9. Cefn On. Penylan, Storrie. VALERIANEX. Valeriana dioica L. 8. Swan Flower & Lees. Glanrhyd, Swansea Sci, Soc. Proc. 1898. 4. Reddtechan and Perddyn Gorges. 8. Frequent Hirwaun, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil, Pontsarn, Ystrad- owen Moor. prient Pontrhondda, &c., Rhondda Fl. 9. Caerphilly, Lisvane. Llanishen, D. *V. Mikanii ae 4, Glyn Neath. 8. Merthyr Tydfil. Cwm . Seisig and other cliffs of the ea Valley. V. sambucifolia Willd. 2, 9. Common. 1. Parkmill, Nicholaston Woods, Pwlldu, Whitford Burrows. 3. Swansea, Flower é Lees, Ystalyfera. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Southerndown, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1878. 7. Cowbridge, Llandough. Valerianella olitoria Poll. 1. Limestone and sand, commo ; ; the burrows. 6. Ogmore eras, Portheawl, Lilo, me 5 Porthkerry, Fontigary. 8. Penarth, St. Fagan’s, Peterston, &c., Stor «7, recon Loisel. 4. Aberpergwm. ? Native. “e rimosa Bast. 1. Norton, Woods. é: Fabians Bay, Gutch. ? Nat y. doaisen Poll. 1. se Port Eynon, Oxwich. 5. Kenfig, Hb. Motley. 6. Nottage to 8. we nely. Southerndown, Storrie. 7. Sully, St. Andrew's, Cardigt N N ee Proc. 1891-2. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s. 9. Caerphilly, Hd. "Bicheno. ? Native. eres Dipsacus sylvestris Huds. 7. Frequent. 2. Pantyffynon, Gowerton. 8. Fabians Bay, Gack 4. Neath Canal, Gutch. e2 86 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely, near } — Mawr, Ogmore Castle, Ewenny. 8. Off the er measures *D, pilosus L. 7. ogee Cowbrid Scabiosa Susciae L. Comm S. Columbaria L. 1. Coast oon Langland Bay to Llanmadoc. 6. S. S. a L. Well distributed; and in 6 and 7 common. ComposiTz. Eupatorium cannabinum L. Common. — Var. indivisum DC. 5. Port Talbot. Solidago Virgaurea L. 1. Caswell and agora mis and Clyne Gc. Common, W. = ng Pia spe to Parkmill, 2. Penllergaer, Swansea Set. 1895-6. Panty. 3. Ystalyfera. Woods about cele: Plober & Lees. 4,8. Common. 9. Pwlly- pant, pe gh &e., Storrie. — Var. cambrica (Huds.). 4. Neath V Bellis perenitie L. Common. Aster Tripolium = 1. Three Cliffs mud Penclawdd, Salthouse Point, Gowerton. 2. Loughor Marshes Port Tennant, &c., Flower. 4. Briton Ferry, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Pro oc. 1882. 5. Aberafan and Port Talbot. 7. S Athan’s Road. td Barry, &., Storrie. . Cardiff, Leckwith. 9. Pengam mars (Linosyris vulgaris DC. 6. So itaevindo own, Storrie. 7. Barry, Storrie. Moggridge sowed res on in Based and the record must await confirmat 3. rela pele 5 Port Talbot, Aberafan, Kenfig Pool. 6. Merthyr Mawr, Porthcawl, Ogmore Castle. 7. Co wbridge. : Gasephitty and Penarth, Storrie. Pontrhondda, Rhondda Fl. ae F, minima Fr. 1, Penard Burrows, i Moor. 38. Ystalyfera. 5. Kenfig sands, Aberafan, Port Talbot. 6. 8. Cornely, Candleston. Nottage, J. Bot. 1902, p. 816. 8. Aberdare ; hills above Llwydcoed, among heather; Taffs Wy ms nten ase dioica B Mountains above Pontneddfechan, B. G. iets Valley. ‘Storie. 8. Morlais Castle. Near Pentre, Storri A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 87 sagen dysenterica 8. F'. Gray. Freque (2. strata Aschers. 8. Common, Leckwith, &e., Storie. Ballast, “Lakai Hb. Cardiff. 9. Roath Ponds, Storrie. Awaits confirmation as a native plant.) Bidens cernua L. 3. Singleton, Gutch. 8. St. Fagan’s, Coed- . tri al. 1. Quoity a Burry sini Llanrhidian, Salthouse Point. Rhosili, D. 2. Mynydd Garngo eath Abbey, W. M. R. Near Neath tie Guiteh 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Ystradow 8. Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. Abordaes osarhiwolabar, Peterston Moor. . Watson. Achillea ited sigs L. Com aL. Widely ay port thinly distributed. No record a 9. (Diotis maritima Cass. 8. Crumlin Burrows, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. ? Error.) *Anthemis Cotula L. 1. Pitton, poorer Burry Green, Frog Moor, Paviland. 2. Penller Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1895- 6. 5. Mawdlam, Port Talbot (Genelia , Hb. Motley. 6. S. Cornely, Tythegston. Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 17. Barry, Sully, Swanbridge, Aberthin, Llantwit Major to St. Donat’s. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff, Layernock. Llantrissant, Storrie. 9. Llanishen. Perhaps uative:s in some of these localities . nobilis L. 1, Commons and greens, og some 2. Mynydd Garaget h. 6. St. Bride’s Major. 8. Outcast, Cardiff, Storrie. Chr ysanthemum Leucanthemum Hi re oa Matricaria inodora L. Fairly frequent; often introduced.— Var. salina Bab. 1. Penclawdd, Black Pa: 3, sg marshes. 3. Crumlin Burrows. 6. Porthcawl sands. 7. The M. maritima L. 1. Cli ts of Mewslade hey aad: Paviland. 3. Port Tennant, Salthouse Point, B. G. Artemisia Absinthium L. Widely spread as an escape. Native in 1. at Llanrhidian, Llanmadoe, &c., and perhaps 3. Swansea, Le % pres . Pengam ae es. is L. Frequent. — Var. ——— Forcell. 4. Neath. 5. 8 ‘Talbot, peeotas. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cor ve = Monk- nash, Aberthin. 8. Aberdare, iieniats aah Hirw: A maritima L. 1. Lilanmadoe, Salinonne “orshate ae marshes, 8, Port Tennant and Salthouse Point, Gutch. 4. Neath Canal, Gutch. 65. —_ Talbot. 6. Southerndown, Storie. 7. Estuary of the R. Ddaw. 8. Grangetown. 9. Pengam marshes.— Var. gallica (Willd.). 8. Near Swansea, Moggridge. 8, Cardiff, Cardiff Nat. Soe. Proe. 1878. Tussilago Farfara L. Com * Petasites ovatus Hill. 1. Park amine Py rag et R. Loughor above Pontardulais. 4. Neath, dough, Llantwit Major. Barry, D. 8. Cynon ery Tal Valleys i in quantity, Ely. 9. a, se banks, Storri enecio vulgaris L, n.—Var. nian Koch. 1. Oyster- mouth, Hid J.G.! 6. Port Talbot. 7. Barry. 8. Cardiff Bick Q g 88 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Cogan. Penarth, ate Nat. Soc. Proce. ine 9. Roath.— x squalidus. 8. Cardiff Docks, in small quantity. 8. _— L. L Salthouse Point, Rhosili and the eee Llangenydd. 2. Penyrheol. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Barry, D 8. Sota: inti Ystradowen, Cardiff Docks. Mardy, Rhondda Fl. eceete sdf 9. Pwllypant, Storrie. — Var. lividus 8m. 8. Aberdar S. “stone Doubifal native. 8. Ystalyfera. Swansea Ferry and Crumlin Burrows, mh Dillwyn. 5. Cwmafan, ed tips, Dillwyn. Pyle, Port son 6. Porthenl sands, J. Bot. 1902, p. 7. Barry. 8. Pen ae Cardiff Docks, Aberdare, Hirwaun, Porth. Mevihy Tyaal, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. ucifolius 3. — i ~ é Lees. 5. Kenfig, Hob. Wikley: Port Talbot. Mare o Lilandow, near does Common. 8. Laverook Banat: Ganmnetoen. S. Jacobaa L. Com S. aquaticus Huds. Ratherc (S. palustris DC. 5. Abetatane Ras y (Bed Itinerary). Ray after- wards says that the locality is in Merionethshire; but I cannot trace an Aberafan there. The marshes at a hieatas (Glam.) might easily have produced the plant, though I can see no sign of it now-) aloes a L. 1. Common. 38. Crumlin Burrows, Ystaly- fera Jersey Marine. 5. Port Talbot and Kenfig s _ 6. SA ale ‘S. Cornely, Ogmore Down to Southerndow Common near the sea. 8. Penarth, ie ‘Laventiank "Tafls Well, Morlais Castle, Hirwaun, Aberdare. 9. Cefn On. “Arctium Lappa Ly. (4. majus Bernh.). 1. Nicholaston, Parkmill, Oxwich. 6, Copse between Nottage and 8. Cornely, near St. Bride’s Major. 7. Wenvoe, Llandough {Cowbridge). i nemorosum Lej. 8, Aber A, minus Bernh, 1, aa "Langla nd Bay, W. M. R. Aberdylais, Neddfechan Glen. 7. Monknash. oan W.M. it 8. Aberdare, Garth Wood. *d,intermedium Lange. 1. oe Pale = Bay, Nicholaston. and the marshes. 8. Swa nek. frequent, Beiter » Por oe 6. some ties Southerndown. 8. Grangetown, Penacth, ‘9. Pen C. nutans L. 1. Coast, frequent. 3. Crumlin Burrows. Single- ton, Gutch, 4. Jersey Marine. 5. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. Aber- afan, Port Talbot, Mawdlam. 6 and "7, Frequent. 8. Cardiff. Penarth, Llandaff, Storrie. Blaenyewm, Rhondda Fl. 9. Pengam marshes, Cefn On. C. crispus L. 1. —— Llanrhidian. 8. Swansea, Diiiwyn. 6. Bridgend. 7. Com 8. Peterston. Penrhys, Rhondda Fi Cardiff, Penarth, &c., pepteaty =a acanthoides (L ). Parke OG; ce al L. Common C. eriophorus L. 4 and §. Between Neath and Pyle, Flower. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 39 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6 and 7. Frequent on calcareous soil. 8. ceperr Storrie. Castell Coch, Cardi Nat. Soc. Proc. 1878. C. palustris L. Common: also 72. alo *«C. tuberosus L. 7. Nash Point and neighbourhood. Apparently this species, and so first recorded by Westcombe alae: yt i. 780) ; though afterwards Sefenenk to C. Woodwardit H. C }, pratensis Huds. Common in the hills in a. ‘ 1. Rhosili, Whitford Burrows and marshes. 5. Pyle. 6. Pelthkawi sands. Pence oed, Storrie. 7. Cadox (C. heterophylius _ q or 8. Road between Llandaff and Cow- bridge, B. G. ? Error.) C. acaulisL. 1. Periaad, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1892-8. 4. Briton Ferry, Gutch. 17. Barry to Aberthaw, D. Nash Point, local; he east of Llantwit Major. 9. Cefn On.—Var. caulescens ‘Syme. Coast east of Llantwit a xX pratensis (= C. Woodwardii ti. C. Wats.). 8. Cardiff Doc C. arvensis Robson. ‘Conmen : also fl. albo.—Var. mitis Koch. * Onopordon ‘Acant a a - Llantwit _ very rare, but lodkinies quite stetes "8. Ballast, Cardiff, Sto Serratula nt hee a 1. Bhosili, Basal: red Horton Cliffs. Langland Bay, W. Pe Common. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 4. Glyn Neath, R. Porddya, 7. M. Dyfan, Wenvoe, Sully. 8. Common. 9. Near New Cemetery, ee ap Llanishen, Caer- philly, Storrie.-—— Var. monticola (Boreau). 2. Mynydd Garngoch. . Fedwhir near Aberdare Centaurea nigra L. Common. The rayed form is the more common about pasa ie &c.; the less common in ee 1,3, . Barry to 5 8, r. decipiens (Thui l.). 6. Ewenn Bonviletobes C. Scabiosa L. 6,7. Common. Penllerguer, Swansea Sci. Soe. Proc. 1895-6. 3. ‘Rilvoy Hill, Gutch. 4. Glyn Ne ne 5. Port Talbot to Pyle. 8. Common , except in the hills. 9. Lianishen, near Ruperra.—Var. succisefolia Marshall. 1. Cliffs at Port Kynon and Paviland. Cichorium Intybus L. 1. rere at Caswell and Langland Bays, W. M. R. Oxwich, S. W. Jenkins. Pitton, Llangenydd, comer a to Lianthidien. 3. Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 4. Neath, W.M.&. 65. Port Talbot Docks. 6. 8. Cornely y. 7. Wenvoe, shoe St. Athan’s Road. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks. St. Fagan’s, Whitchurch, &c., Storrie. Lapsana communis L, “ager commo Picris hieracioides L, 1. South const, frequent. Llanrhidian. 3. Swansea, Hlower & ae 4, Neath Abbey, = MR &, Pyle, Hb, Motley. 6. pines to$. Cornely. 7. Common. 8. Penarth, Grangetown, Lavernock.— Var. sia es PS 6. Port Talbot. Helmintia echivides Gaertn. 1. Overton. 8. Swansea, F Lees. 6. PortTalbot. 6. Porthcawl sands. 7. Common. : Cardiff, etic, Penarth, Grangetown. 9. Roath, Pengam marshes Orepis capillaris L. (C. virens L.). Frequent, but no record for 9. 40 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE —Var. agrestis Waldst. & Kit. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Llandough, Cadoxton. 8. Aberdare, Tafis Wot Cent Docks. 9. Ystradmy- nach, Caerphilly, Roath, Ruperra, an #0, ‘eset: 1. Oxwi ich Bay Ley. 7. Sully. Near St. Athan’s, Storrie. 8. Aberdare. ° Nativ t. . paludosa Moench. 4. Peelily n Gorge. (8. Bog above Pon rhondda, Rhondda Fi. 9. nae AS Caerphilly, &e., Storrie.) In Hieracium the starred forms are those not given for Glamorgan in od BR, Linton’s eee Ren ieracium Pilosella L. Common.—*Var. concinnatum Hanb. Probably plen — 7. Barry Island. 8. Hirwaun, Taffs Well. 9. Cecsphilly, ; a oa "Tauseh. 4, Craig-y-llyn.—Var. eustomon Linton. 1, ‘Cliffs, Pwlldu to Penard, Oxwich Bay, near Rhosili, north of Burry Holm oe. lasiophyllum Koch Lon euryodon Hanb, 4. Craig-y-llyn. 8. Daren Bwllfa near Aberdar Hi. nitidum Backh. var. enue Hanb. 4. Craig-y-llyn, Ley. 8. Cliffs at top of Rhondda Valley. *H. argenteum Fr. 4. Craig-y-llyn. 8. Graig Fawr, Treorchy. *H., hypocheroides Gibs. var. saxworum Hanb. 4. Craig-y-llyn. H. cambricum Hanb. 8. Graig Fawr, a. 4. Hirwaun to Glyn Neath. HH, ee Dahlst. var. cuneifrons Ley. 4. Glyn Neath. Craig-y-llyn, *H, patton Ley. 8. Daren Bwllfa, Aberdare. Hi. cesium Fr. 4, Craig-y-llyn. *H, aeroincun ne var. mutabile Ley. 2. Gowerton. 4. Pontneddfechan 8. Aberdare. *HA, irriguum re 6 Hirwaun. H. nae Bre a Uechtr. 4. Glyn Neath, J. Bot. 1898, p. 197. Rhigos. Neath, W.M.R. 5. Aberafan, Port Talbot. eo cawl. 8. Abaniase abundant; Taffs Well, Ystradowen. a Cae philly Castle, Craig Llanishen, Lisvane, Llanishen. Most of shod records probably refer to H. cacuminatum. — Var. amplifolium Ley. erdare, &c., abundant *H. anfactum Fr. subs sp. cacuminatum Dahlst. 1. Gowerton. 2: Common. 3, Ystalyfera, Crumlin Bog. 4. Frequent. 6. Ewenny rtd i 8. Greig Fawr, Treorchy. — *Var. barbareafolium Lénnr. i ye eponrina Arv.-Touv. 4. Rhigos and Glyn Neath, Ley. Pencaedrain Aberafan sandhills. 8. Aberdare.—Var. ampht- bolum Lindeb. 4. Glyn Neath. 6. Glyn Corwg, Ley. 8. Aberdare; Graig Fawr, Rvesiiy: and other clifte in the Rhondda Valley. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 41 *H. scanicum Dahlst. 8. Ystalyfera, Crumlin Burrows. 4. Com mon. 5. Aberafan ie and ctor Port Talbot. 6. ed Down. 7. Abertha . Comm TH pegged Dahist. 4, Oeaig: -y-llyn, Ley.—* Var. serpentinum Hanb. 8. Aberdare, very rare. “Tt, sparsifolium Lindeb., var. strigosum Ley. 8. Cliffs at head of Rhondda Valley. H. cantianum Hanb., var. 8. About Aberdare. *H. tridentatum Fr. 8. Copse, Tregibbon, Aberdare.—Var. setigerum Ley. 4. Oraig-y-llyn, Ley. 8. Hills south-west of Aber- ; ey. erfa Wood, erdare as calcaricolum Hanb. 8. Llwydcoea, near Aberdare, very ¥ —Var. Friesit Dahlst. 8. Old quarry, and wit Fawr, teint Saar. obatrescens Dahlst. 8. Aberdare, very r “HI, corymbosum Aa 4. Craig-y-llyn, Ley. 8. Aberdar H. boreale Fr. 1. Parkmill, Oxwich. 2. Gowerton, Pantyfiznon to Pontardulais. 3. Kilvey Hill, Gi Ystalyfera. es Neddfechan Glen, Perddyn Gorge, Resolven, Rhigo Por Talbot, Pyle. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun, Porth, cliffs “ot Sietads hills, Taffs Well, Cardiff Docks. 9. Cae rphilly, Cefn On. H. wnbellatum L. 1. Bro oughton Bay. Langland Bay, W. M. fh. edges near Overton, Hb. oo Mus. 2. Groes Eynon and Penliergaer, Hb. Pat tley. 4. Neath Canal, Gutch. Pontneddfechan, Hb. Br. Mus. 8. Aberdare and Hirwaun. Llandaff, Storrie. ¥ Hypocharis Haire L. inal aks rtheawl sands. H. radicata Thrincia nudicaulis Britten. — distributed ; common in 1, 8. L. autumnalis L. i. Langiand Big Ww .M. R. Penard to Killay, G. C.D. Llanmadoc. 3. Swansea, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 4. Neath, Hb. Br. Mus. Resolven. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely. 7. Barry, Cadoxton, &c., The Leys, St. Athan’s, Cowbridge, Llandough. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun, Cardiff. Llandaff, St. Fagan’ s, &C., Storrie. Rhondda Valley, common, Rhondda Fl. Syste oficinale Web. Very common. —Var. Bhi dei! dio uy . Sends Port Talbot. 7. Swanbridge. 8. Aber feel Tafis Well Morlais Castle.—Var. levigatum D.C. 1. Penard, Bhesiii, Whitford Burrows, Broughton Sands. 8. Sketty Burrows. 7. Barry, Sully sland,—Var. palustre aos 8. Aberdare, frequent ; Mountain Ash.—Var. udum (Jord.). 1. Com 4, Glyn n Neath, Jersey Marine, Perddyn Gorge an hills Este. 5. Sands, frequent. 6. 8S. Cornely, Ewenny. Marcross, Barry Island, Swanbridge, Fontigary. 8. Ab aan LPM ates Dowlais to Rhymney, Pontsarn ee virosa L. 1, Oystermouth Castle, Flower, 3. Crumlin Bog. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl, J. Bot. 1902, p. 817. %. see 8. Cardiff, Grangetown. pesectnd native. L. muralis Fresen. 1, Ya 6, oy Common. 2. Penllergaer, serge Sci. Soc. Pit. 1895-6. . Glais to Pontardawe, — et. Soc, Proc. 1898. Yate, 7. Cadoxton, Wenvoe, Dina Povo. Aberthin to Ystradowen 42, A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Sonchus oleraceus L. 1. Frequent. 2. Gowerton, Pontardulais and above. 38. Swansea, Flower. 4. Neath, W.M.R. Pontnedd- fechan. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Barry, Lavernock, Cowbridge, Taye St. Athan’s, &c. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff, Penarth, Grangetown, Laver nock. Rhondda Valley, common, Rhondda Fl. ma Caerphilly.— Var. glandulosus Coss. et Germ. 8. Cardiff Doc S. asper Hill. . Oxwich, Penmaen, Lianmadoe Killay to enard, G.C.D. Langland Bay, W.M.R. 2. Gowerton, Pontar- dulais and above. 38. Swansea, Plower L Neath, Resolven. 5. are Hb. Motley. 6. Por — frequent. 7. Hast half, Pile 8. Cardiff, Aberdare, Hir msis Li. Frequent pe anil for 2) and native on the ae e. oe at 9. Pengam Marshes.—f. angustifolius. 8. Swansea 6. Porthcawl.—Var. glabrescens Hall. 5. Port Talbot Docks. Tragopogon pratense L. 1. Gowerton. 38. Singleton Marsh, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Bridgend, Laleston, Daioowe Castle. 7. Frequent. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun, Penarth. 9. Roath. ? Native. CAMPANULACE2. Lobelia Dortmanna L.. 4. Llyn lynfach. Jasione montana L. Well distributed and common in the hills.— Var. littoralis Fr. 5. Aberafan. 6 ahlenbergia hederacea Reichb. 2. Perillelpaes, pest Pontar- dulais. 8. Glanrhyd, eu ee Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1893. Cwm Clydach, &e., Dillwyn. 4. Frequent, B.G. 65. Giyneoirwes Hb. Motley. 8. Pontypridd, B. G. WHirwaun and Aberdare, Seepage Pentyrch, Cardif’ Nat. Soc. Proc. 1878. Tylacoch, t Rhondda Fl. §t. Fagan’s, Quaker’s Yard, &., Storrie. 9. Caer- philly, Storrie. Campanula glomerata L. 8. Swansea, Flower. 6. Southern- down, Hb. Cardif. 7. Nash Point and westwards, Rie 2 8. Penarth &e., Storrie. Trachéleam L. 1. Penrice. 6. Liandow. 7. Cone Barry, D, St. Andrews, St. Hilary, Storrie. 8, St. Fagan’s OTree, *O, latifolia a ts Merthyr Mawr. idge, Storrte. 9 atten y 7. Cowbridge (Ce. raped L 6. Merthyr Mawr, J. Bot. 1902, p. 317.) CU. rotundifolia L. 1. Penard, Mewslade, &c., Paviland, Llan- madoc, Newton Cliff and Langlan d and Caswell Bays, W. M. fi. 2. Penllergaer. Kilvey and Town Hills, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 4. Craig-y-llyn. 6. Sands at Porthcawl, Ewenny Down, 7. Barry, D. Golden Mill, Covbnige Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. Aber- dare, scarce. Padell- . -Bwlch, rag lNesieot Taffs Well, Graig Fawr, Treorchy. nylan, &e. C. patula L, Toported from tia Vale of Glamorgan, Dillwyn.) Masago ere Vaccinium Vitis-idea L. Llynfawr and Llynfach, Sa Assoc. Handbook. 8. ‘Padell. ier Nant-y-gwddon, above the A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 43 waterfall, on Fl. Top. Bot. record is from Caermarthenshire (Liyn-y- Pane faw 8. Taffs Well, Pentyrch. No records from 6 and 7 V. Oxycoccos L. 2. Penllergaer, Gutch. 8. Swansea, Gutch 4. Hills near Pontneddfechan, . 5. Above the Varteg, Hb ¢ d Emroch, Hb. y otle 8. Ystradowen Moor, Cardi Mynyad : hills about Risalied Liantrissant, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc, 1882. 9. Caerphilly, Hb. Bicheno. Cefn On, Storrie. ERIcacez. ane Polifolia L. 8. Crumlin Bog, Ho. sh Mus. a vulgaris Hull. Common; no records from 7 (Brien ciliarts L. 8. Llantwit Fardre, 1, I ‘ave seen no specimen.) EF. Tet alte L. Com ; no records from 7. Ei. cinerea Li. Obiainbt in ite lowlands ; much less common in the hills. No records from 9. (EZ. vagans L. 1. Near Newton, B.G. 2. Pontardulais, B. G.) (E. mediterranea Li. 2. Pewttar daha Pyrola minor L. 4. Near Ysgwd Bynon Gam, ae de This may be Breconshire. *P, secunda L. 4, Craig-y-llyn. Monorropes. (Monotropa Hypopitys L. 5. Margam Woods, Dillwyn. 8. St. Fagan’s, Storrie. I have seen no eenthen +) PLUMBAGINES. Limonium vulgare Mill. - Whitford Burrows, Oxwich Bay. Port Eynon, Flower & Lees, Loughor. 4. Near Neath, West- combe. 6. Port Talbot. 6. pean ba Cardifi Nat. Soo. Pree. 1873. 7. Barry, and sem of R. Ddaw , Storie. 8. Mo uth of ay. L, a ena C. E. Salmon. 1. Rocks, Oystermouth to Burry Holm. 7. Barry, Boverton to Llantwit Major. Sully Island, Ho. I, Townsend. Statice sifu All, I ae the form 4. pubescens Link. Frequent. 2. ughor. 6. Por gah R. Ogmore mouth. Southerndown, C aa ” Nat. Soe. Pros. 1873. 7. ten Island, Llantwit Major, St. Athan’s Road, Aberthav. Sully, Storrie. Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. 8. E. Moors, Penarth, &c., Storrie, 9, Pengam } Marshes. PrRimvuLace2z. Primula vulgaris Huds. Common except _ the coal measures. No asters from age caulescens (Koch). 1. Lianmadoc , 6, 7, 8, 9, common off the cal measures. No saateis for 2, a oo vulgaris. 1. Llanmadoe. 5. Baglan. 44 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 6. Ewenny. 7. Barry, D. Ystradowen, Mrs. Owen. 8. Cogan, St. z leon s, St. George’s, Storrie. Lysimachia vulgaris L. 2. Frequent. 8. Crumlin se Killay. Glais to Pontardawe, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1898. 4. Neath, Jersey Marine. 5. Kenfig Pool. 7. Llantwit Major, Storrie. 8. Hirwaun. Llancaiach, B. A. Williams. Llanharry, Ystradowen Moor, Taffs Well. Cardiff, Storrie. 9. Pwllypant, Storrie. L. Nummularia L. 2. Pontardulais and above. 38. Swansea, Flower & Lees, 4, Glyn Neath. 6. Pencoed, Tondu, &c., Storrie. onmon, D. Wenvoe, Cowbridge, Liagdough. Flemingstone Moors. 8. Aberdare, Ystradowen Moor, Peterston. Cardiff, St. Nicholas, Storrie. Llantwit Fardre, D., Gelli, Rhondda Fl. 9. Llanishen, Stor L. nemorum L. Com Glaux maritima L. Oi the coast in every district. Anagallis arvensis L. Common; characteristic of the sand- hills. pile carnea Schrank. 6. Ogmore Castle, £. S. M. A. tenella Lightf. Very sees Centunculus minimus L. 1. Fairwood Common, Oxwich Bay. Penard Sands, Ball. 5. Konfig Pool. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s. Samolus Valeranti L. 1. Coast, frequent; Quoity Green. 2. Loughor. 3. Tennant’s Canal, Hb, Cardiff. Crumlin Burrows, Hb. Bicheno. - Jersey Marine, Neat h. 5. Aberafan to Baglan, Kenfig Pool. 6. Porthcawl. Dunraven, Storrie. 7. St. Donat’s. Cowbridge, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. Barry, Boverton, Storrie. 9. Llanishen, D. Pwllypant, Storrie. OLEACER, Fraxinus eacelsior L. Common. Ligustrum vulgare LL. Common. Native on limestone. GENTIANES. Blackstonia perfoliata Huds. 1, Frequent. 8. Between pe - teres wynchwith, &¢., Gutch. 4. Neath, Gutch. The ands. 6. Merthyr Mawr and the Warren, Llantwit Major to Botithohnloee Road. Coast to Southerndown, Storrie. 7. Aber to Lavernock. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, Penarth, Laverno ook, thaw i wn. Aubrey Arms, W. F. Evans. 9. Ruperra, Llanishen, udr : MM, 8, 3. Crumlin Burrows. 5. Port Talbot, Rontig ‘Pool. 6. Bicer to Porthcawl. C. vulgare Rafn. Mumbles, Gutch, 8. Crumlin Burrows, eerie 5. Kenfig Pool, J. Bot. 1902, p. 249. Other records ©. pulchellum Druce. 1. Worms Head, B. G. Beyond Mumbles, Flower. Whitford Burrows, Ho. Motley. Oxw ich Burrows, Port Eynon. 8. Swansea, Hb. Bicheno. Salthouse Point, Flower. Crumlin Burrows, B.G. 5. Kenfig Sands, Margam A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 45 Moors. 6. Porthcawl Sands. 7. The Leys. St. Donat’s, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. C. capitatum oe & Britten.— Var. spharocephalum Towns. 1, Langland Bay, W.M. R. 6. rie spe to Sker, Hb. Br. Mus 8. Welsh St. np six miles from the se (Gentiana Pneumonanthe L. 1. Ovatiinaigitl to Newton, Nicholson. *G, AmarellaL. 1. Oxwich and Whitford Burrows. 6, Ewenny. 7. Barry Island. St. Hilary Down, Storrie. 9. Cefn On, Storrie. Se | Bar ea 8. Rhigos. Some of these probably refer to G. haleise Menyanthes trifoliata L. 1, Oxwich, Fairwood riot Killay, Llangenydd. Rhosili, F. H. Worsley-Benison. enller caer, Mynydd Garngoch. 8. Crumlin Bog. 4. Jersey ieee figs. fawr, Llynfach. 5. Marshes all along the coast. 6. Porthcawl, Nae Lloyd ae oe Bridge, Storrie. 8. Not uncommon. 9. Llanishen, BoraGinE®. Cynoglossum co L. Frequent on sea-sands: also on the limestone. No record for 9. rata subglabrum Mérat. 5. Kenfig. 6. ow Mawr ~ Symphytum vplitieats L, 1. Mumbles, W. M. R. Liangenydd. 3. Ystalyfera. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Merthyr Mawr. 7. Aberthin, Cadoxton. 8. Aberdare, Mountain Ash, oe Blaenrhondda Brook, Rhondda Fl.. Cardiff, Storrie. 9. Ruperra.-—Var. patens (Sibth,. 8. Swansea, Flower & Lees. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Taffs ree sempervirens L. 4, Neath Abbey, Flower. 5. Bagl B.G. Briton Ferry, Dillwyn. 6. Cornely, Dillwyn. Merthyr Mawr. Bridgend, Storrie. 7. Aberthin, Marcross. 8. Fairly frequent. Perhaps a say Lycopsis arvensis L. 1. Sandy and pebbly beach from Penard to brass rapa rrows. 8. Tennant's og Hb. Cardiff. 5 and 6. Thesands. 7. Sully, Storrie. 8. Aberdare. E. Moors, St. Fagan’s, &e., Storrie, Undoubtedly native in ‘ 5, - Myosotis cespitosa F, Schultz. Comm M. scorpioides L. 8 and 4. teontin’ Boe: 5. Aberafan, my Motley. 6. Ewenny. 7. How Mill, Cadoxton, Barry to Bonvi stone, sion. ae Moor. 8. St. Fagan’s, Culver House, porated 9. Lianishen, D —Var. strigulosa Mert. “& Koch. 4. Neath, W. M. R. 8. Aberdar M. ron G. Don. Not common but widely distributed. Not dist. in M. arvensis Lam. Common.—Var. wnbrosa Bab. 7. Sully Island. M. et Hoffm. pone on sands of 1, 5, 6. Also 1. Bishops 8. ower & Lees. 6. 8. Cornely. B Swa 7. Barry te “Sully saul, "Dasabeiive 8. Aberdare. 9. Caer- 46 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE philly, Hd. Cardif.—Var. Mittenii Baker. 1. Penard and Whitford Burrows. 7. Barry Island. M. versicolor Reichb. 1. Penard, Penmaen, Llangenydd, and cliffs ghee wae ms Head, Rhosili, &c. 8. Killay, Swansea Sct. Soc Proce, 1892- arry. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun, Mountain Ash, Tafts Well, ‘Welsh St. Donat’s. Llandaff, St. Fagan’s, Caerau, Storrie. Lithospermum purpureo-ceruleum L. 1. Oxwich Point. Nichol- aston Wood, &c., Gutch. Caswell Bay, N. B. G. Bishopston and Penrice, Hb. Watson. 6. Dunraven, Hb. Cardiff. Newton-juxta- Pyle, &c., Gutch. Monknash, Miss F. M. Williams. 17. Porth- L. officinale L. 1. Sands and cliffs frequent. 2. Penllergaer, Swansea Sct. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 6. Mer a Mawr. 7. St. Donat’s 2 Monknash, Barry Island, Llandough. 8. Garth Wood. Cardiff, torrie. Eehium vulgare L. 1. Oxwich. 8. Crumlin Bog. Near In- firmary and on Town Hill, Swansea, Gutch. 4. Jersey Marine. 5. Aberafan to Kenfig, Pyle. 6. Candleston, Porthcawl to 58. Cornely. 7. The Leys and westward, Barry. Sully, Storrve. 8. Aberdare, a ems Merthyr Tydfil, Taffs Well. Cardiff, Penarth, &e., Storr ConVOLVULACER. Convolvulus sepium L. Fairly common.—Var. incarnatus Wahl. 1. Penrice, Dillwyn. 8. Swansea, Flower. 4. Between Wych Tree Bridge and Ne eath, Dillwyn. C. Soldanella L. 1. Mumbles Bay, Port Eynon. Paviland, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1892-8. 8. Crumlin Burrows. Sketty Burrows, Flower. 4. Jersey Marine. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Sker Point, Dillwyn. Porthcawl Sands. 7. Sully, Barry, Porthkerry, Fontigary, Aberthaw, &¢., Storrie. 8. Cogan, Cardiff. . arvensis L. Common. On sea-sands certainly native. *Cuscuta europea L. 6. Newton sands, not flowering. SoLANACER. Solanum Duleamara L. Common.—Vavr. marinum Bab. 1. Ox- wich. 7. Sully Island. S. nigrum be 1, Whitford Burrows. Llanmorlais, J. Bot. 1892, p. 296. 5, PortTalbot. 6. Estuary of R. Ogmore. Newton Nottage, Hb. Motley. 7. Sully Island, D. Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891; p. 845. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff and Penarth, Storrie. *dtropa Belladonna L. (1. Mumbles, Oystermouth, Gutch-) 7. Shore west of the Leys, native. 8. Llandaff, Gutch Hyoscyamus niger L. 1, Frequent and native. 8, Cwmbwrla. Crumlin Bog, Gutch. 4. Neath = Gutch. 5. Sea-sands. 6. Porthcawl sands. Sker, Hb. Br. Mus. Dunraven woods, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1876. 7. 8 ully Island. Llanbleddian, ag oh Se g Pom Dd dantnitled. Storrie. Flat Holm, J. Bot. 1891, p. 34 ardiff Docks. Hi Davies. Cardi engi. &e., tires sible te A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 47 ScROPHULARINEE, Verbascum Thapsus L. Not uncommon. No record for 2. V. nigrum L. 1. Lianmadoc, and frequent on cliffs. 4. Briton og ea 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl. 7. Llandough. . Aberdare.—Var. Alopecurus Thuill. 5. Port Talbot Docks. Linaria Elatine Mill. 1. Horton. 2. Penllergaer, Swansea Sei. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 8. Crumlin Bog. Swansea, Flower d Lees. 5. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. 6. Portheawl, Lloyd. 17. 8t. Athan’s, Llantwit Major. 8. Lavernock, Cardiff and Penarth, Sturrie. ie tae native. L. spuria Mill. 1. Horton. 8. Swansea, Flower & Lees. 6. Devihoke: Lloyd. 7. St. Athan’s, Llantwit Major. Barry, D 8. Pate Cardiff and Penarth, Storrie. Doubtful native. i 4 s Mill. 1. Gower, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 3. Ballast, ‘Bwindtay Rep. B. E.C.1901. 4. Ballast, Briton Ferry, Hb. Br. Mus. 5. Port Talbot ‘Docks, Aberafan. 6. Porthcawl sands, J. Bot. 1902, p. 317. 8. Cardiff, N. B. G. Penarth Ferry, Cardiff Nat. Soe. hie 1892. Doubtful native. — x vulgaris. 8. Penarth Ferry, Cardifi Nat. Soe. Proc. 1892 L vulgaris Mill. Locally common: no record for 4.—f. peloria. 8. Penarth Ferry and Grangetown, Hb, Cardiff. LL. minor . 3. Swan ie Flower & Lees. 5. Port Talbot to Pyle. 6. Railway,S.Cornely. 7. Ystradowen Station. Barry, Dd, 3. Papediten; ae didde Pecavth: &e., Storrie. ee native. Antirrhinum ‘Orontium L. 6: orthcawl, 1902, p. 317. 8. Penarth, H. S. Thompson. Ballast, Cardiff, storie: ? Native. Ser ‘ophularia aquatica L. Well distributed but not common.— Var. cinerea Dum. 1. Gowerton. 8. Peterston, Aberdare S. nodosa L. Common. Tibiositla aquatica L, b. tenuifolia Hook. fil. 8. Crumlin Bog. 5. Kenfig Pool. Sibthorpia europea Lu. 8. Pontypridd, Hb. Watson. Cardiff, extinct, Brit. Assoc. Handb. 9. Caerphilly, H. S. Thompson. Pwllypant, Storrie. Digitalis purpurea L. Very common off limestone. Veronica hederifotia L. 1. Rather common. 8. Swansea, —— dé Lees, 4. Neath, W.M.R. 5. Baglan to Aberafan, Kenfig. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd, 7. Gileston, Fontiga ry. 6. Aberdare, Lavernock, Penrhys Brook, Mardy, Rhondda Fil. Penarth, St. Fagan’s, &c., Storrie. i phils Fr. 1, Penard, Llanrhidian, Gowerton. Fae aT Bay, W. M. R. 8. Ystalyfera. Seeger a, Gutch. Neath, W.M. R. 5, Port Talbot, Mawdl 6. 8. Cornely, Poakawl 7. Barry, Porthkerry, Dinas lors Cowbridge. 8. Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil, Taffs Well. Cardiff, J. Bot. 1884, p- 9. Caerphilly. V. agrestis L. 1. Killay to Penard, G. C.D. Lilanmadoc. 38. Swansea, J. Bot. 1892, p. 296. 6. Porthcawl, —_ 7, Cadoxton, Swanbridge. Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 345. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun. oe J. Bot. 1984, p. 257. Bodringallt, Maindee, &c., Rhondda 48 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE - nsis Li. Com ser myllifolia L Domne. 2. Penllergaer. 3. Swansea, Sasck » Melincourt ‘Glen, 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Barry, D. 8. dere Mountain Ash, Welsh St. Donat’s. Cardiff, Storrie. pert ene a Rhondda Fl. 9. Daoenhilie, Lisvane. iy . Re hybrida L. ported by S. W. Jenkins from cliffs near Oxwich : ee by Dillayn wg ‘sides of mountains.’ Vio lis L. Comm . Chawadies 1 Com V.montana L. 1. Ox aa Sicaaie. Langland Bay, W. M. R. 4. Fairly frequent. 5. Baglan, Hb. Motley. 6. Merthyr Mawr 7. Barry, D. Dinas Powys. 8. Aberdare Valley. Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Fl. Taffs Well, Re, Careit St. Fagan’s, &c., Storrie. 9. Rudry, Llanishen. Penylan, Stor V. seutellata L. 1. Penard, Oxwich, Parkmill, Clyne and Fair- wood Commons, Paviland. 2. Gowerton Common, Mynydd Garn- goch. 4. Hirwaun Common. Neath, Flower d Lees. 5. Margam Moors. Mynydd Sylen, Hb. Motley. 6. Porthcawl sands. 7. Barry, D. 8. Merthyr, Aberdare, Ystradowen, Welsh St. Donat’s. Cardiff, oe St. "Sais Ss, &e. sy Starts. Anagallis-aquatica L. 1. Oxwich, Penard Burrows, Pel Epiaome and Llanmadoc pa - Cru — Burrows. 4. Glyn Neath. 5. Ligaen hes Margam Moor rthcawl, Merthyr Mawr Warr nny.- 7. Nash Point, ss nar Major, How Mill, Alaa, Osi iridae, Cadoxton to Bonvilstone. 9. Ystrad- owen, se eat wn. st tacent Maindee, Ton, Rhondda Fl. Beceabunga L. En uphrasia officinalis L “Aggregate common. - stricta Host. 8. Abe ee “. Rostkoviana Hayne Sow ertonto Penclawdd. 2. Pontar- dulais to ag ig ae Goverion n. 4. HirwaunCommon. 8. Aber- dare, Welsh St. Don i. borealis wats 8 Aber E. nemorosa H. Mart. 5. gine 6. Portheawl to S. Cornely. 8. Aberdare, Ysiradaw en E. brevipila Burn et Grem. 1. Pen nmaen, Llangenydd. 5. Margam Burrows, Hb. Br. Mus. Port ag Aberafan to Baglan. 7. Barry Island. 8. Aberdare. 9. Caerpl uilly. ~ scottica Wettst. 8. Aberdare, sseahentts this FE. curta Fr., var. glabrescens Wettst. 1. Rhosili, Oxwich, Llangenydd. 5. Abersiaa: Kenfig Pool. 6. — 7. Llantwit Major to Monknash. 8. Welsh St. Dona E. occidentalis Mfeheae 7. Barry blend. name agreed to with 2 and 9.—Var. verna (Reichb.). . Rhosili to Llangenydd. Cornely.—Var. serotina (Reickb.). 1. Llangenydd, Cheriton, Rey- noldstone to Paviland, Port Eynon to Oxwich. 2. Gowerton, Pontardulais to Pantyffynon. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Newton sands, Porthcawl. 7. St. Athan’s Road to Llantwit Major, Barry to Bonyilstone. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 49 cosa. 8. Drymma, Crumlin Dingle, &e., Gutch. 5. eee and Baglan. 6. Near Bridgend, Storrie. Pedicularis palustris L. 1. Fairly frequent. 2. Penllergaer, Gutch. 3. Crumlin Burrows. ir Bebo! Marine, Neddfechan Glen. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Bar 8. St. George’s, near Culver he » St-y-Nyll &e., Sie a, Mardy, &e., Rhondda Fl, Hir P. ayia ca L. Frequent; no records from 6 and 6. Rhinanthus Crista-galli L. Frequent. Apparently all f&. minor Khrh. ome tite eee L. Aggregate se ses Type from 1. Gowe 2. Loughor, Mynydd Garngoch, Gorseinon. 4. Glyn Neath, Resolyen, Melincourt Glen, Notifooks n Glen. 5. Margam, Hb. Motley. 6. Mer Spies Mawr. 7. Barry. 8. Forest Wood, Ystradowen, Garth Woo 9. Pwllypant, Hb. Cardi Caerphilly. — Var. hians Druce. Pantyffynon to Pontardulais. Upper Neath Valley. 8. pester at Aberdare, Hirwaun, Mountain Ash, &e. ie montanum Johnst. 4. Rhigos, hills above R. Perddyn. OROBANCHACER, Orobanche major L. 1. Penmaen, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1898. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 7. Cowbridge, W. F. Evans. Near Cadoxton Mill and M. Dyfan Church, Cardiff ioe Soc. Proc, 1891-2. 8. St. Fagan’s Castle, ries Fe Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. rubra Sm. Gutch gives : " hesitating record, with no loca it a) (O, caryophyllacea Sm. 1. Gower, Lloyd.) O. elatior Sutton. 1. Penrice, &c., Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. O. Hedere Duby. . Com 4, Briton Ferry, Flower. 6. S. Cornely. 7. cuit near Mirasewit Major. Sully, Woods, Barry, D. : “0. minor Sm. 1. Liangenydd. 6. Porthcawl Sands, Tythegston. *Lathraa Squamaria L. 4. Pontneddfechan and Neddfechan Glen, N. F. Sheppard. 8, Cardiff, Coed-y-Mwstwr, Llangrallo, &e., Storrie, Whitchurch, Miss F. M. Williams. LENTIBULARIEZR. Utricularia vulgaris L. 1. rage termouth, and 8. Crumlin Bog, and 4. Neath, Flower & Lees. 8. About Cardiff, Storvrte. #1. seit aaa 8. Gr a , Hb. Cardiff’! U. ia L. 38. Llandwr Marsh, "Gutch. Crumlin Bog, Hb. G 6. Llynfi Valley, near S tienes, te. ., Storrie. 8. Cw riers. Graig F Aberdare, scarce. Hirw Miss E. M. Williams. i Babess: 7 Storrie. Betw eee Seohatbedt and Rhigos, Cardiff JOURNAL OF Borike, 1907. [SuppLemeEnr.] 7 50 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Nat. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. Pontrhondda, Mardy, Clydach Vale, &c., Rhondda Fi. (P. lusitanica ‘Les6j Llangynwyd, Storrie.) VERBENACER. Verbena officinalis “ - Common. 38. Swansea, Gutch. Ystaly- fera. 4. Neath, W. M. R. 5. Port Talbot, Mawdlam. 6. 5. Cornely. 7; Cado xton to Bonvyilstone, Aberthaw, Aberthin. Sully, Storrie. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff, Peterston, Ystradowen. Lasiatz, Mentha rotundifolia L. 1. Penrice, Flower. Penard, G. C. D. 2. Pontardulais, Dillwyn. 8. Singleton, Gutch. 4. Briton Ferry, Flower. Neath, Hb. York Mus. 5. Kenfig, Hb. Motley. 6. Pen- sae Storrie. 7. St. Donat’s, &c., Lightf. 8. Taffs Well. St. an’s, — Pontrhondda, Blaenycwm, &c., Rhondda FI. 9. oy ae vs ae Huds. 2. Pontardulais. 4. Glyn Neath, J. a 1892, p. 297. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. Pencoed, Storrie. 7. Cow pine Sa Lightf. 8, Aberdare, Peterston. Cardiff, Hb. Watson. M. piperita L. 1. Quoity Green. 2. Pontardulais. 8. Swan sea, B. G. Ystalyfera. 5. Kenfig, Hb. Motley. 6. Monknash. Porthcawl, J. Bot. 1902, p. 817. 7. Aberthin, Taligdiowen! Llan- dough. 8. St. Fagan’s, Storrie. Peterston, Taffs Well, Hirwaun. Most of these refer to oa officinalis (Hull.).—Var. vulgaris (Sole). 1. Oxwich Aberdar M. hirsuta Huds. Fairly well ark levels hardly common. . sativa L, a rivalis Lond. Cat 1. Parkmill, Oxwich Burrows, Killay, Burry Green, Whitford Burrows. 8. Aber dare, Hirwaun. mi paludosa (Sole). 4. Perddyn Glen, Ley. 5. Port Talbot. Aberdare, Hirwaun *M. rubra Sm. 8. River below and road above Hirwaun. _M. arvensis. 1. Rather frequent. 8. Crumlin Bog and Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 4. Glyn Neath, Poatwhiby, Briton Ferry and phaser rise 3 Flower € a 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7 and 8. Fre- ar. wollen ole), 8. Aberdare. — Var. parietariafolia (Bec) 8: Abendaes Ay gee Pulegium L. L Reynoldstone. 5. Pyle, Dillwyn. 6. Cornely, Hb. Motley. Pencoed, | oe &e., Starts: Nottag oe, KE. S. M. 8. E. Moors, Cardiff, H Lycopus europaeus i. 1. Hollows of sand-hills, Oxwich and Whitford Burrows. oe to Penard, G. C. D. 2. Penllergaer. 3. Crumlin Bog. 4. Neath. 5. Margam Moors, Port Talbot, &c. 6. Porthcawl, Merthyr as. Liynfi and Garw Valleys, sre en 8. Aberdare to Penrhiwceiber, Welsh St. Donat’s, Taffs Well, Peterston. Rhondda Valleys, common, Rhondda Fl. 9. Caer- sectee &e. Roath. anum vulgare L. 1, Frequent. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 4. Neath ! Abbey, W.M. R. 6. Py is, 6. Frequent. 7. Porthkerry. Barry, D. St. Athan’s, Storie, Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 51 Monknash, paeno ash. 8. Aberdare, Taffs Well, Ystradowen. Morlais Castle, B illiam. es Thymus ion Fr. 1, 4,8. Common. 8. Swansea, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 6. Porthcawl Sands to 8. Cornely. 7. Cowbridge, Barry and island. Ske Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. 9. Caerphilly. Llanishen, &e., rte. F. here Fr. 1. Mumbles, Hd. Cardiff. Oxwich to Port Kynon, Ruosili. 6. Cornely, Hb. Motley. 7. ane Island. Clinopodium vulgare L. 1. Langland Bay, W. M. R. Caswell Bay, Oxwich, Parkmill, Frog Moor. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 5. Mawa- lam, &c., Port Talbot. 6 and 7. Frequent. 8. Aberdare, Ystra- dowen, Penarth. St. Fagan’s, &c., Storrie. Bodringallt, Cymmer, &e., Rhondda Fl. 9. Caerphilly, Cefn On, Ruperra. C. Acinos QO. Kuntze. 1. Pwlldu to Penard, Worms Head, Port Eynon. 38. Swansea, ae 5. Aberafan Burrows. 6. Por th- cawl, Lioyd. 7. Barry, (C. Nepeta O. Kuntze. E. 8. M. thinks there is some mistake in the sect of Top. Bot. Sa, 1905. 9. Caerphilly, Woods.) C, Calamintha O. Kuntze. 1. Penmaen. 8. Singleton, Gutch. is S. Cornely, Ewenny. 7. oe ry Island, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. Swanbridge, Sully. Salvia Verbenaca L. 1. Port Eynon, Oxwich, &c. Paviland, Swansea Sci. Soc. ey 1892-8. 4. Vernon Park, Nicholson. 5. Aberafan, Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl, Merthyr Mawr, 8. Cornely. 7. Barry, Storrie. 8. rdiff, , Penarth, Storrie.—Var. Satomi . Aberdar *Nepeta Cataria L. L Oxwich to Worms Head, Broughton op 4 Llangenydd Burrows, Llanmadoc. 5. Kenfig Mawdlam Southerndown. Newton Nottage, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1a9i-2. 7. Barry, D. Monknash, The Leys. 8. Aberdare. Pentyrch. N. hederacea Trevis. Common. Form fori pistillate Down, Hb. Motley. Peullergaer 3. Frequent, Flower. 4. Neath Valley, ¢ Gutch, Llynfach. 6. Llangynwyd, &c., Storrie, 8. Fairly com 9. Llanishen, D. Ca — evueasy Valley, &e., Storrie. *“Marrubium vulgare L. ig "etead to Lianmadoc; nativ 5,6. Frequent near the sea. 7. Barry, D. St. Hilary, eta 8. Cardiff Docks, Aberdare. Ely, St. Fagan’s, &e., Storrie. Stachys officinalis Franch. Common; no records for 8 and 5. 8. palustris L. Common. — x sylvatica (= *ambigua ae 1. Nicholaston. 38. Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 4. Neath, W. M. BR 9. Caerphilly. S. sylvatica L. Com sda rae P apcak 2. Gowerton. 8. Mumbles Road, Gutch. Kilvey Hill, Hb. Bicheno. 5, Graigafan, Hd. Motiey. Mawdlam. 6. Porth heawl, Lloyd. 7. Llantwit Major to St. Donat’s, Aberthin to Ystradowen, St. Athan’s. 8. Aberdare. Bodringallt, 52 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Rhondda Fl. Penarth, Storrie. 9. Penylan, Llanishen, &c., Storrie. Galeopsis angustifolia Ehrh. 1. Pwlldu. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 5. Kenfig, Hb. Motley. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. Pencoed, Storrie. 7. Aberthaw, The — Near ge ited ares t D. Sully. Bonvil- stone, &c., Storrie. She Storri G. speciosa Mi oS . Gowerton AS Penclawdd, J. Bot. 1892, p. 816. 8. Aberdare, i ., Storrie G. epee L. 1. Paviland, Horton. 8. Penllergaer, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. Ystalyfera. litem: Ghtch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Pécthehw!; Lloyd. 7. St.Athan’s. 8. Aberdare Valley, frequent; Ystradowen, Peterston Moor. — Var. bifida (Boenn.). 8. Aberdare, Welsh St. Donat’s, “Bavertion Merthyr Vale, Hd. Cardiff. Lamium amplexicaule L. 1. Gower, Hb. Cardiff. awdla 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely. 7. Dinas Powys. St. Aibants 8, Beit 8. Penarth, Storrie. Pantyreisteddfa, Rhondda Fl. (L. sh Fr. (intermedium Fr.). 8. Llandaff and Pontypridd, a L. Aybridich Vill. 1. Frequent. 8. Swansea, Dillwyn. 5. ba. Margam, Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely. Barry Mill, Storrie. 8. Penarth Ferry, Storvie. 7. ein L. Fairly frequent; no records from 2 and 4 Var. decipiens Sonder. 1. Oxwich, Rhosili, Llangenydd. Gowerton to Pariclawdd, J. Bot. 1892, p.297. 4. Glyn Neath. 7. Marcross, nee 8. Llwydeoed. L. album L. All districts ; doubtfully native, except perhaps 7. Cliffs at Swanbridge. L. Galeobdolon a. 2. Penllergaer, Gutch. Pantyffynon to Pontardulais. 8. Ystalyfera. 4. oe Neath Valley, reas vee 5. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. ro 8. nely. 7. Wenvoe. Dinas Ballota nigra Li. 1. ieumpcnat. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 5, 6, 7, 8. Rather frequent. Teucrium Scorodonia Ii, bs common. Ajuga reptans L. Frequen PLANTAGINEZ. Plantago major L, Very common. — Var. intermedia pigied 1. Killay to Penard, G. C. D. 8. Crumlin Burrows Port et oe 6. 8. Cornely. 7. Cowbridge. 8. Abert: . t P, wnt 1. Penmaen, ee Sei. Soc. Proc. 1898. Swan- sea, Gutch. 6, 7. Frequent. 8. Aberdare, Ystradowen, Penarth, Lavernock, ikea Penrhys, &c., Rhondda Fl. 9. Oraig Llanishen. P. lanceolata L. Very common. — Var. spherostachya Rohl. 3. Ystalyfera. 6. Ewenn , Down.—Var. Timbali Reichb. fil. Swansea. 7. Cadoxton. 8. Cardiff. Roath. P. maritima L. On the coast in all districts P. Coronopus L. On the coast, common. Also 6. §. Cornely. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 53 9. Caerphilly—vVar. ceratophyllum Rap. 7. Nash Point.—Var. pygnea Lange. 1. Rhosili. 6. Portheawl. Littorella uniflora Asch, 1. migeak Burrows, Cefn Bryn. 4. Llyn fawr, Storrie. 65. Kenfig Pool. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, Hir- waun Ponds CHENOPODIACER. Glee gies Vulvaria L. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Near Sully Island, 8 QO. ets ty: Not very vet ost —a incanum Moq. 1. Oxwich. Langland Bays W.M.R. 5. Port Talbot, Mawdlam. 7. Boverton to St. Donat’s. 8. aici ms viride seas 3. an eee Gutch, 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare.— y viridescens St. Am. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Barry Island. 8. Aberdare. tes. espa Nutt. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff. C. rubrum L. 8, Singleton, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porth- cawl, Ogmore Estuary. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff. Tylacoch, Rhondda Fi, — f. pseudobotryoides H. C. Wats. 5. Kenfig Pool, Hb. Motley. 6. Ogmore Estuary. C. Bonus-Henricus L. 1. Worms Head, Gutch. 8. Ystalyfera. 4. Neath, Gutch. 5. Kenfig, Hb. Motley. 6. Bridgend, &c. Porth- cawl, Lloy d. 7. St. Athan’s. 8. Aberdare and Hirwaun, Welsh St. Donat’ s, Taffs Well. Beta maritima L. 1. Frequent. 8. Swansea, Hb. Motley. 4. Neath, W.M.R. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl. 7. Frequent. 8. Cardiff and Penarth. Atriplex littoralis L, 8. Swansea, Westcombe. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Barry, Aberthaw, &c., Storrie. 8. Cardiff. Penarth, &., Storrie. ag serrata Mog. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff. 4d. patula L. 1. Worms Head, Hb. Motley. 38. Swansea Ferry to Bact Teunant, Gutch. 4. Neath, W.M. R. 8. Aberdare ar- diff, &e., Storrie. —Var. erecta Huds. 5. Port Talbot. 6.5. Cornely. 7. M. Dyfan. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff. — Var. engi Abbe a 1, Langland Bay, W.M.R. Killay to Penard, G.C ngle- ton and Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 4. Neath, W. M. R. Be Port Taltot 8. Cardiff, Aberdare. A. hastata L. 1. La ngland Bay, M.R. 6. Port Talbot. * 4, deltoidea Bab. 8. Near cpm Bog. . Neath. 6. Port ee Woods. 1. Oxwich, Penclawdd, marsh near Whitford Burrows. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Ogmore Estuary. Porth- cawl, J. Bot. 1902, p. 817. 7. Sully and 2 Islands, Woods. *4. laciniata L. 1. Lan ngland Bay, W o Bf, "R Penclawdd. Crumlin Burrows. 4. Jersey Marine. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porth- 1. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. payin ae poraesitdis Mog. 1, Salthouse se te Whit- ford Burrows. Penard, Gutch. Bhosili, 2. Loughor. 8. Crumlin Bog, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot and Abort, 7. Aberthaw and The Leys. 8. Petinrth Ferry, &c., Sto 54 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Salicornia europea L. 1. Penclawdd, Whitford Point, Oxwich Bay, Three Cliffs Bay. 2. Loughor. 4. Neath Can al, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Merthyr Mawr. 7. The Leys and Aberthaw. Barry, Storrie. 8. Ely, Penarth, &c., Storrie.—Var. pusilla Woods. 1. Penclawdd, Lianmadoc. 5. Port Talbot. — Var. stricta Dum. 5. Port Talbot.—Var. procumbens Sm. 1. Oxwich, Hb. Watson.—— Var. ramosissima Woods. 1. Three Cliffs Bay, Llanmadoc, he clawdd: and ? ramosissima x stricta. 1. Three Cliffs Bay; n suggested by E. S. M.—Var. intermedia Woods. 1. Apparently ‘this a madoc. *§, appressa Dum. 1. Three Cliffs Bay, Llanmadoc. 5. Port Talbot. (S. radicans Sm. 8. Swansea, B. G. 7. Barry, oe agi a Forsk. 3. Port Tennant, Gutch. 17. Flat Holme, Ray, Cat. 8. Cogan Pill, Storrie.) 8. sit Dum. Common; no record for 9.—Var. procumbens Syme. 1. Whitford Point, Penclawdd, Three Cliffs Bay. 7. Athan’s Road. Salsola an L. Frequent in 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 PoLYGONACER. Polygonum Convolvulus L. 1. Gowerton, Port Eynon, Oxwich. Langland Bay, W.M. R. 8. Swansea, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 4. Neath, W. M.R. 5. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. Port Talbot. 6. gran Bridgend. 7. Cadoxton, Llantwit Major to St. Donat’s. Aberdare, Pentyrch, Peterston. Bodringallt, shone Fi. ae iden 7 Hall. 1. Oxwich. ve gland Bay, W.M.R. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Barry. 8, Aber bai P, aviculare L. Commo tee “se enen ia 1. ape ee micr ospermum (Jord.). 5. Port rigste 8. Aberdare.—Var. rurt- vagum (Jord.). 5. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff.—Var. littorale (Link.). 5. Port Talbot. 8, Aberdare, Cardiff. Roberti Lois. 8. Swansea, Hb. Watson, 4, Neath, Flower. (8. All along the coast, Storrie.) (P. maritimum L. 8. Cardiff and Penarth, * bps ) P. Hydropiper L. Common; no record for *P, minus Huds. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 5. Pat Talbot Ce mite Schrank. 8. ~~ a, pre 4, Neath, Mlower dé Lees. ) Persicaria L. Com oe incana. 5. Port Talbot. 7. its 8. Susan Cardiff. — war elatum Gren. & Godr. 8. Ystalyfera. 4. By Neath Canal, W. M. R. 6. Porthcawl. 8. Aberdare. P, lapathifolium ‘S 1. Langland Nig it Wty De Goneey 2. Loughor. 8. msea, Gutch. Neath Abbey, W. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Donithagt eee 8, Aberdare. Mee A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 55 diff, Storrie. Penrhys Farm, Rhondda Fl. —f. ineana. 2. Near Gorseinon *P, ninvildesn Bab. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare, native. Cardiff Docks. P. amphibium L. Rather common. —Var. terrestre Leers. 1. Broughton Sands. < Crumlin Burrows. 5. Margam Marshes. ce Llantwit Major. 8. Cardiff, Welsh St. Donat’s. istortaL. 1. Teaser gs 2. Pantyffynon. Gorseinon, Bwatsea "Sci. Soc. Proce. 1895-6. 38. Swansea, Flower. 4. Aber- pergwm. 6. Bridgend to bt Ogmore Castle. Pencoed to Llan- trissant, J. Bot. 1902 , p. 250. 8. Penrhys, B. 4. Williams. About Aberdare, Penydaren. Greenmeadow, St. Fagan’s, &c., Storrie. Rumex conglomer atus Pr 38 ie frequent ; wa record for 4. R. sanguineus L. eath, W. M. R. 7. Bar y, Aberthaw, M. Dyfan, &c., and 8. yaa Storrie. — Var. vinta (Sibth.). Very fesinias, *R. maritimus L. (1. Port ae Diliwyn.) . Barry, ballast, Cardiff Na t. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. 8. Cardiff, nativ *R. pulcher L. 2. — Bb. Motley. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl. 8. Cardiff, Storvie R. oe ee L. Comm R. crispus L. Com Ve r. trigranulatus facie . Salt- house Point, Whitford Point. Llanmorlais, J. Bot. 1892, a 297. 4. Jersey Marine. 5. Aberafan and Port Talbot. rs Sigewes ~ Sker. 7. Cold Knap, The Leys, sient ae Fe St. Dona 8. Cardiff Docks,— x obtusifolius (= R. a 1. Ss Pontardulais, 5. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. 7. Cowbri tape: : “Hydrolapathum Huds. 1. Oxwich, Parkmill, ne Llangenydd. 8. pe aege: Sei. 4, Jersey Marine, Aberdylai Neath Abbey, W. M. R. 5. Macbiis to Aberafan Moors. g. St. Fagan’ 7 Cardiff Nat. iti ape 1891-2. Acetosa L. Com R. Acetosella L. Fairly common. THYMELRACER *Daphne Laureola L. 6. Merthyr Mawr r. 7. Lave Din Powys, D. Porthkerry, Gigman Bridge, Liactwit. Slate he. - Stabrie 8. Penarth, Sheek LoRANTHACEE, Viscum album L. 8. Cardiff to Llantrissant, Bot, Rec, Club Rep. 1873. Croukiestsidnes St. Fagan’s, &e., Storrie E\uPHORBIACER. (E. oes i 8. a ‘Storvie, ae E. stricta L. 8. Penarth, Storrie.) Ve bartcie® es Li. x Oxwich and Nicholaston Woods, Park- loides mill, 38. eres Flower & Lees. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Liandough. 56 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Dinas Powys, D. 8. Taffs Well, Ystradowen. Cogan, Llandafi, &e., Storrie. BE. Paralias L. Frequent on the sandy coast. No record from 2 and 9.—~x portiandica. 5. An intermediate ser growing with both species on esaen Moors, was apparently t E. portlandica L. 1. Very common, Mumbles to Whitford Point. 5. Port Talbot, Margam and Kenfig Sands. 6. Porthcawl. E. Peplus L. Fairly frequent. E. exigua L. 1. Lianmadoc. Langland Bay, W. M. R. 3. Sketty, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely. 7. Barry, Wenvoe, Porthkerry, Boverton to St. Donat’s. 8, Cardiff, Penarth, Llandaff, &c., Storrie. *E, Lathyrus L. 1. Nicholaston Woods ; native, I believe. Mercurialis perennis L, Common Urticace. Ulmus glabra Huds. Common; no record for9. Native in the ills, sae nitida Syme. 4. Glyn Neath. 8. Aberdare, and often ony *U. campestris L. igen in the hills; more frequent in the egg No record or 2 imulus Lupulus L. 1. Frequ vent. 2. Pant aa Loughor. é; Glyn Neath, Resolven, Neath. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Hwenny, ar Ogmore Castle. 7. Barry, D. Marcross, St. nies? s, Ystra- iowa Stalling Down. 8. Aberdare, Mountain Ash, Welsh St. Donat’s, Taffs Well. Cardiff, Llandaff, Penarth, St. Fagan’s, &c., Storrie, 9. Lianishen, Rudry. Urtica dioica L. Common. — Var. angustifolia A. Blytt. 7. Near Laleston. U.urens L. 1. Common; native on the burrows. Less common in 8 to 8. No record for 2 and 9. Parietaria ramiflora Moench. Common. No record for 2.— Aberdar O. maculata L. Fairly common; no record for 3. — Subsp. ericetorum Linton. 4. Hills of Upper Neath ‘Valley 6. Ogmore 8. Aberdare, Cwmpare, Welsh St. D Ophrys flab ae * Oxwich, 8. v. geen Penrice, B.G. 5. Mar B. . Monknash. 7. Barry, D. Porth- kerry and Flat fons lakes: Aubrey Arms and Cowbridge, W. F. Evans. Sully, Storrie. (0. — Huds. 7. Barry Island, reported; also St. Nicholas, Stor 8 minium Moniedhis Br. 7. Beaupré, Cardiff Nat. Soe. Proc. 882. *Habenaria conopsea Benth. 5. Margam Marshes. 6. Pencoed, Bridgend, Storrie. 7. Barry, D. 8. St. Fagan’s, and 9. ‘teilisias Storrie, (H. albida Br. Near Cwm Ffrwd, Storrie.) *H. viridis Br. 1. Rhosili (var. bracteata A. Gray). 6. Bridgend, Miss F. M. Williams. 7. Liantrithyd, and 8. Hirwaun, Storrie. : *H, bifolia Br. 1. Rhosili. 7. Barry, D. Boverton, Storrte. 8. St. Fagan’s, St. George’s, Storrie (H. montana Durand & Schinz. (A. gece Bab.). 7. Sully Wood, and 8. St.-y-Nyll, Storrie. I have seen no specimen.) TRiwex. Tris fetidissima L. 1. Nicholaston Woods. 2. Penllergaer, Gutch. 5,6, 7. Common on sands and limestone. 8. Penarth, Lavernock, Leckwith I, Pseudacorus # Common. — Var. acoriformis (Bor.). 1. Frequent. 8. Crumlin Pe 5. "Port Talbot, Aberafan to Baglan. 7. Porthkerry. 8. Peters AMARYLLIDEZ. Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus L. 1. Rather common. 2. Penller- gaer, Hb, Motley. 5. Gelli Bychan, jl. pleno, Hb. Motley. 6. Nottage, J. Bot. 1902, p. 317. Pencoed, Cardif Nat. Soc. Proc. 1898. 7. Llantwit se DD. he Co edriglan, &e., Storrie. 9. a «Galanthus nivalis L. se 1 Dillwyn. Oxwich Woods, S. W. Jenkins. 2. Pelle Diilwyn, 6. Tondu. 8. Cardiff, J. Bot. 1884, p. 257. 9. Coedygoras, Nant Dulas, Storrie. Quite possibly native. DroscorE&. Tamus communis L. Common, Liniacex Ruscus aculeatus L. 1. Pwlldu, on Cliffs Bay, Parkmill, Oxwich Point, nS Woods. 6. Coytrahen, Storrie. 7 Cowbridge, Swanbri Sully, The Leys, Storrie. 8. Peterston, iene, Near flaamehon jae Tunnel, Rhondda Fi. g 2 60 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Asparagus maritimus Mill. — a altilis L. 1. Sands, Oxwich ee close to the Rectory. 5. Port Talbot Docks.—f maritima sad % Oxwich Bay, ‘erate Bay. Worms Head, &., Gute fonches Gutch, Singleton, Flower. 4. Briton Ferry, tee Nat. Soc. Proe. jag 5. Sker, Hb. Brit. Mus. 7. Cowbridge, G. Fontigary, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. Cardiff, G. %*Polygonatum multiflorum All. 7. Wenvoe. 8. Coedriglan, Liwyn-y-grant, Storrie. 9. are " Storie *Convallaria hari La ioe ee 8. Coedr os Storrie. . oe Williams. Allium vineale L. 1. Quoity Green. i“ ial Gutch. 7. St. vee de “le Fontigary. 8. Penarth. — Var. eit yme. ney: parent: —Var. erm (Thuill.). foley ee owys Moors, ere Nat. Soc. ae 91-2, 3. Cardiff ae Nat. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. Penarth to ieee 9. Llanishen, Pengam Marshes. an, D.! A, ursinum L, 1. Frequent. 2. Penllergaer, Swansea Sci. S Proc. 1895-6, 4. ma! W.M.R. Glyn Neath, Neddfechan Glen, Ysgwd Eynon Gam. 7. Sully, Storrie. Barry, D. 8. Pontsarn, Penarth, Leckwith, Tatts Well. St. Fagan’s, Storrie. 9. Cefn On, Craig Lianishen, Ruperra. * Scilla satenalia L. 7. Nash Point to Dunraven, Hb. Car S. verna Huds. 1. Swansea to Burry Holm. 6. Po ane to Sker. 7. Nash Point to ne Llancarfan, Storrie. Endymion non- so te Garcke. Common.—fl. albo. 4. Hills vty R. Perddyn. 5. Baglan, Mrs. R. W. Llewellyn. 8. Tafis *Gagea lutea the 8. a Coch Woods, Hb. Cardiff, fide Storrie; specim w gon Narthecium ‘Caliiata ‘Hads. Rather frequent; no records for 6 and 7. Paris — L. 1. Llanmadoc. Nicholaston oe other woods, Gutch, 8. Kilvey, Gutch. 4. Briton Ferry, Gutch. Ewenny, Mise F.M. Williams. 7. Wenvoe. Owm Ge scebes "Storrie. 8. Taffs Well, Forest Wood, Yeteudowen: Whitchurch, Miss F. M. Williams. Coedriglan, Storrie. St. Fagan’s, Hob. Cardiff. 9. Llanishen, D.! Lisvane, Hb. Cardiff. JUNCACER. Juncus bufonius L, Common. — Var. fasciculatus Koch. 1. Fairwood Common. 5. Port Talbot and Aberafan. 6. Porthcawl. 7. St. Athan’s Road, Stalling Dow J. squarrosus 2. Go Facts “Common, Mynydd oc Loughor and Loughor Common. 8. Clydach, Hb. Geld Hills of Upper Neath Valley. 5. Hills above Port Talbot. 8 oe on the hills. 9. Caerphilly - Gerardi Loisel. 1. Pecsiens on the coast. 3. Pat Gutch. 4, Jersey Marine. 5. Port Talbot. 6. (mer A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 61 of R. ee. “is Sands. 7. St. Athan’s Road, Porthkerry. nt. J. effusus L. Frequent; no record for 6. J. conglomeratus L, Frequent; no record for 9.— x glaucus (= J. diffusus Hoppe). 8. Crumlin Bog, J. Bot. 1892, p. 297. oors. J. maritimus Lam. 1. Frequent. 2. Loughor. 4. Jersey Marine, 5. Port Talbot. 7. Sully Island. 8. Grangetown, e J. acutus L. 1. Liangenydd, eases! Ri a Burrows. Crumlin ne pate 4, Jersey Marin argam Moors, Pot Talbot. 6. Newton Nottage, Gutch. J. bulbosus L. Fre equent; no record for 6 and 7.—Var. Kochit Bab. 1. Fairwood Common, Hb. Brit. Mus. J. obtusiflorus Ehrh. 1. sig oo whe mage Down, Whitford Burrows. 3 and 4. Crumlin Burr 5. Port Talbot. Kenfig Pool, Hb. Motley. 8. Peterston, Welsh St. Donat’s, Ystradowen oor. J. articulatus L. Frequent; no record for J. alpinus Vill. 6. Porthcawl Sands. S “Near Cardiff, fide Ar, Bennett. J. acutiflorus Ehrh. soya frequent; no record for 3.—Var. multiflorus Weihe. 4. Oraig-y-llyn. Lazula Forsteri DC. saeaasie: Dillwyn. 7. Coed Mawr, ~ and 8, St. Fagan’s, Coeigln, &c., Storrie. LL. pilosa Willd. 1, Bishopston Valley, Lianmadoc. 4. Fre- quent, 5. Graigafan "Hb. Moti tley. 7 Coed Mawr, Storrie. 8. Aberdare Valley, Merthyr Tydfil, Garth Wood. St. Fagan’s, Coedriglan, &c., Storrie. 9. Caerphilly, Craig Llanishen, Lisvane. —Var. Borreri Bromf. 9. oie a fide Ar. Bennett. I could not see L. Forstert in the localit LL. sylvatica Gaud. 3. Yeislytevi Glanrhyd, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1898. Swansea, Moggridge. 4. Melincourt Glen and the Upper Neath Valley, Craig-y-llyn. 7. Swanbridge, Wenvoe, &c., Storrie. 8. Aberdare, Rhondda Cliffs, Ystradowen. Penarth, St. *D. campestris Lam. & DC. Frequent; no records for 2 and 9. L. multiflora Lej.—a umbellata Lond. Cat. Frequent.—f con gesta Lond. Cat. 2. Loughor, Hd. Bicheno. 4. AbaponeWis, Craig-y-llyn. 8. Aberdare, Rhondda Vall ey. TYPHACEA, Typha latifolia L. 1. Oxwich, Bay er ema 2. Pant ccna genes! Sot Gover Mynydd Cadle. 3. Crumlin Bog. Glai Pontardawe, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1898. 4, "Jersey Marine. 6. Pools oe the sea. "T. Barry and Cadoxton. Flemingstone Moors, Storrie. 8. Pyeot pet Peterston, a wen, Liantrissant, Taffs Well. 9. Cefn On. Pengam, Storr T. angustifolia L. 1. Oxwich. e, Penllergaer, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 3 and 4. Crumlin Bog. 5. Port Talbot. 62 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Sparganium erectum L. 1. Quoity Green. 2. Penllergaer. 8. Crumlin Bog. Si — oe Gutch. Glais to Pontardawe, Swansea Sei. Soc. Proc, 1898. Neath, Gutch. Resolven. 6. Kwenny. 4 Llantwit Major, Nil 8. Liwydcoed, Peterston, Grange- town. 9. Caerphilly, Pengam Marshes *S. neglectum Beeby. 1. Oxwich, Burry Green, 8. Crumlin Bog. 7. Cowbridge. S. simplex Huds. 1. Killay to Penard, sk A D, 2. Penllergaer, Swansea Sei, Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 3. Cru Hs - Singleton, Gutch. 4. Neath, Gutch. 6. Porthcawl, wie yd. 7. Cadoxton, Storrie. 8. Aberdare Valley. eee Llandaff, &e., Storrie.— Var. longissimum Fr. 8. Crumlin Bog. *S 4, Liynfawr and ‘Leafae ch. S. minimum Fr. 1. Pitton Common. fe Crumlin Bog. Single- ton Marsh, Gutch. Tennant’s Canal. . Welsh St. Donat’s. Hensol Lakes and Merthyr Canal, Storrie. AROIDER. Arum maculatum L. Frequent; no records for 2 and 9 *Acorus Calamus Li, 2. Penllergaer. 4, Briton Ferry, Flower. LEMNACER. Lemna trisulea L. 38. Swansea, J. Bot. 1890, p. 157. 5. Mar- gam to Aberafan Moors. -s ‘ccc Moors. 8. Grangetown. Glyncornel, &¢., Rhondda . minor i, Panna’ 8. Crumlin Bog. 5. The moors. 6. Merthyr Mawr and Warren, apie Major to Llandow. 7. Llandough, Cadoxton, Barry. 8. Aberdare Valley, Grangetown. Rhondda Masel ie Rhondda Fi. *L. gibba L. 8. Ca oar in Aberdare Valley. Grangetown. ag polyrrhiza L. 5. Port Talbot and Margam Moors. 8. Cardiff torrie. Blaenyewm, &¢., Rhondda Fi. (Wolfia ferhicn Wim. 8. Roath Dock, Storrie.) ALISMACEX, Alisma Plantago-aquatica L. Com A. ranunculoides L. 1. Oxwich. 3. ‘Orlin n Bog. Singleton, Sketty Bog, Gutch. Gostiyrslis, Hb. Patani 4, “Neath ‘Canal, W. M. R. Liynfawr and Llynfach, Brit. 4ss. Handb. 5. Kenfig ae - Bully, D. St Hilary, St. Athan’s, &c., Storrie. 8. Ystradowen. a natans Buchen. 8. Crumlin Bog, Singleton, Flower. gittaria ye der Toms Penllergaer. 5. Margam’ Moors. 9. Deakin weeiber, Cardiff, ee ——- L. 1. Oxwich Bay. 8. Crumlin sap and Ten anal. 4. Resolven. 5. Margam Moors. 6. Hwenny, g mem “. Llantwit Major, Flemingstone Moors. “Sully, Barry, D. Seana, Storrie. 8. Cardiff, Storrie. 9. Llanishen, A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 63 NataDAcER. Triglochin palustre L. 2. Loughor Marsh, Gutch. 3, Crumlin Burrows. 4. Jersey Marine, Neath. 5. Margam Moors. 7. Mer- thyr Mawr. 8. Peterston, Ystradowen ce 7’. maritimum L. Fairly common by the sea; nes record for 6. 1 Potamogeten natans L. 1. Liangenydd Mars h. PRR ge R. Loughor near gh ada 3. — n Bog. 4. Neath. Kenfig enny. 7. Cowbridge. 8. Asia, Merthyr Pool. 6. Ew Tydfil, Peterston, Welsh St. Donat’s. Cardiff, Storrie. PSs polygonifolius Pour. 1, 4,8. Frequent. 2, Cockett, Mynydd Garngoch. 5. Port Talbot. 9. Caerphilly (P. coloratus Hornem, P. alpinus Balb., P. pralongus Wulf., P. obtusifolius Mert. & Koch are included by ‘Storie, but no speci- mens are available. P. heterophylius Schreb. 38. Crumlin Bog. 5. Kenfig Pool. 8. Cones Storrie. cens Lh. 5. Kenfig Pool, Hb. Motley P a aH be de — ipa 5. Kenfig Pool. 8. Hensol, St. Fagan’s, Storrie, Peterst P. ortepus Li: 2, Mynyaa ‘Garngoch. 3. Crumlin Bog and Tennant’s Canal. 4. Neath, Glyn Neath. 5. Kenfig Pool. 6. Porthcawl. 7. Cadoxton, Cowbrid ge, &c., Flemingstone Moors 8. Peterston. St.-y-Nyll, Storrie. P, densus Li. J. Cadoxton Moors, D, Llandough, Llantwit Major, Barry to a ardiff, Storrte. P, pusillus L, 1. Killay to Penard, G. C. D. 2. Pontardulais. 3. Tennant’s Canal. 4. Neath Canal, Gutch. 5. On the moors. 7. St. Athan’s Road. 8. Hirwaun to Penrhiwceiber P. pectinatus L, 8. Tennant’s Canal, J. Bot. "1886, p. 377. 5. Kenfig Pool. *P. interruptus Kit. 2. Loughor. 5. Port Talbot. 7. St. oe $ Road. 8. a — Var. scoparius Fryer. 1. Oxwi Tennant’s Can * Ruppia sagen L. . Swansea, Hb. Geld R. rostellata Koch. 1. North coast, J. Bot. is. p 207. 3. Loughor. 3. Salthouse Point, Fiower, 4. ome Canal, Flower. 5. Port Talbot and Margam Moors. apart palustris L. 1, Oxwich, Piacrnidian to Salthouse Point. 2. Loughor. 4. Neath. 5. Port Talbot and Kenfig. 7. Llandough. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s. Cardi Zostera marina L. 7. Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. Sully, Barry, Storrie, 8, Penarth, Storrie. CypERACE (Eleocharis ingge one Roem. & Schulte 3. Swansea, Gutch, 5. Graigafan, Hd. Motley. 8. Tafis Well, ‘Storie. 9. Caerphilly i This record must remain doubtful. Gutch’s specimens so named are S. setaceus. E. palustris Roem. & Schultes. Common in low grou EF. muiticaulis Sm. 1. Frequent. 2. Gowerton Gone 64 A FLORA OF “GLAMORGANSHIRE 8. Singleton and Neath Canal, Gutch. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s. Cardiff, Llandaff, &c., Storie. Hirwaun. 9. Pengam, Storrie. Near Caerphilly. Scirpus ay nana Lightf.. 1. Frequent. 8. Crumlin Bog. Swansea, sa eat pen 5. Kenfig, Aberafan to Baglan 8. us L. 1. Fairwood Common, Rhosili_ Down. 2. Measid Gaeroooin 8. Swansea, Gutch. 4 and 8. Frequent in the hills. 8. Ystradowen Moor. : S. fluitans L. 1. Fairwood Common, Cefn Bryn. 3. Crumlin Bog. 4. Llynfach, ra 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, Ystradowen. S. filiformis Savi. 1 1. Common. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 4. Jersey Marine. 5. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. 6. Porthcawl, Woods. Most, if not all, is var. monostachys Hook S. lacustris L. 8. Crumlin Bog. Swansea, Gutch. 6. Estuary of the Ogmore. 7. St. Athan’s Road, Llandough. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, Peterston. St.-y-Nyll, Storrie. 9. Rumney River, Storrie S. Tabernamontatt Ganol:2: Oxwich, Whitford Point, Salt- house Point. 2. — 8 and 4. Crumlin Bog. 5. Frequent. 7. St. Athan's Roa S. maritimus te " Rather frequent. — sie sn 09 Koch. Oxwich Bay, Llanmadoc Marshes. 6. Aber —Var. fora = Sonder. 1. Oxwich "— 4, Crumlin Oe 5. Aberafan. *S._sylvaticus L. Pen — a 8. Peteraton Taffs Well, Pa hiccunes, Aberdar ane, Storr an vayinatum Li, Rather Set es no pares for an E. polystachion L. Common; no — for 6 and 7.—Var. longifolium Hoppe. 1. Halisedod Com paniculatum Druce. 4. Heawsll. ‘Momiain; Flower d Lees. Llynfach, Storrie. 8. Penderyn. Rynchospora fusca Ait. 8. Crumlin Bog, Hd. Brit. Mus. Rf. alba Vahl. 8. Crumlin oe Singleton, Gutch. Schenus nigricans L. 8. Cru Bret Westcombe. Cladium Mariscus Br. 8 ind . Crumlin Bog. Carea dioica L, 8. Te and Sketty 1 Bogs, Gutch. 4. Aber dylais, Flower. 6. Pencoed, Penprise, Storrie. 8. Hills renal Llwydcoed mets Merthy# Tydfil. Cc. i> sL. 1. Rhosili, Tankeylake Moor, Whitford Bur- rows. Pak iefivtisns, 4. bas A yn, Llynfach, hills above R. Porddyn, 6. Ewenny Down. 8. Ystradowen Moor, Tafis Well, m req C’. disticha Huds. 5. Margam Moors, Port Talbot. 8. Peterston, sg sees ot Lone ai C. arenaria L. Common; no records for 2 and 9. *C, tianira Schrank. 3. Sketty Bog, Hb. Brit. Mus. 8. Quaker’s Yard, Storri C. jeeleidats L. 1. Fairwood Common, Rhosili Down. ‘ A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE . 65 2. Penllergaer. 8. Crumlin Bog. Glanrhyd, Swansea Sci. Soc. 4, Proc. 1893. Below Craig-y-llyn, Neath, Tennant’s Canal. 5. Port Talbot. Margam Marshes, J. Bot. 1902, p. 250. Glyn- rwg, Storrie. ‘8. Rberiece Ystradowen Moor, Liancaiach. C. vulpina L. Rather frequent. C. muricata L. Not unfrequent; no records for 8 and 4. *C, Leersit Schultz. 1. Swansea, Rep. B. i C. 1889. 5. Pyle. 7. "eu ws Major to Monknash. 8. Aberdar @i ¥,. Schultz. 1. Rhosili. 5. Pvlend. Bot. 1907, p. 168. C. praia Stokes. 8. Cardiff. C. echinata Murr. Frequent; no records for 5, 6, 7. C. remota L. Rather frequent. C. canescens Li. os and Sketty Bogs, B. G. 4. Llyn- fach. 8. Hirwaun oe C. leporina L. Rather vacua: no record for 6. C. elata All. 3 and 4. Crumlin _~ 5. Kenfig Pool, Diliwyn. 7. Flemingstone Moors.— x acuta. 8. Crumlin Bog.— x Goo enowtt. 7. Flemingstone Moors. C. acuta L. 6. Ogmore Castle.— x Goodenowii. 8. Crumlin Bog. C. Goodenowit Gay. Common; no record for 7.—Var. fev (Fleischer). 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare.—Var. juncella (T. M Fries), 8. Crumlin Bog. 8. Aberdare. — Var. melena (Wimm.). eft mmon C.limosa LL. 8. rion Bog. Hb, Brit. Mus. Std Bog, B. G. *C, montana L. 6. Ew i in great abundance. C, pilulifera L. 1. Pitton Green. 4. Hirwaun Caiman, — above Aberpergwm. 6. Kwenny ews: 8. Hirwaun, Mountai A on. C. caryophyliea Latour. 1. ——: 4, sie Neath. 65. Pyle. —— ‘Hb. Motley. 6. e Down. 7. Barry Island. 8. Aberdare, Mountain Ash, Mesinte ‘Onsie. 9. Caerphilly, Craig Llanishen. Penylan, Coed-y-goras, Storrie C. pallescens Li. 4. Fre equent. s Ynysygwas, Hb. Motley. 8. Aberdare, Mountain Ash. 9. Lisv C. Boni ees L. Rather frequent no records for 6 and 7. OC. pendula Huds. Penllergaer, Swansea Fcso ae Proc. 1895-6. “i otek rhyd, tices ea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1898. 4. Glyn Neath to Resolven. 7. Porthkerry. ‘8. Leckwith. a locality on which Top. Bot. record depends is in Caermarthen é C. strigosa Huds. 8. Crumlin and Sketty 9 Flowe er. C. sylvatica Huds. 1. gh pes mera oe Killay. 4. Aber- pergwm, Perddyn Gorge. 5. Mar, 7. Merthyr Dyfan, Wenvoe, Cadoxton, Liandough. 8. Abe Taffs oe sia Wood, Ystradowen. 9. Cefn On, Llanishen, Rudry, Lisv C. helodes Link. 1. Oystermouth, Woods. 3. Yatalyfer 4. Neddfechan Gorge. 8. Taffs — — Yard, 9. Common on the Caerphilly hill rang: *Q. binervis Sm. Common on one and hills in 1, 2, 4 \ C: distaus L. 1. Three Cliffs Bay, Lianmadoc, eddie 66 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Gowerton, J. Bot. 1892, p.297. 2. Loughor, Hb. Motley. 5. Port Talbot. 7. a St. Athan’s Road, Barry Island. 9. Pen- gam Marshe O. fulva "Hook. Ii — Common, Hb. Brit. Mus. 2. Mynydd Geragoeh, Gowerton Common. 3. Ystalyfera. 4. — above R. Perddyn. 8. Penderyn, Hirwauy, Ystradowen Moo C. extensa Good. 1. Three Cliffs Bay, Whitford ‘Point. 4. Crumlin Burrows. 7. - Borthkesry, meri! of R. Ddaw C. flava L. Common; no Aisehee and 6. Gucenslig var. minor Towns. but type at 4, Craig-y-l ign *O, Hideri Khrh. 3. Swansea, ” J. Bot. 5806, p.112. 65. Aber- afan, Port Talbot. C. hirta L. Rather common; no record for 8.—var. hirteformis Pers, 5. Margam Moors, Port Talbot. 8. Merthyr Tydfil. *O, Pseudocyperus L. 8. Crumlin Bog, Lights. C, acutiformis Kbrh. 8. Crumlin Bog. 4. Neath, Tennant’s Canal. 5. Mar ae am Marshes, Hb. Brit. Mus. Baglan Marshes. 6. Ogmore Castle (with var. Kochiana DC.). 8. Aberdare, Welsh St. Donat’ : Domesiots, Ystradowen Moor. — x riparia. 8. Peterston. C. riparia Curtis. Rather frequent; no record fo C. inflata Huds. (rostrata Stokes). Rather “00 no records for 7 and 9. *C, vesicaria L. 8. Aberdare, Peterston Moor. Cardiff, Storrie: GRAMINER, [I owe aA of the following information to Professor Hackel, of St. Poelto halaris in L. eer nee *Anthoxanthum odoratum L. Com * dlopecurus — Huds. 5. “Port Talbot. 7. Merthyr Dyfan. 8. Penarth, Storrie. 9. Pengam Salt-marshes (A. aqualis Sobel. 8. Grangetown, Leckwith, &c., “Storrie.) - geniculatus Li. ate on; no record for 6. A, bulbosus Gouan. . Gowerton, J. Bot. 1892, p. 297. 7. Porthkerry. 8. Cardiff, Bi. “Moors. 9. Pengam Marshes, much. . pratensis L. 1. Llanrhidian. 4. Glyn Neath. 5. Port Talbot Marshes, brags 2 6. — Lloyd. 7. Wenvoe, Sully, Cadoxton, &e. 8. Aberdare, Peters Milium ofrusum Lis 4: sing shire ° “Bot. 1892, p. 297. 5. Mar- gam, Hb. Motley. 7. Din as Powys, Storrie. 8. Moknnla Ash ; Forest Wood, Ystradowen. Llandaff, Storrie. Phleum os L. Frequent; no record for "Meek nodosum L.). 1. Whitford Burrows, Port Eynon. 6. Merthyr Mawr, a to 3. Cornely. 7. Cadoxton, Stalling cmt 8. _ P.arenarium lL. 1, Penard, Oxwich, ao Holm to Whitford Burrows. 8. Swansea, Hb. Bicheno. 4. n Ferry, Hb. Brit. Mus. 5. Sker, Hb. Motley. Aberafan. 6. Special. 8. Cardiff, Agrostis setacea Curtis. 1. Cefn Bryn, Frog Moor, cliffs Ox- A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 67 wich to Port Eynon. 6. S. Cornely, Ewenny Down. Stormy Down, Woods. St. Mary Hill Down, Waun near Pencoed, ae ee. : Stalling Down, coast near St. Athan’s Road. 8. Welsh St. onat dA. canina L. 2. Gowerton Common, Mynydd Garngoch. 8. Crumlin Bog, Ystalyfera. 4. Hirwaun Common. 7. Stalling Down. 8. Welsh h St. Donat’s. 9. Caerphilly. sips Storrie. —Var. sales Doell. 7 mares 2 by oe ca A.alba L. Frequent; no record for vee stolonifera (L.). 1. Oxwich. 8. Crumlin Bog. pene ‘Gutch 5. Port Ta Ibot. FF : 7. Bar Asbhera’ Graebn. 65. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff. — Var. gigantea Meyer. 5. Port Talbot. — Var. prorepens Aschers. 5, Aberafan Moors.—Var. maritima Meyer. 1. Oxwich and Langland Boys. 4, Jersey Marine. 5. Port Talbot, Mootia. 7. The Ley Cardiff Docks.—Var. oe” a 1. Oxwich Bay, Three “ei Catisitgtoeeie: epigetos Roth. 1. Hor 2. Lou Hb. Motley. 3. Swan eee Gutch. 6. Porthcawl pak i if Bulg Tales, error; specimen so labelled in Hb. Motley i is Trisetum flavescens, and I have never seen the species in Glamorgan Ammophila arenaria Link. = nds in 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Aira caryophyliea L. Com Common; no a ee tee *Corynephorus canescens Beauv. 5. Aberafan and Port Talbot, native. 8. Cardiff Docks, Storrie; introduced Deschampsia remiareyt Beauv. Common. —Var. br evifolia Parn. 3. Ystalyfera, Petersto D. flexuosa Trin. Gausigen: Holeus mollis L. lee: boge especially in 8 and 9, tig L. Comm ‘isetum flavescens Be ane: Frequent on the limestone ; less so elievithigee: No records for 2 an Avena Scns Huds. 1. Rhosili, glabrous form; cliffs of Gower in several places. 6. Ewenny Down. 7. Cold ik Swan- bridge. 8. Morlais Castle. +A. pratensis L. 7. Porthkerry, Swanbridge. ka aie um oo Mert. & Koch. Common.—Var. nodosum Reichb. Rath Steglingia dicbahans Sepak: Common. Phragmites vulgaris Druce. tbo comm Cynosurus govt yi: mmon. sn BS “ ovatus Aschers. & Graebn. 1, Port Evi Worse Head, &c. 7. Nash Point. oeleria cristata Pers. 1. P geod ‘a secteay as Burrows, 6. Kiwenny Down. Pwlicawl, Hd. Barry Island. 8. Pontypridd, &c., Storrie. 9. hoe i ae hove: 68 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Molinia cerulea Moench. Frequent; no record for 6. (Catabrosa aquatica Beauv. 8. Cardiff, and 9. Pengam Moors, Storrie.) Melica nutans L. 1. Lianrbidian, Nicholaston Woods, &c. 3. Ystalyfera. 4. Melincourt and Neddfechan Glens. 7. Wenvoe, Ystradowen. 8 and 9. Frequent. Dactylis gi vot L. Very common.—Var. congesta Gren. & Ge... 4 ich to Burry Holm. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare. Briza media L. 1. Frequent on the cliffs. 2. Gow 4, Rhigos, see) pe 6. Porthcawl to 8. Cornely, Ogmore brivis 7, 8,9. Freque Poa tae Ve Sry Someone *P, bulbosa Li. f. vivipara. 7. “Barry. This is the Continental form, Rare however, occurs also in England in native localities. I consider it native here. *P, nemoralis L. 1. Reynoldstone. 6. maar Coed Mwsiwr, Storrie. 8. oe ee Coed 1 r, St. Fagan’s, Serve *P. compr . Oxwi eee rton. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 4. Calan: we Abacos ost Cardiff one 9. Caerphilly. —Var. polynoda (Parn.). 1. Oxwich. 8. Aberdar P. pratensis L. Common; no records for 2 did 5.—Var. sub- cerulea (Sm.). Common. — Var ngustifolia (.). 5. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. Port Talbot Docks. 8. err wand. P, trivialis L. Common.—Var. parviflora Parn. 8. Aberdare. pelle i" Br. Common; no record for 6.—Var. pedicel- lata Town . Oxwich, Whitford Burrows. 8. Cramlin Bog. 4, Neath: “¢ Dork Talbot seen 7. Liantwit Major: Merthyr i G. plicata Fr. 1. Rhosili, Tisntiuatl 2. Loughor. 8. Crumlin Bog. 5. Margam Moors. 6. Merthyr Mawr. 7. Cowbridge. 8 Aberdare, Penrhiweeiber, Peterston, Llandaff, Llantrissant, 9. Craig Lianishen, Lisvane.—Var. depauperata Orépi 1. Lian- genydd. 3. Ystalyfera. 5. Port Talbot, J. Bot. 1902, p. 250. G. aquatica Wahib. 1. Parkmill. 2. Loughor. Crumlin Bog. 4. Jersey Marine, Neath, Resolven. 5. Por £ Tslbot to pace m. 6. Hwenny. 7. Flemingstone, Cadoxton. é: Penarth, Storrie. G. maritima Mert. & Koch. 1. Penard to Oxwich, Rhosili, Penclawdd. 4. Neath, Westcombe. 5. Fr requent. 7. HKstuary of R. Ddaw. Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 345. 8. Cardiff. 9. Pen n- gam Marshes. G. distans Wahlb. 1. Llanmadoc. 2. Loughor, Hb. Motley. 3. Llandwr, anete Swansea, Hb. Cardiff. 5. Port fate Mar- gam Moors. 7. St. Athan’s Road, Porthkerry. 8. Car 9. Pengam veer . Borreri Bab. 8. Cardiff Docks. Festuea procumbens Kunth. 8. Cardiff. 9. Pe Marshes. a Kunth. Frequent; no record fo F. octbcesDivaded Kunth. 1. Penard to Dict rry Holm, common. 3. Swansea. 6. Porthcawl. 7. St. Donat’s to Nash Point. Cold A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 69 Knap, Storrie. Flat Holm, Ho. Brit. Mus. 8. Aberdare, Penarth, EK. Moors, Storrie. IF’, membranacea a (fasciculata Forsk. uniglumis Soland.). 1, Frequent. 3. Swansea, Hd. Cardif. 4. Briton Ferry, Hb. Brit. Mus. 65. Port Talbot, hewn 6. Porthcawl]. 8. Ballast, Car- diff, Sterrie. F. Myuros L. 8. obey Peterston, Cardiff Docks. F’. bromoides L, Frequen F’, ovina L. Rather frequent no record for F. rubra L. Common.— Var. arenaria (Osbeck). 1. Penard, Oxwich Bay. fauna pas W. M. R.— Var. pruinosa Hackel. 1. Paviland ia: Rhosili. 7. Swanbridge, Porthkerry, Aberthaw to Llantwit Majo *F, tleaticn Vill. 3. Ystalyfera . elatior L. Rather frequent ; no record for 8 and 6.—Var pseudo- Peas Hackel. 38. Near Killay, &e., Gutch. 4, Pontnedd- an, Gutch. 8. Cardiff and Aberdare. —Var. pratensis Huds. 5. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. 7. Liandough. 8. Aberdare. *F’, arundinacea Schreb. 1. Parkmill, Liangenydd. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Nash Point, Aberthaw, Porthkerry, Barry Island, Cadoxton, Swanbridge. 8. Cardiff, Aberdare. 9. Pengam Marshes. Bromus giganteus L. 1. Bla ck Pill, W.M.R. Penrice, Oxwich Barry, Cadoxton > Wenvoe. 8. Aberdare, Peterston, Welsh St. ~— s. 9. Rudr ramosus Heds. i. Contes 8. Swansea, Gutch. 4. Nedd- paler Glen, Glyn Neath, Resolven. 6, 7,9. Frequent. 8. Aber- dare, Taffs Well, Peterston, Welsh St. Donat’s. Gaara, Rough- break, Coedriglan, &e., Storrie, *B, erectus Huds. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl, S. Cornely, Ewenny. 7. Cadoxton, Swanbridge, Porthkerry, Llantwit Major, Nash Point. 8. Aberdare, Welsh St. Donat’s. Cardiff, Storrie.— : mo B. commutatus Sehidad, ay Oxwich, Penclawdd. 5. Port Tal- bot. 6. Ewenny Bridge. ne Barry, Llantwit Major. 8. a gah Merthyr Tydfil. Cardiff, &c., Storrie. 9. Pengam Marshe B. mollis L. area Var. glabratus Doell. 1. Tanipiiea Bay, W.M.R. Rhosili. 8. Swansea, Wats. B. H.C. Rep., 1888-9. 7. Barry. 8. Aberdare.—Var. leptostachys Pers. 6. Po rtheawl. 8. Aberdare. — Var. Thominii (Hard.). 8. Aberdare. — Var. Lloydi- anus Gren. & Godr. 1. Penard to Broughton se 5. Aberafan. 7, Llantwit Major.—Var. hordeaceus Fr. 1. rachy —— sylvaticum . & Bo baie P Cgiihnin.—— Var. glabrescen Syme. 5. Pyle Hb. Motley. . pinnatum Beauv. 7. Cold Bay. native. 8. Aberdare, in- ieddibaedoe Var. ay agers oe ae ee Kna Lolium perenne a ristatum Schum. 6. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare. o Var. "dalioim (Braun.). Frequent; no records for 4 and 6.— Var. cristatwm Doell. 1. Llangenydd. 70 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Port Talbot. 8. eoammeeasinab Moor.—Var. veg ati M. Masters. 8. Aberdare. 9. Pengam Marshes Triticum Sree m LU. 2 Gowerton, near Pantyffynon. 3. Ystalyfera. 4. ses ade Neddfechan and Perddyn Glens. 7. Cog, iff. 1, 8,4 . Porthcawl. 7. T Leys. 8. Penarth Ferry, Hb. Cardiff. — Var. megastachyum Fr, 8 and 4. Crumlin Burrows. 5. Port Talbot.— x repens. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl. Lepturus filiformis Trin. oe Gowerton. 2. Loughor, Hb. Mot- ley. 8. Port Tennant, Gutch. 4. Neath. 6. Port Talbot, Margam Marshes. 7. St. Athan’s Toad, bonheur Sully, Barry, ‘we, Storrie. 8. Cardiff, Grangetown. 9. Pengam Marshes. Nea Le eys. *Elymus arenarius L. 8. Swansea, Moggridge. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Porthkerry, Storrie. Finice Hymenophyllum tunbridgense Bhi Melincourt Glen, hoe mbe. Brincous, Dillwyn. Portnall B.G. (8. Nea Br. Ferns. Pontneddfechan, par Orie -y- iit Daren Bwllfa. Padell-y-Bwich, B.A. Willian Cwm Selsig, Be Graig- fach and Graigfawr, Treorchy. Adiantum Capillus- a L. 6and7. Barry Island to Dun- raven and Southerndown. Aberdare. Mr. Comley, gardener to Mr. James Lewis, told me dat he found this species in abundance on a hill in the Cynon Valley thirty-five years ago. It has now disappeared. ete aquilina L. Common. ryptogramme crispa Br. 8. Daren Bwllfa. ondda Fl. Padell-y-Bwlch, B. A. Wiilkioe. ae Ce Blechnum Spicant With. raat no i for 6 Asplenium lanceolatum Huds. . Penm Hb. E. F. Linton! 2 and 3, Town Hill, Swansea, Guteh. 8. Pontypridd, Hb. Cardiff! A, ~Aibinksis -nigrum Li, Frequent. A. marinum L. a Pd ieedtcteten to Rhosili. 4. Briton Ferry, Lightf. Neath, New 6. Dunraven, Newman. Ki Nash Point, Lightf. 7 Is ] asi "Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. A. viride Huds. Watson's record (-‘ Lees sp. " was from a Hieboaalline locality. 4, Pontneddfechan, Gutch. 8. Morlais Castle. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE : 71 A. Trichomanes Li. Common. A, Ruta-muraria Lu. Common ; no record for 5. Athyrium Filia-femina Roth. Fe requent. — Var. erectum sine! ¥ Fairwood Common. 8. Crumlin Bog. 8. Mountain Ash, aun.—Var. “ecee Roth. . 8. aout Ash. — Var. incisum Roth. 1. "Aborperg erach bificinas um DC. Common; no capi: for 9.— Var. tan Milde. 4. Glyn Neath. 8. Aberdar Phyllitis Scolopendrium Newm. spe ei no record for 2. Cystopteris fragilis Bernh. 4. Craig-y- -llyn, Brit, Ass. Handb. 8. Aberdare, Morlais Castle, Pontsarn, Dowie, Rhondda Valley.— Var. dentata Hook. 8. Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 4. Neath Valley, Dillwyn. ( Polystichum oe Roth. 4. Pontneddfechan, B. G.) P, lobatum Presl. 1. Penrice, Oxwich, Nicholaston Woods. Swansea, Gutch. Yealviocs. 4. Glyn Neath, Neddfechan ain, Perddyn Gorge, Hirwaun Common. 5. Mawdlam to 8S. Corne 6. Merthyr Mawr, eweuny y- 7. Cwrtyrala, Cardift Nat. Soe. Pee 1867. 8. Garth Wood. St. Fagan’s, Coed Mawr, Coed-y-Mwstwr, &c., Storrie.—Var. aculeatum Syme. 1. Penrice. 4. Glyn Neath. P. angulare Pres]. 1. Oxwich, Nicholaston Woods, Ha watos. Llangenydd, Reynoldstone. ie Labs sea to Crumlin Bog, Gutch. 4, Craig-y-llyn, Hirwaun Con , Glyn Neath. 5. Mawdlam to 8. Comely 7. Liandough, eee er 8. St. Fagan’s, &., Laaesed Thelypteris Bory. 3. Sketty Bog, Cwmbwrla, &e., Gutch. 4. Llynfach. L. montana T. Moore. Common; no record for 7. L. Filiz-mas Pres]. Common.—Var. afinis Bab. 1. Llange nydd. 8. Garth Wood.—Var. paleacea Moore. 8. Padell-y-Bwlch, Wotstals Ash. dis spinulosa Presl. 8. Crumlin Bog. 6. Maesteg, Dillwyn. L. aristata Rendle & Britten. 1. Oxwich, Rhosili. 2, 8, 4,8 Frequent. 9. Caerphilly, Lisvane.—Var. a/pina Moore. 8. Moun- L. aiesia Brackenridge. 4. Melincourt Glen, etek Craig-y- llyn, Brit. Ass. Handb. 7. ao spite Stor seigtodiem 2 ae L. Com ome Seabee icum Willd. 4. Neath Valley, G 7. Dinas Powys, Phegopteris Drvope ris Fée. 2. Po piasdwats 4. Woods at Ysgwd Eynon Gam, Glyn Neath; Tyn Ton, Rhigos. Ponthen- rhyd, Bot, Looker Out, 1842. Craig-y-llyn, B. A, Williams. 7. St. Hay: Storrie. 8. Aberdare, Padell-y-Bwlch. _ Graigfach, Cwm i od calearea Fée, 8. Morlais Castle. Old wali on Hirwaun P. polypodioides Fée. 2, Penllergaer, Dillwyn. 8. Ystalyfera. 4, Melincourt Glen, rena grey Rhigos, Perddyn Woods. Pon thenrhyd, Bot. Looker 1842. 5. Ffwrch Twm, Ho. Motley. 8. Cliffs of Aberdare and “Rhondda Valleys. Quaker's Yard, Cardiff - Nat. Soc. Proe. 1891-2. 72. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Osmunda reyalis L. 1, 2,8, 4, 5. Frequent. 6. Llangynwyd, Storrie. 8. Ystradowen, Mik: Omak Aberdare, Mountain Ash. Ophioglossum vulgatun L. 1. Frequent, FH. L. Pontifex. 2. Penllergaer, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 4, Glyn Neath. Pencaedrain, Salter. 5. Aberafan Marshes. Kenfig, Hb. Brit. Mus. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Cowbridge, W. I’. Evans. Wenvoe, Miss Jenner, 8. Frequent.—Var. polyphyldum Braun. 1. Whitford Bur- es 3 Botrychium Lageavia Sw. 1. Penrice, lei i Woods, as “ Gutch. 3. Drymma, Dillwyn. 4. Penderyn Foel, D. 6. church and Newton Nottage, Storrie. 7. Dachidns Llantleit- dian, W. F. Evans. 8. Garth Wood. Clydach Vale, Abercynon, B, A. Williams. Aberaman, J. Morris. Coedriglan, Llantrithyd, Storrie, EQuisETACE. Equisetum maximum Lam. 1. Mumbles Road. 3. Sketty Bur- rows. 4. Perddyn Gorge. 7. Barry, Cadoxton, Porthkerry, Mer- thyr Dyfan. 8. Off the coal-measures. 9. Cefn On, Llanishen, . arvense L. mmon.—Var. nemorosum Braun. 1. Parkmill, Reynoldstone. 4. poskelallby, Woods. 9. Caerphilly. E. sylvaticum L. 2. Penllergaer to Gowerton. 3 and 4. Com- mon, Dillwyn. 6. Maesteg, Hb. Motley. 8, 9. Frequent. — Var. capillare (Hoffm.). 9. Cefn On, near Caerphilly Tunnel. 7, palustre LL. Common.—Var. polystachyon auct. 8. Crumlin irwaun, FE. limosum Li, and var, fluviatile ue 2: Thinly scattered through- out the county ; no records for 6 a E., hyemale $y a, Penllergaer, Dale yn. 3. Crumlin Bog, Gutch., 8. Tongwynlais and | Melingrifith, Storri E. variegatum eich., a arenarium \ Mew: 8 and 4, Crum- lin Bog, in sacra ot LicopopIacez. Lycopodium Seen L. 3. Swansea, Dillwyn, 4. Craig-y-llyn. DD: bie i About eH baetice Dillwyn. 1 oy m L. Near Swansea, Moggridge; also Swansea Valley, Dillwyn, pianaiay Giant cashire. ) SELAGINELLACER. — selaginoides Link. 4 and 5. Glyn Corwg and Carn- fach, Sto I have not seen Seagate 8.) inostes eee L. lynfa (I. echinospora Dur. 4. Nose cipntaen, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc., 1895. I have not seen specimens.) MarsILEAcem. Pilularia globulifera L. 4. Liynfach, B. G. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, — : A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 73 CHARACER. Chara fragilis Desy. 1, Pilton Green. 8. Crumlin Burrows. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl Sands. 9. Roath.—Var. delicatula Braun. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s, Merthyr Tydfil. C. aspera Willd. 1. Oxwich. 5. Kenfig Pool. 8. Cardiff, Hb. Brit. Mus C. oontraria Kuetz. 1. Oxwich, H.d J. G. 5. Kenfig Pool. (C. hispida L. 8. Crumlin Bog, . Oe C. vulgaris L. 38 and 4. Crumlin Bog. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl Sands. — Var. longibracteata rete and var. papillata Wallr. 6. Porthcawl Sands. eee glomerata Leonh. 3. Crumlin Burrows, J. Bot. 1886, SS oe es eke 3. Crumlin Bog, B. G.) N, a Agardh. 1. Clyne Common, J. Bot. 1886, p. 377. 1. Llandough, Cowbridge. 8. Welsh St. Donat’s. GLAMORGANSHIRE ALIENS. The pe list of aliens recorded for the county contains a large number of mere dock casuals, and a smaller number of plants of a more T Oranant character which persist as individuals, and also plants which have gained a settled footing, appear often in new spots, and spread without difficulty, e. g. Saponaria officinalis and Lepidium Draba The line between the native and the alien is difficult to draw. Tt has seemed ee to keep in the list of native plants all those which were more probably native; and to put among the aliens those which =e more probably not native. The present Glamor- gan list is, it is hoped, only preliminary to a larger and more complete account of the county flora; and doubtless some judgements will, in the light of criticism and further experience, be subse- quently reversed. It is, of course, to be understood that the : : ; weakness in the treatment perhaps exists in the too great deference paid to “authority,” even such a great one ral mr of . OC. Watson: plants like Coronopus didymus, and som the Valerinellas should perhaps be ruthlessly treated as are but nee in the county shows them in rather more likely- weaker evidence. The cornfield plant is not easy to deal with; JOURNAL OF Soaks 1007. [SurpLement.] h al 74 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE but in cases where the plant is usually found on rubbish- oe. or plainly as a ballast gaye any cornfield occurrence at on becomes of less value. It would be impossible to say ied Pcp: eulus arvensis, R. peldoke, Brassica Napus, &¢., are native anywhere in the county; but Lam forsed to the WSkétasion that it is eed pcre 18% they are native. opin the occurrence of annuals in cornfields, rabbis heaps, donk ballast, &c., and nowhere else in the anty, s it more probable than not that they are not native within ihe 4 area RanuNncuLAcEs, Adonis annua L. 6. Near Tondu, Storrie. 8. Penarth, Storrie. Coedriglan, Brit. Ass. Handb. Anemone apennina Li. and A, ranwnculoides L. 2. 2 ae Hb, Motley. — A. japonica Sieb. & Zucc. 7. Wenvoe Woods, H Cardiff. ; Delphinium Ajacis L. 8. ae Bay, N. B. G. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Cardiff Doe Helleborus viridis L. 8. Ser Cardiff, J. Bot. 1884, p. 257. Nigella damascena L. 7. Sully, and 8. E. Moors, Cardiff, Hb. “Ca rdift. Ranunculus arvensis L. 1. Cornfields, Newton and Caswell Bay, Flower & Lees. 6. Portheawl, Hb. Cardif. 8. Aberdare. Penrhys Papa Rhondda Fl. 9. Caerphilly, Storrie.— R. sardous Crantz. Killay, Swansea Sct. Soc. Proc. 1892-8. 7. Barry, on ballast, Candi Nat. Soc. Proc, 1891-2. 8. Cardiff Docks.—Var. parvulus (L.). 3. Swansea, B. G. 8. Cardiff Docks. BERBERIDEZ. Berberis vulgaris L. 8. Near Swansea, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. 5. Plantation, Margam. “i; Merthyr Mawr. 7. Fleming- stone and St. Nicholas, Storrie. 8. Llandaft Bridge, Hb. Cardiff. PapavERACES. Hypecoum procumbens L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. Papaver Argemone L. 8. Swansea, frequent in cornfields, Flower & Lees. 8. a at Cardiff, Penarth, &c., Storrie. Ynyshir, Rhondda Fl. — P. dubium L. Aggregate from districts 1, 8, 6, 8. Nowhere probably native.—a. Lamottei (Bor.). 1. Oxwich. Esta- blished at Whitford oa Einteacriaie: East side of Lang- land W.M.R. 6. Porthcawl. 7. Barry Island, Llantwit Major. eb Lecogtt (Li mae 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl. or adlided ot to Llandow. — P. hybridum L. 8. Ballast at Car- diff, , &c., Storrie. wR, Rhee Ta, ~ Never looks native, haneh. Tor Bot. does not ae its status. 1. Pitton, Llange- nydd, Llanmadoe, Cheriton to Llanrhidian, Port Eynon, Hor- ton. Mumbles, W. M. R. 7 Mest Cr rumlin Bog. Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl, Southerndown to Ogmore Castle. 7. Aberthin, Swanbridge. 8. Aberda: are, Ynyshir, Rhondda Ki. Whitchurch, Hd. Cardiff’. Fl. pleno at Liwydeoed. A form A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 75 going off towards P. dubium at Cardiff Docks. 9. oe — torrie. — Var. yi cks. Bas ith ise : Wats. 5. Port Talbot, Mawdlam. 7. Llantwit Major. 8. Cardiff Docks. Blaenrhondda, Rhondda set b. glabrum H. C. Wats. 8. Swansea, Hb. Cardiff. 6. Porthcawl. Remeria violacea Medic. 8. Ballet, Penarth, Storrie. Corydalis bulbosa DC. ‘ eg Ab. Motley.—C, lutea DC. 1. Oxwich, Parkmill. 6. Naturalized at Southerndown, Storrie. Llangewydd, Cardiff Nat. Soc. ee 1892. a densiflora DC. 8. Llandaff, Hb. Cardiff. —F. parvi- Jlor . a: 8. Balla set Gly, Phase The record in Top. Bot. Supp. 1905, should ve removed. ‘The plant is casual in the county. CRUCIFERS. Alyssum — L. “ Aberdare. Ballast, Penarth, &c., Storrie. — A. ine Port Talbot Docks. 8. Aberdare. m Li. Cardiff Docks. Denar Docks, Hb. Cardif.—A. maritimum Lam 1. Horton. 8. Sandhills, Swansea, Woods. 5. Aberafan Hb. Metter 8. Abernant Back, ‘Aberdare. Ballast, Cardiff and Penarth, Arabis verna Br. 8. Coedriglan, sent Nat. Soe. Proc, 1882. na G. — & S. Casual and outcast. Records from all districts except No. 2 Barbarea verna Asch. 8. Aberdare. Ballast at Cardiff and Ruwais Milian I believe ; though ne Bot. does not isinry i 1. Gowerto Bay, W. R. 2. Pantyfiynon 6. ger asi Storrie. 7. Barry Island. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, Hb diff... Penarth, Storrie.— B. Cheiranthus Vill. 5. Port Talbot Doak. 6. Porthcawl. 8. Merthyr Tydfil, Hd. Motley. Introduced; cf. Rep. B. E. C. 1904.— B. elongata Khrh. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. wabardare. —B.Napus L. Probably very frequent as an escape, oy not native. 8. Kilvey Hill, Swansea, Gutch, 6. S.Cornely. 7. Barry hand, Cadoxton. 8. Aberdare, cong i Peterston, Cardiff Docks. Llandaff, Storrie. 9. Pwilypan t, Hb. Cardif, — B. Rapa. 1. Lianmadoc. 4. Glyn Neath. 5. "Port Talbot. Aberafan, Hb, Motley. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, J. Bor. 1884, p.257. 9. Pwllypant, Hd. hie —Var. Briggtts HL 0. W ats, 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Cardiff Doc Bunias ErucagoL. 8. Cardiff oa. — B. orientalis L. 8. ay. Ferry, Hb. Cardiff. Near Copper Works, Storvrie. ‘amelina sativa Crantz. 2. Loughor. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 7. ee cain Barry iseek 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. 9. Llanishen, Hb. Cardiff.— Var. fetida (Fr.). 7. Barry Island. 8. Cardiff, Storrie Cheiranthus Cheiri L. 1. Penrice. Oxwich, S. W. Jenkins. 6. Ogmore Castle. Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. ee Beaupré. ha 76 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Cowbridge. Barry Castle, D. 8. Aberdare, mayen Cardiff and Peterston, Storrie.—Var. ae Sm. Aberdare. Cochlearia (Kernera) —s 8. Abe me. Conringia austriaca Sweet. _ Ab rdare. — C. orientalis Dum. 5. Port phaette Docks. 8. aa Ballast at Cardiff and Penarth, Stor Diplotazie toitifolia DC. Nowhere a I believe, though treated as native in Top. Bot. 1. Gowerton to Penclawdd. 3. Rubbish near Crumlin Bog. Swansea, Tb. Motley. Lilandwr, Gutch. Foxhole, Flower. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl to §. Cornely. 7. Barry and Barry Island. 8. Cardiff Docks. Penarth, Storrie. Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Fl., which says it is Erysimum cheiranthoides L. 6.-Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun, Cardiff Docks. — HL. repandum mics t Talbot Docks. 8. Cardiff Docks. Hesperis matronalis L. Outcast in a 428, 6,6,.9,8 Iberis amara lL. 5. Kenfig, Hb. Motley. . Cliffs near Swan- bridge, Cardif’ Nat. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. 8. GP eeild. Hb. Cardiff. diff. | — Draba 8. Swansea, 1802, Dillwyn. 5. Port albot. 6. Sands, Porthcawl... 7. Barry, Cold Knap. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff Docks, Storrie. Penarth Ferry, Hb. Cardiff. Blaenthondda to Porth, common, Rhondda Fl.— L. graminifolium L. 5. Por Talbot sare r cepa Docks. — L. .ruderale L. 8. Swansea, ballast, Neath, Flower. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 7. Barry. 8. prance ‘Caniif Docks; &e. Waste ground, Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Fl.—L. sativum L. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare. Penarth, Cardiff, &c., Hb. Cardiff’. 9. Roath, Storrie. Matthiola tricuspidata Br. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. Myagrum perfoliatum L. 8. Cardiff D ocks. Neslia paniculata Desv. 4, Jersey Marine. Raphanus Raphanistrum L. 2. P ie Pant fiston to Pont- ardulais. 3. Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 5. - rt Talbot. 6. Porthcawl Sandhills. 7. Barry Island. 8. Rubbish and waste places, Aber- dare. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. Llandaff, Whivehineh, &c., Storrie.— f. lutea. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8, Cardiff Docks. — R. sativus L. 5 Pacstetr lime perenne a 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Cardiff Docks.—R. rugosum All. 5. Port Talbot Doc Sisymbrium altissimum L, 1, Kills ay, G.C. D. 2. Pontardulais. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks. Penarth, Hb. Cardif.—S. Trio - 83. Swansea, R. Jackett.. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie.—S, orientale LL. 2. Pontardulais. 8. Swansea, Ystalyfera : 8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks. — S. past odes rf 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. Thlaspi arvense L. 8. Roadside between Wych Tree Bridge and gyfelach, &e., Gutch. Rubbish by Crumlin Bog. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Nottage, J. Bot. 1902, p.816. 7. Barry Island, St. Hilary, Cardif’ Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, occasionally, Storrie. 9. Roath Park, Hb. Cardiff. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 17 RESEDACEX. Reseda alba. 8. Swansea, Gutch.. 6. Porthcawl. 7. Below St. Hilary, Storrie. 8. Cardiff, on ballast, Storrie. CARYOPHYLLES. os ene Caryophylius L. 8. Walls of Cardiff Castle, B. G. xtin duscinhdla paniculata L. 8. Cardiff Docks Lychnis Githago Scop. Not rere in spite of record in Top. Bot. 1. Near Llangenydd. 5. Port Talbot.. 7. Barry. Sully, Storie. 8. Occasional ¢ cs Aberdare. Cardiff, owe Nat. Soc. Proc. 1878. Penarth, Storri Minuartia Foribfolt Hiern. 6. Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 8. Peterston, by the railway. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. ge officinalis L. 1. Bhosili, Blue Anchor. 2. Penller- gaer, river-bed gravel of the Upper Loughor. 8. Sketty Burrows, established from 1805 at least. Yetaly fera. 4. Glyn Neath, ae arine, Resolven. 6. Near aera awr. 8. Freque 9. Hengoed. Rhymney hem) frequent, Storrie. — Var. some Wierzl. 6. Merthyr Mawr, J. Bot. 1902, p. 816.— S. Vaccaria L. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Hirwaun Common, B.A. Williams. Aberdare. Cardiff and Penarth Docks, Storrie. ode: acts L. 5. Cwm Bychan (i.e. Cwmafan), Hb. Motley. —~S. conica L. . Port Talbot Docks. 8. Cardiff and Penarth, ballast, ‘Seo rie. ai dichotoma Ehrh. 6. Porthcawl. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks. — 8. Otites Wibel. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie—S. riewier L. 2. Pontardulais, by railway, Hb, Motley. PortuLacez. Claytonia poreiaia Donn. 8. Cardiff, Storrie.—C. sibirica L. 8. Penarth, Hb. Cardiff. TAMARISCINES. Tamarix gallica L. 1. Mumbles, Lloyd. 65. Porthcawl, Phyt. ii. 972. 6. Southerndown. 7. Swanbridge, Cowbridge, WV. M. R. 8. Penarth. HyYPERIcINER. Hypericum calycinum L. 1. Nicholaston Wood, Flower Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Barry, D. 8. Koc fie and sik, hood, Storrie.—H. elatum Ait. nT. Sully, Sto Matyvacea. Althea hirsuta L. 8. Hirwaun, E. Moors, Hb. Cardiff. Lavatera punctata All, 8. Sa Moors, Hb, "Gas diff. Maiva borealis Wallm. 8. Aberdare. — M. nicwensis All. 8. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. Sida spinosa L. 8. Cardiff, Storrie. TILiacez. Tilia vulgaris Heyne. Often planted. 78 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE Lin —— usitatissimum L. 1. _Langland Bay, W. M. BR. 38. about Swansea, Gute 5. Port Talbot. 7. Barry. 8. P abavlents Cardiff Docks. Poles &e., Storrie. ZYGOPHYLLACEE Tribulus terrestris L. 8. Cardiff, Hb, Cardiff. GERANIACER. Geranium pheum L. 6. Merthyr Mawr, Hb. Cardiff. 8. Hir- waun. Cooper’s ptm and Coedriglan, Storrie.—G. sylvaticum Tn 5. Margam, Hb. Motley. 7. Cwrtyrala and near Llanmaes, Storrie. 8. Coedriglan, Storrie.—G. versicolor. 5. Baglan, Mrs. Llewellyn ! 8. Cooper’s Fields, Storrie. Impatiens biflora Walt. 7. Lilandough, near Cowbridge.—l. Nels eames L. 8. Swansea neighbourhood, a Set. — Proce. 1891-2. Probable error.— J. parviflora DC. 2. Gravel of R. Loughor below Pantyffynon.—I. eee et Walp. Ps Merthyr Mawr. Limnanthes Douglasii Br. 8. Perit rth, Hb. Cardiff. Oxalis corniculata L. (stricta auct. Angl.). 1. Port Eynon, D. Southerndown, Storrie. 7. Barry use. Sutton, Storrie. . Aberdare, Cardiff Docks. Coedriglan and Penarth, Storrie. Oa CELASTRINER. Staphylea pinnata L. 8. Castell Coch, Cardiff’ Nat. Soc, Proc. 873. SaPINDACEH. Acer Pseudoplatanus L. Frequently planted; seeding and pro- pagating itself very freely. Often occurring in the middle of old Lecuminosez. Arthrolobium pinnatum Rendle & Britten. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, orrie. Astragalus hamosus L. 8. E. Moors, vee Hb. Cardiff. Coronilla scorpioides Koch. 65. Port “altos. 8. E. Moors, pene Hod. Cardiff. Aberdare. — C. varia L. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Railway near Aberdare, B. 4. Williams! Castell Coch, Hb. H. F. Partons. Radyr, Miss Ff. M. Williams! Penarth, Hb. Boule ‘diff. Laburnum anagyroides Medic. 8. Self-sown at Liwydcoed. Lathyrus Aphaca Li. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl, J. Bot. 1902, p. 816. 7. ee Storrie. Railway-cutting by St. Mary Church Road, W. F. Evans. 8. Ballast and waste ground, EK. Moors, Grangetown, Penarth, Llantrissant, Storrie. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks.—L. tubcrosus L. 8. Cardiff Docks. Medicago denticulata Willd. 6. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Aber- dare, Hirwaun, Taffs Well, Cardiff. E. Moors and Penarth Docks, A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 79 Hb. Cardiff.i—Var. apiculata Willd. 8. E. Moors, Hb. Cardiff.— Var. lappacea Desv. 5. Port Talbot Docks. —M. Falcata L. 1. Near _Port Kynon, te. Forster i in B. G.; the specimen “ floribus Docks. 6. Porthcawl. 8. Penarth Ferry, Hb. Cardiff. HE. Moors, Storrie,— M. sativa L. 1. Langland Bay, W. M. R. 3. Kilvey Hill, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl, Merthyr Mawr. 7. Barry Island. 8. A peere. Railway-banks in Rhondda Valley, Rhondda Fl. Cardiff Docks, &c. — M. tribuloides Desv., M. marina L. . Moors, Hb. Cardiff. Melilotus alba Desy. 8. Ballast, ot Flower. 65. Port Talbot. 7. Barry. cree Hirwaun, B. A. Williams. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie.— M. indica All. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 7. Barry. 8. Abe vee Puoavih Ferry, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1891-2. Ononis Natrix L. 8. Shrimphouse, Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. ae arvense Ly. 8. Crumlin Burrows. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdar Bonfire subvillosus L. 8. Ei. Moors, ch apert Hb. Cardiff. Securigera Coronilla DC. 8. Penarth, Hb. Trifolium hybridum L. 1. Penrice. Paiplant. and Caswell Bays: W. M. R. 2. Pontardulais. 38. Crumlin Burrows. ; Mawdlam. Port Talbot Docks. 7. Cowbridge. 8. Aberdare. 1’. incarnatum L. 7. Barry, D.! Near Cowbridge, &c., Storrie. 8. Aberdare. Ballast, Cardi Cardiff Nat. Soe. Proc. 1876.—T. lappaceum L, 8, Aberdare.—Z. ochroleucon Huds. 8. Cardiff, rrie.—T. pannonicum Jaot 8. Penarth, Storrie.—T. resupinatum L. 8. Hirwaun, Cardiff Docks. — 7’. stellatum L. 5, Port Talbot Docks. 8. Penarth Ferry, Hd. Cardiff. Cardiff, Storrie.—T. sub- terraneum L. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Seige ans = aed: Whitmore Bay, Barry, Storrie. 8. Pena Trigonella — Ser. 5. Port gy 8. a E. Moors, Cardiff, Hb. Car Vicia Fa bakin. ‘. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare, ving hE gracilis Loisel, 6. Tondu and Maesteg, Storrie. 8. Ballast at Cardiff, torrie —V. hybrida L. Dr. Hooker has a Glamorgan specimen in Hb. Oxon, fide G. C. D.—V. lutea L. 8. Aberdare. Ynyshir, Rhondda Fl. Cardiff, Storrie.—V. pannonica Crantz. 8. Near Aberdare.—V. sativa L. In every district, and probably common as an inbeoduatitiia-¥. villosa Roth. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff Docks.—Var. glabrescens Koch. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 7. Barry. 8. Ballast, Penarth, Hb. Cardiff. Cardiff Docks. Aberdare. Rosace&. Cotoneaster microphylla Wall. 6. Old limestone quarry, S. Cornely, 1904, far from houses. J. Bot. 1905, pp. 244, 274, adds a few more localitie es. Fragaria chiloensis Duchesne. 8. Penarth Dock. 80 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE — germanica L. 6. Ewenny, and 8. Radyr, Storvie. Planted Potentilla fruticosa L. 8. Castell Coch Woods, Storrie.—P. norvegica 7. Sully. Poterium polygamum Waldst. & Kit. 5. cs Talbot Docks. Pyrus rotundifolia Bechst. 7. Liancarfa SaxXIFRAGER. Ribes Grossularia L. Frequent as an esc Sazifraga unbrosa L. 9. Railway- oniting: Hengoed, Cardiff Nat. Soe. Proc. 1891-2. CRASSULACEZ. Sedum album L. 1. Lianmadoc. 5. Mawdlam. 7. St. Hilary, Cardif’ Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882.—S. dasyphyllum L. = Oxwich, Port Eynon, Horton, Llanmadoc. — 8. hybridum L. 1. Lianmadoc.— S. reflecum L. 1. Frequent. 2. ecad Penllergaer, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1895-6. 3. Swansea, Gutch. Ystalyfera. 8. esc Castle and St-y-Nyll, Storrie. — Var. albescens oo 8. Ystalyfera. —S. rupestre L. 1. Wall at Pwildu. 7. St. Mary Church, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. Sempervivum tectorum L. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 17. Barry, Cadoxton, &c., Storrie. 8. Aberdare. St. Nicholas, Storrie. Tylacoch, Rhondda Fl. LYTHRARIEE, Lythrum Hyssopifolia L. 8. Penarth, &c., Hb. Cardiff. ONAGRARIER. Clarkia pulchella Pursh. 8. Penarth, Hb. Cardiff. nothera biennis L. Frequent; no record from 9.—(Z. muri- oh. 5. Port Talbot.— CE. odorata Jacq. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl: J. Bot. 1902, p. 316. 8. Cardiff Docks. CucurRBITACER. Keballium Elaterium A. Rich. 8. Roath Dock, Hd. Cardiff. cue Ammi majus L. 8. Aberdar Bupleurum st re “8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks. Carum CarviL. 8. Crumlin Bog. nc! Port Talbot. 6. Porth- diff. — cawl, Lloyd, 8. Aberdare. Cardiff. . Petroselinum Benth, & Hook. fil. Records from all except 4 ee 9. erat daucotdes L. 8. Aberdare. — C. latifolia L 6. Port Talbot. Aberdare, Cardiff. age sativum L, 8. Grangetown, Storrie. Aberdare. candix Pecten-Veneris L. 8. Swansea, Flower dé Lees. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Soheengae Lloyd. 7. Barry, St. Athan’s, Llant- : 8. Cardiff, J. Bot. 1884, p. 257. Grangetown, Storrie, ** Native in Top. Bot A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 81 CaPRIFOLIACER. Lonicera Caprifolium L. 6. Newton, sett ag pa aoe Ebulus L. 1. Llanmorlais, £ 3 Swansea, Moggridge. 4. Neath, &c., are 6. Pw va Oar, HD. Motley. Llandow, Newton. St. Bride’s Major and Maesteg isaf, Storrte 7. Monknash, St. Athan’s Road. 8. Aberdare. Cogan ’Pill, &eo., Penarth Dock, Storrie. Symphoricarpos racemosus Michx. 2. Loughor, Gowerton. 3. Ystalyfera. 7. Liandough, Cowbridge. 8. Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil, Ystradowen. Rusiacez. Asperula arvensis L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Aber Galium tricorne Stokes. 8. Swansea Docks. 5. Doe Talbot. AP ated Dyfan, Ystradowen. Barry Island, Woods, 8, Aber- dar oe mee Kentranthus fons DC. 1. Common. 8. Swansea. 6. Newton, Southerndown. 7. Sully, Llantwit Major. Beaupré, Cardiff Nat. Soe. Proc. 1882. Flat Holme, J. Bot. 1891, p. 845. 8. ALSIUATS, Penarth. Cardiff, Storvie. Treorchy, Rhondda Fl. Valerianella discoidea Loisel. 8. Aberdare. Compost Achillea cretica L. 8. Penarth, Pe By nobilis L. 65. Port Talbot Docks. Ambrosia maritina L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Penarth, Hd. Cardiff. Anacyclus clavatus Pers., A. radiatus jie fa Cardiff Docks. Antennaria margaritacea Brown. 1. Gowe 2. Gowerton, to inaccessible cliffs. Clydach, ke., Flower. 4, Hirwa n, Rhig gos. Neath Abbey, B.G. Pontneddfechan, Woods. 5. Kenfig Sands, J. Bot, 1902, p. 249. 8,9. Very common. On bare rock, Graig Fawr, Treorchy, at 1500 ft. Anthemis arvensis L. 8. Swansea, Gutch. Crumlin Burrows, - Port Talbot ook 8. Aberdare. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. Not native, I believ Artemisia campest PE UL, 8. Bute Docks, Hb. Cardi Aster salignus Willd. 1. Cheriton. 5, Port Talbot. 8. Esta- Sage Cynonside above Aberdare, Cwmbach.—A. paniculatus Lam. yr Calendula officinalis L. 38. Swansea, Woods. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Abe rdar Car pets lanatus L. a Port Talbot Docks. Centaurea aspera L, 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie.—C. Calcitrapa L. 65. Port Ta oor 8. ‘aii Docks, Penarth, Leckwith, &c., Storrie. Not n Cyanus L. 1. Gowerton. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Peisaea. Beidgont. Storrie. 7. Barry, D. 8. Aber- dare, Mountain Ash, Cardiff Docks. Not native.—C. diluta Ait. 5. Port Talbot Docks.—C. melitensis L. 1. Paviland. 6. Port 82 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE nant Docks. 8. E. Moors, Hb. Cardiff. Aberdare.—C. montana 8. Aberdare.—C. poserialte L. 8. BE. Moors, Hb. Cardiff.— Var. Adami W. Aberdar Chrysanthemum coronari m L. 8, Aberdare. — C. segetum L. Not native; only occa eicnsl Ne record for 6 and 9. Crepis taranacifolia Thui 3. Crumlin qth Swansea. 7. Cadoxton, Barry, Paibens, Ponaauey, Abert Pe tyrch; Forest Wood, Ystradowen; Lavernock, eit Peake, Aberdare, Cryptostemma calendulaceum a 8. 4 Laas Doronicum Pardalianches L. 6. Bridgend, S Erigeron canadensis L. 4. Neath, B.G. 5. Port Talbot Docks. Kenfig Sandhills. 8. Cardiff Docks. Galir insoga parviflora Cav. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Penarth, Ho. Cardi Gnaphalium luteo-album a 8. Shrimphouse, Hb. Cardiff. Grindelia squarrosa Dun 8. orate Ferry, Storrie. Guizotia abyssinica Cia: ms Aber Helianthus peg te 8. Liwydcoed. hae rigidus Desf. 8. Aber- dare.—H. tuberosus L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. Hieracium jt aan 4, Glyn Neath, J. Bot. 1892, p. a 5. Graig Ymroch, Hb. Motley. 6. Coity, Hb, Cardiff. 8. Gre Meadow, Storvie, 9. Lisvane, Hb. Cardiff. Coedygoras, Neat Caerphilly ome Storrie, nula Helenium L. 1. Frequent. 2. Gowerton, Penllergaer, he 8. Ghigtbrane, Cwm Crumlin, Gutch. 4. ae Gutch. 6. Bridgend, Maesteg, Storrie. Nottage, J. Bot. 1902 p. 3816. 7. Nash Point. Sully, Woods. iicbadeeee le Pit, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1873, Barry Island, do. 1867. 8. Penarth, Leckwith, Storrie.—I. viscosa Ait. 8. BE. Moors, Cardiff, Storrie. Lactuca Serriola L. 8. Cardiff. Matricaria Chamomilla L. 1. Gower, casual, J. Bot. 1892, p. 296 2. Gowerton, Penllergaer. 5. Port Talbot, Mawdlam 7. Barry St. Hilary, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks, Grangetown. Blaenrhondda, Rhondda Fl. 9. Roath, Pen- gam marshes.—M. suaveolens Buchen. 8. Ystalyfera. 4. Neath. Aberdylais, Ley. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl. 7. Cowbridge, Swanbridge, Lavernock. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun. Cardiff, very frequent. 9. Roath -—M. Parthenium L. Nowhere native, I believe, ng. Petasites Hae Presl. 1. Swansea, Nicholaston, Oxwich. marae Bay, W. M. R. 8. Mumbles Road. 5. Port Talbot to Pyle. 6. Porthcawl sands. 7, 8. Rather frequent. Scolymus hispanicus L. 8. Cardiff Docks. Senecio crassifolius Willd. 8. Cardiff Docks.—S. squalidus L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Cardiff Docks, &.—S. vernalis Waldst. and Kit. 8. Cardiff Docks. Silybum Marianum Gaertn. 5, Aberafan. 7. Shore under Cliffs, Fontigary. Dinas Powys, Storrie. Barry Island, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proce. 1867. 8, E. Moors, Storrie. nacetum vulgare Li, A frequent escape in Glamorgan, but, I believe, not native. A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 83 ‘ sreuopogon ern sases L. 2. Loughor, Hb. Motley. 6. Maesteg, ae. En es NE a L. 8. Bute Docks, Storrie.—X, spinosum L. 5. Port Talbot. 8. E. Moors, Hd. Cardiff. CaAMPANULACES. Legousia 2 atib Delarbre. 6. Near Porthcawl, Lloyd. 7. Cow- bridge, Stor Pigthins Orbivsliite L. 7. Cowbridge, Storrie. PRIMULACEZ. Anagallis cerulea Schreb. 2. Penllergaer, Gutch. 5. Kenfig, Hb, Motiey. Pik Talbot Docks. 6. Porthcawl, Lloyd. 8. Cardiff. Lavernock, Storrie. Cyclamen housek Ait. 8. Coedriglan, Storrie. APOCYNACES. Vinca major L. Occasional: records from 1, 4, 6,7,8. V. minor L. 1. Parkmill. 7. Marcross. Cwrtyrala, St. Athan’ ‘ Swanbridge, Storrie. 8, Aberdare. Cardiff, J. Bot. 1884, p. 257 PoLEMONIACES, Gilia capitata Sims. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, &c., Storr Polemonium ceruleum L. 8. Aberdare. Great Heath, Storrie, BoraGiInEz&. Amsinckia lycopsioides Lehm. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare. Anchusa italica Retz. 8. Aberdare.—A. officinalis. 6. Porth- cawl, J. Bot. 1902, p, a Asperugo procumbens L. a Aberdare. Cardiff, Storrie. Borago officinalis L. Escape. No record for 2 Cynoglossum montanum a 8. Near the Red House, Storrie. Echinospermum Lappula Lehm. 65. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. Echium violaceum L. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie Heliotropium europeum Li. 5. Porthcawl, J, "Bot. 1902, p. 817. Cardiff. Lithospermum arvense LL, 1. Rhosili. Bishopstone, Swansea Sci, Soc. Proc. 1894-5, 5. Ba Talbot. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun. Cardiff and Penarth, Storrie. reds sylvatica Hoffm. 1. Cheriton. 6. Merthyr Mawr. 8. Aberdare. Coedriglan, ae Bodringallt Woods, Rhondda Fi, Terk aac verna Moench. 1. Penrice, Dillwyn. Pulmonaria officinalis L, 4&5. Neath to Pyle, B.G. 6. Dun- raven, and 7. We: aa Storrie. 8. Coedriglan, D. T. R. James !— ami L. . Near Swansea, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1891-2 Symphytum fgg cdasanty Ledeb. 1. Penard, G. C.D. 5, Mawdlam, ie Talbot. 6 . Bridgend. 7. Cadoxton, Cowbridge. 8. Aberdare, 84 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE SOLANACER. Datura ——. L. 1. Whiteford Burrows, Llangenydd. 38. Swansea a, B.G. - Port Talbot. - 7. Aberthin. Cowbridge, . Shrimp Lycium chinense Miller. 1. Penard to to Killay. G. C. D. Por Talbot. 6. Porthcawl. 7. Bitaabenten 8. Cardiff Hooks, Ystradowen. Lycopersicum esculentum Mill. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff Docks. Frequent outcast. ScropHULARINEE ; ae oe ape te L. 6. Portheawl, Lloyd. 7. St. Andrew’s, Llantwit Major, &c., Storrie. 8. Cardiff, Llandaff, Taffs Well. too Ferry, Hb. Cardiff. Linaria cesia DC., L. supina Desf., L. tanec ones a 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. a cy mbalaria Mill. record for = BS purpurea Mill, 8. Swansea, Gutch. 8. Bailast, Cardiff, Sto Arete foe ‘fii Donn, 2. Common by R. Loughor. 5. Baglan, R. G. Llewellyn! 7. Cowbridge. 8. Dunraven Station and Yeursarleonddas Rhondda Fl, 9. Caerphilly Common, Storrie. Scrophularia Scorodonia L. 6. Porthcawl, J. Bot. 1902, p. 317. 8. Cardiff, Storrie.—S. canina L. var. pinnatifida Brot. 8. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. Verbascum austriacum pieces 8. Aberdare. — V. Blattaria L. 1. Newton, Flower. 3. Swansea, Hb. Br. Mus. Singleton Marsh, &e., Gutch. 4. Neath Apbey. Gutch. 5. Mawdlam, J. Bot. 1902 p. 38 berafan. Taibach, Margam and Kenfig, Gutch. 6. Near Pyle, &c., Gutch. 8. St. Fagan’ s, Storrie. Llandaff, Cardiff Nat. Soe. Proc. 1873. — V. Lychnitis L. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie.— V, virgatum Stokes. 8. Cardiff, VY. B. G. Mr. Moggridge sowed the plant in several places in the county. Veronica Buxbaumti Tenore. Common. Las Lamium maculatum L. 1. Killay te Penard, G. C. D. 6. Pen- coed, Storrie. 7. Ystradowen. Bonvilstone, Llantwit Major, Storie. 8. Aberdare, Hirwaun. Penarth, Lavernock, Storrie. Leonurus Cardiaca L. 5. Pyle and Kenfig, Hb. ors tley. 6. 8. Cornely, Mawdlam. 7. Bs St. Hilary, Melissa officinalis L. 1. Pwildu, Parkmill, Dlnomiados, Llan- rhidian. 2. Loughor. 6, Cadoxton. 7. St. Athan’s Road. 8. Melittis Melissophyllum L, 8. About Swansea, Dillwyn. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. Mentha spicata L. 1. Parkmill. 5. Mawdlam. 6. Nottage. Bridgend, &c., Storrie. 7. Cowbridge, Hb. York Mus. 8. Aber- eer _Birwaun, Cardiff, Storrie. Penrhys Brook, Rhondda Fl. crispa Hook. 8. Aberdare. — M. Requienii Benth. 2. Ponllenpuae A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 85 Salvia argentea L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. — 8. pratensis L. 6. Merthyr Mawr.—S., verticillata L. 5. Port Talbot. 6. Porthcawl, J. Bob. ot .817. 7. St. Athan’s Road. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, Hb, Cardiff. 9. Lianishen.—S. sylvestris L. 6. Porthcawl. Satureta hortensis L. 8. Aberdare. Sideritis montana L. 5. Port Talbot. cae Hb. Cardiff. Stachys italica Mill. 8. Cardiff, Hd. Car Teucrium Chamedi y gma» es Coruniy: o, Penyrheolgerig, Cardiff Nat. Soe. Proc. 1891-2. PLANTAGINER. Plantago arenaria Waldst. & Kit. 8. Penarth, Hb. Babington. Aberdare. E. Moors, Hd. Cardiff. ILLECEBRACER. Herniaria Claes! = Worm sear error, Dillwyn. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. — H. ciliata Bab. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie.— H. hirsuta L. "8. K. on Hb. Car ao: Scieranthus annuus L. 5. Port itt Aberafan. 7. Barry, D. 8. Hirwaun, Aberdare. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. Penrhys Road, &e., Rhondda Fl,—S. perennis L. 8. Cardiff Docks, Storrie. AMARANTHACEZ. Amaranthus St gomiay L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. — shee L. 5. Port Talbot Docks.—A. Blitum L. 5. Port Talct Bo ks. 7. Barry, Storrie. 8. Oardiff, Penarth, Storrie.—A. ciovotachye Willd. 8. Cardiff, Hd. C ardif.— A, albus L. 5. Port Talbot Dock ieee rene eeehngie pedunculata ose 5. wise Hb. Motle enopodium polyspermum L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. About Caraift and Penarth, Stes: Ystrad, Rhondda Fl.—C, opulifolium Schrad.- 5. Port Talbot Docks.—C. serotinum L. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Hirwaun, Aberdare. Cardiff, Storrie.—C. murale L. 5. Port Talbot pot 8. Aberdare, Cardiff, Storrie.—C. se L., C. urbicum L. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie.— C. glaucum L, 8. Swansea, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Penarth, ‘Glderde Not native.—C. ambrosioides L. 8. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. Roubieva multifida Mog. 8. Cardi . Storrie, Sueda altissima Pall. 5. Port Talbot Docks. PoLyGonaceZz. Fagopyrum esculentum poe 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Aber- dare, Hirwaun. Cardiff, S Polygonum Bellardi Au. 8 "Port Talbot.—P. cuspidatum Sieb, & Zuee. Frequent escape; no record from 7. Rumesx seutatus L. 6. Cornely, Gutch. ARISTOLOCHIACE. Asarum europeum Li. 8. Cardiff Castle, Storrie. 86 A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE THYMELEHACER. Daphne Mezereum L. . 8. Fairwater and St. Fagan’ 8, Storrie. ELAGNACER. Hippophae Rhamnoides L. 8. Penarth. SANTALACEE. _ Thasiun humifusum DC. 8. Newly broken ground at Cwrt-y-fil, KuPHORBIACER. Buawus sempervirens L. a ae but “dae native. _ Euphorbia Fsula L. — Docks.—E. Cyparissias L. 1. Crete: Wood, Gut berafan. 7. The Le Cardiff A eys, Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. “Candi to Pontypridd, Gutch. Ballast, Cardiff, Storrie. ‘Mercurialis annua L, 1. Penard Castle, Gutch. Penmaen, Swansea Sci. Soc. Proc. 1893. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 6. Porth- cawl. 7. Old Beaupré, St. Donat’s. Barry, D. 8. Cardiff, V. B.G. —Var. ontigta (L.). 5. Port Talbot Docks. Urricack’. Cannabis sativa L. 38. Swansea, J. Bot. 1886, p.112. 8. Aber- dare. Penarth Ferry, Hé. ‘ge diff. Urtica pilulifera L. 5. Kenfig, Dillwyn. 8. Ballast, Cardiff and Penarth, Storrie. CupuULIFERZ. Carpinus cag tek: 1. Killay to Penard, G. C. D. 4. Neath, W.M.R. 7. Wenvoe, Cadoxton. 8. Aberdare. Llaniltern, Hb. Cardiff. 9. Roath, Lisbalen: &ec., Storrie Castanea sativa Mill. 1. Killay to Penard, G.C.D. 4. Nedd- fechan Glen. 6. Merthyr Mawr, Llandow. 7. Wenvoe. 8. Aber- dare. 9. Lianishen. erage nin Juglans regia L. ri St. Athan’s. Quercus Ilex L. 6. Wood at peak of R. Ogmore. — Q. Cerris 4, se Pein sg Gutch. 6. Wood at mouth of R. Ogmore. 8. Aberdar SaLicinem. Populus alba Li. and P. canescens Sm. A frequent escape, or introduction. — P. balsamifera L. 2. Oe ae 6. Newton. 8. Aberdare. Greenmeadow, Storrie. — P. ei. NO ot very frequent ; no records for 4 an Salix pentandra L. 8. Aberdare St. George’s, St. Fagan’ 8, Peterston, oo Storrie.—S, nigricans Sm. 8. Aberdare. 9. Llan- ishen, Storri ConIFERz. Lariz europea DC. 6. Wood, Merthyr Mawr, et sepe. r oe: Pinaster Ait. 1. Black Pill. Fairwood Common, A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 87 HyprocHaRIDEZ, = Elodea canadensis Michx. 4. Glyn-Neath. 6. Ewenny. 8. Frequent about Cardiff, Storrie. r ' IRIDEX. Tris xiphioides Khrh. oe at Dillwyn. Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill. 8. Cardiff. AMARYLLIDACER, : : cag aestivum L. 5. Kenfig, Hb. Motley. 7. Porthkerry Woods, Storrie Narcissus incomparabilis Mill. 5. Margam, Dillwyn. 6. eae . ‘and Coed Mwstwr, Storrie. — N. biflorus Curtis.. 1. Pen Mawdlam. 8. R. Ely side, Storrte. Penarth, Cardiff Nae aoe Proc. 1898.— N. poeticus L. 1. Penrice, Dillwyn. 7. St. Hilary, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1893. 9. Lianishen, Storrie. — N. Tazetta 8. Penarth, Hb. Cardiff. LIniacez. Allium see hha ee Bs peicragtg Flat Holme, Hd. Br. Mus.—A. Schenoprasum L. 8. Aberdar Colchicum autumnale L. 6. Newto Be: x 1902, p. 7. Wenvoe, Cardiff Nat. Soc. Proc. 1882. Soscanaal and Bardi Storrie Orni ithogalum umbellatum L. 6. oe Lloyd. Dunraven, Ab. Cardiff. Liynfi Valley, Storrie. 8. Cardiff, St. Fagan’s, Ponty- pridd, Storrie.—O. pyrenaicum L. 17. Porthkerry Woods, Storrie. JUNCACER. Juncus tenuis Willd. 8. Aberdare, Taffs Well. Cyperus longus L. 8. Roath Ponds, introduced. GRAMINEZ. Alopecurus utriculatus Russ. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Hb. ee Anthoranthum Puelit Lecog & Feit . Aberdar Apera gain venti Beauv. 3. Kilvey Hill, oak 5. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff, Aberdare. — A. interrupta Beauv. 8. Cardiff, Storrie. Avena fatua L. a. pilosissima. 8. Crumlin Burrows. 5. Port Talbot. Graigafan, Hb. Motley. 7. Barry. 8. Aberdare, coins = Cardiff.—Var. gig a Aschers. & Graebn. 5. Port Tal 8. Aberdare, Cardiff.—A. sativa L. An occasional outcast Bromus en L. 83. Swansea, Gutch. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff. — B. tectorum L. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff. — B. rigidus Roth. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff. — B, secalinus L. 5. Port Talbot. 7. Cadoxton, St. Athan’s. 8. Aber- dare, oe Aubrey Arms, Storrie. 9. Llanishen. —Var. —— (Schrad.). 1. Penard Castle, Ball. 8. Cardiff. — B. arvensis L, 88 ” A FLORA OF GLAMORGANSHIRE 4, Glyn Neath, Hb. Br. Mus. 5. Port Talbot. 6. 8. Cornely. 8. puters Cardiff. — B. japonicus Thunb. var. grossus Asch. & Graebn. 8. Cardiff Docks. — B. ae oa Fisch. & Mey. 8. Aberdare.—B. unioloides H. B. & K. ontardulais. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare, Llandaff, Cardiff. ees nalaey Dactylon Pers., Cynosurus echinatus L. 8. Cardiff, alien, jae vitie minor Host. 5. Port —o. Docks. ee lendigerum Gaud. enarth, Woods. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. A ballast plant in both fstaliiiee ie fragilis Beauv. 7. Cold Knap. Glyceria festucaformis Richt. 5. Port Talbot Docks. Heleochioa schenoides Host. 8. Cardiff, Storrie. Hordeum vulgare L. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff. Lagurus ovatus L. 8. Penarth shat? and Spe apes Storrte. Lepturus incurvatus Trin. 8. iff Doc Lolium rigidum Gaud. 5. Port Talbot, r= eer e.—L, tem lentum L. and var. arvense With. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Svehiazs, rdiff, Ca Panicum sanguinale L. 8. Ballast, ae des ie —P., giab Gaud. 8. Ballast, Cardiff, Hb. Ca rite —P. Crus-Galli L. 5, Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, H rdift. — =P. capiliare Li. 8. gi Llwydeoed.—P. iliac i 8. Aberdare. Penarth, diff. sche canariensis L. 2. Pontardulais. 8. Swansea, Gutch. 5. Aberafan. 7. Barry, Swanbridge. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff, Taffs Well.—P. paradowa L., P. caerulescens Dest. 8. Cardiff, Hb. Cardiff. —P. minor Retz. 5. Port Talbot. Phleum phleoides Simonkai. 8. Cardiff, Storrie. Poa Chaiaii Vill. 8. Aberdare. — P. palustris L. 8. Cardiff ocks. Polypogon monspeliensis Desf. 8. Cardiff. — P. littoralis Sm. ar .» Storrie. Secale cereale L. 5. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff. Setaria viridis Beauv. 6. Port Talbot. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff Docks, &c., Hb. Cardif.—S. glauca Beauv. 8. Aberdare. Cardiff, &e., Hb. Ca rdif.i—S. verticillata Beauv. 8. Cardiff, &e., Storrie Triticum —- Rasp. 5. Port Talbot Docks. 8. Cardiff, Hb. Cardi, ome he rte. ‘: 5. Port Talbot. 8. Cardiff.— Var. anglicum Aschers. & Graebn. 5. Port Talbot Zea Mays ti 4. Jersey Marine. 8. Aberdare, Cardiff.