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I. Carroll. — [I asked Mr. Carroll to send specimens in illustration 

 of his note, and he has kindly done so. His Iceland " caspitosa" is 

 my Cfespitosa ; but what he calls " ccespitosa''' from Brandon mountain 

 agrees precisely with the plant from that hill, of which I spoke under 

 the name of" Sternbergii" at page 283, so tliat to his charge of mis- 

 take I may safely plead not guilty. The difference between us pro- 

 bably is that I have united together as one variety the two plants of 

 which he speaks as Irish ca&pitosa and hirta. I should like him to 

 enlighten us further as to how these differ from one another. The 

 specimen in Herb. Borrer, gathered by Wilson on Brandon mountain, 

 I cannot in any way distinguish from true ccespitosa ; but it is only a 

 single scrap without petals, so that I do not rely upon it as fully esta- 

 blishing that variety as Hibernian. As evidence in confirmation of 

 what I said about the nearness to one another of caspitosa and Sfern- 

 bergii, I would ask any one interested in the matter to read what 

 Sir J. E. Smith says in 'English Flora' about a plant from that same 

 mountain. — J. G. B.\ker.] 



Saxipraga CiESPiTOSA. — I am informed by Mr. Watson that this 

 was gathered by Dr. Martin Barry in 183:3 on Ben Avon, which 

 stands at the head of Banffshire, on the borders of Aberdeenshire. 

 As I never heard that Dr. Barry collected it more than once, it is pro- 

 bable that the station of Clova mountains, which I gave at page 281 

 on the authority of the note copied on the sheet with the specimens 

 in the Kew Herbarium, is incorrect ; and I would consider that this Ben 

 Avon station for the plant is the only one in Scotland yet ascertained 

 that rests upon a safe foundation. — J. G. Baker. 



Elora Vectensis. — In a letter by Richard Waring, F.R..S., on 

 some plants found in several parts of England (Phil. Trans., vol. Ixi. 

 1770), he states that he found " Sambiccns JinmiUs sice Eljubis, C. B., 

 between Newport and Caresbrook Castle, I. W.," and " Helenium sive 

 Enula Cavipana, J. B., in some waste pfeccs about Ereshwater and 

 elsewhere in ye Isle of Wight." The former has long been lost sight 

 of in the spot indicated above (see ' Phytologist,' iii. 415) ; the latter 

 is still to be found in two or three places about Ereshwater and in 

 other parts of the island. — Robert Tucker. 



Cuscuta hassiaca, Pfeiff. — It may be worth recording that this 

 Dodder has appeared last year, and again this year, in a field of Lucerne, 

 near Rugby, belonging to Mr. E. Edwards. It wae first noticed by Mr. 



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