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its occurrence. This year Mr. Macvicar has sent me specimens 

 from that part of Argyll (Mordant, at about GOO ft. alt.) included 

 in Co. 97, Westerness, of Watson. On the 30th of last October 

 Mr. Ballantyne showed specimens from Co. 100, Bute, at the 

 Glasgow Natural History Society, and considered it "was carried 

 there by birds." In July, IB'JO, Mr. A. H. Evans found it in 

 Co. 105, W. Eoss, and sent me a note of its discovery. This is by 

 no means a northern plant, as are so many of the Cyperacece that 

 reach Scotland. In Norway it occurs very rarely; in Sweden only 

 north to Oestergotlaud ; in Eussia only south of Ingria (St. Peters- 

 burg) ; in Denmark it is found on most of the islands, and it is only 

 here that it becomes at all common; north of this its localities are 

 isolated and local, and the plant itself not abundant; perhaps more 

 so in Gotland, Sweden, than anywhere north of Denmark. In 

 England additional counties reported for it are, 53, Lincoln South 

 (Lees, Outline Flora of Lincolnshire, p. 22), and 69, Westmoreland 

 ("Wilson," Record Club Report, i^. 108 (1881)). It requires con- 

 firmation for Carnarvon and Flint. In Anglesea it was found by 

 Hugh Davies in 1799. It is undoubtedly becoming scarcer, although 

 still abundant in Norfolk and Cambridge. — Arthur Bennett. 



Irish Eubi.— The following brambles were collected by me 

 during this summer, and verified by Eev. A. Ley and Eev. W. M. 

 Eogers. Growing in the neighbourhood of Ballinderry, Money- 

 more, Co. Derry : — Rubus Selmeri Lindeb. New to Ireland. — R. 

 erytkrinus Genev. — R. Lindleianiis Lees. — R. villicaulis Koehl. — 

 Fi. leucostachys Schleich. — R. pulcherrimus Neum. — R. micatis 

 Gren. & Godr. New to Ireland. — R. scaber W. & N. — R. macro- 

 phylius W. & N. — Pl. pulclierrinius X rosaceus ? Mr. Ley says, "I do 

 not know it : interesting." — R. lasioclados. " I believe this to be 

 the Herefordshire plant, which has been referred to lasiocladGS." 

 New to Ireland. — R. radula Weihe. — R. rhamnifolius W. & N. 

 Collected in Glendun, Co. Antrim: — R. dumetorum W. & N. — R. 

 Lindleianus Lees. — R. jmlcherrimus Neum. — R. discolor Bab. — 

 S. Arthur Brenan. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Index liryoloyicus sire ennmeratio vinscorum huciisque coynitoriini 

 (idjunctis synonyinia distribntioneque yenyniphica locupletissi)nis 

 ijiiein conscripsit E. G. Paris. (Ex Actis Societatis Linn^eanfe 

 Burdigalensis.) Pars I. 1894. Paris: Klincksieck. Pp. vi, 

 324. Price fr, 12.50. 

 The want of a satisfactory Nomenclator or Index to the biblio' 

 graphy of the Mosses of the whole world has for a long time been 

 acutely felt by students of bryology. The original descriptions are 

 so widely scattered through the realm of botanical literature, and 

 the existing synopses are so wofully out of date, that those who have 

 not access to large herbaria find themselves handicapped by in- 

 superable difficulties in the pursuit of their studies. Nor is there 



