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with pagina glabrous or very remotely setulose, and paginal cells 

 about twice as wide, and marginal root-hairs sometimes solitary, 

 sometimes in pairs. Lindberg's specimen was collected at Caldas, 

 in Minas Geraes, by G. A. Lindberg, and to my mind is identical 

 with Glaziou No. 7394 ; but whether these plants absolutely 

 correspond with the original specimen of M. dichotoma collected in 

 Jamaica by Swartz, I have no means of ascertaining. 



SHORT NOTES. 



A NEW FOEM OF Pyrus. — In 1893 I found a Pijrus in Brecon- 

 shire, which appeared to me to be the well-known P. scandica 

 Syme, of Glen Catacol, Arran, and which I distributed through the 

 Botanical Exchange Club under that name. Last year I had good 

 opportunities of observing its flower and ripe fruit ; and having, 

 through the courtesy of the authorities at Kew, compared it with 

 plants in that collection, I think it well to call attention to it by a 

 short note in this Journal, leaving to a future opportunity to publish 

 a fuller description, with, it is hoped, a drawing. 



Pyrus minima, n. sp. or n.var. A small spreading shrub, 

 much branched, with slender branches. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 shallowly pinnatifid, with 3-4 principal lobes, bright green above, 

 ashy-felted beneath. Flowers open early in June, freely produced, 

 in loose corymbs, small, in size resembling those of P. Aucxiparin 

 Gaertn. ; petals cream-coloured, unopened anthers cream-coloured; 

 calyx erect and prominent upon the unripe fruit, and persistent till 

 the fruit falls. Fruit small, globose, bright coral-red, ripening in 

 the end of August, bitter. Very near the P. scandica Syme, of 

 Arran, and perhaps a vaiiety of that plant, from which the leaf- 

 difl'erences would scarcely separate it ; but the small flowers, the 

 very slender branching habit, and especially the small globose 

 bright red fruit, seem to indicate specific distinction. Loc: — On a 

 limestone mountain cliff called Craig Cille, near Crickhowell, 

 Breconshire ; also on hmestone rocks at Blaen Onnen, two miles 

 westward from Craig Cille. Undoubtedly native, and in great 

 abundance at the former station, where the shrubs clothe the lime- 

 stone clifi' to its head at an altitude of about 2000 ft. ; seedlings 

 also being frequent. P. Aiicuparia Gaertn., P. intermedia Ehrli., 

 and P. Aria Sm. var. rupicola also occur on the same cliff; but the 

 vei'y distinct habit and fruit of the present plant, as well as other 

 reasons, forbid the idea that it can be due to hybridity. The 

 anthers in P. intermedia seem uniformly to be pink ; those of P. 

 Aria and its varieties usually cream-coloured. What is the colour 

 of the anthers in P. scandica ? — Augustin Ley. 



Glycekia distans var. pseudo-procumbens, n. var. — Panicle 

 smaller, more rigid, oblong, not pyramidal, subunilateral; branches 

 shorter, stifler, the lowest only one-fourth the length of the whole 

 panicle, all ascending ; spikelets rising from nearer the origin of 

 the branches, much narrower, and more acute; florets more closely 



