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I regret I did not know of Stillingfleet's Lcpidiiim Smithli iu the 

 Dillenian Herbarium, Oxford, as a Dorset record at that early date 

 would have been a valuable addition. It is not an uncommon 

 plant in the Poole basin. Mr. Newbould several times assured me 

 he had found Ccrastiuiii pioiiilum in Dorsetshire. 0']nanthe silai' 

 folia : The Dorsetshire specimens of this plant in my herbarium 

 confirm the view that the flowering season here is in May and 

 June ; in the south of France it is much later. Arctium, nenwrosum 

 Lej. in Lange's Handbook takes the chief place, inteniiediuvi the 

 subordinate one, and is named by him as a synonym. Spargauiam. 

 ajfine Schinz : I consider Pulteney's plant to be more likely this 

 species than S. miniiinun. — J. 0. Mansel-Pleydell. 



Galeopsis Ladanum L. — This name stood in the 7th ed. of the 

 London Cataloipie for our common species, as also in Bab. Man. 

 ed. 8. In Syme, E. B. (ed. 3, vol. vii.) it stands as an aggregate, 

 and "6^. Ladanum Linn, hb." is given as a synonym of (J. inter- 

 media Vill. In the StudenVs Flora it is the same, only G. Ladanum 

 Linn. Hb. replaces G. intermedia Vill. In Load. Cat. ed. 8, (r. La- 

 danum L. represents not the aggregate, but G. Ladanum Linn. Hb. 

 {^= G. intermedia Vill.), though by a slip the comital number for the 

 aggregate, viz. 63, was added to this ; an error which was corrected 

 in the reprint of 1890, when a query was substituted for the 

 comital number. The 9th ed. follows the reprint exactly, no 

 attempt being made to give the distribution. G. aiujiistifulia Ehrh. 

 of the 8th and 9th eds. = G. Ladanum L. of the 7th ed., and 

 includes G. canescens Schultz, which is a form rather than a 

 variety (see a note by Mr. Druce, Journ. Bat. 1887, 313). The 

 rare plaut, which I think is best distinguished as G. intermedia 

 Villars, since there is so much confusion about the sense in which 

 G. Ladanum L. is to be taken, is given by Syme for Moray, by 

 Hooker iu the Student^ Flora for Moray and Denbigh ; as an 

 introduced plaut of cultivation I can add Dorset. Is it anywhere 

 in Britain otherwise than an introduced plant ? and does it occur 

 in any other county ? My object in writmg, however, is not so 

 much to work out the distribution, as to endeavour to clear up a 

 confusion which I suspect would find illustration iu many British 

 herbaria. — Edwaed F. Linton. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Mmcologia Gallica : Descriptions et figures des Mousses de France et 

 des contrees voisines. Par T. Husnot. 1884-1894. Cahan, 

 par Athis (Orne), T. Hiisnot. Pp. x, 458 ; tabb. 125. 70 Fr. 



The study of mosses is evidently in a very flourishing condition 

 among our neighbours across the Channel. What with the publi- 

 cation of Schimper's Sgnopsis, edition ii. (187G), the Abbe Boulay's 

 Muscinees de la France (1884), and the present work, there remains 

 but little for the most exacting of moss-students to pray for. The 



