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announced to appear in tlie June number. Subsequently it was 

 rejected unless I would submit to have it cut down two-thirds. 

 A much briefer statement of the case was previously accepted by 

 Science, and proof sent to me, after which it was rejected as too 

 long and too personal. Evidently every effort is being made to 

 limit adverse criticism, any of which smacks strongly of personality 

 in the eyes of the faithful. Nevertheless, I shall venture to say 

 what I desire without fear or favour, and if other American botanists 

 who are opposed to the Brittonian school of nomenclature will do 

 the same, we can compel a full and free discussion of this subject in 

 our botanical journals, which is all that is required to damn it; 

 and if the editors will not allow free discussion and even plain 

 criticism on a topic as vital as this, then it is quite time we should 

 have in this country a journal which will. Free discussion is the 

 life of science, and the shrewd scheming and arbitrary methods of 

 the ward politician have no place in American botany." 



SHORT NOTES. 



Cornwall Plants. — Two or three examples of Anchusa officiiKdis 

 occurred on the sands between Penzance and Marazion in July last. 

 In the New Butanisfs Guide Mr. Watson queries the record of 

 St. Ives, quoted from Marj. Nat. Hist., as being probably a slip of 

 the pen for A. sempervirens. At Penzance the plant was probably 

 introduced with ballast, as I found Medicago falcata, M. sativa, and 

 Hyoscyanms nie/er in the vicinity. Chenopodium murale and C. 

 Vulvaria also occurred. Near St. Michael's Mount Stachys amhiyua 

 was noticed, and a Potentilla, probably P. reptans x Tonnentilla, 

 was also seen. — G. C. Deuce. 



Plymouth Casuals. — "When looking for Linaria sujnna on Cot- 

 tesdown Quarries, I found several plants of the handsome and 

 interesting Lcpidium perfoUatum. Melilotiis arvensis, M. alba, Medi- 

 cago falcata, and M. sativa also occurred. Above the docks at 

 Devonport I gathered SisymbriuDi pannoniciun. Erysimum chciranth- 

 oides, Bromiis tectorum, B. arvensis, Apera Spica-Venti, Polypogon 

 monspcliense, Stachys annua, Couringia perfoliata, Melilotus indica, 

 Saponaria Vaccaria, &c. — G. C. Deuce. 



JuNcus TENUIS Willd. IN Devon. — On August 24th last I met 

 with several clumps of this rare rush, growing in a narrow flat 

 strip of turf along a roadside, running not far from and parallel to 

 the river Mole, in the parish of George Nympton, North Devon, at 

 an altitude of about 200 ft. above sea-level. — W. P. Hiern. 



Carex Notes. — C. fusca All. (the C. Buxhatimii Wahl. of our 

 Floras) has been sent me by Mr. W. F. Miller from the district of 

 Arisaig, W. Inverness, where it occurs in some abundance around 

 a loch, growing with many other Cariccs, Eriophori, Scirpus TaberncE- 

 montani, &c. Among some Carices sent me in 1884 by Mr. J. 

 Percival from near Carperly, in Bedale, Yorkshire, I find specimens 



