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SHORT NOTES. 



Lejeunea Rossettiana Massal. — Owing to the excellent paper on 

 this species by Mr. Pearson in this Journal for December last, I have 

 been led to examine some old gatherings of L. calcarea Lib., more 

 especially as I had gathered what I took to be that species at Gordale, 

 one of the localities mentioned for L. Rossettiana Massal. However, 

 I found that what I had gathered in Gordale has been all distributed. 

 I examined several other gatherings made at different times from 

 Dent, Heseltine Ghyll (Penyghent), and Ingleton ; all these proved 

 to be L. calcarea Lib., but one ; this was one of the various gather- 

 ings fi'om Ingleton, and one of the latest, made in September, 1884. 

 This was a gemmiferous form of L. Rossettiana Massal., giving 

 another locality, and I have no doubt but that some of the specimens 

 lying in herbaria as L. calcarea Lib. will prove to be L. Rossettiana 

 Massal., although the former is most frequent on the mountain 

 limestone of Yorkshire, for several collections I have made this 

 spring proved to be L. calcarea Lib. These species of Lejeunea 

 usually occur on moist shady vertical limestone rocks near streams, 

 associated with Seligeria pusilla Ehrh., Lecidea cupularis Ehrb., 

 Amphiloma lanuginosum Acb., Nostoc macrosporum Meneg., X. mus- 

 corum Ag., and Orthothecium rufescens Dicks., often occurring 

 nearer the base of the same rocks, while masses of Bartramia LEderi 

 Swartz. hang from above. — Wm. West. 



Glamorgan Plants. — The following were noticed by me in the 

 neighbourhood of Swansea during a short visit in October last. All 

 are additions to the second edition of ' Topographical Botany,' and 

 with the exception of Epilobium palustre L., which is noticed on 

 p. 5 of this volume, in a paper by the Rev. E. S. Marshall, on my 

 authority, I believe that none of them have yet been published. 

 The list, short as it is, contains some very common species and 

 varieties, and is an evidence of the backward state of botanical 

 study in this interesting county : — Fumaria muralis Sonder, Rubus 

 Lindleianus Lees, R. rusticanus Merc, R. leucostachys Sm., R. macro- 

 phyllus W. & N., R. echinatus Lindl., R. corylifolius Sm., Rosa 

 canina L., var. hitetiana Leman., var. dumalis Bechst., var urbica 

 Leman., var. dumetorum Thuill., Epilobium obscurum Scbreb., E. 

 palustre L., Fccniculum officinale All. (casual), Lonicera Periclymenum 

 L., Taraxacum officinale Web., Primula vulgaris Huds., Borago 

 officinalis L. (casual), \Betula pubescens Walk., Salix Caprea L., 

 Lemna trisidca Ju., Potamageton natanslj., AgropyronjunceumJSe&xvv. 

 — Edward F. Linton. 



Buda v. Tissa. — I have abstained from comment on certain 

 eccentricities of the neo- American school of nomenclature, because 

 I was not willing to occupy the limited space of the Journal by 

 again calling attention to the mischievous tendency of innovations 

 which have been already sufficiently exposed.* But, as the question 

 of priority connected with the above synonyms of Spergidaria affects 



* Journ. Bot. 1888, 257, 296. 



