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SHORT NOTES. 



Crepis nic^ensis Balb., in Beds. — This species has occurred in 

 great abundance during the spring and early summer of this year, 

 in various parts of South Beds. It appears to have been intro- 

 duced with foreign grass seeds, as it has been observed chiefly in 

 pasture lands that have been recently laid down, whence it has 

 been distributed to railway banks and occasionally to waste ground. 

 It w r as first noticed in May, when walking through a field, its 

 rosette of leaves and immature inflorescence arresting one's atten- 

 tion, as being unlike anything one had observed before. Not being 

 able to make it agree with any species of Crepis in Hooker's 

 ' Student's Flora,' specimens were sent to Mr. Baker, named 

 doubtfully as G. biennis, but that gentleman expressed the opinion 

 that it was 0. nimensis Balb. Subsequently it was noticed in 

 many fields, in the parishes of Leagrave, Toddington, Stopsley, 

 and Totternhoe. Mr. C. Crouch also found it in several places 

 near Pullox Hill. — James Saunders. 



Brachypodium pinxatum in Bucks. — Specimens of this plant 

 have been sent me by Mrs. John Tindall, of Leighton, who found 

 them in a field between the Soulbury Road and Linslade, at the 

 back of a farm house on the Liscombe estate. This is not 

 recorded for Bucks in the 2nd ed. of Watson's ' Topographical 

 Botany.' — James Saunders. 



Hypnum circinale. — In his note on Hypnum cireinale (p. 238), 

 Mr. McArdle is puzzled to know why I take it for any form of H. 

 hamulosum. He must surely have misunderstood M. Cardot's note, 

 for I quite agreed with that eminent bryologist, that the moss 

 named by Moore H. hamulosum did not belong to that species, but 

 very probably was H, circinale, as M. Cardot supposed. It is quite 

 as probable that it is Stereoihm canariensis Mitt., with which I had 

 not at the time an opportunity to compare it ; but I am very much 

 puzzled to understand how Mr. McArdle can refer Stereodon 

 canariensis Mitt., which had no existence as a botanical species 

 before Nov. 5th, 1863 (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. viii. 5) to Leucodon 

 canariensis (Brid.) Schwaeg., seeing that the Dillenian figure he 

 quotes represents even a larger plant than the adjoining figure 40, 

 our great Hijlocomium loreum. The geographical distribution 

 of some of the species mentioned is also not particularly remark- 

 able, and Campylopns introflexus is widely distributed throughout 

 the whole world, between the Alps in the north and Tasmania in 

 the southern hemisphere. — R. Bjraithwaite. 



Helianthemum guttatum ix Anglesea. — With Helianthemum 

 Breweri , which was abundant over a limited area near Holyhead, I 

 gathered two or three specimens of //. guttatum Mill. The speci- 

 mens were more luxuriant than Breweri, and were quite ebracteate ; 

 the leaves were somewhat broader than those on my Jersey plants. 

 Mr. J. G. Baker says he should consider it typical II. guttatum. — 

 G. C. Druce. 



Trientalis europ.ea in Foula. — During a brief visit to Foula, 

 one of the most remote of the Shetland Islands, I noticed Trientalis 



