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able to ascertain, first ilefiiied by Dr. 0. W. Sender in his Flora 

 Ra'nhurgemis (1851), p. 27, as follows: — ^'Ysii\ ^ mo )instachys — 

 spicula soUtaria " ; and there is in the British Museum Herbarium 

 one continental specimen, exactly agreeing with our Cornish speci- 

 mens, which was received duly labelled " numostachys Sender." 

 The variety is noticed in Ascherson's Flora of Brandenburg (i. 754), 

 where it is said to be rare. No doubt it is merely a depauperated 

 form of maritimus, just as niacrostachys and cymosus (/= mnhellatus) 

 are very luxuriant forms ; but at first sight it seems difficult to 

 account for these excessively depauperate forms, which are to be 

 found growing side by side with typical maritimus and compactus. 

 A. 0. Hume. 



Hypnum rotundifolium Scop. IN East Gloucestershire. — This 

 spring we had the good fortune to rediscover this rare British moss 

 near Stroud, Gloucestershire (v.-c. 33). The exact locality we with- 

 hold for prudential reasons. Specimens have been submitted to 

 Dr. Braithwaite and Mr. A. J. Wheldon, who assure us we are not 

 mistaken in its identification. We understand that it is not now 

 to be found in the only locality recorded in Dr. Braithwaite's 

 British Moss- Flora and Dixon's Handbook, where previously it had 

 been gathered by Mr. Bin&tead, and therefore the spot in which we 

 discovered it to be growing remains at present, as far as we know, 

 the only locaHty in Britain. It was apparently well established, 

 and in good fruiting condition. We are hoping, through the medium 

 of the Moss Exchange Club, to distribute a few specimens to its 

 members. — Geo. Holmes and E.J. Elliott. 



Set of British Hieracia (p. 105). — In the sixth Fascicle, lately 

 issued, H.snrreianuni F. J. Hanbury, var. megalodon E. F. Linton 

 is rightly numbered 148 in the Table of Contents and on the label, 

 but by a slip of the pen appears as 147 in the Preliminary Remarks 

 and in the Index.— E. F. Linton. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

 Plant Names. 



Fiore Populaire, ou Histoire Naturelle des PlantPS dans le.nrs rapports 

 avec la Linguistiqae et le Folk-lore. Par Eug^me Rolland. 

 Tom. III. [Caryophyllaceae— Rutacese] . Paris: Libraire Rol- 

 land. 1900. 8vo, pp. 378. Price 8 fr. 

 Irish and Scottish Gaelic Names of H'^rbs, Plants, Tre^s, etc. By 

 Edmund Hogan, S.J., John Hogan, B.A., and John C. 

 MacErlean, S.J. Gill, DubUn ; Nutt, London. 1900. 8vo, 

 cloth, pp. xii, 137. Price 3s. net. 

 M. Rolland's work continues to make steady if not rapid pro- 

 gress, and, as is the nature of such compilations, becomes more 

 exhaustive as it proceeds ; the list of additional works cited in this 



