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SHORT NOTES. 



Impatiens Roylei. — Last year we found this plant growing in 

 thousands and in the greatest luxuriance along some two miles of 

 the uppermost course of the East Looe River (there only from four 

 to eight feet in width), between Coombe Gate and Moorswater, 

 Cornwall. I notice that it has been called " a cumbersome and 

 weedy thing ; " but, growing in the soft warm south-west, with the 

 base of its stem in the clear running stream, it is a magnificent 

 plant, 5-7 ft. or more in height, stalwart, with a stem from 1 to 

 1| in. in diameter just above the surface of the water, erect, 

 symmetrical in shape, with numerous aggregations of blossom, 

 the central mass as big as a man's head, and those terminating all 

 the principal lateral branches, though smaller still most striking — 

 masses of bloom varying on different plants through a dozen lovely 

 shades of colour from the very palest pink imaginable to the deepest 

 claret-colour, and with a profusion of large, elegant, dark green, 

 lanceolate leaves, some of them fully 15 in. in length. Stunted 

 specimens of this Balsam are common in Cornwall in orchards and 

 cottage gardens; but in the Upper Looe River the plant has become 

 thoroughly naturalized, and I have never seen it quite as fine even 

 in its native habitats. — A. 0. Hume. 



LoNicERA Xylosteum IN Kent. — At the end of May last I saw a 

 large bush of Lonicera Xylosteum on a hedge-bank in a tane not far 

 from Keston Church, Kent, The Flora of Kmt does not mention 

 the species as occurring in the county. — W. H. Griffin. 



Camptothecium nitens in Worcestershire. — My esteemed co- 

 worker in the moss-flora of Worcestershire, Mr. E. Cleminshaw, 

 M.A., has recently found this rare moss in a marshy spot in the 

 Clent district, where I have since had the pleasure of seeing it. 

 This is a somewhat unexpected moss for the midlands. — J. E. 

 Bagnall. 



Leptodontium recurvifolium in Ireland. — This fine moss, which 

 was first found by Dr. Tavlor in 1842 on Knockavohila, a mountain 

 between Kenmare and Killarney, in Co. Kerry, is stated by Dr. 

 Braithwaite and Mr. Dixon to be extinct in the locality. It is 

 therefore interesting to mention that it was rediscovered by the Rev. 

 C. H. Binstead in 1896 at Connor Hill Pass and on Brandon 

 Mountain, both in Co. Kerry ; and by myself in 1898 at Coomanard 

 Loughs, which are situated in a remote and wild deep glen two 

 miles north-east of Connor Hill Pass. — H. W. Lett. 



