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It grows near a mountain tarn at an elevation of about 1000 ft. — 

 John Percival. 



" Namaqualand."— In No. 465 (p. 301) Mr. Spencer le M. Moore 

 describes a new Blepharis [extenuata), and gives as locality 

 "Namaqualand." Now there are two Namaqualands — a Great 

 Namaqualand, belonging to the Germans, and a TJttle Namaqua- 

 land, making a part of the Cape Colony. Which one is now 

 meant ? I am sure that Mr. Moore means Little Namaqualand, 

 but I am also sure that after forty or fifty years it will be difficult 

 for a botanist to guess it ; perhaps, if he does not know very much 

 about botanical investigation of South Africa, will never guess it. 

 In the last number of the Bot. Mag. Sir Joseph Hooker also speaks 

 of a plant found in Namaqualand ; Harvey and Sonder already did 

 so, and I am sorry to say the continuation of the Cape Flora makes 

 the same fault. Could you not take notice of this in one of the next 

 numbers of your Journal? Further: Nama^^a is wrong; it 

 ought to be written Nam a, as I have shown many years ago in 

 Petermann's Geoijraplmchen Mitteilungen. The geographical notes 

 in the Flora Capensis and in the Flora of Tropical Africa show a 

 great many inexactnesses ; one of them, a little one, I quote above. 

 Hans Schinz. 



[Prof. Schinz is correct in supposing that the locality for 

 Blepharis extenuata is in Little Namaqualand. — Ed. Journ. Box.] 



Brecon and Carmarthen Plants. — On a walk taken on 15th July 

 this year from the Carmarthenshire Fan (county 44) past the Breck- 

 nockshire Fan (county 42) into the Upper Tawe Valley, I came 

 across the following plants of interest: — Galium horeale L. (44," 

 42), Sedum. roseuui Scop. (44," 42), Silene maritima With. (44,-'' 42) 

 — very abundant on rocks of the red sandstone from 1500 to 1800 ft. 

 The Sedum, especially, was a remarkable feature of the vegetation, 

 growing as thickly as on e. //. the cliffs of Ben Lawers : it is given 

 doubtfully by Watson for Brecon. Asploiium viridc Huds. (44"), in 

 small quantity on the red sandstone ; Thymus CJiammdrys Fr. (44"^'). 

 In the lake at the foot of the cliffs of the Carmarthenshire Fan 

 (Llyn-y-Fan Fach) I found Nitella opaca Agardh (44") ; Littorella 

 juncea Berg. (44,"- 42") ; Isoetes lacustris L. (44," 42") ; Sparganium 

 minimum Fr. (44"); Ra7mnculus peltatiis Schrank (44*). A few 

 days previously I had met with Crepis pahidosa Moencli in 42" on 

 the River Perddyn (Neath Valley). The Isoetes is certainly I. la- 

 custris L. This species, which Watson refuses for 41 Glamorgan 

 on the evidence available, occurs in a lake situated in exactly 

 similar position to that of the Llyn-y-Fan Fach in Carmarthen- 

 shire ; this lake (Llyn Fach) is at 1500 ft. elevation at the foot of 

 a broken cliff overlooking the Vale of Neath. I am distributing 

 vouchers this year for Glamorgan through the Bot. Exch. Club, 

 together with exemplars of one or two of the Carmarthenshire 

 species mentioned above. Littorella and Isoetes no doubt occur 



* Signifies a new county record, judging by the evidence of an unannotated 

 edition of Watson's Top. Bot. ed. 2 (1884), in which, however, the Characece do 

 not figure. 



