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by a gentleman from England and s(uit to me as a rarity " (p. 212). 

 1 cannot lind any note of the occurrence of this species in Banffshire 

 in Dickie's Guide (18G0), Top. Bot., Craib's Banffshire Flora 

 (1911), or elsewhere. This mountain, the most northerly outlier of 

 the G-rampian Chain, which rises to 2755 feet, seems a very likely 

 spot for the plant, and one hopes the discovery may be confirmed. — 

 C. E. Salmon. 



^ PoA OMEiENSis, comb. nov. Mr. C. V. Piper has kindly 

 drawn my attention to the preoccupation of the name gracillima, 

 under which I described a Poa from Mt. Omei, Szechuen, in Journ, 

 Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxvi. 424 (1904). I regret to have over- 

 looked the previously described Poa c/racillima Vasey (Contrib, 

 U.S. National Herbar. i. 272, 1893). The Chinese species may take 

 the name Poa omeiensis. — A. B. Rendle. ^^^^^ 



H. W, Burgess (Journ. Bot. 1918, 223). Burgess's "official 

 position " is explained by the fact that in J833 — and probably some 

 3^ears earlier — he was Landscape Paintep in ordinary to William IV. 

 He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1809 to 1844, and most of 

 his exhibits were of trees and landscapes — in 1812 and 1813 he 

 exhibited pictures of ilex and cedar trees. The art of painting was 

 practised by several successive generations of the Burgess family for 

 about a century and a half : William Burgess, father of Henry 

 William, was an exhibitor at the lloyal Academy 1774 to 1811. — 

 W. Roberts. 



Euphrasia iiirtella Jord. Too late for an additional para- 

 graph to my paper in the December number (p. 336), I have received 

 from Mr. Pugsley robust specimens of E. Iiirtella collected last 

 August by Miss Armitage near Llanberis. These are barely distin- 

 guishable from specimens I gathered at the head of the Roseg Valle}^ 

 Engadine (6500 ft.), July 1900, which the late Mr. Townsend had 

 determined as -E". minima^ but which to me seem good Iiirtella. The 

 Swiss specimens are 11-15 cms. liigh, considerably taller than any 

 E. minima I remember seeing. They are naturally less mature than 

 the later specimens from Llanberis gathered at a much lower eleva- 

 tion ; and notwithstanding the lov/er internodes being longer than in 

 the Welsh specimens, a feature wliich Mr. Pugsley says is not 

 constant and was omitted from Wettstein's diagnosis, I believe both 

 gatherings to be Iiirtella. — H. S. Thompson. 



Satureja MONTANA L., IN PIants. In 1912, I first gathered 

 this South-European plant in the station in which Hyssopus 

 officinalis L. has been known for centuries to occur, viz., the crevices 

 in and summits of ruined walls at Beaulieu Abbey, New Forest, 

 Hants. It seems more abundant than the Hj'ssop, and is mostly 

 difficult to obtain, groAving some distance out of reach. Being a 

 perennial, its stems become thick and almost gnarled, and it is not 

 surprising that it has been, till now, considered an attenuate variety 

 of Hyssopus. As such I sent specnnens to the Botanical Exchange 

 Club some years ago, but I was never satisfied with this determination, 

 and worked it down to S. montana L. ; Mr. E. G. Baker has con- 

 firmed my view, as well as Mr. G. C. Druce, to whom I also sent 

 specimens. The latter infoi-ms me that Miss C. E. Palmer gathered 



