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b. Capsule with numerous hairs on the edge. 



1. Fruiting: calyx almost smooth. 



Plants of a pixrplish colour or dark green. 



Under-lip longer than the upper. Late summer 



forms E. micrantha. 



Under-lip about as long as the upper. Moor 

 forms. 



Western hill plants E. scotica. 



Alpine plant E. minima, var. palnstris. 



Green or golden green. Corolla only 3 "5 mm. In 



Northern Norway E. latifulia, var. inuadata. 



2. Fruiting calyx more or less strongly hairy. 



Early summer types. Seeds large, l'5-2*0 mm. 

 long. Alpine or northern plants. 



Capsule elliptical E. minima. 



Capsule narrow, oblong, large. In northern 



Norway E. latifolia. 



Late summer type. Seeds small, about 1 mm. long. 



Only in plains and generally hairy E. curta. 



The monograph is in German with the exception of a short 

 summary of the primary points discussed in English, on pp. 317-327. 

 It is remarkable that the common British S. nemot^osa is very doubt- 

 fully Norwegian. In the key, £. gracilis Fries = -E'. micrantha 

 Keichenb. " E. G. B. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Alchemilla ac'Utidens in England. (See Journ. Bot. 1914, 

 281.) Late in June 1919, during an expedition in the Grassington 

 district, Yorkshire, accompanied by Messrs. S. C^yer, T. J. Foggitt and 

 J. W. White, I noticed a peculiar-looking Alchemilla which did not 

 seem happily placed under A. alpestris, although that seemed its 

 nearest ally. The locality would be at an elevation of about 900 feet 

 between Grassington and Conistone. A week or so later Mr. E. G. 

 Baker gathered, in the same neighbourhood, somewhat similar 

 examples. In the meantime, on July 7th, the late Anthony Wallis 

 and I spent a day exploring the lower slopes of Cross Fell and were 

 rewarded by finding a number of interesting plants of which I hope 

 to give an account later. At an elevation of between 1500-1600 ft. 

 a small patch of an Alchemilla was found on a wet ledge of rocks, 

 growing with A. alpestris, but which, even at first sight, proclaimed 

 itself to be undoubted A. acutidens. The low-growing habit, the 

 stems decumbent at the base, the peculiarly glaucous leaves with 

 acute and •+: regular teeth, and the pronounced hairiness of the plant 

 showed us that there could be scarcely a doubt as to its name. Upon 

 careful examination at home, I found the leaf-outline matched well 

 that figured in this Journal {I. c. 284, f. 2) and noted that the deep 

 sinus between the lobes of the lower foliaceous bracts were often 

 remarkably jDronounced — a good distinction, seemingly, between this 

 species and A. alpestris. Our examples grew upon the Westmoreland 

 portion of the mountain, but I have little doubt a longer search 

 would reveal its presence upon the same hill further west in the county 

 of Cumberland. 



