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times oblig'd to quit the room, and walk out in the fresh air to 

 recover himself ; but recollecting at last what might probably be the 

 cause of his repeated illness, he opened the door and windows of his 

 room, and the free air then enabled him to finish his work without 

 any more returns of his giddiness." — James Britten. 



AspiDiUM GOGGILODUS Schkuhr. In 1809 Schkuhr (Kr. Gew. i. 

 193) published as Aspidiiim goggilodus, a fern which Robert Brown 

 described in the following year (Prodr. 148) as Nephrodlum uniftim. 

 Schkuhr's specific name has now taken precedence, but has been 

 changed to gongylodes—^s. it seems to me, wrongfully. The author 

 was, of course, in error in his spelling, which should have been gongy- 

 lodus, but the substitution of e for u is arbitrary and misses the 

 whole point. I take it that Schkuhr's name was made up of the two 

 words yoyyuXos, rounded, and olohs, tooth, whereas gongifJodes can 

 only represent yoyyvXioces {yoyyvXo -ei^//s), roundish. The plant is 

 not at all " roundish," but its lobes or teeth are certainly " rounded." 

 I therefore submit that the fern should be known as Nephrodlum 

 gongylodus (Schkuhr).— W. W. Watts. 



West Gloucestershire (v.c. 34) Records. Miss Todd, of 

 Aldbourne, Wilts, informs me that she has found Folypodium Dry- 

 opteris and Jasione near St. Briavels ; this is a first record of the 

 latter for v.c. 34, although it occurs just over the Wye in Monmouth- 

 shire and plentifully in Glamorganshire. It was recoi-ded long ago 

 from Painswick (v.c. 33), but I am unable to confirm either record 

 by sjDecimens ; Scabiosa Golumharia is not infrequently mistaken for 

 it. Miss Todd has also shown me excellent CratcegMS oxyaccmthoides 

 from Hawkesbury — the first trustworthy record for v.c. 34 ; this is 

 frequently recorded from E. Gloster — and also a beautiful sheet of 

 Limosella from a pond in the Forest of Dean; this con Hrms Winch's 

 record in Baxter's British Flowering Plants (iii. 212). — H. J. 

 Riddelsdell. 



Crepis virei^s and C. tectorum. Mr. E. B. Babcock, of the 

 University of California, writes: "The genus Crepi^s is coming into 

 prominence because of its unusual promise as a subject for genetical 

 research. We have been working at C. virens and G. tectorum for 

 about three years, and find ourselves in need of more of the many 

 forms found among them, and we should be grateful for any material 

 that might be sent us. In addition to the variations between these 

 species, I wish to secure achenes of all other species of Crepis.^ We 

 find this to be necessary because M^e have already met difiiculty in 

 producing viable hybrids between virens and trctorum.'' Mr. Bab- 

 cock's address is :— College of Agriculture, Berkeley, California. 



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 This latest Swedish Flora— which, though dated August 1918, 

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