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This is not the place to deal with his many labours in various 

 other fields, such as psychical research and land nationalization, 

 nor can we do more than mention the valuable volume of essays 

 0)1 Natural Selection issued in 1875, and the popular exposition of 

 the whole theory of evolution, as he understood it, in Darivinism 

 (1889). While he differed from Darwin in his views as to the ap- 

 plication of the theory to man, Wallace constantly asserted — even 

 more strongly than Darwin himself had ever done — the sufficiency 

 and controlling effect of natural selection, as opposed to the 

 various post-Darwinian views on evolution. 



G. S. BOULGER. 



SHOBT NOTES. 



Hypericum Desetangsii (Journ. Bot. 1913, 317). — Dr. A. 

 Thellung, of Zurich, has kindly drawn my attention to three 

 important papers upon the above plant and its nearest allies, viz., 

 A. Frohlich, in Sitzungsberichte d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, math.- 

 natw. Kl. cxx, 505, 1911, and the same writer in CEsterr. bot. 

 Zeitschr. Ixiii, 13, 1913. A. Thellung in Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr. 

 xviii, 18, 1912. In the last-named paper H. Desetangsii is reported 

 from "England"! I wrote to Dr. Thellung for further details, 

 and he replies : — " The Hypericum from England seen by me was 

 found by Prof. Dr. Hans Schinz, in the summer of 1903, in 

 Camborne, Cornwall, growing spontaneously in the garden of the 

 Eev. Hooper. The specimens are to be found in the botanical 

 museum of Zurich University." I am glad to be able to add 

 West Lancashire, v.-c. 60, to the list of counties possessing 

 H. Desetangsii, as Mr. J. A. Wheldon recently sent me an 

 example collected by him, labelled — " H. dubium forma. Bank 

 of the Lune near Caton, W. Lancashire, Aug. 1900," which is 

 undoubtedly the same as the Lewes plant. — C. E. Salmon. 



Cumberland and Durham Plants. — In 1911 and 1912 my 

 friend Mr. A. Wallis sent me examples of the following plants 

 from the above counties : — 



Durham, v.-c. 66. Ornitliopus perpusillus L. In considerable 

 quantity in one or two places on the Seaton sandhills. 1911. 

 Interesting from the fact that Tate & Baker remark (Fl. 

 Northumb. & Durham, 1868, 152), "Not seen anywhere recently." 

 — Centaurium pulchellum Druce. Seaton sandhills. 1912. Not 

 reported before, I believe, for Durham. — Chenopodium glaucum L. 

 Slag heap. Old Hartlepool. 1912. Known there for twelve 

 years. — Polygonum litorale Link. Tees estuary and Seaton 

 sandhills. 1912. I think those who separate P. Baii and 

 maritimum as species should, to be consistent, equally keep 

 apart litorale and aviculare. — EupJiorhia Esula L. On sandhills 

 form.ed over an embankment of slag at Teesmouth. 1911. 



Cumberland, v.-c. 70 (1911). Cerastium tetrandrum Curt. 

 Sandhills near Drigg. — Euphrasia Eostkoviana Hayne. iNear 

 Stye Head Farm, — E. scotica Wellst. Borrowdale. This may 



