250 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



SHORT NOTES. 

 Ptilota plumosa and Henry Goode. — I had the pleasure of 

 the personal acquaintance of Henry Goode, who is said by Dr. J. 

 Cosmo Melvill (p. 107) to have collected Ptilota i)lumosa at 

 Falmouth. He was a most enthusiastic collector, and for several 

 years used to bring his algas to me to name when he was in doubt. 

 He lived at Plymouth as a centre, from about 1860-70, but went 

 occasionally for a week or two to Falmouth and Penzance and 

 other localities for seaweeds, and was lucky enough to find one or 

 two pieces of Carpomitra at Penzance, and, if I remember rightly, 

 also Croiiania and Gigartina pistillata. He corresponded with 

 algologists all over the world, and when he died left in his will, 

 concerning his herbarium, that I was first to take all the speci- 

 mens that I cared for, and that Mr. F. W. Smith, of Falmouth, 

 was to have the remainder. The foreign algae I selected from his 

 collection formed the nucleus of my collection of foreign algae now 

 in Mason's College at Birmingham. I may say that Mr. F. W. 

 Smith, who resided at Falmouth, sent Goode many beautiful speci- 

 mens — he mounted specimens in albums for sale privately, and 

 also sold loose specimens to collectors ; the names were ascertained 

 either from books or from correspondents, and both in his collec- 

 tions and in Goode's I often found specimens wrongly named, 

 localities were often added afterwards by Mr. Goode from memory, 

 as he often forgot where the specimens came from, when not 

 labelled at the back by the collectors ; Goode generally wrote the 

 name in front of his specimens. I doubt, therefore, whether any 

 reliance is to be placed upon the fact that Goode's specimen was 

 labelled " Falmouth." I have visited Falmouth several times, but 

 never saw Ptilota plumosa there : on the other hand, the Isle 

 of Anglesea is quite a probable spot for it. I have gathered good 

 typical specimens of Phyllopliora Brodim at Penmon in Anglesea, 

 and under the Menai Bridge, as well as Phlceospora suharticulata 

 and ClicBtopiteris plumosa, northern algae which I have never seen 

 in Devon or Cornwall ; also Cordylecladia and other southern 

 algae at Penmon, so that evidently at this point the northern 

 algae find their southern limit on the West Coast, just as Dcles- 

 seria angustissima finds its northern limit just below Scarborough, 

 on the East Coast and southern algte extend to Anglesea. Ptilota 

 plumosa was recorded from Holyhead and Port Dafarch some 

 years ago by Mr. J. E. Griffith, of Bangor, in his Flora of Anglesea 

 and Carnarvonshire (p. 237), as growing on the stem of Laminaria 

 digitata. The only satisfactory statement concerning the locality 

 of an alga is when it is found actually attached to a growing plant, 

 or a rock, as many weeds are floated for a very considerable distance 

 before decaying, and floating algae are always doubtful records from 

 the spot where they are found. Even West Indian seeds are washed 

 up in the Hebrides by the Gulf Stream. — E. M. Holmes. 



Gaultheria Shallon in Surrey. — A specimen of this has 

 been sent me by a correspondent, who describes it as growing on 

 sandy soil at a high elevation on Leith Hill, Surrey, " apparently 

 quite wild." — H. J. Eiddelsdell. 



