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awarded the Clement's Inn Prize, a much coveted distinction. He 

 then joined his father in the practice, and on the latter's death in 

 1883 carried it on with his brother, Mr. Gerald Hunnybun, con- 

 tinuing to do so until 1913, when ill-health compelled him to retire. 

 For nearly forty years he was Clerk to the Huntingdon Board of 

 Guardians, an office which he filled in such a way as to win the 

 esteem and affection of the members of that body. After his retire- 

 ment he took up his residence at Ventnor, where he died on July 3. 



Our readers will learn with interest that it is hoped to issue the 

 third volume (the second in appearance) of The Cambridge British 

 Flora — a work with which Hunnybun's name will always be asso- 

 ciated and which may be regarded as his monument — in the spring of 

 next year. 



SHOET NOTES. 



Philonotis c^spitosa var. adpressa Dismier in Britain. 

 Mr. W. Ingham detected two tufts of this moss in a large gathering 

 of -P. c<Bspitosa from a wet bog on London Clay near Burridge 

 Heath, Great Bedwyn, South Wiltshire (v.c. 8) which I recently sent 

 for the Moss Exchange Club. The var. grew sparingly in three 

 places in the marsh and I noticed several 6 flowers ; Mr. Ingham, 

 wrote: — "Dismier is our greatest authority on Philoiiotis and has 

 produced a monograph on the genus. He says that P. fontana, 

 seriata, tomentella, and ccespitosa all produce similar varieties as 

 adpressa, laxa, orlhoplii/lla, etc. ; his description of var. adpressa of 

 P. ccespitosa is as follows : — Stems of 5 cm., little coherent, scarcely 

 radiculose, slender, simple, without innovations ; leaves dimorphous, 

 some like the type, others distant, erect, strongly applied against the 

 stem, widely oval, and shortly acuminate. P. ccespitosa varies like 

 the other species, and I have var. laxa, var. elongata and var. ortlio- 

 phyjla ; your var. adpressa is the first record for the British Isles. 

 Dismier named var. ndprcssa in 1908 ; it has long very slender stems 

 without tomentum ; when dry the stems are very slender." It is 

 rather curious that in Britain the East Wiltshire village of Great 

 Bedwyn should at the present time almost monopolize the two 

 Philonotis vars. — P. ccespifosavar. adpressa and P. ccdcarea var. laxa; 

 the latter I have, however, traced into Berkshire, where it grows by 

 the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hungerford. — Cecil P. Hurst. 



Carex elongata L. var. umbrosa Kneucker in Seubert-Klein 

 Ex.-fl. Badens, 55 (1891). This wood form of Curex elongata was 

 sent me in 1916 by Mr. Horwood from Ee^^don Wood, E. Suffolk. 

 It differs from the tyjje in being slender, diffuse and supple, by the 

 small number of flowers in the axils and the longer glumes ; its whole 

 aspect is more like that of G. remota. North Essex is the only 

 record for E. Anglia ; it was found by E. G. Varenne in Mark's Hall 

 Wood, near Coggeshall, and recorded by Thomas Bentall in Phyt. ii. 

 886 (1847). it was named bv Babington (Manual ed. 3: 358, 

 1851) /3. Gehliardi—0. GebhardlilV'i\\d..'m Schk. Eiedgr. ed. 2, 22 

 (1806) =var. simplicior Anderss. Cyp. Scand. 60 (1849). But this 

 is a boreal and alpine form of the plant, which so far as I know has 

 not been found in this country. — Arthur Bennett. 



