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petuated ever since by division of the roots .... Although good 

 seed is very sparingly procured [produced ?] I had some collected 

 and sown ; and I can now affirm that it may be thus reproduced, as 

 all the seedlings are more or less spiral." According to a notice 

 of David Bishop, reprinted in the The Cottage Gardener ii. 806 

 (Sept. 1849) from The North British Agriculturist, the plant 

 was found after he had left the Belfast Gardens " in the wilds of 

 Connemara " : it had before that date been exhibited by M'^Nab at a 

 meeting of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, and had also been sent 

 to London botanists. The account of Bishop (1788-1849) written 

 from personal knowledge, is the only published record of his work 

 and may at some time be worth reprinting, as it is likely to be over- 

 looked in its present position. 



Dabeocia polifolia var. alba D. Don. This form, which is 

 recorded and figured in Sweet's British Flower Garden (2nd series, 

 iii. t. 276), was gathered in the county of Mayo by J. T. Mackay in 

 1882." It is of course a mere colour-form, now common in gardens ; 

 Sweet's figure (see under t. 280) was from a cultivated specimen. 



Ulex hibeenicus Gr. Don is in Cyhele under Z7. europcBiis, of 

 which it is rightly considered a form or variety, strictus : under this 

 name it was published as a species by J. T. Mackay in Trans. K. Irish 

 Acad. xiv. 166 (1824-5), but without description; he says: "This 

 appears to be a new and distinct species ; but, as it rarely produces 

 flowers, has not yet been described : it may however be readily distin- 

 guished from the other two species by its erect mode of growth." In 

 his Flora Hihernica (i. 74 ; 1886) Mackay regards it as a variety of 



U. europceiis. Meanwhile the name " V. hibemicus G. Don " had 

 appeared in Loudon's Horfus Britannicits (ii. 280 ; 1830), and in his 



General System (ii. 148; 1832) he publishes it with a kind of 

 diagnosis. Maund (Bot. Garden, ix. n. 822; 1841) says that 

 " Z7. hihernica''' "sometimes called U. strictus, was first botani- 

 cally described b}' the late David Don under the name we have 

 adopted" : David (who died in 1841) may be a mistake for George, 

 who did not die until 1856. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Upper Teesdale Plants. A visit to High Force during the 

 latter part of last April produced a few critical forms which seem to 

 be unrecorded for v.c. 65 (N.W. Yorks) or 66 (Durham). The 

 season was very backward ; and in two cases the determination was 

 made from roots transferred to ray garden. 



ii6, 66. Erophila virescens Jord. Common in both counties, in 

 grassy or rocky ground, especially on the limestone, from 900 to 1600 

 or even 1800 feet ; the only segregate observed, and often luxuriant. 

 This very distinct species is remarkable for its bright green, glabro*!- 

 cent, fleshy leaves, usually arranged in a flat rosette, and for its sliowy, 

 snow-white petals. It sometimes occurs hereabouts on unmortared 

 walls, where the foliage tends to become duller and more hairy ; the 



