liOi THE JOUKNAL OF BOTANY 



nallv described by Lindberg ( Musci Scand. 1879, p. 6) from sterile 

 material from Kenii, Lappmark, as a distinct species under the name 

 of C'ephalozia spinigera Lindb., which he considered as related to 

 C. catenulata ( lluehen.), but distinct in the long spiny teeth which 

 spring from near the base of the lobes of the leaves, and are often 

 nearly as "long as the lobes themselves. The plant certainly lias a 

 very distinct appearance, and the description, which was made from 

 sterile material only, would perhaps justify its being treated as a 

 distinct species. It is curious that it should have been compared 

 with C. catenulata, with which it has no close relationship; hut 

 according to Arnell and Jensen (" Ueber einige seltene seandinavische 

 Cephalozia-arten," Bot. Nbtiser, 1908, pp. 9- 1.3), the late Herr Kaalaas 

 seems to have had good reasons for thinking that Lindberg, in L879, 

 regarded the plant subsequently named by Spruce as 0. leucantha as 

 the true ('. catenulata (Hueben.). Arnell and Jensen, in the paper 

 above cited, amplify the original description, and also cite further 

 sterile material from Mora in Dalarne and Hjorteso, Denmark. 

 There are some excellent drawings by Herr Jensen ; the authoi-s refer 

 the plant to C. striatula .lens, as a variety, laying particular stress 

 on the more or less papillose leaves. Karl Mueller (op. cit. Bd. ii. 

 p. 119) criticizes this conclusion, and considers that the plant should be 

 referred as a variety to G. elachista. He draws attention to the fact 

 that the leaf-cells are those of that species, and that the papillosity 

 of the leaves in both 0. elachista and C. striatula is very variable. 

 The discovery of perianths on the Ashdown Forest plant tends to 

 confirm this view, which, I understand, Herr Jensen now shares as 

 the involucral bracts have the long spinous-ciliate, frequently decurved, 

 teeth of C. elachista, and the leaf-cells are those of that species, 

 though the cell-walls have a distinct tendency to be thickened and 

 are sometimes slightly papillose. The lower leaves of the fertile 

 steins and the leaves of some sterile stems growing with them agree 

 exactly with those of the sterile form of the variety figured by 

 Herr Jensen. While I agree with the view taken by Mueller, I 

 think that the Ashdown Poorest plant tends to show that C. elachista 

 and C. striatulus are more closely related to one another than would 

 at first seem probable. Plants are occasionally met with on our 

 Sussex bogs which present some difficulty in deciding to which of the 

 two species they belong. 



SHORT NOTES. 



tExeas M.vcIntyre (p. 17(5). The Linnean Society's copy of 

 the original 1829 edition of A Compendium of the English Flora 

 has this pencil note on the titlepage : "By Dr. Mclntyre F.L.S.," 

 but I do not know who wrote this ; it may have been hastily scribbled 

 bv David Don, who was then the librarian. The Society's copy of. 

 the second edition of 1844 has the word "object" correctly printed, 

 so that the blunder was possibly corrected during printing, and those 

 copies having " boject " are only the earlier issued copies. — B. Daydon 

 Jackson. 



The fact of my father having been a pupil at Macintyre's 

 school has made this name a well-remembered one in my family. A 

 prize medal in our possession, the inscription writ in choice Latin, 



