ly-4 SHORT NOTES. 



I J. ictiiiUa, Brack. Common about Grlenalla, Katlimullan, i^c, 

 and at Carrablagli. F. 



Pvliistiduun aiu/iilare, Newman. Rather local. Dimnacraig ; 

 Glenalla, Bnnlinn. F. 



[P. Lonchitis, Roth. This plant is recorded upon the authority 

 of Dr. Moore, in the ' Cybele Hibernica,' from " The Rosses 

 and Fanet" ; but having a^Dplied to him, I learn that this 

 was a mistake). 



Athi/riuin Fillv-fcenwui, Roth. Common. F. 



,, ,, var. Frizellite. I had the pleasure of 



forwarding to Mr. T. Moore, of Chelsea, a frond of this 

 remarkable form, which I gathered near the Seven Arches, 

 Fanet, in August, 1877. I only observed one plant. Mr. 

 Moore informed me that it was quite a characteristic spe- 

 cimen. I may mention that the above station is far from 

 any garden, and that I have not seen the plant in culti- 

 vation in Donegal. F. 



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LiNN.EA BOREALis IN YORKSHIRE. — This was found a few years 

 ago on the north-eastern Yorkshire moors, not far from Scarborough, 

 I enclose a specimen, though it is without flowers, in which state 

 alone the plant has hitherto been found. It grows on Silpho 

 Moor, a wild place, miles away, I believe, from any habitation, 

 towards the head of the river Derwent, at a height of about a 

 thousand feet, where, along with the Cranberry, it trails over 

 Sphagnum, under the shade of heather. It was discovered in the 

 autumn of 1863 by the late Mr. John Tissiman, of Scarborough, 

 better known as an archaeologist than a botanist, and the specimen 

 sent herewith was gathered in 1877, by his grandson, Peter 

 Tissiman. A few miles southward from the locality of the 

 Linnaa, on bushy hill-sides towards the village of Hackness, 

 grows Sinilacina bifolia, along with Trientalis europcca. My friend 

 Mr. J. Hildyard, of Scarborough, has sent me every spring, for 

 several j^ears past, a few fresh specimens of each of these 

 two plants ; but this year we have had no spring, so that 

 wild flowers are exceedingly scarce. The Trientalis, however, 

 grows abundantly and luxuriantly in woods (about four miles 

 west of where I am writing) beyond the village of Hovingham, 

 towards Coxwold — Laurence Sterne's Coxwold, — where Mr. Hild- 

 yard found it a few years ago. — Richard Spruce. 



Carex ornithopoda. — In looking over the herbarium of the late 

 Mr. Borrer at Kew, I came across two Carices, gummed on the 

 same sheet of paper, labelled '* Carex dyjitata " ; one from 

 " Mackershaw Wood"; the other from "Roche Abbey Wood, 

 Y^orkshue, 18-40." The one from Mackershaw I believe to be 



