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 SHORT NOTES. 



Cardamine impatiens in Sussex. — During a visit to the neigh- 

 bourhood of West Grinstead last June, in searcli of some of Borrer's 

 Chants, I came across the above i)lant growing in tolerable abun- 

 dance near Maplehurst. It occurred on a bank by the road-side 

 for some distance between that place and West Grrinstead, and 

 had every appearance of being wild. The only previous record for 

 the county is from the neighbourhood of Slinfold, where it is 

 believed to have been an escape from cultivation. Maj)lehurst is 

 about ten miles from Slinfold in a straight line. — W. H. Beeby. 



Dorsetshire Plants. — In the botanically prolific district be- 

 tween South Haven, Poole Harbour, and Swanage, with its records of 

 Festuca amhiijua, LeGall, iJijnodon Dactylon, L., Lotus hispiduSjDenL, 

 Cyperus longus,lj., Phala)'ispar(uloxa,li.,&c., Ihave recently met with 

 Carex punctata, Gaud., growing in some j)rofusion on a moist sandy 

 saline soil near Little Sea, Studlaud, the shore of which is the 

 habitat of the rare Eleocharis parvula, Hook. It was growing with 

 Carex extensa. Good., and C. distans, L., from which it may readily 

 be distinguished by its nerveless, smooth-beaked, shining and 

 spreading perigynes. This w^as noticed during a walk from 

 South Haven to Swanage, when I was fortunate enough to have for 

 my companion Dr. Trimen. We also occasionally observed Carex 

 CEderi, Ehrh., in a very depauperated state ; but as we approached 

 the neighbourhood of Carex punctata we found it more vigorous, 

 and in its normal state as to height and size. I take this oppor- 

 tunity of noticing a few other Dorset plants which have not, I 

 think, been mentioned in any published record. — Potamogeton 

 rufescens, Schreb., grows abundantly in the water-courses near 

 Wareham, between the town and the railway- station, associated 

 with Potamogeton acutifolius, Link. — Rieracium, murorwn, L., var. 

 (i. canescens of Syme, grows in the Isle of Portland, on the weirs 

 between the Convict Prison and Pennsylvania Castle. The dis- 

 covery of this plant restores it to our county list, for it has not 

 been found since the time of Pulteney, who says of it, " Found on 

 old walls about Shaftesbury, and on w^alls and in rocky and stony 

 places, and on the cliffs in Purbeck," where now^ it is, without any 

 doubt, extinct. — Seduni rupestre, Huds., sub-sp. Forsterianuin, grows 

 in the same places and under similar conditions wdth Hieracium 

 murorum. — Uatiunculus confiisus, Godr., in brackish water, Wey- 

 mouth. This plant is separated from it. Baudotii by the difference 

 of a trifoliate and tripartite leaf, and the length of the stamens as 

 compared with the heads of pistils. — CFnothera odorata, Jacq., 

 roadside near Lyme Regis ; doubtless a casual, introduced among 

 agricultural seed. — FritiUaria Meleagris, L., moist meadows at 

 Chetside and Pulham. With the exception of the hearsay testi- 

 mony of Dr. Pulteuey, Gillingham has been hitherto the only 

 recorded station for this plant ; these two new stations are there- 

 fore of special interest. — J. C. Mansel-Pleydell. 



