22 SHORT NOTES. 



diately informed himself carefully of the exact spot, and, before the 

 ground was broken, he made some of his workmen dig up the 

 turfs containing the bulbs, and trans^Dlant them safely beyond 

 the reach and influence of the works he was about to begin. Mrs. 

 Glenuie could not remember if she ever knew the place to which 

 the transference was made, but it seems tolerably clear that Mr. 

 Brunei's care was effectual in preserving for us a choice plant, the 

 locality for which, when undisturbed, was evidently of very small 

 dimensions. — J. W. WmTE (in Proc. Bristol Nat. Soc. v. iii. 232). 



Distribution of Caloglossa Leprieurii (Mont.) J. Ag. — This 

 species, previously unknown to occur on the shores of the African 

 Continent, has been found on the trunks of old trees at low water 

 at Akassa, River Nun (chief mouth of the Niger), W. Africa. In 

 his ' Species Algarum,' vol. iii., p. 499, J. Agardh gives as the dis- 

 tribution of the species: — " M. Atlantico calidiore ad Americam 

 uti-amque ; ad Novam Hollandiam et N. Zealandiam." The speci- 

 mens m Kew Herbarium, however, show it to have a more extended 

 range. The localities there represented are : — Atlantic shores of 

 N. and S. America, from Fort Lee, near New York, to Cayenne ; 

 Bermuda ; Akassa, W. Africa ; Mauritius ; Kelani River, Ceylon ; 

 Benin Islands, N. Pacific ; Port Fairy, Victoria ; Port Curtis, 

 Queensland; Georgetown, Tasmania; Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 

 It has also been found in Guadeloupe. f3. subtilissiina (Martens), 

 Calcutta. — C. H. Wright. 



Crepis taraxacifolia in Middlesex. — Although not included in 

 the ' Flora of Middlesex,' Crepis taraxacifolia has evidently been 

 long established in the Thames and Colne valleys, for, in addition 

 to the stations already given, I have again met with it this summer 

 at Uxbridge and in the neighbourhood of Harefield. I found it a 

 common weed in meadows and on railway-banks between West 

 Drayton and Staines, and in great profusion between Staines and 

 Laleham, some of the meadows about Laleham and Penton Hook 

 Lock apparently producing very little else. Nearly opposite the 

 Lock, Caiiipanida (/lumerata was abundant and luxuriant, in one 

 place overtopping the grass, and quite tinting the meadow with its 

 handsome blue flowers. Both species have doubtless been intro- 

 duced by seeds brought down from the upper reaches of the river. 

 Amongst plants collected this year, I find Foterimn innricatum from 

 mil way-banks between Uxbridge and West Drayton — not hitherto 

 noticed in the county, I believe. — J. Benbow. 



Autumnal Flowering of Mercurialis perennis. — During the 

 month of September, about five years ago, whilst walking along a 

 footpath skirting a wooded hill in the neighbourhood of Preston, 

 and occasionally scanning the flora of the hedge-bottom, my 

 attention was attracted by the unusual sight of Mercurialis perennis 

 in full flower. Finding the plant again in flower in September, 

 1884, I gathered specimens, and sent them, while fresh, to Kew. 

 In acknowledgiiig the receipt of the plants, Sir J. D. Hooker stated 

 that he could not find anything at all like it in the Kew Herbarium. 

 Subsequently I sent specimens for cultivation, which, on making 

 inquh-y last May, I learned were still growing, and were then in 



