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A/v^THYRiuM) Macdonelli, n. sp. — Rhizome strong, creeping; 

 stipes much thickened at the base, about 12 in. long, furnished with 

 a few deciduous large lanceohite scales, and furfuraceous, as is the 

 rachis, with tawny curled hair-like scales ; fronds pinnate, about 

 14 in. long by 8-10 in. broad at the base, ovate to deltoid-lanceolate; 

 pinnae lanceolate, about 18-20 pairs, alternate or subopposite, 

 4-5 in. long by about If in. broad, pinnatifid nearly to the midrib, 

 leaving only a winged margin to the villose partial rachis ; pinnules 

 ligulate, oblong from a square base, about ^ in. broad, cut down 

 about one-third into small oblong lobes ; texture herbaceous ; 

 surfaces naked or nearly so; veins 1 to each lobe, forked or pin- 

 nate, or rarely simple ; sori 1 to each segment, not reaching the 

 margin ; involucres athyrioid or asplenioid, generally very hippo- 

 crepiform, never diplazioid. 



This in cutting much resembles the more cut varieties of the 

 Ceylonese Dlplaziinn Schkulirii, but differs much in its involucres. 

 It was discovered by Mr. M;(cdonell, of the Forest Department, in 

 the Chumba Valley, at about 5000 ft. elevation. '' --'-■ 



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By Frederick J. Hanbury, F.L.S. 



The following notes will supplement those which appeared in 

 this Journal for July, 1888, and the few preliminary remarks which 

 preceded the earlier paper are equally applicable on the present 

 occasion. I again visited the north coast of Sutherland in July 

 last, accompanied this time by Mr. J. Cosmo Melviil. We spent 

 several days in the immediate vicinity of Ben Hope, which, with the 

 exception of Strath Naver, was the only new ground visited in 

 Sutherland last year. I spent a few days in the neighbourhood of 

 Settle, on the way north, and about a fortnight among the Bread- 

 albane Hills, on the return south. Of the following species now 

 recorded as British, the three first were not collected by myself. 



Hieracium lapponicum Fr. By a sm-all stream at the head of 

 Cwm Tarell, Breconshire, by the Rev. Augustin Ley, in July, 1887. 

 Being unable to place this plant under any of the names of the 

 Hieracia already known to this country, I sent it with many others 

 to Dr. Lindeberg. He identified it as the above species, marking 

 it with a note ot certainty, and adding, " Valde inopmatum! " Mr. 

 Ley kindly supplied me with a fine series of fiesh specimens last 

 year, and 1 find these to agree well with Fries' description. 



H. s/iarsi/oluim Liiideb. The earliest specimen I bave of 

 this very marked species was ctdlected by Messrs. H. & J. Gr"ves 

 on Beinn Cruachan, Argyllshire, in August, 18H3. It lay in my 

 herbarium for some time without any name, Messrs. Groves not 

 being able to place it under any of our previousl.v-known species. 

 Since this specimen was identified by Dr. Lindeberg, the plant has 

 been found by the Rev. Augustin Ley near Penygwrydd, Carnarvon- 



