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ordinary stems of the year cut away or destroyed; and these 

 autumnal second stems often appear with more or less abnormal 

 and deceptive features. — T. E. Archer Briggs. 



EuBus RHENANus Mlill. ? — The note I contributed respecting this 

 bramble for the Botanical Exchange Club Report for 1888 has been 

 therein inserted as if applicable to the Monmouth plant, called by 

 Focke, Piubus Lcehri. I write this note to say it was written with 

 reference exclusively to the one of the neighbourhood of Plymouth, 

 which plant is different from any that I have as yet seen from other 

 parts of the kingdom. Sent by me from Crabtree, one of its 

 Plymouth stations, to the late Rev. Andrew Bloxam, it was by him 

 considered, we now know erroneously, to be E. Bloxamii Lees, and 

 was under that name inserted by me in ' Flora of Plymouth,' 

 though as "not typical BJoxamii.'" I am glad to know it has since 

 been described by Babington, and that it now appears under another 

 name. — T. E. Archer Briggs. 



Melampyrum sylvaticum in Gloucestershire (p. 152). — The 

 locality given for this plant, at Wych Cliffs, Gloucestershire, in 

 Turner and Dillwyn's ' Botanist's Guide,' rests on the authority of 

 Swayne. I have repeatedly searched the woods in the neighbour- 

 hood for many years past without observing this interesting species, 

 and, finding no specimen in the herbarium of Withering or Smith 

 at the Linnean Society, cannot but fear that Swayne might have 

 mistaken small examples of M. pratense for it. Sale likewise makes 

 no reference to finding Melampijrum sylvaticum L. at Wych, in his 

 ' Midland Flora,' where he was constantly in the habit of collecting 

 plants. — T. Bruges Flower. 



Lophocolea spicata Tayl. in North Wales. — This rare species, 

 which, so far as I know, had only been recorded from Ireland, — 

 Cromaglown, Dunkerron, Dr. Taylor ; near Bantry, Miss Hutchins ; 

 on rocks below Tore Cascade, Dr. Carrington : Glensiskin, I. Carroll 

 (Carrington, 'Gleanings among Irish Cryptogams,' 1863), — was 

 found by the late Mr. William Curnow in 1884, at St. Just, Cornwall 

 (Trans. Penzance Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Soc. 1883-4). Some years 

 ago, my friend Mr. George Stabler, of Levens, mentioned that he 

 had specimens collected in 1843-4 by Wilson, near Conway, North 

 Wales. He is said to have been very chary in communicating 

 stations for the rarer plants. In 1886 I spent some time searching 

 for this species, but unsuccessfully ; this year, however, I have been 

 able to find it at Trefriw, about ten miles from Conway, no dotibt 

 the original station, as it was growing with the rare Fuidula voluta 

 Tayl., which species Wilson had also collected in that neighbour- 

 hood. This re-discovery confirms a station not previously published. 

 — W. H. Pearson. 



New Bucks Plants. — During the present summer Arnoseris 

 pusilla has been growing plentifully in a sandy corn-field in the 

 parish of Great Brickhill, Bucks. It was shown to me on July 

 29th by Mrs. E. Tindall, of Leighton Buzzard, who had previously 

 observed it in the same station. This is interesting, not only as a 

 new county record, but also for the Watsonian province W. Thames, 



