376 SHORT NOTES. 



speciDiens to Eabenliorst's * Bryotheca Europaea,' No. 520, under 

 the MSS. name of U. calcescens Wils. Up to that time 

 Mr. ^Vilson had looked upon it as a variety of [/. Bruchii with 

 smooth calyptra, but Dr. Carrington pointed out the earlier period 

 of the fructification, and other well-marked characters. Through 

 some oversight, Dr. Braithwaite has got the date of the paper as 

 1866, giving priority to Mr. Mitten's name, U. vittata, published in 

 the Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 3, 1865. In the ' London Cata- 

 logue of 'British Mosses' (1881), U. vittata is given as a synonym of 

 U. calcescens. — W. H. Pearson. 



I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Pearson in sending me 

 his note on Ulota calcescens, and correcting me in the priority of 

 date for the publication of that name. I had quite overlooked 

 Eabenliorst's * Bryotheca,' for Dr. Carrington there gives an 

 excellent diagnostic character for the species, and thus establishes 

 the publication of the name in 1862. The synonomy will there- 

 fore stand thus : — 



Ulota calcescens Wils. MSS. Carrington in Eaben. 'Bryotheca,' 

 n. 520, c. diagnose (1862) ; et in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vii. 386 

 (read July 10th, 1862, published in 1863). 



Ulota vittata Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. viii. 3 (read 

 Nov. 5th, 1863, pubhshed June 20th, 1864).— E. Beaithwaite. 



Introduced Plants. — Notes such as that (p. 314) on the 

 occurrence of Lilium Martagon in Worcestershire show how readily 

 undoubted aliens can assume the habit of native plants when 

 circumsiances are favourable. It is a curious coincidence that a 

 few days ago, Mr. J. L. Hopkins placed in my hands a fine 

 specimen of this lily, which he had cut from a patch of three or 

 four plants growing near the edge of a wood by a brook not far 

 from Bishopsworth, North Somerset. This spot is remote from 

 gardens, and the plant is very rarely seen in cultivation hereabout ; 

 but of course it has been introduced by some unknown accident, 

 and that recently. It is not likely to remain, as the showy 

 flowers, visible from a neighbouring footpath, invite the attention of 

 passers-by, one or other of whom will assuredly " lift " it before 

 long. Another instance, hitherto unpublished, of the introduction 

 of an alien near Bristol, is that of Oniphalodes verna Moench., of 

 w4iich there are several patches in a steep stony wood by the Avon 

 near Hanham, West Gloucestershire, where I understand it has 

 been known many years. Surrouuded by Butterfly Orchis and 

 Oniithof/alum jtyrevaicinu, it looks thoroughly wild, although pre- 

 sumably derived from gardens on the top of the hill. The place is 

 not easy of access, so this plant has probably come to stay and 

 spread. The annual Glaucium jJicenicnnn appeared this summer, 

 thicldy sprinkled among turnips, near Warmley, West Gloucester- 

 shire. I suppose it had been sown with the crop ; but in this 

 case there was no chance given of eftecting a lodgement, as the 

 plant was cut up in hoeing the field, and it is doubtful if the few 

 individuals that escaped ripened any seeds. — Jas, W. White. 



EuBUs Hystrix in Salop. — Prof Babington has kindly named 

 Biibus Hystrix, a bramble recently found by me in Whitechffe 



