238 <;hort notes. 



will be found an extract, in Latin, from Bishop Leslie, where the 

 plant is called Olorina. "Why it was translated Ulleriore in the survey 

 of the Province of Moray is not known. Typha latifolia was suggested as 

 likely to have been the plant meant by the Bishop. It was once 

 abundant in the Loch of Spynie. An inroad of the sea at the time 

 of the Moray floods (1829) almost killed it out. It again revived and 

 spread its roots when, some years aftervvards, the flow of the tide was 

 excluded ; but now it has almost disappeared, with the beautiful lake 

 itself, through the progress of agriculture. Scirpus lacustris, Arundo 

 Phragyjiites, Sparganium ramosum, Potamogetons, &c., were also fre- 

 quent in and around the same extensive sheet of water." 



BtTPLEUErM ARistATUM, BaHl. — It is fifteen years since the Rev. 

 E. A. Holmes made the interesting discovery of Biipleicrum aristatum 

 on the downs between Eastbourne and Beachy Head, and though our 

 local botanists have made many attempts during the last few years 

 to rediscover it, it has escaped notice until to-day (June 26th), when 

 I met with it in bloom, probably in the very same locality where it 

 was originally seen, as it was accompanied by Thesium humifusum^ 

 and diminutive plants of EupJiorbia exigna, the identical species noticed 

 by Mr. Holmes in 1860. The plants, probably owing to the dry season, 

 are very small, being generally about three quarters of an inch in 

 height, and the narrow lanceolate leaves and small yellow flowers are 

 so inconspicuous amongst the down turf that it was only by a mepe 

 chance that I observed it, having carefully searched the same bank on 

 several previous occasions in vain ; but to-day my attention was drawn 

 to some small yellow flowers of a clover amongst the grass, and in 

 gathering a few plants to ascertain the species,- 1 found the Bupleurum 

 growing with them. — F. C. S. Eopek. 



Iris Pseud-acorus, var. Bastardi, Boreau, in Herts. — I have noticed 

 this form by the River Maran, at Welwyn, in small quantity. Dr. J. 

 T. Boswell has seen specimens, and agrees that it is the /. Bastardi 

 of Boreau, authentic plants of which he has in cultivation. I am in- 

 formed by him that the plant does not come true from seed, but diverges 

 into 1. Fseud-acorus genuina, Boreau. It is perhaps the same plant 

 as that recorded in Ray's " Synopsis," ed. 2 (1696), p. 234. ''7m 

 palustris pallida. Pale or whitish leaved water Flower-de-Luce. By 

 the river side between Hartford and AVelling [Welwyn]. Observed 

 by Mr. Dale."— Thos. B.Blow. 



Alopecuriis bulbosus, Z., in Cornwall. — On the 31st of May last 

 I had the pleasure of discovering Alopecurus bulbosus in two places on 

 the western side of the Tamar, and consequently in Cornwall, to which 

 county it is new. It occurred in considerable quantity in a small 

 salt marsh or mud flat between Calstock village and Cotehele ; and 

 again in another spot of similar character, immediately to the east of 

 Cotehele Quay, about a mile lower down the river. I have since 

 searched for it in other likely spots in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, 

 but have as yet been unable to find it elsewhere. — T. R. Archer 

 Briggs. 



