88 SHORT NOTES. 



identical with Miquel's previously founded Nothocerasiis ;* nor 

 can I see that it is in any way distinguishable from Laurocerasus. 



SHOET NOTES. 



Flora of Lake Lancashire (Journ. Bot. 1870, pp. 268-296). 

 — In Miss Hodgson's herbarium, now incorporated vdih. the general 

 British collection in the British Museum, are some plants which 

 are not included in her pubhshed list. Cochlearia danica (named by 

 Mr. Baker), from Walney Island, was placed on the sheet with 

 Arenaria serpyllifolia , and was thus overlooked. Parnassia palustris 

 and Crepis virens were no doubt accidentally omitted. Miss 

 Hodgson's specimens of the former are from Gillbanks, Ulverston; 

 Plumpton Moss ; and top of Hawkshead Hill. The Melilotus 

 vulgaris of the list seems to me rather M. parvijiora, Desf. ; and the 

 Daucus waritimufi is not the true plant. The only specimen in 

 Miss Hodgson's herbarium representing the Galium MoUugo of her 

 list is (r. Aparine. We have a tj^pe- specimen fi'om Ulverston of 

 Bosa hractescens, Woods, which is not in the hst. The Erytliro'a 

 littoralis of the list, so far as the Humi^hrey Head plant is con- 

 cerned, is E. pulchella : the i)lants from " Plumpton salt marshes" 

 are of both species. The names Atriplex angustifolia and A. hastata 

 have been transiDOsed ; and Pohjyonum Hgdropiper, as regards the 

 specimens from "plantations," is represented by a i?it?//f^.r, appa- 

 rently a young state of E. nemorosus, a species not included in the 

 list. — James Britten. 



Scotch Locatities. — Bosa inrohita, Sm. (B. SmitJiii of Baker), 

 Eiver Almond, near Eatho, Linlithgowshire, June 23rd, 1868, 

 several j)lants. — MalaHs j^ctJudosa, Sw., on the west side of Ben 

 Lomond, near Eowardennan, Stirlingshire, August 22nd, 1877. — 

 On looking over some of my old gatherings, I find Carduus arvnisis, 

 Curt., ft. setosus near Currie, Edinburghshire, September, 1865. — 

 A. Craig Christie. 



* ' Fl. Ind. Batav.,' i. 1, 364.. The only distinctions on -which Miquel relies 

 are the shape of the fruit, and the leaves, generally quite entire in Nothocerasus, 

 and serrate in Laurocerasus. The first character is obviously ina<lequate to 

 sectional distinction ; and, as to the latter, P. (Nothocerasus) macrophylla, 

 S. & Z., P. (Nothocerasus) spimilosa, S. & Z., and P. (Nothocerasus) ujidulata, 

 Ham., have serrate leaves; whilst they are usually quite entire in P. (Lauro- 

 cerasus) caroUniana, Ait., and invariably so in the Caribbean P. (Laurocerasxis) 

 occidentalis, Sw., and its allies. 



