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he wrote : — " Your T. atromrens has the peristome very variable, but 

 for the most pai-t considerably reduced, and I should place it under 

 Tar. edentula.^'' Of the Lantern Hill plants he wrote : — " This is the 

 extreme form of the var., and it is interesting to know that all forms 

 exist in that locality from the almost gymnostomous to the well 

 developed peristome." For an account of this see Journ. Bot. 1916^ 

 272. — T. Icevipila var. ladvipilcBformis Limpr. Fairly plentifully on 

 trees by a small watercourse on the road between Watermouth Castle 

 and Berrynarbor ; also on a tree near Watermouth Castle. Mr, Dixon 

 writes : — '* Your T. Icevipila may certainly be referred to the var. as 

 it has a marked border to the leaves as well as the foliose gemmae. 

 I have frequently found it associated with T. papillosa, and am 

 inclined to think that both prefer a larger amount of moisture than 

 the noi-mal form of T. Icevipila, I suppose the var. Icevipilceformis 

 may have a rather southern distribution ; it seems to become much 

 commoner in the South both within Britain and also outside, but I 

 am inclined to think it takes very little to turn the type into the 

 var. ! " — T. ruraliformis Dixon. Abundant on Braunton Burrows, 

 also plentiful on the Woolacombe dunes ; Mr. W. Watson of Taunton 

 tells me it fruits on Braunton Burrows, and I noticed young setse at 

 Woolacombe. Mr. Wheldon writes : — " An anomaly is that although 

 T. ruraliformis is xerj abundant on our (Lancashire) dunes, it never 

 fruits there now, although I believe it did so formerly, but on the 

 Welsh coast it is not at all rare with capsules," The fruit occurs in 

 fair quantity on the Burnham-on-Sea sandhills in Somerset (v.c. 6). 



(To be concluded.) 



BIBLIOaRAPHICAL NOTES. 

 LXXV. " Madeira Flowers." 



Such jwints of interest as may be connected with the two books 

 which form the subject of the following notice are perhaps literary 

 rather than botanical : but as both volumes were thought sufficiently 

 connected with botany to find a place in Pritzel's Thesaurus and 

 Dr. Daydon Jackson's Index, and the authors are, in accordance 

 with our rule, included in our Biographical Index ^ a note u}3on them 

 may be worth printing. 



It is surely somewhat remarkable that two books by membei's 

 of the same family living in the same island should be issued in the 

 same year (1845) from the same printing and publishing house 

 (Reeve Brothers), each similarly bound in green cloth with a floral 

 •device in gold on the cover and differing only in size ; and that 

 neither should contain any reference to the other ! Moreover, the 

 object in publishing in each case was not dissimilar : Mrs. Penfold's 

 Madeira Flowers, Fruits, and Ferns was produced " to gratify those 

 :visitori5 and residents who take an interest in [Madeiran] productions " ; 

 Mvs. Augusta J. Robley's Selection of Madeira Flowers (folio), 

 " dedicated to her mother, Mrs. Jane Wallas Penfold," was " the 

 humble offspring of a wish to gratify some friends who have kindly 

 flattered me by thinking my paintings worthy of publication." 



