22G THE .TouExvL OF p.or.vyT 



July that in bothtliose hilly districts this plant seems chiefly confined 

 to the moss}^ crevices of stone walls and dry hedge-banks by road-sides 

 on the granite and slate. Above Pensilva it reaches 800 ft. at least. 

 Only twice did I observe it on heaths or commons (other than on the 

 characteristic dividing walls of both districts) ; and though of rather 

 frequent occurrence, it is, as ever^^where, very thinly distributed, and 

 there are rarely more than one or two plants at a place. That point 

 was most noticeable. One plant was growing among a small quantity 

 of Sphagnum at the edge of a diverted watercourse on the moor by 

 Dousland, Yelverton. These ol)servations tend to substantiate my 

 belief that the distribution of Hypericum humifusmn has been much 

 affected b}" the agency of man. — H. S. Thompson. 



TERATOLoaT IN Papater orientale. Noticing on June llth 

 one flower, out of many, in a large clump of the above-named Poppy 

 to be of a peculiar erect and funnel-shaped- appearance, 1 examined it 

 more closely, and found it was indeed " corolliflorous," the petal 

 showing no sign of seam or point of conjunction of any kind, being 

 of perfect circular form, nor did there seem any sign of the basal 

 " claws." Colour, the usual brilliant scarlet. So far as is discernible, 

 the capsule seemed normal. I should be glad to know w^hether such 

 an abnormality is of frequent occurrence. I have never myself 

 observed anything like it previously. Measurement of petal 4| inches 

 long. — J. Cosmo Meltill. 



[The abnormality is referred to by AVorsdell {Principles of Plant 

 Teratology, ii. 250; t. 51. fig. 10) as "one of the best known and 

 most remarkable instances of sympetaly " ; Penzig however {PJian- 

 zen Teratologie) does not record it. — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



MiMUSOPS PARTIFOLIA R. Br. In the recent number of his 

 " Contributions to the Queensland Flora " (Botany Bulletin Queens- 

 land Dept. of Agriculture, xxi.) Mr. C. T. White points out that the 

 plate and description assigned to M. Kauki in the Illustratiojis to the 

 Botany of Cook's Voyage, " vol. 2, p. 59, pi. ]94 " should be referred 

 to the species named above. The correction had already been made 

 in the index to the volume, which Mr. "White has overlooked. His 

 citation of *' vol. 2 " is likely to mislead, as the work consists of only 

 one volume, although it originally appeared in parts. Diospyros 

 longipes Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1914, 338, is referred by Mr. White 

 (/. c.) to this species. — James Britten. 



REVIEWS. 



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