THE GEXUS EUPHEASIA AND E. MINIMA 337 



some allied genera in the family Scropliulariaceae. If the vexed and 

 unimportant question of specific rank were the only raison d'etre of 

 the study of these critical plants, I, for one, would regret the time so 

 many have devoted to it. But such investigation is elucidating 

 other and more interesting matters, bearing not only upon the life- 

 history of the plants as known to-day but upon their evolution in 

 different climes and on different rocks, and upon their differences in 

 different countries, the summer and autumn states of some, and the 

 varying degrees of pirasiticism of others. Nor let us forget to follow 

 up the suggestion of that great naturalist and traveller John Ball, 

 when, in writing to F. Townsend in 1884, he drew attention to the 

 part insect- visitors may play. 



As far as we are aware, no seeds of Euphrasia have been found 

 in the late Glacial beds of Britain ; but Clement Eeid records seeds 

 of the allied Bar^fsia Odontites from the Clyde Beds at Grarvel Park 

 {The Origin of the British Flora, 1899, p. 135), a most helpful 

 book now out of print, and I am told much in demand. 



The distinguishing features of Euphrasia, Odontites, Barisia, 

 Eufracjia, and of his new genus Disjjermotheca were very ably stated 

 and clearly illustrated (fig. 7) by Beauverd in his paper " Plantes 

 Nouvelles ou Critiques de la Flore du Bassin du Rhone," in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. de Geneve, vol. iii. (1911), pp. 297-337. 



In addition to the coloured figures of Euphrasia minima in 

 Schroeter's Flore des AJpes and in my Suh-Alpine Plants, there is 

 a clearer one in the well-illustrated Atlas coloree de la Flore Alpine,. 

 by Beauverie et Faucheron, Paris, 1906.. 



THE CKYPTOGAMS OF ANDREWS'S HERBARIUM, 



By G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. 



The following list is supplementary to the enumeration of the 

 phanerogams of Andrews's Herbarium which was published in last 

 year's Journal, pp. 294-8, 323-331, 346-354. 



CrsTOPTERis rHA&iLis Bernhardi. R. S. 3. 125. 7. In the road, 

 from Mendip hills to Wells, June, 1731. [Dale's ticket.] 



Mosses. 



Among the Mosses, which have been examined by Mr. Gepp, are- 

 the following : all are from Essex unless otherwise noted: — 



Sphagnum ctmbifolium Ehrh. Bogs at the foot of Link hills,. 

 Maplestead, June 1744. 



S. SUBSECUNDUM Nees. An Muscus palustris albicans ierrestris- 

 capitulis erecfis hrevihns. R. S. 2. 37. 4 ; 3. 104. 1. [Samelocalitv r 

 11 July, 1746.] 



PoLTTRTCHUM JUNTPERTNUM Willd. Little Cornard Church 

 [Suffolk] and Brake hill, Bulmur, April 18, 1746. 



P. COMMUNE L. Link hills, Maplestead, May 27, 1746. 



FrxARTA HYGROMETRiCA Sibth. Ballindon hills, Jan. 28, 1740, 



