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native o£ the Colne drainage, for it has been found lately on the driest 

 parts of the elevated downs near Northleach, and it is quite frequent 

 in the lower Colne Valle}^ about Fairford. It appears to be quite 

 indifferent to the amount of moisture in its neighbourhood, as 

 indiiferent as C. glauca, with which it appears to hybridize : I have 

 seen plants which seemed to be this hj'brid growing at Whelford, and 

 a similar intermediate was sent me from near Northleach. 



C. strigosa Huds. is quite of frequent occurrence in E. Gloster ; 

 it is not confined there to woods, growing in one place in a ditch 

 under a heds^e. 



Foa palustris L. var. ejfusa Asch. & Graebn. Has at last been 

 found in v.c. 34, and so is now on record for both parts of Grloucester- 

 shire. 



Lasfrea montana T. Moore, a specimen from Cranham Wood, is 

 in St. Brody's Herbarium : this is in v.c. 33. I have seen JPJiegopteris 

 Dri/nptPris in minute quantity at Cranham in v.c. 33, and Botry- 

 cliiiim Lionaria Sw. in v.c. 34 near Tidenham Chase. Ferns are, as 

 regards quantity, much scarcer in E. Glos than in W. Glos, yet 

 there are only one or two species present in the latter and absent 

 from the former. Aspleniiim la nceolafum dLiid Lastrea (Simda stand, 

 I believe, alone in this category. 



T should say that probably the Cotteswolds are the headquarters 

 of the Limestone Polypody in England — at any rate, I know of no 

 other area where it is so ubiquitous. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



LXXVIII. " John Frederick Miller and his Icoxes." 



In the note (LIII.) published in this Journal for 1913 (p. 255) 

 I described at length a fascicle of seven plates to which I had not 

 then been able to find any reference, and which, owing to the fact 

 that they were bound with the Icones Animalmm et Plantarum of 

 John Frederick Miller in a volume lettered on the back " Miller's 

 Plates," I then attributed to that artist. I now find that the fascicle 

 is described in the Supplemenfum to Dryander's Catalogue (v. 63), 

 the words " Plures non prodierunt " being added, and it is alsO' 

 mentioned in Diet. Nat. Biogr. xxxvii. 413 — in both places it is 

 accurately ascribed to John Miller, the father of John Frederick. 

 As the plates are all lettered John Miller, my mistake, which cair 

 only be accounted for by their correlation with John Fredericlv's. 

 work, is inexcusable. 



James Britten. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Habitats op Hypericum humifusum (pp. 195, 225, 2S7)„ 

 Mr. H. S. Thomps(m notes the frequent occurrence of this plant 

 on " rides " in woods upon Carboniferous Limestone, though most 

 ecologists prefer to regard it as a lime-hater. In West Somerset its 



