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papers at such length, and we are bound to admit that the criti- 

 cism is just. We can only say that we put the points raised above 

 before the author of the lists, and that, as we have explained, we 

 had hoped they would have obtained more attention than they 

 received. The later portions have been somewhat abridged in 

 order that the paper might be brought within the limits of this 

 year's Journal. 



We need not say that we are always most grateful for lists or 

 records of British plants, and that the aim of the Journal is, as it 

 has always been, to afford a medium of communication between 

 British botanists. 



It is also desirable that more care should be exercised before 

 entering a plant as a "new record" for a county or district. It is 

 impossible that the Editor should check such entries, but it is 

 not unreasonable to expect a local worker to do so. That this is 

 often insufficiently done, the complaints we receive — often from 

 those who are themselves not without blame — abundantly shows. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Plants epiphytic upon Palms at Hyeres (p. 135). — Long 

 before my note on this subject was published my friend Mr. Eaine, 

 of Hyeres, had studied the question and sent a list to the Annates 

 de la Soc. d'Hist. nat. de Toulon, but we agreed not to compare 

 notes. His article, " Hotes des Phoenix dactilifera d'Hyeres," was 

 delayed, and published after my own. The list, which is in no 

 apparent order or sequence, and, curiously, rather shorter than 

 my own, contains twenty-seven names of plants not in mine. 

 Eleven of them are composites, viz. Helminthia echioides, Carduus 

 pycnoceplialus, C. tenuiflorus, Gliondrilla juncea, Lactuca Scariola, 

 Sonchus arvensis, S. maritimum, Conyza ambigua, Crepis diffusa, 

 Picridium vulgare, and Pterotheca nemausensis. The others are 

 Fumaria capreolata, F. parviflora, Cheiranthus Cheiri, Pistacia 

 Lentiscus, Cercis Siliquastrum (probably my " woody shrub with 

 round, entire, smooth leaves"), BJiamnus Alatemus, Acanthus 

 mollis, Borago officinalis, Veronica didyma, Eucalyptus globulus, 

 Vitis vinifera, Asparagus officinalis, Holcus lanatus, Mediola sp. 

 cultive, Eriobotryx japonica, and Nicotiana glauca. To my own 

 list, made in the winter, I subsequently added Hyoseris radiata, 

 Picridium vulgare (also recorded by Eaine), Bubia peregrina at 

 San Salvadour, and Galactites tomentosa at Carqueiraune. Allow- 

 ing for discrepancies and the fact that I could determine in winter 

 the genus only of some plants, the combined lists give about eighty- 

 five flowering plants found upon the Palms. — H. Stuart Thompson. 



Alchemilla conjuncta Bab. (p. 306). — I was glad to see this 

 note from Mr. Marshall, as I never understood why it was left 

 out of the London Catalogue, ed. 10. There are (or were) speci- 

 mens in the Chichester Museum gathered by Dr. Tyacke in Glen 

 Sannox, but Watson always doubted its occurrence. It certainly 

 is not a hybrid of vulgaris x alpina, of which I possess specimens 

 from Switzerland, gathered by Dr. Christ, and given me by the 



