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plaut agrees identically. So far as I am aware at present, T. 

 brevirostiis has only been got in two other British localities. It 

 was first recorded as a British moss by Hooker and Greville, from 

 specimens which had been found on a wall in Edinburgh in 1824. 

 The second locaUty mentioned for this rare moss is on a wall top 

 in Ashwood Dale, near Buxton, Derbyshire, collected there in 1873: 

 a record of this discovery is given by Mr. E. M. Holmes {Grevillea, 

 ii. 1G9). The plant has been met with in France, Greenland, and 

 amongst the liocky Mountains in North America, never in great 

 abundance in any locality. The discovery of this rare moss in the 

 East Eiding is a very interesting addition to the mosses of York- 

 shire. The three dioicous allies of this section of the genus, viz. 

 T. stellatu, T. ericce/ulia, and T. aluides, are all fairly plentiful in the 

 calcareous district around Maltou, following tlie range of calcareous 

 hills from Castle Howard to Scarborough. They are often met 

 with growing on the old mud-capped stone walls near to the 

 villages, and are in their best mature condition during the autumn 

 and winter months, when they may be gathered in mild weather 

 from October to March. — M. B. Slateb. 



Westerness Plants [Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 345). — Vicia sijlvatica 

 is recorded as a new discovery to that vice-county ; it is included 

 in my list of Glen Spean plants recorded in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 

 1892, p. 130, and there is a still earlier record. The Rubns villi- 

 caulis var. Selnieri is only technically a new discovery, for the plant 

 recorded by me in the same place as 11. villicaulis, with the greater 

 part of North British plants so called, belongs to the variety. The 

 Li. affinis of my earlier lists (which was A', aj/inis Blox., not of W. 

 and N.) is also identical with this plant. It may be well therefore 

 to put on record the occurrence of li. vilUcaalia var. Selmeri from 

 E. and W. Ross, Easterness, Nairn, Elgin, Argyle, Mid-Perth, and 

 Wigton. — G. C. Druce. 



Carex Buxbaumii Wahl. — I use the above name because it is 

 the one so long known to British botanists for the rare Irish plant 

 of Lough Neagh. Unfortunately the woody scrub is now cut down, 

 and the plant exposed: "the little island is now a bare exposed 

 pasturage.'"'' Its recent discovery in some plenty in the West of 

 Scotland is thus interesting not only as an addition to the Scottish 

 flora, but as retaining in our flora a species that will probably 

 become extinct in its only known Irish locality. There is no 

 question that this plant is C. polijuaina Schk. Reiihjr. 84, t. 76 

 (1801) ; C.fusca Alhoni, FL Fed. ii, 269 (1785); and C. Buxbaumii 

 Wahlenb. Kumjl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 163 (1803), as Prof. Bailey, of 

 Cornell University, U.S. A,, has seen the type specimens in the 

 authors' herbaria above named. Prof, Bailey remarks! : "Although 

 AUioni places this species [C. fusca] in the section characterized 

 by ' spicis pluribus sexu distinctis : mare unica,' it has an andro- 

 gynous terminal spike. It is represented by a good specimen." 



* Stewart & Corry's Flora of the Noi-th-east of Ireland, 161 (1888), 



t " Studies ... of the genu3 Carex,'' Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, i. 63 (1889). 



