368 SHORT NOTES. 



rnsetiiii Scop, abundantly upon the cliffs of the CainnarthenshirG 

 Van. — AuGusTiN Ley. 



LuzuLA. PALLEscENS Besser IN Great Britain. — My attention was 

 attracted by a wood-rush closely resembling L. erecta Desv., but 

 differing from ordinary forms of that plant in the silvery-white 

 heads and the perfectly obtuse capsule. Mr. Arthur Bennett in- 

 forms me that it is L. pnllcscens Besser {Junciis pallescens Wahlenberg, 

 Fl. Lapponica, 87). Whether it is to be regarded as a variety or 

 subspecies under L. erecta Desv. I do not Imow; but, besides the 

 difference of colouring, the capsule appears to me to differ materially 

 from that of L. erecta in shape. I found it growing sparingly in a 

 shady hill-side wood near Presteign, Radnorshire, June 17th, 1896. 

 — AuGusTiN Ley. 



Salvia glutinosa in Gloucestershire. — Mrs. Hartshorne, of 

 the Manor House, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-ou-the- Water, sent a 

 specimen of the above-named plant to be named. In answer to 

 enquiries she wrote : — " We found it by the side of the high road, 

 in the hedge close to a low stone wall, with a cornfield on the other 

 side ; there are two large clumps of it, and we have found it there 

 for the last three years ; there is no trace of any cottage or house 

 ever having been near, nor do the village people remember one." — 

 James Britten. 



Dryas octopetala in Co. Antrim. — Among some plants which 

 I gathered in 1884 at the Sallagh Braes, in Co. Antrim, and which 

 had got astray among my papers, I have recently found a specimen 

 of Dryas octopetala. This discovery is interesting, as the only record 

 of tills plant from Co. Antrim is in Mackay's Flora Hiberiiica (1836), 

 without any locality being mentioned, viz. " County Antrim, Mr. 

 Teiapleton" ; on which the editors of the Flora of the North-east of 

 Ireland (1888), p. 48, remark, "In Flora Hiberiiica Mr. Templeton 

 is erroneously credited with finding this plant in Antrim." 1 have* 

 since heard from my friend Mr. Stewart, the surviving editor, that 

 neither he nor his coadjutor the late Mr. Corry found in Temple- 

 ton's MSS. any note of L). octopetala in Antrim, hence their reason 

 for doubting the correctness of the statement in the Flora Hibernica. 

 Mr. Stewart has seen my plant, which has come as a surprise to 

 him. He has often searched the Sallagh Braes, but as my plant is 

 an old barren one, it was probably overlooked from its habit in such 

 a condition of creeping close to the ground and resembling Salix 

 repens. To me it is very satisfactory to be able to verify Mr. 

 Templeton's record. — H. W. Lett. 



Rosa stylosa Desv. in S. Hants (pp. 135, 319). — If confirmation 

 of this record is needed, I may quote the opinion of the Rev. W. 

 Moyle Rogers: — " Ilosa stylosa Desv. This is what (after N. E. 

 Brown) I now consider the typical plant, and these are the first 

 specimens that I have seen besides my own S. Wilts ones." — 

 Edward J. Tatum. 



Exchange Club for Mosses and Hepatic^. — In reply to Mr. 

 H. M. Dixon's remarks (p. 135) on the danger of Exchange Clubs 



