432 SHORT NOTES. 



If the Kew Herbarium has got hold of a wrongly-dated copy, how 

 many other public institutions where botanists work are similarly 

 situated ? Another point to note is that the work though issued 

 as of five volumes is generally boimd in six (vols, i.-vi.), as vol. iv. 

 is twice the size of any of the others ; and some authors, in conse- 

 quence, refer to the supplement volume as vol. vi. I have been 

 referring a good deal to this work lately, and this is how my 

 attention has been drawn to Alphonse De Candolle's letter. — 

 Frederic N. Williams. 



[The copy in the Department of Botany is dated throughout 

 1815. — Ed. Journ. Box.] 



Plants op North Devon. — Mnthiola incana E. Br. It may be 

 worth putting on record that this plant has escaped from the 

 garden of the lighthouse on Braunton Burrows, and is springing 

 up from self-sown seeds in the vicinity. — Lathyrus sylvestris Linn. 

 Occurred on the Tor Walk near Ilfracombe. — Potentilla procumbens 

 Sibth. Grew near South Molton. — Spircoa TJlmaria Linn. var. 

 denudata Presl. Occurred between Mollond and South Molton. — 

 Pyrus rotundifolia Bechst. Occurred near Lynmouth. — Fiubiis saxa- 

 tilis L. This plant, which is not given for N. Devon in Top. Bot., 

 is plentiful in the Watersmeet Valley. — SoUdago Virgmirca Linn, 

 var. angustifolia Gaud. The true plant, with narrow nearly entire 

 leaves, occurred in the Watersmeet Valley near Lynmouth. — 

 Mentha piperita Huds. Grew in the stream near Lynmouth, but, 

 as cottages were near, it may not be n&tive.—Marruhium vidgare L. 

 var. apidum Tenore, Prod. Fl. Nap. 34, as a species. This form, 

 which has the stem clothed with a dense white pubescence, occurred 

 rather plentifully at Braunton Burrows. — Sparganium. neglectum 

 Beeby. Occurred in ditches near Braunton. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Melampyrum pratense L. var. hians Druce in North Devon. 

 — This pretty form was the prevailing plant in the picturesque 

 valley known as the Watersmeet above Lynmouth. It is rather 

 singular that our more beautiful bits of scenery, such as the 

 Findhorn side, the Kilmorack Falls near Beauly, the Cree side 

 near Newton Stewart, the pine woods near Grantown, and the 

 Tamar Valley near Weir Head, should be the home of this variety. 

 — G. Claridge Druce. 



Dorset Plants. — During a short stay in Dorset at the beginning 

 of last July, we confirmed some old county records, gathered one or 

 two new plants, and added a few localities to those given in the 

 Flora of Dorset. Crarnbe maritima L. Still flourishes under a chalk 

 cliff in Weymouth Bay, where for many years it has been known to 

 one of us. The spot is not in Lulworth Cove. — Lepigonum rupestre 

 Kindb. On chalk by the sea in Weymouth Bay ; District C. The 

 Flora has no record for the mainland. — Medicago falcata L. Several 

 plants by the side of a road between Eadipole and Weymouth. New 

 for District C. — Valerianella mixta Dufr. This well-marked variety 

 of V. dentata is constant on cultivated ground in Portland; but is 

 not noted by Mr. Mansel-Pleydell. — Orobanche amethgstea Thuill. 

 Growing on Eryngium maritimum in blown sand by the Chesil Beach. 

 The Flora has but one station, in another part of the county. — 



