22 SHORT NOTES. 



nucules iu both stations, and in one were gre}'ish and incrusted, 

 but green and unincrusted in the other. C. contra na Kuetz,, 

 which grew with it in one phice, has been recorded from West, 

 but not from East Suffolk before. Messrs. Groves also named 

 this. — E. S. & C. E. Salmon. 



New Dorset Station for Erica ciliaris L. — In the case of so 

 rare a plant, hitherto only recorded for E. and W. Cornwall and 

 Dorset iu Britain, and in Dorset restricted to the heaths south 

 of Wareham, it may be worth reporting its occurrence in the parish 

 of Parkstone, on the cast side of Poole Harbour. Extending over 

 about an acre of bog in profuse quantity, it is clearly not a recent 

 introduction ; more probably a relic of the ancient flora. The marvel 

 that so conspicuous a plant in no very out-of-the-way spot has been 

 so long overlooked is, I think, explained in a way suggested to me 

 by Dr. A. R. Wallace; namely, that it occupied an impervious part 

 of the morass, only recently made accessible by a new cut of a local 

 Waterworks Company. With the species grows a fair amount of 

 E. ciliaris X Tetralix (E. Watsoni Benth.), which was blooming 

 freely in October, after E. ciliaris had gone over. This is now the 

 easternmost station for the species, being within about a mile and 

 a quarter of the Hants border. — Edward F. Linton. 



Varieties of Hypochceris glabra L. {Journ. Bot. 1896, 510). — 

 With respect to Mr. Bennett's note, I may remark that I also have 

 in my herbarium a small plant of Hi/pochwris qlahra L., labelled 

 " Sandy field E. of Eillington, S.E. Yorks. G. Webster, 1892." 

 This agrees well with the description given of the var. tuhjaris in 

 Mr. Bennett's note. If Mr. Bennett's plants were gathered iu the 

 same locality as my own, possibly both the ordinary typical 

 specimens of II. glabra and var. crostris may occur in close proximity, 

 or at any rate in neighbouring stations. — A. B. Jackson. 



Hypochceris glabra var. — The words "destitute of woolly 

 hairs " were applied by me [Journ. Bot. 1896, 476) to the pappi of 

 a var. of Ilypochairis glabra, L., and the implied character was used 

 in classifying forms with erostrate achenes. Mr. Arthur Bennett 

 (p. 510) takes exception to the phrase, assuming it to mean an 

 absence also of the usual plumose hairs characteristic of the genus. 

 A similar expression has been used by Poiret, Petermann, and 

 others, in dealing with segregates of the species, and appeared to 

 me sufficient to convey my meaning to anyone acquainted with 

 these forms. The misunderstanding is the more to be regretted 

 because it detracts from the value of Mr. Bennett's criticism of a 

 classification of forms based on that character. The interesting 

 E. Yorkshire specimens, for instance, which have some pappi 

 plumose, some pilose (the hairs being deciduous), need not "repre- 

 sent two varieties on one plant " if the classification be taken 

 literally. — S. T. Dunn. 



Lathyrus Boissieri [Journ. Bot. 1896, 484). — This name, 

 which Messrs. Autran and Durand propose for Orobus grandijiorus 

 Boiss., is anticipated in my paper " Ueber einige Orobus- Arten und 



