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species described in Saccardo's Syllnr/e seemed to agree with the 

 present form, and as noue were described as being parasitic on rape, 

 I forwarded specimens to Mr. Massee, who considers it " a typical 

 Puimulana, but there is no described species that agrees with it, 

 whicii I should have no hesitation in considering a new and very 

 fine species." I accordingly venture to describe it as new. The 

 only species of Ramnlaria parasitic on Crucifers are those on 

 Cochlearia and Armoracia, and they differ markedly from the present 

 species. 



Ramularla rapae, sp. n. Spots irregular, soon coalescing into 

 large patches, pallid, transparent. Hypha scarcely distinguishable; 

 conidia fasciculate, very long and slender, slightly curved, obtuse, 

 40-60 jj, by 1-2 /x, usually triseptate, hyaline. The chief charac- 

 teristic is the extreme length and slenderness of the conidia. Type 

 specimens have been sent to the Herbaria at the British Museum 

 and Kew, and to the National Museum, Dublin. — Greenwood Pim. 



Euphrasia Salisburgensis Funk, in Galway. — In August, 1892, 

 while botanizing in the rough limestone country by the south- 

 eastern shore of Lough Corrib, near the little village of Menlough, 

 we noticed a curious-looldug Euphrasia, and collected a few speci- 

 mens of it. These were sorted away and forgotten until recently, 

 when, having occasion to turn through our Euphrasia cover, we 

 were struck by their resemblance to Mr. Townsend's figure and 

 description of E. Salisburgensis in this Journal for 189G (p. 442, 

 t. 363). We have forwarded specimens to Mr. Townsend, who 

 writes: — "They are more typical than the Mayo plant gathered by 

 Mr. Marshall ; bracts narrower ; teeth longer, more patent, and 

 aristate. The finding of this species in another county is a very 

 valuable confirmation of Euphrasia Salisburgensis Funk being native 

 in Ireland." — H. & J. Groves. 



Hypericum lixarifolium in Carnarvonshire. — In his recently 

 published (but undated) Flora of Anglesey and Carnarronshire, Mr. 

 J. E. Griffith apparently refuses to admit the claim of Hypericum 

 li)i(irifoliuni Vahl to rank as a Carnarvonshire plant, as he omits it 

 ffom the "List of Species not recorded in Watson's 2'op. Bat. for 

 Carnarvonshire." In the text (p. 28) he says of it : " This plant is 

 stated in the Journal of Botany, June, 1889, to have been found on 

 a rocky bank at the angle of the road to Bodfean from Pwllheli. 

 Mr. J. LI. Williams has searched the place carefully in 1889, and 

 I have been there in 1891, but neither of us could find it." I am 

 much surprised at the failure of Mr. Williams and Mr. Griffith to 

 find the plant at the spot indicated, for although, when I discovered 

 it on July 19th, 1888, it was _by uo means abundant, yet it certainly 

 was in sufficient quantity to render its accidental eradication ex- 

 tremely unlikely, and, as a matter of fact, it did not disappear, for 

 on July 23rd, 1894, five years after I first found it, Mr. G. Goode, 

 of Cambridge, visited the locality and readily found tlie plant in 

 exactly the same place. He gathered some tine specimens, one of 

 which he sent to me. As there can hardly be any doubt of the 

 nativity of this species in such a remote spot, I think it will be 



