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to approach closer to typical K. SalL-banjensis than the plant from 

 Ballyvaughan, while in the latter the more aristate toothing of the 

 bracts comes closer to the type. 



In short, the late Mr. More's Castle Taylor plant of 1854 has as 

 good a title to a place under K. Salisbuniensis Funk, as those from 

 Menlough and Ballyvaughan, and has certainly a better title to 

 that position than the plant from Lough Mask. It was simply in 

 deference to Babington's objection to split E. ojficinaHs that the 

 Castle Taylor plant was not recorded with the dignity of a new 

 Irish species or subspecies some thirty-six years ago ; and that the 

 plant was finally published in Cybele Hibernica as FJ. ciiprea rather 

 than as E. Sdlisburi/ensis was due to M. Boreau's refinement on Mr. 

 More's diagnosis. He who records the segregate necessarily records 

 the aggregate, and the relation between E. citprea and E. Salisbunf- 

 ensis is that of segregate and aggregate. 



The Irish distribution of E. SalisbHrijensis appears to be ex- 

 clusively low-level. The stations Inishmore (Aran), Castle Taylor, 

 Lough Mask, Lough Corrib (Menlough), and Ballyvaughan, all lie 

 within 100 feet of sea-level, and if further observation should show 

 that it occurs, as Newbould suspected it did, on the shores of Lough 

 Neagh, then its descent to a level of fifty feet would be established. 



Nathaniel Colgan. 



SHORT yiOTES. 



Corrections (see p. 129, footnote). — Mr. Jackson rightly points 

 out that Poiret's signature occurs at the end of the article on 

 " Mixssenda," in Liaixnavck's Kiicijdopadut, and that his citation of 

 M. (Bfiiiptiaca as of Poiret is therefore correct. In the footnote on 

 p. 129, "1895" should be " 1896."— James Britten. 



Isle of Man Plants.— On p. 76 Mr. Arthur Bennett makes 

 allusion to an "interesting anonymous paper on the Isle of Man 

 Flora in the P/ii/hi!o,jist, iv. n.s. 161-169 (1860), dated from 

 Christ's Church Parsonage, Maughould, Isle of Man." This paper 

 was written by Rev. Hugh A. Stowell, as stated by himself in 

 Thwaites's Isle of Man (Sheffield Publishing Company, 1863). 

 Several pages of this book are devoted to some particulars of 

 what was then known of the fauna and flora of the island, and, 

 though bearing evidence of the absence of any attempt at proper 

 revision, the facts stated seem to have been obtained from sources 

 that, to a great extent, may be considered trustworthy. To those 

 pages Mr. Stowell supplied a prefatory note, in which he says : — 

 " The ' Notes on the Flora ' (Plienogamous) are in like manner an 

 abridgement of a paper contributed by myself to the I'hijtolmjist 

 of June, 1860." The short article on the mosses, by myself, in 

 Plujtuloiilst, 1857, mentioned by Mr. Bennett, which appears to 

 have been the earliest contribution to the bryology of the island, 

 contained an enumeration of only 113 species, to which, shortly 

 afterwards, fifteen species were added on the authority of Mr. 



