241 SUOKT NOTES. 



floribus in ruceraos paniculatos terminales aphyllos dippositis, fructu 

 lucidnlo paulo infra mediam nucem calycis limbo brevissimo acutu 

 annulato inclusa ala lineari-oblonga obtusa sesqnipollicari. 



Quod ad fructum, V. leiocarpcv, Bcnth., denipto calycino limbo 

 multo minus prominulo, ut ovum ovo similis ; foliorum vero forma, 

 nuniero ac tenuitate primariarum venarum, certissime distincta, et 

 forte V. cernuce, TuL, moluccensi, ceterum parum notse, propius 

 accedens. 



19. Vitis poly thy rsa, Miq. — Bene concordat cum charactere. 



20. Cupania pleuroptens, BL — Foliola 5-6, subtus glaucescentia, 

 parce hirtella, nee velutina. Capsula rubida, 8-9 lin. diametro. 



[To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



Stmphttcm okientale. — My specimen of this plant is from Caster- 

 ton, Eutlandshire, and was given to me in 1837 by the Rev. il. J. 

 Berkeley. There is no note as to the kind of place in which it grew. 

 S. anperrimnm was first noticed as a pseudo-uaturalised plant in my 

 "Bath Flora" (p. 32) in 1834. ^. patens we have been accustomed 

 to look upon as little more than a purple-flowered state of S. 

 officinale. If a good specimen is seen, this and L. anperrimum ought 

 not to be confounded ; but it often happens that good specimens are 

 not sent when names are asked for, and time may prevent so careful 

 an examination as such specimens require, and a name he given more 

 carelessly than it ought to bo. I fear that I have sometimes been 

 guilty of this fault when a specimen has arrived at a very busy time, 

 although I make it a general rule to examine such specimens with 

 great care. — C. C. Babingxon. 



Phleuji BcehmeeIj Wihel, in Beds and Hkkts. — Mr. Blow and my- 

 self, whilstbotanisingin the neighbourhood of Hitchin, found /*. Brchmeri 

 in Bedfordshire, near Ickleford, in great abundance. The extension of 

 the range of this plant is interesting, as it seems fast becoming extinct 

 in most of its recorded localities. We also noticed it within the 

 Hertfordshire boundary close by. The stations given in the " Flora 

 Hertfordiensis," p. 235, are " Near Hertford Union Workhouse," and 

 *' We have also several specimens in our herbarium, gathered, we 

 believe, in a gravel-pit between Holwell and Hatfield, but unfortu- 

 nately the station was not recorded when the plant was found.'' I do 

 not think it has been gathered in the first-mentioned locality for some 

 years, although it has been looked for by a botanist who knew the 

 spot where it formerly occurred, so this is possibly the restoration of 

 the plant to the Herts flora. — H. Grovks. 



Carex DISTAN9, Linn., IN Hekts. — I have during the la'st month 

 noticed this'sub-littoral Sedge on two commons in the neighbourhood of 

 Hitchin. In the " Flora Hertfordiensis " C. <f/s^ans is recorded from 

 Ashwell Common. This is now drained and enclosed, and I have 

 never been able to find it there. — Tnos. B. Blow. 



