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have been published, have a considerable bearing of the sta'tus of the 

 Lily as a native. It certainl}^ has no appearance of an alien ; while 

 the Wj^e-side woods are ^\nld and ancient. — A. H. Etans. 



Sagixa marittma Gr. Don. — The authorship of this species is 

 wrongly attributed to D. Don in the Index Kewemis, and the error 

 has been repeatedly copied both in England and on the Continent. 

 It was hrst published in 1806 by George Don, senior (1764-1814) — 

 the father of G. Don, junior (1798-1856) and of David Don (18U0- 

 1841) — in his Herhariiim Britanniciim, fasc. vii. no. 155, with the 

 following description, in which I have corrected the numerous mis- 

 prints of the oriofinal : — " Sagina maritima. Annua ; Fl. Maio- 

 Augusto. Radix jmrva ; caules plurimi, adscendentes, plerumque 

 divaricati, dichotomi. Foliis lineari-lanceolatis, obtusis, carnosis, 

 nitidis, apice submucronulatis. Calyx ovatus obtusus, margine 

 scarioso. Petala minuta, ssepe abortiva ; stamina 4 ad 8. A i^agina 

 apetala foliis latioribus, obtusioribus, crassioribus, sub lente hispidis, 

 vix aut ne vix quidem mucronulatis, calycis foliis ovato-obtusis plane 

 diffei-t. On the sea-coast not infrequent in Angusshire. Isle of Skye, 

 near Aberdeen, Queensferry, and Edinburgh." — C. C. Lacaita. 



[Don's uncorrected description was published by Mr, Druce in his 

 paper on " The Life and Work of George Don " (Notes K. Bot. Gard. 

 Edinb. iii, 170), but, as has been ])ointed out in this Journal (1888, 

 235), the species was first distinguished and named by Eobert Browui, 

 whose specimens, from his ow^i herbarium, are in the Deyjartment of 

 Botany. The MSS., which, as there stated, I was fortunate enough 

 to find and to present to the Department, have now been bound in 

 one volume, paged and indexed : Brown's very full description of the 

 plant, to which the label attached to his specimens refers, will be 

 found on pp. 793-4. — James Bkittex.] 



PuccixiA Htpochceeidis. — Mr. W. B. Grove in his The British 

 Bust Fungi, p. 149 (1913), states concerning this species that " only 

 uredospores were seen in British specimens." He describes the 

 teleutospores as '* delicately verruculose-punctate (?)," and in a foot- 

 note remarks : — " The alleged punctations of the teleutospores were 

 invisible in all the specimens I have seen." In October last I gathered 

 at Oxshotsome lenxes oi HgjJocJiCBris radicata on which this Buccinia 

 was present chiefly in the uredospore stage : amongst the uredospores, 

 however, in some cases were mixed a few teleutospores. These were 

 clearly punctate, the punctations showing best in lactic acid — the 

 wall of the uredospore is echinulate. The size, shape, etc., of the 

 teleutospores agree with Mr. Grove's description. — J. IIamsbottom. 



BEVIEWS. 



The Thirty-Second Annual Beport of the Watson Botanical 

 Exchange Club, 1915-16. Cambridge : Webb & Co., 1916. 

 From the preliminary note of the Distributor, Miss Ida M. Koper, 

 with which the Report begins, we learn without surprise that there has 

 been a falling-oft^ in the number of specimens submitted ; but the 

 liberal contributions of some of the members have brought the number 



