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this drawing is taken ") is t. 3 {Aloe varlegata), which does not corre- 

 spond with the representation of Aloe variegata in Bot. Mag. (t. 513). 

 The letterpress of the ViriJariuni is of the scantiest description ; the 

 speUing of many of the names shows that Mrs. Moriarty was mifamilar 

 with them ; thus Jatroplia appears in the text as " Satropha " and in 

 two indexes as " Saphora.'' James Britten. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Wij.i.iAM Andehson and Coot's Thekb A'ovage. The 

 following notes supplement in two particulars the paper published in 

 the December number of this Jounial (pp. 345-852). 



1. On p. 347 I ex]3ressed some doubt as to the provenance of the 

 notes from Anderson's Journal which foi-m so important a portion of 

 the account of the voyage. This doubt is set at rest by a passage 

 in the Introduction to the account of the Third Voyage (vol. i. 

 p. Ixxviii) which 1 had overlooked, and which states delinitely that 

 " by the order of Lord Sandwich " — then Secretary to the Admiralty — 

 Anderson's Journal " was )nit into the hands of the Editor, who was 

 authorized and directed to avail himself of the information it con- 

 tained.*' The Introduction goes on to state tliat " the copy of the 

 first and second volumes, before it w ent to press, was submitted to 

 Oaptain King " and *' had been read over and corrected by one so well 

 (|ualified to ])oint out any inaccuracies.'" This disposes of my 

 tentative suggestion that King edited the volumes and wrote the 

 Introduction, but I have not been able to ascertain who did. 



2. 1 have found in the Department of Botany a drawing in colour 

 of Pringlea, by S. Webbei- — the artist who accomj^anied the voyage 

 and of wlK)m the little that is known is printed in a footnote to 

 p. 346. The drawing is endorsed : " Kurguelans [sic'] Land, Lat. 

 4Sd-4r" South" ; it rei)resents the plant in its early flowering stage 

 and is very well executed. The figure, apai*t from its scientific 

 interest, is of value as being, so far as I know, the only existing 

 specimen of Webber's botanical work, apart from his copies of 

 Gordon's drawings referred to in the note mentioned. It is signed 

 " S. Webber del." with the date 1777. — James Britten. 



Anclksea Lichens. In the paper by Mr. W^heldon and myself 

 on " The Lichen> of South Lancashire " (in Journ. Linn. Soc, Botany, 

 xliii. 87-13(5, Oct. 1915) we gave a somewhat detailed account of the 

 lichens of tlie sand-dunes of the South Lancashire coast. During a 

 visit, hi June 191 (>, to the sandhills at Newborough. in Anglesea, I 

 was therefore naturally interested in the lichens of that tract of dunes, 

 and so far as the comparatively limited time at my disposal permitted, 

 made a sj)ecial search for some of the rare and new species which had 

 been located on the Lancashii-e dunes. A comparison of the lichen 

 floras of the two coasts was of particular interest to me. L'p to tlic 

 present the material collected has not been fully worked out, but in' 

 the meantime it may be well to ])ut on record hire the occunvnce in 



