SHOKT NOTES o5 



Anglesea of at least two species which were originally discovered on 

 the dunes of Lancashire. The first of these is Arthopyrenia areni- 

 seda A. L. Sm,, lirst discovered by Mr. ^\ heldon on the Lancashire 

 coast, and desciibed as a new species by Miss Smith in Journ. Bot. 

 1'911, p. -12. This plant I found growing in the Newborough sand- 

 hills on exactly the same peculiar type of ground as in the Lancashire 

 <tunes, and accompanied by many of the same associates. It was 

 fruiting well. I also sought for Bacidia latehricola, described in 

 our aforesaid paper, p. 127. In the Lancashire sandhills it grows on 

 thin dry lawns, on broken sandy dune-banks overhung b}^ herbage ; it 

 is consequently easily oveilooked unless specially sought for. A search 

 in the Anglesea locality, in a habitat of this kind with which I was 

 familiar, proved successful. Apothecia wei^, unfortunately, not 

 found ; but from the colour and other characters of the thallus and 

 the characteristic habitat I have no doubt as to the identity of the 

 plant. The discover}^ of these two lichens in Anglesea considerably 

 extends their known rang-e of distribution, and they constitute notable 

 additions to the lichen flora of vice-county 49. — W. G. Travis. 



Carex BASiLARts Jord. (Journ. Boi 1916, 141, 246). The 

 Spanish specimen gathered by me on Tibidabo near Barcelona was 

 <letermined by Kiikenthal ; it gives an interesting increase in geogra- 

 phical range. The specimen from Mont d'Oiseaux, Hyeres, for which 

 Department (Var) it is already recorded, was first named C. basilaris, 

 but was subsequently corrected in my w^'iting (]jrobably on the 

 authority of Kiikenthal) to the allied C, Halleriana Asso ; both 

 specimens are preserved in the Fielding Herbarium in the University 

 of Oxford (but they had been put into the wrong covers and I have 

 only recently found them), to which almcst all my foreign specimens 

 are given, including my set of Greek plants which have recently been 

 examined b}^ Mr. C. C. Lacaita. My secretary, who was with me 

 when both sedges were gathered, is called up, and therefore I am at 

 pi'esent unable to put my hands on Kiikenthal's letters of that period, 

 now twelve years ago. — G, C. Deuce. 



Calamixtha nebkode:xsis Kern, in Greece. On Pentelicon near 

 Athens in 1914 1 gathered a Labiate which was evidently closely 

 allied to Calamintlm alpina of the Alps and yet which was not iden- 

 tical with my Swiss specimens. Mr, C. C. Lacaita kindly examined 

 it and refers it to C. nehroclensis Kern., which takes its name from the 

 Nebrodensian mountains between Palermo and Messina in Sicil3\ I 

 believe it is new to Greece. The plant from Mount Olympus which 

 appears as Thymus aJpinus in Sibth. & Sm, Comp. Fl. Graec. i. 420 is 

 also the same form, which is put as a subspecies — C. tneridionalis — 

 under C. alpinushj Nyman (Consp. Fl. Europ. 589). — G. C. Deuce. 



" A Famous Botanist. "^ — Mr, J, Ardagh writes to us from Dublin : 

 *' There is a sandstone tablet in the porch of St. Lawrence's Church, 

 Allington, Kent, with the inscription — ' In memory of James Drayton 

 a Famous Botanist of Maidstone who was buried in this Churchyard 

 H Sep. 1749,'" He is not mentioned in the Flora of Kent: is 

 anything more known of him ? 



