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vii. 198; ix. 269; 'Chapters in my Life,' 1889; Journ. Bot. 

 1893,320; Nature Notes, 1898, 193 ; Allibone Supp. ; Darwin's 

 Life and Letters, i. 54 ; Gard. Cln'on. 1893, ii. 307. Photo, at 

 Linn. Soc. 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT ?IOTES. 



The British Oarex feigida (p. 41). — In my notes on Carex in 

 tiiis Jom-nal for 1897 (p. 259) 1 purposely took no notice of the 

 Carex so named, as I was aware that Mr. E. F. Linton was occupied 

 with the plant. But from the moment I saw the original specimens 

 gathered by Sadler, I was convinced it was not the C. frigida of 

 Allioni. Other and better authorities than myself still called it 

 so, and I was contented to let it rest until Mr. Linton had concluded 

 )iis work. I may now say I cannot consider it to be Allioni's plant, 

 and Mr. Linton's name may well be accepted for it. It would indeed 

 have been a very interesting distribution, if it had been the plant of 

 Allioni. Unless Drejer's var. aJpina of C. binervis Sm. be the Scotch 

 plant (I have not yet been able to see a type-specimen), I think it 

 may be an endemic form. — Arthur Bennett. 



SiNAPis orientalis Murr. The forms of Sinajns arvensls L. with 

 hispid pods, cotnmon in many parts of England and not separated 

 by English botanists, were recognized as a species by Murray and 

 Linnaeus, and are kept up as varieties by continental writers under 

 tlie names var. villosa (Mer.) and var. orientalis (Murr.). — S. T. Dunn. 

 Wandsworth Aliens. — It has been ascertained upon enquiry 

 that the locality for aliens in the neighbourhood of Wandsworth 

 Distillery, made famous nearly forty years ago by the researches of 

 Irvine, Britten, and others, has been built over or turned into 

 private gardens, so that any species that still lingered on have now 

 probably disappeared. A little to the west of the steamboat-pier 

 grows abundance of Sisi/mhrium ColnmncB Jacq. and a quantity of 

 Riimex Patientia L. — S. T. Dunn. 



Ranunculus petiolaris. — I recently learned from Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett that this name is preoccupied ; it was used by Bonpland, 

 Humboldt, and Kunth in their Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, 

 V. 45 (1821), when describing a Mexican buttercup, which their 

 figure (no. 428) shows to be a totally different plant from mine. 

 The West Highland Eaminculm published in this Journal for 1892, 

 p. 289, under this title may bear the name of R. scoticus for those 

 who, like myself, believe it to be specifically (or subspecifically) dis- 

 tinct ; if it is regarded as a variety, I suppose that it can stand as 

 R. Flammula L. var. petiolaris Lange, according to my original 

 description in this Journal for 1888, p. 230.— Edward S. Marshall. 

 Mastigophora Woodsii (Hook.) Nees in Inverness-shire. — I have 

 found this hepatic in some quantity in Moidart, on the west coast 

 of the above county. It grows in a ravine at 1200 ft. alt. ; also. 



