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Perth. Colonel. Of Seggieden, Perth. Hon. Curator, Perth 

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 80. Ornithologist. R.S.C. vii. 927 ; x. 166 ; Journ. Bot. 1896, 

 133 ; Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1896, 73, with portr. Bhinanthiis 

 Crista-gaUi var. Drummond-Hayi F. B. White. 



Duncannon, Thomas (fl. 1822-26). Gardener in Royal Bot. 

 Garden, Edinburgh. Drew pi. at Kew for W. T. Alton, 1822-6. 

 'Garden,' 24 Jan. 1880, 75. 



Dymock, William (d. 1892) : d. Bombay, 29 April, 1892. 

 Bombay Medical Staff, 1859. Surgeon-Major. Prof. Mat. 

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SHORT- NOTES. 



Chenopodium glomerulosum Rchb. — My attention was first 

 drawn to a strange goosefoot growing abundantly on waste heaps 

 at Twerton, N. Somerset, about two years ago. The same plant 

 has been seen lately also at Tewkesbury; and, like C. opiiUfulium, 

 which now seems always with us on waste heaps in the west, it is 

 probable that this new form, w^hen attention has been directed to it, 

 will be found to occur more frequently than at present appears to be 

 the case. The reflection should be borne in mind that a plant found 

 growing solely in waste ground and on rubbish-heaps need not 

 necessarily be an alien ; for several indigenous species whose status 

 is not questioned are only met with in similar situations. C. glo- 

 merulosum is undoubtedly a segregate of the album group, to which 

 a careful comparison of fruit and seed shows a very close affinity. 

 But the habit, foliage, and inflorescence are characteristic. Usually 

 a bushy, spreading plant of 2-2|- ft., the lower branches are often 

 longer than the central axis. Stem stout, reddish, striate. Foliage 

 dull, dark green. Leaves long-stalked, mostly entire or but slightly 

 angled, elliptic in outline, blunt; a few irregularly angled and 

 toothed. Inflorescence of densely aggregated glomerules, in shortly 

 branched spiciform panicles ; leafy in bud, becoming more naked in 

 fruit. The name has been confirmed by Prof. Sagorski. — James 

 W. White. 



ToRTULA INTERMEDIA Berk. IN LEICESTERSHIRE.— WMlst botauizlng 

 at Birstall the other afternoon, I came across a considerable quantity 

 of Tortilla intermedia growing on a wall in that village. There does 

 not appear to be any previous note for this moss in Leicestershire. 

 It occurs in surrounding counties, and it may probably have been 

 passed over in Leicestershire for T. ruralis, which it superficially 

 resembles. Under the microscope it may be distinguished from the 

 latter by the smaller areolation, the leaf-margin plane above, and 

 the less denticulate arista. — A. B. Jackson. 



