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some from Frensham gathered by Messrs. H. & J. Groves on 

 Sept. 10, 1883. Mr. Druce records the species from Berkshire 

 (Flora of Berkshire, p. 105). He says the plant is " very minute." 

 — W. West, Jun. 



Bibliographical Note. — Referring to Mr. Williams's note on 

 p. 384, line five from bottom, I do not agree with him in thinking 

 the Index Kewensis is incorrect in the instance cited. Dumortier's 

 title-page runs thus: — " Gomineutationes botanic^. Observations 

 botaniques, dediees a la Societe d'Horticulture de Tournay." The 

 half-title has only these words: " Commentationes botauicse." 

 Pritzel puts "Observations botaniques" in parentheses. From the 

 foregoing it seems clear that Dumortier intended the Latin phrase 

 to be his title for citation, and appended the French one to amplify 

 it. The whole matter is very trifling, bat many who have not 

 Dumortier's tract to consult might be led to think that I arbitrarily 

 altered the title of the work, which is not the case. — B. Daydon 

 Jackson. 



Melampyrum cristatum L. in Hants.—Iu Mr. Townsend's Flora 

 of Hampshire, p. 238, two stations are given in the county for the 

 above species, but it does not seem that the author had seen 

 specimens. It may therefore be worth recording that there are 

 specimens in the Cardiff Museum Herbarium, gathered by Mr. 

 Pamplin in 1828 at the place named in the Flora. Verhascuyn 

 Lydmitis is excluded from the Hants Flora and from Top. Botany. 

 In the eighth edition of Hooker and Arnott's British Flora, p. 320 

 (1860), they remark, "Often yellow in the Isle of Wight." Are 

 there any specimens in Arnott's Herbarium at Glasgow ? — Arthur 

 Bennett. 



Scalia Hookeri in West Inverness. — Mr. Symers M. Macvicar 

 has recently collected this extremely rare Hepatic near Inver- 

 moidart, and has kindly sent me specimens for confirmation. The 

 only other Scottish record that I am aware of is that given in 

 Hooker's Brit. JungermannicE : — " In the moss of Kinnordy, Kerrie- 

 muir, Mr. Lyell, August, 1813." I am afraid it is now extinct 

 in the recorded Enghsh stations, — New Forest, C. Lyell, 1812 ; 

 Barnaby Moor, near York, R. Spruce, 1842 ; and Penzance, W. 

 Curnow, 1844. It has been found in one locality in Ireland, — 

 Connor Hill, Prof. Lindberg, — and in a few stations on the 

 Continent. — W. H. Pearson. 



Isle of Man Plants (see Journ. Bot. 1896, 448 ; 1897, 11, 75). 

 — The Rev. E. M. Savage, of St. Thomas's Vicarage, Douglas, has 

 called my attention to Thwaites's Directory of the Isle of Man, 1863, 

 where a list of Manx plants is given by the Rev. H. A. Stowell. 

 Collating this with the records in Top. Bot. and this Journal, the 

 following occur which are not given in either: — Coryclalis claviculata, 

 Viola lactea, Epilobium alsinefolium, Saxifraga tridactyles, Linaria 

 Elatiyie, Galeopsis versicolor, Stachys ambigua, Solanum 7iigrum. It 

 will be well that these should be confirmed before they are admitted 

 to the Manx flora. In Science Gossip, 1886, p. 69, Mr. Moffat 



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