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hanc cum proecedente [pusilla {corniculata L.)] auctores, ut 

 nuperrime Swartz, distinguas tamen a solo Toro prominente " 

 (p. 323). 



SHORT NOTES. 



Nepeta Glechoma forma parviflora in Herefordshire. — 

 I found this plant on June 4, 1915, growing luxuriantly on the 

 top of Marcle Hill, on a high, exposed ridge of Aymestry limestone 

 (Silurian). I helieve this to be the first record of the occurrence 

 of the small-flowered form in v.-c. 36. The type was also growing 

 in the short turf of the hilltop. The chief points of contrast are : 

 The low, diffuse growth of the type, with flowering stem 6 to 8 cm. 

 high ; and the tall, upright, crowded growth of the form, with 

 stems of 20-25 cm., mostly 22 cm. high. The length of the 

 corolla in the type is 18 mm., and in the form 5 mm. ; also the 

 latter plant is only slightly hairy, less so than in the type. Thus 

 it is quite different from the grey, hoary plant I described under 

 the above name in this Journal for 1913, p. 253. Mr. Marshall 

 kindly corrected the name on p. 306 of the same volume, calling 

 it the var. hirsuta, which is thus a British form, its habitat being 

 Merrow Dowms, Surrey. Hirsuta was also a micranthous form, 

 and both have pistillate flowers only, the stamens being absent. 

 Thus these are only sex-forms and unworthy of varietal rank. 

 Dr. Moss tells me that many other Labiates exhibit this pheno- 

 menon of gyno-dioecism. — Eleonora Armitage. 



JuNcus tenuis in Dorset. — This plant is now known for 

 several localities in the Bristol district, where it has turned up 

 since the publication of The Flora of Bristol (1912). It may now 

 be added to the Dorset Flora ; on June 10th, 1914, I came across 

 it in fine condition and some quantity on Lilliput Common near 

 Poole Harbour. The common has lately been disturbed for 

 golfing purposes, and seeds may have been introduced in- 

 advertently with the grasses which were sown in certain places. 

 It is intermingled wuth Juncus hufonius, J. sqtiarrosus, J. effusics, 

 J. conglomeratus, J. sylvaticus, Byjichospora alba, some Carices, 

 and other vegetation. I also gathered the plant on waste ground 

 at Poole. In revisiting these habitats in June of this year I was 

 glad to note that the Lilliput plants were as vigorous as ever, but 

 those of the waste ground at Poole had entirely disappeared. — 

 C. B. Green. 



SoRBus. — Botanists w4io have been puzzled by the various 

 forms of Sorbus in this country, or elsewhere, will agree with 

 Mr. Marshall's remark (p. 14) that " evidently much further study 

 of the British Sorbi is needed." They wnll also agree with his 

 first paragraph, in which he points out it is difficult to see why 

 in Britain " this group should be ranged with the apples and pears, 

 in view of their marked difference in flowers, fruit, and foliage." 

 Mr. Marshall had so much to do with the drawing up of the last 

 edition of the London Catalogue, edited by Mr. Hanbury, that it 

 is all the more surprising that in that list the word Sorbus is con- 



