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branched, rather slender, villous, terete. Leaves sessile, linear- 

 lanceolate, somewhat villous- hairy, with more or less re volute 

 edges ; the middle ones subentire, the upper denticulate. Flowers 

 rather large ; sepals narrow-lanceolate, apiculate, about half as 

 long as the showy, deep rose petals. Capsules short, slender, very 

 villous. Seeds sterile. 



This very interesting addition to our Flora was gathered by 

 Mr. Charles Waterfall, of Chester, on August 4th, 1915, by the 

 swampy edge of a pool near Helsby Station, about seven miles 

 from that city. It well combines the characters of both parents, 

 which grew close by. The large flowers, denticulate upper leaves, 

 and shaggy clothing are clearly due to E. hirsutum; and the 

 influence of E. pahistre is no less plain. The irregular, shrunken, 

 shortened capsules and imperfect seeds leave no doubt as to its 

 hybrid origin. 



Professor Haussknecht, in his Monographie der Gattung Epilo- 

 hiiim, p. 63, describes a supposed E. hirsiUum x palusire, found by 

 Schmalhausen at Kaporja, near St. Petersburg, but remarks : '• I 

 have not yet seen any specimens of this alleged combination ; and, 

 indeed, the description has not convinced me of its existence." 

 In a letter he informed me that he had since seen an example, 

 and that it proved to be E. palustre x parviflorum. 



Mr. Waterfall writes that he has sent a specimen to the 

 National Herbarium, Cromwell Koad. 



NOTES ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF FUNGI. 



II. — On the Weiting of Specific Names. 



By John Ramsbottom, M.A., F.L.S. 



Judging from the writings of mycologists and from the enquiries 

 one receives, there seems to be much doubt as to the method of 

 writing a specific name derived from the name of the host plant 

 — e. g. in Puccinia Violce, should there be an initial capital ? As 

 this method of naming is the most common in fungi, the parasitic 

 groups such as the Uredinece having about 90 per cent, of their 

 specific names so derived, it may ensure more uniformity if the 

 bearing of the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature on 

 the point be understood. 



In the case of fungi there is not the same trouble as there is 

 in phanerogams, where it is often a matter of historical and 

 literary research to discover whether a given specific name has 

 any relation to a former generic name. The same Recommenda- 

 tion (X) refers, however, to both cases : " Specific names begin 

 with a small letter except those which are taken from names of 

 persons (substantives or adjectives) or those which are taken from 

 generic names (substantives or adjectives)." No fungus names 

 are given amongst the examples. There can be no doubt that a 

 specific name which is a genitive of a generic name is " taken 

 from " that generic name, though one imagines that the phrase is 



