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barbate ;” and Bentham says of the Hongkong species, “ stamina ut 
in icone Blumeana depicta." In the latter case this is certainly—and 
I suspect in the former too, for A. De Candolle describes the perigone- 
lobes as “ medio intus fasciculo pilorum donati"—due to error in ob- 
servation; the anthers are quite beardless; but behind each stamen, 
and springing from the perigone-lobe, a little above the insertion of the 
filament, is a fleshy scale, fimbriated or 6—8-cleft nearly or almost en- 
tirely to the base, and often adhering to the anthers, with which, how- 
ever, it certainly has no organic connection. I suppose, in fact, it 
agrees with Pyrularia in this respect. The curious structure of the 
endocarp is well figured by Blume. In the analytical key prefixed to 
the *Flora Hongkongensis, Mr. Bentham has inadvertently described 
^ the leaves as opposite; but in the body of the work they are correctly 
stated to be alternate. 
NOTE ON EQUISETUM MOOREI, Newman. 
Bv Auex. G. More, F.LS. 
In his recent * Monographia Equisetorum,'* and in the later * Filices 
Europe et Atlantidis, Dr. J. Milde treats Equisetum Moorei as a 
variety of Equisetum hyemale, giving it the name of * var. Schlei- 
cheri.” 
Dr. Milde is probably right in considering our plant a variety ; for 
having frequently observed Equisetum Moorei on the coast sandhills of 
Wicklow and Wexford, I cannot find any further distinctive characters 
beyond the longer and looser sheaths, and more slender habit, which 
were noticed from the first by my friend Dr. Moore. In the wild state 
the stems are not strictly deciduous, for in sheltered situations among 
bushes, I have found them quite green and fresh, even so late as in the 
month of March; and if on the open sandhills they are more or less 
withered, I believe that this may be due simply to exposure. 
But as regards the name, Newman’s Equisetum Moorei is certainly 
prior to Milde’s Equisetum Schleicheri. E. Moorei was first described 
by Mr. Newman in the ‘ Phytologist,’ vol. v. p. 19 (January, 1854), a 
* Nordan Actorum Acad. Ces. Leop.-Carol. Germ. Nat. Curiosorum, 
tome xxxii. pars 2, p. 521 (1867). 
