389 



Hypnum cupressiforme. 



&. coinpressum. In woods. 



mollusciim. Common : most abundant where the landi s stiff 



clay. 

 Besides these, I have found two others rather out of the distance, 

 viz., 



Didymodon trifarius. Cliffs by the sea at Southend. 

 Neckera pumila. On the trunk of a hornbeam in Epping Forest. 



A. Greenwood. 



Chelmsford, 



December 5, 1845. 



On the occurrence of Mimulus luteus in Forfarshire. By George 



Lawson, Esq. 



In the report given in the October number of the *Phytologist' 

 (Phytol. ii. 319), of a meeting of the Botanical Society of Glasgow, 

 held on the 24th of June last, I find Mimulus luteus noticed as having 

 been mentioned in an account of a botanical trip by Dr. Balfour, read 

 to the Society at that meeting, it having been found by him " natura- 

 lized near Largs." Mimulus luteus I have observed in two stations 

 in Forfarshire : the one at Invergowrie burn, which separates the 

 counties of Perth and Forfar, about four miles west of Dundee, and 

 the other by the margin of the water of Dighty, at Strathmartine, four 

 or five miles north of Dundee. At both these stations the plant is 

 plentiful, and grows luxuriantly, being quite naturalized, and, it may 

 be, indigenous ; as to this, however, I will not venture an opinion. 

 This may be interesting to the readers of the * Phytologist,' and I 

 think the plant deserves the particular attention of British botanists, 

 as it may perhaps have claims to a place in the British Flora. Those 

 who have met with it in other stations than those mentioned by Dr. 

 Balfour and myself, will perhaps be kind enough to communicate 

 such, with their observations, through the medium of the ' Phytolo- 

 gist.' Although a plant somewhat showy, it is often not easily de- 

 tected, being hid by the luxuriant grass at the margins of the streams, 

 where it usually grows. 



Geo. Lawson. 



108, Hawkhill, Dundee, 

 November, 1845. 



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