REVIEW : THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUBS, 25 
Specimens with the same label are said in the sister nang on the 
authority of Professor Haekel, to be only A. repens Bea 
Ceterach officinarum Willd. var. Crenatrum Milde., ss — by 
Mr. Druce, is repudiated by Mr. Bennett as referee of the Watson 
Club. 
These, however, are trifles. Of more substantial interest are the 
New County Records. The most important of these are— 
funaria confusa Jord., for Berkshire. 
Silene maritima Witti., for S.W. Lancashire. 
Corton medium N. E. Br. (= Buda media Dumort.), for Herkshe. 
Rubus erythrinus Genev., for Shropshire. 
Rubus podophyllus P. J. Miill, for Denbigh. 
Rubus fusco-ater Wahl., for S. Derby. 
Doronicum Pardalianches 1., for Berkshire (but naturalised only). 
Crepis biennis L., for Northamptonshire. 
LHypocheris glabra L., for S.E. York. 
NVitella mucronata Kutz., for Oxford. 
These are all from the report of the older club; the Watson Club 
Report does not appear to note any new records. 
Mr. Druce has some interesting and lengthy notes on varieties 
of Arenaria serpyllifolia L. and Sagina apetala L. (one of the latter 
new to Great Britain, and hitherto confined to a small district in 
Spain), and also some remarks on the hybridity of Zimaria repens and 
vulgaris, all of which suggest cautions for collectors given to 
dogmatic nomenclature. 
It is much to be regretted that so few contributions appear in 
either report from the counties in which our readers are specially 
interested. Whatever the causes may be, the north of England does 
not produce, either in numbers or experience, such students of 
botany as seem to be developed in the south. The contributors to 
both reports from the northern counties may be reckoned on one 
hand, nor are the contributions of exceptional interest. 
From Yorkshire Mr. Wheldon sends quite a curious list of aliens 
gathered in the neighbourhood of York. Sisymbrium pannonicum 
Jacq., Malva niceensis All., Trigonella polycerata L., Medicago 
apiculata Willd., Melilotus ceruleus L.., M. pantflorus Lautk Lythrum 
hyssopifolium 1., Plantago arenaria Waldst. & Kit., Rumex dentatus 
Camp., Asphodelus fistulosus L.., and Setaria glauca Beauv. remind us 
of the strange gatherings we used to get in old days on the ballast 
hills of our northern ports. 
The other Yorkshire records are of no great interest except that of 
Ly pocheris glabra L.., already quoted as new to this county. 
. Jan. 1894. 
