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SHORT NOTES 69 
I was the last summer chasing of butterflies, seeing a fair plant 
575 [H. A ok 
of Androsemum vegan Park. 1575 [ ndrosemum I too 
a specim - An old man standing by told wi pointing, if I 
wanted such aoe as that, goe up into the wood upon that 
I will goe up and see y™. n I came up I never was more 
agreeably surprised by finding it to be St George Wheelers Ascy- 
rum in full flower and a glorious golding show it was. rape 
were several hundreds of y™ but not an acer covered. There are 
old people in the neighbourhood y* remember it to be sine: this 
60 years and more and known there by [the name off the yellow 
Rose.” H. ca lycinum is stated by Aiton (Hort. Kew. iii. 103) to 
have been introduced in 1676 by Sir George Wheler (1650-1724), 
who found it in the neighbourhood of Constantinople and de- 
scribed and figured it in his account of his journey into Greece 
(p. 205) as Androsemum constantinopolitantin flore maximo. The 
memory of the “old people” of Bradford must therefore be at 
fault, as of course om happens in such cases. suey ris ist. Pl. ii. 
1017) cites as a synonym Ascyroides cretica major . (Theatr 
574, 1618 (fig.), 1640), Mist this identification is at ae doubtful. 
Morison, who according to Ray grew the plant in the Oxford 
Garden from seeds fombind from ea figures and describes it 
in Hist. Pl. Oxon. ii. 472, sect. 5, tab. 35, fig. 2; but his sv 
_ sere to Smith (/.¢.), is “a oie. mass of error.’ 
AM 
ALCHEMILLA.—Mr. Druce has called my attention to the fact 
that the determinations of both the Nant Francon and Linlithgow 
specimens which he lent me, and which are referred to in Journ. 
Bot. 1914, p. 288, were made by Dr. Ostenfeld—C. E. Saumon. 
A Correction.—In Journ. Bot., 1914, p. 129, I recorded 
Irijlium cchrolencon as & Middlesex casual. This was an error ; 
ants in question have since been identified at Kew as 
rat ei ulin Retz.—J. E. Cooper. 
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