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In all Sen the whole of the Sussex plants which have 
been referred to L. trichoclados will be found to belong to LZ. syl- 
vatica, though in the pi deni of the rare perianths an exact deter- 
mination is difficult. The plant found by Mr. Macvicar on peat 
in the West of Scotland is certainly L. trichoclados, so both 
species occur in the British Isles. JL. sylvatica may generally be 
separated from L. setacea by the smaller, more spreading leaves 
with smaller, less papillose cells and, when perianths are present, 
by the more shortly ciliate bracts and mouth of the perianth. It 
is separable from L. trichoclados by having the bracts and the 
mouth of the perianth more longly ciliate, in which respect it 
occupies an almost exactly intermediate position between L. setacea 
and L. trichoclados vans attaches importance to the 
character drawn froin the frequently aborted segments in the 
nder leaves of L. sylvatica, but this feature seems e more 
us. J. sylvatica, in the absence of perianths or female bracts, is 
with difficulty separable from L. trichoclados, but the presumption 
would be in favour of a plant from sandy ground or sand rocks 
being L. sylvatica, and one from peat being L. ese lados. The 
tufts of L. trichoclados are also generally thicke 
ica was originally described by Prof. Evans from 
material from the United States, where it has a wide distribution 
and appears to be much hig aoe than L. setacea. It has been 
found by Prof. Douin in France, and Dr. Miller gives many 
localities in Central Burope mostly at lower elevations than those 
paper (loc. ny and the plate is reproduce y Dr. Miller. 
taken from American material, and probably relate to L. sylvatica 
rather than LD. setacea. 
SHORT NOTES. 
VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM var. PUBESCENs.—While SxarNte 
the blueberries in the British Herbarium at the British Muse 
last spring, I was interested to note two collections of Vacchesant 
uliginosum L. var. pubescens Lange (Consp. FI. Groen. 90 (1880) ), 
not hitherto recorded ae ater British ae Rte of these, from 
Sowerby’s herbarium, rked as having served as original of 
plate 581 (V. iciepinoians ot ‘Beusk Botany : pains it is 
without further data of a anys ort. The other plant, colleéted by 
E. S. Marshall near Kingsh Ne OAL June 27th, 1888, affords 
V. uliginosum var. pubescens is A reel: shed from the true 
V. uliginosum by the minute spreading more or less dense 
pubescence of the under leaf surfa i It was originally described 
by Lange from Greenland, and has only recently been recognized 
