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contrées méridionales, ou la chaleur produit facilement l’avorte- 
ment du péristome. Des formes intermédiaires entre le péristome 
réduit 41a membrane basilaire et le péristome réguliérement denté 
se recontrent assez souvent.” Paris (Ind. ed. ii.) gives the dis- 
tribution of the var. as, Maritime se alce! | and Normandy; South 
Spain; Cape of Good Hope; ? Southern California. At the 
end of last year Mr. C. P. Hurst sent me for determination a moss 
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number of capsules with very short lids, and of the few de- 
operculate capsules most, at least, had the peristome much reduced, 
consisting of a basal membrane with a few fragmentary rudiments 
of teeth only; some of the others showing rather longer but very 
imperfect teeth. This oo to be the first record of var. 
edentula in Britain. I asked Mr. Hurst to obtain some better 
type—and amply supported the remar cited 
above. At the same time Mr. Hurst sent fresh specimens to the 
a Museum, which were kept under cultivation by Mr. 
Sherrin, and his sisenestinti of the spaied ay gece 
agreed, I believe, entirely with my own experience. The v 
edentula must therefore, I think, by looked upon as very vatable 
and poorly defined.—H. N. Dix 
ANOMALIES IN THE V.-c. Divisions oF PERTHSHIRE.—In 
Marshall’s interesting paper on “ Highland Plants” (pp. ns-a6ay 
T note that he queries w — Juncus tenuis was an inhabitant 
of that county twenty years a I found the plant myself in a 
road track in Glen Falloch, aeonk three miles below ean 
in 1903, eleven years before Mr. Marshall’s date. It is 
however, to make this sannatenenial that I am aa on 
t to point out that Mr. Marshall, rather apolo- 
eee £ bhakides Glen Falloch, Beinn-a-Chroin, &c., in v.-c. 85. 
, when I sent a voucher specimen of the rush to Mr. 
% Benisith he told me that it was the first record; so far as he 
in Top. Bot. is useless for settling difficult points such as the 
present one, and that his descriptions also need to be revised. It 
is re a strange coincidence that in the same number of the 
urnal two such expert field fistaaniaie as Mr. Marshall and Mr. 
Wheldon should be placing their Glen Falloch, Beinn- a-Chroin, 
&c., habitats—the first in v.-c. 88 and the second in v.-c. 
Could not a small committee of competent British topographical 
botanists be invited to correspond on this subject, and to ving de 
definitely in any way on which they could agree, and so put 
end to this awkward predicament? Even v.-c. 99 might see in 
a claim to Glen Falloch—Exzonora ARMITAGE 
