174 SHORT NOTES. 
Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. On a shed in a farmyard near 
Water-break-its-Neck, and on the sieké near the fall. Var. dentata. 
Aberedw Woods, in the dry bed of a stream. 
Aspidium aculeatum, Sw. Banks of the Edw. 
Nephrodium dilatatum, Desy. Woods near Llanfaredd and 
Aberedw. 
Osmunda regalis, L. Rhos Common, on the edges of peat pools. 
Equisetum sylvaticum, L. Near Painscastle. 
E. limosum, L. Rhos Common. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Tuuaspr aupesTRE, L., 1x Somersetsutre.—-The Rev. R. P. 
Murray has brought to "the British Museum Herbarium a spe- 
cimen of the above-named plant, collected by him on the 5th 
ult., coe Shipham and Rowberrow, near Axbridge, Somerset, 
growing among herbage on a bank by the roadside, on mountain 
anne, This extends the range of the plant, of which 
Glamorgan was pesrionsly the southern limit.—James BrirrEen 
Lescurma mutasiuis, Ferg.—At p. 114 I stated that the —- 
from Ben Lawers was not Schimper’s variety savicola, but the 
e. This view was expressed after comparison with very bes 
specimens, and after learning the opinion of a rien re of ten 
times my experience. It has now been examined, and compared 
with authentic specimens by Dr. Braithwaite and Mr. H. M. 
Holmes, and they both refer it without doubt to Schimper’s variety 
saxico his variety is regarded by Molendo, Milde, Lindberg, 
and Braithwaite as a speci ae Mr. Ho Imes has kindly sent me a 
note to make a of in this eee He says:—‘' Lescurea 
mutabilis, Fergu A specimen of a moss forwarded to 
‘me under the al ove name for exhibition at a recent meeting of the 
ean Society proved on examination to be L. saxicola of Milde— 
L, striata, Br. & Sch., var. saxicola of Schimper’s Synopsis. This 
— is distinguishe d from the typical saat by its longer stems 
regularly pinnate at “the extremity, by its larger and broader 
sno shia leaves, more shortly acuminate and serrate at the apex, 
and by its yellowish brown colour. It also grows on were on 
mountains, more  . ly of the northern zone, wher 
cording to Schimper, the typical plant is rare, the habitat of the 
latter being on ee Puhtiice and twigs of dwarf shrubby beeches 
on the loftier mountains of the middle and southern zone, from 
the Alps to the Jura. In such situations it usually grows with 
Brachythecium reflecum. From terigynandrum filiforme, rigs 
saxicola is distinguished at sight by its striated leaves, and un 
the microscope by t the nerve which almost reaches the apex of the 
