16 : SHORT NOTES. 
P. commune, L. 
Woods, heathy ayes A hedge-banks ; Hemel. June. Bry. 
Eur. iv., t. 425 
Chislehurst. 
P. sunrperinum, Hedw. 
Heaths and dry sandy hilly places ; frequent. May, June. _ Bry. 
Eur. iv., 
Tunbridge Wells Common ; Jenner Tunbr. Bostol Heath ; Ight- 
ham Wood. 
Known from P. commune by its shorter stems and the inflexed 
margins of the leaves 
P. prurrerum, Schr ab. 
On dry heathy places ; Legere May, June. Bry. Eur. iv., t. 422, 
Tunbridge Wells Com ; Jenner Tunbr. Ightham Wood. 
“(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
Lavarena dna Brot., 1% tHE Scrtty Istes.—We are in- 
to Mr. Curnow, of Penzance, for specimens of this plant, 
which he believes to ‘ native in the Scilly Isles. He first ages 
it in July, 1873, when in company with Mr. Ralfs and 
Tellam, considering it a distinct- Giking§ variety of Malva se foadb te « 
and in last July he again saw it. On this occasion Mr. Curnow col- 
lected specimens, one of which he sent to tes. H 
determined it to be L. sylvestris... On a piec e 
Hugh Town it was abundant, and the isssvone does not feel sure 
whether the plant does not generally take the place of Malva sylvestris, 
or, indeed, wheth er the latter occurs in the islands at all. This, how- 
“common.” _ er tris, Brot. was first fully descri 
1827 in signa ‘* Phytographia Lusitanie ” (rol il., p. ro55), where 
it is also well figured (tab. 179). A full description will also be 
found in Lowe’s ‘Manual Flora of Madeira” (vol. 1, p. 64). The 
introduced or native ; 
latter is not Diy tiet o but it will be tiger to investigate the 
point specially next summer, and this Mr 
first-sight resemblance of the t 
atti is so. a oloen that they would 
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a es 
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5° 
means of discrimi ination lise: in the epicalyx, the th 1 
_ are free in Valva and united at the sag re caves of which 
tera; that.is, the 
epicalyx is deeply tripattite 3 in the latter, but pres three-leaved 
in Malva. .— Henny TRIMEN, 
