56 SHORT NOTES. 
By the cm pales at Teston, plentifully, March, 1844; a 
Chalky field, Wrotham; above the chalk- -pit ne 
Gicentithe Station ; ; near Otford.’ 
This species I have only seen in isolated oor and have no- 
where noticed in Kent the luxuriance of growth which is so 
marked a feature on mud walls in Bdkighamsisse and 
Oxfordshire. 
z, = Br. Soke G: “sega obtusum, Turn. orster 
Tunbr.) ; stomum Heimii, N. & H. (Jenner Tunbr.). 
On Sony of sees ditches aida esusk se near the sea; probably 
ag ry. Eur, ii. 
On patter bela e Stour, near Sandwich, ’ abundantly. Also in 
mars ear § own Castle, Deal. 
Le. hag Wils. . and P. Wilsoni, Br. & Sch., should be looked 
for on damp cliffs near the sea, during December and January. } 
(Zo be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
LavaTera srivestris, Brot.—In the Journal for last month (p. 16) 
there is a short note on the late discov very of Lavatera sylvestris, 
Brot., in the Scilly Isles. Itis there stated that the discoverer, 
Curnow, first noticed the plant in 1873, and then big it for a dis- 
e saw the 
plant again, and sent specimens to Mr. Watso n, aha has determined 
it to be Lavatera sylvestris, Brot. The plant was, in 1876, abundant 
on a piece of waste ground near h Town, but it is not sta 
hat Mr. Curnow i 
sure whether it does not generally take the place of Malva —S 
or pen whether the latter occurs in the islands at all.” 
unds he makes this sweeping conclusion it is not stated. When i in 
the islands in 1863, I noticed Mailva sylvestris in considerable abun- 
dance, as stated in my Contributions (Journ. Bot., 1864, p. 108). 
then carefull and particularly examined many sictietin: especiall 
ya 3 ae 
— the rnin of Hugh h Town, from which I have an herba- 
er oe careful investigation.—F. 
Hyrrericum Sampsonrt.—At p. 207 of ons last teeg z we Journal, 
Mr. W. B. " Headley reduces this as a synonym to ocarpum, 
Maxim. He is quite Saag as to their identity, but he has. seared two 
circumstances: the first, that I had = pointed this out six years 
ago (Journ. Bot, 187 0, p. 275); the second, that whereas M. Maxi- 
mowicz described h is H. electroc electrocarpum in May, 1867 (Mél. biolog. 
