a ee ee ee Oe ee ee ee 
SHORT NOTES. 135 
Setchell; 200 North ge Fungi by Ellis ae Everhart; 250 
Fungi i by Sydow; 172 North American Sphagna by Eaton and 
fasta; 250 North hae ean Lichens by Cummings, Williams, 
and Seymour; 200 American Alge by Tilden; 50 Alge from 
Florida by Curtis; 50 Colorado Mosses by Holzinger; 275 eRe 
gams from Newfoundland and Labrador by Waghorne; 100 Sax 
i by Krieger; 25 Parasitic Fungi by Briosi re Beas 
200 ea fig Alge by Wittrock, Nordstedt, and Lagerheim ; 
100 South European Mosses by Fleischer and Warnstorf; 342 
Cryptogams by Brunnthaler; 50 asker Ly Migula, Sydow, and 
Pi eoaetl 275 French Mosses by Husno 
SHORT NOTES. 
Psamma Battica Roem. & Schult.—Last year this plant flowered 
freely at Caistor, Norfolk, and could be seen from the train. 
their Flora des Flacklandes, now publishing, Drs. Ascherson and 
Graebner still mark this as a hy brid—Psamma arenaria x Calama- 
grostis Epigejos. I know of no Sacallty for C. Epigejos nearer Caistor 
than Filby (eight miles away); and no C. Hpigejos is known within 
many sates of the Ross Links station in Northumberland. Of 
course it may be urged that it has ‘died out’’; but is this scientific 
arguing? In favour of the hybrid origin may be put, that the two 
supposed parents are recorded as growing together in mainland 
s. 
twenty-three islands P. arenaria occurs on all, C, Epiy gejos on 
thirteen ; while the only and on which . ie occurs in which 
C. Epigejos is not recorded is Wangeroo ?, arenaria and C, 
Epigejos occur in all six of the Dutch tala of the North Sea; 
explain our plant as an introduction, but at Ross Links, Messrs: 
Baker, Fox, Richardson, and Maclagan all deny this; in fact, Mr. 
Baker "ronal Doe “ballast” could be discharged there.— 
Artaur Ben 
Nore on Pic ese Prants.—On p. 68 I printed a note on Saai 
fraga Gillii—a name ee (without ygert pe in Gill’s Ring 
of Golden Sand, ii. 426 (1880). “ may be well to dispose of two 
other names whic appear on the same page ‘of Captain Gill’s book, 
as these have been taken up (one incorractly) i in Dr. Bretschneider’s 
History of European Discoveries in China, 735. Primula Gillii 
Britten, /.c. (nomen) is probably, as Mr. ‘Hemsley (Ind. Fl. Sin. 
ii. 42) suggests, a reduced state of P. sikkimensis; Pedicularis 
ramalana Britten, /.c. (nomen) I have not been able to identify, 
but the material ‘at my disposal does not enable me to determine 
whether it is new: as in the case of the other plants mentioned, 
there is only a single ppocunet: | to which Mr. Hemsley does not 
* L. Vuyck, De Pamagnie der Duinen, 1898, 
