136 SHORT NOTES. 
refer. This appears in Dr. Bretschneider’s work, by a misprint, as 
Primula ramalana, Perhaps it should be stated, in explanation of 
these nomina nuda, that when we supplied Captain Gill with the 
determinations of his few plants we were not aware that he intended 
to publish a list of them; nor had I even seen his list until Dr. 
Bretschneider’s encyclopedic work directed my attention to it.— 
a Britten 
ura scorica Hook.—In the original description of this plant 
(Cat Fi. ee t. 133 (1819) ) Hooker says that it had been ‘for 
some years known in para by the above name, pr was at a 
time pilkieated, in the Botanic Garden of Edinb urgh. From 
passage in Loudon’s Gardeners’ Magazine, vi. 718 (1880) it woul 
seem that the name may have been originally given by — 
mith, a nurseryman at Monkwood Grove, near Ayr. In a note 
prefixed to a list of ** Varieties of ghar Plants cultivated and “sold” 
by him, Smith says: ‘I have put in the Primula fre as it was 
I who named it, and, I believe, first detected it as a new British 
plant. John Dunlop, Ksq., brother of the late piles Dunlop, of 
Dunlop House, brought it to me for the Primula farinosa, as he 
supposed he had found a new habitation for it. I said, when 
I received it from him, I was truly obliged to him for it; for, if not 
a new species, it was a singular variety: nthe hs eighteen or 
nineteen years since.” Smith also says: ‘I have some information 
that the Soldanella alpina is a native of Wales: skal let me know 
if it is erally known as such.”’—J N. 
Sussex Prants.—In Science Gossip for January, Mr. T. Hilton 
has pocdited Potamogeton trichoides Cham. and Spartina alterniflora 
ois. for Sussex. He has kindly sent me specimens, and I find the 
Rus Kan ALTENBACHII IN aaa —Among a number of 
tiennnbies hens T recently forwarded to Mr. Rogers for determination 
is a plant Ww be ae must bear the name of Rf. hirtus var. 
teresting, as it has previously Lge — by Mr. Rogers from the 
south of England only.—A. B. Jac 
