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CarnarvonsHirE Mosses.—In a tuft of moss sent me for deter- 
mination by Mr. W. Ingham quite Ene I detected a few stems 
of Hypnum hamulosum B. e specimen was gathered on the 
Glydwr Vawr, Gecincthice in May, 1897, by Mr. W. H. Pearson. 
This is a new record for the Principality, and deserves publishing, 
as it is a high alpine moss which has not been recorded, so far as 
is omitted from Griffith’s Flora, is a much less distinctly alpine 
plant. agnall agrees with me that there can be no doubt about 
the Teas of the present plant with H. hamulosum.—H. N. Drxon. 
GLADIOLUS OPPOSITIFLORUS = FLABELLIFER.—lIn the Index Kewensis 
two names in Gladiolus are retained as distinct which seem to 
represent the same species, and, as the earlier of these is not taken 
up or cited by Mr. Baker, olthar i in his monograph of the Iridee or in 
the Flora Capensis, it may 2 well to call attention to it. The two are: 
FLABELLIFER Tausch. in Flora, xix. 421 (1836), with synonym 
“G, floribundus Hort. Holland. (non Jacq. 
oppositiflorus Herbert, Amaryllidacee, 866 (1887) —* now sold 
y Dutch nurserymen under the name floribundus”’: Bot. 
Re eg. 1842, Misc. 98. 
The citation of the same synonym by each author seems to leave 
oe doubt that the same plant was under a sayadlag tag and there 
s nothing in the two descriptions to show the contrary. Another 
pes ies, G. mar wi published by Tausch in the same place, is 
not quoted in the Flora Capensis ; in Index Kewensis it is cited as if 
banda hg 0 vith some other species, but no equivalent for it is 
given.—J AMES 
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Ys Beret IN « Dosiiee (p. 157).—I have never gathered 
a a ie at Portsalon. The note to that effect in Cybele 
H Leda referred to by Mr. Hart is an error. _ only station in which 
I have seen it in Done sis is near Lough Fern.—M. J. Lexzsop 
Gavium syLvestre Poll, in Peay aa Some has ago Mr. i W. 
Deadlsy, of Wimbledon, sent me tw of a Galium which 
he had gathe red in Jun 1894, near "Reigate 1 Hill, and which he 
over a limited area—that there were a few small patches on 
open hill-side. It is difficult to see how this species could be any 
other than a native in such a station. The only previous record for 
the Thames province is that on p. 262 of Mr. Druce’s Flora of 
Berkshire. sia a locality there given Mr. Druce is disposed to 
i t (the var. nitidwlum) ‘‘ may be a naira —. 
ae or Borany.—Vou. 87. (June, 1899.] t 
