328 SHORT NOTES. 
Babington and Hooker have ranked them. The wild Mayo plant, 
owing to the shallowness of the soil, was only from two to four inches 
high in those dry summers.—Epwarp §. MarsHatu. 
Epipactis atrorugens Schultes.— With reference to Mr. Bennett’s 
note on p. 274, I may mention that in 1885 I gathered a Helleborine 
lands, Deutsch-Oesterreichs und der Schweiz (Jena, 1894), called F. 
rubiginosa Crantz on the plate, but E. rubiginosa Gaud. in the text ; 
E. atrorubens Schult., FE. atropurpurea Raf., and FE. media Fr. being 
cited as synonyms. According to Nyman, however, Crantz pub- 
lished this as a variety of his /. Helleborine, and Gaudin as a variety 
0. 
or E. purpurata Sm. ; this, too, is admirably depicted.—Epwarp S. 
Marsnatu. 
Puantaco Psyttim L.—The occurrence of this as a Middlesex 
casual is thus recorded by Miller in Gard. Dict. ed. vi. (1759) :— 
‘‘ There has been one Species of Psyllium found growing naturally 
of this must have been buried there some Ages, for no Person 
remembers any of the Plants growing in that neighbourhood 
before.” —James Brirren, 
ARENARIA BALEARICA In Sussex. — Mr. G. May has brought to 
the Botanical Department a specimen of this plant, which was 
found in some quantity at the foot of some rocks near Hast Grin- 
stead during an excursion of the Toynbee Hall Natural History 
Society on May 28th. 
Hierocu.oz Borearis 1x KirxcupBRIGHTSHIRE.—The Rev. George 
McConachie has sent specimens of the above grass from the coast 
of Kirkeudbrightshire, south of the town of Kirkcudbright, where it 
was found by Miss Mittelbach. The discovery, with a couple of 
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