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level, lying to the west of the ship. I also gathered a couple of 

 specimens at Disco with pale hairy sepals, stem hairy, with several 

 flowers, channelled peduncles, and smooth carpels, which, I believe 

 belonged to this species. ' ' 



Shift Eudder Bay and Floeberg Beach, coll. Moss. 



B, nivalis, L. 



Bist. 1 2 3 4 5 - 7 - - 10 - 12 13. Lat. 69° 15' to 82° 27'. 

 E., \V., and G. 



Flowering later than the last in Discovery Bay, but remaining 

 in blow throughout the summer. Appears to have no choice of 

 station, either with regard to altitude or nature of soil, but growing 

 more luxuriantly at low levels. A favourite food of the brent goose 

 (Bermcla brenta). In flower June 17, in Discovery Bay. 



Floeberg Beach (Moss coll.) 



From sea-level to 2000 feet near St. Patrick's Bay. 



(To be continued). 



SHORT NOTES. 



Jcngermannia exsecta in fruit.— While out botanising latelv 

 witli my friend Mr.E. M. Holmes, we came upon a very fine patch 



oi Jungermannia exsecta growing on a bank' not far from Trant 



Ration, Tonbndge Wells. A few, though certainly only a few, 

 Plants were unmistakeably in fruit. This species does not appear 

 to Have been observed in fruit in England before.— Thos. "" 



Walker 



Sprin- 



g-flowering Form of Colchicum autumn ale. — On the 



^oui of March I was taking a cross-country walk a few miles from 

 nstol, and passed through some pasture land previously unex- 



th°- e a ° ne large field a <i uan t% of daffodils were putting up 



^neir flower-buds, and amongst them were distributed the flowers 



iiiQt ° cum - They appeared here and there over a large area, 

 colo Peeping above the soil » and, from their small size and pale 

 and U ^' Were no ^ a * a ^ cons picuous. The flowering corm is large 

 Oct 1 Ump ' "* tbe same con(lit ion in which we usually find it in 

 Peri th TllG pe . riantu tuue is radical, as in the normal form; 

 ant) ? ma ^> wit h narrow segments, pale and sickly in colour ; 

 tins li snnvelled > n °t containing pollen. My supposition is that 

 it l^f n °t prove to be a permanent form of the plant. I think 

 (level 6 ^ tbe y° un g corms were seriously impeded in tbeir 



tbrou°^ me f \ ^ * be unusua Hy wet and cold weather prevailing 

 not n? j summer » and that many of them, therefore, were 



tbem t t0 flower before tbe first frosts of winter compelled 



flower 1)0 ^tpone the effort altogether. One record of a spring 



kb uqo\ cbicuui is con tained in 'English Botany,' where 



a Pd' m - i ' a " m onstrosity " is figured, bearing an abortive 



which 1,S apen nower in the position at the base of the leaves 



Varietv 1S occu P ie(1 by the capsule wben fruit is produced. This 



y was found in Wiltshire, and is stated to have occurred 



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