242 SHORT NOTES. 



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Not common at Discovery Bay, and only on a high plain between 

 it and Musk Ox Bay. Considering the time of the season (early 

 in June, which was long before the snow had begun to melt on the 

 higher plains), and the exposed and elevated situations which this 

 plant seemed to prefer, I consider it has a greater power of defying 

 the cold than any other species. 



At 1000 feet in Discovery Bay, forcing itself through the frozen 



snow. 



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E capitatum, var. Scheuchzeri, Hoppe. 



Dist. 1 7 12. Lat. 69° 15' to 81° 52'. W. & G. 



Disco. Common at the Deserted Village and Ptarmigan Hill 

 with E. pohjstachium , L. Shift Rudder Bay (H. W. F.) 



E. vaginatum, L. 



Dist. - 2 - - 5. Lat. 72° 20' to 78° 18'. E. and G. 

 Proven and Foulke Fiord. 



(To be continued). 



SHOET NOTES. 



Cabdamine impatiens, L., in Kent. — This plant occurs abun- 

 dantly in hedge-banks near Edenbridge, West Kent, where I 

 observed it this spring by the side of the road, south of the railway, 

 leading from the above place to Penshurst. It is not recorded for either 

 division of the county in ' Topographical Botany.' — W. H. Beeby. 



Ranunculus vulgatus, Joed., in Herts. — I am not aware that 

 this plant has been hitherto on record for the county, although it 

 has been noticed in at least one of those immediately adjacent. I 

 have quite recently met with it in this neighbourhood, not far from 

 the borders of Cambridgeshire, growing on a balk by the roadside 

 in an exposed situation on a chalky soil. The rhizomes, some of 

 which, broken, were two inches or more in length, appeared to 

 have spread from common centres. The stems have a distinct 

 facies from those of R. tomophyUut, and seem to be of a much 

 tougher constitution. It is curious that Professor Babington, in 

 the last edition of his ' Manual,' should have ascribed an oblique 

 or horizontal rhizome to R. t<mophyllua.—R. A. Pbyob. 



Leucobbyum glaucum in Fruit {ante, pp. 185, 218).— In addi- 

 tion to the habitats already given in the ' Journal,' the following 

 may be given :— Fowlshaw Moss, Westmoreland, gathered by Mr. 

 J. M. Barnes, in the autumn of 1866, where I have since several 

 turns collected it; Wardon Park, Dorset, by the Bev. 0. P. Cam- 

 bridge, in April, 1880. -- Geobge Stablib. [Mr. C. P. Hobkirk 

 adds the locality of Dartmoor, 1870, Dr. de Crespigny. It does 

 not seem necessary to publish further localities for what proves to 

 be a not uncommon occurrence.— Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



