SHORT NOTES. 



373 



the upper side at the base ; leaves of the upper plane small, ovate 

 cuspidate. Spikes short, resupinate, 1 lin. diam. ; bracts of the 

 upper plane oblong-rhomboid, obtuse, erecto-patent ; of the lower 

 plane ovate cuspidate, more ascending. Tanala. Gathered 

 previously by Dr. Meller by mountain paths at Ambatomanga. 



A -alia pitmata, R. Br. — Ankaratra mountains, and Betsileo 



land. 



dirj'um, Lepr. ? Betsileo land. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Tolypella glomerata, Leonh., in Yorkshire.— In September of 

 the present year I observed this species growing luxuriantly and 

 in some quantity in a small lake on the estate of Earl Cathcart, 

 near Thirsk, N.E. Yorkshire. This seems quite a new record both 

 for locality and county, and is interesting as extending very 

 materially the geographical distribution of the species in Britain. 

 In the 'Review of the British Characeae,' which has lately 

 appeared in the < Journal of Botany,' Messrs. H. and J. Groves state 

 that « ' in Britain it is rare and apparently almost confined to the 

 south-east of England." I may add that a specimen was sub- 

 mitted to the Messrs. Groves. In the same lake Char* pohjacantha 

 A Braun crew in abundance, as well as C. vulgarw, Linn., U 

 t,' "Besv, and C. ki> P ul«, Linn. I could find no Nitellas a 

 il -/although k opae*, Agardh, was pleat ful in a rfp-dnj 

 far off. Some distance away, but on the same estate, I came 

 across a new locality for Chara pohjacantha-the small lake above- 

 mentioned being the spot where it was discovered some years ago 

 by the Rev. F. Addison.— George Nicholson. 



Euphorbia Juice and its us^see p. 818).-In connection with 



the sub ect of the use of the juice of Euphorbias in the preparation 

 the subject 01 sue u j meeting of the 



tSSSfeSu^St of India fern Mr. M-Gibbon, 



Agncultui .11 *nufiu _, T Botanic Garden, in winch lie 



superintendent of the tape Jn V ^ nm ^ 



says ■ • I upborbia sap » "J™^ tLe Customs Returns to 



{hri efltc In tb neighbouring colony of Natal a patent was 

 that enecu. j-u °. ,-, use f Euphorbia sap into a form 



taken out some years ago iov ^ e o W00( / and manne 



for 

 told 



told that the FW^^Sli anira al life on wood or iron in 



^ ^Thl^elie^f ^en^ Euphorbia are very numerous at 



water, ine spec ies M E ;ir(l)m ^ lts , u 



the Cape. ^»*F*£L fe et, with numerous fleshy branches 

 ^fra^ -mf a slight stem. It is very abundant 



