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crease in the amount of disease was apparent. During the previous 

 day and night the weather had been damper and warmer, and on 

 the day but one previous a high wind had blown (the weather 

 being dry) for several hours. George Murray." 



EXTRACTS FROM THE 'REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE 



CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES FOR 1879.'* 



Armaria ciliata, L. From King's Mountain, Sligo, 18th July, 

 1879. A srood suddIv is sent bv Mr. S. A. Stewart, who 



writes 



" This plant seems to be either very rare or local on Ben Bulben 

 proper, as for two days I searched for it in vain on that mountain. 

 It occurs in considerable abundance on rocks on the east side of 

 that mountain, some three miles to the south-east of Bulben. Our 

 plant is denser and rougher, with leaves more bluntly spathulate 

 and more strongly ciliate than continental examples in my 

 herbarium." Prof. Babington writes :—" Probably we have all 

 confounded King's Mountain and Ben Bulben. I do not recollect 

 finding it on the hill I was first taken to as the latter, but on the 

 hill which is continuous with it, on the other side of a ravine." 



Rubus saltuum, Focke. Dr. Eyre de Crespigny sends a Rubus 

 under the name of R. fusco-ater, Weihe, from Harrow Weald Com- 

 mon, Middlesex, August, 1879, which Mr. Baker names saltuum, 

 Focke == Guntheri, Bab. Mr. Briggs says this is certainly R. Gun- 

 then, "Weihe," Bloxam = L\ saltuum, Focke. Prof. Babington 

 does not accept it a,a fusco-ater, but his specimen has not a perfect 

 terminal leaflet. 



■!/W 



Minworth, Warwick- 



shire, September, 1879. Sent by Mr. James E. Bagnall with the 

 following note :— ** Specimens from the bushes from which these 

 specimens have been collected were named for me, in 1871, by the 

 late Bev. Andrew Bloxam as Rubus cuneivnus, Baker ; but, as I 

 could see no difference between this and what I considered to be 

 R. purpura*, Bab., I sent specimens this year to Prof. Babington, 

 labelled R, purpureas, and this name was confirmed by him. The 

 plant is remarkably abundant in the Minworth district, often to the 

 exclusion of all other forms. I also noticed it in abundance in the 

 hedges at Twycross this year (1879), and believe it to be the plant 

 named R. concinnus, Baker, and distributed by the late Mr. Bloxam, 

 from that district. The bushes in the Appleby Boad, Twycross 

 (from which I gathered my specimens), pointed out by Mr. Bloxam, 

 had been cut down this year." Prof. Babington writes :— " My 

 specimen from Mr. Bloxam's < set ' of 1876 is poor, but I agree 

 with Mr. Bagnall in believing this to be " " 



correctly named purpureus." 



Dnjas octopetala, var. pilosa, Bab. Limestone rocks, Blackhead, 

 County Clare, 12th May, 1876 ; and Dn/as wtopetala, var. depressa, 



[Several of the plan reported upon have already been noticed in the pages 

 of this Journal— Ed. Jouiin. Hot.] 



and 



