76 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
The following records will be found in Phytologist iv. 696 
2) :— 
(185 
Nephrodium spinulosum Desv. Whitchurch. — N. Thelypteris 
Desy. Quirsley Mere, near Whitchurch and Wybunbury Moss.— 
Osmunda_ re sath L. Whitchurch neighbourhood. R. W. Rawson 
is the authority for all three. 
I — the present opportunity of adding the notes which 
ollow 
Sasifnga Hirculus - Probably the earliest reference to we 
as a Cheshire plant is to be found in the Correspondence of D 
lately from Dr. Fow Ove e says Savifraga angustifolia fl 
tsbrid 
peci 
Herb. Blan (exlvi, fo 
must express my Na ret for allowing to let pass the statement 
on p. lxxxi of the Flora that “no satisfactory account of Gerard's 
life has yet been compiled.” This was done in forgetfulness of 
Mr. B. D. Jackson’s interesting biographical ere prefixed to his 
rien “of Gerard’s catalog (ona on, 1876). The sen- 
tence quoted above was of course penned by "Mr. Warren before 
Mr. Jackson’s work appeare ai 
et paella 
NOTE ON COSMIA. 
By James Brirren, F.L.S. 
N the course of naming the Banksian engravings of Australian 
oleate shortly to be published by the Trustees of the British Museum, 
it became pears to look up the history of the genus Calandrinia, 
one species of which—C, quadrivalvis F. Muell.—is among the plants 
represent tea 
It cs little Spee aat to discover that Calandrinia (H. B. K. 
Nov. Gen. vi. 823) ) is antedated by Baitaria (Ruiz & Pav. 
Prodr. 63, t. 86 (1794) ) of which Bethan & Ho : say (Gen 
Pl. i. 158), ‘a Calandrinia haud diversa videtur.” All Lasgetwarid 
of douk as to the identity of the two is removed by the 
spection of Ruiz and Pavon’s specimens, two sheets of which, 
rom specie herbarium, are in the National Herbarium. The 
ere is, however, a still earlier name ve be considered. In 
establishing ‘the genus Calandrinia, the authors (Nov. Gen. vi. 77 
