190 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
SHORT NOTES. 
Dorset Evpurasias. — On July 11th, 1898, I gathered a 
Euphrasia on the coast below Pennsylvania Castle, Portland 
of E. occidentalis Wettst., determined by Prof. yon Wettstein him- 
self. On the grassy table-land near the quarries there abounds a 
form of EF. borealis Towns., agreeing well with the description of 
Castle and scale Om These appear to be additions to the county 
list —Epwarp §. MarsHauu. 
A poustrun Kentish Recorp.—When the third edition of Ray's 
Synopsis was searched ols reich records, the fo oe 7 noted 
at page 846 :—‘‘*§ Alsinastrum Gratiolefolio oo R. herb. 244, & 
Alsinastrum Gallii folio bid. Found by Mr. J. Sherard on boggy 
Ground, on the Common just by the Road from Eltham to Chiselhurst. 
De flore nondum satis constat.” These names of Tournefort refer 
to vouch for the occurrence of this plant in Kent. 1 Sir 
James Edward Smith, in his English Flora, ii. 248-4, in his com- 
ments on his Elatine tripetala, a synonym of EF. hewandra DC., says: 
ym say 
sinastrum; a plant long believed, on the authority of 
Dilienias to be a native of England: for who. would have supposed 
so great a botanist could have confounded it with save maori 
minimus, as is proved by his herbarium at Oxford!"? The mat 
came up again when Mr. F. J. Hanbury and the Rev. E. 8. Marshall 
came to print the Flora of Kent ; on evi iewing the evidence, they 
came to the conclusion that Dillenius had blundered, and that the 
K 
Druce, and 
to settle the dispute. He was kind enough to do so, and in his 
letter stated: ‘‘. . . there is no specimen in the Dillenian herbarium 
to represent the plant areostesees by you, and reat to on pag e 846 
retina Pluk. Alm i iii. p. 850, n. 6, rope 
rst.’ oes is mainte iy origin of Sir James Smith’s 
ous . ust remember that the or Centunculus was 
win 
therefore be admitted that he knew the plant in its normal condition, 
so that, when it was first recognized by him in Kent, he placed it 
