230 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
n to me for Britain, may I ask any botanist =e can reach 
i os of Cumberland to collect specimens and cuttings? Mr. 
Baker reports there were few other trees along the naa —E.F. 
Linton. 
Mararota sinvata (p. 168). Sa plant still flourishes at Santon, 
on the North Devon coast. Last year at least fifty plants flowered 
on the cliffs there and on the sandhills in the neighbourhood. Pol- 
whele, in his History of Devonshire, 1797, mentions this habitat: 
“on the rocks adjoining Braunton burrows.” It is di cult to con- 
ceive that the plant in this neighbourhood is not indigenous. When 
Polwhele wrote, there was no house within a mile of the place, 
n a n Bu 
ants on the seadpille: sa ee exti pated by collectors — 
rae but those on the cliffs are happily inaccessible. — Tuo 
i. RIGHT 
RIS ae Mich. — In my notes on Xyris (Journ. Bot. 189 99, 
499) I included X. Jupicat Mich. Fl. Bor. Am, i. 23 (1803) as a 
doubtful synonym of X. flexuosa Mahl. (= X. torta Smith). 
Different authors had taken poche: pig as to the _— in- 
ve 
sepals, while X. Jup ich. has mewhat erose wing on 
upper part of the thos of the cepa Sich are shorter than the 
in de ts, Ly have no apical tuft ; ; it is, in fact, piping! generally 
ith 
narrow tears and small light brown roundish heads.— 
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