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a wild state for more than thirty years. I first saw it five years 
ago, but I did not then know how rare and local M. incana is 
in England. I have again visited the spot for the purpose of more 
closely inspecting the locality, and trying to ascertain how long the 
plant has b rowing there. I find that the plant is spread over 
the cliff from top to bottom for a length of about 750 yards. For 
about 600 yards the cliff is 70 feet high, and for the remaining 150 
the height varies from 70 to 20 feet, so that the area over which 
the plant occurs is between three and four acres in extent. The 
eastern boundary of the locus is about 800 yards west of Rottingdean 
town, and the western boundary (almost opposite the end of the © 
road that leads to Ovingdean) is about 750 yards further west. 
I could not count the plants, but little and great they are certainly 
in hundreds, and no one, taking all the facts into consideration, 
could doubt that the plant has been established there for a great 
many years. Indeed, Col. Stead (the son of the rector of Ovingdean), 
o has known the spot for forty years, tells me that as far back as 
he can recollect the hon has oe wn there. How it came there 
I suppose no one now say for certain. There is a cottage on 
the cliff above, the Bes of ahi | is sy Soe from the cliff by a 
grassy road fifteen yards wide, from which the seed may have 
escaped ; but, however that may be, it is certain that for thirty-five 
years (and I think probably for aby, Jenne) the plant nee been 
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originated from seed from the pe that it has spre cad about 
350 yards eastwards and 350 yards westwards, merenes the prevailing 
wind at the time when the seed is scattered is w ly. 
ImpaTIENsS peal epee Royle (pp. 50, 87). ge I was at 
urham, about eight years ago, there was a grove of this close to 
the Probund's. Bridge, high enough to bury the cows.—C. B. CLaRKE. 
t lore des Pyrénées-Orientales by MM. G. Gautier and 
Ch. Flahault (1898) this plant is recorded from “ Mare a Ria, and 
a note is appended: ‘‘ Espéce de |’Himalaya tendant a se ante 
re en France ou elle os déja connue au Mont Saint- Michel ie 
(p. 474).—Ep. Journ. : 
Bar 
but neither he nor any — er have ever noted it as 
occurring in Jersey.—Sraniey Guir 
UXBAUMIA APHYLLA Li. In = TAFFORDSHIRE, — The occurrences of 
this moss are so rare and uncertain, — bryologists will be in- 
terested to hear that I have recently met with a few plants of it on 
bare dry soil in the parish of Armitage, on the outskirts of Cannock 
Chase. This is a new record for Staffordshire. It is to be hope 
that in this case the moss may make an exception to what is said to 
be its rule of not reappearing in the same locality.—H. P. Reaper. 
