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Ravs tvowa Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 166 is referred in Index 
Kewensis to R. mucronata Thunb. Sonder (in Flora Capensis) follows 
De Candolle in referring Aiton’s var. a to R. mucronata Thunb. var. 
Burmanni and in retaining Aiton’s var. B under lucida. Prof. 
ngler refers Aiton’s lucida both to lucida L. and mucronata, 
without in either case specifying which form he aa 
Tox1copENDRON aRBoREScENS Mill. Dict. ed. viii. no. 9 is rightly 
Tao in nor aie with Rhus arborescens DC., which is based 
ae retains R. arborescens as a species, 
hae Miller 8 slatit was pepe by Triana and Planchon (in 
nn. Sc. Nat. 5th ser. 21), on the faith of peers from 
Forsyth ho nies: ‘Miller at ” Chelsea) at Kew, with Amyris 
sylvatica Jacq.—a aio yee out by Miller’s eet specimens 
from Carthagena in Herb. 
ToxIcoDENDRON GLABRUM ‘Mil. Dict. ed. viii. no. 38 i 
synonym of Rhus glabra in Ind. Kew. The character “fois 
ternatis’’ is sufficient to show that this cannot be the 
have not Miller’s 3 ae but the figure he quotes Gon Hort 
Elth. represents R. ra 
‘* ToxICODENDRON ight ” quoted in Ind. Kew. as of ‘‘ Bertram 
ex Steud. Nom. ed. u., 694°’ seems to have originated in hs 
remark of Miller’s under his T. serratum, which he says ‘‘ was s 
me by Mr. John Bartram by the title of Great Toxisodendron.” 
T. serratum was doubtless a form of R. Toxicodendron. 
‘«'ToXICODENDRON TRIPHYLLUM Mill. Dict. no. 5” quoted by Engler 
(DC. Mon. Phan. iv. 385) as a synonym of R. suaveolens Ait. is not 
to be found in Miller; presumably 7’. crenatum Mill., which bears 
the number cited, is intended. 
ARTEMISIA STRLLERIANA IN IRELAND. 
By Narnanret Conean, M.R.IA. 
In an article printed in the April issue of this Journal, from 
the February number of Rhodora, Mr. M. L. Fernald has drawn 
sttenioe at the rapid spread of this Kamischatkan alien on the 
sand-dunes. As it is now six years. since the first 
appearance of this species in a naeaented state in Ireland was 
recorded in "hie pages (Journ. Bot. 1894, p. 22), the following 
notes on the behaviour of the plant during this period in its Irish 
station on the North Bull, Dublin Beye may be useful as a supple- 
ment to Mr. Fernald’s peta pap 
The North Bull is a low san, Fig oe “a the north of Dublin Bay, 
running for some three miles we a porn ence direction and 
‘hs same dew and its outer or seaward edge is marked for 
