SHORT NOTES tit 
significance are intuitively mentioning types in an encouraging 
way. Now why not come to this method, and all agree on prin- 
e 
ssign cen in these few cases which will leave the — names 
in essentially their present significance. Thus may substitute 
for the present proposed arbitrary method a sonakeaail philoso- 
phical one, and reach results which will have a much better chance 
for permanency. Absolute rigidity in ee SREY and therefore 
in nomenclature, is unattainable and undes e; generic limita- 
tions cannot appeal in just the — way wee a two conscientious 
investigators, and originality is o be encouraged. I est that 
CALLITRICHE INTERMEDIA Hoffm. var. TENUIFOLIA. — Mr. 
Arthur Bennett has a valuable note in Bot. Exch. Club aaa, 
fees Lénnroth (1854). In Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. p. 973 (1908), 
vA Vy s it ‘‘a dominant neil in the Loc 
os and I can state, from obse rvations, that this is 
true of the Highlands generally, Spit it oe in lakes and swift 
streams, and especially in mountain tarns, up to fully 3000 feet. 
It may be briefly described thus :—* * Planta poomecias® Folia 
cuncta similia, submersa, anguste vel angust earia, 
laste sed vulgo pallidius viridia.” Mr. G. Goode has gathered i 
y 
Mr. Bennett is from Earlswood Common, Surrey.—Epwarp §. 
MARSHALL. 
MARITIMA IN §. E. YorKsnirE.—I cannot find any 
eg of this plant for v.-c. 61. A specimen, however, exists in 
Herbarium of the Holmesdale Natural Histo isto ry Club, Reigate, 
labelled “Scarborough Castle,” but esate without date or 
collector’s name. The example appears to have been collected 
fifty or more years ago, and it would be Beet, to know if the 
species still survives in the same spot.—C. E. Sanmon 
West Lancasutre Mosses.—In March of this — we found 
Grimmia orbicularis Bruch Pvias Pottia bryotdes Mitt. in the 
Silverdale os The form 
on a limestone scar north of Challan ‘Hall, and ee latter on 
ee Sora Both are new records for the vice-county—J. A. 
ILSON 
A Correctiox.—In my Viola note (p. 80), Reichenbachiana 
should be Riviniana. In the dried plant, at least, as Mrs. Gregory 
