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whom rendered him valuable assistance. Henry Boswell, M.A., 
G. E. Hunt, and W. Curnow were among his correspondents, as 
were also W. H. Pearson, William Wilson, and Dr. Braithwaite, 
An article on his collection of ferns by Mr. Charles T. Druery 
897. 
C. H. WappgEuu. 
SHORT NOTES. 
LEPIDIUM HETEROPHYLLUM L.—In our notes on Bristol Plants 
published in the January number of the Journal (p. 7), we 
More of Lepidiwm campestre, as described in Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 9: 
the habit of our plant poi 
gathering was 
latter species, coming rather under the var. leiocarpwm Thell. 
belong to L. heterophyllum. A specimen of our West Gloucester 
forw. i 
apillis squamiformibus concavis distinctius asperule.’ may 
be remarked that in the dried state the silicular surface would 
whi 
of the British botanists appealed to can give any information on 
the poi r. M ; 
dum to be found in Babington’s British collection at Cambridge; 
nor could the Messrs. Groves meet with either at the British 
