278 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
1. besa ot First recorded by La Gasca, ~~ — tH. jubatum 
L. Drayton. 5. Acton, L.—H. marinum Huds. Alien 
a, Usbrid ge, L.—Loliwm _snkoas L. First rocetel by La Gasca, 
1827. wT italicum Braun. 1. Uxbridge, &c. 2. Drayton, &ec. 
5. Acton, L.—+tL. temulentum A 2. Drayton. 5. Acton, L.— 
: D. 
Dryopteris aristata Druce. 2. Poyle. Still at Ken Wood. 
Equisetum sylvaticum L. var. capillare Hoffm. Harrow 
Weald, L. 
ARMERIA ALPINA Wiup. IN BRITAIN? 
By H. Sruart Toompson, F.L.S. 
In Mr. Williams’s Prodr. Fl. Brit., part 7 (1910), Armeria 
lid. is given and diagnosed for a plant peg in 
alpina Wi 
Teesdale, the English Lake District (fide Baker), N h Wales, 
the Scottish Highlands, and Kerry. In the same ean com- 
specimen of A. alpina Willd. (Statice montana Mille) —the ely 
mountain forms of Sea-Thrift which I had seen from thes 
Islands were Latee different from A. alpina as hi grows in the 
Alps—he replied that he “was unable to see any real specific 
differences between the British and Continental specimens of 
sate wire! alpina.’ 
our own mountains. In the Alps 4. alpina is rarely seen as low 
as metres, to which level it descends on La Tournette, in 
Savoy. But 7000 to 9000 ft. is its usual range in the Western 
Alps. On the Col ae la Leisse, i in Savoie, I found it at 9120 ft., 
d 
i ae and 
150 m., but only two between 2600 and 2800 m. in the 
_ It is always very local, and in Switzerland rather rare, occur- 
pri. ese me ear only. These facts of altit io. 
some nhaeigaerid or nearly all the Alpine plants found in Gre: 
Britain and Ireland, except Saussurea, are seen at much ioe 
