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and this fact is strongly in favour of its claim to more than sub- 
specific rank. I also found late in September a very curious Fi ago, 
which differs from both typical FP. - manica and F’, spathulata, in 
ave since natieed apparently tha os same for a field east of 
Hambledon Church, and suspect that it will ras to be frequent 
on the Lower Greens in Di a eeby inclines to 
think it a varietal form of F’. germanica, but it is still sub judice.— 
Epwarp ALL. . 
SrteneE Ortres Sm. mw Essex.—In Journ. Bot. 1880, p, 344, Mr. 
R. A. Pryor reported his dsoovery of this species on the Roman 
wall at Colchester, “‘in a what exposed oe by the north 
of the town, by the footpath to the river.” This was the first 
notice of its occurrence in Essex. On September vtsth, 1886, 
I found several specimens of the plants growing on the top of the 
walls of Colchester Castle. This locality is about half a mile 
: —very 
appearance from tall (18 to 21 in.) and graceful specimens kindly 
given me by Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and gathered by him on 
poadeilen at Tuddenham St. Mary, Suffolk. My “find” throws no 
light on the inquiry whether or not Silene Otis is native to Essex. 
is an interesting question whether at Colchester the plant 
e other ruins in that old town; also, further, whether it is to be 
found in less apparently artificial situations than upon ancient 
walls. On these points I have not yet succeeded in obtaining 
information, but I hope to be more Mia during the present 
ear.— Wituiam WHITWELL. 
. J. C. Shenstone (‘ Essex Naturalist,’ p. 24) says that the 
glaitt ‘*was introduced [in its Colchester habitats by local lepi- 
AREY as food for their caterpillars.’ —Ep. n. Bort.] 
Wesera cucuLiata Schwer. in Brrrat ahr a number of 
mosses rae a collection aiseh I made in the West Highlands of 
Scotland in the summsr of 1883, was one which ihc the 
kindness of Mr. E. M. Holmes was submitted to Mr. Mitten, and 
which he referred to the above species. This plant, rime! not 
eis on the various mountain ranges of central and northern 
1g in the barren state in a crevice of the rock near the 
summit of Ben Attow, Ross-shire (alt. 3500— 4000 ft.), in 
company wit ranum elongatum Schwer., with which it was so 
closely intermingled as to make it very di difficult to separate the one 
from the other. As the species has uot been de scribed in any 
