SHORT NOTES. 57 
British work on mosses, it may be useful to quote the srr 
description from Schimper (Synops. 2nd ed. p. 397 :—‘‘ Dense 
pitosa. C 
subi 
ata, concava, toe a, ri Wacepitioes: longiora, angustata, 
-Ine 
m 
angustiores, breviores, luteoli, interni vain Reg processus 
perangusti ciliaque brevia fugacia. Bryol. eur. tab. 843.” 
“¢ Differt Web. nutante var. uli ippiood foliis pee 
mollibus vix nitentibus, capsule ot crassiore microstoma, peristomio 
minore, interno minus perfecto. . N. Drxon. 
GRopyrum (Triticum) yioLaczeum Hornemann 1n Sco 
On 80th July, 1878, Be gathered on a ledge of rock, abot 900 or or 
0 ft. below the summit of Ben Lawers, Perthshire, two 
specimens of a Triticum which for some time lay unnoticed in my 
herbarium. When, however, Dr. Buchanan White informed me 
he was collecting materials for the Flora of Perthshire, I went 
through the whole of my collection to supply him with localities, 
and in due time arrived at this grass, of which I forwarded him 
one of the two LEE At the same time I searched though the 
Tritica of my Euro herbarium, and found this grass to corres- 
d from ‘‘ Dovre, — 
Kingswold, Norvegia, coll. Dr. N. C. Kindberg, 1883,” and oihams 
‘‘ex montosis ad Alten, Lapponia occidentalis, leg. Reutermann.” 
In the meantime Dr. White communicated with Mr. Arthur 
Bennett, and I also, last June, examined all the specimens in the 
British Museum Herbariu m, including Don’s somewhat meagre 
Specimen of his Triticum en. Mr. Bennett, last month, 
visited Kew on the same errand, and I have just received a letter 
from him, in which he states that ‘‘ having carefully compared the 
Ben Lawers Triticum with violacewm, I could come to no other 
sition, would show that the pa was fibro- -cespitose, not creeping 
and therefor ore, assuming this to be Don’s original species, Sir. J. D 
Hooker’s theory that 7’. alpinum is only a form of pre must fall 
to the ground. Indeed, it is nearer caninum than repens; but to 
my mind a true a = very cy wih species from any other: one of 
