22 SHORT NOTES. 
of Athyrium Filia ne closely resembling the form known t 
pteridologists as Kalothrix. The frond in Herb. Sloaneanum Sask 
00, p. 52) [sent by Sherard] is figured in Plukenet’s Phytographia 
(p. [t.] 282, fig. 8), and described by Petiver in = Sarge 
(p. 250), the locality of West Indies, which is given on the page 
mentioned, being corrected in the Mantissa (p. 78, a 4) to ‘ex 
Hibernia.’ Ray (Historia ler. vol. ill., p. 79, 1704) gives 
the mountains e Mourne, in Co. Down, as the place where the 
specimen above Reha was obtained, Plukenet’s figure an 
description being quoted. In the third edition of Ray’s Synopsis 
(1724) the editor, Dillenius, ee (p. 127) that the fern may be 
cave-grown form o tes en m Adiantum m-nigrum, oe view is 
ich 
longifolia.’ With yee to the specimen in the She rardian 
herbarium at Oxford, Mr. G, C. Druce kindly informs us that it 
labelled, Henn in ye mountains of Mourne in ye county o of 
mens, and probably of nearly contemporaneous date. Sibthorp, 
when — at Oxford (1784-1795), labelled this specimen 
Aspleni Adiantum-nigrum L. The British Museum specimen, 
which '. Ll. P. [Mr. Praeger] has examined, is practically 
OI with the Kalothrix form of Athyrium —— Samina, and with 
xford specimen. Professor Vines writes ‘I have compared 
the enclosed (a cultivated frond of Kalothrix) with the Sherardian 
specimen from the Mourne Mountains, and have no hesitation in 
saying that they are identical, excepting the differences that are to 
be referred to the fact that one plant is wild and the other culti- 
vated. The Sherardian specimen is certainly ‘ Kalothriz,’ i,e., & 
barren plumose form of Athyrium Filix-femina.’’ 
Hieractum Sommerrentn Lindeb., var. tactum (Journ. Bot. 1892, 
367). This form should, in my opinion, be treated as a separate 
species. My cultivated specimens remain practically indistinguish- 
able from the wild ones, but differ ie! materially from Perthshire 
H. Sommerfeltii, grown side by side with them, and from Lin 
berg’s types. When the Seacrest of the granitic hills of Scotland 
have been thoroughly examined (which is at present very far from 
—— e case), Thave little doubt that this plant _ be found 
im various parts of the country.—Epwarp ase 
AGURUS ovaTUS IN JERsey (Journ. Bot. ee 877). —I 
notice that Lagurus ovatus ig oor as an addition to the J ersey 
Flora. I found it in the sa e locality in 1877, and recorded it in 
Science Gossip. Subsequently I found that it owed its origin to the 
misplaced zeal of a botanist who scattered seed of this pretty 
Guernsey grass on the sands near St. Ouen’s bay. ere was a 
good patch of it when I saw it, which was, I .deliers, the year after 
the seed had been sown.—G. Cnaaing. Dru 
