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SHORT NOTES. 
Vicia BiTHyNicA IN Hampsuire.—I found several Nii of this 
species, in flower and fruit, on the sides of a ditch in tiv: 
field at Bridgemary, near Gosport, on the east side of the Fareham 
Road, on Sept. 17, 1889. I sent some to Mr. Townsend, who con- 
firmed my identification, It had been reported from Hants by the 
ate Mr. B but Mr. Townsend thought the evidence in- 
sufficien paay: . E. Ketsatu. 
Rusvus ammosius Focke in E. Ross.—In July, 1891, I met 
with a few bushes of a haat near lin but pita’ distinct, 
growing upon shingle by the Carron river, about three miles from 
Bonar Bridge. Suspecting it to be the above, I carefully compared 
fresh specimens with the description in Synopsis Ruborum Germania, 
and found them to agree in all essential atealads amin slightly 
exceeding the styles, petioles distinctly channelled above near their 
base, leaves frequently septenate, &c.), only differing by the some- 
what stout prickles which may very likely be due to the effects of 
frequent inundations. The Rev. W. Moyle Rogers has, after some 
hesitation, endorsed my opinion. ay: Dr. Focke has disallowed 
the Perth specimens so named by Prof. Babington, which I should 
judge, from what I have heard about them, to be very different 
from the above-named form, it seems desirable to place the occur- 
HALL. 
rence of the true plant on record._—_Epwarp 
(p- —With reference to the altitude 
attained by this plant, I may mention that hered it on 
the range between the Rieder Alp and the Eggisch-horn, in Upper 
Valais, at fully 7000 ft., a couple of thousand feet higher than its 
apparent range in Norway. —Epwarp 8. Marsan 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
English Botany : Supplement to the Third Edition. Part Ill. Com- 
piled and illustrated by N. E. Brown. London: Bell. 5s. 
Wirs this number, which completes a volume, Mr. N 
Brown’s connection with the Supplement to eigen Botany comes 
to an end. He has brought the work down to the end of Dip- 
sace@, and now hands it over to Mr. hae) Bennett. “We noticed 
the first part of the Supplement at some length in last year’s 
Journal (p. 250), and see no reason to alter the al conclusions 
then expressed, but a word or two on the present number may 
looked for by British botanists. 
Mr. Brown has devoted a good deal of attention to the forms of 
Pyrus Aria, and those who know these difficult plants will be cn 
to judge how far he has thrown light upon them. He dispos 
summarily of the hybrid ig ae He also writes nearly four jin 
about Saxifraga hirta, but here, as in very many other instances, 
we have to complain that he has set examined the material ready 
