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was easily recognisable at a distance by its tall, slender stems 
and smaller tufts of hairs, which seem regularly truncate at the 
larger end, like an artist’s badger brush. This is, I believe, the 
first record of the occurrence of the plant in Dorsetshire. On the 
slope of the chalk down between Corfe Castle and Studland I found 
the rare moss Seligeria paucifolia sparingly on loose chalk stones. 
This plant has not, I believe, been before recorded for this county. 
—KE. M. Houmezs. 
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I was greatly interested by receiving for identification from m 
y 
correspondent Mrs. Leebody, of Londonderry, a fresh specimen of 
Spiranthes nzoffiana, collected near Kilrea, Co. erry. In 
response to a request for particulars respecting this important find, 
Mrs. Leebody writes :— On July 15th, while collecting plants on 
the Derry bank of the river Bann, near Kilrea, I was struck with 
pearance of a plant which seemed to be one of the Habenaria, 
the portions of bog-oak projecting into the river. It apparently 
has been little cultivated, but kept for pasture or meadow.” The 
Bann. The plant should certainly be looked for on the bogs of 
North Tyrone and West Antrim.—-R. Luoyp Prazerr, 
JUNIPERUS INTERMEDIA - IN Sco p.—Last autumn Mr. 
Duncan s from the Island of Scarp, O Hebrides, five 
gatherings of specimens of .J uniperus. At once I saw they in- 
ce 
cluded J. communis L. and J. nana Willd., and the others to 
pected to be J. intermedia Schur. Lately I have compared these 
gatherings at Kew with the Austrian Tyrol and Transylvanian 
plant, and consider they represent the same form. Wettstein 
(Sitzb. Wien Akad. math. nat. x¢vi. p. 883 (1887)) considers it 
to be communis x nana; this may be, but it fruits freely, and 
I should be more inclined to put it as a variety to communis, as 
Nyman does in his Conspectus Fl. Europ, p. 676 (1881).—Arruur 
Beyyerr. 
Dvmont1a Friirormtis yar, (p. 167).—In Mr. Harvey Gibson’s 
paper on New Zealand Algw apropos of Dumontia filiformis (Lynb.) 
Grey. var.? the following sentence occurs :—* Prof. Schmitz, to 
whom I sent a Specimen, gave it as his opinion that it was near 
Nemastuma.” Mr, Gibson wishes us to state that he misunderstood 
