SHORT NOTES 73 
Dorset Prants.—A recent paper on the Flora of Dorset- 
shire (Journ. Bot. 1908, pp. 384-390) would have been the more 
me if it i 
L. var. Pryorvi Druce, for which three Dorset stations 
were given in the Flora of Bournemouth (1900). It is prefixed to 
Valerianella dentata Poll. var. mixta (Dufr.) which was reporte 
from Portland by Mr. J. W. White (Journ. Bot. 1896, 342), and 
ecord (FI. 
mouth, p. 121; Journ. Bot. 1904, 237). It is prefixed to Hu- 
phrasia curta Wettstein, which appears for Dorset in F'lora of 
Bournemouth, p. 165; and to E. nemorosa Pers., published for 
Dorset i ; it i 
acutus L., which stands under this name in the Flora of Dorset 
(ed. 2, 1895) with localities half a score, and in Fl. Bournemouth, 
not in G but in E. As to Carex limosa, there was a time when 
the late Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell believed the luxuriant speci- 
mens of this species from near Morden Decoy, then the only 
known station in Dorset, to be C. irrigua, and sent out specimens 
under this name, which I have seen. It was at this period, no 
doubt, that he supplied H. C. Watson with his Dorset list ; hence 
C. irrigua, later known as C. magellanica, in Top. Bot. ed. 2.— 
Linton 
[It is clear that there is room for greater care in marking plants 
as “new county records.” A correspondent, for example, points 
out that Filago spathulata, recorded on p. 26 as “new to vice- 
county 14,” is given for that county on Watson’s own authority in 
Top. Bot.—Ep. Journ. Bot.] 
Poa pauusrris L, in GLoucESTERSHIRE—I found a grass last 
summer of which I could make little, owing to its immature con- 
dition; but Professor Hackel, of Attersee, Ob.-Oest., . dentifies 
it with Poa palustris L. var. effusa Aschers. & Graebn. (Syn 
Mitteleur. Fl. ii. 1, 418), “ with only two-flowered spikelets, which 
Journan or Borany.—Vor. 47. [Fepruary, 1909.) G 
