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in June. Further search is necessary to see if it is found in 
other spots in the neighbourhood. The discovery of fresh locali- 
ties would establish its nativity—H. J. Rrippetspexu. 
THE supposep Berperis-Hysrip (Journ. Bot. 1907, 393).— 
Mr. A. Bruce Jackson tells me that this has been identified a 
Kew b - Bean as B. aristata DC., and agrees well with speci- 
mens in the Herbarium. Originally found in Nepaul, it is not 
uncommon in Kumaon—Chemba Himalaya—at about 6000 
this is a very different thing, and the material before me is 
spineless. De Candolle’s description in the Prodromus, i, 106, 
ly 
ormore. lt may have come from the Acland garden at Allerford, 
- Mart., and I thought no more about the matter until reading 
Miss Saunders’ note. Mr. Townsend’s decision is inexplicable, as 
E. minima, one would think, would appear to a monographer of | 
the genus quitea os plant; indeed Coste, who is no « splitter,” 
gives it specific rank and a nice figure (Fl. France, iii. p, 44),— 
C. E. Sanmon. = ee 
Lycopodium ANNOTINUM IN WESTMORLAND.—We are glad to 
put on record that we found this plant—so rare in South Britain— 
in fair quantity on the side of a mountain gully in Great Langdale 
in May last, and one of the writers saw it there in good fruit in 
