SHORT. NOTES 109. 
ae ati squamato. Parvula hee planta folia tenuissima 
biuncialia profert. ie ute gracillimus ae m in apice sustinet 
uamatum 
C.F. seu Armeria pai @ Lob. satis zemulum, minus tamen, 
rectis adnatis.”’ ey is iicinaagpeati in 
is herbarium by a specimen from Lhwyd of Scirpus pauc 
florus. Linneeus (Sp. Bl 6 ed. .2, 64, n. 6). cites this teeoripeen 
p.. Pi peta: F 
S. pauciflorus may be pushed os to 1690, when Ray (Syn opete; 
p- 210) gives Lhwyd’s plant as “ Gramin nifolias “plantula Alpina 
capitulis Armerte prolifere. “Te pascuis ad radicem excels 
cujusdam rupis y Clogwyn du ss y Glyder in agro Arvoniensi. 
D. Lloyd.” —G. Craripee Dru 
ENCALYPTA CILIATA var. SUBCILIATA Warnst. (Allgem. Bot. 
Zeitschr. 1899, Beih. i. 30). Among some Aberdeen mosses col- 
lected by Mr. G. spins in eae eighties, and sent to me recently 
for determination, was ell siiutacteriond plant of this variety. 
The calyptras AK ih same tuft are indifferently either entirely 
without fringe at the base, or show traces of a small fringe. In. 
all other characters it agrees with the type. It may be doubted 
whether'on systematic grounds the plant deserves varietal rank ; 
but the student naturally depends so much on the fringed calyptra 
in the diagnosis of this species that it is at least worth while to 
draw attention to the existence of the variety and its a wae 
in Britain. I gathered it in 1902, in the company o EK. 
Serene se in the Pyrenees, but iter from that I am ne aware 
that it has been recorded elsew a a in the original locality 
near Toblach i in §. Tirol—H. N. D 
A New Irish Moss.—The sith s Treland of a moss 
hitherto known only as a native of North China will I think 
ee every bryologist. In May, 1908, while on a visit to the 
. Waddell, Vicar of Saintfield, Co. Down, I picked up a 
otal buft of a Catharinea, which has since turned out to be the 
rare species C. rhystophyll@ of C. Mill. On the Sth of February 
enough to gather some more of . Dixon, 
who kindly verified it for me, is makin a obttnatnsivation on the 
subject, I shall merely add that a a growing in a tuft or sod 
on the mud-capped top of an ol e fence, associated with 
