499, THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
plentiful, 1908, H. J.G. The ee at the two first iad 
a mile or more from the nearest point of the er ivenbng and tw 
a from the nearest coast, is, to say os least, unusu: 
astrea Oreopterts Presl. Boggy spot in a wood Sadebsing 
Sabon Holms.—L. cristata Presl. . This is given in the Dorset 
Flora, but seems to want confirming. The late R. P. Murray was 
shown the specimens in hb. Mansell-Pleydell, and was of opinion 
that they were not oder Mr. Arthur Bennett once told me 
he had seen no Dorset specimen.—Ophioglossum vulgatwm L. 
Several fields in Baniind sham and in the adjoining bit of Gus- 
sage All Saints which lies between Edmondsham and Verwood 
station.— Botrychium Lunaria Sw. In small Pearl but very 
fine, in a field on dhe. borders of Edmondsham 
SAPIUM ww THe COLLECTIONS or RUIZ anv PAVON. 
By James Britten, F.L.S. 
Tue references by Mr. Hemsley, in his valuable descriptions 
of Sapium (Hook. Ie. Plant. tt. 2878-2 900), to the collections of 
Ruiz and Payon in the National Herbarium oe to show that 
the source of these important series—for there are two—is in- 
sufficiently understood. The matter, of scuiad, is not one of 
primary importance, but as reins goes on the history of aoe sas 
herbaria becomes increasingly difficult to trace, and i ms 
y ila while to put on record any definite trdoaguaddict vepectiti 
The following are Mr. | s references, which I have 
bit ee for the sake of conyenien 
1. t. 2893. a padicellatum Huber. « Mexico: without 
locality, Ruiz and Pav . figure ... prepared . . . from speci- 
mens preserved in the British Museum.” 
2. t. 2894, §. Ruizii Hemsl. “Mexico or Central America : 
without any special locality, Ruiz and Pavon. This plate was 
prepared . . . from specimens in the British Museum on the sheet 
em a “ Centra “phen se maton locality, Ruiz 
and Pivoss The specimen in the British Mus 
‘ Hippomane eglandulosa Ruiz and Pavon | NE. . Nouvelle 
ee, the geographical Hutte of Roan are hevive, ‘ Central 
America ’ appears on the same shee 
4. r 2896. S. utile Preuss. “ rv the British "asset there 
are specimens of a Sapium, labelled ‘ Peru, Herb. P avon, Sapium 
Aucuparium sp. noy. Ruiz et Payon, de Hua; uayaguil,’ 
In the first Place it may be noted that, as has been said, there 
