188 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
‘*S. alpina Don MS. ex Garry, Notes, p. 36 (1903),’” but I think 
he has S62 gery d the publication in the Journal of Botany, 1896, 
p- 427, by Mr. ae ome in his Revision of the British - cca ay iene 
where A gives *No. 50, Sagina alpina G. C. Druce in Scottish 
Naturalist, p. 177 1884). The asterisk is prefixed to ‘thoes names 
differ from the ones used in the last edition of the don 
igen I certainly, “reg I wro : S. alpina HK. B. 38, did not 
it was a distinct species, as at that time the details of 
obdaiegs citation were not aac ‘appreciated by me. In fact, 
I wrote it as a short way of expressing S. maritima var. alpina, but 
pecific name Mr. Ar B i 
as ; . y 
it for me, but I should not now refer it to S. a 
although it may be a distinct micro-species.—G. C. 
r. Druce is quite right in supposing that we Gideuko Mr. 
Williams’ s reference to S. alpina, which however is 7 he he gives 
it—*G. C. Druce in apy ttish a P. 177 84)’ —but 
stands as ‘*G. C. Dru digit Scott. Nat. Hist. (Oct. 392), ” But 
neither Mr. eiblinns: se nor Mr, Druce give any diagnosis; the latter’s 
citation of the name from ‘“ E. B, 8,” as we showe on p. 61, is a 
misquotation, and he now tells us that he quoted ‘ S, alpina, BE. B. 
3,” ‘as a short way of expressing S. maritima var. alpina.” We 
ifie ne ; it wou impo 
the plant is entitled to specific rank. Mr. Druce, although claiming 
for it that position in his most recent reference, does not appear in 
the above note to have made up his mind on the subject; it 
looks as if the name would be added to the number of those derelicts 
which encumber nomenclature and trouble monographers, and it i 
We still think that some reference to Mr. Garry's notes, which 
gan in January, 1903, might have been made in Mr. Druce’s 
paper, published in 1904, if only in an appended note; faa still 
more that cere $ labels in the National Herbarium 8 we 
have shown in the case cited, supply information ‘ails siaace up 
ed left ‘doubtful by Mr. Druce—should have been quoted in the 
paper.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
NOTICE OF BOOK, 
Alien Flora of Britain. By Srepnen Troyre Dunn, B.A. F.L.S. 
Pp. xi slog 6 London: West, Newnan & Co. Pric @ 6s. 
t; this was noticed in this Journal for 1908, “ah "Lad. 
In spite of many disadvantages, the author, with the help of his 
_ wife as the preface tells us, has put his ideas together in a clear 
and percents form ; in the introduction explaining his veaties 
