SHORT NOTES 2438 
April last Mr. Hawkins fulfilled his promise by giving me a freshly 
gathered field specimen. There is no question: it is the true plant 
of seg ce not ahybrid. I have compared it with Swiss speci- 
ens e growing here. ‘‘ There are several roots growing on 
an arable field hedge- bank, on chalky boulder ~ oe ay the 
road, not far from the haz el wood, near Great Ponton.” This radds 
another vice-coun ty—to the four already ‘coord the distri- 
an of this rare eastern form. After much study, a species I 
cannot call it e primrose, cowslip and pm which from local 
and Salices. They are simply ‘environment species,” or ‘ sapeiad 
in the making,” in posse nok in esse yet. Without an inkling of our 
rag rn aie onary theories to aid him, the acute mind ‘of Lin 
seus grasped all the i. ist ould be observed, as ? oe 
one hatte and fifty years ago as to-day, and classed the 
plants as subspecies, or varieties of one species. With this define 
tion I see no reason to disagree. It is as well, however, to point 
out, that in eee as well as in the garden, where they have been 
naturally (by bees) and artificially (by hand) crossed, their hybrids 
and subhybri ig and doubly and trebly crossed hybrids, are yore 
pablo Mipcrmanadt than the parent subspecies.—K. A. Woopru 
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[Mr. “Woodrufte- Peacock’s ng for which he adduces evi- 
dence in the Naturalist (l.c.), is not that of most folk who have 
studied the plant, nor is it that of the pg monographer of the 
us, Dr. Pax (Das Fflancenreich, Heft 2 2, 1905), who maintains 
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sees it growing in profusion in ‘owisetiand in habit, colour of 
flowers, and scent (res nna that of starch) the plant has an in- 
dividuality of itsown. Dr. Pax cites Hill, Vegetable System viii. 25 
(1765), as the authority both for P. acaulis and P. elatior; the 
former, however, must be credited to Linneus (see Journ. Bot. 
1906, 179), and neither Hill's figure nor pec cami native of 
our hedge-sides on high grounds’’—suggests that he had in view 
P. elatior of Jacquin, who should, w bes ca still be maintained as 
the authority for the species. —Ep. Jourw. Bor oT. 
WorcestersHirE Mosse th he publication in this Journal 
for 1903 of Mr. J. E. Bagnall s list of Worcestershire mosses, few 
ditions have been m fis flora’ re the county. The 
in the neighbourhood of Bewdley seems worthy of note. This has 
hitherto only been recorded in Britain from a few localities in 
Sutherlandshire, and from one in Derbyshire ; . in these localities it 
