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SHORT NOTES. 
‘Toe Scape oF TARAXACUM (p. 120).—If Mr. Beeby will refer 
to my Flowers, Fruits and Leave J 52), he will find that I have 
described the curious movements of the flower-stalk of the Dan- 
é : upri 
while the flower is expanded, a period which generally lasts for 
three or four days. It then lowers itself, and lies more or less 
Ww 
have for several years utilized the peculiar movement of the 
scape described by Mr. Beeby, in my efforts to banish this weed 
from my lawn. Having tried various remedies, I came to the con- 
clusion that gradually digging = plants out was the only effectual 
one, at the same time preventing erin from seeding until 
their turn for drastic onamees arrived. Where the lawn-mower 
is used at intervals, the scapes beta prostrate, and picking the 
flower-heads is difficult, as the flowers frequently open in one’s 
absence and then close almost completely before fruiting, render- 
ing them difficult to find. On making the discovery that they 
Sao Reuter! Boiss.—The receipt of some Surrey speci- 
s from Mr. Beeby, and a second reading of the excellent of ee ed 
by Mesut, Ingham and Wheldon (pp. 109-111) led me to examine 
one my sheets of S. apetala and S. ciliata. S. Reuteri is 
ated as a native in the new eition of the London Catalogue 
mmon. 
following vice-co 
. 8. Devon. ™Plontifal i in sandy ground (a rabbit warren) at 
the top of the cliffs near Folly Farm, Bigbury, June 27th, 1894. 
A prostrate, crowded plant ; analogous to S. maritima var. 
but in all essentials resembling specimens from Great Malvern 
Stati i 
. 8. Hants. Reference number, 2289. Sandy fallow field 
ae hair aig uth and Throop, in plenty, with S. etliata, 
ral 30th, 1899; Rev. E. F. Linton and I considered it at the 
time to - distinct from that and from S. apetala. Prostrate, 
