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SHORT NOTES. 
- Norra Devon Cryptocams.—A note on the past year’s 
cryptogamic “finds” in North Devon (v.-c. 4) may not be without 
interest. 
In June Mr. W. P. Hiern ‘collected on Ockment 
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ceum L. an sphericum L. fil. were already record a 
at Berrynarbor I found, on seaward cliffs, Hypnum molluscum 
Hedw. var. fastigiatum Bosw.; and in same parish in June, 
var. cataractarum Sauter, and Hypnum fluitans L. var. gracile 
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var. virescens W. and var. violascens W., S. rubellum Wils. (= S. 
acutifolium Ehrh. var. y rubellum Russ.), S. cymbifolium Ehrh. 
Larterie Holmes (see Journ. Bot. 1907, 85), I may note that, after 
being able throughout 1906 to find here each month a fair number 
of fragments and some few complete plants, last year, despite 
careful and continuous search, I got between the months of 
the former month was, however, a fine full- and comple 
plant, one of the very few really representative specimens washed 
ashore 
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Some of the mosses have been kindly determined by Mr. 
H. N. Dixon, others by Mr. W. Ingham; the hepatics by Mr. 
Symers M. Macvicar; and the seaweeds by Mr. E. M. Holmes.— 
C. E. Larter. 
SALVIA PRATENSIS L.—The earliest date for this as a British 
plant is given both by Mr. W. R. Clarke and in Fl. Kent as 1699. 
The following from Plukenet’s Almagestum, p. 185 (1696), carries 
