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cujusdam, flores fig. 4, mnino alieni.”’ In t reve Noticia 
sobre a Collecgao das Madeiras do Brasil sent to the Paris Inter- 
national Exhibition in 1867 a specific name ro- 
Saldanha da Gama’s Synonymia de diversos vegetaes do Brasil 
(1868).—Jamrs Britten. 
SAXIFRAGA AIZOIDES IN CARNARVONSHIRE.—In the Holmesdale 
Natural History Club’s Herbarium at Reigate there exists an 
example of this saxifrage labelled, “Snowdon, J. Price.” There 
is little doubt that this is the John Price mentioned in Journ. Bot. 
, p. 32, who was born in North Wales, and flourished in the 
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locality is about three miles from Rodborough Common, whence 
the plant has been recorded (see Journ. Bot. 1906, 357). This 
Himalayan shrub appears liable to be spread by fruit-eating 
birds.—R. Morton Mippteron. 
Carpopinus GossweEILerI Stapf (p. 211).—By an unfortunate 
mistake Gossweiler’s numbers 1895 and 1813 were included under 
Carpodinus Gossweileri. They represent actually C. gracilis Stapf. 
The localities quoted under the numbers cited should therefore 
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following the distribution wa n 
observations under Nos. 1813 and 1895, that note and the corre- 
sponding words in the Latin description must also be cance 
C. Gossweiler is an erect shrub, with virgate shoots up to 45 cm. 
high.—Orto Srapr. 
Orcuis Hircina L. (p. 363).—This has also been found within 
the last year or two in both the N. and S. divisions of Wilts. I 
have seen the photograph of a specimen from Wilton, near Devizes. 
See Mag. Wilts Archzol. Soc. Dec. 1907, p. 318, and June, 1908, 
p. 508.—H. J. RippELsDELL. 
