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densely downy form of Bromus mollis, the latter on the edge of the 

 sea-cliffs at Dun Aengus. 



The following ten plants of those in the preceding list are not 

 recorded for District 6 in the Cybele Hibernica, but we are unable to 

 ascertain whether, since its publication, they have been recorded 

 for other parts of the same district : 



Erodium maritimum. Typha latifoiia. 



Tri/olium medium. Zannichellia palustris. 



T. striatum. Carex externa. 



[Medicago sativa.] Holcus mollis. 



Cuscuta Epithymum. [Arena strigosa.] 



In conclusion, we would express our indebtedness to Mr. James 

 Groves for his assistance in naming the Charas, and to Mr. P. B. 

 Mason and Mr. A. Gr. More for their aid in diagnosing other critical 

 plants. 



SHORT NOTES. 



"Hieracium anfractiforme" (p. 18). — When publishing this 

 new species, I was not aware that the name was already in use. 

 Kecently I was informed of its occurrence in a Scandinavian list, 

 and Mr. Hanbury has favoured me with a sight of the plaut 

 intended. This is No. 43 in H. Dahlstedt's Hieracia exsiccata, 

 Fasciculus iii. (1889), and is named, "Hieracium silvaticum (L.) 

 Almqu. * anfractiforme Almqu." The specimen was collected in 

 Ostergotland, Sweden, in June, 1885, and is certainly near H. 

 murorum L., for which some Scandinavian botanists erroneously 

 substitute the name of H. silvaticum. My plant is quite a different 

 thing ; and I propose to substitute lor my original name that of H. 

 subanfractum , which, so far as I can ascertain, is not taken up. 

 Edward S. Marshall. 



Gentiana Amarella L. var. precox (p. 153). — I am not surprised 

 to learn that the seeds of this plant often germinate in the autumn, 

 like those of many other annuals. The point I want to make is 

 this, viz., that the difference from type is normal, and not due, as 

 Mr. Townsend suggests, to its being injured by grazing ; in other 

 words, we have here a true variety, and not merely a state. Mr. 

 Bennett evidently means to express the same opinion.— Edward S. 

 Marshall. 



Eubus anglosaxonicus in Carnarvonshire. — When at Beddgelert 

 on July 10th of last year, and walking along the road towards 

 Llyn-y-D'dinas, my attention was attracted to several Rubi growing 

 by the way-side, of which I took specimens for subsequent exami- 

 nation. Upon going over these with Mr. J. W. White, he pointed 

 out to me the resemblance between one of them and the specimens 

 that we had gathered the day before at Matlock Bath of the Rubus 

 named by Dr. Focke R. anglosaxonicus, and afterwards confirmed as 

 such by Prof. Babington. In order that this determination might 

 be verified, I sent my solitary specimen to the Professor, who, with 



