808 SHORT NOTES, 



In the following October it had covered an area of 87 in. by 28 in., 



although on one side it had to contend with Carex ligerica ; on the 

 other three sides there was nothing to interrupt its growth. The 

 soil was one-third ordinary garden soil to two-thirds Bedhill sand. 

 The second year so formidable a plant had to be rooted out, and 

 the roots formed a perfect network, as Mr. Linton describes. 

 Calamagrostis strigosa is another remarkable plant to spread ; speci- 

 mens planted last January, with an area of, say, three square inches, 

 are now plants 18 in. long by 9 in. wide, and still throwing up 

 advance tufts. It is this, I suppose, that causes the Calamagrostis 

 not to flower with me ; not so the Rnmex. — Arthur Bennett. 



Vaccinium intermedium Euthe. — I have been expecting to hear 

 of this plant being found in other habitats than those originally 

 described. It may, however, be of interest to record that I sent a 

 specimen of our plant to Dr. Schumann, asking him to compare it 

 with Euthe's specimens. This he has very kindly done, and, in 

 addition, sent me a scrap from Ruthe's type, along with a specimen 

 gathered by A. Braun. I was iuduced to do this by the remarks 



of Dr. F. A. Lees in the Record Club Report for 1884-6, pp. 129-130, 

 where he doubts our plant being that of Euthe; Miss Smith's 

 careful drawing, and Mr. N. E. Brown's description in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, xxiv, t. 3, pp. 125-8, seemed to me to leave no reason for 

 doubt on the subject. — Arthur Bennett. 



Rubus imbricatus Hort in West France. — During a few weeks' 

 holiday in Brittany, in July last, I noticed many Eubi which were 

 unfamiliar. Among those familiar to me in Herefordshire and 

 Monmouthshire, Rubus imbricatus Hort was conspicuous. I saw it 

 growing in numerous stations ; but specimens dried from the 

 following places were submitted by me to Eev. W. Moyle Rogers, 

 and the correctness of the name being confirmed by him, I can 

 speak confidently upon them : — Lehon and La Garraye, near Dinan, 

 Ille et Vilaine ; Tonquedec, near Lannion, Cotes du Nord ; Les 

 Eochers, near Vitr<$, Ille et Vilaine. As R. imbricatus has hitherto 

 been considered an exclusively British form, this note on its 

 occurrence in West France may be interesting. This bramble is 

 one more link by which the Flora of the west and south-west of 

 our islands is connected with that of the West of France. 

 Augustin Ley, 



Hieraciijm hibernicum Hanb. — This interesting new form, 

 named and described by Mr. Hanbury on p. 258, has been growing 

 in my garden for the last three years, having been obtained by Mr. 

 S. A. Stewart and myself at the Mourne Mountains station, in 

 July, 1889. The plant was placed in a sheltered border in ordinary 

 soil, and grew freely, and increased in size, although the flowering 

 stem was^ cut each year on reaching maturity. In cultivation it 

 retained its characteristic fades, the only effect of the change of 

 conditions being an increased number of flower-heads, four large 

 heads being produced this season, in addition to three small buds 

 which might or might not have attained maturity. In cultivation 

 there is no sign of the recurved habit of the leaves mentioned by 



