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SHORT NOTES. 
ERYTHRHA CAPITATA, Var. SPHHROCEPHALA.—On turning over a 
iiiligeinn’ of Channel Island plants, made’ in 1876, in company with 
my friend Dr. Fraser, my attention was attracted by a small tuft of 
Erythrea, which appeared to me to resemble fig. 2 in the frontispiece 
to the ‘Flora of Hampshire’ (Journ. Bot. 1883, t.236). A dissection 
of the single flower which the plant possessed showed the filaments 
free to the base of the tube of the a so that there was little 
doubt of the identity of the spec Mr. Townsend himself 
Ist of July, 1876, in ves northern end of the Island of Guernsey, 
and, [ believe, on L’Ancresse Common. It will pee gf be found 
in Western France, and svasibiy in Belgium.—Wm. Maruews. 
[Mr. Baker informs us that the plant has also been found in 
Oeland by Dr. F. Areschoug.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
Juncus tenuis Willd., 1n Enetanp.—In crossing a rough and 
rushy pasture, in the parish of Cradley, Herefordshire, a few weeks 
ago, I met with a plant which at first sight I took to be Juncus 
compressus Jacq., but which a further ie ae showed to be 
Will 
amply different from that Hae Mr. iam Mathews, to whom 
I sent specimens, at once gave his opinion tae the plant was 
J. tenuis Willd., and Mr. J. G. Baker has since confirmed his 
determination. To me it is partienlarly interesting, as suggesting 
that Don’s plant, mentioned in ‘ English Botany,’ 
also really J. tenuis. In edition 1 it is thus noticed « Found ty 
Mr. G. Don, in 1795 or 1796, by the side of a rivulet, in marshy — 
ry ra 
gathered. far 
tuft, bat poe it may prove to be more widely distributed.— 
R. F. Tow 
Ker an excursion through southern Kerry, 
in noun 1883, I callosted several plants not hitherto recorded from 
aad or interesting as being from new localities. Radiola 
throu bi ut the whole district, from near Bantry to Dingle, 
Solanwn Dulcamara, not recorded from Kerry in ‘ Cybele Hibernica,’ 
gr tween Killarney and Mucross. Hieracia were 
remarkably scarce. H. anglicum occurred in plenty in the Horses 
