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prominence to the noticeable feature of the later flowering of the 
italicum, some of the spathes of which were unexpanded when I 
found it. Fursdon examples agree well on the whole with the 
one of A. maculatum preceding it. e odour of the inflorescence 
of A. italicum is, at a certain stage of its development, very dis- 
agreeable, reminding one of that of putrid meat. The station at 
Fursdon is about four miles from the coast, and go, I think, 
farther removed than most of its other English stations. Whilst 
sending this first positive record of the occurrence of the plant in 
Devon, I think it right to repeat a note inserted by Mr. Keys in 
his ‘ Flora of Devon and Cornwall; he says, ‘Arum italicum Mill. 
has been reported to me as having been found near Kingsbridge, 
Devon, but not, I fear, on sufficiently good authority to justify its 
insertion here.”—T. R. Ancuer Briaes. 
[This seems to be the right place in which to say that the 
Torquay specimens exhibited as Arum italicum at the Linnean 
Society, April 19, 1883 (Proc. Linn. Soc., 1882-83, p. 8), proved 
to be only a state of A. maculatum.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
as the Paris,—I should be glad if any one could tell me how it got 
there.—H. A. Evans ‘ 
TRIcHoMANES RADICANS IN DoneGat.—On the 25th May last Mr. 
Pierce Mahony, while following his duties in connection with the 
Irish Land Commission, discovered the Killarney fern in a valley 
in north-west Donegal. Miss Grove, of Castle Grove, has also 
seen it in the same valley, and specimens have been sent to Dublin. 
I think it advisable to withhold the exact locality. This informa- 
tion has been given me by Mr. Ulick Bourke, Irish Land Com- 
mission-—H. C. Harr. 
Crepis prennis In Mipptesex.—A few weeks since I met with 
Crepis biennis growing rather plentifully on a bank beside the path 
leading from Pinner Road to Pinner Hill; and last week again 
