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much imbricated over the stem on the upper side at the base > 
leaves of Lv ie plane half as long, ovate. shortly cuspidate. 
Spikes no 
Hab. Gee. -tong, Sikkim, alt. 4000 feet, Dr. Anderson, 1404! 
51. 5. Puumea Spring Mon. ii. 136. _-Stems suberect, 4-1 ft. 
on the back, decompound, the branching between pinnate 
flabellate. Leaves of the lower plane crowded on the biiiehtota, 
rather spaced on the main stem; oblong- lanceolate, acute, 3-4 in. 
long, bright green, not firm in texture, i cordate, shortly 
ciliated and much im neiontod over the stem on the upper side at 
the base ; leaves of the upper plane small, oborakey imbriested, with 
& cusp as long as the blade. Spikes copious, +-4 in. long, 1 lin. 
diam. ; bracts ovate, acuminate, strongly keeled. 
; Hab. Ma lay peninsula, Griffith | Lady Dalhousie! Maingay 
832 ! 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES, 
Kertosrum Ausiniroiium In Iretanp.—The Royal Irish Academy 
the present month with Mr. R. P. Vowell, and we were fortunate 
enough to discover Hpilobium alsinifolium, hitherto unrecorded from 
Ireland. Mr. J. _ oe and Mr. A. G. More have kindly examined 
rarities, — 
m Smrrun Hooker in Camsripersnire. — This species, 
possibly hitherto ovdiieialds has been found in District 7 growing 
on Blackmoor Drove, in Sutton parish. The allied species, na 
campestre Br., often produces ca or twelve stems from the sam 
rosette, even when the main central stem is uninjured, so that ina 
ist 
campestre. The distribution of this latter plant in this pert of 
ambridgeshire and the adjacent lands of Huntingdon is very 
curious, “and at first sight apparently < to cencental siete 
. aeting with unusual irregularity ; but careful investigation shows 
that the plant f the course of the Old West Water £ from its 
entrance a ee soatitey at Earith to Chatteris Ferr aie that it 
Was carried from thence by the old Slade Lode through 
