800 SHORT NOTES. 
180. S. apysstntca ee Mon. ii. 99.—Stems weak, suberect, 
very slender, _ 8-4 in. long, sopioaily ponrei the asc cending 
plane spaced even on the branchlets, the iawer spreading, the 
upper ascending, oblong-lanceolate, acute, a line long, pale green, 
membranous, unequal-sided, broadly rounded, shortly ciliated, and 
imbricated over the stem on the upper side at the base; leaves of 
the upper plane One -half as long, ovate, cuspidate. Spikes short, 
square, } lin. diam.; bracts ovate, acute, sharply keeled. 
Hab. Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper 1444! Clarence Peak, 
Fernando Po, alt. 8000 ft., Mann 667! Hither this or S. versicolor 
is “Soom — Myosurus of Swartz, gathered by Afzelius 
at Sierra Leo 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
Pruarra Casatu, Van Tieg.—— With reference to Mr. Grove’s 
ga of Pilaira mis Van ane ee p- 132) I may say that 
in November, 1880, I met with ¢ mould in abundance upon 
Hayes Common, near ye ‘ ee Inn, but have not found it since. 
It is probably a widely diffused form for which mycologists should 
be on the look out. Mr. Grove fo ai Vuk Tieghem in separating 
this species from Pilobolus, a course which has pica to recom- 
mend it, but perhaps more to disapprove of. I got no zygospores, 
inca any example of Mr. Grove’s second species. — SPENCE 
OORE 
New Surrey Pranrs, — The renlewiiia” species, additional to 
those recorded in Top. Bot., ed. ii., have now been found in 
urrey :—-Hypericum dubium Leers, Sanguisorba officinalis L., Pota- 
mogeton nitens Weber, aa ‘by Mr. E. Straker (see Hooker's 
‘Student’s Flora,’ ed. iii., 432), P. decipiens Nolte, Bl ae! 
etn us Light£., Carex « ies: ” “T have also received the last 
from the Rev. E. 8. Marshall; the exact form to which it alana is 
not y ot deterntneth I have also confirmed the occurrence of Carex 
CKINGHAMSHIRE SpHacnacem, — The following species and 
varieties of Sphagnum occur near Little Brickhill on the Lower 
Greensand range of hills. Duplicates have been critically exami amined 
y Messrs. Boswell, Hobkirk, and West, and an illustrative set is 
sent for the British Museum Herbarium -~—Sphagnum — 
