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plant collected by Mr. A. Brotherston, who did such good work at 
pe botany: of Peebles, Selkirk, and Roxburgh, may be worth giving 
n full :——‘‘ Being at Springwood Park yesterday, I found Poa sude- 
tied in considerable plenty and tir ter being growing on a 
steep bank and in level ground under old t s, which never could 
have been under cultivation owing to the sieaprieds of it. ha 
time I will search other woods in the district, where I have hopes 
to find it also. I got Mr. Wemyss, head gardener at Springwood 
Park, to go to the place where it was growing; he thinks it is truly 
il le has been upwards of twenty years ; here, and he says he 
cannot see any way how the seeds could be introduced. I sent [a] 
paragraph to the Scottish Naturalist to see if others had not found it 
in more satisfactory localities, but there is no notice of it yet. How- 
ever, I have as little doubt now about its being truly wild as I have 
of the other grasses growing with it.’ In Berkshire the plant oc- 
curs in a remote copse on the Wiltshire border, where = coer it 
may be native; and Professor Hackel favours that opini See 
Fl. Berks, pp. 578-9. I should not be surprised to spear of ite being 
found in Gloucestershire or Somersetshire.—G. E Druce. 
VioLa LuTEA In Somerset.—Mr. E. G. Baker vi eh tHe my 
Heatran of Viola lutea from Exford, Somerset. e plant was 
found by Arthur Lyons, of Weston-super-Mare, in the summer of 
1901, and was sent to ” for naming. Itis a new record for the 
county.— 
CrsTRUM NERVOSUM oe Dict. ed. viii. no. 3.—In Indea Kewensis 
and elsewhere this is quoted as a synonym of Tabernemontana 
amygdalifolia sete It would appear, however, from the two named 
sheets in Miller’s Herbarium (now in the National Collection) that 
&c. Sloane (Nat. Hist. Jam. ii. 96, ‘te 189, p ee latter, how- 
ever, as an inspection of Sloane’s specimen bea must be referred 
elsewhere. Miller’s diagnosis might apply to either species; his 
description better fits the Tabernemontana ; and he cites Carthagena 
as the locality; but Houston’s aes phrase (in Miller’s hand) 
is on the sheet with the Palico ** Cestrum nervosum in part” 
must therefore stand as a nerves: of each.--JamEs Britten. 
Potyeonum cuspipatum Sieb. & Zuce.—This fine rege plant, 
a native of Japan, often seen in gardens in the Wes England, 
has begun to disseminate itself here and there by vouniaia and in 
waste places, as at Church Stretton, Salop, where, in September 
last, I noticed it, abundantly in one place and sparingly in another. 
While it can as yet have no claim to be even partially naturalized, 
yet no harm can be done by placing on record the fact “ its ap- 
pearance, here and there, mingling with the native vegetation of 
the roadside. It is probable that twenty or thirty years hence it 
