54 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
SHORT NOTES. 
Fruaco minima Fries—On bare sandy spots among the pine- 
woods of Finchampstead, Berks, between Wokingham and Welling- 
ton College, there grows a curious form of Filago minima. It 18 
exceedingly attenuated in all its parts. Its slender, thread-like 
stems are from one and a quarter inches to five inches high, the 
greater number averaging three inches. It is generally unbranched, 
but sometimes bears two or three stems from the base, branched or 
unbranched. e tiny flower-heads are usually placed singly up 
the stem, four or five of them; occasionally there are two heads 
together, rarely three, not more. In October, 1908, I found it in 
abundance, and also Centunculus minimus L. The plants of the 
latter were the largest I have ever seen. Specimens of this little 
Filago are deposited in the National Herbarium; I shall also be 
glad to send some to any applicant.—Exxonora Armitace ; Dadnor, 
Ross, Herefordshire. 
Westmoretanp Prants. — Last August the Rev. H. J. Riddels- 
dell and myself spent a couple of days at Kirkby Stephen, in 4 
search, which proved fruitless, of Sawifraga Hirculus, which used 
to grow at the juncture of the Balder Brook. Near Barras Station we 
were fortunate enough to meet with a Hieracium which the Rev. 
. Linton refers without doubt to H. cumbriense F. J. Hanb. 
record. 
material, H. cumbriense is omitted from the enumeration of Hieracia 
in Mr. F illiams’s Prodromus Flore Britannica, although he 
refers to it on p. 178. Near Barras we also gathered Euphrasia 
nemorosa, Cochlearia alpina, Arabis hirsuta (without personal authority 
in Top. Bot.), Sagina nodosa, Draba incana, Gentiana Amarella L., 
and Crepis hieracioides Waldst. & Kit. Sedum viliosum grew on the 
Fells. Near Kirkby Stephen, in a wettish field, occurred Scirpus 
Caricis, Glyceria plicata, and Festuca rubraL., all new county records; 
also Rosa giauca Vill., Mentha piperita L., Crataegus monogyna Jacd: 
(the only form seen), Carea paludosa Good., Orchis maculata vat. 
ericetorum, Thymus Chamedrys Fries, Alchemilla vulgaris var. filt- 
caulis, Vicia angustifolia, Arctium nemorosum, Salix Smithiana, S. 
purpurea, 8, cinerea, S. triandra, and S. pentandra—G, CLARIDGE 
The latest issue (part viii.) appeared in March, 1898, and, so far #§ 
e can ascertain, there is no prospect of the continuance of the 
work,—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
