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CrENOMYCES SERRATUS: A Correction. — Mr. E. S. Salmon has 
drawn my attention to the descriptions and gues of Arthroderma 
Curreyi Berk. published by Currey in Quart. Journ. Micros. Sci. ii. 
241, t. ix. figs. ate (1854), and again described and aa. 2. him- 
op. Clul 
Mr. 
Salmon has igndly allowed me to see a seca of iis Tange 
and also a specimen collected by Dr. Cooke and now in the 
Kew Herbarium. They are identical with the Ascomycete Cteno- 
myces serratus Hidam, the description of which was published in 
this Journal for 1908 (p. 257). None of the British specimens 
show the comb-like resting mycelium or the white fluffy conidial 
stage described by Eidam ; there is only the sha peridium and 
the central mass of asci. Arthroderma Curreyt has of course many 
years’ priority, and must stand as the name ofthe plant. The asci, 
though minute, were Meads hia in the specimen submitted to me, 
0 lo 
and it did not occur to m ok te r previous records among the 
Hyphomycetes.—A. Pie Sir 
CCINIUM VACILLANS. — In ca American floras this name is 
attributed to Kalm, on faith of a reference in Torrey’s Flora of New 
York, i. 444 (1 coe where the plant was first published (misspelt 
vaccillans), to ‘‘ Ka . in Herb. Banks.” In Index Kewensis 
it stands as ‘ dolatid ex A, Gray Man. ‘Bot. N. U. St. ed. i. gic if 
(1848), and ap though not the first Leone gives the 
author of the name. We have in the National Herbarium es 
sheets—one fect Hort. Kew, 1774, the other aur Hort. Fothergill 
—named by Solander, and i in his MSS. there is a full desoripien 
of the air There is, however, nothing to connect the plan 
any way with Kalm, either by specimen or MS., and the nietieban 
o him is clearly a mistake. If the Decandollian law, that ‘‘ the 
author who first published the name’ should be quoted as its 
i } rr.: it 
cannot stand as ‘“‘ Soland. ex Torr.,” for Torrey makes no mention 
of Solander, and to cite it as rat Kalm is manifestly an absurdity.— 
AMES 
elertempat nupum Brid. 1 Norrsants. — I found this rare a0 
2 a in Stowe Wood, Northamptonshire, in Septe 
of last year. It was in very young fruit, and was unfortunately 
almost entirely destroyed at a later date by a combination of w 
weather and fox-hunting. As this is, so far as | am aware, the 
rst occurrence of this moss, so far as Great an: is ag ey 
south of Cheshire, it may be worth recording here.—H. N. Dix 
Portia Herm Fiirnr. 1nuanp.— I gathered Gis perhaps ie is 
Grimmia maritima our most distinctly maritime moss, on a gravelled 
walk in the aire of Rushton Hall, Northants, in July last; it 
was, as usual, richly fruiting, and ¢ overed severa square yards of 
ground. On enquiry, L was told that salt had been put down to 
kill weeds at that spot, some time previously. P. Heimii has been 
recorded in the neighbourhood of saline springs in a few inland 
