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Friowerine-season oF Ranunoutus Lenormanpr F. Schultz.— 
This is given as June to August both by Prof. Babington iy Sir 
J. D. Hooker. Without, however, paying special attention to = 
matter, I have repeatedly observed the plant blooming in Sur 
both in December and January. This year I saw it flowering freely 
in bogs between Connagh Hill and es Co. Wexford, on 
Jan. 25th; also near Carnew, Co. Wicklow, on Jan. 27th; R. heder- 
aceus L., on the sere was quite Coweta’ in the same localities. 
Epwar p 8. Marsa 
VinLous Forms or Epitosium eet ga &c. (p. 50).—I do not 
think that ae can be due to diseased roots, as the phenomenon 
is not marked by “¥ sages debility. It appears to arise, in 
some gat fom & dry, sunny situa in ot are from a cla ay 
Hausskn. ‘of E. par viflonen Schreb. in decidedly wet Digase: such as, 
in lighter ground, produce glabresce Vicia Cracca var. incana 
Thuill. is a plant of shallow or rocky soi usually growing in pista 
fully exposed to the sunlight.—Epwarp 8. 
A Hysrip Gatropsis ?—The Rey. : Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock’s 
interesting note (p. 50) induces me to inquire whether the plant he 
refers to on p. 54 as a form of racer Tetrahit ef not be a 
hybrid between that ta and G. speciosa, I found (see Ann. 
The 
colouring, although less brilliant than speciosa, differed from that of 
Tetrahit or bifida. When pene with Mr. Alfred Fryer at 
Chatteris, in the autumn of last year, we noticed in a field, con- 
taining both speciosa and Tetrahit, the same form, Mr. Fryer 
agreed with my suggestion of its being a hybrid, but further 
LARIDGE Dr UCE. 
Portia Henm Firnr. (p. 55).—To Mr. Dixon’s interesting note 
I may add that I have gathered this moss in a flint gravel-pit here 
a ice as 
occurring at Thorp Arch, Yorks, (v.-c. 64), and was still there on 
the occasion of the visit of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union in 
April, 1897. Thorp Arch is on the Wharfe, but I believe I am 
right in gua | _ the river at that place is not influenced by 
tides.—L. J. Coc 
The Estibution of this moss appears to be somewhat singular. 
As a rule, it is found on muddy banks of estuaries, usually almost 
within touch of sea-water, or on the banks of brackish ditches. I 
was surprised a few months since at receiving undoubted specimens 
of this species from near Knaresborough, growing on dolomite. te 
Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 869, I find it r ecorded from ‘‘ Qu 
Ripon, Miss Morton.” In a list given by the late Dr. Thwaites it. is 
recorded from Durdham Down, near Bristol; and in one by Mr. 
