208 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
flaccidum Milde. Crowden, W. — - herb. E. _ Armitage). —_ 
Fd: oS Dicks. Abbotts c. frt., Holt; Hale Moss, 
Hunt & Whitehead ; Flaxmere aE: “cordial Hedw. Flaxmere, 
¢. frt.—H. giganteum Schimp. Flaxme 
*“Hylocomium brevirostre B, & S. iain Wood, Sidebotham. 
SHORT NOTES. 
STELLARIA UMBROSA AND 8. NeGLEoTA (p. 151). — Without dis- 
cussing Me: Ma aba’ view of the standing of S. wnbrosa Opiz as 
a species, or his desire to transfer to it the var. major of S. media— 
matters which seem to need more investigation—I wish to point 
out that the best-marked difference between neglecta and umbrosa 
should not be stated to consist in the — pedicels and sepals 
of the “ee haem in fact those organs are often hairy. This was 
long ago noticed by Briggs (1. Phatbeniehe 50), who likewise drew 
attention to aa descriptions by Boreau and Boswell, which imply 
furnished with the long acute tubercles characte of wu: 
This note — afterwards reproduced in this tesa’: fo 1889 (or 52). 
Jas. W. War 
sae INTERMEDIA Boreau. — Although widely distributed in 
Britain as a casual or colonist, this plant seems to occur but rarely, 
and in small quantity, although doubtless it must be sometimes 
overlooked. I have only ately” ecome aware of its presence near 
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Gloucester ; and from Portishead (one very large plant) and Nail- 
sea Moor, both in North Somerset. The small deep yellow flowers 
and adpressed pods are quite distinctive. In other respects the plant 
is, as stated by the author, Rome intermediate between B. vulgaris 
and precox.—Jas. W. War 
ScLEROCHLOA LOLIACEA a in West Guoucester.—My friend 
Mr. Wall brought a specimen from New Passage, on the Severn, 
seven miles 3 or so above its confluence with the “Bristol Avon, and 
more than twenty from the nearest known station for this grass in 
Somerset. I then found it there in fair quantity on sea- banks, where 
the salt spray must often reach it at high tide.—Jas. W. Waurre. 
Scaranta compacta (Roth) Dam.—In my Hepatica of the British 
Isles I describe this species as being unique amongst the British 
Scapania = tet paroicous ; C. Mueller and Massalongo Smaak 
it as dioico r. Maevicar, in his review of Cano ook 
(Journ. Bot. “i909, 498), was the first to describe it “ alebchdous, 
) far as I remember, when I drew up my description of the species 
all the specimens I examined were paroicous, but, since I have had 
