308 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
by Okamura; 150 Uredinew and 100 German fungi, by Syd 
200 Italian fungi, by Saccardo; 50 parasitic fangh by 2 
30 sketches of British Basidiomycetes, by Worthington G. Smith ; 
34 water-colour drawings of British marine alee pe 21 of British 
lichens, for public exhibition, by P. Highley. 
SHORT NOTES. 
RHA Unaarra Li. VAR. DENUDATA Boenn. — This var riety was 
Monast. p. ide 1844) » laced it und E eaas as a dapat 
distinction accorded it in the te Os ee ed. 9. The re- 
puted difference betwe bags the variety and the type pinekionsy 
lies in the absence of a white under-surface to the leaves in 
oP realies denuidata form is very striking, e esially at tiiwhiydooed." 
In the early part is ae x A gasste leaves characteristic of 
the so-called vari aiey grow sly aod athe type at Scrap- 
had the same suspicions with regard to.a plant found by him at 
Lystre, in the same county. Quite recently, at another station 
at Scraptoft, I rie typical S. Ul/maria L., possessing leaves 
characteristic of the so-called variety denudata, and also a lea 
intermediate in character, with a whitish margin only, the content 
portion of the under-surface being eh a uniform ot n colour; the 
one amongst many similar perce a might be made, if students 
would only take the tr ge cord their observations. This 
would cane simplify the Me i beginners who are bewildered 
by the long list of varieties inrtuecaie d under some of our British 
species, many of which are clearly not entitled to be so considered. 
: ORWOOD. 
fA further objection to the swelling of our lists by the names of 
varieties is the very slender evidence on which m any of them are 
ecorded. It is but seldom that types have been consulted, and in 
some instances even the descriptions do not seem to haye been 
properly understood, as they agree very imperfectly with the plants 
referred to them. . There is also too great promptitude in naming 
as cts SE ties forms or. states which have no claim to sueh distinction. 
