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and to our thinking the name should be applied to no other. In 
the new edition of ‘Babington’ s Manual we have therefore given the 
name of Alsine salina to the species which — in the former 
edition as Lepigonum seiner The rule we have followed is that, 
tices from 17538, a name once ited ie inalienably to the 
genus or species to BS it was originally applied. Few botanists, 
are aware, have adopted this view, and no doubt, to carry it out 
universally, would necessitate the alteration of a certain number of 
recognized names. In the present instance, however, there is no 
displacement of an established name, Alsine he “Crantz not 
paving, as far as we know, been adopted by recent botanists other 
n Mr. Hiern. In the paper cited, Mr. Hiern writes: ‘“B 
limiting Crantz’s name so as to stand for ps tala medium Fries 
the giving of a new name under Alsine is avoide We quite agree 
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omial, and we aght to write Sy rie a Crantzii’’ to dis- 
tingaish ‘it from the synonym of Stellaria edi ‘* Alsine media 
inn@i.” In the second instance in which we have not followed 
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Mr. Hiern points out, some botanists refer Martius 
Arenaria mucronata L. There may not at present be sufficient 
evidence forthcoming to settle the name down definitely either to 
. mucronata (although, in Index Kewensis, it is so quoted without 
a query), or to any other aire but it is quite possible that such 
ost may eg to light at any time, in which case Martius’s 
would most likely ‘have to be used. We are therefore sur- 
prised that Mr. Hier should have started a fresh M. tenuifolia upon 
so precarious a footing. We have thought it better to apply a new 
name, Minuartia leptophylla, to Arenaria tenuifolia L. in the new 
edition of Babington’s Manual, ces a use a name which in all 
probability belongs to another plan . & J. Groves. 
New Srations For Giycerta restuczrormis (see Journ. Bot., 
1908, 853; 1904, 77, 121).—Since the discovery last year of this 
Mediterranean species on the eastern shore of Strangford Lough, 
= range has been considerably extended. A grass which I found 
eataanes of Strangford Lough, in July, 1903, and which at the 
time was without ” inflorescence, prove 4 "on cultivation to be this 
species. This opens a wide range of possibilities as to the plant’s 
distribution on the coasts of County Down. ugust last I de- 
shores of Strangford Lough, from Comber to Strangford. This 
coast-line is exceedingly complicated, presenting a tangled succes- 
sion of bays, peninsulas, and islands, The amount of shore-line 
