SHORT NOTES, 815 
1. Average “distribution” of the British species (Lond. Cat.)— 
«> 66. C. 44. 
2. Percentage of British to exotic species in each class— 
Indigenons. Introduced. Aliens. 
61 12 5 
A 
B. 37 10 3 
C. 11 
ce—1. Species er show the greatest reacere.é to spread 
at Hews are those which have in the course of time me most 
general in the British area. 2. British species sets qaviteakly 
competed er ‘hg in — native conditions of temperature, 
&e. What c s the apparent weakness of Ranunculus bulbosus, 
its « distribution” being 89 > ice ld not this method, if applied 
to such species in the list as are most commonly found in gardens, 
show a similar ape in their favour when compared with the 
exotics ?—HRNEs MER. 
eres: or Urricunaria.—Referring to Mr. H. C. Hart’s 
y Ww. g 
grown in deep water it ‘shies like U. vulgaris, as described by 
Darwin ; _ I hei that nes two modes of depositing the 
winter-bud are common to all o oe and result from the 
depth of ani in wich the plant 00 I presume that the 
stems of U. intermedia do not survive tke @ winter, and that the buds 
only ‘remain attached” until the stems decay in late autumn, as 
in the other sit Perhaps Mr. Hart yous experiment on 
v. intermedia grown in deep water ?—W. H. B 
Myosurus MINIMUS IN ‘‘ wasTE PLACES,’’—In seo to Mr. Fryer’s 
query (p. 280), I have seen this plant on gravelly banks adjoining 
the towing-path by the canal near Send, Surrey, associated with 
such plants as Papaver Argemone, Spergula arvensis, &e. — W. H. 
BY. 
RASTIUM HOLOSTEOIDES F'r,—This Cerastium occurred on each 
side of f the River Cree, between two and three miles south of 
Newton Stewart, in Wigton and Kirkcudbright, typical examples 
being obtained from both places; but, as in specimens obtained 
the Perth locality, the pubescence on the stem varied from the 
o characteristic lines to a more general diffused pubescence. 
The glabrous pom and larger flowers, coer the biennial growth, 
however, well mark the plan C 
Victa — DC. E. Comewie AND 6a ICENDIA FILIFoRMIs Del. 
in N. Devon. — On Sept. 11th, while examining the plants of 
Givens Moai 3 in E. Doeweal Mn T. R. Archer Briggs and I found 
Vicia Orobus growing in considerable quantity in some rough furzy 
ground 1 Ae ois right bank of a small stream flowing into 
the Tam It seemed confined to the drier spots, appearing 
chiefly in aaa pe the tufts of Vie Gallii, with Viola lactea and 
Lathyrus macrorrhizus. We saw perhaps a hundred plants in about 
an acre of ground, all past flowering and many with ripe fruit. 
