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one roms in full bloom in that locality by the middle of Jun 
returns to the charge as to the naming of Carex pitalifer 
ae come regarding which he seems to labour under a curious 
misconception. We doubt if anyone has aia ourennly we ads 
never done so—that a name may not be emplo yed as a varietal one, 
if originally used a specific oo on, aed it is a mistake to sup- 
lig 
pose that such a use is obligatory ; and s se Mr. Lees cannot 
imagine that his ‘‘consent’’ co Sake be necessary t pcg atite | of 
the plant, or that the absence of such ‘con cant ustify him 
in eying that ‘the varietal title Leesii was improp ine becln ai. es 
e surprised to find that Dr. Boswell and Mr. Lees regard 
the iiieecshite Lycopodium complanatum as merely L. alpinum, 
although they differ in their estimate of its position, Dr. Boswell 
thinking it “pure and simple L. alpinum,” while Mr. Lees considers 
eign specimens in sag British Museum Herbarium 
ncaa in referring it to complanatum, in which opinion, it will 
_ be remembered, Prof. es and Mr. Baker coincide. 
The he “New County per Pe is likely to Set those 
who ‘6 not understand it in the of the Club as including 
records ‘‘additional to “Popographical Botany’ and ‘nie Record 
Club Reports, 1873-1880.” Thus many of Mr. Ridley’s Radnor- 
shire plants (Journ. Bot., 1881, 170-174) appear ae as “new 
county records” on the authority of the Rev. A. Ley; so with the 
Rey. W. M. Rogers’s N. Devon Plants (J. Bot., 1882, pp. rei 10), aad 
Mr. Druce’s E. Perth plants (Id., pp. 80-83); as well as with such 
-— as Mrythrea capitata, Cineraria ig ig es. and many more 
—e.g., Salix Smithiana, here recorded for N. Somerset as new, but 
included by Mr. Baker in his list of Bacau pene i Bot., 1875, 
. 860). Readers of this Journal, to many of whom the Record 
Club Reports are inaccessible, would do well to tae that Carex 
rigida, recorded from East Perth by Mr. Druce (in J. Bot., 1882, 
2), is ‘‘doubtful,” while Mr. Roper’s Agrostis setacea (J. Bot 
1881, p- 873) is correctly agit by Mr. Lees to Festuca ovina. 
We may add that Mr. Roper informs us his Livia ruderale in 
the same rere should be os ited: 
e ure to think it would lend additional value to the 
Report was the plants of certain groups meee over for namin 
mogetons as are the ‘Messrs. Groves with the Charas, so their 
opinion upon plants of these groups _ be of ana ts 
Among the ‘aliens, pee and escapes” may be sabed eoeds 
of Potentilla norvegica from Middlesex, Hertfordshire, and South- 
West Yorkshire; and Anthooanthum Puelii from Herefordshire. 
Sap ie two plants as likely to become permanent additions to 
our 
