874 SHORT NOTES. 
in ~ Need eas aay ta Bry a ee plumosa was not infrequent, 
grow in the mud at low water nearly opposite the 
aes Hotel. At Slesiin Sands I found numerous specimens of 
Sphacelaria filicina.—THomas WALKER 
Ferrimization or Mrrnontca Giortosa.—Having lately had this 
lant in bloom in my stove-house, I have had an opportunity of 
observing the process by which the fertilization takes place—a 
process which accounts for the singular shape of the Ficimcan 
With regard to the shape, I would first remark, for the benefit of 
opening of the ieee the pistil is bent at a right angle to the 
centre line of the ovary, and then when the flower is quite open 
the petals are recurved till their extremities meet. Now, when the 
Lncesrensums Prants.—I found pipet um sa L. last © 
May growing in small quantity in a strip of turfy ground on 
Dhari geod Heath. The rocky and barren tract called by this 
name is a remnant of the original forest, of which it forms one of 
the highest points. F. vaginatum is inserted (with a query) for 
caused the error, if error it be. At the same time I may mention 
that on rocks near the same spot I have recently detected Stereo- 
Forest.’ The genus is, in fact, quite unrepresented there, though 
it can hardly be confounded with any other. In Leighton’s 
‘Lichen Flora’ Mr. Bloxam’s Leicestershire localities are quoted 
very freely, but under Stereocaulon no record is given from that 
county.—H. P. Reaper. 
Farure or Ranuncunvus BuLBosus To HOLD rrs Grounp at Kew 
(p. 815). —It is likely ‘that this ‘“ apparent weakness ’’ is caused by 
the meadow lands.”’ These plants soon disappear from cultivated 
land, as they setae a firm but finely divided soil for their roots, 
and, as a rule, are easily smothered by rank vegetation. If Mr. 
