90 SHORT NOTES. 



"Mr. Lambert informs Sir James Smith that he ascertained that 



' Mentha pratensis' (Sole) was thrown out of the Eoebuck Inn 

 garden on Alderbury Common, and was merely a single plant ; this 

 Mr. Sole dug up, and the original specimen is at the Linnean 

 Society." — Thos. Bruges Flower. 



The Summit Flora of the Grand Tournalin. — In an ascent 

 of the Grand Tournalin of Val Tournanche made on the 3rd July 

 last, I gathered the following species in full flower on the summit- 

 ridge of the mountain, at a height of 3400 metres (say 11,150 feet), 

 as determined by the Survey of the Italian £ tat- Major :—Ranun- 



culm glaeialu L., Thimpi rotundifolium DC, Draba Wahlmbenjii 

 Hartm., Saxifnuja oppositifolia L., S. planifolia Lap., Artemisia 

 spicata DC, Linaria alpina DC., Androsace (facialis Hoppe. To the 



best of my knowledge no details of the summit flora of the Tour- 

 nalin have hitherto been published, so that the foregoing list may 

 not be altogether without interest, if only as affording one more 

 example of the striking uniformity in the groups of species occurring 

 at heights of 10,000 feet and upwards in the European Alps. Three 

 days earlier (30th June), in an ascent of the Eympfischhorn 

 (Zermatt), I found Sempervivum arachnoidewn L. growing on the 

 highest point of Bympfischgrat, marked 3314 metres (10,850 feet) 

 in General Dufour's Swiss Survey map, an elevation to which, I 

 believe, this species very seldom attains in the Swiss Alps ; and 

 the day after discovered Woodsia hyperborea (E. Br,) on the rocks 

 above the Boden Glacier, near the base of the EiffeDiorn, perhaps a 

 new Swiss station for the species. Mr. Nicholson, of Kew, has 

 kindly compared two of my specimens with the materials in the 

 Herbarium, and confirms me in the opinion that they are Draba 

 Wah/enbetyii Hartm. and Saxifraja planifolia Lap.— N. Colgan. 



The Name Conringia.— In the January number of the ' Journal 

 of Botany,' p. 61, attention is called to the fact of Conringia being 

 mis-spelled in Pryor's 'Flora of Hertfordshire.' This was due to 

 extreme regard to the author's views, rather than editorial over- 

 sight, for on turning to the place of publication I found it Couringia, 

 and the index to the same volume of DeCandolle's • Systema ' has 

 it spelled the same way. At that time I had not access to the 

 whole literature of the genus, and therefore had to let the matter 

 rest, as I could not thoroughly investigate it. Having recently 

 looked up the question, it may be summarised thus :— 



Conringia Heist. Ind. PI. R ar . n . J. p . 34 (1730) ; Lima. Syst. 

 ed. 1 (1735). v 



Couringia Aduns. Fam. ii. 418 (1763); A. Juss. Diet. xi. 214 (1818); 



DC Mem. Mus. vii. 239 (1821) ; Syst. ii. 507, 508 (1821). 



Hermann Coming was a noted jurisconsult of the previous 

 century and a collected folio edition of his works was In course of 

 issue at the time that Heister was publishing his little tracts on 

 the Uelmstadt garden plants.— B. Daybon Jackson. 



