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Mr. Salmon's plant, but otherwise the agreement is very close 

 indeed. The distinction from the normal L. officinale is well- 

 marked, the whole appearance and habit being entirely different. 



E. & H. Drabble. 



Alnus rotundifolia Mill. (p. 125). — The name published as 



above by Miller is to be found in the Abridgement of the Gardeners' 



Dictionary, published in 1771, where binomials are consistently 



used. It must replace Gaertner's name of 1791. — G. Claridge 

 Druce. 



A Glamorganshire Sedge. 



W 



West 



A. Shoolbred and I recorded Car ex Leersii F. Schultz (my no. 2550) 

 from hedge-banks near Pyle. It is a smaller plant, and in some 

 other points differs from an authentic specimen at Brit. Mus. 

 (F. Schultz & Winter, Herb. Norm., Cent. 2, 173). Herr Kiiken- 

 thal, on whose authority we published it, has now named specimens 

 in Herb. C. E. Salmon as " 0. echinata Murr. = C. Pairai F. 

 Schultz/ 1 In Lond. Cat. ed. ix. C. echinata replaces (7. stelluiata 

 Good. C. Pairai has been found recently in 

 Mr. Druce. — Edward S. Marshall. 



[In his Prodromus (1770) Murray gives no description of his 

 C echinata, which stands (p. 76) as : " Carex echinata mihi f. Car. 

 spicis ternis echinatis, glumis lanceolatis, capsulae mucrone simplici 

 Hall. Hist. n. 1366. Oed. Dan. T. 284." Both Haller s descrip- 

 tion (which Murray quotes as above) and Oeder's figure undoubtedly 

 represent the plant subsequently known as C. stelluiata Good. We 

 have however in the National Herbarium the plant from Murray's 

 herbarium, labelled by him : f< Carex echinata niihi v. Prodromus 

 p. 76. Hall. Hist. n. 1366. Hercynia citat: ego in pratis udis 

 Gotreyde [?] crebro referi. 1770." This has been named by Mr. 

 C. B. Clarke 0. muricata and by Pastor Kiikenthal C. Pairai F. 

 Schultz : Townsend (Fl. Hants, ed. 2, 463) under stelluiata notes 

 " Murray's G. echinata is C. divulsa; see sp. in Brit. Mus. Herb." 

 While it thus appears that the plant which Murray intended to 

 describe was what is now called 0. Paimi, the description cited 

 from Haller, which is the only description he gives, and the figure he 

 quotes from Oeder are, as has been said, C* stelluiata, so that the 

 name, if synonymy be excluded, is a nomen nudum and cannot 

 stand. In face 'of the synonymy, however, and of the practice when 

 Linnams's books and herbarium do not agree, it would seem that 

 a echinata Murr. (Prodr. 76, non herb.) should stand as the name 

 of the plant. — Ed. Journ. Box.] 



Fumaria Bor^i Jord. (p. 9).— The Eev. W. Moyle Rogers states 

 that he found no Fumarias in tiie English Lake District in the sum- 

 mer of 1906. In August of that year we found Fumaria Borai by 

 the side of the road leading from Dunmail Raise to Grasmere. The 

 plant did not occur abundantly, only two or three specimens being 

 seen. — E. & H. Drabble. 



Sisymbrium pannonicum Jacq. in Cheshire. — This plant, which 

 occurs abundantly at Crosby, on the Lancashire side of the Mersey, 

 does not seem to have been recorded from the Cheshire side. It 



