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and Prof. Schiffner himself have since fully confirmed. It is a 

 little curious that I should have first gathered in Crete a plant 

 which grows within ten minutes' walk of where I have lived for 

 years. C. patvla is closely allied to C. integerrima (Lindb.) Warnst., 

 recently recorded as British by Mr. S. M. Macvicar (Journ. Bot. 

 1907, 66), and like that species has very highly connate bracts. It 

 differs from it, however, in the larger and generally more incrassate 

 ceils, the more pointed lobes of the leaves, and in the more pointed 

 and more frequently denticulate perichsetial bracts. The margin 

 of the leaves and bracts is, moreover, always erect in C. patula, 

 while it is not infrequently recurved in C. integerrima. C. patula 

 appears to be a truly calcicolous plant, and generally reaches its 

 best development near Lewes when growing directly on blocks of 

 chalk, and it has its headquarters in the Mediterranean regions, 

 where it is widely distributed. C. integerrima, on the other hand, 

 grows on damp clay or sand, and although it has been found as far 

 south as Italy it appears to have its headquarters in northern 

 Europe, being recorded from several localities in Scandinavia. In 

 the original description, C. patula is said to be dioicous ; while 

 Prof. Schiffner describes his C Baumgartneii as pseudo-dioicous, a 

 term which he uses to cover those cases where a monoicous plant, 

 by the subsequent separation of the male and female stems, presents 

 the appearance of being dioicous. I found comparatively little 

 difficulty in proving the Lewes plant to be monoicous by examining 

 young material in the autumn, but when the young perianths are 

 fully formed in the spring, the character becomes more difficult to 

 ascertain. C. patula will probably be found over a considerable 

 part of the chalk and limestone districts of the South and West of 

 England where suitable conditions occur. The locality near Lewes 

 is a steep estuarine cliff, where the solid chalk protrudes here and 

 there through the turf. It is associated here with Seligeria cat- 

 carta, various species of Weisia, and Lophozia turbinata. In Crete, 

 where it grew on the limestone, it was generally associated with 



Weisia calcarea, W. verticillata, Lophozia turbinata, and Mesophylla 

 stiilicidiorum. — Wm. Edwd. Nicholson. 



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Ononis reclinata L. in Glamorgan. — Through the courtesy of 

 Professor Seward we have had an opportunity of looking through a 

 number of letters addressed to the late Professor Babington by 

 various botanists and others, which are preserved in the Botany 

 School at Cambridge. Among them is one from Joseph Woods, 

 dated December 1855, in which the following passage occurs : — " I 

 find on looking over my plants that I have a specimen of Ononis 

 reclinata, gathered at Port Eynon many years ago." Woods's her- 

 barium came into the possession of the late Mr. Frederick Town- 

 send, who bequeathed it to Mr. Hume for the Botanical Institute 

 which he is proposing to establish in South London. Mr. Hume has 

 kindly lent us the specimen in question. It is labelled " Onoiiis," 

 "on rocks at Port Eynon, Glamorganshire, 18 Sept. 1828 " to 

 which Woods has added, "reclinata?" the collector's name, •' D. 

 Sharpe," and the following note ; — «« Cal equal Corolla-segments 



