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suspected of being L. Filix-mas x spinulosa. "Occurs sporadically 

 and sparingly in various districts M (Focke). Syme (Eng. Bot. ed. 

 3, vol. 12, p. 82, 1886) has a remark to the effect that he suspected L. 

 glandulosa to be a hybrid == L. spinulosa x dilatata ; L. uliginosa to 

 be L. cristata x spinulosa ; and L. remota to connect L. spinulosa 

 (more probably L. dilatata) with L. Filix-mas. The Rev. A. Ley 

 wrote on L. glandulosa: "It does not seem reasonable to attribute 

 it to L. spinulosa x dilatata, although I have never seen it growing 

 except where both thesfi species are present within a short dis- 

 tance " (J3. E. Q. Rpt. 1899, p. 616). I have not had much oppor- 

 tunity of studying these supposed Lastrea hybrids. — Polypodium 

 vulgare var. serratum Willd. is, according to Timbal-Lagrave, P. 

 vulgare x Aspidium acttleatum ; and P. cambricum L. was con- 

 sidered by him to be P. vulgare x Pteris aquilina (Focke) ; and 

 Mr. Marshall, who gives me this information, thinks the latter at 

 least not very unlikely, as it seems always to be without fructifica- 

 tion. I do not feel inclined at present to express an opinion. 



Equisetace,e. — Equisetum arvense x limosum " is a very widely 

 spread and rather frequent hybrid, occurring in different forms 



E. littorale Kuel., E. inundation Lasch, E. Kochianum 



G. Boeckel " (Focke). See Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 65, t. 273. 



NOTE ON ROSA HI BE R NIC A. 



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By James Britten, F.L.S. 

 In the Index Kewensu the publication of Rosa hibernica is given 



as » Sm. Engl. PI. ii. 393" [391] (1824). This is odd in view of 

 the numerous earlier references given for the plant in the English 

 Flora— Engl. Bot. t. 2196 (1810), Smith's Compendium, ed. 2, 

 78 (1816), Woods in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 222 (1817), and 

 Lindley's Monograph, 82 (1820) ; to which may be added Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 261 (1811), and Smith in Rees's Cyclopadia 

 (1814-15). The name is usually attributed to Smith, who in his 

 first publication of it in Engl. Bot. says : 



44 Discovered many years ago in the county of Down, about 

 Belfast harbour, where it grows abundantly, by our often-mentioned 

 friend John Templeton, Esq., who consequently found himself 

 entitled to the reward of 501. so liberally offered by the patrons 

 of botany at Dublin for the discovery of a new Irish plant. We 

 adopt the name by which Mr. Templeton has communicated wild 

 specimens to us, for the singularity of the anecdote, and that 

 we may not rob him or his countrymen of a particle of their 

 honours." 



From the above quotation it is clear that the name was sug- 

 gested by Templeton, but it seems to have been generally over- 

 looked that he actually published it, with a full description and an 

 excellent figure, in vol. iii. of the Transactions of the Dublin Society, 



pp. 162-164, where he says : " As it has not been before described, 



