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three miles further south, near Stokesay Castle. Can any local 

 botanist say whether the plant is still to be found in those parts ? — 

 W. F. Miller. 



Phyllody of the Calyx in Myosotis palustris. — I lately 

 gathered specimens of Myosotis palustris on the banks of the river 

 locally known as the Gipping, where it flows through the Glebe 

 Meadows at Barham, in Suffolk. They showed well-marked 

 phyllody of the calyx, together with a distinct prolongation of 

 the flower- spike. The calyx-lobes were twice the size of those 

 of the ordinary form. Every inflorescence borne by this plant 

 showed this variation in equal degree. The corolla also showed a 

 tendency to remain longer than usual on the plant, and to become 

 somewhat virescent in its older stage. As the Gipping nears 

 Ipswich it is now T called the Orwell, though it is said Gippes- 

 wyche was the old name of the city. — E. Augustus Bowles. 



A proposed Exchange Club for Lichens. — With the excep- 

 tion of Mr. Crombie's Monograph (1895), the second and concluding 

 part of which is in active preparation by Miss A. L. Smith, little 

 progress has been made in the study of the Lichens of these 

 islands since the publication of Leighton's Lichen-Flora in 1871- 

 79. This latter has long been out of date in nomenclature and 

 classification, and our study of Lichens has thus been greatly 

 neglected. It is therefore suggested that it would be stimulated 

 by the formation of a Lichen Exchange Club, on the lines of those 

 already existing for mosses and flowering plants. Another reason 

 for the formation of such a Club is found in the gradual extermi- 

 nation of lichens through smoke and other means to which I have 

 referred in the September number of this Journal. Mr. A. A. 

 Dallman has already suggested the Club in the circulating note- 

 book of the Moss Exchange Club, and it is desired to obtain 

 further publicity for the scheme through the pages of this Journal. 

 Preliminary steps have already been taken, and I shall be glad to 

 receive the names and addresses of those interested in the scheme, 

 together with any suggestions for the working of the Club. These 

 may be sent to me at Ivanhoe, Gwendolen Road, Leicester. 

 A. R. Horwood. 



Juncus pygmjsus Thuill. in Cyprus ? — In this Journal for 

 1905, p. 332, 1 pointed out that the specimens at Kew collected by 

 John Ball " Ex Cypro prope Larnaka Majo 29, 1877, No. 2436" 

 were certainly /. bufonius. The late Mr. Ball added, " The only 

 Oriental specimens seen by Boissier" (see Boissier, Flora Orien- 

 tates, vol. 5). I have now seen Boissier's own specimen at Geneva, 

 bearing the same label, and though it bears a more striking resem- 

 blance to J", pygmmis than the Kew specimen, it is only Koch's 

 variety fasciculatus of Juncus bufonius L. Mr. Holmboe, of 

 Bergen, who is studying the vegetation of Cyprus, has also ex- 

 amined the specimen in Herbier Boissier and is quite of the same 

 opinion. — H. S. Thompson. 



Limonium recurvum C. E. Salmon. — Readers of the Journal 

 will be glad to learn that this rarest of sea-lavenders still survives 



