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one hand there are the facts of its absence from the opposite coast 

 of France as a native species, and that it lias hitherto escaped 

 observation in these islands, while the geographical range is not 

 strongly in favour of it being native here ; yet, on the other hand, 

 it may be urged that it extends up the western coast as far as 

 Spain and Portugal, that it is extremely like Agrostis alba var. 

 stolonifera in appearance, and chooses similar situations, while in 

 its undoubtedly native area it prefers ground which has been dis- 

 turbed by man, and that it is now very abundant in Guernsey. 

 G. Glaridge Druce. 



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Linaria arenaria DC. not a native (p. 411). — About four- 

 teen years ago a resident at Westward Ho ! sowed on Northam 

 Burrows, in the only part where I have found Polygonum mari- 

 timum, some seeds of Linaria arenaria, which he had brought 

 from Brittany. When he was leaving the neighbourhood soon 

 after, the sower told me what he had done and took me to the 

 spot, and expressed a wish that I would visit the place occasionally 

 and note how the plants were getting on. This I have done, and 

 have had the satisfaction of seeing that they have spread over a 

 larger area than they at first occupied. — Thos. Wainwright. 



[We fail to share our correspondent's " satisfaction " at the 

 success of his unnamed friend's mischievous and misleading 

 attempt, which merits and will doubtless receive the hearty con- 

 demnation of every British botanist. — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



Polystichum Braunii in England. — During his visit to 

 England last year Dr. Kummerle of the Botanischen Institut, 

 Budapest, determined as a small form of this species a specimen 

 collected by the Rev. W. H. Painter in Leigh Woods, Somerset, 

 in June 1881, distributed as Aspidium angulare and now in the 

 National Herbarium. The plant is mentioned by Dr. Kummerle 

 in the account of his travels in Europe published in Jelentes, a 

 Magyar Nemzeti Museum, 1906, p. 210. The following descrip- 

 tion of the plant, translated from Gareke's Flora von Deutschland 

 (ed. 17, 719, 1895), may be of interest: — "Frond lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, at base gradually attenuate, membranaceous, 

 somewhat flaccid, bipinnate ; pinna at base somewhat unequal 

 and dilated on the upper or on both sides, above longly or shortly 

 pointed or often obtuse, the lowest pinnae far shorter than the 

 rest ; pinnules tolerably large, almost sessile, decurrent, at base 

 entire and truncate on the upper side, above obtuse, the lowest 

 upper pinnule a little larger than the rest ; sorns moderately large, 

 very convex, indusium very small, almost membranaceous." 



Lycopodium clavatum L. in Bedfordshire. — The only pub- 

 lished record for this species in Bedfordshire is that given in 

 Abbot's Flora Bedfordiensis, 1798, since which there is no evidence 

 of the existence of this plant within the county. The station 

 given by Abbot is Potton Heath, which is situated in the north- 



