﻿til 



Meadows."— Merrett, 94. " In Cornwall about Kilkhampton and 

 elsewhere."— Ray, Cat. 244. Found by Ray in 1662 (Iter iii.). 



Verbena officinalis L. Sp. PI. 20 (1753). 1548. "Vervine 

 .... groweth in many places of Englad." — Turn. Names, G vij 

 (under Verbenaca). 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 

 Arabis petraa Lam. var. grandifolia Druce. — In this Journal 

 for 1893, p. 65, Mr. Beeby, in a paper headed " Our Endemic List," 

 disposes of some of the plants I had named as probably endemic in 

 Dr. A. R. Wallace's Island Life, ed. 2. I have now to deprive 

 another of that position. In the Botanical Exchange Club Report 

 for 1888 (p. 199), 1889, Mr. Druce describes a variety of Arabis 

 petraa as var. grandifolia. In Island Life Sir J. D. Hooker remarks, 

 " The larger flowers alone distinguish this." Among a series of 

 Siberian plants recently sent me by Herr Meinshausen, of St. 

 Petersburg, I find two sheets of specimens that are exactly Mr. 

 Druce's plant, named "A. petraa Lam. var. ambigua Hegel." So 

 far as I can ascertain, Fries was the first to publish it as a variety 

 in the 3rd Mantissa, p. 77 (1842), it having previously been described 

 as a species by DeCandolle (Sgstema, ii. p. 231 (1819)). The 

 description by Regel is contained in his Plant® Baddean<r, v . 166, 

 tab. 5, figs. 8, 9, 10 (1861). Fries gives only one locality for it in 

 Sweden. Kjellman (Vega Exped.) found it on the Asiatic coast at 

 Eonyam Bay. Banks of the Lena (Miiller & Czekanowaki I): 

 River Kolyma (Trantvetter) ; Taimyr (Middendorf ) ; Jenesi 

 (Schmidt); Amur (Radde); Kamschatka (Rieda, Regel, I.e.). 

 In America :— Island of Ounalashka (A. ambigua intermedia Cha- 

 misso et Schld., Linn. i. p. 16 (1826). Probably at Yale, Brit. 

 Columbia; Macoun, Cat. Canad. pi. 1, p. 42. Selkirk Mts.„ 

 Brit. Columbia ; Aloska ; Macoun, I. c. 2, p. 486. A. ambiguum 

 Bongard, Veg. ins. Sitka, p. 125 (1831), is, according to Fries, 

 A. lyratah. Sp. PI. 1, p. 665 (1753). Regel has a "lusus B. grandi- 

 flora Led. p. 120," but Ledebour only says (Fl. Ross. 1 " 

 (1842) ), " B. floribus majoribus"; Regel describes this as 



Arthur Bennett, 



glabris v. apice barbulatis, petalis £-f poll, longis.' 



Cochlearia groenlandica L. in Caithness. — Having occasion to 

 turn over my sheets of C. danica L., I have found a specimen of the 

 above, gathered on July 5th, 1886, during an evening stroll along 

 the cliffs S. of W T ick, in company with Messrs. Grant and Hanbury. 



on muddy ground among 'the rocks', ^n Company with Glyceritit 

 distans, &c— Edward S. Marshall. 



Hermaphrodite Hazels. — Last year I recorded (Journ. Bot. 

 p. 153) the finding of hazels near Stonyhurst, in Lancashire, 

 bearing pistils in some of the flowers of the male catkins. I now 



