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SHORT NOTES. 

 Vaccinium Vitis-id;ea at low levels.— With reference to pre- 

 vious correspondence on the subject (Journ. Bot. 1892, pp. 88, 121), 

 it may interest Mr. More and Mr. Stewart to know that the lower 

 limit of this plant in Northern Ireland may be reduced to 200 feet. 

 It grows abundantly on a peaty bank by the side of the road from 

 Kilrea to Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, at a distance of about a mile 

 from the former place. The exact elevation I had no opportunity 

 of determining, but it is within ten or fifteen feet of 200 feet above 

 ordnance datum. The road at this place runs through a bog, now 

 mostly worked out for fuel, and this bog no doubt was the original 

 home of the plant.— E. Lloyd Peaegeb. 



Lomond on 9th August of this year (1894), in company with Mr. 



B. Kidston, F.G.S., and other friends, I had the pleasure to meet 

 with this interesting little fern, recognising its deltoid fronds from 

 having seen them in 1888 on hills north of Glen Lochay, Mid-Perth. 

 Mr. Arthur Bennett, to whom the plant has been submitted, 

 remarks: — "I think the Cystopteris must be C. montana, though 

 certainly the seta3 are much less numerous than usual." Fronds 

 only were brought away, and it is to be hoped that this local species 

 may spread at its newly-found station— wet grassy ledges on the 

 precipitous cliffs of the northern face of the hill, at about 8000 ft., 

 and m company with its congener, C. fragilis Bernh. It is some- 

 what remarkable that though Ben Lomond is but twenty-seven 

 miles distant m a direct line from Glasgow, and is visited annually 

 by many botanists, it should only at this late day be telling us 

 that Cystopteru montana belongs to its flora, and to the flora of 

 Stirlingshire. Through the kindness of Mr. Bennett, I am able to 

 give particulars of the other five counties in Britain in which 



C. mmtana occurs, viz. . --(69) Westmoreland; (88) Perth, mid; 

 (90) Forfar; (92) Aberdeen, south; (98) Argyle, main. "It was 

 first found in Britain by Mr. W. Wilson, on Ben Lawers, in 1836 " 



me) ; and it is me' 



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rotundifolia L., var. abenama Koch.* — Mr. Billups, of 

 i, has kindly sent me a box of fresh specimens from 

 )uth Lancashire. They number 97 specimens, and an 

 them produces the following results :— * 



have 2 bracts between the rootstock and the flowers. 



