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**EE Flores scaposi. 
18. 8. pepata A. Gray in Proc. Am. ose xxii. p. 288, 
Hab. 8. California, Beat Valley, S. B. Paris 
** The staminal Pare of this plant ave vey crowded at the 
summit, and indistin 
Non satis note. 
Sidalcea nodosa Turez. in Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1868, p. 566, 
S. peruviana Turez. in Bull. Soc. Mose. 18638, p. 566, 
S. triloba Turez. in Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1868, p. 566. 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
Extinction or Coronraster vuicaris.—Prof. Babington sends 
us the following, which he has received from a correspondent :— 
“‘ Cotoneaster vulgaris is quite extinct at the Orme’s Head. I was 
at Llandudno last year for three weeks. I searched the hill very 
oleate in the parts creche it used to grow, but a find no mrs 
¥ 
Owing a co deal to Bishop =; Walakoais How’s exposure in The 
J 
erty otter conor fp tees ch spring. Thus, 
an 
orractum Lindeb. in Brrrarn.—In 1886 I collected 
a hawkweed, whieh was evidently new to Britain, in nie my in 
eats viz., by the Loch of aa Unst (no. 610), a d on low 
cliffs Mi d Yell Voe, Yell (no. 611). Both path avitiod were 
pra to the above species by Mr. Hanbury, whose determination 
is now fully confirmed by Dr. Lindeberg himself. I now know of 
the plant in four localities, on three different islands ; pin it seems 
to be confined to Shetland, so far as Britain is concerned.—W. 
¥. 
A new Baritisa Moss.—Last summer Cinclidotus riparius W. Arn. 
was found by me in the River Teme, near Ludlow, Shropshire, and 
was put aside at the time with other mosses for future examination. 
A few days ago I sent it to Mr. W. P. Hamil wsb 
who at once named it Cinclidotus riparius, but he thought it best to 
send it to Dr. Braithwaite, Mr. Boswell, 0 
identification. They have now confirmed his opinion, and this is 
the first nent therefore for Great Britain, though it was found 
some two or ago in Ireland by Mr. Stewart. The record is 
intere too, ee Y Walon says ES Brit., p. 188) in | describing 
the species, — reference more pig ie to the var var. B. terrestris, 
now known as Barbula mucronata or B. Brebissoni :—“ Search has 
