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SHORT NOTES. 
CHRYSOSPLENIUM ALTERNIFOLIUM IN West Kent. eile Pgh arc 
in the neighbourhood of Ide Hill, near Sevenoaks, W. Kent, in April 
last, I found hig a ni alter nifolium between Ide Hill a Toys 
Watson, in Top. Bot. ed. 2, records this ore o W. Kent, 
with the remark, ‘‘error of species?’ On wri he Rev 
KE. S. Marshall, he kindly informed = mnt probably the doubt 
ere. Peeks Tun- 
bridge Wells,” may be in KE. Sussex or W. Kent. On een 
the Ide Hill whet: “ found the apeniee abundant in a few spot 
in the neighbourhood, riz., in the swampy part of the little wood, on 
the sort of the footpath "from Ide Hill to Toys Hill, just before 
coming to the bridge over a stream; by the little stream in the 
field the oe side of the bridge ; and very plentifully in the wet 
part of the woods through which the stream runs, before and after 
footpath. C. eenominsonen and Allium ursinum grow with it in most 
of pa places.— Ernest §. Saumon. 
Lycopoprum comptanatum L.—I recently looked up the type 
this in Linné’s herbarium, and am convinced that the Gieraun 
shire plant figured in this Journal for 1882, page 321, must go 
under L. alpinum L. Last July I caries exactly the same form 
in Perthshire, and all British “ complan which I have seen is 
similar. my opinion, the species stindeh to tipanpeer from our 
list, on <n knowle aa ARSH 
Gro. aL Dis ON oF Poramoceton savanicus Hassk.— 
Having luety een at Reon, are ine South African plants, I also 
looked at the Potamogetons, and am now able to ada to my list (in 
Berichte der schweiz. Bot. Gesellschaft, Heft 1, p. 60) the following 
numbers, in addition to those Sapbean _ oted by Mr. Bennett in the 
April an aod. May numbers of th 
AN ContTiInENT.—Su ak (Schwetafrth 1225, 2909). 
Mime pon 524, 995, 4118. Hildebrandt 3524, 
peep hrs rom different localities by Hooker & Thomson. 
JAPAN 
ino. 
As Makino’s plant has no ripe fruit, I am not age sure of the 
correctness of my determination. Makino left his specimen un- 
named. What he ——— as P. hybridus Mich, is peasinebtolly 
P, cristatus Regel et — my bate HINZ. 
Pyrus corDaTa tie — The be us Which grows so freely about 
Caldas do Gerez, in Northern P — must be referred to this 
species, and not to P. Achras Walle For this correction I am 
indebted to my dear friend, T. R. pti nll who in July last 
examined carefully my set of Pyrus and Sorbus. As soon as he saw 
the Portuguese plant, he exclaimed, ‘“ That i is Pyrus Briggsit.” A 
comparison with the Plymouth plant followed, but only confirmed 
his first impression. This is an interesting extension of the range 
