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otherwise it is one of the species that has escaped the splitter. — 

 Arthur Bennett. 



Dorset Plants. — In Mr. C. E. Sahxion's interesting and 

 careful paper in last month's Journal (1911, p. 364), an asterisk 

 is placed before Stachys pahtstris x sylvatica as if it were new to 

 the county. It is only new to District G, there being five 

 localities for this hybrid in the Flora of Dorset, and one more in 

 my Flora of Bournemouth. In the paper that follows Mr. 

 Salmon's, on Lyme Eegis, Mr. Pugsley gives several species as 

 new " to that district." If he means District A, The Flora 

 of Dorset, ed. 2 (1895), cannot have been consulted. In that 

 work Fceniculum vulgare and Daiohne Laureola (Uplyme, by the 

 way, is in Devon) are recorded from Lyme ; Fetasites ovatus (as 

 P. vulgaris Desf.) is said to be " generally distributed " in the 

 county, and so no stations are mentioned ; for Glyceria p'o- 

 cicmbens two localities a.re given in the District, for Jasione 

 moiitana four, and for Festuca rotthcellioides one, the latter under 

 the name of Poa loliacea Huds. Last spring Dr. C. E. Moss drew 

 my attention to Viola silvestris var. punctata Eouy & Foucaud in 

 Edmondsham ; and in October he pointed out to me that the 

 perennial Salicornia near Poole, and in Hamworthy, was S. lignosa 

 Woods, and not S. radicans as previously recorded ; and together 

 we gathered S. disarticulata Moss, which I had formerly taken 

 for a form of ;S. piisilla Woods, and a curious compact form of 

 Polygonum aviculare L. var. microsperimim (Jord.), differing in 

 habit and in a rather broader shorter leaf from the usual form, 

 but having the same undersized fruit. The last two seem to be 

 new to Dorset. — E. F. Linton. 



Fossil Fungi. — I should be greatly obliged if any of your 

 readers can tell me of any Fungi from peat, turbaries, or any 

 deposit up to Eoman times in Britain. I enclose list of all I can 

 find recorded ; I have lost a reference to one found in Chat Moss, 

 which I should be glad to recover : — 



Boletus. — Alluvium, Eiver Thames. 



Bovista nigrescens. — Loch Lee, Crannog. 



Dcedalea quercinus. — Loch Lee, Crannog. 



Hypoxylon concentricum. — Downham Fen and Thames 

 alluvium. 



Polyporus fomentarius. — Cambridge fens. 



P. hispidus. — Peat, Crossness, Essex. 



P. ignarius. — Loch Lee, Crannog. 



P. kicidus. — East Anghan fens (Brit. Mus. Guide). 



P. cf. squarrosus. — Peat, Newbury. 



Bhytisma salicinum. — Lake dwelling at Glastonbury. 



Sphceria concentrica. — Fen peats, Skertchley. 



Communications may be sent to me at 14, Euskin Eoad, 

 Ipswich. — Alfred Bell. 



Late Flowering op Hawthorn. — During the drought of 

 July and August last the Malvern Hills suffered in many places 

 from extensive fires, which destroyed tlie Bracken and grasses 



