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to the edge of a gravel-walk in somewhat impoverished ground, 

 and exposed to the sun nearly all day. This would bear out your 

 suggestion as to the cause being a kind of starvation, for as it was 

 impossible to keep up a sufficient supply of water, scarlet-runners, 

 tomatoes, vegetable marrows and lettuces in the same garden 

 were all killed." — A. B. Eendle. 



Plantago setacea Edmonston. — This name is not included 

 in the Index Keioensis. It appears in Edmonston 's Flora of 

 Shetland, p. 17 (1845), and is printed as follows: — 



" Plantago setacea. 

 " I have given this name provisional^ to a plant not un- 

 common in mountainous districts, which has hitherto been con- 

 founded with P. maritima. The characters I would propose are 

 the following : — 



"P. maritima. 

 " Leaves erect, narrow lanceolate, smooth ; spikes cylindrical. 

 " p. dentata. Leaves toothed. 



"P. setacea. 

 *' Leaves lying flat on the ground, cylindrical or semi- 

 cylindrical. Spikes globular. 



" 13. lanosa. Base of the leaves woolly. 



" Whether these characters are constant, or whether they are 

 of sufficient importance to constitute specific difierence, must be 

 left to future observations." 



The plant is entirely omitted from the second edition " edited 

 and revised by C. F. Argyll Saxby " (a nephew of Edmonston) 

 (1903) — an unsatisfactory work owing to the omissions of nume- 

 rous notes such as the foregoing, which represented Edmonston's 

 observations. It is no doubt a form of P. maritima ; Beeby 

 (in Scottish Nattcralist, 1887, p. 28) referred the var. lanosa to 

 P. maritima var. hirsuta Syme, as to which see p. 214 of the 

 same volume. — James Beitten. 



Sagina nodosa var. monilifera Lange. — In the notice (p. 72) 

 of Mr. Druce's account of the International Phytogeographical 

 Excursion in the British Isles there is a slight error with regard 

 to Sagina. The new variety or forma pointed out by Professor 

 Massart on the dune-marshes near Southport is S. nodosa var. 

 monilifera. The interesting account of S. nodosa recently given 

 in this Journal (p. 270, 1910) by Mr. Travis refers to this form. 

 S. glabra, however, is Mr. Druce's determination of a plant 

 gathered on Ben Lawers. — 0. E. Moss. 



Ulmus Plotii. — Mr. Druce sends us a reprint of a paper 

 published in the December number of the Journal of the Nor- 

 thamptonshire Field Club on Ulmus Plotii, an elm to which he 

 has already called attention in the Gardeners' Chronicle. The 

 tree " was first distinguished " by Plot in his Natural History of 

 Oxfordshire (1677), and is diagnosed by Mr. Druce as *• arbor 



