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Jasione Montana. Frequent in both counties. 

 Campanula 7'apunculoldes^ L. (C) Bangor, Caemaesysglodig. 

 C rotimdifoUa^ L. Common in both counties* 

 C. Jiederacea, L. (C) Banks of Ogwen Lake, and near Llandegai. 

 (To he continued.) 



Sljort ^otes anb Queries. 



Correction of a Corkection. — A further and ampler specimen of the 

 Hypnoid moss (alluded to in the last number of the Naturalist) having 

 been sent me by Dr. Lees, aifords greater facility for study. It possesses 

 one capsule with the operculum thereon, which being conical and not 

 beaked, shows it to belong to Brachythecium, and not to Eurynchium ; 

 but as the nerve or midrib of the leaf extends to the apex, it must be 

 referred to B. populeum, not plumosum, in which latter the nerve ceases , 

 about the middle of the leaf. The plant, after all, appears to be 

 B. populeum, var. majus, as to which vide ''Schimper's Synopsis." The 

 Beta is so slightly rough, that at a first glance it seems smooth. All this 

 offers one more proof of the need for extreme caution in giving names to 

 small and imperfect specimens of mosses, for they are very likely to mis- 

 lead even a practised observer. No such specimen should be considered 

 safe, if it belongs to an intricate group, till it has been remanded for a 

 time, and brought up for a second examination, when it will often be j 

 found that some important point was overlooked at first. As Wilson; 

 used to say, "we do not at all times see the same thing with the samei 

 eyes." Austin states that B. populeum plainly passes into j^Zumoswrn," j 

 and in uniting the two he is followed by some other American writers ; j 

 hut we may demand more proof of its correctness before accepting this | 

 dictum as final. I, at least, have seen no intermediate links. — H, Boswell. j 



V. C-alhum in North Wales. — I am surprised to find that Mr.j 

 Bairstow's List of the Butterflies of North Wales does not include i 

 V. C-album. I saw a few specimens of this butterfly last year, in thej 

 neighbourhood of Bont-d-dhu and Hendreforion, near Barmouth. With; 

 the exception of Cardui, C-album was the only species of the genus which 

 I observed in Merionethshire or Denbighshire in the course of three 

 weeks. — H. Goss, Surbiton Hill, Surrey. 



Sesia sphegiformis, &c.— Pupse of this rare clearwing were collected noti 

 uncommonly in Tilgate Forest during Whitsuntide. At the end of May,j 

 too, Meliana flammea was taken rather freely at Wicken Fen. — G. T. P. ; 



REYIEW.— "The British Moss Flora.— Fam. I., Andregeacea : By' 



R. Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S., London, of the Author, 303, ClaphamI 



Road. — The first part of this work (referred to on page 156) is now in ouri 



hands, and the few remarks we have already made respecting it are morej 



than realised. The engraver has reproduced the drawings most accu-j 



rately and neatly, and in a style which it would be almost impossible toj 



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