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.^CidiurQ pimpinellse Var. apii.— On Bank Holiday last (June 2nd), 

 my friend Mr. E. Peak and I had an enjoyable botanical ramble on the Lincolnshire 

 coast, where, amongst other things, we found several interesting fungi, Mr. Peak 

 being fortunate enough to find, near Cleethorpes, an yEddhim on Aphcni 

 g7'aveolens which was new to both of us. Finding no record of it, I sent a 

 specimen to Dr. M. C. Cooke, who kindly named it as above, observing, ' It has 

 been said that it never grows on Apium graveolens,^ and at his request I have since 

 sent him specimens of it for the herbarium at Kew Gardens. 



On the 2 1st June, accompanied by Mr. Peak, I succeeded in finding the same 

 fungus on this side of the Humber, near to Hedon, but it was not by any means 

 common. 



The beautiful A^cidium slatices was plentiful on the leaves of Statice limonmm 

 on the Lincolnshire coast, and there were great quantities of Spergiclaria marina^ 

 almost every leaf of which was dotted with Cystopiis Lepigoni. S. marina was 

 not so plentiful near here, but almost every plant of it was more or less affected 

 with the 'white rust.'— Tiios. Dennis, Hull. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society.— At the meeting on the i6th of 



June, Dr. B. Carrington, F.R.S.E., in the chair, the secretary (Mr. Thomas Rogers), 

 exhibited specimens of Tortula inucronata in fruit, and Campylopiis paradoxus^ 

 collected by Mr. Boswell in South Wales, and Bryjini turhhiatiun from Oxford- 

 shire. Mr. George Buyers having spent a few days during Whit week in the 

 lake district, had the good fortune to find Hedzvigidium hnberbe, this being the 

 first time of record for an English county. Mr. G. Stabler sent specimens of the 

 rare Jimgermannia Hellcriana^ collected by Mr. Michie at Balmoral, being the 

 second station recorded. Mr. G. A. Holt sent several rare mosses, recently 

 collected, amongst them Philonotis rigida from the Isle of Man, and Lejeiinea 

 calcarea from Miller's Dale, Derbyshire. Mr. W. H. Pearson exhibited and 

 distributed specimens of the rare Coscmodon cribrosiis, recently collected by Mr. 

 Sunderland and himself at Goniston. Mr. W. Forster exhibited a beautiful variety 

 of Scolopeiidrhan viilgare^ thp fronds being generally of a pale yellow, with stripes 

 of bright green between the lateral veins from the mid-rib. He had sown spires 

 of a variegated form, but the plant he raised did not show variegation until the 

 third year of its growth. — Thomas Rogers, Sec. 



PhySCOmitrium pyriforme. — A few days ago, whilst rambling down 

 the course of a stream running eastwards through the deep valley to the south of 

 Thornhill Edge, I gathered a few tufts of this pretty moss in full fruit. They 

 were growing on the bare clay forming the banks of the stream, which rise about 

 eighteen inches above its bed. This, I believe, is the first time this interesting 

 moss has been recorded for this portion of the ' Colne-with-Calder ' district. — 

 C. P. HOEKIRK, Dewsbury, July 7th, 1884. 



Rosa tomentOSa in Notts.— A few days ago I found a fine plant in full 

 bloom near Sutton-on-Trent. I have never seen this species before. — W\ Gain, 

 Tuxford, June 27th, 1884. 



[Mr. Gain sent us a specimen, which we have sent to the Botanical Locality 

 Record Club. Mr. Lees has since favoured us with the following critical notes on 

 the specimen. — Eds.] 



— This is var. b of the old aggregate villosa of Hudson's ' Flora Anglica,' Ed. 2. 

 It is now known as Rosa tomentosa Sm., and is mainly distinguished from R. villosa 

 L. (which is R. mollissima Willd.) by the more curved and stouter broader- based 

 prickles and pinnated sepals. The fruit varies in shape and armature. The 

 leaves vary, too, from very downy on both sides to glandulous and nearly 

 glabrous. This Trent-side plant appears to approach the var. siib-globosa Sm., 

 of Baker's monograph. It is, truly, less common in the south and east than in 

 the north, but ranges from Devon and Wight to Caithness. Both I myself and 

 the Rev. W. Fowler have gathered it in several parts of Lincolnshire, and near 

 Torksey, but the flora of Notts, as modern botanists know it, taking especial 

 note of critical ' splits, ' still needs working out, and lists verified by authority as 

 to names would be valuable. Rosa ''tomentosa,'' as- distinct from R. ^villosa,] 

 is given as 'frequent' in Howitt's 'Notts Flora' (1839), and stands recorded like- 

 wise for county 56 in Watson's 'Topographical Botany.' — F. A. Lees. 



Aug. 1884. 



