36 BOTANICAL NOTES. 



zontal flowers {jniich larger than the calyx), broader leaves, and 

 reflexed capsules. (In the British ]^Iuseum Herbarium is a speci- 

 men of M. sylvaticum^ which has the capsule reflexed.) 



In the Wigtown locality no other Melampyi-uin occurred, so 

 hybridity is not likely. 



Many mistakes have been made by fairly competent botanists in 

 naming specimens of pratense as sylvaticum^ and it is not unlikely that 

 plants of var. hia?is have been thus mistaken ; such errors suggest 

 -some faulty or incomplete specific definition. 



As characters of pratense^ the pale yellow flowers and closed 

 mouth had in future better be omitted. The colour of M. sylvaticum 

 is not constant, as Dr. Buchanan White describes 'a form growing 

 with the type, but more sparingly in Glen Hill, East Perth, which had 

 the flowers smaller, corolla mouth less open, corolla pale yellow or 

 whitish touched with violet, bracts shorter and broader' {Scottish 

 Naturalist, 1875, P- 20), which he suggested should be known as 

 J/ sylvaticum L. var. pallidiflora White. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society.— At the July meedng, Dr. B. 



Carrington, F.R.S.E., in the chair, ]Mr. W. H. Pearson exhibited specimens of 

 Radula aquilegia (Tayl.j, collected May, 1883, by Mr. G. Stabler and himself, at 

 Llanberis, being a new station for this rare hepatic. The honorary secretary 

 exhibited several interesting varieties of British ferns, which had been sent him by- 

 Mr. J. Tyerman, from Cornwall. Mr. Wm. Forster exhibited fronds of Asplenhmi 

 lanceolatiDU which had been gathered wild by the Rev. W. T. Baker, in Cumber- 

 land. This important record of so northern a habitat in Britain for so southern a 

 fern was communicated by Mr. J. M. Barnes, of Miinthorpe. — T. Rogers, 

 Hon. Sec. 



Mosses, &C., at Sherburn-in-Elmete.— Vv^hile with the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union on the 2nd June last, I gathered various mosses and one 

 hepatic. The latter — Jungermannia tiirbinata Raddi — -was found in an old 

 quarry. Of the mosses, Leptohry^im pyrifornie Bry. Eur., was in fine fruit in 

 Huddlestone Quarry; and Anisotheciicin rtihriim Huds. {=Dicraiiella varia 

 Hedw.) was in old fruit, in an old quarry. All the rest were sterile, and included 

 Hypmuii restipinaticm Wils., on trees in Scarthingwell Park woods ; and 

 H. chrysophylliim Brid., RhyncJiostcgiiiin nuirale Dill.. Zygodon viridissinms Brid., 

 var. /3. rnpestris Lind.(?), Torhila aloides, Br. & Sch., and T. HornscJnichiana 

 Schultz, found in old quarries near Sherburn. The season being very dry, was not 

 good for collecting these minute cryptogams, and those found could not — on 

 account of their dried-up condition — be well recognised in the field.— M. B. Slater, 

 Malton, July 7th, 1884. 



Some good Surrey plants.— Mr. P. F. Lee, at the monthly meeting 

 of the Dewsbury Naturalists' Society, on the i6th August, laid on the table the 

 following plants he had recently collected on Box Hill (chalk) Leith Hill (green- 

 sand) and other parts of Surrey : — Campamila glomerata, Carex pendula, Cen- 

 tau7'ea nigra (white flowers), Agrunonia odorata (Fragrant Agrimony), Sediim 

 Telephiiim, var. pin-piirascens^ Cziscuta Epithytmini (Lesser l^odder) on Furze, 

 Cross-leaved Heath, Bilberry, and Ling ; Clematis Vitalba, Asperiila cynanchica, 

 Orobanche viinoj- ^parasitic on Clover), Cardims acaiilis (Dwarf Thistle), Inula 

 Conyza (Ploughman's Spikenard), Koele7-ia cristata, Hyperiatm calycimim, Chlora 

 pe)-foliata^ and in fruit on Box Hill, Juniper, Privet, Box, Yew, and Buckthorn. 



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