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Athyrium Filix-fcetnina , Roth., var. molle , Bernh. Wet wood, 
Shobdon marsh, Hereford, 16th September, 1886. — Augustin Ley. 
Passed by Mr. Baker, without remark. 
Cystopteris fragilis , Bernh., var. dent at a, Hook. On the mortar of 
a bridge, Cwm Cyrwyn, near Brecon, 14th July, 1886. — Augustin 
Ley. Passed by Mr. Baker, without remark. 
C. inontana , Bernh. Rocks near Tyndium, Mid-Perth, 21st 
August, 1886. — H. & J. Groves. 
Nephrodium dilatatum . Desv., var. glandulosum. Bishopswood, 
Hereford, 27th August, 1886. I send a few specimens of what may, 
I hope, be the true plant, judging from the union of a densely glan- 
dular stipe with nearly concolorous scales. I found but a single root 
in a dense but very wet wood, growing in the midst of abundance of 
N. spinulusum and N. dilatatum. This single root was a very large 
one, supporting some 20 — 30 fronds, many very large, arranged shuttle- 
cock fashion, like those of N dilatatum. A large plant, not far away, 
bearing fronds quite as densely glandular, but narrow pointed scales 
with dark centre, had to be referred to N. dilatatum. The station is 
about four miles from the original station for A!, glandulosum , at 
Ankerberry bog, near Lydbrook (not Sedbrook , as printed in Eng. Bot. 
Ed. iii, vol. xii, p. 81); where the plant has been extinct for some 
years. — Augustin Ley. “ Agrees very well with our type specimen 
o{ glandulosum.” — J. G. Baker. 
Equisetum sylvaticum , Linn., var. capillare , Hoffm. Woods near 
Dunphail, Morayshire, 14th July, 1886. New to Great Britain. — F. 
J. Hanbury. Judging from the one specimen sent I see that the 
variety stands in the same sort of relation to the type as E. fluviatile 
to E. limosum , L. The term capillare well describes the hairlike 
branches, which are all much attenuated, extending 3m. and 4m. from 
the whip-like stem. The internodes of the branches, too, are lengthened 
out, and average about a quarter of an inch. The specimen is a barren 
stem. The branchlets are generally ascending slightly, and compara- 
tively few are recurved. Nyman (Consp. FI. Eur.) does not separate 
it as a variety. — E. F. L. 
E. litorale , Kiihl. Bisley Common, Surrey, 4th July, 1886. I 
am only able to send barren specimens, but hope to find it in better 
condition next summer. — W. H. Beeby. 
E. variegatum , Schleich, var. arena 7 'ium , Newm. Sandy shallow 
ditch beside a railway near Swansea, Glamorgan, 26th April, 1886. — 
W. R. Linton. Aberffraw sands, Anglesea, May, 1886. — J. E. 
Griffith. Sandhills, Llyn Coron, Anglesea, August, 1886. — W. H. 
Painter. In both cases the species is new to the county. The 
specimens from Anglesea are very poor, but they are the right plant. 
Those from Glamorgan are splendid specimens, the stems in some 
cases measuring 8in. and 9m. ; the fruiting cones in plenty, well- 
developed. With regard to the latter, it is curious that E. hyemale 
should have been recorded for the great Crymlyn bog, which reaches 
to within a few hundred yards of Mr. W. R. Linton’s station, as long 
ago as 1840 (in Vol. I. of the Phytologist). In the same Vol. of the 
Phytologist are Newman’s papers on E. hyemale , E. trachyodon (then 
only recently distinguished), and E. variegatum. I judge from 
