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SHORT NOTES.
Ceepis nic^ensis Balb., in Beds.—This species lias occurred in
great abundance during the spring and early summer of this year,
in various parts of South Beds. It appears to have been introduced
with foreign grass seeds, as it has been observed chiefly in
pasture lands that have been recently laid down, whence it has
been distributed to railway banks and occasionally to W'aste ground.
It was first noticed in May, when walking through a field, its
rosette of leaves and immature inflorescence arresting one's attention,
as being unlike anything one had observed before. Not being
able to make it agree with any species of Crepis in Hooker's
' Student's Flora,' specimens were sent to Mr. Baker, named
doubtfully as C. biennis, but that gentleman expressed the opinion
that it was C. incacnsis Balb. Subsequently it was noticed in
many fields, in the parishes of Leagrave, Toddington, Stopsley,
and Totternhoe. Mr. C. Crouch also found it in several places
near Pullox Hill. James Saunders.
Brachypodiuji pixnatuji in Bucks. — Specimens of this plant
have been sent me by Mrs. John Tindall, of Leighton, who found
them in a field between the Soulbury Road and Linslade, at the
back of a farm house on the Liscombe estate. This is not
recorded for Bucks in the 2nd ed. of Watson's ' Topographical
Botany.' James Saunders.
Hypnum circinale.—In his note on Hijpnum circinale (p. 238),
Mr. McArdle is puzzled to know why I take it for any form of H.
hamuLomm . He must surely have misunderstood M. Cardot's note,
for I quite agreed with that eminent bryologist, that the moss
named by Moore H. hamidosum did not belong to that species, but
very probably was H. circinale, as M. Cardot supposed. It is quite
as probable that it is Stereodon c(m(ine7isis Mitt., with which I had
not at the time an opportunity to compare it ; but I am very much
puzzled to understand how Mr. McArdle can refer Stereodon
canariensis Mitt., which had no existence as a botanical species
before Nov. 6th, 1863 (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. viii. 5) to Lencodon
canariensis (Brid.) Schwaeg., seeing that the Dilleniau figure he
quotes represents even a larger plant than the adjoining figure 40,
our great Ilijloconiium loreion. The geographical distribution
of some of the species mentioned is also not particularly remarkable,
and Cawpylopus introjlexus is widely distributed throughout
the whole world, between the Alps in the north and Tasmania in
the southern hemisphere.—R. l^RAiTinvAriE.
Helianthemum guttatum in Anglesea. — With llelianthemnm
which was abundant over a limited area near Holyhead, I
Brewcri ,
gathered two or three specimens of 11. (juttatuni Mill. The specimens
were more luxuriant than Dreueri, and were quite cbractcate ;
the leaves were somewhat broader than those on my Jersey plants.
Mr. J. G. Baker says he shoulil consider it typical //. (juttatuni.—
G. C. Druce.
Trientalis europ^a in Foula.—During a brief visit to Foula,
one of the most remote of the Shetland Islands, I noticed Trientalis