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350 THE BRITISH MOSS-FLORA.
Edeubridge. The specimens have all been identified by Mr. N. E.
Brown, of Kew. Ernest S. Salmon.
Carex MONTANA Linn, in N. Somerset. — I was having a day's
botanising last July with the Rev. E. P. Murray in the Mendip
Hills, when I had the good fortune to detect the leaves of Carex
mnntana L. among the grass on a gently sloping bank by a road-
side. Careful search led to the discovery of a few withering spikes,
very few in proportion to the number of its plants, and on one of
these a single fruit remained. It was late in the season for this
early flowering Carex, and this may account for our not finding the
remains of a larger number of spikes. Mr. Murray, who has been
collecting material for the forthcoming ' Flora of Somerset,' has
since informed me that this is an addition to the county list.
Edward F. Linton.
EuBus silvaticus W. & N. —I have to correct two errors in the
names of the stations of Ruhus silvaticus in my article on this
bramble at p. 276. The S. Wilts station should be Landford, as
it is correctly written in Herb. Eev. W. Moyle Eogers, and not
Landport ;
the Salop station Longmynd, not Longwynd, Hill, this
latter mistake being the result of a typographical error overlooked
in the correction of the proof.—T. E. Archer Briggs.
EosA MicRANTHA Sm., var. Briggsii Baker. — My attention has
been directed to the statement in the last issued "List of Desiderata "
of the Botanical Exchange Club to the effect that "/losa micrantha
Sm. var. BriggsiV' is synonymous with '' Rosa agrestis Savi." This
is certainly not the case, for the Devon plant is clearly a variety of
Rosa micrantha, as stated in ' my Flora of Plymouth.' It differs
from the typical plant only by having perfectly glabrous peduncles,
and sepals eglandular at the back. It so happened that the varietal
name of Briggsii was first given to specimens of a luxuriant form of
this variety by Mr. J. G. Baker in his Mon. Brit. Eoses (Journ.
Linn. Soc. xi. 222).—T. E. Archer Briggs.
Welsh Eecords. — I have been again in N. Wales, at Beddgelert,
this autumn, and met with the following plants not included
in Top. Bot. ed. 2 :—48. Merionethshire, LysimacJdaNumniularia and
Sparganium simplex ; ditches east of the Glaslyn below Aberglaslyn
Bridge. 49. Carnarvonshire, Carex remota; on the old
Gwynant Lake, leading to Pennygwryd.—F. C. S. Roper.
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The Rritish Moss-Flora. By E. Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S.
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