Edenbridge. 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. R. P. Murray in the Mendip Hills, when I had the good fortune to detect the leaves of Carex montana L. among the grass on a gently sloping bank by a roadside. 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.

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RUBUS SILVATICUS W. & N. -I have to correct two errors in the names of the stations of Rubus silvaticus in my article on this bramble at p. 276. The S. Wilts station should be Landford, it is correctly written in Herb. Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, 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. R. ARCHER BRIGGS.

ROSA 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 "Rosa micrantha Sm. var. Briggsii" 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. Roses (Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 222).—T. R. ARCHer Briggs.

WELSH RECORDS. 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, Lysimachia Nummularia and Sparganium simplex; ditches east of the Glaslyn below Aberglaslyn Bridge. 49. Carnarvonshire, Carex remota; on the old road by Gwynant Lake, leading to Pennygwryd.-F. C. S. ROPER.

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

The British Moss-Flora. By R. BRAITHWAITE, M.D., F.L.S. Part XIII. Fam. XII. Splachnacea; XIII. Edipodiacea; XIV. Funariaceae; XV. Bryaceæ, i. (The Author, 303, Clapham Road). 6s.

THIS standard work, which has been published at the average rate of one part yearly, is advanced another stage by the appearance of part xiii. It consists of 56 pages of letterpress, and

6 plates containing illustrations of 26 species; and treats of 14 genera. Upon comparing it with Wilson's Bryologia Britannica,' we find a new genus and a new species added to the British Flora. The new genus is Nanomitrium Lindb., of the four species of which one only is found in Britain, N. tenerum Lindb. (Phascum Bruch). This species is remarkable for having been found twice only,—at Niesky in Silesia, by Breutel, some sixty years ago, and at Hurstpierpoint, by Mitten, in 1854. The new species is Funaria microstoma Br. et Sch., occurring in Sussex and Hampshire.

Entosthodon is united with Funaria, and constitutes a section of that genus. Funaria calcarea Wahlenb. includes F. hibernica Hook. as a synonym, and under it is given an account of the confused synonymy of F. Muehlenbergii and of Lindberg's attempt to put an end to it by re-naming the species.

Mielichhoferia nitida Hornsch. and Orthodontium gracile Schwaegr. appear respectively as Oreas Mielichhoferi Brid. and Stableria gracilis Lindb. The genus of Bryacea which is commonly known as Webera must be looked for under Pohlia, the author having already employed the name Webera for Diphyscium in part x.

It is to be regretted that a work of such costliness and beauty is not more carefully revised, e. g., on p. 110, at the end of the list of works quoted in reference to Splachnum sphæricum, after "Juratz." should be supplied the words "Laubm. oester.-ung. 234 (1882)." Hampe's genus, which " Mr. Mitten unites with Mielichhoferia," is not Haplomitrium, which is a genus of Hepatics, but Haplodontium. Leptobryum tenuinerve is not one of Spruce's species, as one might be led to suppose by the text, but is No. 252 of Spruce's Musci Amazonici et Andini,' called by Lindberg (?) Leptobryum tenuinerve. (There is in the Herbarium of the British Museum a specimen of this moss, received from Lindberg and named Leptobryum angustinerve Lindb.) "L. robustum from Australia" is also one of Lindberg's species. These, however, are but trifling errors, and do not detract from the value of Dr. Braithwaite's work.

The name Leptobryum gives rise to an interesting speculation as to who was the real authority for that name, and for the combination Leptobryum pyriforme. Lindberg and British authors, including Dr. Braithwaite, make Wilson the authority; continental authors accept Schimper. The names first appeared in the year 1855,-in Wilson's 'Bryologia Britannica,' p. 219, and in Schimper's 'Corollarium Bryologiæ Europææ,' p. 64. Wilson does not quote the author's name, which would lead one to believe that he originated the genus. Schimper, on the other hand, quotes himself as the author in the Synopsis Muscorum Europæorum,' pp. 328, 329 (1860), and retains the claim in edition ii. pp. 389, 390 (1876). The questions to be settled are two:-(1), whether Wilson's Bryologia' preceded Schimper's Corollarium,' or vice versá; and (2), whether Schimper invented the name and communicated it in MS. to Wilson, and the latter introduced it into his book without acknowledging its source.

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Bot. Centralblatt (Nos. 40, 41).——. Overton, 'Histologie & Physiologie der Characeen.' (Nos. 41-43).-K. Mischke, Ueber das Dickenwachsthum der Coniferen.'-(Nos. 42, 48). W. Migula, 'Gonium pectorale' (1 plate).

Botanical Gazette (Sept. 15). C. Warnstorf, N. American Sphagna.'

Bot. Zeitung (Sept. 12-Oct. 10). J. Wortmann, Ueber den Nachweis, das Vorkommen und die Bedeutung des diastatichen Enzyms in den Pflanzen.'-(Sept. 19). A. Koch, Zur Kenntniss der Fäden in den Wurzelknöllchen der Leguminosen.' (Oct. 17). A. Fischer, Ueber den Einfluss der Schwerkraft auf die Schlafbewegungen der Blätter.'

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Oct.). E. L. Gregory, Manner of growth of Cell-wall' (1 plate).-J. W. Eckfeldt, Lichens of United States.'-L. M. Underwood, Lejeunia Macounii Spruce, sp. n.'

Gardeners' Chronicle (Oct. 4). Sobralia Lowii Rolfe and S. Wilsoniana Rolfe, spp. nn.-(Oct. 11). Barbacenia squamata (fig. 81). W. G. Smith, Cladosporium orchidearum (fig. 82). (Oct. 18). Hamanthus Lindeni N. E. Br., n. sp. (fig. 85). (Oct. 27). Pinus Montezuma (figs. 91-94).-Angræcum Henriquesianum Rolfe, n. sp.

Journal de Botanique (Aug. 16).— C. Sauvageau, Sur la feuille des Hydrocharidées marines.' Hue, Lichens de Canisy.'— (Sept. 1 & 16). A. Franchet, Plantes nouvelles du nord de la Chine.'-G. Poirault, Les Urédinées et leurs plantes nouricières.' C. Sauvageau, Structure de la feuille des genres Halodule et Phyllospadix.' H. Feer, Recherches litteraires et

(Oct. 1).

synonymiques sur quelques Campanules.'

Notarisia (dated Aug. 31: received Oct. 29). M. Mobius, 'Algæ brasilienses a cl. Glaziou collecta' (1 plate).-E. De Wildeman, Sur la dispersion de Cephaleuros virescens et Phycopeltis arundinacea.' D. Levi Morenos, Sur l'évolution défensive de Diatomées en rapport avec la Diatomophagie des animaux aquatiques.'

Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (Oct.).-A. v. Kerner, Die Bildung von Ablegern bei Sempervivum & Sedum dasyphyllum.'- R. v. Wettstein, 'Das Vorkommen der Picea Omorica in Bosnien.' - H. Zahn, Carex flava, Oederi, & Hornschuchiana und deren Bastarde.'C. Baenitz, Cerastium Blyttii Baenitz.'-J. Freyn, Flora von Oesterreich-Ungarn.'. J. Wiesner, Versuch einer Erklärung des Wachsthums der Pflanzenzelle.'

Scottish Naturalist (Oct.). — F. B. White, Willows of North-east Scotland.-J. W. H. Trail, Uredinea and Ustilaginea of Scotland.' Id., 'Additions to list of Scotch Discomycetes.'