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 gflORl: NOTtlS. 87 plaut agrees identically. So far as I ara aware at present, T. brevirostris has only been got in two other British localities. It was first recorded as a British moss by Hooker and Greville, from specimens which had been found on a wall in Edinburgh in 1824. The second locahty mentioned for this rare moss is on a wall top in Ashwood Dale, near Buxton, Derbyshire, collected there in 1873 : a record of this discovery is given by Mr. E. M. Holmes [Grevillea^ ii. 169). The plant has been met with in France, Greenland, and amongst the Kocky Mountains in North America, never in great abundance in any locality. The discovery of this rare moss in the East Riding is a very interesting addition to the mosses of York- shire. The three dioicous allies of this section of the genus, viz, T. stellata, T. ericcBj'olia, and T. aloides, are all fairly plentiful in the calcareous district around Malton, following the range of calcareous hills from Castle Howard to Scarborough. They are often met with growing on the old mud-capped stone walls near to the villages, and are in their best mature condition during the autumn and winter months, when they may be gathered in mild weather from October to March. — M. B. Slater. Westerness Plants [Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 345). — Vicia sylvatica is recorded as a new discovery to that vice-county ; it is included in my list of Glen Spean plants recorded in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1892, p. 130, and there is a still earlier record. The Rubus villi' caulis var. Selmeri is only technically a new discovery, for the plant recorded by me in the same place as R. villicauUs^ with the greater part of North British plants so called, belongs to the variety. The R. afflnis of my earlier lists (which was R. ajinis Blox., not of W. and N.) is also identical with this plant. It may be well therefore to put on record the occurrence of R. villicaidis var. Selmeri from E. and W. Ross, Easterness, Nairn, Elgin, Argyle, Mid-Perth, and Wigton. — G. C. Druce. Carex Buxbaumii Wahl. — I use the above name because it is the one so long known to British botanists for the rare Irish plant of Lough Neagh. Unfortunately the woody scrub is now cut down, and the plant exposed: "the little island is now a bare exposed pasturage."* Its recent discovery in some plenty in the West of Scotland is thus interesting not only as an addition to the Scottish flora, but as retaining in our flora a species that will probably become extinct in its only known Irish locality. There is no question that this plant is C. polygama Schk. Reidgr. 84, t. 76 (1801) ; C.fusca Allioni, Fl. Fed. ii. 269 (1785); and C. Buxbaumii Wahlenb. Kdngl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 163 (1803), as Prof. Bailey, of Cornell University, U.S.A., has seen the type specimens in the authors' herbaria above named. Prof. Bailey remarks! : "Although Allioni places this species [C. fusca] in the section characterized by ' spicis pluribus sexu distinctis : mare unica,' it has an andro- gynous terminal spike. It is represented by a good specimen." k t " Studies ... of the genus Carex,'' Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, i. 63 (1889).
 * Stewart & Corry's Flora of the North-east of Ireland, 161 (1888).