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 366 SHORT NOTES. SiSYRiNCHiUM CALiFORNicuM Dryander in Ireland. — On June 16tb, during a brief visit to Wexford, my wife and I worked a considerable portion of the sandhills between Rosslare and Eosslare Point, together with parts of the E. shore of Wexford Haven. In returning, we explored some marshy, rushy meadow-land a mile or more N. of Rosslare Station, and were much surprised to find a yellow-flowered Sisyrinchium growing in great plenty over several acres of the wettest part, associated with Orchis incarnata, Erio- phorum angustifoliiim, Ranunculus repens, R. Flammula, Carex distans, C. hirta, C. flacca, &c. — no introduced species being observed. The ground has been partially drained, but not cultivated, to all appear- ances. Expecting that this would prove to be a N.E. American species, I sent living examples to Mr. Britten, who, with Messrs. E. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle, kindly examined them, and found them to agree with the type of S. califoniicum, a plant of California and Oregon. The perianth- segments are about ^ in. long, of a clear, bright, uniform yellow (much as in Chhra) when first opened, but fading to orange with brown veins. When found, the blossoms were in the latter state, and they probably expand only in the forenoon ; what caught my eye was the sooty-brown, triangular- oblong capsules. I am quite convinced that this plant has not been accidentally introduced, and that, unless a true native, it must have been purposely sown, many years ago. Until quite recently there was no railway to Rosslare (there is none marked in the ordnance-map of 1889), and the only dwellings near, with the exception of Rosslare House, distant about half a mile, are primitive fishermen's or labourers' cottages. — Edward S. Marshall. Westmorland Brambles. — I collected the following brambles last season in the neighbourhood of Kendal, which have been named for me by Rev. W. M. Rogers : — Ruhusfissus Lindl. Cuns- wick Wood. — R. leucostachys Schleich. Serpentine Wood, Kendal. — R. infestus Weihe. Heversham, and on ''the mosses," Low Levens. — R. mercicus var. hracteatus Bagnall. Serpentine Wood, Kendal. The two last species are, I think, new records for vice- county 69. — C. H. Waddell. Newbury Casuals. — CaucaHs latifolia and C. daucoides were met with by Mr. H. Weaver and myself on some waste ground near the Newbury Goods Station on June 7th last. Only one example of each occurred. Growing near at hand were Medicago denticulata, Galium tricorne, and Centaurea solstitialis, the latter having appeared in this locahty for two seasons in succession. These plants, of course, only occurred as casuals. Two or three plants of Sisym- brium pannonicum were observed at Enborne last year, growing near a gravel-pit, and having probably been introduced with other see4s. — A. B. Jackson. [The occurrence of solitary examples of introduced plants is hardly worth recording. — Ed. Journ. Bot.]