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 368 SHORT NOTES. roseum Scop, abundantly upon the cliffs of the Carmarthenshire Van. — AuGUSTiN Ley. LrzuLA PALLESCENS Besser in Great Britain. — My attention was attracted by a wood-rush closely resembling L. erecta Desv., but differing from ordinary forms of that plant in the silvery-white heads and the perfectly obtuse capsule. Mr. Arthur Bennett in- forms me that it is L. pullescens Besser [Juncm paUescens Wahlenberg, Fl. Lapponica, 87). Whether it is to be regarded as a variety or subspecies under L. erecta Desv. I do not imow ; but, besides the difference of colouring, the capsule appears to me to differ materially from that of L. erecta in shape. I found it growing sparingly in a shady hill-side wood near Presteign, Eadnorshire, June 17th, 1896. — AuGusTiN Ley. Salvia glutinosa in Gloucestershire. — Mrs. Hartshorne, of the Manor House, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the- Water, sent a specimen of the above-named plant to be named. In answer to enquiries she wrote : — '* We found it by the side of the high road, in the hedge close to a low stone wall, with a cornfield on the other side ; there are two large clumps of it, and we have found it there for the last three years ; there is no trace of any cottage or house ever having been near, nor do the village people remember one." — James Britten. Dryas octopetala in Co. Antrim. — Among some plants which I gathered in 1884 at the Sallagh Braes, in Co. Antrim, and which had got astray among my papers, I have recently found a specimen of Dryas octopetala. This discovery is interesting, as the only record of this plant from Co. Antrim is in Mackay's Flora Hibernica (1836), without any locality being mentioned, viz. ** County Antrim, Mr. Templeton" ; on which the editors of the Flora of the North-east of Ireland (1888), p. 48, remark, "In Flora Hibernica Mr. Templeton is erroneously credited with finding this plant in Antrim." I have since heard from my friend Mr. Stewart, the surviving editor, that neither he nor his coadjutor the late Mr. Corry found in Temple- ton's MSS. any note of 1). octopetala in Antrim, hence their reason for doubting the correctness of the statement in the Flora Hibernica. Mr. Stewart has seen my plant, which has come as a surprise to him. He has often searched the Sallagh Braes, but as my plant is an old barren one, it was probably overlooked from its habit in such a condition of creeping close to the ground and resembling Salix repens. To me it is very satisfactory to be able to verify Mr. Templeton's record. — H. W. Lett. EosA STYLOSA Dcsv. IN S. Hants (pp. 135, 319). — If confirmation of this record is needed, I may quote the opinion of the Kev. W. Moyle Rogers: — ''Rosa stijlosa Desv. This is what (after N. E. Brown) I now consider the typical plant, and these are the first specimens that I have seen besides my own S. Wilts ones." — Edw:ard J. Tatum. Exchange Club for Mosses and HEPATiCiE. — In reply to Mr. H. N. Dixon's remarks (p. 135) on the danger of Exchange Clubs