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 SHORT NOTES AND QURRIES. 173

PERIANTH (p. 112). — The term 'perianth ' seems to me to be too use- ful to discard. It should, however, be used as a collective term for the floral envelopes. We may thus have the perianth in its perfect forai separable into two parts — the calyx and corolla. Then, again, either the outer or inner portion may be wanting, or the two series may be similar, either both calyx-like, calycoid, or both more or less brightly coloured or corolloid. — W. R. M'Nab.

��Plants of Co. Coiik. — Scirpus Savii ; not recorded up to this from District No. 2 of ' Cybele Hibernica,' but occurs abundantly in the east of the county. — Carex diviilsa ; apparently a very rare plant in Ireland, but not unfrequent in this county. It occurs at Midleton, and in the extreme west near Bantry. — C. Umosa ; not recorded from this county hitherto, but found twice by me last summer, near Glengariffe, at base of the Sugar Loaf, and on Bluefort Bog, Newmarket. — C. Jilifurmis ; stated by Drummond to grow in Ballyphehane Bog, near Cork, but not seen there lately. I found it last summer abundantly in a lake at head of the Glengarifte Glen. — C. paludosa ; not recorded from the county. I have found it here at Dumfort Bog, and again in the west near Dunmanway. — T. Allin.

��Vekonic.\ triphyllos, L. — One of my pupils lately found this in a cornfield near Rugby, where several other Veronicas were growing. Its occurrence here so far away from the eastern counties, its proper habitat, seems worthy of record. — F. E. Kitchener.

��Crithmum maritimum. — In the last number of the Journal (p. 143) the shingly beach at Newton Creek is called a "most unusual locality" for Crilhinum maritimum. Surely this is not the case ; the plant is not abundant in Sussex, but I find it here and there on the beach all along the coast from Rye to Chichester Creek, and I have seen it in several similar places in other parts of England. — W. W. Reeves.

��Applications of some Brittsh Plants. — The Carices are not noted for their economic value, but in isolated country districts we may often see some novel application of a native product little thought of by the residents of large towns. The Carex panicnlata, L., a plant growing in wet copses and marshes, would appear to be of no interest economi- cally, yet the dense tufts of this plant, which attain a large size in the Norfolk fens, are cut by the peasantry, and used to a certain extent in some parts of the county, as well as in Sussex, for kneeling-hassocks in churches. They are very durable, and have been known to last over fifty years. The stems of Scirpus lacnstriis and Tt/pJia intifoUa are, of course, more geiu;rally used, but these are plattcul, while the tufts of the Carex require no preparation. In Yorkshire and Cumberland it is not uncom- mon for the Hair Moss, Polytrirhnm commune, to be used both for hassocks and brooms. In Lapland, the natives remove large masses of this Moss from the ground just above the roots, ami use them for mak- ing beds ind for coverings instead of blankets. — J. R. Jackson.

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