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 214 SHORT NOTES AND QUEKIES.

and the railway station, by the Rev. W. A. Leighton and myself in April last. It is recorded in one station only in the ' Flora of Shropshire,' near Oswestry. From the situation in which we found it growing, there could be little doubt it was an importation of recent date. — Galium erectum, Huds. I found this ph;nt, which is new to Shro|)shire, in a meadow forming part of the racecourse at Judas Butts, Shrewsbury, in the be- ginning of May, but not then in bloom. — W. Phillips.

��MoRCHELLA CKASSiPES, Pers. — This Morel, Avhich was first recorded and described as British in the sixth volume of this Journal, page 1, has been found in two localities in the Isle of Wight, viz. Westover Park and ]\Iarvel Copse. It was first noticed by the children of the Rev. R. Nutt, M.A., Curate of Carisbrooke, who afterwards accompanied me to the loca- lity at Westover. There, and also at Marvel Copse, numbers of these immense Fungi were still standing, though at that date, the 15th May, we were not able to find any specimens which were not much past their prime. At Westover, the Fungus grows in the half-wild shrubberies in the Park, chiefly in the shade ; and at Marvel Copse on hedgebanks, in a much more exposed situation. lu both places simply on the soil, and not apparently on dead or decaying wood or vegetable matter. The average height of the specimens was about ten inches, but probably they were taller when in perfection. — Fred. Stratton.

A single specimen of large size was found in Mr. Alfred Smee's garden at Hackbridge, Surrey, growing in company with M. escidenta and M. semilibern. Several specimens of great size were found in May, 1871, by the late Mrs. Gulson, of Eastcliff, Teignmouth, at the tunnel cover close to Hawkesyard Park, Rugeley, Statt'ordshire. One plant was 11 inches high, with a diameter of 7^ inches, and a stem 15 inches in circum- ference. I have also found it near Ware. — W. G. Smith. .

��Trichomanes radicans (p. 174). — In continuation of my note on this as British, I record that a fresh frond was sent to me a few days since, stated to be from a plant which was collected in Yorkshire in a perfectly wild state and locality, and which is now growing in a garden at Wallington. The exact locality is withheld, but I am told it is not the old one where Richardson and Hudson collected their specimens. I am unable to vouch for anything more of this account than that the frond sent to me is undoubtedly that of Trichomanes radicans. — Henry Trimen.

Pyrus communis, Linn., var. Briggsii (Syme, Rep. Lond. Bot. Ex. Club), 1870. — For some years past I have known and observed the form of Pyrus communis growing near Plymouth which Dr. Boswell Syme has thus provisionally named; and am able to add a few particulars respecting it to those given by him in the Bot. Ex. Club Report for 1870, reprinted, after revision by its a<ithor, in Journ. Bot. Vol. IX. pp. 180-187. I have found this form only in the one " hedge between Thornbury and Common Wood," but there it occurs in three or four spots, and there are altogether about a dozen bushes of it, 10-12 ft. high. They are rather more shrubby and crab-like in appearance than are most of the examples of the so-called " Wdd Pear" that I have seen about Plymouth. Dr. Boswell Syme errs in supposing this variety not to be spinous, for at least

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