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^HORT NOTES. 41 The financial position of the Journal does not, however, warrant any additional expenditure. For the last few years it has not, as was at one time the case, involved any loss, but it does little — in some years nothing — more than pay its way. Of this I do not complain, as I did not undertake the editorship with a view to financial profit ; but, on the other hand, I should not be justified in incurring any loss. After discussing the position with various botanists, I propose to enlarge the Journal by giving an extra 16 pages monthly, and to raise the price of each number to Is. 8d., and of the annual sub- scription to 16s. This means that the contents will be increased by one-half, while the charge will be raised by one-third, so that subscribers will be the gainers by the change. At times, of course, it may be desirable to substitute one or more plates for the additional pciges, but the general result of the change will be that each number will contain 48 pages, instead of 32 pages. The change indicated will enable me to give more scope to various branches of botany which have hitherto been somewhat neglected. The discontinuance of Grevillea has brought me a large number of cryptogamic papers for which I am anxious to find space ; and it will be possible to bring to a speedy termination Mr. W. A. Clarke's interesting " First Eecords of British Plants," the continued postponement of which others besides myself have re- gretted. In many other ways, the additional pages will result in making the Journal more useful and more interesting. The present seems a fitting opportunity for suggesting that the list of subscribers might easily be enlarged, if those who already subscribe will induce their friends to do so. There are many who, for the sake of encouraging science, would be willing to add the Journal to their list of periodicals, or who would present it to some reference library. The work of editing the Journal for sixteen years has been considerable, and financially unremunerative, and I think gives me a claim to the support of those interested in any branch of botany. James Britten. SHORT NOTES. Merionethshire Plants {Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 362). — Mr. Han- bury informs me that the Cwm Bychan hawkweed, which I gave in my paper as H. lapponicum, is H. rigidum var. serpentinum F. J. H. — W. R. Linton. HiERACiA Records. — A form of Hieracium umbellatum which occurred near Truro has been named by Mr. Hanbury var. mo7iticola Jord. The broader and more entire leaves are obvious characters which separate it from the type. In Hants and Bucks H. sciapJiilum Uechtritz occurs near High Clere, Hampshire, and near Taplow, Bucks. It is probably the if. vulgatum of most of the southern counties. — G. C. Druce.