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101. Cladophora letevirens, Dillw.; Ner. Bor. Amer. iii. p. 82. 
Fuca Strait, Dr. Lyall. 
Young specimens, about an inch in height. 
102. Cladophora glomerata, Linn.; Ner. Bor. Amer. iii. p. 84. 
Lake Scheveltza, Dr. Lyall. 
103. Conferva rivularis, Ag. 
In running streams, Sumas Prairie, Br. Columbia, Dr. Lyall. 
104. Conferva floccosa, Ag. 
In pools above high water, Esquimalt, Dr. Lyall. 
105. Zygnematis sp. 
Pools, Esquimalt. 
A moderately robust species, with short joints. 
106. Hormotrichum Carmichaelii, Harv. ; Ner. Bor. Amer. iii. p. 90. 
Rock-pools between tide-marks, Fuca Strait, Dr. Lyall. 
107. Hydrurus penicillatus, 4g.; Ner. Bor. Amer. iii. p. 118. 
On stones in streams, Chilukweynk Valley, Dr. Lyall. 
On the Discovery of Gladiolus Illyricus Qj) in the Isle of 
Wight. By Arrxawprm Q. Most, F.LS. 
[Read April 3, 1862.] 
Tunoven the kindness of my friend the Rev. E. Venables, I 
have lately obtained the loan of a specimen and drawing of a wild 
Gladiolus gathered by a lady near Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight; 
and in answer to some inquiries addressed to her, Mrs. Phillipps, 
the discoverer, has informed me that it was found growing in the 
midst of a wild tract of copse and heath, called the * Apse” or 
“America” woods. Only one plant was noticed: it was in bud 
on the 7th of July 1855, and, having been carried home, afterwards 
flowered, when the drawing was made. 
The Gladiolus found at Shanklin evidently belongs to the same 
species as that which grows in the New Forest, as I have ascer- 
tained by comparing Mrs. Phillipps’s specimen with a series col- 
lected at Lyndhurst, by Mr. John T. Syme ; but in the characters 
afforded by the stigma, whose lobes are suddenly (not gradually) 
enlarged upwards, the English plant from both localities appears 
to agree better with Gladiolus lllyricus (Koch) than with either 
G. imbricatus (Linn.) or G. communis (Linn.) ; and I therefore 
venture to propose a change of name, which, I am glad to say, has 
the approval of my friend Professor Babington, who further allows 
