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MISCELLANEOUS. 



RANUNCULUS LENORMANDI, F. W. SCHULTZ. 



In my * Manual' I have noticed a plant as a variety (/3. grandiflorus) 

 of R. hederaceus, v^'hich it seems quite certain is the above species, 

 described by Schultz in the ' Flora,' vol. xx. p. 726, and aj^ain in the 

 same journal, vol. xxiv. p. 171, and recently figured by Cosson and 

 Germain in the first portion of their beautiful ' Atlas de la Flore des 

 Environs de Paris.' It differs from R. hederaceus by each lobe of its 

 leaves having two or three notches, its carpels obovate and tipped 

 with a terminal style, petals broader and longer, stipules very broad 

 and scarcely at all adnate to the petioles. It is a considerably larger 

 plant than R. hederaceus, and has probably been overlooked in En- 

 gland as either that species in a vigorous state or perhaps as a state 

 of R. aquatilis, from which the want of capillarily-divided leaves and 

 the absence of setse on the receptacle distinguish it. — C. C. B. 



CAREX MONTANA, LINN. 



Mr. William Mitten, of Hurstpierpoint, has had the good fortune 

 to find this plant in a field in Sussex, near to Tonbridge Wells. It 

 much resembles C. pilulifera, a specimen of which is I believe pre- 

 served in the Linnsean herbarium in mistake for C. montana ; but the 

 true plant of Linnaeus has been accurately determined in Sweden. 

 C montana differs from C. pilulifera by having ovate fertile spikes, 

 much blunter or retuse and darker glumes, oblong-obovate hairy 

 fruit, and an oblong nut. — C. C. B. 



MIGRATIONS OF SALMON. 



About a year and a half ago. Lord Glenlyon, with the praiseworthy 

 motive of deciding the long-agitated question as to whether the sal- 

 mon, after returning to the ocean from its spawning-ground, again 

 resought the same river on another return of the season, caused a 

 number of kelts, or foul fish, to be caught and marked, by attaching 

 a label, by a ring, to what is called the dead fin of each. I^ast sum- 

 mer a number of these were captured on various stations in the Tay, 

 but, so far as we have heard, none in the Earn ; on Tuesday last an- 

 other was caught at the Rashbush, a fishing-ground below Inchyra. 

 This fish was in excellent condition, and weighed 21 lbs. The label 

 bore as follows: — "Lord Glenlyon, Dunkeld, No. 129." — Perth 

 Advertiser. 



ON THE SPORES OF SOME ALG^. BY M. GUSTAVE THURET. 



M. Unger has published a very interesting investigation of the 

 Achlya prolifera* . The researches which I have made on this sin- 

 gular Alga, whilst confirming most of the observations of M. Unger, 

 have presented to me some new facts, which I shall describe else- 

 where. I shall content myself here with rectifying an error into 



* Ann. dcs Sc. Nat., 3rd Series, 1814, vol. ii. p. 5. pi. 1. 



