I20 The Iriih Nahiralisl. July, 



2. U. MAjOK, Keller (L'. ncglccia, Lchm.), is reported in 

 m}^ " List " for 29 "counties." It is now on good authority 

 reported from i, 2, 6, 11, 12 ! 13, 15, 17 '. 19, 21, 22 ! 23 ! 

 24 ! 26, 41, 52, 58, 72, 73, 75, 79 ! 80, 88 ! 89 ! 90 ! 95 ! 96 ! 

 97, 98, 104, 105 ! no, and with some doubt from 21, 99, 

 100, and 106. 



I cannot accept the suggestion made in the " Prodromus " 

 that major is only a variety of vulgaris. It appears to me 

 a quite distinct species, and I can scarcely imagine anyone 

 seeing it growing with U. vulgaris when both are in flower 

 venturing to place them in one species, except on a hyper- 

 Benthamian standard, which is not now followed. 



3. U. INTERMEDIA, Hayue. The recent separation of U. 

 ochrolcuca throws a doubt over many of the records in 

 " Top. Bot.," and these should all be carefully checked. 

 It is recorded for 27 counties from Dorset to Shetland 

 Many of the Scottish localities it may be presumed will 

 yield for the species ochrolcuca. 



U. intermedia, vera, 1 have seen in 9, 11, New Forest. 

 89 ! Blair Athol 96 ! 100 ! 105 ! If 



growing in very shallow water interniedia has the two kinds 

 of shoots of about the same length ; these if dried carelessly 

 become much intermingled, and it is not always in herbarium 

 specimens easy to disentangle them, so as to be certain if 

 the green shoot really bears bladders.^ 



4. U. OCHROLEUCA, Hartm. This plant, to which Prof. 

 Trail thought some of the Scottish intermedia might be 

 referred, is treated as being certainly Scottish by Dr. 

 Williams (" Prod. Fl. Brit." 348), and he gives Wigton, 

 Kirkcudbright, Dumfries, Argyll, Sutherland and Skye ; he 

 also unhesitatingly adopts Neuman's (" Bot. Notiser," 65 — 

 66, 1900) view that it is a hybrid of intermedia and minor, 

 since " these two plants are always found in its vicinity." 



Dr. Gliick, who was at my house last autumn, has made 

 a very special study of this group, and has been able to 



' The Bucks record in footnote (" Top. Bot." p. 333) for U. intermedia 

 refers to a record for Burnham Beeches, a locaUty which only yields U . 

 major. 



