8 9 SHOUT NOTES. 



Reading, May 24t!i, 1796," whicli undoubtedly represents 0. Simla. 

 In Sowerby's herbarium are three specimens of "0. inililaris, var.," 

 but all are unlocalized ; of these, two are certainly 0. Simla, the other 

 is probably a small specimen of 0. purpurea, Huds. The unpublished 

 drawing appears to have been made from one of the former; E. B. 

 1873 possibly from the latter, modified by the others. I may here 

 correct an error in the ' Middlesex Flora' {loc. ciL), where 0. militaris, 

 of Bicheno, is made synonymous with 0. Simla ; it arose from 

 Bicheno, in his paper (Linn. Trans, vol. xii.), quoting this same 

 E. B. 1873 as a figure of the former, which it certainly cannot repre- 

 sent. He subsequently, when describing the true mlUtaiis for t. 2675 

 of the ' Supplement to English Botany,' corrects himself, and there 

 refers the figure to 0. tephrosantJios, Vill. — Henry Trimen. 



Dr. Bromfield's Herbarium. — There are two herbaria of plants 

 collected by the late Dr. Bromfield in existence, one at Kew, and 

 the other at E,yde, in the Isle of Wight. The latter was lately in- 

 trusted to me by the trustees of the Isle of Wight Philosophical and 

 Scientific Society, in order that it might be rearranged. Though some 

 of the specimens have sutfered from the attacks of insects, the collec- 

 tion is still a very valuable one as illustrating the botany of the dis- 

 trict. There are in it, Isle of Wight specimens of about 550 of the 

 plants described or mentioned in Dr. Bromfield's ' Flora Vectensis,' 

 atul amongst these many very interesting ones ; for instance, the unique 

 Isle of Wight specimen of Euphorbia Pejilis, L., found at Sandown, 

 by Mr. J. Stuart Mill, the original plants of Calamhillia sijlvatica, 

 Bromf., etc. Nearly all were collected either by Dr. Bromfield or Mr. 

 A. G. More. Besides these, there is a large number of specimens of 

 the genus Rubiis, collected by the late Dr. Bell Salter, and a collection 

 of sea-weeds, presented by Miss Hamborough. There is also a good 

 series of Hampshire plants, and of plants from various other parts of 

 Britain. The collection is kept in the rooms of the Isle of Wight 

 Philosophical Society at Ryde. — Fred. Stratton. 



Callitriche autumnalis, Linn., in Cheshitie. — In collecting 

 a large series of specimens to clear up my own views on the genus Cal- 

 litriche as represented in Cheshire, I came upon a remarkable plant in 

 fruit from the lake at Lower Tabley, near Knutsford, which, when 

 submitted to Mr. Boswell Syme, he pronounced to be true C. aniumnalu. 

 I believe there is at present no recent English provincial record, except 



