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exceptional tidal influence, near Poole harbour. Its diminutive 

 size may be the cause of its eluding casual obsei-vatiou, but its au- 

 thenticated existence in Dorsetshire will stimulate further search for 

 it, wherever similar favourable circumstances occur. Although the 

 plant has a considerable geographical range, extending from Denmark 

 and Livonia to Arcachon and Biarritz, on the western coast of France, 

 the Pyrenees Orientales, Piedmont, and Dalmatia, it appears to be 

 sparingly distributed. The Dorsetshire station, and its neighbourhood, 

 is fertile in rare plants, of which the most remarkable are SlmetJds 

 bicolor, Kunth; Cijperus longus, L. ; Cynodon Daclyloii, Pers. ; Lotus 

 Mspidus, Desf. ; Erodium ma)'i(imum, Smith ; Oplirya aranifera, Huds. ; 

 and AUinm oleraceum, L. — J. C. Mansel. 



Plantago lanceolata, L., var. altissima, L. — I collected speci- 

 mens of this plant, which diifers in general appearance as well as in 

 some points of detail from P. laticeoluta, L., on the bank of a stream 

 near Temple Mills, Essex. Although it is probably an introduced 

 plazit, I thought it might be desirable to record its occurrence. I en- 

 close specimens. — John Cherry. 



Vaccinium Oxycoccos, L. — Is it generally known that there are 

 two forms of the fruit of this plant, one piriform, the other round ? 

 While botanizing in July at Oakmere, Cheshire, I was struck with 

 their different appearance ; but supposing it to be of common occur- 

 rence, I only collected one or two specimens of each. I do not find 

 the dimorphism mentioned in any of the books I have referred to, and 

 shall be glad to learn more about it. The two forms were about 

 equally common, and I did not observe any intermediates; the plants 

 were, of course, out of flower. I am sorry that I did not collect speci- 

 mens for distribution ; those I gathered are now in the Kew herbarium. 

 — James Britten. 



Iberis amara, L. — Very abundant on the railway bank below the 

 station at Monsal Dale, Derbyshire. It has evidently been established 

 there for some years, and its origin is unknown to the station-master. 

 — James Britten. 



Botanical Terms. — Synpetalous and apopetalous, proposed by 

 Mr. A. W. Bennett (p. 191) as substitutes for gamo- and poh^-peta- 

 lous, were used in ' A Handbook of Field r)Otany,' by William E. 

 Steele, A.B., M.B., published at Dublin in 1847. Any change tend- 

 ing to the simplification of botanical terminology is a clear gain, but 



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