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SHORT NOTES. 



A New Sparganium. — lu October, 188B, I observed at Albury 

 Ponds, near Guildford, a Span/anium resembling S. rcwioswn 

 Huds. in habit, but differing from it in the partially mature fruits 

 which were ail that the very depauperate specimens afforded. This 

 led to investigation during the past year, with the result that I find 

 the plant, which I propose to call S. vei/Iectiun, plentiful in various 

 parts of Surrey. The chief distinctive characters are found in the 

 fruit, which is somewhat obovate-acuminate, with a long beak, 

 instead of, as in ramosum, obversely conical, with a very truncate 

 (or sometimes rounded) apex and short beak. Eeichenbach's 

 plate (Icon. Fl. Ger. 751) of S. erectum would seem to have been 

 drawn from the present plant rather than from S. ramosum Huds., 

 which, however, is given as a synonym ; and in Leighton's ' Flora 

 of Shropshire ' the fruit of nei/lectum is described as that of 

 ramosum, suggesting that the former may be the common form in 

 that county, I am, however, unable to find that the plants have 

 ever been separated. In Surrey S. nq/lectiivi occurs in the basins 

 of the Rivers Blackwater, Wey, Mole, and Arun ; it thins out, 

 however, towards the east, and I have not observed it in the 

 Medway basin ; also Mr. Alfred Fryer sends various gatherings of 

 good ramosum from, the fens of Hunts and Cambs., but after 

 " exploring many miles of Sjiarf/anium-fiiled ditches," is unable to 

 find the subject of this note, which may therefore possibly prove 

 absent from some of the eastern counties. It is almost certain to 

 be found in Sussex and Hants (and doubtless elsewhere), as it 

 occurs close to the borders of the counties named, by streams 

 flowing into them from Surrey. — W. H. Beeby. 



New Records foe Northumberland. — Fumaria confnsa Sond., in 

 company with F. densiflora DC, in sandy fields on Holy Island. — 

 Viola Curtisii Forst. A few plants, but unmistakably the same as 

 Lancashire specimens in my herbarium ; south end of Ross Links. 

 — SUene injiata Sm., /3. piiber^da. Holy Island. — Arenaria ser- 

 pyllifolia L. A stout glandular form, agreeing as far as book 

 description goes with A. Lloydii. Bamborough Links. — Piadiola 

 Milleyrana Sm. Ross Links ; abundantly. Not reported in 

 Baker's Flora, but known elsewhere m Northumberland to local 

 botanists. — Althaa ufficinaUs L. Probably introduced. Wayside 

 near Fleetham. — ISlelilotus arvensis Wallr. Rubbish-heaps near 

 Embleton. — Mentha gentilis L. By the mill-pond at Easington. 

 Belford. — Centunculus minimus L. Ross Links ; abundantly in one 

 or two places. Has not yet been recorded in either of the two 

 northern counties. — CoraJlorhiza innata Br. Several hundred 

 plants, very vigorous, in a boggy wood on the borders of Cheviot- 

 land. I purposely refrain from specifying the locality more 

 particularly. — H. E. Fox. 



Myosotis alpestris in FoRFARsmRE. — I uotico in the Report for 

 1883 of the Botanical Record Club, that Mi/osotis rupicola Sm. [al- 

 pestris Schm.) has been gathered in Canlochan, Forfarshire, by the 

 Revs. H. E. Fox and E. F. Linton. I fear, however, that plant is 



