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SHOET NOTES. 



A Correction. — The Potamor/eton of the Eiver Barrow, which I 

 named douhtfuUy P. rufescens (ante, p. 12), is determined by Mr. 

 Arthur Bennett (to whom I sent specimens) to be P. odteym Web., 

 var. latifulins Fr. P. nitem must be a very variable phmt, as Mr, 

 Bennett tehs me he has no fewer than twenty- six forms in his 

 herbarium. — H. C. Hart. 



Lysimachia ciliata in North Wales. — I found this plant last 

 September, among some bushes at the western end of a small lake 

 (the easternmost of two), near Afon-Wen, not far from the railway- 

 station. Mr. Baker has seen my specimens. — H. C. Levinge. 



Carex aquatilis in Ireland. — AVe have still another instance of 

 a high northern plant occurring at a low level in Ireland. Whilst 

 doing the required field-work to enable me to make a report to the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy, on the botany of Lough Allen, a sedge was 

 met with whose aspect differed from anything I had hitherto seen, 

 and which I thought, at the time, might be a variety of C. stricta. 

 Subsequently it was named by a Continental authority as C. acuta 

 var. gracilis Uechtritz. A specimen was sent to Mr. Bennett, of 

 Croydon, and that gentleman, with his usual acuteness, saw cause 

 to be dissatisfied with the name attached, and sent the plant to 

 Sweden, to be compared with specimens in Fries's herbarium. 

 Dr. Almquist, who made the comparison, reports that our sedge is 

 not C. (/racilis, but C. aquatilis Wahl. In attempting to place my 

 plant under C. stricta, or C acuta, I had never taken C. aquatilis 

 into consideration, as, for geographical reasons, that species seemed 

 altogether out of the field ; nevertheless it is quite apparent when 

 pointed out. I may add that Mr. A. G. More, the recognised 

 head of Irish botanists, has seen a specimen, and concurs in the 

 determination. C. aquatilis grows near Drumshambo, in a swampy 

 thicket on that part of the shore of Lough Allen which lies in the 

 County Eoscommon. I saw three or four tufts, each bearing several 

 flowering stems, two or three feet high. Some stems were too far 

 advanced, but the majority were in excellent condition for diagnosis. 

 The district, as regards rare plants, proved unusually poor, but the 

 flora of Ben Bulben, some 25 miles north, presents the greatest 

 assemblage of alpine and sub-alpine plants in Ireland. The 

 discovery of this sedge is associated in my memory with mournful 

 recollections. It was found on the 9th August, 1883, the same day 

 and about the same hour when two young and ardent naturalists were 

 being drowned, while botanising on Lough Gill, in the adjoining 

 county of Sligo. The furious gusts of wind and rain which drove 

 me to seek the most sheltered spots, and thus compelled me to 

 meet with this plant, were at the same time doing to death my 

 young friend Corry, with his bright promise of future distinction, 

 and his equally enthusiastic companion, Dickson. — S. A. Stewart. 



Heterostyled Plants. — The fact that, among the English 

 members of the genus Primula, the long- styled plants are, on 

 an average, decidedly more numerous than the short-styled plants 



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