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of C. caHpitom L. Fr., a name which will be found in our old Floras, 

 but there representing either stricta, acuta, or (Joodenovii. Mr. 

 Duncan has sent me from the Outer Hebrides a very puzzling 

 Carex, having much the facies of the acuminata (Willd.) form of C. 

 fjlauca Scop. {C.flacca Schreb.), but with two stigmas, and other- 

 wise in some degrees combining the vuhjarh, aquatilis, and salina 

 sections of the genus. At present I am unable to give it a certain 

 name ; I hope to get living specimens. — Arthur Bennett. 



New Staffordshire Plants. — I have lately found Klatine Hydro- 

 piper somewhat sparingly on the mud of a large pool near Cannock 

 Chase ; it was abnormally small, but, as there were one or two 

 flowers well expanded and some well-matured capsules, I was able 

 to identify it readily. The petals were a beautiful pale rose-colour; 

 stamens 8; capsules sessile, containing a few ovules curled like a 

 horse- shoe, with unequal sides ; the plant formed small coral-like 

 tufts. The mud was too treacherous to allow me to venture near 

 the water, so that I was not able to see whether the plant was 

 growing in the pool, but I hope to visit the locality again for this 

 purpose. I may also mention that last year I found a very 

 abundant growth of Stellaria nemorum on the banks of the Eiver 

 Churnet, near Alton Towers, and sent a few specimens to the 

 Botanical Exchange Club as a record. I believe neither of these 

 plants has been recorded for Staffordshire before. — J. E. Bagnall. 



EicciA GLAUCESCENS IN Ireland. — Tliis hepatic, which does not 

 appear to have been hitherto recorded from Ireland, was sent to me 

 in small quantity by my friend the Eev. S. A. Brenau, in July of 

 this year, from Co. Antrim. The specimen was freshly gathered, 

 and has since been submitted to and named as above by Messrs. 

 Pearson and Holt. On the 14th of August I visited Cushendur, in 

 Co. Antrim, where Mr. Brenan resides, and had the pleasure in his 

 company of seeing two small patches of the plant growing on low 

 rocks in the river that flows through Glendun ; and, I may add, we 

 took care not to exterminate it. — H. W. Lett. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



A Manual of Botany. By J. Eeynolds Green, F.E.S., &c. Vol. I. 

 Morphology and Anatomy. London : J. & A. Churchill. 

 1895. 8vo, pp. X, 398 ; figs. 778. Price 7s. 6d. 



Prof. Green has written this book in the excellent way expected 

 of him, in spite of the drawback that he had to base it on an 

 earlier manual, that of the late Prof. Bentley. The advantage to 

 publishers of retaining the semblance of a well-known favourite 

 while employing a botanist of the younger generation to transform 

 the old book is plain enough, but it is not fair either to the new 

 author or to the public. The new wine has again been poured into 

 the old bottle. "The chapters on Morphology have been altered 

 only so far as has been necessary in order to incorporate in them 

 the modifications of the older views which are based upon recent 



