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or two, sometimes three, very rarely four. The prostrate habit is 

 not so pronounced as in the wild specimens from Hildasey and 

 from Uysasound. It was gathered last year in the latter locality 

 by Mr. F. J. Hanbury, and it is from seeds from specimens which 

 he gave me that my plants have been grown. Of the very numerous 

 flower-stems, the outer ones are quite prostrate, but the inner ones 

 of the clump of plants, which are very crowded, are more or less 

 inclined. I still feel doubtful whether it is really different from 

 var. pulvlnata Fries, but I followed Prof. Hackel, who thought it 

 best to treat it as a distinct variety. — W. H. Beeby. 



Sparganium neglectum in Merioneth. — This plant was met with 

 in fair quantity at Arthog by the Eev. J. H. Bloom and myself on 

 August IGth. Mr. Beeby has seen a specimen, and confirms the 

 name. — Richard F. Towndrow. 



Artemisia Stelleriana Besser in Cornwall. — Last July I 

 gathered this species, which has not, I think, been recorded before 

 for Britain, on the sands between Penzance and Marazion, in 

 Cornwall. It grew in the sand with Eri/iu/ium, &c., but, as I have 

 already pointed out, these sands have several foreign species growing 

 on them. This species looked wild enough ; indeed, when I first 

 gathered it, I thought it was a luxuriant example of A. maritima. 

 I have since carefully examined it, and compared it with the plate 

 and description of A. Stelleriana in the liefuyiiun Botanicum, t. 203, 

 and find it agrees. The glands on the tube are very aromatic, and 

 it appears to be chiefly from them that the odour is due. The 

 12-15 phyllaries arranged in two rows, of which the outer are 

 much shorter and broader, appears to be a distinguishing character. 

 — G. Claridge Druce. 



Blooming Period of Argemone platyceras (p. 208). — Mr. D. 

 Prain says of the blooming of Aiyemone, " In the Pvocky Mountains, 

 Nevada, &c., not till September and October." The above species 

 occurs very abundantly in Northern Colorado, — on the plains and 

 within the lower foothills, — and blooms from the middle of July. — 

 Carl F. Baker. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Flora of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire. By John E. Griffith, 

 F.L.S. With a map. Bangor : Nixon and Jarvis [1895] . 

 8vo, pp. XX, 288. 

 Mr. Griffith, as the pages of this Journal have borne witness, 

 has been for many years engaged in the investigation of the plants 

 of Anglesey and Carnarvon, for which his residence at Bangor has 

 afforded him every facility ; and the present volume is the outcome 

 of his researches. He has conferred a boon upon the summer 

 visitors to the charming land of lake and mountain which sur- 

 round " Yr Wyddfa, commonly called Snowdon"; and those who 

 take their holiday in any of the resorts which dot the coast between 

 Conway and Bangor will find this book an acceptable companion 

 upon their excursions. 



