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(about 1500 m.), near Srinagar, Kaslnnir. Tlie tul)e contained three 

 species : — JV. ohfusa, both male and female examples, thus settling 

 the plant down as Asiatic ; Lychnothamnus harbatus, hitherto only 

 recorded from a very few countries in Europe, but known to us as 

 Indian from si)ecimens collected by Sir George Watt and Prof. S. P. 

 Agharkar; and Charafrac/iUs, a ver}^ tine form, the antheridium having 

 a diameter of about 550 /a, and the oogonium, including coronula, 

 a length of about 1250 /x. Mr. Allen tells me that the open shallow 

 pai-ts and channels of the large lake in which these plants occurred were 

 carpeted with charophytes, and from the very satisfactory results he 

 obtained, it would appear to be a particularly happj?- hunting ground 

 for these plants. — James Ghoves. 



PoTAMOGETONXSUDEiiMANicus IN ENGLAND. In his Critical 

 Researches on Potamogefon (p. 73) (1916), Dr. Hagstrom names 

 '*'P. acutifoliusy.pusillus L. (P. sudermanicus n. hybr. ") and 

 describes it. He says " I have named it after my beautiful native 

 count}^ Sudermania, where it has been gathered by Dr. C. J. Hart- 

 man. It is labelled ' Rorvik prope Hjelmaren Aug. 1831.' Herb. 

 Upsal." ; he very kindly sent me a specimen. The plant was gathered 

 by Mr. C. E. Salmon in " Sussex E., Ditch near Camber Castle. 

 17.7.1900," and has remained without a certain name until now. — 

 A. Bennett. 



A New Form or Wood Violet. The study given to the 

 varieties and hybrids of our violets has led to the recognition of plants 

 that have been regarded either as good species or as forms that leave 

 doubts about their real origin. During the past season I have met 

 with a form that may be only a lusus or sport, or may afford sugges- 

 tions of an effort of the Wood Violet to throw off its natural modest 

 habit and develop towards a showy head of flowers. From three 

 separate localities in the neighbourhood of Bristol, v.c. 6, I gathered 

 spechnens of Viola Eiviniana, in which the usual single-headed 

 blossom was replaced by three perfect flowers. Each was borne on 

 a short stalk produced together at the top of the main peduncle 

 rising directly from the usual pair of bracts ; there were bracteoles 

 as well on these secondary stalks. The general effect of this branched 

 inflorescence was noticeable amongst the normal plants, but the 

 peculiarity did not suggest that a special cause was at work either in 

 the nature of the soil, or from the action of an insect. Had these 

 brought about the change, more examples should have been obtainable 

 close by, and therefore the increase must be attributed to special 

 activity of the protoplasm. It seems out of the common for the 

 effort to show itself in this trifloral manner; should the present 

 sport repeat itself next season, the name forma multijlora might 

 be given it. — Ida M. Roper. 



HiERACiUM PULMONARioiDES Villars. In reporting the occur- 

 rence of this plant in Perthshire (Journ. Bot. Iviii. 281 ; 1920) I 

 remarked that it might be found in other British localities and con- 

 fused with H. amplexicaule L. At the end of last September, when 

 I happened to be in Bristol, it occurred to me to look for the plant 



