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says : " L'O. pijrenaicus Lin. Sp. 1029 ne doit plus etre compte dans 

 le nombre des vegetaux. C'est une espece qui n'existe pas." 



I have not found any wild specimen which exactly matches 

 O. Touniefortii, and my knowledge of the genus is not sufficiently 

 extensive to enable me to arrive at any definite conclusion regard- 

 ing its position. But it certainly has no affinity with L. inontanus 

 Bernh. M. Rouy (Fl. France, v. 269) retains it (as L. Toumefortii) 

 as a subspecies of L. liitens (L. Liniimi Rouy), and suggests that it 

 may be a hybrid between the form of luteus which he calls hispani- 

 cns and L. montanus Bernh. Dr. Fritsch (Sitzb. Akad. Wissensch. 

 civ. 481) has a note on the plant, and thinks it may be a hybrid 

 between L. luteus and L. vermis. The name has been very variously 

 applied in herbaria. 



NEW CHARACE^ RECORDS. 

 By the Rev. G. R. Bullock- Webster, M.A. 



During the summers of 1899 and 1900 1 have had opportunities 

 for C/iam-hunting in various localities, and have been able to add 

 the following new vice-county records : — 



Chara frarjilis Desv., C. fragilis var. Hedivigii Kuetz., and C. 

 vulgaris Linn. All growing together in a small stream near Isle 

 Abbots, South Somerset, September, 1899. — C. contraria Kuetz. 

 and Nitella fiexilis Agard. Growing together in some abundance 

 in Fowlmere, near Thetford, West Norfolk, June, 1899. — C. con- 

 traria var. hispid III a Braun. In a coprolite pit, Bottisham fen, 

 Cambridge, June, 1900. — C. hispida Linn, and Tolypella glomerata 

 Leonh. Growing together in a drain near Sedgemoor Cut, North 

 Somerset, May, 1899. 



Tolypella glomerata Leonh. In one of the clay-pits near Bridg- 

 water, North Somerset, August, 1899. North Devon is the only 

 other recorded county for this plant west of Hampshire. This same 

 pit yielded also some fine specimens of C. vulgaris var. papillata 

 Wallr., but this variety has already, I think, been recorded for 

 North Somerset. 



C. canescens Loisel. Hickling Broad, June, 1899. This adds a 

 fourth to the three known counties (Cornwall, Dorset, and Suffolk) 

 in which the plant has been found. 



Lijchnothamnus stelliger Braun. Sowley pool, near Lymington, 

 Hampshire, August, 1900. This is an interesting addition to the 

 three known stations for this rare Charad — Slapton Lee, Devonshire ; 

 Waltou-on-Thames, Surrey ; and Hickling Broad (and neighbour- 

 hood), Norfolk. Sowley pool, it appears, was formed in the reign 

 of King John by the monks of Beaulieu, who threw up an immense 

 dam (tiie present road) across a natural valley where formerly two 

 streams ran into the sea. By the courtesy of the owner of Sowley 

 House, I had the advantage of the use of a boat, and explored the 

 pool with some care. The season was too far advanced, however, 

 to admit of good results. Chara fragilis, Nitella translucens, and 



