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in shape, rather more elongate below, but never so long as in the 

 type. Fruit unknown. 



Hab. Thames near Kew, F. J. Brocas, Herb. Cardot. Canal 

 near Northampton, and Ouse at Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon- 

 shire, H. N. Dixon. Ouse near Lewes, Sussex, W. E. Nicholson. — 

 W. E. Nicholson. 



MoENCHiA QUATERNELLA Ehrh. — In Mr. Williams's interesting 

 account of the above plant (p. 365), he mentions that it has not 

 been recorded from Huntingdon. In the Cardiff Museum Herbarium 

 there are specimens from Miss Payne, gathered " near St. Ives, 

 Hunts. 6. 87." In addition to the vice-counties given in Top. Bot. 

 ed. 2, may be named — 4. Devon north, Eecord Club Eeport, 1881-2; 

 and 8. Wilts north, W. A. Clarke in litt. It seems a plant not often 

 gathered, perhaps from its early flowering and quick decay. — Arthur 

 Bennett. 



Lobelia urens on Dartmoor. — You may be interested to hear 

 that, growing abundantly in a locality on Dartmoor, I have found 

 Lobelia uresis. It occurred in three spots, a few hundred yards apart, 

 on a barren limestone soil, surrounded by bracken, whortleberry, 

 etc. The locality has not been cultivated at all for many years, 

 and the greater part of it has probably never been so. The plants 

 are in remarkably thriving condition ; in one part they grow so 

 thickly that they might conveniently be cut with a scythe, and the 

 ground is as blue with them as it might be with hyacinths. — W. K. 

 Martin. 



Orobanche amethystea Thuill. — In the spring of this year we 

 introduced into the hospital garden at Walton Prison some roots of 

 the Canterbury-bell {Campanula medium) from Lowestoft. Subse- 

 quently about a dozen specimens of Orobanche amethystea Thuill. 

 appeared, parasitical on their roots. Mr. Arthur Bennett kindly 

 determined a fresh specimen, and remarked : "I have no record of 

 it on Campamila, but it occurs on Plantago Coronopus, Daucus 

 Carota, Ononis arvensis, and Enjngium maritimum.'' I carefully 

 traced its attachment to the Campanula roots, and have a dried 

 specimen in situ. — J. A. Wheldon. 



Glyceria Borreri Bab. at Shoreham. — I recently found a speci- 

 men of this grass in the herbarium of Miss E. Foulkes Jones, now 

 of Chester, with the interesting label, ** Coast near the Norfolk 

 bridge, Shoreham. Coll. J. Leicester Warren, June-July, 1871 : — 

 25 of these.'' The late Eev. F. H. Arnold, in his Flora of Sussex, 

 though it was not published till 1887, gives only the record (pro- 

 bably for the same locality), " By the seaside between Shoreham 

 and Worthing, 1848, Herb. lateH. Collins." Whether Mr. Warren 

 (Lord de Tabley) reported his collection of the species anywhere, I 

 do not know. — William Whitwell. 



The late William Mathews. — To his contributions to botanical 

 literature, named on p. 352, should certainly be added the excellent 

 little Flora of the Clent and Lickey Hills, 1881, and his very valuable 

 "History of the County Botany of Worcester," which ran through 

 the pnges of the Midland Naturalist from April, 1887, to July, 1893. 



