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Since writing the above I have had an opportunity of submitting 

 a parcel of Alchemillas to Prof. Lindberg in Finland. He unhesi- 

 tatingly determines as A. acufidens the Cross Fell gathering ; of the 

 Grassington plant he says " I believe that this beautiful plant is a 

 form of the very variable A. acutidens,''' and he considers Mr. E. G. 

 Baker's specimens as that species. Prof. Lindberg also confirms as 

 acufidens my naming of a plant gathered in 1914 by the late E. S. 

 Marshall on Eeinn a Chroin, Glen Falloch, West Perth, at an elevation 

 of about 2500 ft. 



According to the map given by Lindberg (Nord. Alcliemilla 

 vidgaris-ioniiQU ; Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. xxxvii. No. 10, PI. 18, 1909), 

 the Yorkshire locality is some 270 miles further south than that at 

 which A. acutUleiis occurs in Scandinavia ; although away in the 

 East it is known from Tula, Russia (S. of Moscow), nearly on the 

 same degree of longitude as Grassington. 



A. acutidens var. alpestriformis, to which I refer the British 

 plant, may thus now be placed on record for v.c. 64, Mid west York- 

 shire ! ; v.c. 69, Westmoreland ! ; and v.c. 87, West Perthshire ! (or 

 87i Lomond, as suggested by Mr. Barclay in this Journal for 1915, 

 p. 250).— C. E. Salmon. 



Some Records. Mr. Bennett has kindly confirmed my naming of 

 a Gallitriche from E. Gloster : it is C polymoiyha Lonnr. I 

 gathered the specimen in 1909 in the low ground north of Chipping 

 Campden, not far from the county border. C. obtusangula Le Gall, 

 grew in the same spot. Mr. Bennett also names a plant from Fairwater, 

 v.c. 41, G. vernalis Koch = C. palustris L. — My herbarium contains 

 specimens of Zannichellia gibherosa Reiclib., from Deal (1901), 

 and Welsh St. Donat's, v.c. 41 (1904), of Z. pedimculafa l^eichh., 

 from Oxwich (1897) and Aberafan (1904) v.c. 41. — Among my 

 Potamogetons are P. zosterifolius Schum. f. major Zapalowicz, from 

 Derbyshire (Purchas, 1884), ohfusifolius Mert. & Koch, Groby 

 Pool, Leics. (T. Kirk, 1851), Friesii Rupr., from both v.c. 33 & 34, 

 the probable hybrid Friesii Xpusillns from v.c. 34, panormitamis 

 Biv.-Bern., Llyn Coron, v.c. bl, flahellatus Bab., and pectinatus L. 

 from both v.c. 33 & 34. — Eleocharis uniglumis Schultes was sent 

 me in 1917 from Swansea Bay (v.c. 41) : and I have Garex Leersii 

 F. Schultz, from v.c. 33 & 34, G. Paircei F. Schultz = ((7. muricata 

 L.) from v.c. 33 & 41, G. diimlsa Stokes, from v.c. 33 & 34, G. gracilis 

 Curt. \2i,\\ personata Fr., & var. prolixa (Fr.) v.c. 33 & 34, G.flacca 

 Schreb. var. aggregata Reich., v.c. 33, and a curious form akin to 

 both hinervis and distans from v.c. 33. The naming of the majority 

 of these is due to Mr. Bennett. — H. J. Riddelsdell. 



The Mild Season. The following are among the more note- 

 worthy of early flowering-plants in the Bristol district during this 

 remarkable season. By January 18 some of the Wych Elms in 

 Clifton were already in blossom. On Feb. 12 I saw Hutchinsia 

 petrasa flowers, and a few young capsules, on seedlings half an inch 

 high. By March 3rd some two dozen umbels of Smyrnium were in 

 flower and a few in young fruit by the Avon, immediately below the 

 suspension bridge. Early in March a friend at Clevedon reported 

 Lathrcea. On the 12th Thlaspi alpestr.e was seen by H. Corder 



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