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Eanunculus ophioglossifolius Vill. — Specimens have lately 

 been received by the Department of Botany of this interesting 

 and almost extinct British species, collected by Mr. Ronald Good 

 in a very wet and marshy meadow near Dorchester. As is well 

 known, it was once a native of St. Peter's Margh, Jersey ; Mr. 

 Arthur Bennett has a specimen dated 1872, but Dr. J. C. Melvill 

 failed to find it in 1876. It was found by Mr. J. Groves in 1882 

 in a wet ditch west of Hythe, Hampshire ; it was recorded for 

 E. Gloucester in 1890 by Mr. F. J. Hanbury (Journ. Bot. 1890, 

 282), and was found in 1912 near Badgeworth, in that county, 

 by Mr. A. S. Montgomrey, a specimen from whom is in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit., in 1912. The distinguishing characteristics are the 

 very small, pale yellow flowers, the long-petioled, cordiform lower 

 leaves, and the small achenes with a very short style, tubercled 

 on the sides, with a few stiff hairs. — B. G. Baker. 



Seligeria PAuciFOLiA IN NoRTH Hants. — On July 30th I 

 met with this rare little moss on detached pieces of chalk in a 

 densely shaded lane near the secluded village of Combe, North 

 Hants, at the foot of the chalk downs near the Berkshire border. 

 This species is well known in Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, but there 

 is only one previous record for Hants (v.-c. 11), and I have no 

 note of the exact locality. It seems to be almost always found 

 on detached fragments of chalk, although the original specimens 

 from Wetherby, Yorkshire, on which Dickson founded the species 

 under the name of Bryum yancifoUum in the fourth fasciculus of 

 his Cryptogamia, occurred on fragments of bricks in rubbish- 

 heaps. — k. Bruce Jackson. 



Vaccinium Oxycoccos in Somerset. — I have received fresh 

 specimens of this plant and of Empetruvi nigrum from Miss 

 Helen Saunders, of South Molton : they were gathered last 

 month on Exmoor, a few yards from the Devon boundary. The 

 former is new to Somerset, the latter very rare in the county. — 

 James Britten. 



A Correction. — In the article on " Alpine Vegetation on 

 Ben-y-Gloe " (pp. 227-235) the quotations from Types of British 

 Vegetation were erroneously attributed to Dr. C. E. Moss. 

 Therefore on pages 228, 229, 233 and 235 for "Moss" read Smith; 

 chapter 13 (pp. 288-329) in the work quoted, on Arctic-Alpine 

 Vegetation, is by Dr. W. G. Smith. 



REVIEWS. 



Materiaux pour la Flore Cnjtogamique Suisse. Vol. iv. fasc. 2. 

 Monographies d'Algues en Culture Pure. Par R. Chodat. 

 Berne, 1913. 



This volume, as indicated by its title, contains an extended 

 account of such Green AlgtB (mostly of the Protococcales) as 

 Professor Chodat has been able to obtain in pure cultures. After 

 a preliminary statement on the value of specific characters, the 



