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next season. But I find that it is not likely that I shall have an 

 opportunity of so doing, and I therefore write this note in order to 

 suggest to British botanists that, even after the admirable observa- 

 tions of Darwin, there is still room for further investigation of the 

 Bee Ophrys. 



SHOET NOTES. 



Ranunculus Drouetii in Ireland. — Prof. Babington referred 

 with certainty to this species some fragments of a Batrachian 

 Ranunculus which I recently submitted to him, and which were 

 sent to me among other innominata by my friend Mr. R. P. 

 Vowell, of Dublin. The fragments were collected by him near 

 Foxrock, Co. Dublin. Prof. Babington's opinion has been, I may 

 add, thoroughly confirmed by the arrival of a more complete suite 

 of specimens, which leave no doubt whatever as to the actual 

 nature of the plant. It is an addition to the Irish Flora generally, 

 and to that of District V., Co. Dublin, of the ' Cybele Hibernica' 

 in particular. My friend Mr. S. A. Stewart, of Belfast, has, like 

 myself, been unable for some years past to find Ranunculus fiuitans, 

 Lam., in its Antrim — and, so far as at present known, 07ily 

 Irish— station, where, owing to the permanent fouling of the river, 

 we fear that it has become extinct. — Thos. H. Corry. 



PoTAMOGETON Zizii, M. & K., IN England. — Somc time ago 

 Mr. Charles Bailey, of Manchester, sent me portions of a specimen 

 of Potamoyeton from the English Lakes, but it was too poor to 

 admit of certain determination. This year he has kindly forwarded 

 living specimens from Lake Derwentwater, Cumberland, and they 

 prove to be P. Zizii, though not in its most typical form; and, 

 later on, good examples from Coniston Lake. We now have this 

 plant fi'om Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England. — Arthur 

 Bennett. 



HiERACiUM pellitum, Fr. — I send you a note of an error which 

 has crept into Fries's ' Epicrisis Hieraciorum,' and has been con- 

 stantly copied, appearing in Nyman's recent ' Conspectus ' and 

 elsewhere. Hieraciiim jjeUitiim (Fries Epicr. p. 79) is there stated 

 to have been found " ad Gueriaccio supra Limone Hispanice.'' For 

 "Hispaniae" we should read "Italiae" or " Pedemontii," Limone 

 being a village on the Piedmontese side of the Col di Tenda. The 

 exact spot, " Gueriaccio supra Limone," may be read upon some of 

 the labels of tlie plants collected by M. Renter in the Col di Tenda 

 district — for instance, on that of Asplenium Jissuia. — C. C. Lacaita. 



