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appearance, I stupidlj^ took the much rarer imrvidus to be it. The 

 habitat of S.parvulus is a salt-marsh by the tidal river Avon, about 

 three miles from its mouth, and close to the ancient village of 

 Aveton Gifford. Among the plants associated with it there I 

 noticed (Enanthe Lachenalii and Euppia rustellata. — T. E. A. Beiggs. 



SuEKEY Plakts. — Teiicrium Botrijs. As this plant is recorded in 

 the December number of the ' Journal of Botany ' as having 

 recently been found by Mr. H. Pierson near Addington, it may be 

 well to state that Mr. John Flower, of Croydon, found it there in 

 1875. In the two following years the open chalky field in which 

 the Teucrium grows was under cultivation, and not a single plant 

 could be obtained. This year (1878) the field has been lying fallow, 

 and the Teucrium has again appeared, and in the greatest profusion. 

 The locality (if the same as Mr. Pierson' s) is more correctly 

 described as "between Selsdon and Sanderstead," and is probably 

 in reality the station of "about Sanderstead" recorded in the 

 ' Phytologist, ' iv. p. 1095 (1853) by Mr. Borrer, who saw in 

 Chelsea Garden a plant said by Mr. Anderson, "the late Curator," 

 to have been brought thence. — Trifolium glomeratum. As this plant 

 is now, I believe, extinct in the only two stations recorded for it in 

 Sm-rey, I take this opportunity of mentioning a new one, viz., a 

 gravell}^ bank on the Addington Hills, near Croydon, where I have 

 seen it growing abundantly for the last three years. — W. H. Beeby. 



Caeex punctata. Gaud., in South Hants. — When searching 

 (without success) for Chara conjiivens at Stokes Bay, in July last, 

 I found Carex jjunctata in the valley of the Alver Stream, about 

 haK a mile from the coast. As all the counties given for this plant 

 in 'Topographical Botany' are quite on the western coast, this 

 considerably extends its recorded distribution. — James Groves. 



Notttts of Boolts anif i^tmotr^. 



ON THE VEGETABLE EEMAINS IN THE EGYPTIAN 



MUSEUM AT BEELIN. 



By Alexander Braun. 



Edited from the Author's MSS. by P. Ascherson and P. Magnus. 



(' Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic,' ix., 1877). 



The inducement to examine the vegetable remains preserved 

 in this (the Berlin) Egyi^tian Museum, was supplied by the 

 surprising discovery of Prof. Oswald Heer of Zurich, that the flax 

 found in the Lake-dwellings does not belong to the now generally 

 cultivated s^Decies Liniim usitatissimum (L.), Mill., but to Linum 

 angustifulium, Huds., a species which is not cultivated now, but 

 may be met with growing in a wild state in the whole Mediter- 

 ranean region up to the German fi-ontiers, in France, and in the 



