NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 247 



under that name — from very near fragilis on one hand to alha on 

 the other. — Andrew Brotherston. 



Salix (sp. ?) PeatingBog, Eoxburgh, April, 1876. I send this 

 without a name. It seems to have touches of stipularis, Smithiana, 

 and ferniginea, but in some important points does not agree with 

 any of them. The following are some remarks by Mr. Leefe on 

 it : — '* This is a peculiar form, leaves lesemblmg ferniginea, except 

 as to stipules, and there is a broad leaf which looks suspicious of 

 something else. The catkins resemble stipularis, but the germen 

 is manifestly stalked. Pedicel sometimes as long as style. Worthy 

 of further observation. I do not venture to call it stipularis.' 

 After sending fresh specimens of catkins I had the following 

 reply : — " I see I felt some doubt .about this when you hrst sent it 

 to me. On the whole I should refer it to stipularis." As I wished 

 to get his further opinion before sending specimens to B. E. Club, 

 I sent more specimens, and he rex^lied : — "The stipules are not 

 those of stipularis, Sm., and the ovarium does not aj)pear to be 

 sessile : I should name it doubtfully Smithiana, Willd." — Andrew 

 Brotherston. I should call this /err m/ijiea. — J. T. Bos^-ell. 



" Sali.v near rw/osa.'" Bowmont Forest, Eoxburgh, May, 1877 •; 

 October, 1876. Mr. Leefe says of this : — " I think S. rugosa. I 

 have leaves like this from Yorkshire. It varies much in the form 

 and length of the leaves." — Andrew Brotherston. I am quite 

 puzzled with this. The very long styles — longer than even those 

 of S.ferrwjinea, on the one hand ; and the leaves* most like those of 

 cmerea in texture, also in the venation and condition of the lower 

 surfaces, on the other hand, make up a plant unlike anything 

 I have seen. — J. T. Boswell. 



Potamogeton salicif alius, Wolfg., teste Prof. Babington. In the 

 Wye, Sellack, Herefordshhe, July 15, 1877. The name of this is 

 given on the authority of Prof. Babington. I have had it in my 

 herbarium ever since 1866, without knowing what to name it. In 

 the last and the present year I found it again, and sent it up to 

 him. He tells me he feels satisfied that it is the P. salicif olius of 

 his ' Manual.' It grows in the Wye in shallow, moderately swift 

 water, and though flowering freely, I have been unable to find any 

 fruit perfected. — Augustin Ley. 



Antlwxanthum Puelii, Lee. & Lam. Whittington, Staffordshire, 

 August, 1877. In abundance in a field, probably introduced with 

 grass seeds. Mr. W. Matthews, of Birmingham, and the Eev. J. 

 H. Thompson found it in another grass field near Churchill, 

 Worcestershire, about two miles from this locality. — J. Eraser. 



Chara fcetida, Braun. The Lizard, W. Cornwall, Sept., 1877. 

 Coll. by Mr. Curnow for Mrs. E. A. Lomax. • C. fcetida from the 

 Lizard is curious, and worth more attention. It may be diflerent, 

 but I cannot now settle that i^oint. It is apparently the plant 

 from near Kynance Cove, which I named C. fcetida, var. densa of 

 Cosson last year. It is more like Cosson's figure (Atl. El. de 

 Paris, p. 37, f. 8) than the Kynance Cove plant. — C. C. Babington. 



*' 6'. hispida.'" Shallow pool on downs, Lizard, W. Cornwall; 

 August 25, 1877. — W. B. Waterfall. C. polgaoantha, I beheve. 



