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Surrey Plants. — Potamogetun zosterif alius. All the grass-leaved 

 Potamofjetons recorded in Brewer's ' Flora of Surrey ' are well 

 known to inhabit the county, with the exception of the above 

 species, for the occurrence of which we have only the unconfirmed 

 testimony of the late John Stuart Mill. He gives three stations 

 for it, viz., the Great Pond, Gatton Park ; Cut Mill Pond, near 

 Godalmiug ; and a pool by the Wey above St. Catherine's Hill, 

 Guildford. I have not been able to detect it in Gatton Pond, 

 although P. miicronatus — also recorded by Mill from this station — 

 is abundant. Mr. A. Bennett has ascertained that Mill's speci- 

 mens named P. zosterif alius, from Gatton, in the herbarium of the 

 Holmesdale Natural History Club, are undoubtedly P. mucranatus. 

 Mr. Bennett has several times visited Cut Mill Pond, but has 

 never seen the plant in question there. With regard to the Guild- 

 ford station, I fear the " weedy pool" does not now exist : in the 

 position indicated there is now some partially drained marshy 

 land, and very possibly a pool existed there fifteen years ago. In the 

 Wey itself at Guildford I did not see any grass-leaved species, but 

 P . pectin atus and well-marked P.fiabcllatus were abundant. Taking 

 into consideration the above facts, I think that unless fresh 

 evidence can be adduced as to the occurrence of P. zosterifolius in 

 the county, it must be struck out of the list of Surrey plants. It 

 is of course possible that it grows in Gatton Pond, for this piece 

 of water is about thirty-five acres in extent. I observed that the 

 leaves of most of the Gatton plants which I examined were seven- 

 veined in the lower part. — Chara Msjnda. I do not remember 

 that this species has been recorded for Surrey. It occurs in pro- 

 fusion in Gatton Pond, literally covering acres of the bottom. — 

 Carex ovalis var. hracteata. This variety seems to be widely dis- 

 tributed in Surrey. I find it abundant in Pease Marsh near 

 Godalming, and sparingly on Earlswood Common ; while Mr. 

 Bennett has noted it on Mitcham Common and near Epsom. — 

 W. H. Beeby. 



Surrey Plants. — Putamogeton heterophyllus, Schreb. In 'Eng- 

 lish Botany' Dr. Boswell (Syme), under P. nitens, Web., remarks, 

 " Less branched than P. hcterojjhyllus, from which it also differs — 

 at least judging from Dr. Moore's specimens, collected in Sep- 

 tember, 1866- — by sending forth, in autumn, from the axils of even 

 the upper leaves numerous slender stolons similar to those of Kpi- 

 labium ahscurum : I have not seen stolons from the uppermost 

 leaves in a.nj other British Patainor/eta?}." Mr. W. W. Reeves and 

 myself collected, this month, in the Basingstoke Canal near Woking, 

 specimens of P. heteraphyUus with exactly similar stolons to those 

 descril)ed in P. nitens, Web. ; they proceed from quite the upper- 

 most leaves. — Chara fragilis, Desv. In describing C. fragifera 

 (Journ. Bot., 1877, p. 354) Dr. Trimen mentions a plant from 

 Christiansand, Norway (referred to ('. fragilis by Norstedt & Wahl- 

 stedt), as having large compound bulbils at the basal nodes. When 

 out with Mr. W. W. Reeves early this month, I gathered, in the 

 Basingstoke Canal near Woking, Chara fragilis (monoecious) with 



