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similar bulbils to those of Mr. Curnow's specimens from Cornwall, 

 except that they are rather smaller, — A. Bennett. 



Some Hants Plant-Localities. — The following plants, which 

 we have noticed recently, are, as far as we know, unrecorded for 

 their respective divisions of Hampshire. The first is from the 

 northern, the remainder from the southern, division of the county. 

 Viola permLvta, Jord. Very sparingly on a hedge-bank near Sel- 

 borne. — Spergularia maryinata, Syme. Between Eling and Hythe. 

 — Hypericum montanum, Linn. Hedge-bank near King's Som- 

 bourne. — TrifoUum scabrum, Linn. Stokes Bay ; Hamble Com- 

 nion. — Diotis maritima, Cass. Sandy shore near Christchurch, 

 a few patches only. [Mr. Moggridge has also sent us this from 

 "near Bournemouth," collected this year, in-obably from the 

 same locality. Query, an introduction? — Ed. Journ. Bot.] — 

 Campanula initula, Linn. Hedge-bank near Nursling. Recorded 

 with a query in ' Topographical Botany.' — Owbanche elatior, 

 Sutton. Border of corn field near Horsebridge, parasitical on 

 Centaurea Scabiosa. — Ruppia spiralis, Hartm. In one of the 

 pools at the former salt-works, and in most of the neigh- 

 bouring ditches, Newtown (Isle of Wight) ; very abundant, 

 occurring with, but much commoner than, R. rostellata. — It may 

 be worth while to mention that Polygonum maritimum. still grows 

 near Christchurch, where we had understood it to be extinct until 

 kindly directed to a locality for it by Mr. George Brownen, who 

 found it plentifully two years ago. This year, however, it was by 

 no means abundant. — H. & J. Groves. 



Gallitrichum rubellum, Jord. c(- Fourr. — In July of the present 

 year I found on the Surrey bank of the Thames, near Kew, two or 

 three plants of a very peculiar and interesting variety of Salvia 

 Verbenaca, the flowers being much smaller than in the tj^pe and of 

 a red colour. On looking over the different forms figured by 

 Jordan & Fourreau in their ' Icones,' I at once identified the Kew 

 plant with Gallitrichum rubellum, Jord. et Fourr., which is given 

 as occurring in South-east France at Aix, in the department of 

 Bouches-du-Rhone. Living specimens of the common form of 

 Salvia Verbenaca, collected by the Thames above Richmond, seemed 

 quite to agree with (Tallitrichwn anylicum, Jord. & Fourr., the 

 figure of which was i)repared from specimens procured from Wem- 

 bury, Dorset. From the first-mentioned this, however, difters 

 abundantly in the size and colour of the corolla, in its calyx, 

 bracts, c^c. ; and transverse sections of the stems of the two plants 

 exhil)it totally dissimilar outlines. The decided red of the stem, 

 petioles and midribs of the leaves of G. rubellum renders it at first 

 sight sufiiciently distinctive even when out of flower. — George 

 Nicholson. 



Hypnum (Brachythecium) salebrosum, Hofm.. — Through 

 the courtesy of Mr. F. M. Webb, and with the approval of Prof. 



