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seen, and its polleti must have been conveyed a long way. — 

 Edward S. Marshall. 



West Cornish Plants. — In a short visit to Helston and Lizard 

 Town, last October, I met with the following plants, not recorded 

 for the vice-county by Watson : — Hieracium vulgatum Fr. (seg.) ; 

 near Helston. Carex (Ecleri auct. ; moor near Kuan Minor. Poly- 

 gonum minus Huds. ; queried ** 1 or 2 Cornwall ? " occurs very 

 sparingly on the green at Lizard Town. P. maculatum Dyer and 

 Trimen, only noted as from Scilly, appears to be not uncommon in 

 cultivated ground about Lizard Town and Kuan Minor. A curious 

 form of Hieracium umbellatum L., with broad, entire leaves, occurs 

 in woods near Helston (I also saw the type near Kuan Minor). In 

 moist spots on the heaths, in several i3laces, a very small Erythraa 

 was gathered, which Prof. Wittrock names " E. centaurium Pers., 

 forma nana contracta.'' It differs considerably in habit from the 

 dry-soil var. capitata Koch. Solidago Virgaurea L., c. cambnca 

 (Huds.) is well-marked on the cliffs towards Kynance, as is a very 

 dwarf state of Centaurea nigra L., b. decipiens (ThuilL). — Edward 

 S. Marshall. 



Hypericum linariifolium Vahl. in Caernarvonshire. — The 

 Rev. W. Hunt Painter has sent to me specimens of this plant 

 found by him in July, 1888, with " H. imlchrum, on a rock bank at 

 the angle of the road to Boduan from Pwllheli, which is one mile 

 west of the latter place." This is an interesting discovery, as the 

 plant was supposed to be confined to Devon and Cornwall and 

 Jersey. A specimen is placed in the herbarium of the British 

 Museum, South Kensington. — C. C. Babington. 



Caithness Botany. — At p. 152 Mr. Britten notices a mis- 

 quotation under Melampynmi sylvaticum in the list of Caithness 

 plants which Mr. Grant and I are contributing to the ' Scottish 

 Naturalist.' Curiously enough, there is a misprint in Mr. Britten's 

 quotation, where *' nr." should be " Mr." I am glad to have the 

 opportunity of correcting the note, as I should like to mention 

 some Caithness plants about which we want further information. 

 They are — Thalictrum flavum (perhaps elatum was meant), Malva 

 moschata, Rubus ccBsius?^ Dry as octopetala, Saxifraga ojypositifolia, 

 Sedum anglicum, Epilobium hirsutum, Menyanthes trifoHata, Luzula 

 spicata, Carex teretiuscula, Athyrium alpestre, Isoetes laciistris, &c. 

 I hope at some future time that we shall be enabled to publish a 

 critical revision, with remarks and additions. — Arthur Bennett. 



Norfolk Plants. — A Crepis which I gathered last summer near 

 Norwich, and which I felt doubtful about, as all my specimens were 

 rather immature, the Rev. W. R. Linton detected as being C. 

 taraxacifolia Thuill. In consequence of this suggestion, which is 

 no doubt correct, it dawned upon me that some plants I had 

 gathered the previous year at Acle, and had considered to be C. 

 biennis L., not giving them a careful examination at the time, were 

 also C. taraxacifolia. Both these stations are in Norfolk East. 

 While working out the Norfolk specimens, I discovered that a plant 

 which had lain dormant in my herbarium, labelled Crepis biennis L., 



