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mycologist who has examined the authentic specimen with care. — 

 George Murray. 



Arenaria gothica Fries in Britain. — This plant was discovered 

 at Ribblehead, in West Yorkshire, on June 12th last, by Mr. Lister 

 Rotheray, a Skipton botanist, and was again collected there on 

 September 11th by Mr. F. Arnold Lees. The identification was 

 made by Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., of Croydon, on careful 

 comparison with Gothland specimens sent to him by Prof. Nilsson. 

 I hope to give a fuller report next month. — AVilliam WmTWELL. 



A Correction. — With reference to Mr. Arthur Bennett's note 

 on the original publication of Potamofjeton angustifolius in the 

 September number of this Journal (p. 263), I venture to trouble 

 you with a slight rectification. As it stands, the note reads as if 

 the volume had escaped the notice of both Pritzel and myself, 

 whereas it was intentionally omitted from the ' Guide,' because, 

 having inspected it when I went through the Kew library, and 

 finding it written wholly in Czech, and given in its right place in 

 Pritzel, I did not think it necessary to insert it in my work. It 

 will be found in the second edition of the ' Thesaurus,' at p. 22, 

 No. 631, but in the heading is erroneously ascribed to Berchtold 

 alone, although the name of the elder Presl is duly cited in the 

 transcription of the title-page. Ernest Berg, in his 'Additamenta,' 

 says of it : — " Oi^us a 1821-1830, 40fasc. editum est." — B. Daydon 

 Jackson. 



LiLiuM Martagon naturalised in Worcestershire. — I found, 

 this summer, several plants referable to this species in a copse, 

 growing by the side of "Dick Brook," near Stourport, in Worcester- 

 shire. They were in flower, and of large size. Probably they are 

 naturalised specimens ; none are to be found in any cottager's 

 garden in the district, and the nearest garden is a mile or more 

 away. Vinca minor is a common plant at Lincombe Bay, Stour- 

 port, where it certainly appears to be indigenous. — J. W. Williams. 



Carex l^vigata Sm., var. — Mr. Beckwith sent me in July, from 

 Salop, some specimens of a Carex that on first opening I thought 

 might be punctata ; the first- sight look and habit is remarkably like 

 that species, but I found on examination that it was a very pretty 

 form of Iccvhjata, for which I propose the varietal name of r/racilis : 

 characterised by leaves much narrower than type, short female 

 spikes, with patent fruit, and glumes of a pale yellowish brown ; 

 fruit smaller, but relatively more swollen, with the neck of the fruit 

 shorter; male spikes much longer than all the female ones. — 

 Arthur Bennett. 



Atriplex tatartca L. (auct.). — In Sept. 1882, I gathered a 

 large series of the various forms of Atrqilex to be found on the 

 coast between Brighton and Portslade, Sussex. Having last 

 August gathered another series of forms, with Messrs. Hanbury 

 and Reeves, near Littlehampton, Sussex, I have lately looked 

 through those of 1882 to see roughly what likeness or similarity 

 the two gatherings might have. I find that near Portslade I 

 gathered A. tataiica sparingly. I have httle doubt that it can only 



