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L. italicum, Braun. P. Common about lake on newly-sown land. 

 Frequent elsewhere in older turf. 



Hordeum murinum, L. P. Common about Winter Garden. Strip. 

 Abundant, in company with Bronms sterilis. 



Nardus stricta, L. P. On both sides of Syon Vista (clear of broad 

 portion kept so closely cut). In wood near " Old Deer Park." Q,. 

 Here and there. 



Pteris aquilina, Z. P. A starved plant or two in wood near 

 Winter Garden. Q,. Several good-sized tracts. 



Nephrodium Pilix-mas, Rich. P. About a dozen large plants in 

 wood midway between Engine House and Juniper Avenue. Q. 

 Common. 



N. dilatatum, Besv. P. A couple of plants with last species. Q. 

 Here and there. This and the two preceding seem to be the only 

 genuine native ferns of our Flora. Some two or three others grow about 

 the Old Ruined Arch and Merlin's Cave, but as they occur nowhere 

 else one may reasonably suppose them to have been planted at some 

 time. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum, L. P. On a plot of ground a few yards 

 square about 100 yards in a straight line from Railway Gate towards 

 Brentford Ferry. 



Equisetum arvense, L. B. Here and there in shrubberies near Old 

 Lily House. P. Not frequent. 



E. limosum, X., vrtr. fluviatile. P. Several large patches on the 

 Richmond side of lake. 



Chara foetida, Braun. Strip. In moat near third seat from Isle- 

 worth Gate. 



CORRECTION. 



Ranunculus penicillatus, Eiern. — Mr. Hiern has kindly shown me 

 specimens of Ranunculus gathered in the localities given for the above, 

 and he informs me that they belong to R. fiuitans. Mr. Hiern also 

 found a small clump or two of R. cirnnatus in the moat. 



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RuMEX MAXiMus, Sclireh. — Mr. Warren's disappointment at not 

 seeing many communications in the Journal of Botany on the existence of 

 this species in localities where it had been passed over as R. HydroJa- 

 patJium may be probably in part accounted for by what has occurred 

 in my own experience. After reading the article by Dr. Trimen in 

 the number for February, 1874, I resolved to look up the subject as 

 it affected my own immediate neighbourhood, in the hope of being 

 able to afford some definite information. With such clear descriptions 

 and such excellent figures as that article supplied it appeared an easy 

 thing to determine the plants that might be found. On the river Tern, 

 in Altingham Park, on the sides of the Shropshire Union Canal, and 

 at Tong Lodge Pool, near Shifoal, the Great Water-Dock grows in 

 tolerable plenty. In the autumn I went forth to accomplish the task 

 I had set myself, and visited the first-named locality, where I found 



