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a glance by its hairy stem, entire leaves, lax cymes, and stellately 

 divaricating carpels, but it quite matches these in calyx, corolla, and 

 stamens. The only other species with which I am acquainted that 

 come near it are ^5^. stoloniferum, Gmel. (better known under the 

 name of S. ihericum, Stev.), which is a much smaller and more slender 

 plant, with leaves both stalked and toothed, and the East Siberian 

 S. Middenclorfianum, Maxim. Prim. Amur., 1 1 6, which has the same 

 lax inflorescence and the same stellately-divaricating carpels, angled 

 a little above the base on the inner side, but totally different 

 foliage. 



SHOET NOTES. 



A NEW Locality foe PoLrGALA. afstriaca in Kent. — On June 10th, 

 after visiting the original locality for this plant, on "Wye Downs, in 

 company with Mr. J. P. Duthie, we came across it in still greater abun- 

 dance on chalky banks in a little valley known as Bavin's Farm, which 

 is about three miles east of the original locality. On one bank espe- 

 cially the plants were very fine and abundant, and mixed with other 

 rarities, including Orchis fusca and Herminium Monorchis. It is both 

 interesting and satisfactory to find this rare little plant scattered over 

 so considerable a district, and not confined to one spot, as the chances 

 of its destruction by agriculture or collectors are greatly diminished. — 

 F. J. Hanbuey. 



Caeex elongata, Z,, in Waewickshiee. — It may be interesting 

 to those botanists who pay attention to topographical botany to hear 

 that Carex elongata^ Linn., grows in Warwickshire. I found it for 

 the first time on the 29th of June last ; it was growing abundantly, 

 and occurred at intervals for about half a mile. I was too late to get 

 the plant in a good condition for pressing, the fruit being fully ripened, 

 and in many cases shed in quantities on the stream by which it grows. 

 I find the plant between ilampton-in-Arden and Berkswell, War- 

 wickshire. I have pressed a few specimens to send to the Exchange 

 Club, just to record it for a new county. — J. Bagnall. 



Claytonia alsinoides, L. — I found this plant last month in a 

 wood at the summit of Calton Hill, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, where 

 it was to all appearance perfectly wild. This locality is some distance 

 from Edensor, from which place a specimen was figured in Baxter's 

 ** Genera of British Plants." A specimen from Hayfield, in the same 

 county, is in the British Museum Herbarium. — James Britten. 



** TJlleeioee." — Mr. Webb's query about this name (p. 50), having 

 been copied into the ** Scottish Naturalist," has elicited the following 

 reply from the Rev. Dr. Gordon, of Bimie, Forfar : — " A notice or query 

 regarding this plant, and of similar import to that in the * Scottish 

 Naturalist,' p. 79, was sent to * Loudon's Magazine of Nat. History,' 

 1831, vol. iv., p. 188. No information was given in reply. In the notice 



