296 snoKT jroTEs. 



Htpeeictjm BCETTicuM, Boi'ss., IN NoETH Devon. — The enclosed frag- 

 ment was found by Mr. Thomas Wainwright, of Barnstaple, about 

 three miles from that town, and brought to me for identification. This 

 discovery extends its area of distribution into N. Devon. — M. M. 

 Bull. 



E.UMEX SYLVESTRis IN Kent. — I am able to extend both the 

 comital and Thames-side distribution of this at present only locally 

 known Dock, by recording a good and typical example gathered to- 

 day (Sept. 15) on the Kentish bank of the river at Greenwich, a long 

 quarter of a mile below the Trafalgar Hotel, near some little pits 

 shortly before you reach " Enderby's Wharf." The spot occupied 

 by the plant was exactly analogous to its Putney station, only in this 

 case it was associated with a more littoral vegetation (such as Aster ^ 

 Glaux, Zannichellia pedicillata) than I had yet seen in its neighbour- 

 hood, and a plant or two of Rumex palustris was in close proximity. — 



J. L. W'VRKEN. 



FiLAGo GALLiCA, X., was gathered by me the other day, by the 

 roadside at Bouley Bay, in this island. The immediate neighbour- 

 hood is uncultivated, and I do not quite see how seed can have been 

 brought to the spot where I found the plant growing. Still, if it is 

 really native, it is singular that it has not been observed before. An 

 allied plant, Gnaphalium luteo-allum, L., has become very scarce here. 

 Sherard found it "very common " ; but I have seen very little of it 

 during twenty-five years' residence in Jersey. Once I found a single plant 

 by St. Ouen's Pond, and twice I have seen it in the town of St. 

 Helier's, growing amongst the debris of syenite which serves here as 

 gravel. It must occur in some quarry, which I have not yet succeeded 

 in tracing ; though, by the colour of the " gravel," it must be distant 

 from St. HeHer's.— M. M. Bull. 



SCIEPUS TRIQUETER, Z., IN CORNWALL AND DeVON. — In '' Joumal 



of Botany" for 1872, pp. 44-45, may be seen a note from Mr. 

 Charles Prentice with reference to his discovery of this Scirpus in 

 East Cornwall in July, 1875 ; " growing most copiously on a mud-bank 

 about a mile, or rather less, on the Calstock side of the Tamar, beyond 

 Calstock, just opposite to the rocks of Morwellham." A note in Mr. 

 Keys's " Flora of Devon and Cornwall," relative to its not having 

 been seen subsequently, led Mr. Prentice to add, "It is possible, 

 however, that this mud-bank has been swept away by a subsequent 

 flood." Under these circumstances, and as the occurrence of the plant 

 in the south-west of England would seem to have been considered im- 

 probable by some of our leading botanists, I think it worth while to 

 say that on 7th September last I noticed it growing in considerable 

 quantity in two spots by the right bank of the Tamar, near Calstock, 

 the higher being about a quarter of a mile above the village. Besides 

 still occurring on the Cornish side of the Tamar, near Calstock, I find 

 Scirpus triqueter grows in abundance on the left, and so Devonian, 

 side of this river near Gawton, in the parish of Beer Ferris. In the 

 same neighbourhood 8. carinatas, Sm., occurs. I was led to look out 

 for the latter from its having been discovered by my friend, Mr. Ralfs, 



