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which may be placed under it at Inchnadamph, Sunderland ; at 

 Ardrahan, Galway ; the Burren, Co. Clare ; and to it may perhaps 

 go Mr. Arthur Bennett's interesting Kentish specimens, to which 

 he refers on p. 230. It also occurs on the limestone at Ben 

 Bulben, and this form has been by more than one botanist 

 mistaken for Babington's plant ; it was such a misnamed specmen 

 which induced my friend Dr. Williams to give it so subordinate a 

 position in his Prodromus. On my first visit to Ben Bulben I 

 only saw this form, as I did not work the cliffs on the western 

 and seaward side of that interesting hill. When on a subsequent 

 occasion I saw the real plant growing on the seaward-facing 

 cliffs, I became convinced that it was a distinct species (perhaps 

 not in a Benthamian sense), and therefore in the Bept. Bot. Exch. 

 Club, 1909, 440, I suggested it should be called P. grandiflora, 

 forgetting that in the Prodromus, 125, 1824, De Candolle had 

 under vulgaris a var. grandiflora which was certainly not our 

 plant. As P. Ballii was a nomen nudum and had as a variety 

 already been described for another plant, I ventured (Bept. Bot. 

 Exch. Club, 1911-12) to name it P. Babingtonu, to connect it 

 with the veteran botanist who first brought it to our notice in 

 the pages of his Manual. — G. Claridge Druce. 



" Salicornia dolichostachya sp. nov. S. (dolichostachya) 

 colore viridi v. flavo-viridi ; decumbens, flaccida v. subflaccida, 

 saepius ramosissima ; 5-30 cm. alta ; segmentis brevibus vel 

 longis ; spicis longissimis (etiam 8-16 cm. longis), nonnunquam 

 curvatis, brevibus saepe ramis praecipue ad basim, segmenta 15-30 

 exhibentibus. Differt ab omni alia specie annua quippe qua flores 

 laterales inter se florem terminalem inclusum tenent perennium 

 specierum ad instar." — C. E. Moss in New Phytologist xi. 409 

 (December, 1912). 



Scrophularia alata Gilib. in Surrey. — Lately in looking 

 up the genus for a very odd cut-leaved specimen shown me by 

 Mr. C. E. Salmon, I found that a specimen gathered in 1863 by 

 the Mill Pond at Waddon, near Croydon, was the above species. 

 At that date I had named it " aquatica " by Bentham's Handbook. 

 Mr. Salmon tells me he has no record for Surrey. So far as I 

 know, the only addition to the distribution since the Supplement 

 to Top. Botany is one passed over then, i.e., 28. Norfolk W. 

 (Journ. Bot. 1904, 313). — Arthur Bennett. 



Carex Pseudo-cyperus L. in North Lancashire. — I found 

 this beautiful Carex growing well at two stations in Roudsea 

 Wood, Low Furness, during August last. This is a new record 

 for v.-c. 69. In the boggy shade of the same wood occurs 

 C.paniculata L. var. simplex Gray, which has not been previously 

 recorded for the North Lancashire portion of v.-c. 69. This also 

 applies to G. muricata L., which I gathered on the railway bank 

 a mile south of Ulverston Station. I am indebted to Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett for confirming the name of the three species. — W. H. 

 Pearsall. 



