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Sagina Reuteri Boiss. — Mr. Druce, in this Journal for 1894, 

 pp. 183-4, records the occurrence, in the brickwork (of the plat- 

 form) of Malvern railway-station, of this plant. It was first 

 gathered there in 1889. I have carefully searched for specimens 

 elsewhere in this neighbourhood, but without success, until a few 

 days ago, when I again met with it in some quantity, among the 

 brickwork of the platform at Foregate Street Station, Worcester, 

 distant some 7^ miles from the other habitat, but upon the same 

 line of railway. This confirms my belief that it was introduced 

 with the ballast employed to make these platforms, when the 

 railway was constructed, about thirty-eight years ago. The ballast 

 may have been brought from Cardiff, or some port having com- 

 munication with Spain. — Richard F. Towndrow. 



South Hants Plants. — Mr. Townsend in his Flora rejects 

 (Aniipanula Eapunculns L. for S. Hants as improbable, on the 

 ground that the stations from which C. H'lpanculus and 0. juitula 

 are reported are in the same immediate neiglibourhood, only one to 

 three miles apart ; and he inclines to the opinion that C. patida is 

 the species that occurs, and that it has been mistaken for C. Vuqmn- 

 culus. It seems very likely that one species is the basis of all the 

 records of the two j)]ants ; but I can answer for (J. Rapunculm, 

 having seen it in fair quantity during the summers of 1894 and 

 1895 on hedgebanks in Avon Tyrrell, at a point which might absorb 

 all the localities given for both species in District II. of the Flora, 

 except one for C. Futpunculus, "Bisterne, B. Kuv/.'' My observation 

 would go to confirm Mr. I3olton King's naming, and render it 

 probable that there are two stations for C. Rapunculus, viz. Bisterne 

 and Avon Tyrrell. Any way, C. liapmicnlus may stand on record 

 for S. Hants ; while the record of C. patala does not depend on its 

 occurrence in District II. In the same locality, between Avon 

 Tyrrell and Heme Station occur both Span/anium ramomm Huds. 

 and S. neiilectUHi. Beeby. The latter was published for S. Hants in 

 Jotirn. Hot. 1886, 143. I do not know whether -S'. ramoswn as a 

 segregate has been since certified for the vice-county. Does not 

 Utricularia vulgaris L. want confirming for this part of Hampshire ? 

 I have seen only U. neijlecta Lehm. in District II. — Edward F. 

 Linton, 



Hypnum micans Wils. in Inverness-shire. — I have found the 

 above moss this year on the west coast of this county. It grows 

 in small quantity in a steep ravine about a quarter of a mile from 

 the shore, and 150 ft. above sea-level. Hobkirk's Sijnopds gives 

 this moss as occurring in the south of Ireland and Borrowdale. 

 Dr. Braithwaite writes me that it was found, he thinks by McKinlay, 

 some years ago in the south-west of Scotland. It is one of the plants 

 given in Wallace's Island Life, ed. 2, as not occurring in Europe 

 otherwise than in the British Isles. The Rev. H. G. Jameson, to 

 whom I sent a specimen, has verified the name. — Symers M. 

 Macvicar. 



New Carmarthenshire Records. — During a walk in Carmarthen- 

 shire upon June 1st, I found Silene maritima With, and Scduni 



