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Salix Hybrids. — I believe that S. Lapponum x repem was added 

 to the British list on the faith of leaf-specimens gathered by me 

 beside the Lochsie Burn, in Glen Shee, in 1892, which Dr. Buchanan 

 White agreed with me in believing to be this. The plant has been 

 in cultivation ever since, but did not flower until this year : it proves 

 to be S. Lapponum, pure and simple. Another supposed hybrid 

 [S. Arbuscula X herbacea) from Ben Chaisteil, Argyle, is merely 

 S. Arbuscida with unusually rounded leaves. A third cultivated 

 willow, from the same Argyle station, I now refer with much 

 confidence to S. Arbuscula x nig ricans ; it is fairly intermediate 

 between the parents, with which it grew. — Edward S. Marshall. 



PoLYGALA austriaca. — On June 10th the Toynbee Natural 

 History Society found Polyr/ala austriaca in a new station, on the 

 downs N.E. of Otford, Kent. — G. L. Bruce. 



HiERAciUM RiGiDUM Hartm. IN Worcestershire. — Mr. Frederick 

 J. Hanbury has kindly looked at some hawkweeds collected in a 

 railway-cutting near Upton-on- Severn on July 1st, and determines 

 them to be a form of this species. The record is, I believe, new for 

 Worcestershire, but, although the plant occurs at this station in 

 considerable quantity, I cannot feel sure that it may not be a recent 

 introduction. — Richard F. Towndrow. 



NiTELLA TRANSLUCENS IN BuoKs. — I receutly gathered this hand- 

 some species in the ponds at Burnham Beeches, where it grew in 

 great quantity. I also gathered on Stoke Pogis Common Saf/lna 

 subulata and Cerastiwii quaternellum, and near Taplow Filago 

 apiculata and Lepidium. ruderale. In the ponds at Burnham 

 Beeches I noticed an Utricularia, which I believe is U. major 

 Schmidel {U. net/lectaJjehm.). U. vulgaris and U. intermedia {see 

 Phytologist, n.s. v. 170 (1861) ) have been reported from the same 

 locality, but in the latter case it is probable that a mistake was 

 made. Until flowers are procured, there must be an element of 

 doubt in my determination of the species as U. major, but the 

 aspect of the plant is quite similar to U. major as it occurs in 

 Berkshire. — G. C. Druce. 



Carex elongata IN Hampshire. — I gathered a tuft or two of this 

 plant near the Blackwater, between Finchampstead and Jouldern's 

 Ford. It was rather more plentiful on the Berkshire side of the 

 stream near Thatcher's Ford. Koripa amphibia is plentiful there ; 

 it is not recorded for the northern portion of Hampshire in Mr. 

 Townsend's Flora of that county. Carex elongata appears td be a 

 new county record. — G. 0. Druce. 



Note on Anthericopsis. — It is perhaps worth while calling 

 attention to a point arising from a communication by Prof. Engler 

 in his recently-issued " Nachtrag" to parts ii.-iv. of Die Naturlichen 

 Pjianzeufamilien. In the Pjkmzenwelt Ost-Afrik. Theil C, p. 139, he 

 describes a new genus of Liiiacea, which he calls Anthericopsis, and 

 places between the two very closely-allied genera Anthericum and 



