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Leersia oryzoides Sw. IN Dorset. — Another rare plant has been 

 added to the flora of Dorset by Mr. William Mitten, who a few 

 years ago discovered Empetram nigrum. L. on the heathland near 

 Littlesea, and now has detected Leersia oryzoides Sw. in a marsh 

 ditch at Wareham. This species, though found in all the 

 neighbouring continental countries (Denmark, Germany, Holland, 

 Belgium, France), is singularly limited in Britain, and has hitherto 

 been believed to occur only in Hants South, Sussex West, and 

 Surrey. It may, however, have escaped notice elsewhere than in 

 Dorset ; for, though it can be distinguished at sight by its yellowish 

 green hue and the cylindric, inflated upper part of the stem, 

 A. Braun's epithet [Oryza clandestina) was well justified by the 

 habit of a plant whose flowers are usually included in the upper- 

 most sheath, and only come when most grasses are over for the 

 season. — Edward F. Linton. 



Carex chordorrhiza Ehrhart in Britain. — On August 4th we 

 were examining some low-lying ground near the head of Loch 

 Naver, at Altnaharra, W. Sutherland, when we came upon a 

 spongy, sphagnous bog, producing C. limosa L. plentifully. With 

 it was a sedge which we had not met with before ; on comparison 

 with book-descriptions, it seemed to agree well with C'. chordorrhiza, 

 and Mr. Arthur Bennett has kindly sent us specimens from Lyngby 

 Mose, near Copenhagen, which are evidently the same thing. This 

 is new to the national flora. — Edward S. Marshall & W. A. 

 Shoolbred. 



Berwickshire Rubi and Ros^. — On Aug. 28th I collected the 

 following within half a mile of the bridge over the Tweed at Berwick, 

 in Dist. 81 of Topographical Botany: — Rubus dumetorum Wh. & N., 

 var. a. ferox* Weihe. — R. corylifolius''' Sm. — Rosa mollis* Sm. 

 (type), and var. b. canilea^' Woods. — Fi. tomentosa Sm. (type), and 

 vars. b. suhglobosa (Sm.) and d. scabriuscula (Sm.). — R. involata Sm. 

 — R. rubiginosa L. — R. canina L., var. e. duuialis (Bechst.). — 

 R. glauca Vill. (type), and var. g. Watsoni Baker. For the naming 

 my father is responsible. — F. A. Rogers. 



NOTICES OE BOOKS. 



" Miscellaneous Information." 



Royal Gardens, Keiv. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. Nos. 

 122-123, "February and March " [issued in August] ; No. 124, 

 "April" [August]; Nos. 125-126, "MayandJune" [August]; 

 No. 127, "July" [August]; Nos. 128-129, "August and Sep- 

 tember" [September]. "October" [September]. London: 

 Eyre and Spottiswoode. 



The inquiry in the House of Commons on June 28 seems to 

 have given a fillip to the flagging energy which directs the Kew 

 Bulletin, and the last two months have seen the issue of the above 

 numbers, all of which, according to custom, bear a false date both 



