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no means constant, but I know too little of neglecta- in a living state 

 to be able to judge. It is to be hoped that flowering specimens from 

 this station may be obtained, which would settle its name. 

 Botanists who may visit Moray will, it is hoped, endeavour to procure 

 flowering specimens of the JJtricularia^ believed by Mr. F. M. Webb 

 to be JJ. Bremii., Heer, which was collected by Mr. Jas. B. Brechan, 

 August 16, 1833, at Moss of Inshoch, Nairnshire, and seems to have 

 occurred also in the Loch of Spynie. (See Journ. Bot., 1876, p. 146.) 

 I have only a very poor specimen of the Loch of Spynie plant, quite 

 insufficient to decide upon, but so far as the leaves and bladders are 

 concerned it resembles U. Bremii, and most certainly is not U. in- 

 termedia. — J. T. BOSWELL. 



Atriplex " rosea," Linn. " About three large plants on the "West 

 Sussex coast, between Coppard's Gap and Southwick, near cottage- 

 rubbish, but probably brought in ship's ballast. September, 1875." — 

 J. L. Waeren. (See Journ. Bot., vol. iv.. n.s., p. 336.) This is 

 not A. rosea of Koch, Grenier & Godron, Billot, exsic, no. 842, &c., 

 but I believe A. laciniata, ''Linn.," Koch., Fl. Germ, et Helv., ed. 2, 

 p. 703, and Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr., vol. iii., p. 11 ; Billot, 

 exsic. no. 1763 & 1763 (bis). Linnaeus, according to Dr. Ascher- 

 son, confounded under the name laciniata the A. arenaria, "Woods, 

 and a plant, which in the first ed. of the " Species Plantarum," he 

 described as A. tatarica : this, however, is not the A. tatarica of 

 Schk, & Koch, which is A. ohlongifoUa, Waldst. & Kit. If Koch 

 be right in citing^, sinuata, Hofi"., as a synonym of his A. laciniata, it 

 would be well to adopt this name for the plant to get quit of the con- 

 fusion in the nomenclature. See Eng. Bot., ed. iii., vol. viii., p. 35; 

 to which I must add that Nuttall having named an American Atriplex 

 '^arenaria" before Woods so named the European plant, the latter 

 must be called by some other name. This Babington has done in the 

 7th edition of his " Manual," where the plant stands as A. 

 farinosa, Dumortier. Mrs. Lomax sends this plant {A. laciniata, 

 Koch, or '■'■ sinuata^'' Hoff'm.) labelled " Chenopodium glatccum," 

 collected on Marazion Green, Cornwall, August, 1875.— J. T. 



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Rumex maximus, Schreb. "Lewes, East Sussex, September, 

 1875." — J. L. Waeeen. And " sandy shore, Downderry, St. Ger- 

 mans, East Cornwall, August, 1875." — T. R. Ar.f^HEE Beiggs. That 

 these two plants belong to the same form there cannot be the slightest 

 doubt ; still less can there be any doubt that they are not the ordinary 

 form of R. Hydrolapathum. They difi'er in the root-leaves, which are 

 thinner in texture and more or less cordate at the base, though the 

 latter character sometimes obtains in R. Hydrolapathum. The enlarged 

 petals are more abrupt at the base, being truncate or even subcordate ; 

 denticulate at the margins at the base, and then contracted into an 

 entire apex something like that of R. ohtusifolius. But I still have 

 my doubts if this be the maximus of most Continental authors. 

 In the few German and Scandinavian specimens I possess of that 

 plant the stem-leaves are more decidedly cordate at the base, 

 less toothed in the upper part, less evidently contracted into an 

 entire point — indeed, ovate-triangular would be the appropriate de- 

 scription of the foreign specimens, while deltoid, acuminated into a 



