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Jersey Plants. — Isnardia palustris, L. Is this plant still to be 

 found in any of the old recorded English habitats ? I have searched 

 the stations at Petersfield Heath and Buxted for it without success, 

 and understand it is no longer to be found at Brockenhurst. This 

 summer, too, I could not see any traces of it in St. Peter's Marsh, 

 Jersey, which was unfortunately drained about seven years ago, 

 causing the complete extinction of several rare plants, including 

 Ranunculus ophioglossifoUus, Vill. I hear that Isnardia has been 

 observed in one other station in Jersey, near St. Clement's, but has 

 not been found there this year. — Gnaplialium luteo-alhmn, L. This plant 

 would appear to have become almost extinct in Jersey ; as Dr. Bull 

 informs me, of late years nearly all the specimens obtained there have 

 come from gardens in or near the town, where they appear spon- 

 taneously as weeds. I found on July 27th a small patch growing in 

 sandy ground that was evidently inundated in winter, close by the 

 first Martello Tower in St. Brelade's Bay, far from any cultivation. 

 Few specimens exceeded an inch and a half in height, and required 

 some searching for, as a profuse growth of Salix repens covered the 

 ground, and almost hid the Gnaplialium. — J. Cosmo Melvill. 



SoLANUM Dulcamara with yellow berries. — Dr. Masters has 

 sent from Ealing a fresh specimen, collected by him in September, of a 

 singular variety of Solanum Dulcamara, L., with pale yellow fruit. 

 This form, which has hairy leaves with large auricles, does not appear 

 to be noticed in the books. 



Anthoxanthum Puelii. — I enclose a specimen of a grass which I 

 believe to be Anthoxanthttm Puelii, Lee. et Lam., which I collected 

 on the 26th August last. It grow freely on peaty ground near the 

 south-eastern extremity of Lindow Common, Hundred of Macclesfield, 

 Cheshire, the rifie-range being about a quarter of a mile north-west. 

 From the appearance of the ground I am of opinion that originally it 

 formed part of the adjacent waste bog, but has been reclaimed at 

 some distant date. It is crossed by a cart-track, apparently used for 

 conveying turf from the moss. Most of the ground in question is 

 covered with grass and weeds, but there are some patches of potatoes. 

 Extending over a length of twenty to thirty yards, amongst grass and 

 common weeds (no introduced plants), the Anthoxanthum Puelii grew 

 in fair quantity, with all the appearance of being native. It is, how- 

 ever, possible that it may have been introduced with grass seed, 

 although, from the look of the surroundings, this hardly seems likely, 

 as the grass grows in patches as if self-sown. — Robert Brown, 

 Liverpool. — [Mr. Brown's discovery is of considerable interest, as 

 bearing on the question of the nativity of his Grass. The Mobberley 

 station where Mr. Britten collected the plant (see Journ. Bot., 1874, 

 p. 278) is about three miles only from the above locality. There was 

 some doubt as to the plant being native at Mobberley, the place having 

 been sown some years previously with grass seed ; and Mr. Briggs, in 

 his note (Journ. Bot., 1875, p. 297) on the plant near Plymouth, 



