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by aquatic birds from Freshfield. On the other hand, the occur- 

 rence at Eainford of several species of both flowering plants 

 and bryophytes, which with us are otherwise restricted to the 

 sand-dune tract, would also suggest as an alternative view that 

 this remnant of sandy marsh at Eainford may be a survival of a 

 more extensive area, in which the conditions were similar to those 

 at present existing on the dunes. — J. A. Wheldon. 



LiMONiuM IN Denbighshire. — In correcting one error (p. 234) 

 I fell into another when stating that the Denbighshire records erro- 

 neously ascribed to Limonium hellidifolium " must be read as refer- 

 ring to L. vulgare." This should have read L. occidentale. The 

 matter will be best rectified if I restate the Denbighshire distribution 

 and records of all the species of the genus : — Limonium vulgare Mill. 

 {^ = Statice Limonium L.). On the beach close to Llandudno Junc- 

 tion, Fl. Angl. £ Cam. Along the strip of salt marsh, and on the 

 adjoining stone embankment and rocks, extending from Llandudno 

 Junction to a mile or so above Glen Conway, Miss F. M. Thomas. It 

 occurs in some quantity hereabouts. — L. occidentale O. Kuntze 

 (= *S'. hinervosa. G. E. Sm.). The various old records of " Statice 

 spathulata" and "*S. reticulata," all within a fairly restricted area 

 of the Creuddyn Peninsula, must be placed here. Sea beach south 

 of Llandudno, N. J. Winch {Mag. Nat. Hist.). Llandudno, G. 

 Hoivitt (sp.) (N. B. G.). Eocks by the Orme, Bev. W. W. Hoiu. 

 On the sea beach of Llandudno, below Ty draw, near the place 

 where the ore is deposited. Hist. Abercon. A tall form on in- 

 accessible cliffs of Great Orme's Head, particularly on north-east 

 side, and a dwarf form on greensand of beach, Conway Bay, in 

 front of the Dean of York's house, on western side of Great Orme. 

 In a year or two the latter locality will be built over, G. Bailey 

 {B. Bee. CI. Bep. 1874). This last record includes the form which 

 has been described as /3 intermedium Druce. A species to be 

 looked for along the Conway estuary is Limonium humile Mill. 

 [= S. rarijiora Drej.) ; this is as yet unrecorded for the county. 

 — A. A. Dallman. 



CiRSiUM SETOSUM M.B. — This year and, as I am informed, 

 last year also this very remarkable variety of C. arvensc has been 

 observed growing on the bank of a recently widened lane in the 

 outskirts of Newport, Isle of Wight. There were a considerable 

 number of plants in April this year, and the rosettes of root-leaves 

 appeared unlike any British plant with which I was acquainted. 

 As the plants grew up to a height of from four to six feet, they 

 still looked strangers to me, not in the least suggesting any 

 relationship to C. arvense. I had then never seen Senccio 

 saracenicus growing, but I thought my tall plants must be much 

 like that species. The Howers are undoubtedly similar to those 

 of C. arvense, but in no other respect does C. setosuia agree with 

 C. arvense, and in the flowers I find some distinct differences. 

 The flower-heads of C. setosum are more suddenly contracted into 

 the stalk tlian are those of arvense. The lobes of the style 

 cohere, whilst those of arvense are divergent. The pappus is one 



