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third longer in setosum than in arvense. Is not our plant fairly 

 entitled to rank as a species ? — Fredc. Stratton. 



PoTAMOGETON coLORATus Hornem. IN South Lincoln and 

 Northants. — Two years ago I found this species in small quantity 

 in a fen-ditch in the parish of Eye, Northants, for which county 

 it was a new record. Last year I spent some time in investi- 

 gating the flora of these fen-ditches, when I found it in the same 

 parish in two different localities. This year it has spread from 

 the spot where I first saw it, and is now very abundant for many 

 yards. I also found a small patch (as a mud form) on Sutton 

 Heath, near Wansford. In a ditch between Eye and Crowland, 

 in South Lincoln, it was also plentiful this year, and is an addition 

 to TojwgrajjJiical Botany for that vice-county; here it was asso- 

 ciated with Myriophyllum aUerniJiorum. — G. Claridge Druce, 



Sussex Orchids. — Two rather remarkable discoveries of 

 Orchids have been made recently in East Sussex. A single 

 specimen of Orchis ptirpurea has been found in the Ouse district, 

 near Lewes, by Mr. Herbert Jenner ; there is no previous record 

 for East Sussex. Of 0. hircina, a single specimen has been found 

 in the Cuckmere district, near Eastbourne, by Mr. E. J. Bedford. 

 Of this also there is no previous record for East Sussex, the only 

 record for Sussex at all being, I believe, a recent one on the 

 extreme west of the county. The chief interest in these dis- 

 coveries lies in the fact that the districts have been well worked 

 by competent botanists for more than a century, so that these and 

 other species may still occur sporadically over a large extent of 

 the down-land. — J. H. A. Jenner. 



Senecio saracenicus L. — This plant is still growing in fair 

 abundance by the stream at Ashford in the parish of Steep, near 

 Petersfield, Hants, where I saw it, not quite in flower, on July 17th. 

 (See the note p. 241, Townsend's Flora of Hampshire, 2nd edition.) 

 — Eredc. Stratton. 



Viola Curtisii. — I cannot find that Viola Curtisii is on record 

 for v.-c. 95 Elgin ; a specimen of this exists in the Herbarium 

 of the Holmesdale Natural History Club, Eeigate, labelled: 

 " Dunphail, 1850. Hb. J. A. Power." — C. E. Salmon. 



FiLAGO spathulata Prosl. IN Jersey. — In 1910 I brought back 

 from Jersey a young Filago which grew near St. Aubins ; it has 

 since flowered, and proves to be i^. spat]iulata,'h\VaQvto, I believe, 

 unrecorded for the Channel Isles. — G. Claridge Druce. 



REVIEWS. 



Prodrome de la Flore Corse. Par John Briquet. Tome i. 8vo, 

 pp. Ivi, 656. Geneva : Georg & Co. 1910. Price 15 fr. 

 _ Dr. Briquet's exhaustive work on the Flora of Corsica com- 

 prises the results of six botanical journeys made during the last 

 ten years under the auspices of M. Emile Burnat. The first 



