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meadow bordering the Twyford road. It had a tussocky growth, 

 and I felt much inchned to refer it to the above-mentioned species. 

 Subsequently I gathered specimens with a similar facies in the 

 Winnal meadows. Through the kindness of the Rev. E. S. Mar- 

 shall I was able to submit plants from both localities to Herr Pfarrer 

 Kiikenthal, of Coburg, who says that all the material I sent him 

 belongs to C. stricta Good. This is a new county record for the 

 sedge, and its discovery in Hants is especially gratifying, bearing in 

 mind the fact that in Mr. Townsend's Flora it is included among 

 the list of remarkable absences. — A. B. Jackson. 



New Pembroke Records. — During a few days' stay at Tenby 

 I gathered the following plants not previously recorded for Pem- 

 broke: — Sacjlna Reuteri Boiss. Gravel walks. — Trifolium striatum L. 

 Growing with T. scahrum on railway. — Orchis latifolia L. Penally. 

 — O. latifolia X maculata. Penally. — Koeleria cristataTers. Between 

 Tenby and Penally. — Richard F. Towndrow. 



LoNicERA Caprifolium IN Perthsmre. — Durlug a recent visit to 

 Glen Farg, I found Lonicera Caprifolium L. in great abundance and 

 in very fine flower. If we are to judge by the recent Flora of 

 Perthshire, this is new to the county. — A. Craig Christie. 



Galium Vaillantii DC. in Oxon and Dorset. — The Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall has drawn my attention to a Galium, we gathered together 

 a few years back near Hamworthy Junction, Dorset, and on exami- 

 nation I see it is G. Vaillantii, as he suggested. This discovery led 

 me to study again a plant I gathered near Oxford (Woodstock Road) 

 in 1870, and named G. Vaillantii, but my mentor at that period 

 called it G. Aparine, and it lay unthought of in my herbarium for 

 many years under that name. It is, however, G. Vaillantii, and 

 I think the species has not been reported for either county. — 

 Edward F. Linton. 



BicHENo's Herbarium. — James Ebenezer Bicheno's herbarium 

 is now in the Swansea Museum. My friend the Rev. H. T. Rid- 

 delsdell has kindly copied the Berkshire localities for me. The 

 specimens were collected between 1810 and 1830. The plants from 

 Surrey include — Mentha rubra, Woking (I have not seen the speci- 

 men) ; Hypochceris glabra and Arnoseris pusilla, from Weybridge ; 

 Alopecurusfulvus, Whitmoor Pond, near Guildford ; Digitaria humi- 

 fusa, Setaria viridis, S. ylauca (1842), Festuca Mijurus (1843), all 

 from Weybridge. There are probably others. — G. Claridoe Druce. 



[Mr. Druce, in his Flora of Berkshire (pp. clii-clvi), gives an 

 interesting sketch of Bicheno's work. — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Recent Literature on Alg^e. 



In the Annals of Botany, March, 1898, Mr. A. H. Church pub^ 

 lishes a paper on "The Polymorphy of Cutleria multifida Giby." 

 He refers to the researches of Crouan, Reinke, and Falkenberg, and 



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