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by the Rev. J. Dalton in 1787, and figured in Eng. Bot. t. 1801, in 

 1807. But on Sowerby's drawing at the British Museum the date 

 of its finding is given as " 1807." I have been unable to discover 

 on what Mr. Leighton based his statement, but on an original 

 specimen in the Yorkshire Philosophical Museum Herbarium the 

 label has " Lakeby Carr, Boro-Bridge, 1.6.1807. Rev. James 

 Dalton"; but unfortunately this was transcribed by the Rev. W. 

 Hincks, and the original label is wanting. The latest specimen 

 I have hence is from Mr. G. Webster, 1871. Dr. Lees, in his 

 West Yorkshire Flora, gives the date of its discovery on Thorne 

 Moor, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, as " S. Appleby, 1832, in Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. V. 558," and says that, in company with Mr. W. Todd, he 

 found one specimen "by a well" in 1870. In the British Museum 

 there are specimens from " Thorne Moors," from Mrs. Robinson's 

 herb., 1847. In 1833 Mr. Duff* discovered it in the White 

 Myre of Methven, generally called Methven Bog. In this locality 

 (Journ. Bot. 1884, 274; 1889, 363; Flora of Perthshire, 306) Dr. 

 Buchanan White says it is probably extinct — probably in con- 

 sequence of the settlement there of ''a colony of about three 

 thousand black-headed gulls." But another cause may have 

 helped its extinction, for Mr. John Sim says (Phytol. ii. 576 

 (1858) ) that he gathered above three hundred plants there : "it is 

 nearly done"! I have specimens gathered by Mr. Sim in this 

 locality, gathered " June-Aug. 1860," in flower and fruit; it is last 

 known to have been gathered there by Sim in 1874. In 1849 the 

 Rev. G. Pinder found it in Wynbury Bog, Cheshire ; f Mr. Watson 

 says that the Rev. M. J. Berkeley had sent him a note of it from 

 the " north of Notts " : I have no recent knowledge of the species 

 from either of these counties. 



Rynchofipora fusca Sm. is recorded from Bomere Pool in Leigh- 

 ton's Flora (p. 36), on the authority of the Rev. E. Williams; 

 unfortunately the specimens (if such) could not be traced, and Mr. 

 Leighton says he searched for it in vain. From the geographical 

 standpoint there is no reason why it may not have occurred. 



Carex extensa Good. [Flora, 458). Watson excluded this as 

 from an inland county ; and Mr. Leighton does not put the sign 

 " ! " after the locality, but remarks : " The form of the nut, inde- 

 pendently of any other differences, essentially distinguishes this from 

 every modification of Jiava." Could this have been C. Mairii 

 Coss. & Germ. (Obs. PI. Crit. 18, t. 1 et 2, 1840) ? 



Mr. Leighton did not include the Characem in his Flora. 

 Among a quantity of submerged material from a pool in Salop, 

 sent me by Mr. Beckwith, I found some small scraps of Chara 

 gracilis. 



* Hooker, Brit. Flora, 176 (1835). 

 t H. C. Watson, Cyb. Brit. ii. 480. 



