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Durham. J. Hogg, Esq.' (Wincli, Flor. N. and D., 1832.) 

 Still found there, as I learn from Mr. Hogg, in a letter, dated 

 September 30tli, 1854. That gentlemen observes: 'Yester- 

 day, 1 found vast quantities of the curious Thorow-wax 

 (Bupleurum rotundifolium), in several stubbles, in a 

 clayey soil, to the west of Norton. Indeed, parts of 

 several fields were quite thick with it. I send you here- 

 with a small specimen.' 

 Slum angustifoUum,nesLr Morden Car, Mr Daniel Oliver, jun. ! 

 " In an excursion to tlie banks of the Wansbeck, in the month of 

 October last, in company with Mr John Thornhill, we noticed — 

 Viola odorata, below Sheepwash Bridge ; near the same place, 

 Fimpinella magna, a plant which does not appear to have been 

 met with in Northumberland, since the time of Wallis, 

 who mentions it as having occurred at Fairflow and Long 

 Rigge, and on the north-east side of the bridge, at Bar- 

 wesford. 

 Scirpus TaherncBmontani (/3 glaucus, Sm.) on the margin of 



the Wansbeck, about a mile below Sheepwash. 

 Euonymus europceus, near Camboise. 



Zostera nana has lately been found at Hartlepool, by Mr. 

 Albany Hancock, thus extending the distribution of 

 this species, from Northumberland to Durham. The 

 names of several other species, of more frequent occur- 

 rence, might be given ; but, as it is expected they will 

 shortly appear in the catalogue of flowering plants to be 

 published by the Club, it is unnecessary to mention them 

 here." 

 Mr. D. Oliver, jun., has also kindly communicated the follow- 

 ing note on the Diatomacece of the district : — 



" I have at times, during the past year, cursorily examined 

 some of the mud deposits from various places in our neighbour- 

 hood, with a view to ascertain the occurrence and comparative 

 frequency of the Diatomacece. Without attempting, at present, to 

 catalogue the few which I have already observed, it may interest 

 the Club to know, that after an inspection of such deposits from 

 Jarrow Slake, Prestwick Car, Tyneside ; at Scotswood, Blyth, 



