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well to keep the plant in view when botanizing. I have noted 

 that a Crepis labelled in " Herb. Winch" as C. biennis , from corn 

 fields, near Team, D., is C. virens^ L. In Winch's herbarium is 

 a specimen oiBetula nana, L., labelled as from " Mossholes, near 

 Wooler, N., Mr. James Veitch." Although Watson admits this 

 locality without note of doubt, it seems especially desirable to 

 re-examine the neighbourhood of Wooler, that its authenticity 

 may be more securely established. My friend, W. H. Brown, 

 and myself, certainly did not note it in that quarter when there 

 last summer (1857). In Withering's Herbarium, also belonging 

 to the Linneean Society, I observed a specimen or two of an 

 Anthemis, labelled " Anthemis maritima (?) for Dr. W.'s opinion. 

 Sund. 98." These I consider undoubtedly have been sent to 

 Withering by E. Robson, noted in Winch's " Flora" as the 

 authority for the Sunderland station of this plant, then the only 

 locality from which it had been recorded. These specimens ap- 

 pear to belong to the same form of Anthemis arvensis, which, in 

 a recent notice read before the Club,* I have recorded and de- 

 scribed from near Bamborough. The specimens are not in fruit. 

 They confirm me in the view that the Anthemis maritima, Sm. 

 non Linn. (J., anglica, Spr.) ought to be reduced to a mere mari- 

 time form of the common species. — Ibid. 



Note on Chlorosphoira, — I collected at Prestwick Car in 

 the 3rd month (March) of last year (1857), a minute uni- 

 cellular Algas, which I was unable to refer with certainty to any 

 described genus. Some of this Alga I have had in cultivation 

 from that time, and even now I believe that the plant is vege- 

 tating, in a tolerably healthy state, in my window at Kew. At 

 intervals I have examined it, without, however, exhausting one 

 half the history of its development and life. Perhaps the most 

 interesting phenomenon in connection with it which I have with 

 certainty observed, is its vegetative multiplication by a curious 

 binary and quarternary division of the parent cells. Since com- 

 ing up to London, Professor Henfrey has kindly joined me in 

 its examination, and I have handed to him specimens and notes 



* Trans. T.N.F.C., vol. iv., p. 45. 



