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Mr. W. H. Beeby showed on a map of England the distri- 

 butions, so far as yet worked ont, of Sparrjaniwn ramosum and 

 S. neglectum. S. neglectum has been identified from Shropshire, 

 Warwick, Worcester, Oxford, Hants, Sm-rey, and Sussex; 

 whilst specimens from the eastern and northern counties 

 have proved to be S. ramosum. Mr. Beeby stated that the 

 filaments of the stamens in neglectum, seemed generally to be 

 longer than in ramosum ; and the stigma (apart from the beak) 

 to be shorter in neglectum. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., read the following notes on 

 ' Eecent Additions to the British Flora ' : — 



In Hieracia I can do no more than mention three species 

 that will probably prove British : — H. onosmoides, Fr., a native 

 of S. Norway, Sweden ; and rare in France. H. astivum., Fr., 

 a native of S. Norway, and rare there. II. oreodes, Fr., a 

 native of S. Norway, and Mid and South Sweden. Mr. Back- 

 house and Prof. Babington both considered them to be new to 

 Britain, and recommended my sending them abroad; so I 

 have sent them to Dr. Almquist, of Sweden, the second 

 authority in Scandinavia on this genus. 



Schcenus ferrugineus, Linn. — Found in damp, heathy ground 

 near Loch Tummel, in Perthshire, by Messrs. White and 

 Brebner, in July, 1884 and 1885. It is distributed over a 

 large part of the Continent of Europe, but is local and is 

 wanting from large areas. It occurs in Norway, Sweden, 

 Denmark, Mechlenburg, France, Switzerland, Austria, and 

 Mid Eussia, but is not known out of Europe. This species 

 will probably occur elsewhere. 



Carex salina, Wg., /3. Kattegatensis (Fr.), Almquist. — Of 

 this sedge I was able to supply last year only a single speci- 

 men. Mr. Grant has found it this year in great abundance 

 by the Wick Eiver, in Caithness; in one place in such abun- 

 dance that a cart-load might be mown without any trouble. 



Growing with the Carex salina and C. aquatilis var. Watsoni 

 another sedge was found last July by Mr. F. J. Hanbury, 

 which with careful examination I separated as C. aquatilis 

 var. cuspidata of Laestidius, a form found in Lulea, Lapland, 

 by Laestidius, and in Western Bothnia by Lundberg. 



