12-2, Mr. W. H. Beeby on some 



are known to me, and all his stations have been searched several 

 times in vain ; and accordingly his record is not accepted in 

 Top. Bot. It was with much pleasure, therefore, that I found 

 last spring a plant which I thought would prove to be this 

 species. A later visit confirmed the opinion, and, although the 

 plant has not been obtained in fruit, I have no doubt as to its 

 name, as the only alternative is a species new to Britain, if not 

 new altogether, as the plant in question is not acutifoUiis, the 

 only other species we have in this country which resembles it at 

 all in the structure of the leaves. The plant occurred very 

 sparingly in but one slow-running ditch near Chertsey, and, as 

 it has been looked for a great deal in Surrey for some years past, 

 it is probably quite one of our rarest species. 



I am indebted to my friend Mr. Arthur Bennett for the 

 additional distribution of the plant beyond that given in Top. 

 Bot., fi'om which it appears that Berkshire is the only other 

 county south of the Thames in which it is known to occur, 

 while it extends north to Forfar. P. acutifolim, which is locally 

 rather common in Surrey, has, on the other hand, a much more 

 southern range, occurring in five counties south of the Thames, 

 and not extending north of Yorkshire. 



The next new species is one of the Characeic, viz., Tolyiyella 

 iiitricata, a plant often included in the genus Nitella, which it 

 resembles in having the stems composed of a single pellucid 

 tube, but now separated by most authors chiefly on the characters 

 afforded by the position of the reproductive organs. These plants 

 are of course well known as showing well the movements of the 

 cell-(;ontents. This is the only TohjpeUa yet found in Surrey ; 

 and it was not the one I had expected to get, as the Messrs. 

 Groves found TohjpeUa (jlomerata some years since on the Middle- 

 sex side near Staines, and I had thought that it might turn up 

 on our side of the river. The Surrey one is much the rarer spe- 

 cies, and it is not at all impossible that we may eventually get 

 the other as well. 



Besides these new records, Slum latifoUum, now all but 

 extinct in its well-known Thames-side stations, occurs in several 

 places, and in one is fairly abundant, and is likely to occur in 

 many of the ditches hereabouts. Utricularia vuhjaris, the common 

 bladderwort, has not been found in Surrey for many years, and 

 has apparently been extinct in the old locality, near Walton 

 Bridge, for some years. It occurs in the greatest profusion in 

 nearly every ditch in this fen-tract. Of other rarities found here, 

 I may name PMinex maximus, only recorded elsewhere from Cut 

 Mill-pond, where it is apparently very scarce ; and Carex inter- 

 media, also a very uncommon Surrey plant; Hottunia, Hydrocharis, 

 (Enanthe FlieUandnmn, Callitriche obtiisanr/ula, and Lemna gibba. 



Leaving this district, the Bev. E. S. Marshall has found 



