1 50 Trannnclio'tis. 



llieracium saxifra()iini (Fries). — Grey Mare's Tail, Dumfries- 

 shire, collected by J. Backhouse, I think, about 1850 or 1851. 

 Mr Backhouse sent this specimen to my friend Mr Hanbury, and 

 we took it to Kew on Saturday (27th March, 1886), and com- 

 pared it with Fries' Herbarium Normale specimens, and with the 

 specimens from Lindenberg and Scandinavia, and there is no 

 doubt Mr Backhouse was right in supposing his specimen was 

 //. saxifraguvi. It is most like some forms of vulgatum, but the 

 leaves have the teeth beyond the general outline, and the hairs 

 on the underneath are seated on small tubercules. 



SparyaniuDi neglectuia (Beeby). — Three years ago my friend 

 Mr Beeby culled my attention to some specimens of Sparganium 

 he had collected in Surrey, and which he could not make agree 

 with either simplex or ramosum. Steadily pursuing his enquiries 

 and collecting the plant in all stages of its growth, he felt bound 

 to consider that at least it was a new sub-species. He has since 

 published it under the above name in the " Journal of Botany." 

 His opinion is concurred in by Dr Lange of Copenhagen, Dr 

 Moir of Pisa, Dr Gray of Cambridge U.S.A., and by Mr J. G. 

 Baker, Rev. Mr Newbould, etc., in this country. I think it says 

 much for the botanical acumen of Mr Beeby, especially occurring 

 in a county so well worked as Surrey has been supposed to be. 



Potamogeton pusillus, L., sub-spec, Stiirrocldi (A. Bennett). — 

 A very beautiful sub-species of pusillus found by Mr A. Sturroch 

 in East Perth, which I was unable to match in my extensive 

 collection of pusillus from any part of the world, in that at Kew 

 or the British Museum, and my correspondents in Sweden and 

 the United States (Dr Tiselius and the Rev. T. Morong, both 

 specialists in the genus) both concur in considering it separable 

 from ptisillus ; so I named it after the tinder, who has done so 

 much good work among the Perthshire aquatics. 



Naias marina, L. — Found by my daughter at the entrance to 

 Hickling Broad, in Norfolk, a beautiful sheet of water of about 

 500 acres. We were studying the aquatic vegetation, I myself 

 looking over the masses pulled up by the "drag" she was using, 

 and the tirst sight of it was her asking, "What is this^" I saw 

 at once it was a Naias new to Britain. We afterwards found it 

 scattered for over a mile of water, and last year (1885) my friend 

 Mr Mennell found it in Somerton Broad. It occurs in Scandi- 

 navia, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, and other parts of 

 Europe. It is an interesting addition, adding as it does another 

 link to the flora of Western Europe and East Anglia. 



