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true plant ; but tliey are contirmod by Mr J. G. Baker and Mr 

 Carruthers. 



Chara stelligera (Bauer). — It was my good fortune to discover 

 this in abundance in Filby Broad, Norfolk, and the next year 

 in Heighan Sound, near Hickling. Since that date it has been 

 found in several other broads by Messrs Holmes, Hanbury, and 

 Groves. 



Chara Brannii (Gmel.)^Found by Mr C. Bailey with Naias 

 graminea near Manchester. 



Chara polyacantha (A.H.)— Not well separated from C. hispida 

 till lately. It is now known for several Scotch and English 

 counties. 



Chara haltica (Fries). — From Cornwall, where it was found by 

 Mr Curnow. 



Chara intermedia (Fr.) — Norfolk ; found by Mr Groves. 



Chara contraria (Fr.) — Found by Mr Groves in Cambridge- 

 shire, and by myself in Norfolk the same year. 



Carex helvo/a (Blytt), in Scotland. — Having had occasion 

 lately to carefully examine specimens of Carex curta named by 

 our British botanists, "alpicola (Wahl)," to see if I could dis- 

 cover whether we had the ti'ue C. vititis (Fr.) in Britain, a speci- 

 men from Lochnagar on being dissected proved to be C. helvola 

 (Blytt). To make quite sure I sent half of the specimen to Dr 

 A. Blytt of Christiana, and he wrote a few days ago confirming 

 my name. The Lochnagar specimen is labelled — " Ex Herb 

 Edinburgh Botanical Society. Carex curta alpicola (Wahl). 

 Lochnagar, August 11, 1846. Prof. J. H. Balfour." This was 

 three years before helvola was described by Blytt in Fries' 

 " Botaniska Notiser." I have little doubt it will be found in 

 other Herberia under the same name. By the kindness of Dr 

 Blytt, I am able to send a scrap of the species, which is at any 

 member's disposal. 



Equisetum litoralc (Kiihelwein.) — Found by Mr Beeby on 

 Bisley Common, Surrey, where it was growing in pure white 

 sand, overlaying peat. This is an interesting addition to our 

 Flora, and perhaps more so because found in so well searched a 

 county as Surrey is supposed to be. In Europe it occurs in 

 Denmark, North Germany, South Sweden, Bohemia, Austria, 

 North and Mid Russia ; in France and Switzerland, but very 



