70 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Only one specimen has as yet been foimd of the leaf shown in Fig. 26, which 
is of doubtful alliiiitj, and in venturing to compare it with the leaves of U^a- 
cridecB, I have the sanction of eminent botanists. But it is difficult to be 
quite sure in this instance. Tlie leaf must certainly have been stiff and 
leathery. Nothing remains of the veins except an indication of the central 
costa. The short, thick petiole is very singidar. This and the want of secon- 
dary veins permit a comparison with the leaves of Epac^ns Gttnnij Hook. 
(Fig, 27), and U, cardiopJii/Ua^ F. Muell. (Fig. 28), the more so as the leaves 
of those species have a short, thick petiole (the nature-printing has not allowed 
of these points being made sufficiently clear), and the venation (in the fresh 
leaves by no means so distinct as in our figure) shows some resemblance to 
that of the fossil. The difference in size is of Httle importance ; even E, 
cardiophylla has leaves as 
lai'ge again as those of Fig. 
28. The accompanying E. 
pnlchella (Fig. 29) illus- 
trates the shape of the pe- 
tiole and the evanescent 
condition of the venation. 
J^iUosporum njimrtmtm^ ° 
Ung. (Fig. 30). — P. foliis alternis linearibus longe petiolatis subcoriaceis, nervo 
medio solo conspicuo. — In formatione Eocenica ad Kymme Euboeie. 
This interesting specimen I found wlien collecting in Kumi. Two linear leaves, 
broken at the points, are attached to a thin branchlet, with buds in the axils of 
the leaves. The resemblance of these leaves, and their attachment to the branch- 
let, to those of starved specimens of P. ligustrimim^ A, Cunn., is evident. On 
a future occasion I shall add specimens of that plant from Swan River in nature- 
printing, and at the same tune publish a complete Flora of Kumi.* 
FOTAMOGETON NITENS IN SCOTLAND AND P. TEL 
CHOIDES IN ENGLAND. 
Mr. G. E. Hunt announced on November 28, at the raeetinor of the 
Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, that he had disco- 
vered Potamogeton w/tois, Weber, figured in Plate XXIII. of our Journal, 
in Loch Ascog, Eothsay. 
Dr. Caspary, of Konigsberg, coramuuicated to the Linnean Society 
a note on the occurrence of P. trichoidesy Cham., in England. But 
this species has long been known to British botanists, and admitted 
by Babington in his * Manual' as found about Bixley. 
* This latter intention the aytlior has carried out in his ' Wissenschaftliche 
Ergebnissc eincr Eeisc in Griechenland und den Jonischen Inseln.' Wien, 
1862. Noticed in Journ. of Botany, 1864, p. 390. 
