BOTANICAL NEWS. 59 
Dothidia Pteridis. 
Wakefield, Jan. 9th, 1868. 
Please correct a misprint in my note on Dothidea Pteridis in last number of 
‘Journal of Botany.’ The locality should be Torgoyle, a few miles from Tn- 
vermorriston, Inverness-shire. I have not seen Mr. Cooke’s ‘Fern Book for 
Everybody,’ therefore I did not know he had recorded wen discovery, which I 
made known to him by forwarding specimens at the tim 
T. W. Gisstne. 
Cyperus longus, Linn. 
Newport, Isle of Wight, 14th January, 1868. 
In one of the two Isle of Wight localities for Cyperus longus, Linn., the 
plant is likely to be exterminated. On my way to another plant — 
morning, I found that the wet meadow opposite Apesdown Farmhouse 
being drained and brought into better cultivation. Possibly, the plant sien 
survive another season, but if the field is to be turned into an arable one, there 
will be little chance of it. 
I have said “ the £w o localities ” because of those given by Dr. Bromfield in 
* Flora Vectensis," the two in East Medina must be one and the same. 
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Venable's * Guide,' only mentions one, and that is the one referred to o by Dr. 
Bromfield as being on the property of the late George Kirkpatrick, Esq. The 
dates, also, appended to the two localities differing by an interval of five years, 
may lead to the conclusion that in 1844 Dr. B pores MA only to Mee as 
* Castle Mead Niton,” the locality which, in 1839, h 
near Niton. 
Of the two localities in West Medina, that near Carisbrooke Castle must, I 
fear, be expunged, E only the Apesdown one, in which, till now, the 
plant has been abun 
FRED. STRATTON. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Dr. L. Lindsay hasin the e press ‘Contributions to New Zealand Botany,’ and 
Outlines of Lichenology ’ sae Lichen ogia Britannica,’ to be published by 
Williams and Norgate, Lo dinburgh. 
Although sos ser of ce eme of many English counties have wae 
pon" Middlesex has not hitherto received similar r attention. Then igh- 
n, however, has been the field of the investigati of. 
inicie of English botanist: of m T (the father of 
botany d) to own time, and the results of th 
widely scattered throu ei tings. To collect these reco a 
4 rm, to bring together every fact of importance relating to the past and 
present vegetation of the county, and thus to trace the changes produced in its 
