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also exhibited a single specimen of the same taken from the vicinity 

 of Chilworth, and stated that he had not been able to ascertain its 

 existence on many of the heaths in the immediate neighbourhood 

 of Godalming, although Juncus glaucus is found in the greatest 

 profusion. 



Mr. J. D. Salmon exhibited specimens of Setaria viridis, Beauv., 

 from Brook farm, near Albury, a station where this plant was noticed 

 several years ago by Mr. Irvine, and pointed out that the specimens 

 of the latter differed from the figure in the ' English Botany,' 875, 

 which represents the plant as having an erect spike, whereas in those 

 shown not only the whole plant, but the spikes were also prostrate, 

 and that this was the state of all the plants growing in the same loca- 

 lity (a wheat stubble) : in Koch a synonym is given Panicum recli- 

 natum. Will., which is very characteristic. Mr. Spicer also an- 

 nounced that within the last few days he had found some plants of 

 this species in the neighbourhood of Puttenham. Mr. Salmon also 

 presented Alopecurus fulvus, S)n., from New Pond, Godalming. 

 Mr. A. Irvine exhibited specimens of Trifolium fragiferum, from 

 Woodbridge, neighbourhood of Guildford ; also a viviparous state of 

 Trifolium repens, and the variety of Eqnisetum palustre, E. polysta- 

 chion of Ray's Synopsis. 



Al. Irvine, H. S. 



Guildford, October 11, 1847. 



Occurrence of Myriophyllum pectinatum at Fakenham. 

 By W. L. NoTCUTT, Esq. 



It may interest some of your readers to know that I have detected 

 during the past summer Myriophyllum peclinatum of De Candolle 

 (M. verticillatum, y. pectinatum of Koch) in some plenty in this 

 neighbourhood. The habit of the plant is very different from the 

 ordinary form of M. verticillatum, its appearance being that of M. spi- 

 catiim, from which, however, it is readily to be distinguished by the 

 pectinately-divided bracteas being two or three times as long as the 

 flowers. I may, perhaps, be pardoned if 1 call attention to the 

 characters generally given for M. spicatum. The bracts are usually 

 described as " entire," or " all entire," and Mr. Babington does not 

 seem to have observed the incorrectness of it. Only the uppermost 

 bracts are ovate and entire in the plants 1 have examined, all the rest 



