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gent as in the Yellow Lily. The latter has a longer and more 

 pointed leaf, and the basal lobes are more divergent and longer 

 than in its fairer relative. 



These are the most conspicuous and the most ornamental 

 plants of our sluggish rivers, dikes, and other deep waters. 



Elatine hexandra grows sparingly in shallow pools and in 

 bogs about Hanworth. [This is probably the first record of the 

 locality; and we are pleased to enter it liere for the benefit of 

 future botanical geographers, whose scientific utilities and sym- 

 pathies are not quite extinguished by their personal antipathies.] 



Hypericum elodes is also plentiful in the same locality as that 

 reported for the before-mentioned plant. I send a note on this 

 plant to aid the correspondent W. P., who marvels what part of 

 Dartmoor is a hundred yards higher than the Carnarvonshire 

 mountains, where Mr. Bowman (see ' Cybele,' vol. i. p. 253) is 

 reported to have seen it. [The veracious compiler of the last- 

 mentioned abortive effort to exhibit the range of our British 

 plants, thought he saw it rather higher on Dartmoor, in Devon. 

 The wish was father to the thought ; he wishes to be thought a 

 farther-seeing and more correct relator of what he fancies he has 

 seen than other men.] 



Ranunculus Lingua, although a Ranworth plant, and rather 

 frequent in such places, is not very plentiful in this neighbour- 

 hood. Those who want to see this plant in perfection and abun- 

 dance should visit the old haven at Sandwich in Kent. 



The rarest plant in this coronal of Norfolk aquatics is probably 

 Senecio paiudosus, which occurs occasionally in bogs at Ranworth. 

 The Norfolk botanists should search diligently for Senecio palus- 

 tris [Cineraria) and for Sonchus palustris. The rediscovery of 

 these plants, which are among the very rarest of England's most 

 precious rarities, will reward the toil of some ardent local inves- 

 tigator. Should this plant be reckoned among the aquatics? 

 Scarcely, for it is found m the same class of habitats as Sonchus 

 palustris, which sometimes is an aquatic, but is oftener found in 

 marshy ground only occasionally flooded, and it grows well, or 

 used to grow well, at Kew, in the Royal Gardens, one of the 

 driest spots of England. 



Villarsia nymphceoides ? I believe I saw this fine plant asso- 

 ciated with Sagittaria sagitlifolia at Ranworth, in some muddy 

 ditches. The author of the ' Cybele,' not always remarkable for 



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