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I showed the specimens to Mr. Babington, who told me that he be- 

 lieved the plant was described by continental writers, and he thought 

 he had seen continental specimens. To this plant I have given the 

 provisional name of Carex Malvernensis, which will serve until we 

 can make out whether the plant has been previously named or not. It 

 differs from C. ovalis in having a leafy bractea, which is much longer 

 than the spike ; it also differs from that species in its fruit being 

 somewhat different in form, and only half the size of that of ovalis. — Id. 



357. Note on Ranunculus Mrsutiis. This appears to be a jjlant 

 far from plentifully distributed. When diligently sought for on the 

 authority of various local lists, it has uniformly eluded me ; in fact, 

 for some years I have ceased to search for it, and stumbled upon it at 

 length only by accident, while driving the other day in the lanes be- 

 tween Thorpe-le-Soken and Great Holland, in the county of Essex, 

 where it forms gay patches wherever the turf is pared away. In the 

 salt marshes in the same neighbom'hood the most conspicuous plants 

 are Statice Armeria and Limonium, Plantago maritima, Scirpus mari- 

 timus, Triglochin maritimum, Arenaria marina, Atriplex portulacoides. 

 The way-side plants next worth mentioning, after Ranunculus hirsu- 

 tus, are Onopordon Acanthium, Inula pulicaria (a far less common 

 plant than I. dysenterica), Veronica polita and Erysimum cheiranthoi- 

 des. — W. L. Beynon ; Down Hall, near Harlow, August 7, 1843. 



358. Note on Epilohium roseum. This plant is, I fancy, frequently 

 overlooked by herborisers. My acquaintance with it commenced, I 

 suspect, many years ago, by the side of a brook running into the Trent, 

 near Barton-under-Needwood, in Staffordshire, though it was not till 

 yesterday that I satisfactorily determined the species, upon again no- 

 ticing the same plant growing with its congeners, E. hirsutum and 

 E. parviflorum, along the banks of a stream called the Pincey, not far 

 from its junction with the Stort, near Harlow, Essex. It may be de- 

 tected at some distance, by the thin and delicate character of the leaves, 

 the reddish hue of the lower part of the stem, and, above all, by the rosy, 

 drooping, half-closed flowers. As plants of the same neighbourhood 

 I may specify Bupleurum rotundifoliura, Trifolium ochroleucum. Cam- 

 panula glomerata, Linaria minor, spurium and Elatine, Galeopsis La- 

 danum, Chlora perfoliata, Gentiana Amarella, Mentha Pulegium, Eu- 

 onymus europseus, Cichorium Intybus and Verbena officinalis. — Id. 



359. Note on a new locality for Isnardia palustris, and on the 

 small White Water-lily. Having occasion to pass through the New 

 Forest last week, and bearing in mind Mr. Pamplin's " Enquiry re- 

 specting ' Nymphsea alba minor,'" in the March No. (Phytol. 525), I 



