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MISCELLANEOUS. 
RANUNCULUS LENORMANDI, F. W. SCHULTZ. 
In my ‘ Manual’ I have noticed a plant as a variety (3. grandiflorus) 
of R. hederaceus, which it seems quite certain is the above species, 
described by Schultz in the ‘ Flora,’ vol. xx. p. 726, and again in the 
same journal, vol. xxiv. p. 171, and recently figured by Cosson and 
Germain in the first portion of their beautiful ‘ Atlas de la Flore des 
Environs de Paris.’ It differs from R. hederaceus by each lobe of its 
leaves having two or three notches, its carpels obovate and tipped 
with a terminal style, petals broader and longer, stipules very broad 
and scarcely at all adnate to the petioles. It is a considerably larger 
plant than R. hederaceus, and has probably been overlooked in En- 
gland as either that species in a vigorous state or perhaps as a state 
of R. aquatilis, from which the want of capillarily-divided leaves and 
the absence of setz on the receptacle distinguish it.—C. C. B, : 
Fisap Dd S 42932, 
CAREX MONTANA, LINN. 
Mr. William Mitten, of Hurstpierpoint, has had the good fortune 
to find this plant in a field in Sussex, near to Tonbridge Wells. It 
much resembles C. pilulifera, a specimen of which is I believe pre- 
served in the Linnzan herbarium in mistake for C. montana; but the 
true plant of Linnzeus has been accurately determined in Sweden. 
C. montana differs from C. pilulifera by having ovate fertile spikes, 
much blunter or retuse and darker glumes, oblong-obovate hairy 
fruit, and an oblong nut.—C. C.B. 
MIGRATIONS OF SALMON. 
About a year and a half ago, Lord Glenlyon, with the praiseworthy 
motive of deciding the long-agitated question as to whether the sal- 
mon, after returning to the ocean from its spawning-ground, again 
resought the same river on another return of the season, caused a 
number of kelts, or foul fish, to be caught and marked, by attaching 
a label, by a ring, to what is called the dead fin of each. Last sum- 
mer a number of these were captured on various stations in the Tay, 
but, so far as we have heard, none in the Earn; on Tuesday last an- 
other was caught at the Rashbush, a fishing-ground below Inchyra. 
This fish was in excellent condition, and weighed 21 lbs. The label 
bore as follows :—‘‘ Lord Glenlyon, Dunkeld, No. 129.”—Perth 
Advertiser. 
ON THE SPORES OF SOME ALGH. BY M. GUSTAVE THURET., 
M. Unger has published a very interesting investigation of the 
Achlya prolifera*. The researches which I have made on this sin- 
gular Alga, whilst confirming most of the observations of M. Unger, 
have presented to me some new facts, which I shall describe else- 
where. I shall content myself here with rectifying an error into 
* Ann. des Se. Nat., 3rd Series, 1844, vol. ii. p. 5. pl. 1. 
