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glume. Root creeping. Lower bracts long, p. 5. Devil's 
ditches at Marburg in Hesse; Reichenbach.’ 
—Woods’ Tourist’s Flora, p. 389. 
“Tts most intimate fallies amongst British species appear to be C. 
aquatilis, C. stricta, and C. acuta. If no other botanist can furnish 
more complete and definite information respecting its occurrence, per- 
haps it will be safest, under the circumstances of the case, to place it 
for the present in the doubtful category, side by side with C. brizoi- 
des, till its rediscovery enables us to receive it with complete confi- 
dence ; but it is not unlikely that if sought for specially it may be 
found to inhabit other localities.” —John G. Baker; Thirsk, April 
17, 1854. 
Another Locality for Salix acutifolia. 
Mr. Baker also forwarded the following, extracted, by permission, 
from a letter sent to him by Mr. James Ward, of Richmond, York- 
shire, dated April 7, 1854 :— 
“Tam exceedingly obliged by yourkindness in sending me specimens 
of Salix acutifolia, Willd. ; and beg to inform you that I discovered the 
same species in May, 1831, on the banks of the river Ure, near Wens- 
ley, in Wensley Dale, Yorkshire. I only preserved a single specimen, 
which I now have in my herbarium; being told it was not a British 
species: at the same time, I thought it must be so, as it appeared as 
perfectly wild as any of the others amongst which it was growing. I 
have no doubt it is still in the same place, but have not been there for 
some time. When I found it, I was not so well acquainted with wil- 
lows, and therefore thought no more about it.” 
Chrysosplenium alternifolium, &c., near Cheltenham. 
“ Crossing the Cotswold Hills the other day, from Cheltenham to 
Stow-on-the-Wold, I gathered on the border of Dowdeswell Wood, 
near Cheltenham, Chrysosplenium alternifolium. It was growing in 
great abundance. Further on, about two or three miles, by the road- 
side, and nearly opposite Sandywell Park, far from any house, I saw 
Helleborus viridis growing most luxuriantly, although only a few 
plants. On one of ,the highest hills on my road, I found Cerastium 
arvense sparingly ; and at Naunton, on the border of a field adjoin- 
ing Harford Bridge, that spans the Windrush, Veronica Buxbaumii 
was growing in such profusion as to make the ground quite blue for 
yards.”-——T. W. Gissing ; 44, High Street, Worcester, April 21, 1854. 
