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BOTANY. 

 Sedutn villosum near Ingleton. — Referriiii^ to the note on 

 Sediini vil/osmn at Inijleboroui^h in The Naturalist {or December 

 1902, p. 384, it may be o'i interest to record that I found it last 

 Julv in Chapel-le-dale, about halt" a mile from the Vicarag^e, 

 where it was growing- ow a bare piece of ground near the stream 

 in some quantity.- — Wm. R. Linton, Shirley Vicarage, Derby, 

 5th December 1902. 



Cheshire Plants. — There is a small patch of bogg-y ground in 

 the waste land about Birkenhead Docks which I examined for the 

 first time this summer (1902). Among-st the moreinterestingplants 

 noted were Carex ovalis, Good. ; Carex Carta, Good. ; Hvpuuiii 

 riparium, var. longifoliuin , Schimp, and //. aduueuin, var. poly- 

 carpoii, Bland. The two carices referred to occur together 

 on the opposite side of the Mersey, near Aintree, but I am not 

 aware of any record for the Wirral peninsula. The two mosses 

 also occur with the sedges near Aintree !- J. A. Wheldon, 60, 

 Hornby Road, Walton, Liverpool. 



Plants in the Motley Herbarium (page 344 ante). — The 

 locality for Vaccinium I'otis-idecca, ' Clofifa Pikes,' is in Lancashire 

 West (V.C. 60). The entry is apparently rendered doubtful 

 because of the unusual phonetic spelling of the name, which is 

 rendered ' Clougha ' on the maps. The plant named still grows 

 there plentifully, with much else of interest. Mosses and hepaticae 

 are especially abundant and luxuriant amongst the huge roughly- 

 piled blocks of gritstone. Mr. Stabler wrote long ago ' Clougha 

 is a ivonderfiil place for mosses.' Surely high praise from one 

 who has so ably investigated the moss-flora of a county so rich 

 as Westmorland ! — J. A. Wheldon, Liverpool. 



Kantia submersa : a new British Hepatic. — A species of 

 Kantia, gathered by us on Cockerham Moss, West Lancashire, 

 in 1900, after Iving in the herbarium since then as an unsolved 

 enigma has been at length satisfactorily determined to be 

 Kantia submersa, Arnell. Mr. Macvicar suggested this name 

 last year, and recently we submitted specimens to Arnell him- 

 self, who confirms the name, and says the Cockerham plant is 

 interesting in bearing gonidial gemmae, which had not been 

 observed when the original description of the species was drawn 

 up. K. submersa, Arnell, has hitherto only been found in Sweden 

 and Denmark, but will probably be found elsewhere if sought in 

 very wet places on moors and bogs. — A. Wilson and J. A. 

 Wheldon, Liverpool. 



1903 February i. 



