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flowers, is very common in potato, turnip, and mangold-wurzel 

 fields in the neighbourhood of Ponsanooth, and I have no doubt 

 it will be found in most parts of the county. The flowers are 

 generally white, and the upper surface of the lanceolate leaves 

 are rather darker than in the type. 



Sparganium simplex, Huds., var. longissimum, Fries. To 



this variety I refer a plant with very long floating leaves which 

 occurs in deep pools and swiftly running streams in various 

 places in the parish of Wendron. 



Garex paniculata, Linn., var. simplicior, Anders. Near 

 Goran Haven, Clement Reid. 



C. flacca, Schreb., var. Micheliana, Ar. Benn. Tregorden, 

 Egloshayle, R. V. Tellmn. Lizard, G. C. Bruce. 



3. NEW LOCALITIES. 



The particulars furnished under this head must not be 

 accepted as anything like a complete account of what has been 

 done this year. Altogether, many hundreds of new localities 

 have been added, and the selection here given refers to the 

 rarer plants only. It will be seen that some of the records stand 

 for a great extension of the range of species hitherto thought to 

 be confined to very restricted areas, while several constitute new 

 vice-county records. As there appears to be a little misconception 

 among some of my helpers as to what is meant by a "vice- 

 county," it may not be amiss if I offer a few words of 

 explanation. For purposes of comparison, as well as in other 

 ways to facilitate his great work as botanical topographer, the 

 late H. C. Watson divided Great Britain, first of all into 

 eighteen provinces. These provinces were broken up into thirty- 

 eight sub-provinces and, by a further splitting, the sub-provinces 

 were marked off into one hundred and twelve vice-counties. It 

 would be out of place here to trace these several divisions. 

 Suffice it, therefore, that the enumeration of the vice-counties 

 commences with West Cornwall, which is vice-county 1, and 

 terminates with the Shetland Isles, which form vice-county 112. 

 Cornwall is divided into two vice-counties, "by a line traced 

 along the high road from Truro, through St. Columb, to the 

 inland extremity of Padstow Creek ; at the two ends of this line, 



