FOR THE YEAR 1872. : 245 
h, 
crowns ; but the spikes have not that silvery white appearance which is so 
mbali. 
Atriplex patula, L., var. serrata, Eng. Bot., ed. 3. “Tt is remarkable 
that this frequent weed of our tilled fields should have been unknown to 
appears still to be imperfectly known. It is the 4. erecta of several 
English collectors, and is very probably also the usual or normal state of 
the extra-luxuriant variety to which the name of erecta is restricted in the 
. third edition of * English Botany."—H. C. Watson. 
. B. Supp., London Cat.). 
* Shores of Loch Leven, Kinross, and Kinghorn, Loch Fife."—J. BoSwELL 
YME. These are the first Scotch specimens I have seen. 
Euphorbia Cyparissias, L. “Several plants growing between the 
stones of a tomb i 1 
WARNER. 
Juniperus communis, L., var. Kynance, Cornwall. “ The specimens 
of Juniper I send you grew on some rocky ground at the head of Gue 
Graze Cove, not far from Kynance, a long way from any habitation, and 
certainly not planted by any of the natives. It is of interest as showing 
the fusion of J. communis and J. nana.”—JoHN CUNNACK. 
Allium triquetrum, L. “ Antron, near Helston, Cornwall.” —J . Cun- 
NACK. Unfortunately, Mr. Cunnack does not state whether this Allium 
has any claims to be considered native in Cornwall; or, if not, how it 
is likely to have been introduced. 
uscari comosum, Mill, * I have the following account of this plant 
. B. M. Watkins, who visited the spot where it was growing. 
More than thirty plants of this species were found in flower in July last, 
in a field of wheat at Gillow, near Ross, Herefordshire. ey averaged 
in height from one to two and a half feet, the bulbs being from one to 
ten inches in the soil. No doubt introduced in the course of cultivation, 
With foreign clover seeds, as there is neither garden, path, nor road near 
the field in question. From the size of the bulbs (some of them mea- 
suring over four inches in circumference), it may be presumed that the 
seed, if introduced, must in the usual course of farming have been sown 
six years; the plants, each year until the present, having been cut down 
by hoeing, etc., before their time for flowering. The long spikes of 
flowers were very conspicuous among the ripening corn, and could readily 
USTIN LEY. i 
Ege lin natans, Bab. ** Grantown, Morayshire, 10th Aug., 1871. 
v. J. KEITH. 
S. minimum, Fries. ** Possil Marsh, Lanarkshire.” —RrcnarD M*Kar. 
ese Spargania are, of course, inserte ere only on account of the 
uncertainty of their separate distribution, arising from their having 
