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Day took great pains to investigate the fact; the result was that he 
found it widely scattered, and that in one instance a farmer told him that 
the weed had been the greatest plague to him. The plant was growing 
in the wood and lane near the field, formerly a hop-garden, last July. I 
have found it in voip. scattered for miles, near Hudlow.—AxN 
ELLIOTT BRANWEL 
` ALCHEMILLA CONJUNCTa, Bab., IN Coisinha: —Dr. Syme, in his 
edition of ‘ English Botany,’ expresses a doubt whether this bre has ever 
been found really occurring wild in Great Britain. I believe that I have 
got specimens of it, and that Cumberland has the credit of having pro- 
duced it e plant from which the specimens sent were taken was found 
by Mr. Dickinson, of Thorneroft, many years ago, on one of our fells, and 
preserved in his garden as A. alpina,—the older books of botany not dis- 
tinguishing the present species or variety. Some specimens were sent to 
ich I discovered to be A. conjuncta of Babington's Manual. It 
has all the characters id the typical plant from the Faroe Islands—lobes 
of the leaves vind combined through one-third or more of their 
length; teeth n totffüed to the apex merely ; ; leaves deep green above, 
and brilliantly silky beneath. The outermost lobes are not always con- 
tiguous, but in very many instances they are, forming a completely peltate 
af. There seems no doubt that this is the genuine ems which may 
be therefore reckoned as an English native.—R. Woo 
Prants or Nova Zempia.—In the * Vidensk.-Selsk. Forhandlinger’ 
for 1872, pp. 13-23, Mr. Axel Blytt has published a list of the plants 
brought back by Mr. Aagaard in 1871 from Nova Zembla, the adjacent 
island of Waigatsch and the shores of the strait—Jugor Sharr—separating 
this from the Asiatic continent. The plants are arranged in one series, 
cluded in ne nora ue. e are Rinie acris, L. pene the 
o. 7 of aoe s list), Draba Wahlenbergii, Hartm (probably 1n- 
cluded under ^ 6 in the same list), Cerastium irigysn, ill., 
spicata, L, Alopecurus alpinus, Sie Festuca sire, L., and Eprisetum 
scirpoides, Mich, The very rare s Pleuropogon Sabinii, R. Br., was 
also gathered in this its only leall t béiidek "Melville Island. 
Rumex svLvEsTRIS, Wallr., iN ENGLAND.—This plant (the B. 
Wallrothii of Nyman) is considered T is fessor Fries to be the form 
Professor F. Areschoug, of Lund, in particular, w 
excellent paper on Rumex (Ofvers. af K. Vet. Acad. Fórh." for 1862) is 
* Meisner, however (DO. Prod. xiv. p. 51), retains Wal yid — for the 
X which he suggests may be a hyb my between R. Frie and R. -— 
atus, and esi the name 3 obtusifolius, x > 3. Priests, Gren. am 
mad which he places in a different section of the 
