338 SHORT NOTES. 
pseudo-fluitans, Syme (the common Batrachium of the Lea) ; R. Ficaria 
var, incumbens, F. Schultz (Hatfield) ; Diplotaxis muralis, DC., with 
its var. Babingtonii, Syme (Watford) ; Hrophila brachycarpa, Jord. 
Bor. an 
parviflora, DC. (Bedwell); Zrifolium hybridum, L. (Hertford, &e.); 
: $53 ela). 
. (Ha 
Arctium nemorosum, Lej. (Hatfield); Thymus Chamedrys, Fr. (com- 
ex sylvestris, Wallr. (Hertford, Ware) ; zimus, Schreb, 
(Hatfield); Chenopodium rubrum var. pseudo-botryoides, Wats. (Ware) ; 
Sali« ramulosa, Borr. (Wilstone); Orehis incarnata, Hatfield, 
Welwyn, Hitchin, poe most of the recorded localities for O. ‘‘lati- 
folia” in Herts probably belong here ; it is the only form that I have 
seen.) Potamogeton lucens var. acuminatus, Schum. (Hertford).— 
aver Lecogii, Lam., which seems to occur in several of the 
county have been authenticated by Dr. Syme. Hruca sativa, Rapistrum 
rugosum, Dipsacus Fullonum, Cynoglossum Omphalodes have also been 
recently met with. It is not improbable that botanists residing 
neighbouring counties may have notes or memoranda relating to the 
Flora of Hertfordshire, and I shall be grateful for any information 
bearing upon the subject. I shall be happy to send to any one @ list 
of queries and desiderata.—Since the above was written I have 
gathered Rumex sylvestris at Hatfield, growing by itself, which still 
further extends its distribution. The nut is quite that figured in the 
Journal of Botany (plate 131).—R. A. Pryor. 
On a New Vartety or Rosa ryvotuta (R. mNvoLuTa var. Wessil; 
Baker).—Mr. J. M. Webb has discovered, in August, 1873, in hedges 
near Hoylake, Cheshire, a noteworthy new variety of Hosa involuta, 
which I propose to call v. It has the copious unequal 
Ps . 
ar. Webb 
straight prickles of the type, leaves like those of Dontana in 8120, shape, 
i 
. Drantavs Goria, Janka.—Perennis, exceptis folioram margin 
levis; caules elati, recti, subteretes atque obsoletissime V- ob. 
