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4-anguli ; ; folia lineari-subulata ; flores cmspitoso-fasciculati, numerosi, 
bractese in quodam flore 6-7, omnes calyce breviores, parte dilatate ovato- 
lanceolate v. ovale coriacex albida, apice zequilongo, abrupte subulato- 
uminato her ; calyx multistriatus subtus bracteas xequans, 
dentes lanceolato-acuminati ; petala pulchre Taies: seepe subtus fulva, 
lamina imberbis quidem sed tota superficie oes a calycem 
procula Neapoli. Delevi d. 18 Mai minavi in honorem 
clarissimi Doctoris Gulia scientia chugs peritissimi atque- mox 
Floram insularum Melites edendi.—Vicror pz Janxa in “ Il Barth” 
(Maltese Medical and Scientific J cual) for 6th Aug. 1874. 
OROBANCHE ramosa, L.—I send a eh piece of this, which I have 
never before seen in a living state. It has made its appearance in a 
portion of the Botanic Garden, Beer where we usually sow hemp, 
spon which it is parasitic.—D. Moo 
MARITIMUS IN HEREFORDSHIRE.—The enclosed specimen was 
dithered within three miles of Hereford on marshy ground, the remains 
of Ingwas Pool.—H. G. Bur. [Additional to Topogr. Botany.—Zd. 
Journ. Bot. ] 
Cuevopopium Rusrum 1x Monmovrusuiee.—This plant, not 
Eetherto sebhided as occurring in sub-province 35, waso 
September last, growing plentifully along roadside banks between the 
re over se river Wye and the railway station at Monmouth.— 
Mor 
RITISH Pranrs,— We have sions informed that during the ex- 
Cavzinta sprnvtosa, R. Br., has been hitherto only known by its 
foliage. Ascherson says that no better idea can be given of its 
habit than by stating that it Cieihiten Potamogeton densus in almost 
all its characters, only differing by its.very sharply and distinctly ser- 
Tulate leaves; and that besides the type in Brown’s he rbarium from 
the shor had Ce from the coast of 
res of tropical Australia, he had seen sp fromm Port Denist 
mn, which show the plant to form a new 
le - te sep to dedicate this to Dr. Ascherson, 
‘whom botanists are so much indebted for his researches into the 
Stoup of marine Endogens to which it belongs s 
