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precisely the same both in size, colour, and number of crests or folds 
as an ordin ay. adel and the columns were exactly the same as in 
ordinary flow 
SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Roumex ELoneatus, Gussone, IN Enetanp.—On July 7th, when 
examining the vegetation, with poiial reference to Docks, of 
the Thames shore, on the Surrey side, between Putney and 
Hammersmith Bridges, I gathered two examples of a Rumex which 
was new to me. I have not been able to match them with any 
specimens in the large series of British and European Docks in the 
British Museum; but judging from the figure and description of 
Gussone in his ‘‘ Plante rariores,” they seem referable to Rumer 
elongatus of Calabria and Sicily. The Thames plant has many of the 
R. cris 
havin ng t the se Saratare—probably east elsewhere passed by for 
R. crispus—so that it may be more completely examined (the fruit 
especially pies it), and its claims to recognition as British—at 
present scarcely su se A beyond a doubt. On the same 
d : 
where és was first found by Mr. Wane near Putney, occurring wit 
R. and RR. conglomeratus, Cinanthe crocata, Nasturtium 
ptt aso pe other Thoméeaide species.—Hernry TRmEN, 
A-sEconp station For Carex monTaNA, Lin., In Dev on.—It 
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discovered it in May last on Bickleigh Down, I spoke of having the 
expectation of being shortly able to record it from elsewhere near 
Plymouth. This has been realised, for I have since found it on 
shane sive com neing 
out a mile north of Bickleigh Down, extends thence for over four 
miles in a northerly direction. Here it occurs in numerous spots, on 
and prec 
its associates. It ascends to the highest part of the common, abou 
