310 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
HELEOCHARIS PALUSTRIS Br. var. ARENARIA Sonder.—In 1911 | 
but the material was not quite sufficient to justify recording it. 
This season a better supply has come to hand, and there is little 
““y. arenaria, culmo abbreviato (digitali), ‘spica oblongo-ovata.” 
As the name indicates, the plant occurs on ~ nd dunes, &c. (an 
are 3-8 cm. high), and has a long creeping cian (like that of 
Carex arenaria), throwing up at intervals its solitary stems, 
. which are usually curved—a feature noted by Marsson, Fl. Neu- 
Vorpomm. 511, 1869. The habit and the colour- scheme of the 
spikes of this variety might lead one at first sight to consider it a 
small state of H. uniglumis, but on closer examination the glume 
character and sculpture of nut ¢ ~~ show it must be placed 
under H. palustris —C. E. Saumon 
ASPERUGO PROCUMBENS IN LINCcOLNSHIRE.—An early record for 
this plant is given incidentally in the Diary of Abraham de la 
Pryme (1671-1704) published by the Surtees Society in 1869. In 
a letter to Sloane written from Thorne oe which nose a bie 
rector) Feb. 2, 1701-2, he says, “I s you a spec 
Aparine Plinit, well pictured and deseribed Tee Tihuston gS 
upon Gerrard, but not found by the industrious Mr. Ray or any 
of our learned botanists, that I have heard of, growing in England. 
I gk it plentifully in a garth of Richard Robinson’s, of Bro ughton 
in Lincolnshire, amongst the corn.” The ode of Johnston 
for Johnson is probably that of the oa age rd s Nathaniel 
Johnston, the Yorkshire antiquary (1637-1 705) is is frequently 
referred to in the volume. e description of the plant in Ger. 
emace. is practically identical ma that in Gerard, but the figure 
given is different—Jamrs Bri 
‘“‘ COTYLEDON UMBILICUS AS Soa on.” —Under this heading a 
note (signed “ G. §.”’) is published in Loudon’s Gardeners’ Maga- 
zine for 1828, p. 280: as this use of the plant is not, we think, 
generally known, it may be worth reproducing. “It as me 
te. fin von 
shire], the banks of which are covered with Cotyledon secbube 
that the leaves in spring might prove a good vegetable for the 
table. I accordingly had some boiled, and assure you that it is 
ent. In London I am sure it would b 
about twenty minutes to boil. This v eaeee has this great 
recommendation, the total absence of all stringiness. I can, in 
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