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leaf. In the herbarium at Kew a specimen of the rare plant 
occurs, collected by Don in Scotland; but some of the localities he 
gives for other plants being ekg as So ey his discovery does 
not appear to have been published.”—-W. Wes 
SprRING-FLOWERING Form or ConLcHIcuM AUTUMNALE [see Jour 
Bot., 1880, pp. 145, 185] .—I ae it should be put on record that 
the Colehi icum plants which flowered in the early spring of last 
speci It appe to that <e Aon sory hypothesis 
oftated er p. 145 of last ate 8 ivan l was a e func- 
tion of the plants was temporarily pita add” by t the rigorous 
autumnal frosts of 1879; and climatic influences in the followin 
season being no longer ‘adverse, they have been enabled to fulfil 
their natural economy.——Jas. W. Wurtz. 
Notes on Report or Botanica Excuance Crus ror 1879.— 
Cardamine dentata, Schultz. This plant occurs abundantly, and 
is the on wet meadows by a tributary of the Stour, west 
of Herne Bridge Station, near Christchurch, H —Herniaria 
hirsu ember last I visited the locality where 1 had 
irsuta, L. In Dee 
found this plant in June, 1879. [See Journ. Bot., 1880, p. 51.] 
It occurs in plenty over about an acre of ground, being part of a 
large field, portions of which have gat le to different persons for 
last crop was potatoes. I could not find the plant in other por- 
tions of the field, and until it has been found elsewhere its position 
as a n indigenous species must, I think, be held with suspicion.— 
Vulpia ciliata, Link., var. glabra (I estuca on Le G A 
notice of this plant having Sia found by me in Suffolk in 1846, 
aie ain by Mr. Bennett in 1879, will be fond in ‘Journal s 
Botany’ for 1879, p. 195.—Ophioglossum vulgatum, L., var. 
big Coss. & Germ. The first published record of this vasety 
nglish plant was in my ‘ Con ntributions to a Flora of 
Seilly tees. published in this Journal for 1864 (p. 120), and I 
distributed specimens at the time. Dr. J. T. Boswell states, in Eng. 
Bot., a iil. Sorta = he had found it in Orkney seventeen years 
before.—F. Town 
TULIPA syL s, Linn., 1v rLowEer.— Whilst botanising about 
Harefield, Middlesex, on May 7th, a fine specimen of the above 
was found by my sister in the grove behind the church, and, on 
carefully searching, three more flowering specimen — discovered, 
but all, except the first, more or less withered. locality is a 
well- known one, but I believe the plant is so pe met with in 
