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SHORT NOTES. 
Viona tactea, Sm., iy Bucks.—While botanising with Mr. 
Bolton King, of Balliol College, in Dropmore Park, on some damp 
heathy ground near the artificial water, we found a few specimens 
of Viola lactea: in a small pond near, Littorella lacustris, Peplis 
Portula, and fine Callitriche hamulata were seen.—G. ©. Drvuce. 
ZANNICHELLIA MacRosTEMON, Gay.—This has been found lately 
e canal near Oxford, and also in the Thames, growing in 
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Sandling Park, Hythe, Kent. It may have originally escaped from 
the rectory-gardens at Saltwood, some half mile distant; but it has 
been known by the villagers to occur for thirty or more years In 
the above mentioned locality 
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Scrrpus pauciriorus In Berxs.—This plant occurs in consider- 
able quantity in some meadows between South Hinksey and the 
Abingdon road, near Oxford, uecompanied by Rhynchospora alba.— 
G. C. Druce. 
Norra Bucxmncuamsurme Prants.—The following plants, mostly 
new records to ‘ Topographical Botany,’ have been lately noticed 
in North Bucks, principally near the Bedford and Northampton 
boundaries, The district of Brickhill is especially rich, and would 
