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arenaria, L., Hvhium plantaginenst, L., Setaria glauea, Beauv. Of 
the Zchium 1 also found many plants in a field on the east side of 
Losendiack Castle. Alyssum maritimum, L., was found on the shore at 
razion. Rununeulus Lenormandi, Schulig. -» occurred in some 
uantity on a moor near Paul Hill, and also near Trengorainton 
Calitl Cicendia filiformis, Reich. occurred on the Paul Hi ll moor, and 
Sagina maritima, Don 1 found somewhere within the Penzance district. 
Lie Newbyn and Mousehole. ~~ autumnalis, Rich., grew 
n the grass slopes near Marazion Road Station.—R. Tuck 
Tucker has kindly submitted his specimens to us for verification.— Ed. 
Journ. Bot. | 
Worrrta -Arruiza.—This little pla plant has been collected by Mr. H. 
C. Watson from a dirty geese-frequented pond on Weston Green, near 
Thames Ditton, where he has botanised for forty years without ever 
noticing the plant before. Can it be that Wolfia has ee: overlooked 
all these years, there and elsewhere, or is this Duckweed gradually 
extending itself and occupying new stations? 
Bazrneronta, F. Mueller.— This commemorates the venerable 
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.George’s Sound and Cape <a, Austra lia; the name Baztera having 
been previously given to a ae of Asclepiadee, by Reichenbach. 
Carex ornirnopopa, Willd. uv coy Exoraxp, —On May 31, 1874, Mr. 
Johnm Whitehead, of Dukinfield, was in company with Messrs. H. 
acaba and E. Hibbert, when they found Carex ornithopoda in Miller’s 
Dale, near Buxton, Derbyshire. He has kindly sent me a specimen of 
the has and informs me that Mr. Watson gives it the same name 
which I do.—C. C. Basryetoy.—[ We also have to thank Mr. White- 
head for a specimen of this interesting addition to the British Flora. 
—Ed. Journ. Bot. 
J2otices of Wooks. 
Prodromus ae i i @ilogoniearum, auctore Vert Brecuer 
Wrrrrock. (Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal., Ser. iii., vol. SB ae : 
Aurnovex Dr. Wittrock, as he states, has bee 
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CEdogoniee with a view to the publication of a M pei nian of that 
Family, still, owing to the unexpected multiplicity of distinct forms, 
he remar that, as he goes on, the end proposed to himself seems 
rather to recede than to approach. He thinks that the copiousness of 
forms in this group known to him would still receive a considerable 
accession from countries as yet unexplored, whilst in many points 
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