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setosus, Roadside, West of Edinburgh, in large quantity, July 14th, 
1874. I have known this station for about eight years past, but for 
some time had no chance of observing the plant in flower. —Hieracium 
pratense, Tausch. Roadside to the East of Edinburgh, in quantity, 
June 20th, 1876.—A. Crare-Curistia 
Veertaste ‘‘ Erper-pown.”—I quote the following from a letter 
dated December 30, 1873, from the Rev. James Graves, Secretary to 
the Royal Irish Archeological Association.—‘* Mrs. Graves bought a 
so-called Eider-down quilt the other day. On opening it the down 
was found to be as the sample enclosed Is not this the down of the 
Cotton-rush so conspicuous in our bogs?” It is certainly the down 
- Eriophorum, but I have not ladbmiad which species, nor does it 
uch matter, since nye would do as well, or rather ill, in place of 
: Tite down. —C. C. Baz ; 
z Pants. ge e ago my attention was called to 
allie : 
in rd After the flowers were fertilised the purple spot dis- 
appeared and the leaf became of one uniform tint. I observed the 
same in Lamium maculatum ; the leaves became (as regards colour) like 
those of Z. levigatum. I suspect the same takes. place in Arum 
ha 
A Casvat.—A_ curiou 5 tuitaoe of the facility with which 
plants are now importe ed is the ioecteranin of a little annual Composite 
plant on the sea-coast of N. Wales, near the Aber station of the 
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seuind been aide ad near ta cas he or three years ago. 
annual would thus appear to have produced ripe seed in its new 
ity; hence its oceurrence is worth a passing note. . 
Tren. 
—Some specimens recently received 
Ranuncot titus, DC. 
from Mr. R. v. ‘Tellam, alee in deep pools at Roche, near St. 
Austell, Cornwall, seem to be referable to this ey nce the petals 
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are smaller and more rounded than is u ey possess 
well-marked submersed leaves, and thus differ from R intermedius, 
Knaf, to which the name 2. ¢ripartitus has usually in 
. Sub d leaves have also on examples of a plant 
frequent in the New Forest district, which in its us , tho 
ern to be intermedi , makes some approac 
leaves Bihoig. 3 om organs being very caducous. ‘It is protec: that 
