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being frequent sori et as is also R. holerythros.—R. erythrinus 
Genevier. Between Wellington College and Sandhurst; the first 
certain record for Berks. Rev. W. Moyle Rogers endo Te the 
name, but adds that the leaves are seibyptial, 5: PR. us Blox. 
Plentiful in a boggy fir-wood, R. M. College. Deters wy i) Mr. 
ogers as anes Bloxam’s s plant. New county record.—R. Koehleri 
cognatus (N. E. Brown), Plentiful between Wellington 
College fe, ‘Sandhu rst. —Epilobium obscurum X roseum. With the 
parents, on a bank near the river, about a mile and a half below 
Blackwater village. — Hieracium rigidum Hartm. var. acrifolium 
Dahlst. Near Blackwater, ee plentiful than var. scabrescens 
Johanss.—Thymus Chamedrys ommon.—Sparganium ramosum 
la = microcarpum Neaeed Pond at R. M. College. — Carex 
elongata L. Swamp near the river, about a mile and a half below 
tae with C. vesicaria L. y present colleague, Rev. C 
Br.) in Bisham parish—a good patch, in ine. flower. This is an 
tee aes to the woes list —Epw. SHALL. 
PHYSCOMITRIUM SPHERICUM IN Sur oo ‘hs interesting little 
oss was originally found in Britain ‘by Wilson at Mere Mere, 
Cheshire, i in 1834, and has since appeared in a few other ieee 
fro ich, however, it is said to disappear for muny years. 
was nih case at Mere Mere, where Mr. Hunt refound it in 1868. 
Mr. Dixon, in his Handbook, adds Derbyshire and Staffordshire. 
Its range is now considerably extended by its observation so far 
south as Surrey. It was found last December on the muddy shores 
of a large pond near Felbridge, in the 8.K. or Eden district of the 
county, and when detected by Mr. Holmes—the first of a small 
party who saw it—was in excellent condition and growing in some 
ieiiocaen Another interesting addition to my list of Surrey 
s Weisia rostellata Ldb., which Mr. Horrell and I found 
cha’ Slineine day on the bottom ‘of a drained pond near Dormans. 
Cuenopopium capitatum Aschers. — This plant, more commonly 
known by the Linnean name Blitum virgatum, was found by me at 
Craig-y-don, Llandudno, not far from the Little Ormeshead, in 
September last, growing very locally, yet plentifully, in a patch of 
waste land. It has from time to time been recorded as 3 ae in 
the British Islands, e.g. by Mr. Alexander Irvine (Phyt. iii. n 
p- a as occurring at Wandsworth; while Mr. F. J. denver in in- 
forms me he has a specimen collected by Dr. Boswell (Syme) at 
Tichairow, near Edinburgh. It is figured by Curtis, Bot. Mag. 
t. 276, and used formerly to be cultivated for ornament, the round 
scarlet ‘ktliaey bunches of fruit bein ing conspicuous, and suggesting 
the popular name ‘ Strawberry Blite.’-—James Cosmo Mervin. 
