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of the stem to the lowest flowers, and (exclusive of some small side 
ag vee act Ue eight ultimate flowering branches of from 
nches long, with blossoms eat? and present) 
petri i roe fifteen to twenty-five on each. Close by were also . 
found several plants of about normal character, save that they 
partook somewhat of the length and slenderness of branches which 
marked the Sd en! bis . owers all of pure white—singularly 
beautiful— Wittiam Warr 
Form o 5 hanetl IUM fice —A unique specimen of a 
fern was sotlected and sent to me by Dr. St. Brody in Au 
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but the opinion of most botanists who have seen th cimen is in 
favour of its b a ng form of Aspleniwn Ruta-muraria L 
It consists of a single fro wo smaller ones, at similar, 
The frond is six inches long, the stipes and the rachis being each 
three inches. Its chief peculiarity is in the length and narrowness 
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somewhat closely set, rather expanded and flabellate, partially sub- 
divided, and placed on rather short stalks on alternate sides of the 
rachis. The contour of the whole is thus pene different from 
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exhibited at the Linnean Society on June 15, as is now in the 
National Herbarium at South Kensington.—Wiiuiam Wurrwe tu. 
SaGina APETALA IN WEsTERNESS ? — There is some doubt as to 
the ssorest naming of the plant recorded for bali ice (v.-¢, 97) 
on p. 845 of this Journal for 1895; and, until another specimen is 
found, it will be safest to add a mark of febatie eaten to the record. 
—W. F. Mrtter. 
1sH Prants.—Recently I met with a small patch of drenaria 
tenuifolia on a chalk hill near Eynsford. The nearest station before 
recorded is, I see, Dartford, in the same district. Isatis tinctoria 
oceurs on Morants Court Hill, near Dunton Green, a locality not 
recorded in the Kentish Flora, although lying midway between two 
recorded localities at Wrotham and West Wickham. Olates 
perfoliata Donn appears to have established itself in Bradbourne 
Park Road, Sevenoaks, amongst the gravel by the footpath. Sam- 
bucus Ebulus | have seen for many years inside the hedge of a field 
houses except on the opposite side of the road, where it does not 
Brassica oleracea has setabliahed itself on the weed sides of 
a& cutting in the chalk near Halstead Station, in District 1.—E. 
Hotmes. 
