524 SHORT NOTES. 
that at the time of his death he had been a member for nearly 
seventy years! He was accustomed to recall with enthusiasm the 
. sayings and doings of the great botanists whom he had met at the 
Society’s meetings. 
Reeinatp W. Paivuips. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Potamoceton Drucer Fryer.—This species flowered last summer 
profusely from July to September, and most of the spikes ii 
thinly fruited, but so regularly as to alter the opinion I had for 
as to its being a hybrid. The fruit is very unlike that ie ats 
ore Potamogeton, and Mr. Bennett has not been able to 
match it with any extra-Kuropean species known to him. The 
drupelets are sedesly keeled, with a series of ot slong the 
keel, rarely well developed, but always indica he stolons 
bearing winter buds, thrown out from the baa yitt arte are 
unlike those of any species known to me. In view of these 
distinct characters, it will be better to omit the sign of hybridity 
attached to the plant in my Monograph of the Potamogetons of the 
British ie (p. 81), and to rank the plant as a full species. I hope 
in this Journal a series of illustrations showing the life- 
histo ref this remarkable species from the winter-bud to the mature 
aaa spike, drawn from time to time, as occasion offers, by my 
friend Mr. Robert Morgan, so that the readers of this Journal may 
have the life-history of the species set before them more clearly than 
any description could possibly do.—Atrrep Fryer 
oN AND Somerset Evupnrastm. — The following species of 
Euphrasia have lately been identified for me by Mr. F. Townsend ; 
they were all collected in 1898, and are, as far as I can — 
a eames 
- nemorosa (4) Roadside between Lynmouth and 
septa (ey 1 Field at Worthy, Porlock Weir; near County- 
gate near Malmsmead; near farm on eg behind Porlock Weir. 
—E. gracilis Fr. (4) Badgeworthy Valley. — E. Scotica Wettst. 
(4 & 5) palipeiarty Valle E. Rostkoviana Hayne. (4) Road- 
side between Lynmouth and  ophoantinld — E. Kerneri Wetitst. 
(5) By roadside, Oareford.—C. BE. San 
Drosera anexica 1n Hampsnire.—My son Edgar, when recently 
in the New Forest, saw a plentiful ak of this species in a spongy 
bog near Hatchet Pond, Beaulieu. This makes the third station for 
this plant in the New Forest; these are Holmsley Bog, the locality 
above mentioned, and I also saw one plant in another spot some 
ten years since, but the exact position has now slipped from my 
memory. The known distribution of the species in the sce wagers 
}8 such that there is no fear of its extinction.—James Saun 
