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Two New British Hepatic*:. — So far as I am aware, Cma 

 obtusa, Lindberg, and BaduJa lAndenbergii , Gottsche, have not 

 hitherto been recorded as British plants ; I first found both about 

 five years ago. Cma obtusa I have only found in a single place, 

 viz., on a boulder by the highway side in the valley of Kentmere, 

 Westmoreland. Dr. Lindberg, the author of the species, detected 

 it amongst a number of plants I sent him. Radula Lmdmbergii, 

 Gottsche, is more plentiful than the latter. It grows on the 

 northern face of Harter Fell, Westmoreland. I have not suc- 

 ceeded in finding fruiting specimens ; probably the fruit is rare, as 

 the species is dioicous. The Westmoreland plant closely agrees 

 with a Scandinavian specimen which I have received from Prof sor 

 Lindberg. — George Stabler. 



Norfolk Plants. — On June 5th I gathered Festuca ambigua, 



West 



It wa 



almost certain to occur, as the district is similar to the adjoining 

 part of Suffolk, where I found it last year. I traced it for some 

 three or four miles, from about three miles from Thetford (on the 

 Mundford road) across Santon Warren nearly to Brandon. In 

 places its position was well marked by the quantity it occurred in 

 and by its brownish yellow spikes. It was growing with Sclenrn- 



thus perennis, Veronica verna, Silene cornea, &e. V. cerna has not 



been gathered recently, I think, in this part of Norfolk ; the Rev. 

 Kirby Trimmer had not found it when his ' Flora of Norfolk ' was 

 published ; and Mr. Geldart, of Norwich, speaks of it (Lubbock's 

 ' Fauna of Norfolk,' 2nd ed.) as " not found lately." I also found 

 on Santon Warren Carex ericetorum, Poll, (additional to vice-county 

 28), but in small quantity, and was only able to identify it by one 

 spike ; it is an earlier flowerer than C. pmcox, and I was too late 

 for it ; however, I secured living specimens. It occurred in one 

 place only (so far as I saw), close by a " drift- way." These " drift- 

 ways" are found in this part of Norfolk and adjacent parts ot 

 Suffolk ; they are public ways over the sandy heaths and warrens, 

 and only to be noticed sometimes by a faint wheel-mark or the 

 exposure of the sandy soil ; they are used for cattle, but not as 

 roads in the ordinary sense. Carex paludosa, var. Kockuma, I found 

 V the Brandon river between Thetford and Brandon on the 

 Norfolk side. I think it has not been recorded for the county. 

 Botn/chium Lunaria, Sw., is not recorded for West Norfolk by 

 Mr. Watson ; I gathered it on Santon Warren. Sagma apetaa 

 Santon Warren (additional to vice-county 28, West Norfolk). 

 One noticeable feature of this part of Norfolk is the scarcity of 

 Medicago minima ; I only saw it in one spot : within a few miles in 

 Suffolk, on exactly similar ground, it occurs m profusion ; I have 

 walked seven miles without losing sight of it for more than a few 

 yards, and on some banks its yellow flowers arrest attention by 

 tb -eir quantity. I have collected TohjpeUa intricata at Barston, 

 near Cambridge— an additional station for the county. I am 

 flad the Messrs. Groves have called attention to he discrepancy 

 between specimens and numbers in Braun's E. • b. J^xsiccata, 



