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as some authors may be charged with deceptive references. I give 

 another instance, from my own set, and there are others : the 

 Messrs. Groves, under Tohjpdla glomerata, give Braun, No. 17 J 

 my specimen (No. 17) is Nitella mucronata, var. teniiior. Wahlstedt 

 also gives No. 17 for Tolypella glomerata in his ' Monografi ofver 

 Swerges och Norges Characeer.' — A. Bennett. 



Ningpo Hats.— In a report on the foreign trade of Ningpo for 

 the year 1877, Mr. W. M. Cooper, consul at Ningpo, referred to 

 these hats as follows:— " The export of hats woven by hand from 

 a small species of Carex (sedge) has grown within three years to 

 great proportions, no less than 15,000,000 having this year been 

 exported. The plant is indigenous, and is to be found in damp 

 spots among the hills, but that employed for the manufacture is 

 cultivated in rice grounds. The hats are made by the women and 

 children at their homes, and sold by them at £d. to 2d. each. 

 They are strong and serviceable, and are bought wholesale by the 

 foreign merchants, who send them to London, whence, I believe, 

 they are shipped principally to the Southern States of America."* 

 These hats were very abundant in London last year,t and we 

 thought that specimens obtained for the Kew Museum were made 

 of some kind of rush. Mr. Cooper has, however, obligingly sent 

 me a specimen of the plant actually used for the purpose, which 

 proves to be identical with that from which China matting is made, 

 and which Dr. Hance has determined to be Cyperus teyetiformis, 

 Koxb. The only difference is that in making the hats the culms 

 are used whole, while for matting they are split into two. — W. !• 

 Thiselton Dyer. 



LANCEOLATUM 



— — «- _™ M wm f x.uu,, ™, . „~~ Under this name 



Mr. J. F. Eobinson describes (in Hardwicke's 4 Science Gossip ' for 

 July) " a new and very distinct variety " of Asplenium lanceolatum, 

 of which " several roots have been found by Mr. Sinel on old 

 walls near to Bagot, Jersey." Its characters are stated to be 

 as follow : — " Fronds but few, from the crown of the root, scaly 

 below, free above, lanceolate in outline in the young fronds, 

 evidently broadly linear ; rachis round, without the least appear- 

 ance of raised marginal wings ; bipinnate throughout, l°™ e * 

 pinnae of three to fiive pinnules, central of three distinctly stalked 

 pinnse in the old fronds. Pinnules rounded or obtuse at the apex, 

 evenly serrated, terminal cordate, lower for those nearest the 

 rachis, orbicular, the teeth of lower pinnules slightly mucronate. 

 Sori oblong, springing from midrib, numerous, white in early 



fronds, dark brown when ripe." Mr. Robinson adds, " Fronds 



iish pteridology ; 



all declare it to be a new and very distinct variety." We cannot 

 express any opinion as to its distinctness, as neither Mr. Moore 



* * Commercial Reports,' China, No. 7 (1878), pp. 113, 114. 

 t See 'Gard. Chron.,* 1870, vol. xii., n. s., pp. 210, 81L 



been 



