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the varietal name. The C. Hayneana mentioned in ' Journ. Bot.' 

 (p. 202) was not sent to the Club at all ; I have now grown it in a 

 pot for a year, and it retains its very distinctive character under 

 these artificial conditions. Dr. Boswell is hardly correct in his 

 conjecture that the plant wrongly named Hayneana and the var. 

 dentata are respectively starved and luxuriant states of C. j>ratensis t 

 for the former grew by the edge of a moat in damp rich loam, and 

 apparently under conditions which would tend to make it assume 

 anything but a starved appearance. — George Nicholson. 



Shropshire Plants. — While botauising in June last in the 

 neighbourhood of Ellesmere with Mr. Beckwith, who is giving 

 great attention to our county flora, we came on a Potanivyeton 

 floating in the canal near Blackmere, which on carefully examining 

 we felt satisfied was P. pra-hmym, a plant not hitherto recorded for 

 this county. As there is a slight current in the canal we were in 

 doubt where it came from ; but Mr. Beckwith has visited the neigh- 

 bourhood again, and has found it in quantity near the same place. 

 Care* elongate is recorded in Leighton's 'Shropshire Flora' as 

 occurring 'at Colemere, near Ellesmere ; but Mr. Beckwith has 

 discovered another locality for it on the margin of Wlntemere, near 

 the same town. In the immediate vicinity of Shrewsbury there is 

 a tract of land belonging to the corporation of the town called 

 Kingsland, which has been recently sold to the governing body of 

 King Edward's School for a new site, on which is being built a 

 more commodious structure than the old building for the accom- 

 modation of this rapidly increasing school. Some soil having been 

 removed to make room for the foundation of one of the masters 



houses, a plentiful crop of Datura Stramonium, Hyoscyamw niyer 



and En/simum orientals was detected on it by Mr. T. P. Blunt and 

 Mr. W. Beacall. The last-named plant has not before been recorded 

 for Shropshire. Still more recently on the same heap of soil the 

 Rev. W. A. Leighton found Amaranthus retroJle.rus.—W . Phillips. 



Mesembrianthemum not Mesembryanthemum.-So it h 'Properly 

 written by Jacob Breyne, who made the name, and by Dilta. 

 who took it up, both giving the derivation fr ™;^X™^S5 

 alluding to the time the blossoms open But both Breyne and 

 Dillenius about half the time wrote Mesefnbryanthemurn Lmn«us 

 adopting the latter, became consistent by making a wiong and 

 far fe ched derivation to match the orthography. Among systematic 

 write* TspreTigel almost alone keeps to the correct orthography, 

 vriueib, opitjii^cx r Brevne, m his edition of his 



and Webb insists on it. Ine youngei .-raj""' ,• 



father's 'Prodromus ' has a note about it p. 81). He mentions an 

 latnei s nodromus u* , namely, that some species do 



excuse for changing the ortnogiapuy, u**u j, t^,,...,.. 



"'iTen l2fZ e "objection. If heeded that kind of 



objection would be fetal to very many generu .names ;-& . Okay, 

 in • Coulter's Botanical Gazette,' vol. v., p. 89 (Aug. & Sept., 1880). 



