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Sir Eichard Colt Hoare, was planted in that locality some thirty 

 or forty years since by one of his gardeners. The station for 

 Adiantum Capillus-VenerU, at Clevedon, N. Somerset, recorded in 

 the ' Phytologist ' (i., 964), has long since been destroyed. The 

 late Eev. W. H. Hawker found a root or two of this fern on moist 

 locks in the neighbourhood of Cheddar (N. Somerset) in 1851, 

 which he recorded in the f Phytologist ' for 1854, but I recollect 

 afterwards he expressed his doubts whether it might not have been 

 planted by Potter, a well-known collector of British ferns, who 

 was frequently in the habit of visiting the district.— T. Bruges 



Flower. 



A New British Jungermannia.— In examining a collection of 

 Hepatic® made on Cader Idris in April, 1876, I met with a Jun- 

 germannia which, on account of its paroicous inflorescence, I finally 

 determined as J. socia, Nees, a species new to Britain. Dr. Car- 

 rin^ton, to whom I am under many obligations for foreign speci- 

 mens of the species, writes, " I believe you are correct in naming 

 your specimen J. socia, Nees." Dr. Spruce says, "The Junyennanma 

 is probably really J. socia." Prof. Lindberg, to whom I also for- 

 warded specimens, writes, << J. socia, Nees, is correctly named; no 

 doubt left " In my paper on Ghfmitomitnum obtusion in last 

 month's Le, in ^dimension of the cells (p. 837) I m error put 

 a cypher too many. Dr. Spruce calls my attention to this slip— 

 W. H. Pearson. 



Ranunculus coneervoides ? (see p. 344)._The record of this 

 Bitvichian with Mr. Sturrock's observations on it, recalled to my 

 mnad a S matted Uanuncnlu, I gathered on Mitcham Common 

 SurVev flowering and fruiting under 12 to 18 inches of water. I 

 watched it for some weeks, and satisfied myself it was no sudden 

 r c cumu a ion of water. I called it A Brou*U, yar., and s ill think 

 Utobo o I thonght little of this at the time, as Mr Hiern 

 Joiirn Bot ix. 102) notes a similar peculiar! y in B. Dn.uctn, 

 2^to&fo: an elongated plant collected by Gunn in Lake 



SSii; Zg£ JtjL* *- the carpels of 

 these submersed specimens.-ARTHUR Bennett. 



A Correction- Scirfus acicularis, not S. parvulus. 

 A Correction " D d Crespieny kindly sent Mr. H. C. 



early summer oi his y < r » de Lie l . J > ^ ^ 



Watson ^^^SnoS, from these specimens, that 

 Surrey (see p._58),tneicca » d j gre t the publication of the 



«* P^ "JSdSS VW SSlfiS ab'ove.-ARTHUH Bennett. 

 erroneous record at tae p<i « ^ lc " 



„ TT . kTWKK L a BwOrfSH Plant ? — Under thi 



I V SKTlMMtoSA; h ■ Joun, Bot. ,' L, 859 (1668). 



SS a^X to'a spocmon in the Bati* M. S « H»tan<nu. 



