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New England — given us by Mr. Fernald. Whatever ad the 
future may hav store for this interesting alien, its present 
standing on the North Bull fully entitles it to a place in the ry of 
County Dublin 
SHORT NOTES. 
KurnorsiA PortLanpica In CHESHIRE. — va locality given on 
Bats although well known, was omitted by some mistake from 
lora of Liverpool published by the fe es Naturalists’ 
Field Club. It was, however, inserted in the Third Appendix 
(published in 1887), where it stands: ‘‘ Abundant on the sandhills 
between West Kirby and Hilbre Point. First record of occurrence 
in the Cheshire portion of the district.”,—Rosert 
NUS NIGRICANS IN SomERsET.— When pace, on J gd 4 
a ground near Winscombe with Mr. David Fry, 
fortanae enough to come upon a fair-sized patch of Sore 
nigrican did not realize its interest in connection with 
Somersetshit until Mr. Fry told me . was a rediscovery cs 
the ays e plant was found m years ago betwe 
Siodedcit and Portishead, but has in “shiek ears been Siioked 
for in vain in that, its so far only known, locality in Somerset- 
grown ald 
patches of the plant; but, owing to the character of the ground 
and its wide area, it is very difficult to examine it thoroughly.— 
W. F. Mixer. 
NEW TO Jersey. — On June 28th I found Capnoides 
claviculata growing eparingly, thongh over a _— th area, on 
a hill-side near La Oréte Point. This is the first record for th 
the same plant. This - also now Pak vesceal for the Channel 
Islands.— Stanuey Gutron. 
STRATIOTES ALOIDES IN THE Iste or Wicur.—During a short stay 
in the Isle of Wight last June, I paid some attention to the botany 
of Sandown and neighbourhood. In a pond on the borders of Lake 
Common, near the waterworks, I came across a luxuriant growth of 
Str atiotes in flower. The discovery was a great surprise, as I ha 
more than once examined the pond in recent years and found 
nothing beyond Equisetum, Tris, and other common aquatics. The 
plant looks wild enough in the Sandown locality, and there is 
altogether a stranger in the island is shown from a note at p. 337 
of Mr. Townsend’s Flora of Hants, where he states that Stratiotes, 
