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_ Ivpatrens etanpuuirera Royle, (pp. 50, 87, 278).—I believe that 
this plant is frequently grown in cottage and suburban gardens, and 
remember cultivating it myself at Leicester forty-five years ago. 
Also I have had it here (Balham) for several seasons recently, un- 
attractive though it is.. In August, 1898, there were a number of 
plants in the garden of a cottage on Weydown Common (Surrey), 
1899 I was frequently at the spot, but saw no trace of any plants. 
In so sheltered a spot as Weydown Common the species might 
easily establish itself.—Witu1am WaitweLu. 
W Buns iw Zannicuettia.—In August of this year, when 
collecting Zannichellia polycarpa Nolte, which grows in great abun- 
dance in the drains of brackish water near Belfast Harbour on the 
Co. Down side, I found some tuber-like bodies among the tangled 
masses of weed giving rise to young plants. They are irregular in 
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size and hape, about the size of a lentil-seed, and are probably 
the localities claimed for it in my Flora of Dorset, questioned by 
Mr. Linton on the negative evidence of himself and Mr. R. P. 
Murray, on the insufficient ground that after a ‘“ ae . 
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of Dorse ave no hesitation in saying that both are un- 
doubted Arum italicum. On returning them to me he asked what 
characters I relied upon for separating them. 
short and slender, colour uniformly yellow, and was almost con- 
cealed within the spathe; that the lower lobes of the triangular- 
shaped divari leaves are long and sharply pointed, resembling 
Sagittaria sagittifolia ; that they appear in the autumn and not in 
