142 THE JOURNAL OF. BOTANY 
e borne in succession, each in the axil of a bract; in another, 
thisees while in two other instances a series of five female flowers 
was produced, followed by several normal males. These abnormali- 
ties were confined to the base of the spikelets. This observation is 
similar to that pole by Wigand in Carex glauca (Flora, errs > 
707); and extends that of Wesmael (Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. s 
vol. xv. p. 544, 1863), who figured in C. acuta a proliferous utc 
bearing two female flowers and a terminal bract.— Comp 
THe “STRUGGLE FoR Existence.’’—As an Me eae a # ti 
“struggle for ecg geen the efforts made by a small ne nt of 
ay be worth recording. it was " obesEye in 
a 
oe fifteen feet before it found a ~ scar spot for its 
ooting end to establish itself—Frep. Srratr 
IsLE OF 8 inde PLANTS. —On the 18th Seales last year I 
went with M 
O. Kuntze, ed we found it fairly abundant, and in good flowering 
condition. Iwas even more pleased to find that Cyperus 
was still maintaining existence at Apes Down, notwithstanding 
ich 
specimens. This sation was first noted just seventy years before 
‘by Dr. Bromfield, who, aged the date, 10th August, 1839, Cane 
that it was growing there “ spa ringly.” Besant ter instance o 
successful “ struggle for srintenee." —Frep. Srrarron. 
SALICORNIA APPRESSA Dum. In Cornw es arias 3 t Par, E. 
Cornwall, at the end of August, last year, I gathered a Sika 
which the pee KE. S. Marshall and E. F. Linton have kindly 
verified as S.appressa Dum. This s species has Bot previously been 
recorded farther west than Somerset and Dorset.—R. H. Goon. 
JOHN SNIPPENDALE.—Prof. Trelease writes a the Missouri 
Botanical Garden: “Our copy of Bauhin’s Prodromus, of 1620, has 
marginal annotations, apparently made when it was new the 
owner inscri is name on the titlepage as e 
Can you tell me who Snippendale was? What sort of a » garden 
he had ?—because he evidently was an et culeiynts of a 
-and when he lived, and what he did? ve never heard of 
Snippendale. Can a of our readers ae ee information ? 
BETA MARITIMA 8. E. Yorxsuire (p. 111). — a 
‘correspondents, Iokuding the author of the note so headed, 
write to point out that the * pins “ Scarborough Castle,” is well 
known for this plant, and recorded in Mr. J. G. Baker’s North 
‘Yorkshire; also that, in any case, it is not in South-east but in 
