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SHORT NOTES. 
Niretua Guomerata Chey. 1s Warwicxsurre. — During the 
autumn of last year, 1886, in fishing an excursion from Stratford- 
on- ope to Ilmington, I came ate me moorish land of con- 
of which were a few 
flowering shoots, sadly depenpeata dubia to indicate that this 
now dry and barren land had at some more remote period been an 
i around them th 
easons they would form the homes of marsh plants; at that time, 
however, they were quite dry, and the plants were mostly stunted 
specimens of Galiwn palustre, Hypnum fluitans, &e. Feeling 
interested specially in that part of War wickshire, I paid a visit to 
this moorland a.week or so since. I found that the eel rains 
had filled the pits, and that eee was a rich growth of marsh 
an abundance of Nitella lost Peta _saieitidly prolific in fruit. With 
this, and equally abundant, was a fine moss I have never seen in 
Warwickshire before, Hypnum lycopodioides. Both plants are re- 
markable in their appearance, and could scarcely be mistaken for 
anything else by even a novice; and I think that both are new to 
the Midland Counties. The Sepbriand on which these occur is 
the valley of the Stour, and upon the very borders of Worcestershire, 
the small stream which forms the county boundary being about 
two hundred yards from the pits I have mentioned, so that both 
plants Se probably occur in adhe ge also.—J. E. Baenaun, 
aria R Host. iv East Kent. — Last autumn the Rev. 
Ratiey' LY Moore, while botanising near Westgate-on-Sea, found in 
a sige field a number o: specimens of an umbelliferous plant which 
n to him; on his return he described it to me as having 
leaves which recalled to him the Eng. Bot. plate of Cicuta virosa, 
4 my request he later on revisited the ie lopality ‘the field had then 
»—and sent me the only specimen he could find, a 
small lateral branch, but from = I was enabled to eg it with 
not of foreign origin, but it is prabaule 
that the plant had been scliiaided to the locality. Mr. Moore only 
observed it in one field; pot this notice _ lead to its being 
G 
[ plant has a 
1874, 279), ity. Joie wen recorded oar Hants (Journ. Bot. 
Nore on Nomenctaturs, — The following case of nomenclature 
- will proba ably in interest the readers of the ‘Journal of Bot any’:—In 
Kuetzing’s ‘Species Algarum’ (1849) Brébisson named and deseribed 
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