We Fa Se 
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CERATOPHYLLUM tum Cham. Sane certo ——On 
August 16th I doualik ‘thie ple plant in a ditch by Earith Stanch. 
Although it was growing in deep water it was fruiting abundantly. 
on 
blunt tubercles instead of spines. When fresh the fruit is smooth 
and covered with reddish brown dots, which are ye mere 
above the surface when dried, roughening the skin. It = 
be considered acrnetiois intermediate between aiogealiies an wedi d 
mersum. I think this ~~ has not been hitherto recorded as 
British.— Atrrep Fryer 
PoramocETon a Pour. rrom HuntineponsHirE.— 
In the herbarium of the late Mr. John Hardy (now in the pos- 
ee of Mr. Charles Bailey) there is a pondweed labelled in the 
writing of the late Rey. W. W. Newbould :—‘ Potamogeton 
panmare % WoWen: 1885), a ee John Hardy, Manchester. 
River Ouse, June 28, 1846. Col. Rev. W. W. Newbould.” In 
1885 Mr. Newbould, who was then visiting Mr. Bailey, added the 
name printed above in brackets. It is roughly written in pencil, 
either by himself or in his — by Mr. Bailey, thus confirming 
the local record and adding the name which he was unable to give 
in 1846. As P. polygonifolius has Sea recorded in Cambridge- 
shire from Gamlingay o only, and as it now seems to be extinct at 
_ Bluntisham, where the unlikely habitat of a tidal river is given for 
it, I have thought it advisable to give an exact copy of the label as 
‘ m ey’s ~aeeeniae and also to call attention 
to the circumstance of Mr. Newbould having examined the sheet 
of 1 ei and added the pceite name after an interval of forty 
‘years. Twice during the present season I have carefully searched 
the ditches in the peaty meadows between Bluntisham and the 
If, but I h 
except the latter, deep. -water forms, such as we sho ala thot pale 
land form as P. poly oe ie On the 
apart the Sais at Bluntisham runs through a bed of peat, 
agatha a ae margin several lle: some of 
oe i a. Thése might iets 
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Handbook of the Fern Allies’ re hin Lyco- 
: mie Rhizocarpea ; Bell & Sons ost useful 
phage the want of which, to use a ectisigntiomat phrase, 
felt. Until Mr. Baker’s ‘Synopsis of Selaginella’ 
