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ciliate. This new species fits into a place between H. cesium and 
Hi. vulgatum ; more exactly, it comes either just before or just after 
H. angustatum Lindeb., perhaps best just before. 
. angustatum Lindeb. e have a good series of specimens of 
the type of this species, the same which grows in the Lake 
district, from several localities near Moffat, viz., from Crofthead 
Linn, the Beeftub, and Evan Water; also from whin-rock by a 
small burn fourteen miles N. of Langholm; all from *Dumfries- 
shire, contributed by Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot. This plant, however, 
is by no means identical with the H. angustatum Mr. nbury has 
referred to in his paper, that we gathered on Little Craigindal and 
at the Unich Water; and Mr. Hanbury tells us in a letter that he 
now regards these Aberdeen and Forfar specimens as H. angustatum 
var. elatum Lindeb. é: 
(To be continued.) 
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oak ormMaL Sprinc.—You will have received many commu- 
nications about the abnormal character of the present season. 
It is so abnormal that I think a careful record of details with dates 
should be rendered permanent by printing. Possibly some of the 
following notes may be useful to you. On the 6th May I noted 
t number of annuals, 
The same species, abundant also in the streams, shows no signs of 
flowering ; but the warmth of the water has caused a luxuriant 
I ere particularly at the two Droseras and Hypericum Elodes, 
which I saw in every state of moisture, from saturation to desic- 
cation. In no one ease coul 
ably anticipated, they will be able to “come again’’; and so to 
