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HAE RHAMNOIDES IN Somerset.-—This occurs in the church- 
aaah and with more than a mile of water between. I found it 
ae there in a few places, and evidently not long fossa 
a 1892; but as it has been recognised b mber of 
ete lub who knows its habits on the Lincolnshire sanidhille, it will 
probably be extir pated as most undesirable on the golf links. 
The seeds must have been carried by birds from the few shrubs at 
Stert, as there is no land communication for very many miles, and 
set of 
current directly from one shore to the other. Fieldfares and 
thrushes, which feed rsdn on the yellow berries in hard winters 
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Fe OLLA CAROLINIANA. i kboak a week ago I was fortunate enough 
to find Azolla caroliniana fruiting abundantly in the open air, in a 
friend’s garden re ope Co. Wicklow. The plants were 
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Nympheas and other obtain, and were placed in a pond in the 
open. They multiplied with great rapidity, and per to be aria 
out almost in cartloads, having become a perfect nuisance 
wey recently placed in a shallow, peaty pool, iiioh with tho ary 
er has been reduced to a few inches in de epth of water. Here 
‘oy well-developed individual is producing microsporangia in 
absadance ; the macrosporangia I have not yet detected.—Grexn- 
p Pim. 
ESEX Prants.—It may be worth noting that Sagittaria 
sagittafolia and pape pectinatus are both exceedingly abun- 
dant this year the Regent’s Canal, near Cumberland Basin, 
Regent’s Park. “The locality is not 1 arepti for either cares in 
Trimen — Dyer’s Flora of Middlesex.—Atrrep W. Brn 
Rue prraLis In W, Kent.—This species, it given ind ithe 
aveiaon: of the county in Topographical Botany, was found in ditches 
at Port Victoria, on June 28th, by Captain Wolley Dod and myself. 
cole S Tierra 
Eri in Dorser.—During a recent walk from 
Corfe Cass: 6 Studland, in company with the Rey. H. F. Linton, 
we came across Hriophorum gracile in some abidtdatioe. The first 
specimen, found by Mr. Linton, wa S growing, as usual, in about 
two feet of water; a little farther along the road, however, I found 
the plant in considerable abundance in a spongy bog which is 
usually too soft to bear treading upon, but which faking the recent 
dry season has become sufficiently firm to walk across. The plant 
