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that A. pumila is merely a state of the type caused by the attack 
of a fungus. . I bro ought some of the variety into the garden, ra 
the result is well seen in ey specimens sent. It appears to have. 
quite got rid of the she oa invader. A. pumila, therefore, tye a 
variety, falls.—W. R. Lin 
FESTUCA HETEROPHYLLA abe, - In woods on the Bere Estate 
between Pangbourn and Bradfield [Berks]. In this situation it 
has all the appearance of a native species. No introduced plants 
are near, nor is the place a plantation or near houses. am 
making investigations into the history of the woodland a 
other directions, but its occurrence here gives it a different sats 
from what the plant previously possessed.—G. Cuaripce Dru 
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num Carviroia L. In NorrincGHAMsHIRE.— The Le 
of Selieaien sch tet in ob then roomie last ere is = great- 
st obit and was made under the following cireum or 
any years past I have Baie on the lookout $e" Peueaianin 
pes Be in Notts, especially in the neighbourhood whence it was. 
originally recorded by Thomas Jowett in his Botanical Galena r 
for Nottinghamshire, abtlehed in 1826. Jowett’s record r 
“Marsh Milk Parsley (Selinwm palustre) has been patkerst by 
Messrs. Hurt and Ramsbottom by the side of a small stream be- 
tween Mansfield Woodhouse and Park Hall.” On August 8th 
last I was walking along the bank of a small stream bounding the 
west side of a rather damp low-lying meadow, which has the little 
River Meden for its eastern boundary. This was in the parish of. 
cirpu 
peetess. Gary, co ino): Carex distans (the Hesb bettie record for 
No C. Goo 
rivale, Senecio aiquatious, Achillea Ptarmica, Scabiosa Succisa, 
teicickes Nummularia, and other commoner moisture- -loving - 
pecies. No plant was seen as to whose nativity there could be_ 
the slightest doubt. There is no foot-path through the meadow 
and, with the exception of an old water-mill and accompanying 
ioned above, there are no buildings within sight. 
a weat $ poe for Peucedanum palustre is, as already stated, 
