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Gallic, flattened, and narrowing towards their attachment. These 
flowers are visited by butterflies, but whether they are the agents 
of fertilization or not remains to be determined. 
Scuizoaiossum Carson N.E. Br. No. 1361. The retinacula 
here stand out at right angles to the corpusculum, the pollinia 
depending from the ends of the horizontal arms. The complete 
translator mechanism resembles a pair of scales. On withdrawal 
corpusculum and retinacula not appearing to take part. 
[The determinations in this portion of the paper have been 
made by Mr. Spencer Moore, who has also described a new species 
of Vangueria.] 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES. ON NOTTINGHAMSHIRE BOTANY. 
By J. W. Carr, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. 
Most of our knowledge of the Flora of Nottinghamshire is 
derived from the writings of Deering,* Ordoyno,+ Jowett,} and 
How ‘ 
owitt,§ which cover a period of a hundred years from 1738 t 
839 t’s Flora records eight hundred and sixty-six species 
of phanero vas cryptogams, but includes a numb 
are ignored or queried in Watson’s Topographical Botany, in 
i ded. 
During the last twenty years many plants unknown to, or not 
distinguished by, the earlier Notts botanists have been found, and 
in the Victoria History of the County of Nottingham there is a 
complete list of all species recorded for, or known to occur in, the 
county up to 1904, 
iH 
* Deering, Charles, Catalogus Stirpium, ¢c., Nottingham, 1738. 
+ Ordoyno, Thos, Flora Nottinghamiensis, Newark, 1807. 
} Jowett, Thos., Botanical Calendar for Nottinghamshire. A series of 
specially-printed title-page. One of these—a beautifully-bound volume, with 
‘‘ Thos. Jowett ” in his own handwriting on the title-page—is in my possession. 
The Nottingham University College, Mechanics’ Institute, and Bromley House 
ibraries each possess a copy, but I know of no others. 
. of Howitt, Godfrey, The Nottinghamshire Flora, London and Nottingham, 
