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Pylatsia polyantha, a very rare Midland moss, a year o ago. 
All around this little bog, just as in the case of Ginanthe Janae 
at Crown Hilland Scraptoft, all was ordinary, uninteresting grass- 
land—just mown at this season. e plants growing in asso- 
ten yards square, to the exclusion of almost anything else. It is, 
indeed, truly astonishing “eat this plant should turn up in so 
apparently unlikely a situation, though in a quite out-of-the-wa 
spot, after so many years’ search, and failure to find it elsewhere. 
II Gf. Lachenalit. When 
to Branstone recently, I found what I took to be root-leaves of 
Carum segetum Benth. & Hook. fil., growing upon a high hedge- 
bank on the hilly road between the two places, which at this 
point would be about 500 ft. above sea-level, situated upon the 
Middle Lias Marlstone, a sandy calcareous formation. The 
turned out to be really leaves of C. segetwm, and not Sison Amomum 
as we thought might be the case, for Father aa detected the 
mature plant further along the same road. The road or track itself 
is an old one, and not upon any high road, so that there is little 
traffic. It seems that it is a native here, and may be at Hungar- 
ton, where it grows below a marlstone wall. S. Amomum also, 
though considered to be universally distributed, is by no means so, 
east of the River Soar; it has not been seen elsewhere by 
the writer, and is known to Father Reader in addition to this 
only from Ruydale some miles west.—A. R. Horwoop. 
GyYROPHORA sPpopocHROA Ach.—This lichen was distributed by 
us this year ae the Lichen ria ee ae of the British 
Isles from Langdale in Westmorland. It was first found there 
many years ago by Me a: A. Martindale of Plavoley? who indicated 
the locality to us. We sent a note to this effect, with the speci- 
mens, to the Club Disteibator, who has unfortuna ‘ely not inserted 
it in the Report. = Mr. Martindale appears to have never placed 
his interesting disc ovat on record, this notice in the Report is 
the first indication of it as a British s species. We desire to place 
on record the fact that sy pee attaching to the finding of this 
new addition = our list eosin to Mr. Martindale and not to us. 
—A. Witson & J. A. WHELDO 
SisYMBRIUM PANNoNIcUM.—In Central London during the past 
among the bricks and rubbish, it has formed dense thickets. Else- 
where it has occurred in plenty in the neighbourhood of Wimble- 
don, and in less quantity along the towing-path by the Thames, 
in more than one place, between Putney and Kingston.—C. EK. 
BRITTON. 
