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on the Carboniferous Limestone at rd drt of a field, some nine 
hundred feet above sea-level. Examination has proved the plant 
to be Viola carpatica Borbas. It mee in every particular with a 
plant from Lancashire in the National Herbarium, named by Pro 
fessor Borbas himself. Mr. E. G. Baker fully agrees with this 
naming. This is a first pie the plant has been recorded from 
Jusuta Huronmwstz Dum.—On <a er some of the 
. Public ‘Botanical Walk Party (led by Mr. W. P. Hiern) aa in 
the Hollow Brook, on Martinhoe cliffs, an hepatic new to us. I 
sent it to Mr. Maevicar for identification, and he states it to i the 
above-named plant, ‘“‘one of the rarer Atlantic species.” The 
“ Frullania Hutchinsieé Haok. yun Ghats water” fins 
ver a rock. Holly Brook, on stone This is the first 
record of it, since the spelling “Holly,” instead of ‘ Hollow,” 
or to 
not exactly catching it by the ear at the time. It is clear that 
Mitten’s ‘find ” was at the identical place of that of our party.— 
C. K. Larter. 
Southampton. Professor Hackel, to whom I sent a specimen, 
writes that it is Agrostis alba var. armata Hack. ined., 4 ole. 
var. armata Celak., adding that ‘it is well characterized by it 
long awn emerging from the middle of the flowering glume, or ‘ 
little higher.”’ Dr. * Gel akovsky describes the variety in Sitz. Bericht. 
Bohm. Gesellsch. Wissenchaft. Prague (1887, p. Bah pee 
under A. " stolonifera, he mentions ple varieties. Two of these 
Potyconum AMPLEXIcAULE Don otHER Aurens.—In Sep- 
tember a Mr. G. Chester, of Kottering, sent me several plants 
nade in that neighbourhood, mostly of the nature of casuals. 
ong them was a handsome Polygonum, with a deep rose-crimson 
lower, clearly allied to P. Bistorta L., but different in n appearance, 
cially in the colour of the flower, the long, slender styles, and 
the eaves: the radical deeply cordate at base with the lamina inn 
way decurrent on the petiole, the upper also seats: aeeils and 
