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the Mersey.—Lathyrus alone is L. The following ooors of this 
plant appears in Dickinson’s Flora of Liverpool, 1851: ‘«* Sutton 
Bridge, Frodsham. John Harrison, 1850.” The Flora of Liver ‘pool, 
1872, reproduces the record, with the remark that ‘Mr. J. F. 
une fails fe ee this at Sutton Bridge ”—a curious lapse on 
his part e Tabley, in reproducing the above statements, 
regards ‘the —— as ‘misrecorded,” and gives no other Cheshire 
station. In his account of the E artghon of Hypericum hirsutum 
in Cheshire (Flor. Chesh. p. 69), he says, “ I find that Dr. Dickin- 
s.” Iam glad, therefore, to be able to confirm the original 
record of John Harrison. On August 30th, 1891, I found the 
Lathyrus growing among some bushes on the right bank of the 
Weaver Canal, just below Sutton Lek. nase was one large patch 
of it, and I fortunately saved a specim I can give no opinion 
one way or the other as to its aig in this Looe iY: as I only saw 
it once. This plant is not given as a Cheshire species in either 
wees Bot. ed. ii., or the recent noe ent. It should be bat 
Norta Devon ie ae st Lah I found on the shore at 
bemartin two parasitic alge, which Mr. E. M. Holmes iden- 
tifies as follows Ym eatin 0 Buffhami Batt. on Nitophyllum 
laceratum Grey., Actinococcus pelteformis Schmitz on Gymno- 
gongrus norvegicus Pek Both these are new reco — for —_ 
Devon. Of the latior species Mr. Holmes remark 
doubt it occurs on the plant in — — but has tn oyealookba 
until recent years.”—C. E. Lar’ 
* PRUNELLA LacinraTa In SuRRey.—Some time ago I saw, yeat 
after year, growing among the turf at a spot on aftr higher part of 
the North Downs above Cla ndon, a form cf Prunella, which I con- 
sidered to be a departure from type P. vulgaris, and probably refer- 
able to a continental variety. This I laid in my herbarium as P. 
vulgaris L., * a form with white-cream flowers and pinnatifid upper 
| Seeing the great resemblance of my specimens with the 
“You are quite right in believing your specimens of Prunella to be 
P. laciniata. I am much interested in seeing your s sheet of good 
examples. These confirm my idea that the plant i is really well dis- 
tributed in the country on suitable ground—elevated calcareous 
pasture.” My specimens were gathered at a locality a little below 
600 ft. in altitude, the downs thereabouts being uncultivated, and 
seg ea the usual chalk-soil flora, Saalegig orchids,—CHarLes 
ron umBELLaTUM L. var. currum Linton iv CornwALL 
To this variety the Rey. E. F. Linton refers specimens collected 
near Wadebridge in August last by Mr. L. A. M. Riley, and at 
