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is widely miegiteres in warm countries of both hemispheres, but 
does not seem ave been recorded as adventive in Europe. 
Ac&NA SANGUISORBZ Vahl.—This Australian alien, which Mr. 
R. Martin found some years ago on pines base Down, Dartmoor, 
There was a a quantity of it.—W. 
IsOETES LACUSTR on Dartrmoor.—I found this plant on 
July 4th, 1908, dios in from three inches to three or four feet 
of water in a large pond, at an altitude of about one thousand feet 
above sea-level, on the southern border o e moor near the 
occupant of the pond, even to the exclusion of freshwater ae 
ria ad a sufficient a ie visible to the naked eye.— 
RE 
es RFARSHIRE Recorps.—Linaria minor has appeared in giles 
a in this county, on the cinder track of the railway to 
t and w wer of Arbroath at Lunan Bay and Elliot. p Morar 
uncommon on the rr of the Lunan near the 
ioveriilie Vinduet. Coronopus procumbens and C. didymus are 
growing between the North ere inher Station at neem 
and the bridge over the South Esk.—R. H. C E. 
of wi 
such localities as cinder-heaps near se Sallenyit r. Druce 
Barnetby, Linbobishive, in 1862 (see Naturalist, i. 84) I have 
observed it in a similar situation in many places—in fact, I have 
seldom failed to find it if looked for, often however o covered 
with coal-dust as to be unnoticeable. Mr. Dunn does not refer to 
it as a plant of English cornfields in which—e. g. bots High 
Wycombe—it frequently occurs in association with L. Elatine 
. spurta.—J RITTEN. | 
SCLEROTINIA BACCAR Te apd ope Sl aig wabetaage 
The sclerotia of this Discomycete are produced in fruits of “the 
bilberry (Vaccinium a Aig: which or rendered abortive and 
_ goon eat stunted in growth, and o rm consistence and 
whitish appearance These mummied hekeianrs appear to have been 
first noticed in Britain by Prof. Trail, Aberdeen, who found them 
near Lumphanan in September, 1888, and afterwards in other 
places in the east of Scotland. They have also been frequently 
