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ago, and submitted to Prof. Babington, who wrote of it, "It is 

 probably the ammobius of Focke." — F. Buchanan White. 



Gentiana Amarella L. var. precox "Baf." (p. 120). — My 

 experience is the reverse of that given by the Eev. E. S. Marshall. 

 In the neighbourhood of Croydon the seeds germinate in the 

 autumn, and I have watched it through the winter up to the 

 flowering stage in May and June. I have never seen the normal 

 form growing with this, though it occurred some yards away. — 

 Arthur Bennett. 



Sonchus palustris L. (p. 121). — Below where Mr. Wolley Dod 

 locates the plant there is no difficulty in getting to it, except that it 

 is as well not to attempt it if firing is going on at the " butts, " as 

 it is unpleasantly near to them. I have seen between two and 

 three hundred plants of the heights he gives in this station. I fear 

 the species is not so frequent hi Norfolk as one might be led to 

 suppose from the Bev. Kirby Trimmer's Flora and Supplement, as 

 specimens I have seen from two of the stations given are the 

 marsh form of 5. arvensis L., in both cases gathered by Mr. Trimmer 

 himself. — Arthur Bennett. 



Polygonum dumetorum in Wilts (p. 69). — Mr. Preston's list 

 reminds me that I have not yet recorded Polygonum dumetorum L., 

 which I found in considerable quantity in a copse on a narrow 

 wooded ridge, known as Whitsbury Wood, at the end of last August. 

 This wood is mostly in Wilts, with a southward extension into 

 Hants; it was in Wilts that the Polygonum grew, though I saw it 

 again next day on driving to Fordingbridge, in S. Hants. It is 

 known for the latter county, but new to Wilts. — Edw t ard F. Linton. 



Carex aquatilis in Ireland. — While botanising along the banks 

 of the Kiver Main, in Shane's Castle Park, Co. Antrim, in June last, 

 I came across a luxuriant growth of the plant in a ditch of standing 

 water communicating with the river about a mile and a half above 

 where it flows into Lough Neagh. This sedge, which was formerly 

 accounted of such extreme rarity in Britain, and which was first 

 obtained in Ireland by Mr. S. A. Stewart, in Co. Roscommon, in 

 1883 (Journ. Bot. 1885, 49), is now added to the flora of Dist. 12 

 of Cybele Hibemica. The plant grows very luxuriantly in the 

 present Station, the stems being 3-4 ft. long, and the bracts 1^-2 ft. 

 in length. At the mouth of the stream, a mile and a half further 

 down, I observed from the eastern shore an extensive growth of a 

 large Carex on the opposite shore, which is very possibly the same 

 plant, but had no opportunity of obtaining specimens of it. The 

 station above mentioned is, so far as I am aware, the lowest yet 

 observed for C. aquatilis in Ireland, being only about forty-five feet 

 above high-tide level. The specimens were kindly determined for 

 me by Mr. Arthur Bennett, who refers them to var. elatior Bab. 

 E. Lloyd Praeger. 



