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THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



but I think it at least possible that the case of Damasonium may be 

 one o survival. Uhen living at High Wycombe in 1S67, I found 

 the plant, m no large quantity, in one pond on Naphill Common. 

 It decreased in abundance during the next year or two, and 

 1 searcbed for it m vain in the neighbouring ponds. On revisiting 

 the place in 1890, I found it in its old habitat, and also, Z much 

 g eater abundance, in a pond and marshy ground at some little 

 distance. This year the plant is exceptionally luxuriant in this 



WnT ' • T Cim T ?° atiug in the water at some distance 

 fiom the margin being the largest I have ever seen. There is no 



jeason to suspect an introduction in this case; and it would be 



nterestmg to know whether Damammmm is one of the plants which 



StiffwJS a , time /° d ^en reappear. It was formerly frequent 

 in the \\ anstead and Lppmg Forest districts (see Flora of Essex, 



aftpr i 'wT ,i Mr ' P ° We11 f yS ifc WaS " f0lmd in Wanstead Park soon 

 ft iVi m J hrown open to the public." The Engtuk Botany figure 



nlan ?« Ill h ^"stead specimen, and Sowerby gathered the 

 plant irequentlym Wanstead Park"; and Edward Forster notes 

 mi his specimens in Herb. Mus. Brit., "In ponds and gi^vel-pts 

 on the Forest between Walthamstow and Wanstead." I am inclined 



now eltenf 6 h Tl ^ *?* " ** in d ^ ^^STS 



LtTon^t v S 6 F< * eBt .f* ea as an a "en; but the lamentable 



conclusfon y T T^" 8 * in ?P° SSible *° COme t0 a °y »tisfectaiy 



fiS'^S 8 BEITTEN i • [A note b ? Mr - Powe11 *» «»e &i 



^utuudiu for July, received just as we are goin? to press sneaks 



petonTo^V 1 ^SZSft*! - 1-ving belf inade ' by" The 

 person to whom we referred at p. 224.— En. Journ. Bot.] 



Fragaria elatior Ehrh.— In */«»,•>*. Bot. 1891, p. 229, Mr Druce 

 mentions that F. magna Thuillier, Fl. Paris, 1790, s an earlier'na e 

 but is tins not antedated by F. moschata Duchesne, flS2 

 to *nus l rrs & c., 176G ? On p. 230, Mr. Druce refers HipZurl^is 



i?EN^r '* to **• 1788; [t shouid be webe ^ n8o.-s;;« 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



and W BtZV WoUe4 ^ nh ^ ^ Charles A. Witchell 



Stroud • T?Z a i S NEL L ' aSS1Sted b * serous contributors, 

 btroud. James, 1892. 8vo, pp. xxiv. 302. Price 12s 



to ^Z^^S!^^ 5S? fort T HP 1 concern us ' for 



— er of ^^^ %%?£*? -fined. The 



Even then, however w si, 2 J? ^« beginning of the century. 



pretentious' and so unless a nrodii.Ho f ^S *i * t0 disC ° Ver S ° 

 word of commendaSon Mr P W P «; f ° r T, hlcb we can find no 

 for the Flora, directs "the in)!; St /"^ e11 .' wh ° " responsible 

 Professors Harker and Bo^Wl \° f b °/ amsts to the fact tliafc 



engaged u^^SX^^Tj^ 7S ,*" £* ^ 



i xiuxii, una bays that his catalogue is 



