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New Carmarthenshire Plants. — During an excursion with the 

 Cambrian Archaeological Association in Carmarthenshire on Aug. 

 10th, I found the following species, which I believe are new records 

 for that county : — Elatine hexandra, Talley Lakes ; Fatbits gymno- 

 stachys Genev. (JR. macrothyrsus J. Lange), near Pant y Lyn quarries; 

 Hieracium diaphanoides 9 walls near Dynevor Castle ; H. stenolepis 

 Lindeb., walls, Carregcennen Castle; H. (jothicum Fr., rocks near 

 Cwrt Bryn y Beird ; Lastrea Tkehjpteris, between the two Talley 

 Lakes. — J. E. Griffith. 



Viburnum Lantana in Lincolnshire. — I send you specimen of 

 Viburnum Lantana from a shrub found (apparently quite wild) at the 

 Springs, Rothwell House, near Caistor, N. Lincolnshire, by Mr. 

 B. B. Le Tall. This is a new county record. — J. Burtt Davy. 



Stachys Betonica in Co. Donegal. — Many years ago I recorded 

 this species from Dunleary, in this county. Recently, however, on 

 examining my specimens, I felt doubtful as to the correctness of 

 my identification, and on sending them to Mr. Bennett he stated 

 that they were some hybrid of palmtris, distinct from ambignam. 

 I will procure fresh specimens before long, and give them a fresh 

 examination; but the Flora of this county was thus deprived of 

 Stachys Betonica. I have now, however, to record the plant with 

 certainty. A lady of Londonderry, Mrs. Leebody, wrote to inform 

 me that it grew at Lough Fern, near Milford. On enquiry she 

 kindly directed me to the locality, and in the last week of July 

 I visited the spot, and soon found a patch of thirty square yards or 

 so about a hundred yards above Lough Fern, on the east side, and 

 about half-way between the Milford end of the lake and Mr. Swiney's 

 residence at Moyagh. The situation is amongst stumps of hazel in 

 a rough uncultivated half- cleared patch of ground. Mrs. Leebody 

 also sent me fresh specimens of Polygonum Bistorta from near the 

 Beelan Kiver, in the Frin Valley, where it appears to be an 

 undoubted native ; and informs me that she has gathered Galium 

 Moltwjo near Eglinton, Co. Derry : this is a very rare plant in 

 Ulster. These interesting finds of Mrs. Leebody's were originally 

 made in 1889 and 1890. She then sent specimens to Mr. S. A. 

 Stewart, of Belfast, who named them for her. Stachys Betonica is 

 extremely rare in Ireland. It grows, I know, in Armagh. Several 

 of the old localities in the Cybele Hibemica are certainly errors. 

 Unfortunately the serious and deplorable illness of our valued Irish 

 botanist, A. G. More, prevents me from obtaining full information 

 from his collected materials for the new Cybele Hibemica. — H. C. 

 Hart. 



Polygala oxyptera Reichb. in W. Sussex. — I found this plant, 

 last May, in some abundance on sandy, grass-grown ground west of 

 the Arun, and nearly opposite the ferry, at Littlehampton. Silene 

 arnica L., noted in Topographical Botany as doubtfully wild, is 

 certainly native on both sides of the river, where previous observers 

 have repeatedly gathered it. The var. ghttinosa Koch of Arenana 



serpyUifolia L. also occurs east of the river's mouth.— Edwabd S. 

 Marshall. 



