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determination, but considers it ml a variety or form of C. arenaria. 
Whether this is so or not, Nyman, in his ‘ Conspectus,’ accepts it as 
a species, and places twenty-three species between it and C. arenaria, 
but this arrangement is due to its mode of inflorescence. I hope 
to grow it by the side of C. arenaria, and shall watch it under 
D Bea aera BENNETT. 
Potyconum minus Huds. iy Camsrincesuire.—This plant, not 
acctea from the county since the time of Ray, grows in sess 
Washes, along the drift-way at the base of the oe Bank, 
the toll-house at Welches Dam to the Manea Eng I have n a 
found it growing in water, but by the sides oa ditehes and in damp 
places where the water has eae ee: ——ALFR R. 
BurLevRuM apy aig Linn. INLAND IN pen IDGESHIRE.— 
Prof. Babington’s ‘ Flor fps. this is marked as extinct in 
the inland localities at Eltisley and Hinton Moor : in October, 1882, 
I found it growing plentifully at Water-gull Hill, Sutton, in the 
Isle of Ely. It extended over the bank of the lowered road the 
whole length of the hill; some plants growing on the highest and. 
dryest part, sixty or seventy feet above the level of the Fens, a 
considerable elevation in this flat country. The plants were very 
luxuriant, some being quite eighteen inches high. This station is 
very like Ray’s old Huntingdonshire locality at Great Stukely, 
where the plant may probably be agg far deg other annual 
plants it does not appear every r not one could be 
found, although it is evidently alk leben from — great 
extent and varied nature of the ground it covered.—ALFrep Fryer. 
Azou~a CaROLINIANA NATURALISED In Mippiesex. “This curious 
little re line: is just now to be seen in a very strange position 
on a ore pond near Pinner, Middlesex ; it is a native . Carolina, 
d was brought to this country a a few years since to be 
erown in tanks made in greenhouses. In its present _pusitioe at 
Pinner it has succeeded in covering the pond, and the effect is 
striking, as it voveiides the green chickweed [duckweed.] In 
tint is v 
growing. —T. W. OpELL in ‘ Science Gab, Dec., 1883, p. 279. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Shakspere Flora. A Guide to all the principal passages in which 
mention is made of Trees, Plants, Flowers, and Vegetable Pro- 
ductions ; with comments and botanical oe ticulars. By Leo 
GRINDON. 883. 
Manchester: Palmer & 
Ir is five years since Mr. Ellacombe nee his volume on 
‘The Plant-lore and Garden-craft of f Shakespeare,’ of which we 
