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specimen to Mr. F. C. 8. Roper, who, on acknowledging the receipt — 
of the specimen, told me he considered it true C. Jacea, and, on 
forwarding a piece to Mr. W. B. Hemsley, at Kew, he confirmed the 
determination. Last year, on July 7th, I met with several plants 
is extremely liable to be overlooked, for it is so like C. nigra that at 
a short distance the radiant flowers would alone call attention to it. : 
I may mention that the radiant form of C. nigra scarcely occurs 
here. Besides this, all the plants that I have seen were little more 
than a foot and a half in maeety ~~ ae scarcely showed among 
the standing grass.-H. N. Bio 
SPILUS GERMANICA Li. IN Sens —This tree has the appear- 
ance of being truly indigenou r Hastings. It is found here 
and there in woods and he dass, = higae latter being very different 
from the ordinary quickset farm hedges. They are apparently the 
trees and shrubs which were left as ere to the fields when 
the original forest was cleared for cultivation. These hedges con- 
sist of oak, birch, hazel, meergael maple, Fareteatn, &c., there being 
very rarely any whitethorn o r any trace of a planted hedge. I 
distributed Scorers his district. There are specimens in 
orrer’ s he rbarium from 1 three different localities all near Hastings 
ham, Susser, truly wild, Rev vies’’; and adds, “ 
wild stat the thorns disappear by ee though I have ae 
them on “fobeig wild specimens, and Mr. Davies her em m 
Sussex.’’ Our Medlars here are beset with thor r. 
Jenner informs me that he is acquainted with Bee localities for 
the ee two at Battle, one at Netherfield, and o: 
bur nd adds, ‘All the bushes I have seen a pe nous 
adie: are »diicalt tof to find —— in flower, and I have never searched 
PoTaMOGETON NITENS IN WaLEs.—In Dawson Turner’s ‘ Corres-. 
pondence of Dr. Richardson,’ pp. 287—246, is published ¢ a pie! 
saw it I took it to be P. nitens, an ur Bennett, who has 
seen the plant, confirms my opi A specimen from the samé 
place is also in the Sherardian Collection. P. nitens is unre 
r Wales; and these specimens show t was found there 
* Nicholls had oer it was written in 1818; Dawson Turner supplied ; 
the date as April 1, 1726, a date not far from the truth 
