SHORT NOTES. 161 
to Dr. Richardson the letter (printed at pp. 252—264 - the work 
“og giving many particulars of their journey, and enum 
rating their principal soccvanes: many of these have the modern 
names added as footnotes, but among those not identified is a 
+a Potamogeton foliis oblongis, planis, inferne alternis, superne 
was 
runs out of a pond, near Esquire Baly’s.” This plant is contained 
in the Dillenian Herbarium. The pon ndweed referred to at page 
260 of Richardson’s ‘ Correspondence,’—‘‘ In a lake at the foot 
of Gribgoch I found Potamogeton Lapathi minoris foliis pellucidis 
D. Lhwyd,”’—as “ possibly P. gi 5S pet is only young 
polygonifolius Pour.—G. C. Dru 
PEzIzA SUMNERIA IN poo —This rare fungus has been found 
ing in s abundance in the grounds of Manresa House, 
arge cup of nearly two inches in diameter, the rim of which is 
flush with the ground, the interior peat smooth and of the colour 
of ordinary wax. When quite tian the cup ace out like a 
Saucer, and there is a tendency to split at the The size 
of the plant renders it very convenient for cutting inte sections, so 
as to exhibit the sporidia in the asci which characterise the group 
to which the Pezize belong. A demetets -inch objective shows them 
perfectly well, in various stages of growth.—J. T. O’Gorm 
Diatysis anp Synanroy in Prmuta.—The following terato- 
logical facts are perhaps worth pcan ng. A polyanthus has been 
received from Mrs. Pierce Butler, Hawkhurst, in which the flowers, 
Ap 
three og mare exhibiting synanthy ~ two flowers, each in a 
different degree. The calyx is the same in all, the two som Nov 
one on 
she age becomes free above, while the edge of the other adheres 
oe — leaf adheres by its edge below the inferior one.— 
J uNcUS Geraror Lois. 1y Campripersmme.—In ee I yeni a 
in ersham Park, Hunts, which I named J 
Jacq., and a mile later in the same year, I found on Pri ee at at 
