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not sure which species of Bombus it was, and regret I did not 
bring home a specimen. This, however, is not a point of great 
importance, as all the Bombi have, I believe, longer tongues than 
the honey-bee. The advantage to both bees of the perforation 
1 rt in 
€ a sufficient motive for the exercise of intelligence in the 
humble-bee. I cannot find that these facts concerning the Scotch 
Heath haye been hitherto recorded. Dr. Ogle does not mention 
them in his account of the fertilisation of various species of Erica 
im vol. ix. of the ‘ Popular Science Review.’—J. T. Powzuu. 
of Wisbech, found a plant, some years ago, which is mentioned in 
Professor Babington’s ‘ Flora of Cambridgeshire’ under the heading 
‘““? Fumaria capreolata.”” Fresh specimens of this form have 
to F. Borei Jord. This gives us two forms, from well-worked 
Pnbridgeshite, not included in ‘ Topographical Botany.—A.rrep 
RYER. 
Sanvia 
told that Salvia pratensis grew in a meadow belonging to Mr. 
duly sent; it proved to be undoubtedly 8. pratensis, and is, I 
believe, the first record of its occurrence in the county of Bucks.— 
J ENBOW, 
Mippiesex Pranrs.—A few weeks since I discovered a small 
colony of Ophrys apifera, about a dozen plants in all, in a meadow 
south of Harefield, surrounded by Lathyrus Nissolia and Polygonum 
Bistorta. On the same day I gathered Sisymbrium Sophia in a lane 
near Uxbridge, and since then several more specimens in the same 
“‘extincts”’ in the ‘Flora of Middlesex,’ there being apparently 
Last week I came upon Myriophyllum alterniflorum in ponds near 
