Ehrh., vars. deflecwm and lilacinum, S. shang soe on 
rigidum Schpr., var. compactum, S. subsecundum 
tortum and auriculatum, S. tenellum pee a eymirfaion Ehrh., 
vars. congestum and squarrosulum.—J. SAuN 
MENTHA PUBESCENS var, PALUSTRIS IN WoRCESTERSHIRE. Saane 
fine mint is growing upon the bank of Leigh Brook, in the pari 
of Alfrick, where it was gathered by my friend Mr. Alfred Waller 
and my self on August 27th. It forms considerable and ap ari 
Calches. M., sativa and M. hirsuta growing near.—R. F. Townprow. 
oS NANA IN N. Lancotn.—Mr. Searle, of Ashton-under- 
e, has e specimens of the above plant gathered this year 
at E Gltcthoxpes, N. Linco Inshire, ‘*about 150 yards from the shore ; 
only a few plants were seen.”” There is no tee of this plant on 
the east coast between Durham and W. Sussex, even 4. marin 
not appearing as a Lincolnshire pl in he “End ed. of ‘ Tope: 
graphical Botany.’—-Arraur Benn 
ORRECTION. —— In n oticing the 4th edition of Henfrey’s 
h 
om the preface, for responsible, in ch it is stated 
that the whole of the sections relating to the Cryptogamia were 
rewritten b nnett. This statement was tten 
inadvertently, and, as it stands, might be thought to be unjust to 
Mr. George Mur ray. The whole of the proof-sheets relating to the 
cryptogams were, in fact, revised, and to a large extent rewritten, 
by Mr. Bennett; but those relating to the Fungi (which were 
recast for the preceding edition by Mr. George Murray) were com- 
“ngapbetd little altered or added to, so that in the main they remain 
in the former edition. I regret that Mr. Murray’s engagements 
did not permit him to accede to my request to revise this portion of 
the work himself.—Maxwatt T. Masters. 
np Prants.—Eryngium maritimum is recorded as doubtful 
Bressa. The Rey. W. E. Smith has this ae sent it from Fitful 
Head, in the southern part of the mainlan he same collector 
sends also a very small-flowered form of Veronica officinalis ey rs 
ing V. hirsuta ate (of which the specimens, figured in ‘ 
Bot. Suppl., ’ t, 2673, are in the herbarium of the British Mussel 
but with broader leaves. Probably this is the plant referred to by 
Edmonston in a ript account of the py of Shetland, pre- 
served in the Nataral History Museum, in the following terms :-— 
‘The true V. officinalis is not common in Shetland, while what I 
think is an undescribed variety grows everywhere among loose or 
stony soil. The plant differs from the true V. officinalis Ey several 
remarkable points, viz., mee leaves are not serrated, and them 
and the stem want the peculiar pubescence which the aa pos- 
Sesses ; the leaves are sass, opposite, and rigid ; ee Eee the 
capsule seems more distinetly winged.” —H. N. Rie 
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