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the insertion of the stamens. But the peculiarity does not end 
here ; for in the majority of cases where the spurs are inverted 
they have become also forked at the tip, and this attempt to form 
@ double, sometimes a triple spur, can be traced to some extent 
externally : ; though it is only the inverted portion which is actually 
= into two or three points.—Rosert Horn 
Leseunia microscortca Tayl.—I am able to sd ae station 
for this pia hepatic, sree found it in quantity in Nant Francon, 
N. Wales, this August.—W. H. Puarson. 
: EURUM TENUISSIMuUM Li. in Hountineponsaire. — The first 
bikie: ee this as a Hunts tas occurs in the Appendix to 
y’s ‘Catalogus Plantarum Cantabrig,’ 1668, p. 8:— ‘Auricula 
leporis minima J. B. The smallest Hares-ear. By the way-side 
sequently saw it) and at Leighton, aE removing the soe ie 
Hun 
they extend inla: sad ¥cALcaiiaa Fr — 
Prarra Cesatm Van T. (p. 800).—I am anid to see that P. Cesatit 
has been discovered by some one else in Britain. It is probably a 
widely istribvated but uncommon species, and needs looking for, 
hen seen is unmistakable. Mr. Moore does not approve e of 
its separation from Pilobolus, but possibly he will discover, if he 
will read the conclusion of my monograph of the Pilobolide, that 
ig conan for so doing are, to an evolutionist, convincing.— 
Gr 
Dorset niapeneay —The two following plants, my records for 
at nee found by me this month in the bed of the Winter- 
bourne m at ee about two miles from Dorchester, viz., 
antag Pouniais Jord. and Polygonum maculatum Trim. & Dyer, 
the latter in some abundance, associated with P. lapathifolium L. 
(which ° rare in South Dorset}, and Chenopodium acutifolium Sm.— 
WLES Barrett. 
