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strié de lignes nombreuses, anastomosées, d’un rouge vif.” All the 
ponds in which U. neglecta was observed are in District II of Trimen 
ee Dyer’s ‘ Flora of Middlesex,’ which eat, moreover, contains no 
recent record of any Utricularia; the first record of U. vulgaris 
Districts III and VII, being about 1750, and last 1778, whilst minor. 
is given for Districts IT and ILL; first record 1700, last 1774.— 
GrorGE NicHoLso 
LieNs in GuoucestersHme.—There is a spot in the parish 
of Kingswood, Gloucestershire, about four miles north-east of 
Sia of alien plants kno ve existed there for some 
yea It isa Guat 3am of ey Din is (about 50 yards by 25) on 
the ‘Bos of a low hill, and surrounded by cornfields. This heap 
may have been the result of an old trial-boring for coal, but at 
present there rking 
nquiries show that the place has remained undisturbed for about 
twenty years. ast summer a friend and I made several visits to 
the place, and gathered the plants whose names are appended. We 
segs learn the means ee they were imported ;—-probably 
district, and, with few setae. to that of the Bristol coal-fields. 
Delphinium Ajacis, isbape pheniceum, Camelina sativa, Hrysimum 
orientale, Reseda lutea, Saponaria Vaccaria, Silene ditotona: S. nocti- 
flora, Dianthus prolifer, ts, Sitar muralis, Trifolium de spp di 
pane Melilotus officin M. alba, Medicago sativa, M. falcata, 
Potentilla argentea, Pasion rotundifolium, Anthemis tinctoria, 
Grindelia squarrosa, stacey nobilis, Centaurea Cyanus, C. paniculata, 
C. melitensis, Gilia capitata, Stachys annua, Salvia sylvestris, Satureia 
hortensis, Echinospermum Tepid Echium vulgare, Verbascumvirgatum, 
Plantago arenaria, Apera Spica-venti, Festuca Myurus, Bromus arvensis. 
Jas. W. Wurtz. 
BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE. 
[The following note ics communicated by Baron von Mueller 
to the Melbourne ‘Chemist and Druggist’ for September, 1882, 
and seems to us of caiholant interest to deserve wider circulation. ] 
Ar first sight it may seem unimportant to devote close atten- 
tion to the synonymy of plants; but it should be considered that 
ine phytographic authors came to permanent agreement about 
nelature, we would have to burden our memory with a 
arultiplicity of names, much against facility and acceleration of our 
S ct Sear | of opinion on names in biomorphic 
riche § generic bene or through etymologie incorrectness 
-—the former having been of frequent, the latter of rare, occurrence. 
