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Moss, or in the adjoining district. Papaver Rliceas L. **?«. Pryorii 

 Druce. Corydalis clavieulata DC., plentiful, especially on the 

 wood borders. *Polygala serpyllacea Weihe. Stellaria media Cyr. 

 var. neglecta Weihe, Shavington. Arenaria trinerria L., doubtless 

 accidentally omitted from the Flora ; it is included in Top. Bot. 

 *''Spergnla sativa Boenn. Rubus Lindleianus Lees, in several places 

 between Crewe and Wybunbury ; R. Sprengelii Weihe, rather com- 

 mon in the wood bordering the Moss. * Epilobium an gusti folium L. 

 *Ribes rubrum L. -Galium- elongatum Presl. *(?. Witheriyigii Sm. 

 *G, uliginosum L. Hieracium sciaphilion Uechtr. *Pedicularispahis- 

 tris L. ; Melampyrum pratense L., the red-brown plant common on the 

 Moss seems to be nearer to montanum than to ericetorum, see Fwra f 

 p. 219, and Joum. Bot. 1896, 136. *Pinguicula vulgaris L. *Ulmm 

 montana Sm., Shavington, &c. Salix pentandra L., with it a hybrid, 

 which, as Major Wolley Dod suggests, is probably fragilis X pent- 

 andra L. ; *& purpurea L., rare ; *S. Smithiana Willd., Crewe. 

 Potamogeton pusillus L. Orchis maculata L. ** subsp. ericetorum 

 Linton. Epipactis latifolia All., in the wood at Wybunbury. 

 *Scirpus paucifiorus Lightf., *8. fluitam L. *Eleocharis midticaidis 

 Sm. Car ex diandra Schrank, plentiful in several parts of the 

 Moss; C. paniculata L. **var. simplicior And.; *C. (too* «•« 

 locally common and variable, the fruit of some plants answering to 

 the description of those of irrigua; *C. pallescens L., *C. lavigata 

 Sm., *£ fidformis L., *£?. acutiformis Ehrh., *C, rtpana Curt., & 

 rostrata Stokes, as a very narrow-leaved plant Arrhenatheriun elatius 

 *var. nodosum Eeichenb. *Glyceria plicata Fr. and *Alopecuru$ 

 myosuroides Huds., near Crewe, *Fe$tuca rubra, L., Shavington, &c. 

 — G. Claridge Druce. 



Ophrys Trollii Hegetschw. in Oxfordshire. — In 1905 some 

 school-children at Finstock gathered a curious form of the bee- 

 orchis in that neighbourhood, but it had withered too much before 

 I saw it to allow me to identify it. This year it was sent again by 

 Mr. H. Powell when I was away, but I was enabled to see that it 

 was a form worth examination ; and at the British Museum Her- 

 barium I was enabled to identify it with the above plant. The 

 very long gradually acuminate termination to the outer divisions 

 of the perianth and labellum gives it a very striking appearance, 

 although no doubt it is not specifically distinct. It appears to have 

 only been recorded in Britain previously from Reigate. — G. Claridge 

 Druce, 



Parietaria officinalis L. (Journ. Bot. 1906, 429).— The pecu- 

 liarity of the stamen-unfolding was pointed out to me many years 

 ago by a friend — not a botanist ; and one has often amused oneself 

 by touching the stamen with a pin or pencil and making it jump, 

 and fling its pollen, I imagined it was a fact well known to bota- 

 nists. H. J. RlDDELSDELL. 



Vicia monosperma (Joum. Bot. 1906, p. 409).— M. Beauyerd, of 

 the Herbier Boissier, points out to me that this name was given in 

 1841 by Koch to a plant a description of which he published in 

 Lintuea, xv. 721. Unfortunately I overlooked this, but as Boissier 



