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Marshes. Alopecurus fuhus, Eltliam, in two or three ponds ; also 

 near Bexley Heath. Chara vulgaris (var. longibracteata), Plumstead 

 Marshes. — A. H. Wolley Don. 



Range of Utbicularia minor (p. 53).— The Eev. E. S. Marshall's 

 note reminds me that I gathered Utricularia minor in pools on the 

 N.W. side of Loch Ericht, Inverness- shire, in July, 1883, at an 

 altitude of considerably over 1000 ft. From my (not very clear) 

 recollection of the locality, I should say it was some height above 

 the lake, probably at 1500 ft. alt. ; all I can say certainly, however, 

 is that the lake being 1175 ft., it must have been at least 1200 ft. 

 altitude. It was growing with U. intermedia, neither, at that time 

 at least, being in flower. — H. N. Dixon. 



Potamogeton trichoides in Surrey. — In 1879 I found at Hedge 

 Court, drifted up to the east end of the mill-pond, large masses of 

 a pondweed which at the time I thought to be P. pusillus var. 

 tenuissimus. Afterwards I came to think it more likely to be P. 

 trichoides, and on submitting it to various authorities on the genus, 

 this opinion was confirmed ; but in the absence of both flowers and 

 fruit, which I have never been able to find, no definite name was 

 given. This circumstance led me recently to examine all the 

 "tenuissimus" in my collection, when I was struck with the appear- 

 ance of the plant gathered in the canal near Aldershot by Mr. 

 Bennett and myself in 1881, and recorded in this Journal for the 

 same year, p. 345, where Mr. Bennett remarks on the very narrow 

 tapering rutilus-libe leaves. The plant was only coming into 

 flower, none in fruit, and it seems to have been put down to 

 tenuissimus without examining the flowers, which now prove to be, 

 in the only specimens I have left, uniformly monogynous. As 

 I record the plant on this character combined with the leaf 

 characters, I desire to make it quite clear that the solitary pistil is 

 not the result of accident, or the decay of the other three. All the 

 flowers are clean and healthy, and my most forward spike shows 

 clearly, without dissection, that each of its three flowers bears but 

 a single pistil. Two other less forward spikes, treated with glycerine 

 and water, soon assumed much the appearance of freshly gathered 

 specimens, showing distinctly all the parts of the flowers, including 

 the solitary pistil. This organ having then been removed from 

 sundry flowers, it was found that there existed no vestige of any 

 further pistils, rudimentary or otherwise. The leaves also being 

 quite those of P. trichoides, I think that it can only be referred to 

 that species, since I see no reason to expect it to prove to be a new 

 species. A slight modification in habit is observable, but this is 

 merely the state induced by the conditions under which the plant 

 was growing, viz., very thinly, in deep water. Since P. trichoides 

 was only seen in small quantity, it may be well to point out that 

 P. pusillus var. tenuissima does also occur in the same part of the 

 canal. This record does not apply to the Hants plant mentioned 

 (J. c. ) by Mr. Bennett ; of this I have no specimens.— W. H. Beeby. 



Carmarthenshire Plants. — During a recent stay of a few days 

 in the parish of Llanddarog, about six miles from Carmarthen, 



