﻿Water Docke ... in ditches & watercourses very common throi 

 Englande."— Ger. 312. 



R. Acetosa L. Sp. PI. 337 (1753). 1538. " Lapathon . 

 acetosum .... quam vulgus appellat Sorell, aut Sourdoc' 

 Turn. Lib. 



R. Acetosella L. Sp. PI. 338 (1753). 1562. "We have i 

 kindes of wilde Dockes . . . and so many kindes have we also 

 Oxalis or Sorell."— Turn. ii. 121. «« Oxalis tenuifolia— Oseille 

 brebis . . . tanto luxu sabulosis . . . Anglite importuna." — L 

 Adv. 120 (1570). 



SHORT NOTES, 



SONCHUS ABVENSIS Var. ANGUSTIFOLIUS IN LANCASHIRE. — This 



graceful variety of Sonchm arvensis has, I believe, hitherto been 

 recorded, for British botany, only from Wells, on the coast of 

 Norfolk. Its discovery there by Dr. Long is noted in the Tntnu- 

 actiom of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society for 1886, 

 p. 255. In August last I collected it on the sand- banks which 

 form the coast just north of Blundellsands, be Ween Liverpool and 



flowering stage, but still bearing pappus abundantly. They have 

 been identified as var. angustifoUus Meyer by Mr. Arthur Bennett, 

 who also named the Norfolk plant. The variety is thus shown to 

 occur on the west as well as the east English coast. Mr. Bennett 

 has favoured me with the following further particulars of its 

 distribution, &c. : — 

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Hanoverana, p. 424 (1836). = S. arvensis L., var. arenarius Hallier, 

 (Helgoland) in Nordseestudien, p. 119 (1863). Near Friburg, Ottern- 

 dorf, Altenbruch, Spicha, in Hanover. In the Ostfriesland islands 

 of Borkum, Nordeney, Langeroog, Spikeroog. Leaves narrow, 

 smaller and more entire than in type, less deeply cut, and the 

 anthodes smaller. It also occurs on the coast of Holland, at 

 Scheveningen, on the sand-dunes ; Bosch, Prodromiis Flora Batava, 

 i. 135, 1850.— William Whitwell. 



Silene conica L. in Somerset. — Yesterday I received from Miss 

 Alice May, of Minehead, a fine plant of Silene conica, which she had 

 gathered on the Warren. She speaks of "a small patch," but it is 

 quite possible that the plant may be more widely spread, as the 

 Warren is of considerable extent. I am unable as yet to form any 

 definite opinion as to the claim of the plant to be considered native. 

 — R. P. Murray. 



Dr. Leonard Plukenet.— Since the publication of the article in 

 this Journal (1882, pp. 338-342), a few additional particulars have 

 come to my knowledge, which may be put on record. In that 

 account of his family I omitted to give his daughter Theodora, as 



