56 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
. P. Murray (Fl. Somerset, p. 259) U. vulgaris is ‘* frequent on 
the peat-moor from Burtle to Glastonbury,” but it was . ide 
by us in aegeasig n with U. neglecta ; me the Rev. E. 
in his paper Fr Divieuben ia (Proc. Doleet Field Club igod) me 
that set two species seldom ee hes 
Polygonum minus Huds. w fine plants in one spot o 
Edington Moor, 8. Recorded by ‘Sole i in 1782 as abundant on the 
peat-moor (Fl. Som. p. 286), but not seen there by any botanist 
since that date until ve » found it at the above locality : in September 
last. Only known at one other station in Somerset. 
Potamogeton heterophylius Schreb. This had been recorded for 
North Somerset by three botanists of the last generation, viz., 
Flower, St. Brody, and Swete; but in default of recent confirma- 
tion the plant was gee from the Fl. Somerset and from that of 
the Bristol Coalfield. We have this autumn gathered specimens on: 
Clapton Moor, and ne seen others from the old coal canal near 
Paulton, and from Portishead Marshes 
Equisetum hyemale L. and EF. variegatum Schleich. These grow 
together in a rough sandy field at Weston-super-Mare, S., and for 
information respecting them we are indebted to Mr. H. Gorde®, of 
Bridgwater. othing was previously known of these plants in 
Somerset, excepting that in Babington’s Flora Bathoniensis there 
is a record—never confirmed—of EF. hyemale as having been found 
“on the canal bank” by Dr. Davis, and that in Topographical 
Botany E, variegatum is doubtfully cited for Somerset 
Chara fragilis Desv. Turf pits near Ashcot railway ation, and 
in ditches on Clapton Moor, S. 
Coarrrent 
_ record of Utricularia intermedia Hayne for 
Weston-in-Gordano, N. Somerset, published in the Journal for 
1901 (p. 92), is ay error. A further anu of the plant in 
question has convinced the Rey. EK. F. Linton that it is certainly 
not intermedia, but he cannot at present give it a name. 
inability to ties flowering stems has materially increased the 
difficulty of determination. 
SHORT NOTES. 
sontum Aursma Mill. Dict. ed. 8 (1768) (D. stellatum Thuill. 
Fl. Dass ed. 2, 186 (1799) ).—This species, decreasing in E d 
d to grow in several places on Mitcham Common, Surrey, In 
the year 1881, in May, it occurred-in a rather deep pool about the 
middle of the a but i in a form that I ape find m ention ied 
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pétiolées, un peu | savaek oa chon vi a la base, ralcuitola linéaires 
par l’avortement du limbe lorsqu’elles se déy shapeuk sous l’eau.” 
