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The plant used to grow on Wandsworth Common, but I have not 
seen it there for the last twenty-five years. In the lately published 
Flora of the East Riding, p. 198, Mr. Robinson, the author, 
remarks: ‘‘ Seen frequently in the seventies by the late Mr. 
Peak and Mr. T, Dennis, near Stoneferry, Hull. Not seen of late 
in this oe but the pond and dike still exist, and probably also 
the plan I wrote to Mr. Robinson respecting this, and pointed 
out se ‘likely the habitat was; but in his reply he said the first- 
named gentleman had a good knowledge of British plants, and that 
a botanist from Scotland (a friend of his) had first found it. Mr. 
Robinson himself had not seen specimens. He adds that ‘it seems 
veer. aarp to have been introduced.’ Although many aquatic 
8 s are grown in ponds, &c., - have never seen this plant, but I 
am still sceptical as to its occurrence as native-—Arraur Bennett. 
t would seem that Danasonium must be reckoned among the 
plants of uncertain occurrence. I pointed oie (Journ. Bot. 1892, 
247) its remarkable stokes on Naphill Common, near 
Wycombe ; it continued to extend for some years following, but 
last year it had almost, if not entirely, disappeared: I pea this 
qualification because, although I did not see it, I did not make so 
thorough an investigation of the ponds as would justify me in 
saying the plant was altogether absent. As to its introduction, a 
reference to the note cited will show that in Epping poe it was 
Be nted by a epi: of the Toynbee Natural History Society, 
ose pernicious practice renders fot cone ee ae from that 
and other TsHiaen localities.—James Brr 
Evursrasia Scorica.—In this Journal be ne (p. 161) I agin 
and described, under the name F. paludosa, a new and very distin 
form of Euphrasia, which I pase growing abundantly in wet “ant 
ground in the neighbourhood of a I was not aware at that 
time that Robert Brown had given this name to an Australian 
species, and Prof. Wettstein, in oi monograph of the genus 
(p.- 170), has named my plant E. Scottica, more correctly spelt 
Scotica, under which name I have described it in my monograph of 
the — re published in this Jounal for 1897 (p. 425). 
The of this species has been greatly extended since my 
first nae It has been found in Deca and Yorkshire, in 
Flintshire, in Aberdeenshire, Argyleshire, Banffshire, Elgin, Inver- 
ness-shire, Orkney, Shetland, Perthshire, Ross- shire, "Faroe Islands, 
Sutherlandshire. In Ireland it has been found in Carlow, Kildare, 
Louth, Tipperary, Galway, Mayo, and Roscommon. Hybrids be- 
tween this and some glandular species have occurred in Nairn, 
Aberdeen, and Ross. _ In the latter case I believe the parents to be 
E. fede x Scotica. Thus the species is eed two counties 
in England, in one county in Wales, in ten counties in Scotland, 
and in seven in Ireland; and h bide i in three Scottish counties. 
Its habitat is in wet bogs, so that Scotland and Ireland present 
rm, i 
ainlands of Norway. and Sweden, &c. In its normal forn — 
aacipeste fe species, and could an be mistaken ; but there ‘are = 
