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no longer an article of commerce at Yarmouth, and its diggers are 
extinct; but I believe the roots are still used in a candied form in 
some parts.—Artuur BEnNert. 
GLYCERIA DISTANS var. oprusa.— This variety is not included in 
the last yeaa of the London Catalogue, nor is it mentioned in the 
Flora of Leicestershire, published in 1886, though several localities 
are given for the type. Until recently no specimen of Glyceria 
distans was to be found in the county herbarium deposited at the 
in Leicestershire by any living botanist. When examining the 
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this grass in this locality on June 28rd, 1887, and adds that he 
“ure it allied to G. og or perhaps only a variety of that 
plant. In evi st, 1901, in company with my friend Mr. T. E. 
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magnesian limestone between the rails of the lines used for con- 
veying stone from the quarries and on adjoining ground. Most of 
e@ specimens were quite past flowering, and dried up by the recent 
drought, but a few were found with meee in ntact. Parnell’s 
variety—I have not seen his original specimens—is said to differ 
m the type in having the ligule seihatensaly truncate instead of 
deltoid, and the lower pale trans sversely truncate, ae obliquely, I 
found, on comparing these Leicestershire specimens with examples 
of the type from maritime and inland localities, that there was no 
appreciable difference in the shape of the glumes, the other charac- 
ters given for the variety being also unstable. There is a slight 
difference i in habit, however, the Breedon plants being of slenderer 
build, and having the panicle more contracted. ese differences 
perhaps due to environment. Prof. Hackel, to whom I sent a 
specimen, says ‘‘it does not sensibly differ, whether in the form of 
the apex of the pales or in the shape of the ligule, from specimens 
from type localities.” He adds that it varies meri in 
consider it a variety worth naming. He points aut. ‘however, that 
our plant differs somewhat from maritime specimens. Syme, in 
English Botany, mentions Bideford, Devon; Beadley Bay, Glouces- 
ter, and Dublin and Breedon, as localities "for the variety. In the 
cae ae flora, Glyceria distans is recorded by the older bota- 
veral erg Dap Breedon, but the variety is 
side di cap aetee 
Senecio Crneranrs DC.—This plant, which is a common one in 
gardens at Torquay, is now datacaiisall on the cliffs some distance 
ond that town. ‘There has been # small clump ere ‘the same 
plant for several years past growing on a steep rocky bank by the 
—- road at ee near beers semen —-W. F, Mier. 
