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SHORT NOTES. 
VERONICA TRIPHYLLOS IN Surrey.—This plant was found on May 
other plants in the field are Lamium amplewxicaule, L. purpureum, 
and other very common weeds.— . Marinprn. 
Through the kindness of Mrs. Mari ned I was able to see 
Veronica triph yllos growing in some abundance near Frensham, as 
described above. It is SS pation native in the counties of Suffolk, 
EK. & W.; Norfolk, E. & W.; York, S.W. & mid. W. Mr. Bennett 
informs me that in cen counties it por in -Rameryan fields, as 
well p 
nd a careful search should be made in that neighbourhood 
ascertain if V. triphyllos can be discovered under less nada 
circumstances ; if the plant does not oo out, but can battle with 
Mrs. Trypauu — the pees of Anthoceros dichotomus 
Raddi in sire Devo new record for the British Isles. The 
Specimens were parma by Stephani. Mr. Macvicar had found 
among Croall’s amu n Anthocerus, ninvesipniiiable in the dried 
state. Fresh specimens were sought for, at his request, and found 
in the fertile state ie Mr. Cuthbert Blakiston. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éde. 
Art the meeting of the Linnean Society on April coc bare mie 
paper was by Dr. H. | rosea Bastian, entitled ‘* On so e poin 
in i i 
the spore of scene na Dr. Bastian narrated that in 1891 he had 
some of them under observation in a bottle loosely covered with a 
screw-cap, and after a few weeks the 2 ‘ i } 
minating and emitting filaments. Repeating his experiments in 
902 on —_——> racemess, some ma 
dnsinds dust. Within seven weeks the bott tled specimens were 
noticed to be germinating, a process which did not take place in 
