198 Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill on 



N.W. of Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.A., when I had 

 the satisfaction at the same time of gathering the far more 

 extraordinary member of the same order, the Venus' Fly 

 Trap, DioncBa muscipula^ (Ell-)> ^or which Wilmington and 

 the neighbourhood of the Santee River in the neighbouring 

 state of South Carolina are the only two known localities. 



The Rev. Edward F. Linton has forwarded me this summer 

 specimens from the New Forest ; Mr. F. J. Hanbury informs 

 me he has gathered it at Thursley Common, Surrey, June 

 28th, 1890, and possesses it m the Boswell (Syme) British 

 Herbarium from Woking Common, Surrey, and Tolchmoor 

 Common, Devon, 1850, the latter being very fine specimens. 

 Some of these may more approach the less developed form 

 characterised by F. Schultz as f. ramosa^ of which I have 

 specimens collected near Berlin, where the stem is simply 

 prolongated, without any cauline leaves. 



I am much indebted to Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., for a 

 long list of the British and European Droserce contained in 

 his extensive Herbarium : my own collection also possesses 

 many specimens from widely distant localities. Of our three 

 British (and European) species D. intermedia (Hayne) has 

 the widest distribution, extending from Arctic Europe to 

 Western Asia, also from Canada and North America to 

 Brazil ; absent, however, according to Nyman, in Lapland 

 and Finland. D. anglica (Huds.) is more restricted, being 

 very rare in the south of England, absent from Portugal,, 

 probably also not occurring in Spain, Greece, Turkey, etc., 

 and only found, so far as the New World is concerned, in 

 Arctic America. 



D. rotiindifolia (L.), the most generally diffused species 

 in this country, is found throughout the whole length and 

 breadth of Europe, with the exception of S. Spain, S. Italy,. 

 Sicily, Sardinia, Greece, and Turkey ; also is abundant in 

 many parts of the Northern United States ; in Georgia and 

 Florida, however, D. capillar is (Poir.) and D. brevifolia 



