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tract of land reclaimed from the sea, to examine the place for 
Juncus acutus and maritimus. In the course of our walk I called my 
companion’s attention to a Juncus that he was passing over, which 
was altogether different fr m any rush which I had before seen in a 
iving state. Subsequent "exhtoiintion on Mr. Williams’ part, Mr. 
J. E. Griffith ’s, and on my own, has shown that the plant is 
J. tenui e specimen which I cut agrees exactly with my 
continental specimens. This discovery led me to ask Mr. Williams 
to examine the Traeth for further tufts of this plant, and he has 
pe igsiae the discovery of three to me—all small ones. ary were 
it, and he has kindly placed cnet of them at my 
disposal for disteibution amongst the m ont of the Pxdhidand 
Club for the British Isles.—W. H. Pare 
Hreracium arGenteum Fr, 1x Mertonerassire.— This gg es 
grows on some rocks o Fie | Mectoncthakie: side of the Riv 
eae close to the railway from Port Madoc. It was pointed sat 
to me by illiams on July 5th, and was sent by ne to Mr. 
— »by whom it has been determine d.—W. H. Painter. 
aN Atrens iv America.—The interesting communication 
of Ms Dodane ai 76) prompts me to record a fact that was men- 
tioned to me durin Me short visit to Canada and the Northern 
ucant Pieicto major, Chenopodium album, and Polygonum 
aviculare ; Wraciis Carota, Achillea Millefolium, and Linaria 
Ww they may not have been introduced before co 
taken of such things he sward in front of the Catskill Hotel, at 
a a height of 3000 ft. among the Catskill ano a mig n 
e Canad dian Peni, as pa as it w. akan ete ra Fiddeda among 
the Rockies, it was very inter coe ti to note the gradual disappear- 
ance of European forms as you travelled further west. As far as 
my very cursory observation went, Linaria vulgaris was at that 
time the only British species to be seen west of Winnipeg, until 
you again came upon — forms in the alpine flora of the 
Rockies.—Aurrep W. Ben 
Poramogeton gavanicus.* — This plant as the difficult 
of want of authentic ae As long ago as 1856, Hasskarl, 
in Act, Soc. In.-Neer. vy. 1, pp. 26-27, described a Poiana under 
the name of P. javanicus from the island of Java. Two years after 
* * Potamogeton ‘agen’ Hasskarl, und dessen synonyme, von D. Hans 
Schinz. Basel, Geng. 1891.’ 
