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pastures, I took the trouble to dig up a number and examine the 
roots. The latter were generally considerably branched, ultimately 
ending in slender fibres, which were more or less abundantly 
furnished with disk-like haustoria, flattened on the lower caput 
that is towards the host-plant. The thicker branches of the 
were occasionally furnished with haustoria, possibly on co wae 
contact with a suitable host. The plant is mm no means a 
most thi 
ural orders. The ing 3 is a list of those eae haustoria 
attached to their roots :—Lo ee Anthyllis Vulneraria, 
Medicago lupulina, Ononis arvensis, Hieracium Pilosella, Ranunculus 
lbosus, Plantago lanceolata, Viola hi Ae "Thi ymus Serpyllum var. 
Chameadrys, Asperula cynanchica, Galiwn verum, Dactylis glomerata, 
estuca ovina var.— ASER. 
Hampsuire Puants. — On sit of the members of the West 
Sussex Natural flistary Society Ni Higling Island at the beginning 
of September last, Gnaphalium luteo-album was met with not far 
"4 a oe _ of the island, whence he has kindly sent me 
he occurrence of this species in Hants has been 
Bihiarto biel F. H. Arnoxp. 
Epmosrom ancustirotium L. m Campriezsure. — This plant 
grows by a fo roadway in the parish of Chatteris, but, as it is 
“a “2 gee along ditch-sides and similar wild places, it must be 
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- cultivation’? much more firmly than its congener, P. Fagopyrum, 
ge oe Roe grown as a Crop, oe = 
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succumb to some usualy severe winters, it is sure tos ring up 
