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Two New Beitish Hepatic^. — Lophozia confer tifolia 

 Schiffner. Near summit of Errigal, Co. Donegal, 2400 ft., /. 

 Himter, October, 1911. L. longiflora (Nees) SchiffDer. Among 

 Sphagnum, in a wood near Killin, Perthshire, J. Hunter, April, 

 1911. It is somewhat remarkable that both these species should 

 be mentioned by Mr. Macvicar in his admirable Student's Hand- 

 hook of British Hematics as being likely to be found with us. 

 Both species have been confirmed by Prof. Schiffner. — W. H. 

 Pearson. 



CocHLEARiA ANGLicA L. — In his review of Mr. White's Flora 

 of Bristol, Mr. Marshall (p. 231) mentions the above species, and 

 remarks : " From the description the Bristol form must be the 

 Linnean type, Hort's var. didyma." Is this a misprint for 

 ''P gemina (Hort MS.) " in Babington's Manual, ed. 3 (1851) p. 27? 

 [Yes, E. S. M.] With regard to the name, var. Hortii Syme, I 

 think this is preoccupied by var. stenocarpa (" Die Spielart hat 

 um die Half te schmalere Frlichte ") of Meyer, Chi. Hannoverana, 

 p. 136 (1836). Meyer and Nolte (Nov. Fl. Holsaticge, p. 57 (1828)) 

 before him both quote for C. anglica L. " Eng. Bot. t. 552," but 

 the plate in the 3rd ed., t. 133, is a new one, the old one not being 

 quoted, and no reason given. I notice that in the Cairngorm Club 

 Journal (1895), p. 200, Dr. Trail has " Cochlearia officinalis L. 

 alpina Grufb." Is there any authority for this ? It is not in the 

 Flora Anglica (1754), nor in the reprint in the Amcenitates Acade- 

 miccB (1759). If regarded as a variety, it seems (so far as British 

 Floras are concerned) that Babington (Man. Brit. Bot. ed. i. p. 27 

 (1843) was the first to so name it. — Arthur Bennett. 



Utricularia ochroleuca and U. intermedia. — Of the former, 

 which is recorded by Mr. Marshall for Dorset on p. 132, I possess 

 specimens from Westmorland — "Pool on the watershed between 

 Easedale and Langdale, August, 1890 : H. E. Fox." I have Irish 

 specimens from " Margin of lake, Ballynahinch, Co. Galway, 

 Aug. 18, 1877: S. A. Stewart"; and " Dochary Bridge, West 

 Donegal, July, 1890: H. N. Dixon." I have U. intermedia from 

 the Galway locality given above, where it grows mixed with 

 U. ochroleuca ; I have no Scottish examples and only one English 

 one collected in E. Norfolk by the Messrs. Groves. Dr. Gliick 

 has seen all the specimens mentioned. — Arthur Bennett. 



Prunella laciniata L., etc., in Surrey. — Lady Davy has 

 recently shown me the above plant, which she detected in early 

 July growing on the golf-links near Pyrford. There were five or six 

 distinct and rather widely separated patches of the plant, which 

 afforded a beautiful sight from its large, conspicuous, cream- 

 coloured flowers. Although part of the links have once been 

 under agrestal cultivation there are portions of original turf, and 

 the Prunella grew with indigenous species ; the probability is, I 

 think, in favour of its being native. Lady Davy has also shown 

 me Dianthus deltoides and Centaurea Jacea on the same area. A 



