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algae,  and  the  meadows  covered  with  Salicornia.  For 
S.  Townsendi  Pagham  Harbour  affords  particularly 
favourable  ground ;  and  its  first  appearance,  which 
probably  does  not  date  more  than  two  years  back,  is 
worth  recording.  It  is  an  eastward  extension  of  the 
areas  marked  in  Dr.  Stapf’s  map,  and  one  may  anticipate 
that,  if  the  same  conditions  continue,  in  10  years’  time 
Pagham  will  become  like  Poole  Harbour  on  the  western 
limit.  Mr.  H.  S.  Thompson  (in  lit .  15  Nov.,  1914)  writes, 
“  I  was  much  interested  in  hearing  from  the  Rev.  E. 
Ellman  that  S.  Townsendi  has  been  recently  planted  on 
the  mud  of  the  Bristol  Channel,  between  Clevedon  and 
Weston-super-Mare,  to  bind  the  mud  and  prevent  it  from 
being  washed  away.  Some  of  the  grass  he  saw  actually 
being  planted  in  rows  a  few  weeks  ago.  Some  had  got 
more  or  less  established,  though  planted  only  this  year, 
I  believe.” 
If  it  be  not  unnecessary  pedantry,  may  I  say  that 
although  Hooker  gives  the  tonic  accent  as  Sparti'na,  yet 
in  (nrapTLvos,  the  adjective,  the  i  is  short,  as  it  is 
presumably  in  cnraprlvT] ,  and  the  word  according  to  Latin 
accentuation  will  be  Spar'tina ? — J.  E.  Little. 
u  ^irapTrjv  Aeyo>  tyjv  H7ra.pT  Lai? ,  ov  rrj v  cnrapTLvr^v." 
Cratinus,  Nemesis  (Mein.  p.  25). 
This  shows  that  the  i  in  -ivrj  is  short,  as  a  scazon 
verse  would  not  be  likely  to  occur  in  a  comedy.  The 
word  apparently  is  not  in  Latin,  and  Hooker’s  scansion 
is  a  mistake. — E.J.T. 
Thalictrum  minus  L .,  var.  collinum  (Wallr.).  Cheddar 
Rocks,  N.  Somerset,  v.c.  6,  June  18,  and  July  1,  1913. — 
Ida  M.  Roper.  Rightly  named. — E.F.L.  Good  flowering 
and  fruiting  material  of  T.  minus ,  var.  collinum. — E.S.M. 
T.  majus  Crantz ?  (Ref.  No.  8774).  Stony  shore  of 
Loch  Tay,  west  of  Fearnan,  Mid  Perthsh.,  v.c.  88,  July 
28,  1918.  A  tall  plant  with  large  leaflets,  bright  green 
above.  Mr.  Arthur  Bennett  inclined  to  name  this 
T.  majus ,  var.  capillare  N.  E.  Brown  in  “  Engl.  Bot. 
Suppl.”  p.  4  (1892)  ==  T.  capillare  Reichb.  Dr.  C.  E.  Moss, 
who  had  at  first  assented  to  its  being  T .  majus,  wrote 
