Asplenium Trichomanes , L., var. anceps. Garden examples, the roots 
originally from South-West Surrey, in lanes about Churt and Bowler 
Green. This is scarcely other than an enlarged form of Trichomanes , 
although it seems inseparable from the Asplenium anceps of Madeira and 
other Atlantic islands. The great brittleness of the stipes prevented 
the attachment of the labels to the specimens.” — H. C. Watson. 
Chara alopecurioides, Del. “ This plant is not to be found in the 
‘ Saltpans,’ properly so called, at Newtown, Isle of Wight. It grows 
only in the large reservoir into which the sea flows, and from which 
the water is admitted or pumped into the ‘ pans.’ The ‘ pans ’ are 
completely dried up during the early spring and in the late autumn, 
and from their nature I do not think it possible that the Cliara could 
grow in them.” — Fred. Stratton. 
Anglica.’ The original description of A. setacea in the first edition was made 
from specimens of the grass since called A. uliginosa, collected at Stratton 
Heath, Norfolk, the only locality there given for the plant. In the second 
edition Hudson reduced his species to a variety of A. montana (now con- 
sidered a state of A. Jlexuosa), and the localities Yorkshire and Lancashire 
are probably intended to apply to the whole .species, as Hudson then under- 
stood it. The description appended, however, is a very good one of the plant 
under discussion, which indeed is likely enough to be found in both the counties 
given by Hudson. Hudson’s later views cannot affect the undoubted claim of 
the name A. setacea , Huds. ed. 1, to priority over A. uliginosa , Weihe. — H. 
Trimen. 
J. BOSWELL SYME. 
June 10 th, 1870. 
