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and obtusangula. It has nearly the fruit of the latter, with remarkably 
long persistent styles. But its upper leaves are nearly linear, and the 
general habit of the plant, except the topmost rosette, is nearer coarse 
hamulata. Dr. Boswell will remember I sent him portions of this 
specimen last year. This year in July (in company with Mr. Webb) 
I observed the same plant on the Lach Eye Meadows, near Chester. 
Should, therefore, Dr. B. think the plant worth a provisional name, I 
should propose Callitriche LachiiE — J. L. Warren. A very puzzling 
form, intermediate between C. obtusangula and C. stagnalis , having 
the lobes of the fruit rounded as in obtusangula and the styles long as 
in C. stagnalis. I can see no resemblance to C. hamulata , for the 
bracts are persistent and the fruit large and not broader than long. The 
lower leaves of C. obtusangula , growing in deep water, are often linear, 
notably so in specimens collected by Mr. Duthie near Deal. They 
are also linear in C. stagnalis when it grows in deep water. The 
latter plant commonly grows on mud, in which case the leaves are all 
spathulate or obovate, but the same plants, should the water rise and 
cover them to the depth of a foot or so, have the lower leaves linear. 
The converse of this takes place in C. hamulata , for when it grows on 
mud the leaves are all linear without a terminal rosette of obovate 
leaves. In this state the fruit is stalked, but when the water rises 
over it a terminal apical rosette of obovate leaves is developed, and 
only sessile or subsessile fruit is produced. — J. T. Boswell. 
Eryngium campestre, Linn. “ Sandhills near New Romney, Kent, 
August, 1875.” — F. J. Hanbury. From the station recorded by 
Mr. Hanbury, in Journ. Bot., vol. iii., n.s., p. 246-47. 
Caucalis daucoides, Linn. “ Cornfields at Binton, Warwickshire, 
June, 1875.” — H. Bromwich. 
Galium verum, Linn., b. ochroleucum. “Deal Sandhills, E. Kent, 
July, 1875.” — A. Bennett. “ Wembury and Revelstoke, S. Devon.” 
These specimens represent two or three forms of this intermediate 
Galium. One of the Wembury plants in its comparatively broaxi leaves 
and general appearance has considerably more of the look of Mollugo 
than has either of the others ; whilst a second from the same 
neighbourhood might in its dried state pass for G. verum , although it 
had when fresh the lighter flowers of ochroleucum. — T. R. A. B. 
Valerianella eriocarpa, Desv. “ Hedgebank by a cornfield, Rame, 
E. Cornwall, August, 1875.” Some dozens of specimens grew last 
summer on a dry hedgebank, or old wall of stones and earth, bounding 
a cornfield at Rame, very near the coast and fully exposed to the 
breezes from the Channel. The spot is about five miles from Plymouth, 
as the crow flies, in a south- westerdly direction. There were also a 
few examples in the field below, either among a crop of barley or 
