41 
July, 1874/ — William Fortescue. “In 1849 I gathered in Kerbister 
Loch a Zannichellia , which remained unexamined until I came to write 
the 9th vol. of ‘ Eng. Bot.,’ ed. iii., when I found that the style was 
much shorter than the ordinary forms of Zannichellia. What I could 
say of it then will be found in ‘ Eng. Bot.,’ vol. ix., p. 57. In this 
notice there is a misprint of Swanbister Loch, instead of Kerbister. 
After this paragraph was written, Mr. Baker showed me a specimen of 
the Orkney Zannichellia gathered by me, which in some indirect way 
had found its way into Mons. Gray’s herbarium. In this the name 
palustres was altered by Mons. Gray to polycarpa, Nolte. In 1873 I 
again visited Orkney, and determined to satisfy myself about the 
Zannichellia. Unfortunately, however, the season was a wet one, and 
I did not reach Orkney before August, by which time the loch had 
far surpassed its summer level, and no trace of the growing Zanni- 
chellia was to be seen. A few battered fragments I picked up on the 
shore, and a few fresh specimens were procured for me by my nephew, 
Mr. William Fortescue, by throwing in a small anchor with a line to 
the place where the Zannichellia ought to grow, and then dragging it 
to shore. The fruit was not quite ripe, and in this state was con- 
venient. The specimens quite agree with Scandinavian specimens of 
Z. polycarpa received from Dr. Alberg of Stockholm. In 1874 my 
nephew dried a large number of specimens, which have been sent out 
to the members of the Club. In some of these the nuts are immature, 
and the style appears longer than it does when the nut has attained 
its full size. In others the fruits, though mature, have become 
divaricate, but I am not sure whether this has not been produced in 
the process of drying. I see that Koch in his ‘ Synopsis FI. Germ, 
et Helv.’ makes no mention of the carpels being convenient ; so possi- 
bly this character is not consistent. Z. polycarpa can at the best be 
considered but a subspecies, and, indeed, presents no more claim to dis- 
tinction than Z. pedicellata , Fries.” 
Alisma natans. “ Canal between Nottingham and Charlton Bridge, 
north of Charlton, Cheshire.” — F. M. Webb and J. L. Warren. 
Orchis laxiflora. “ On ballast at Hartlepool, several plants occur- 
ring along with Cynosurus echinatus , Bromus maximus, and other 
Sarnian species : near it one fine plant of Scolymus hispanicus—o, 
strange species to be found in such a spot, but on the other parts of 
the hills Orchis pyramidalis is quite at home, occurring every year.” — 
F. Arnold Lees, 1873. “ The specimen sent to me by Dr. Lees is 0. 
palustris, Jacq. Of course such a casual as that would not need men- 
tion, were it not that a similar plant is said to have been found in 
Guernsey in 1872, by Dr. F. Arnold Lees. See ‘ Journ. Bot.,’ 1873, 
p. 209. The editor of the ‘ Journal of Botany ’ says that ‘ they are 
