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iriviale ought to be looked for along the course of tidal rivers, now 
that its situation is known. I do not know in what sort of place it 
grows near the Tyne above Redheugh, above Langdon Dale in 
Northumberland, the only British county besides Perth for which it 
has been recorded. I am not aware that the very marked difference 
in the size of the early flowers has been remarked in its other stations. 
Fries, in ‘Sum. Yeg. Scand.,’ gives a var. subacaule as ‘ glabrius 
grandiflor.’ Can this be the early state of hofo^teoides ? Dr. Buchanan 
White says that the early state bears much resemblance to the alpine 
variety of triviale, which occurs on Little Kilrannock Clova, Lochnagar, 
&c. This alpine variety is termed in the London Catalogue alpestre , 
Lindbl. ; the name alpinum, Koch., being inconvenient on account of 
these being a species alpinum in the genus.” — John T. Bosavell, 
1875. 
Spergularia rubra, Fenzl. “ Glandular-hairy form of rubra , or 
something between that species and S. rupestris, Lebel ? Two speci- 
mens of a curious Spergularia, in some respects intermediate between 
S. rubra and S. rupestris, from a waste spot by a roadside at St. 
German's Beacon, E. Cornwall, very near the coast. More specimens 
of it grew there. One of S. rubra sent from the same spot for com- 
parison.” — T. R. Archer Briggs. “ A form of rubra, _ not rupestris .” 
— John T. Bosavell. 
Claytonia alsinoides, Sims. “ Plentiful in a fir-wood about a mile 
above the Clock Lighthouse, Renfrewshire, June, 1872.” — Richard 
McKay. 
Claytonia perfoliata , Don. “ Three well-established clumps 
growing along with CaJcile maritima at the foot of a sandhill facing - 
the sea, Leasome, Cheshire, possibly an escape from the gardens of 
Leasome Castle. This is about as unlikely a station as can well be 
imagined for a species described as growing ‘ in umbrosis,’ but the 
plants were vigorous and seeding copiously. In two respects they 
differed from the description in ‘ English Botany.’ There were no 
radical leaves, and the capsules each contained generally three, 
sometimes two, rarely one or four seeds.” — T. Comber, 1872. 
Elatine hexandra, DC., var. “ Cut Mill Ponds, Sept., 1872. This 
is a rather remarkable variety, growing completely submerged on 
rank deep mud. I fancy it would get a separate name on the 
Continent. I dissected the fruit with Dr. Trimen, and we found 
it to fall under E. hexandra, and distinctly not under E. Hydropiper , 
though the fruit is rather more curved than in the typical E. hexandra. 
(It is not, therefore, the E. majuscula of the Belgian Bulletin.)” — 
J. L Warren. 
