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good many years ago, I found it was known as A. Breytiii at the 
beginning of this century. — T. Butler. Just half-way between type 
germanicuvi and type Ruta-muraria. — J. G. Baker. A. Ruta-muraria , 
var. pseudo-germanicum , Milde ! — J. T. Boswell. 
Athyrium incisum , Roth? The specimens sent seem to agree 
very well with some received under this name from Mr. Watson, 
through the Exchange Club, and have the character mentioned by 
him in Topographical Botany, part ii., p. 496, well marked. The 
wood in which they grew was fairly open and free from undergrowth, 
which would force the plant up ; but I am bound to say that on 
revisiting the spot in September, for the sake of obtaining mature 
specimens, I could not find plants so characteristic as those sent, 
while intermediates, with the lower pinnae more or less running down 
into smaller ones at the bottom of the stipe, were common : the 
wood at that time was much filled with a tall growth of bracken. — 
Augustin Ley. A. filixfcemina, not incisum. — J. G. Baker. 
Aspidium aculeatum , Sm., var. lobatum. Hedge bank, Trever- 
annen, St. Weonards, Herefordshire, 31st July, 1880 . — Augustin 
Ley. Mr. Baker considers the pinnules too much cut and the plant 
not sufficiently rigid for lobatum. — J. G. 
Ophioglossum vulgatum , L., b. ambiguum , C. and G. Pasture at 
the top of crags at the sea-shore, Fara, Orkney, 20th August, 1880. 
A new Orkney station, discovered by Mr. James Johnston, jun., and 
myself. In 1880 Miss I. B. Irvine Fortescue found three new 
stations in Orkney, viz., Hunda, Ryosa Little, and the south-east end 
of Cava. Mr. William Evans found it at Zinksness, Hoy, in July, 
1880. There are now ten known stations in Orkney, and all of 
them are at the sea-shore. — H. Halcro Johnston. 
Isoetes Morei , D. Moore. Lough Bray, Co. Wicklow, October, 
1880 . — Fred. Moore. Sent by Mr. Nicholson. Ought never to 
have been named as a species; it is only an interesting form of 
I. lacustris. — C. C. Babington. 
Chara vulgaris , L., var. papillata. I send two forms of this 
variety from West Sussex. On the one from Joulsfield Common, 
Professor Nordstedt remarks : “ Chara fatida , subhispida , macrop- 
tila et macroteles , superne ad brachyphylla .” On the other form, from 
near Bramber, he remarks : Chara foetida , subhispida , macroptila et 
macroteles , silperne ad longi folia” It will, of course, be understood 
that Professor Nordstedt is not responsible for the naming of the 
actual plants now sent, but they are from the same gatherings as, 
and to the best of my belief identical with, those which he has 
examined. — W. H. Beeby. I should label the Bramber plant var. 
longibracteata , and that from Joulsfield ordinary vulgaris. — J. G. 
Chara vulgaris , L. , var. longibracteata. Small pond near Shalfleet, 
Isle of Wight, October, 1880 . — George Nicholson. 
Chara fragilis , Desv., var. Hedwigii. Kingston, Surrey, October, 
1880 . — George Nicholson. 
Nitella gracilis , Ag. Mr. Nicholson has collected a small 
piece of a plant, which is apparently a large form of this species, 
among C. fragilis , Hedwigii, at Kingston. This is a very interesting 
discovery, as the plant has not been found in England for many 
years, and is probably extinct in Borrer’s Sussex locality. — J. G. 
