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identification, please let them kindly note that the best time for gathering is 
middle of August to mid-September, when fruit is in good and characteristic 
condition. A specimen should always have several flowering shoots cut with 
the stem from which they spring. 
Mr. Bennett of Croydon has kindly looked through Callitriche, Potamogeton 
and Carex sheets. Callitriche obtusangula Le Gall, is in both East and West 
Gloucester ; so is C. hamulata Kuetz. But the great prize is the rare 
C. polymorpha Linnr., which I found in the neighbourhood of Mickleton in 
1909, and never seriously examined till a few weeks ago. My naming is accepted 
by Mr. Bennett. C. polymorpha is by some botanists supposed to be a hybrid 
between stagnalis and hamulata. Of Potamogetons I have P. Friesii Rupr. 
from Soudley, Eastington, Chalford and the canal frequently, the brick pits 
at Walham near Gloucester, and the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal near the 
Junction ; P. crispus L. f. planifolius Meyer from Walham ; probable hybrid 
P. Friesii x pusillus = P. pusilliformis Huys from the Stroudwater Canal 
(v.c. 34) ; P. flabellatus Bab., brick pits at Sandhurst, the River Leadon ; 
P. pectinatus L. Walham, Gloucester and Berkeley Canal near Gloucester, 
Tewkesbury, Gloucester timber pool, and Siddington ; P. polygonifolius Pourr., 
from Lower Lemington, v.c. 33. 
One or two important Carex records come next : C. Paircei F. Schultz — 
muricata L., withy beds above Gloucester v.c. 33 ; C. Leersii F. Schultz, 
Hayley Wood v.c. 33 and Nailsworth v.c. 34 ; C. gracilis Curt. var. personata 
Fr. and var. prolixa (Fr.), Maisemore Ham v.c. 33 ; C. flacca Schreb. var. 
aggregata Reich., Churchdown to Hucclecote v.c. 33 ; C. near binervis and 
distans, but neither of the two, Cirencester ; C.dista'ns L. about Cheltenham, 
canal at Framilode, and Lancaut ; C. binervis Sm. , Todenham and Cinderford ; 
C. lepidocarpa auct. angl. (? Tausch.), Naunton Seven Springs ; C.a cutiformis 
Ehrh., var. Kochiana (D.C.) Dymock ; and Scirpus pauciflorus Lightf., 
withy beds above Gloucester. 
Mr. Bennett, unfortunately, was not so complimentary' to the specimens 
as Col. Wolley-Dod was. It is worth while saying that Callitriche specimens 
are of practically no use unless they have fruit, and they should be nicely 
floated out on th£ sheet. But several of the Carex gracilis and other sheets 
were so interesting that Mr. Bennett would like a further supply, which I 
shall try to get for him. 
H. J. Riddelsdell. 
Bergholt, 
Painswick Road, 
Cheltenham, 
March, 1921. 
Dear Sir, — My attention has been called to a note in the 1919 Proceedings 
of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, p. 165, that the “ bird-name Kite 
in local names may be referred to the Common “ Buzzard.” There is no 
reason why this should be so, in fact the evidence points the other way. It 
is true that one occasionally sees a Common Buzzard passing over the Cotswolds 
