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THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Cambridgeshire specimens. The species is becoming very rare 
in the county, and it is probable that the spot where these were 
gathered is the only one at present existing. In the ‘Journal of 
Botany,’ 255-6, 1898, Mr. W. West, jun., remarks: “This is extinct 
in all the localities recorded in Dist. 4. Such marshy places as still 
remain by the Histon Road and near King’s Hedges are very limited 
in extent, and quite unproductive. In Dist. 6 I have looked for this 
at Mepal, and repeatedly at Roswell Pit.s, Ely,^ but always in vain. 
Mr. Bennett informed me that he had a specimen gathered some 
years ago by Mr. Fryer in the Chatteris district, but in what I (rightly) 
believed to be the spot there was no trace of the plant in 1895, and I 
find in Herb. Brit. Mus. a specimen labelled ‘ Pits by Vermuyden’s 
Drain at Horseway, now destroyed. Sept. 17, 1879, A. Fryer.’” In 
still another station known to Mr. Fryer we sought it in 1901 unsuc- 
cessfully, but in the station whence the present .specimens are sent 
hundreds might have been gathered without injuring the locality. 
For the present distribution of this decreasing species see a paper 
read before the Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Hist. Society in January 
1902. — Ar. Bennett. 
Plantago Coi'o?iopus, L., var. pygmcea, Lange. Whitchurch Heath, 
Salop, 23rd July 1900 and 20th August 1901. I have not seen a 
description nor specimens of Lange’s variety, but Mr. F. G. Baker, 
to whom I submitted my 1900 gathering, wrote: “Your Plantago 
is, I think, nearer to var. pygmcca than to any of the other named 
varieties of CoronopusP The flowers on the gathering of that year 
vary up to eight in a head in the largest specimens ; but by a more 
careful selection in 1901, none exceed five, and mostly they are two 
to three in a head. Plants were fairly plentifully mixed with those 
gathered, which had more numerous flowers, perhaps up to twelve or 
fifteen, but the leaf characters remained unaltered. — A. H. Wolley- 
Dod. “ Agrees fairly well with types I possess from Lange.” — 
Ar, Bennett. 
P. Corotiopus, var. Great Ornie’s Head, Carnarvon, 21st June 
1901. What is the name of this variety? Leaves thick, short, 
fleshy. — Augustin Ley. “Departs from the type in the direction of 
var. maritima^ Gren. and Godr., but is not that.” — Ar. Bennett. “ I 
gathered just the same form on low sandstone cliffs near Dunnet, 
Caithness, in 1 900, but could get no name for it.” — Fd. 
Chenopodium polyspermuin, L., var. cymosum, Moq. V.-c. 55, 
Leicester (town ; garden weed), August 1900. Rare in this county. 
'I'hree years ago I sent a few specimens from a large plant which 
appeared as a weed in my town garden at Crescent House. 'Pwo 
years afterwards, in 1900, a similar plant appeared in nearly the same 
spot, and I prepared these specimens for the Club ; but as I was 
removing to my present address they were overlooked. —F. '1'. Moit. 
“Rightly named.” — Fd. 
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