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Linaria purpurea. Mill. Naturalised in Churchyard and on 
old walls, Hythe, E. Kent, loth July 1906. — F. L. Foord-Kelcey. 
Ltmosella aquatica, L. Port Meadow, Oxford, Aug. 1906. 
Limosella was first found near Oxford by Sir Joseph Banks about 
1760, but Sibthorp records it in ‘ FI. Oxon.’ 1794 from Noke, and 
Binsey Common, the latter doubtless the locality where Banks found 
it. In 1820 Baxter found it on Port Meadow, and by the towing- 
path near Medley Lock, which is close to the Binsey locality, and 
also on Cowley Marsh on nth Sept, of that year. Since that time 
till 1905 we had no record of its being refound in any of these locali- 
ties. Year by year I have made search for it in vain, nor has any 
one of the numerous workers at our local flora been rewarded by 
finding it. In 1905 however, I discovered two or three plants on 
the S.E. of Binsey Common, growing on the muddy margin of 
a ditch. This year Mr. A. B. Jackson found it on the muddy bed 
of a dried up pond on Binsey Common in abundance, and I also 
found it near Upper VVolvercote on Port Meadow, and on the dried 
up site of a pond at Noke. The prolonged drought appeared to be 
favourable to its appearance, as it prevented the plant being over- 
shadowed by Lemna or Glyceria, etc. It is not a little singular that 
the plant should have for so long a period been able to exist without 
being noticed. I may say that although in August the plant almost 
made a carpet on the mud, seeding very copiously, by the middle of 
September there was hardly a vestige left, the plant having been 
scorched by the sun. Does it exist like Eleocharis acicularis is 
capable of doing for many years without flowering, and then when 
brought to the light and air, only produces its seeds ? — G. Claridge 
Druce. 
Euphrasia ? Chalky bank of the river Ken net, Newbury, 
Berks., August 1906. At the time of gathering I was rather puzzled 
over this eyebright ; but I now think it must go under E. nemorosa, 
H. Mart. — W. Bell. “ I also think this is a luxuriant E. nemorosa, 
H. Mart.” — E. S. Marshall. 
Euphrasia ? Roborough Downs, v.-c. 3, South Devon, 
September 1906. This plant was submitted to Rev. E. S. Marshall, 
who wrote that he was unable to name it, and that it was quite a new 
form to him. It has been sent to Prof. Dr. R. von Wettstein, who 
has not yet definitely named it, but suggests a form of E. Rost- 
hovia?ta. Mr. Davy and I thought it might be E. campestris. The 
same plant was found a week after I found it by Mr. W. Tressider 
of Goonhavern, West Cornwall, in his neighbourhood. — C. C. Vigurs. 
“The Roborough Common plant and another found at Porth Towan, 
Redruth, by Mr. F. H. Davy have been pronounced to be the same, 
and a naw species by Prof. Wettstein, who has requested Mr. Davy 
to publish it, which he will do in ‘ Journ. Bot.’ for 1907.” — C. C. V. 
