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frequent there, have been mistaken for it. The seeds of 
P. minus, which are shining black, and only half the size of 
those of mite, afford the only safe distinction. 
Accompanying are specimens of the rarer mosses, from 
which it will be seen how minute they are, and how easily 
they may be overlooked without most careful search. The 
specimens sent were collected on Saturday, 5th November. 
Mx\ Hardy remarked that he had no claim whatever to 
be considered as the original discoverer of Polygonum mite 
in the Manchester district; for so long ago as 1828, Mr. 
William Wilson, of Warrington, sent the plant from a 
Cheshire locality, under the erroneous name of minus, to 
the late Sir William Jackson Hooker, in whose herbarium 
at Kew the specimens still are. Mr. Hewett C. Watson, the 
author of the “Cybele Britannica,” mentions these specimens, 
and does not express any doubt of their being the P. mite 
of Schrank. Mr. Hardy found the plant at Mere in 1860, 
and sent specimens to the Botanical Exchange Club, then 
located at Thirslc : and Mr. J. G. Baker, the Curator, in his 
report for the next yeai', mentions these specimens as new 
to the Mersey Province. Mi*. Hardy stated his belief in 
Mr. Watson’s idea, that P. mite was much more difficult to 
distinguish from P. Persicaria than from P. minus ; and 
he had not the least doubt, notwithstanding Mr. Hunt’s 
objection, that, now special attention having been called to 
the species in question, it would be proved, in the course of 
another season, to be an inhabitant not only of the Mere 
district, but common in other stations included in the 
* Manchester Flora. 
Correction in paper on “ The Hawthorns of the Manchester 
Flora,” Proceedings, p. 37. 
The locality for Cratcegus oxyacanthoicles, Thuill., lies 
