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Bay. Mr. G. Dowker has also sent me Carex chnjsites Liuk.
(C. CEderi auct. plur.), from near Sandwich. W. Kent (v. c. 16) :
Viola permixta. Woodson Morant's Court Hill.— V. Rcichcnhachiana.
Woods near Shoreham, and near Chislehurst. Rubiis rusticamis.
Dmiton Green, Chislehurst, Cranbrook, &c. Epilohium obscarwn.
About Cranbrook and Hawkhurst. Epipactis latij'olia. Woods near
Shoreham. Edward S. Mabsiiall.
ScAPANiA PLANiFOLiA Hook.—Good specimeus of this rare and
fine species were collected last April in the neighbourhood of
Borrowdalc, Cumberland, by Dr. Carrington and myself. This is
the first record for England. It was originally published by
Dillenius, who received it from Snowdon (Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 493,
n. 21, 1741), " Lichenastrum auriculatum Ornithopodii minoris
pinnatis cihatis." The late Prof. Lindberg, who had the opportunity
of examining the Dilleuian Herbarium, confirms the opniiou
that fig. 71, t. 21, represents Scapania planifolia (Lindb. Hep.
Utvec. p. 34, 1877). Withering, in his ' Botanical Arrangement of
all Vegetables growing in Great Britain,' vol. ii. p. C9o, 1776,
names it Jumjermannia ornithopodoides, and Dr. Carrington says :—
" If it were not that one held to the opinion that it is unwise to
disturb a well-established name, one would not hesitate to reinstate
Withering's specific name." Its distribution is somewhat singular;
it is found on mountains in the South of Ireland and Scotland ; no
other station has been verified for it in Europe. The Scapania
pinnifulia Hook, of Hiiben. Hep. Germ. p. 228, described as being
found in different parts of Germany, belongs to a form of Scapania
iindulata speciosa Nees (Syn. Hep. p. (i6), or partly to Scapania
nemorosa (Nees, Eur. Leb. 11, p. 434). Fine specimens of this
species have been coUected in the Sandwich Islands—Maui—open
swampy ground, 6000 ft., D. D. Baldwin, 1875 ('Planta3 Hawaiienses,'
n. 83), and Mr. Mitten records it from the East Indies
(Proc. Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. v. 1861). These English specimens
will be distributed in the forthcoming Fasciculus of ' Hepatica3
Britannicae Exsiccatte.'—W. H. Pearson.
PoTAMOGETON FALCATus. — This spcciGS has grown during the
present year under unusually favourable conditions, in water of
suflicient and fairly uniform depth. Consequently I find a remarkable
return of apparent varieties to the origmal typical form, which
was first found growing in a deeper part of the ditch than the
doubtful states of the species inhabited. Some of these states,
only first noticed last autumn, I had felt inclined to refer to
P. heteroplniUns, and one or two seemed to approach P. varians very
closely. But early in the present month I found all these forms,
by growing in deeper water, had reverted to true P. falcatus. Many
of the plants were just throwing up their flower-spikes, and I was
more than ever struck with tlie resemldance this immature state
of the species bore to plants of P. nitnis then under cultivation
in my garden. Anxious to obtain a furtlier opinion on the specific
value of my proposed segregate, I submitted living specimens to
Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kcw, who has most kindly sent me tho