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 2-i4 SHOUT NOTES AND QUERIES.

SUBULARIA AQUATICA, L., IN MERIONETHSHIRE. — It is stated in

Syme's ' Eug-lisli Botany,' vol. i. p. 201, that " Caniarvonshire and An- glesea seem to be the only English localities " for this plant. It may, therefore, be interesting- to record its existence in the county of Merioneth. I gathered it on July lOlh, at Cwm Bychan, in the mountain range noi'th- east of Barmouth, where it grows at the lower end of the lake, in com- pany with Lobelia Dorti)ianna. There can be no reason why it should not be found in other of the numerous lakes which stud the county of Merioneth. — Wm. Mathews.

��Monstrosity of Viola sylvatica. — The Rev. H. N. EUacombe, rector of Bitton, near Bristol, one of our most successful and experienced cultivators of hardy flowering plants, has just shown me a monstrosity of the common Dog-violet, produced in his garden under singular circum- stances. The plant of the Violet came up accidentally amongst specimens of the cristate form of Lastrea Filix-mas, and many of its leaves had be- come abnormally dilated, and at the same time plaited and crisped, after tlie fashion of the pinnaj of the Fern. It produced flowers and fruit, and has been reproduced from seed. Is it possible that the peculiarity has been conveyed from the Eern to the Violet ? The two grew in close contact. A specimen of the Violet has been dried for the Kew herbarium. — J. G. Baker.

��Cybele {vide p. 78). — With regard to the penultimate syllable of the word Cybele, it may be remarked that its f[uantity as a Greek word is indisputably short. The Virgilian dilliculty may be got over by reading the form used occasionally by Herodotus — Cybebe ; or as is quite allow- able in poetry (witness the constant practice of Homer), doubling the I — Cvbelle. — W. Thiselton Dyer.

��Eanunculus Lenormandi, ScJihUs, in Worcestershire. — On the 5th of April last a botanical party, consisting of Mr. Edwin Lees, the Rev. J. H. Thompson, Dr. Eraser and myself, observed this plant in two localities in tiu; neighbourhood of Stourbridge, viz. at Pedmore Common, in the parish of Pedmore, and near the Birches, in the parish of Hagle}^ T have since gathered it in fine fruit at the latter place. It has not, so far as I am aware, been previously detected in the county of Worcester. — W. Mathews.

��New British iEciDiUM. — At the last monthly meeting of the AVinchester and Hampshire Scientific and Literary Society, June 12lh, Mr. R. S. Hill, of Basingstoke, exhibited numerous specimens oi JEcidlnm Statices, Desm., found by him on leaves of Statice Li.DioHinm between Hythe and Calshot, near Southampton. This species of Cluster-cup is new to Britain, and is stated to be uncommon on the Continent. — F. J. Warner.

��Monstrous State of Cardamine amara. — Early in June this year Mr. James Britten and I found in a wood at Morley, Cheshire, a great number of very remarkable flowers of Cardamine amara, in which the petals were persistent, and were of a rich purple colour. These flowers

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