G. tricorne Stokes in With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, 153 (1787). 1663. In Cambs "Inter segetes passim "-R. C. C. App. iii. 6.

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Asperula odorata L. Sp. Pl. 103 (1753). 1568. • Wood rose or wood rowel. . . . A short herbe of a span long, four square and smal, about ye which growe certaine orders of leaves, certayne spaces goynge betwene, representing some kindes of rowelles of sporres, whereof it hath the name in English."-Turn. Herb. iii. 25. 1597. "Under hedges and in woods almost everywhere."-Ger. 966.

A. cynanchica L. Sp. Pl. 104 (1753). 1632. Johns. Kent, 38. Sherardia arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 102 (1753). 1548. "A rare herbe whiche I could never see but once in Englande and that was a litle from Syon" (Middx.).-Turn. Names, A vij, back (Alysson Plinii). "In Dorsetshire and.... about Welles in Summersetshyre."-Turn. i. 36 (1551).

"In moist

Valeriana dioica L. Sp. Pl. 31 (1753). 1597. places hard to river sides."-Ger. 918 (Fig. 917, 3). "In humidis pratis & sylvis."-Johns. Merc. Bot. 76 (1634).

V. officinalis L. Sp. Pl. 31 (1753). 1548. "About water sydes and in the moyst plasshes," &c.-Turn. Names, F iij.

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Valerianella olitoria Poll. Fl. Palat. i. 80 (1776). 1570. Sæpe nobis visa et enata in Anglia."-Lob. Adv. 319. 1597. "Wilde in the corne fieldes."-Ger. 243.

V. eriocarpa Desv. Journ. Bot. ii. 314 (1809). 1865. "Between Henley Castle and Barnard Green, Worcestershire, collected by Mr. E. Lees . . . . in 1845."-Syme, E. Bot. iv. 244. The plant from the Ormeshead, N. Wales (Hook. Fl. Brit. ed. 1, 16) was V. dentata. V. carinata Lois. Not. 149 (1810). 1835. Gathered by Mr. E. Forster at Ongar, in Essex."- Woods in Trans. Linn. Soc. 'xvii. 433.

V. rimosa Bast. ap. Desv. Journ. Bot. i. 20 (1814). V. Auricula DC (1815). 1724. "In the corn fields between Ore and the foot ferry to Shepey Isle in Kent. Also in the third or fourth field on the right hand of the Road going from London-Coney towards St. Albans in Hertfordshire; Mr. Dale."-Ray, Syn. iii. 201. "Landulph, Cornwall. Rev. R. T. Bree."-Hook. Fl. Br. ed. 3, 24 (1885).

V. dentata Poll. Fl. Palat. i. 30 (1776). 1804. ".Found in Cornwall by Mr. E. Forster, jun., in 1799.”—-Sm. Fl. Brit. iii. 1385.

Dipsacus sylvestris Huds. i. 49 (1762). 1538. "Dipsacos latine labru veneris aut lavacru veneris dicitur anglorum vulgus vocant a wylde tasyll."-Turn. Lib.

D. pilosus L. Sp. Pl. 97 (1753). 1570. "In Anglia Cantia secus vias et suburbia Rhiæ Sandvicium."-Lob. Adv. 374.

Scabiosa Succisa L. Sp. Pl. 98 (1753). 1568. "The devil's bite... Morsus diaboli... groweth abroade in untilled places as in meddowes and plaine feldes."-Turn. iii. 48.

S. Columbaria L. Sp. Pl. 99 (1753). 1629. "Scabiosa tenuifolia."-Johns. Kent, 3. But see fig. and desc., Ger. 582, 2

(1597).

S. arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 99 (1753). 1568. "Groweth amongest ye corne."-Turn. iii. 68.

Eupatorium cannabinum L. Sp. Pl. 888 (1758). 1548. "Groweth about watersydes and hath leaves lyke Hemp."-Turn. Names, H ij, back.

Solidago Virgaurea L. Sp. Pl. 880 (1753). 1570. "Angliæ Septentrionalibus: nemorosis et saltuosis opacis."-Lob. Adv. 125. "In Hampsteed wood," &c.-Ger. 349.

Bellis perennis L. Sp. Pl. 886 (1753). 1538. "Bellis .. est illa herba quam vocamus a Dasy."-Turn. Lib. "In Northumberlande men call thys herbe a banwurt."-Turn. i. 31 (1551).

Aster Tripolium L. Sp. Pl. 872 (1753). 1570. "Scatent hac Norbonica, et Anglica littora & fluminum crepidines."— Lob. Adv. 128. "By the fort against Gravesend" (Kent), &c.Ger. 333 (1597).

A. Linosyris Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erfurt. 151 (1800). 1813. "Discovered in September, 1812, by the Rev. Charles Holbech, of Farnborough, Warwickshire, . . . on the rocky cliff of Berryhead, Devon."-E. B. 2505.

Erigeron acre L. Sp. Pl. 863 (1753). 1632. Johnson, Kent,' p. 38 ("Conyza cœrulea acris "). "I first observed it . . . by Farmingham in Kent."-Johnson, Ger. em. 485.

E. alpinum L. Sp. Pl. 864 (1758). 1790. Found by James Dickson in 1789 on Ben Lawers.-Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. ii. 29; and Trans. Linn. ii. 288.

Filago germanica L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1811 (1762). 1562. "I have sene the herbe . . . in some places of Englande."-Turn. ii. 11, back (with a figure).

F. apiculata G. E. Sm. Phytol. ii. 575 (1846). 1846. Found by Rev. G. E. Smith "at Cantley, Rossington, &c., near Doncaster." -Phytol. I. c.

F. spathulata Presl, Del. Prag. 99 (1822). 1848. Found (1843-4) by Mr. G. S. Gibsou near Saffron Walden, Essex, and described (as F. Jussiei).-Phytol. iii. 216.

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F. minima Fr. Nov. ed. 1, 99 (1822). 1632. Johnson, Kent,' p. 31. "About Gamlingay" (Cambs).-R. C. C. 64 (1660). F. gallica L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2 1812 (1762). 1696. Among corn in sandy grounds about Castle-Heveningham, in Essex, plentifully. Mr. Dale."-Ray, Syn. ii. 85.

Antennaria dioica Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 410, t. 167 (1791). 1641. "Gnaphalium montanum album."-Jolins. Merc. Bot. pars alt. p. 22. "Neer Donkester. Mr. Stonehouse."-How, Phyt. 48 (1650). Gnaphalium uliginosum L. Sp. Pl. 856 (1753). Upon drie sandie banks."-Ger. 518.

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G. sylvaticum L. Sp. Pl. 856 (1758). 1548. "Centunculus Chafweede called in Yorkeshyre cudweede."-Turn. Names, Ci. Tertio a Londino miliari opacæ sylvæ clivus multam alit, cis Tamesim."-Lob. Adv. 202 (1570).

G. norvegicum Gunn. Fl. Norveg. (1772). 1777. As a variety of G. sylvaticum, occurring upon the highland mountains."-Lightf. Fl. Scot. 472. Sce Sin. Fl. Brit. ii. 870.

Fl. Scot. 471.

G. supinum L. Syst. ed. xii. 3, 234 (1768). 1777. "Upon the tops of the highland mountains . . . . Mr. Stuart."—Lightf. Inula Helenium L. Sp. Pl. 881 (1753). 1570. "In pratis villarum & prædiorum Angliæ."-Lob. Adv. 246. "In the fieldes as you go from Dunstable to Puddlehill," &c.-Ger. 649 (1597). I. Conyza DC. Prod. v. 464 (1836). 1597. "In divers places in the West parts of England."-Ger. 647. I. salicina L. Sp. Pl. 882 (1753). 1865. Found by Dr. D. Moore, in June, 1843, on the shore of Lough Derg, Co. Galway.Journ. Bot. 1865, 334.

I. crithmoides L. Sp. Pl. 883 (1753). 1597. "In the mirie Marsh in the yle of Shepey, as you go from the Kings ferrie to Sherland house."-Ger. 428.

Pulicaria dysenterica Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 461 (1791). 1597. "In everie waterie ditch."-Ger. 391. "In S. James his Parke,

Tuthill fields, &c."-Ger. em. 482 (1633).

P. vulgaris Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 461 (1791). 1570. "In Benard greyn ara et fossis, altero a Londino lapide."-Lob. Adv. 145. "At Islington by London."-Ger. 391.

Bidens cernua L. Sp. Pl. 832 (1753). 1570. "In Anglia ubique udorum, præsertim Londoni."-Lob. Adv. 227.

B. tripartita L. Sp. Pl. 888 (1753). 1629. Johnson, Kent,'

p. 8( Eupatoreum Cannabinum fœm.").

Achillea Millefolium L. Sp. Pl. 899 (1753). 1538. folium. . . ab anglis .. Yarow."-Turn. Libellus.

"Mille

A. Ptarmica L. Sp. Pl. 898 (1753). 1597. "In the three great fieldes next adjoining to a village neere London called Kentish towne," &c.-Ger. 484.

Diotis candidissima Desf. Fl. Atl. ii. 261 (1798). 1597. "At a place called Merezey, sixe miles from Colchester, neere unto the sea side."-Ger. 518.

Anthemis Cotula L. Sp. Pl. 894 (1753). 1597. "In Corne fields neere unto pathwaies."-Ger. 618. 1713. "White Ox eye.

A. arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 894 (1753).

-Lond. Peckham Fields."-Pet. Hb. Brit. xix. 8.

"Groweth on

A. nobilis L. Sp. Pl. 894 (1753). 1548. Rychmund grene and in Hundsley [Hounslow] heth in great plentie."-Turn. Names, B i.

(To be continued.)

SHORT NOTES.

LATHYRUS TUBEROSUS Linn.-On June 13th I found growing, near Chelvey, Somersetshire, a plant of Lathyrus tuberosus. I only noticed one plant, which attracted my attention by its bright carmine flowers. It was not near any dwelling-house or garden.— CECIL H. SP. PERCEVAL.

HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES IN SOMERSET.--This occurs in the churchyard on Stert Point, at the mouth of the Parret, below Bridgwater, Somerset, where it was introduced by the Rev. H. A. Daniel by seed from Ireland, some fifteen years ago, as a plant which would stand the extremely exposed situation. On the Point it has not spread beyond the churchyard, where the shrubs are far larger than the Lincolnshire specimens, but it has spread to Burnham Links, the sandhills forming which are immediately across the estuary, and with more than a mile of water between. I found it growing there in a few places, and evidently not long established, in September, 1892; but as it has been recognised by a member of the club who knows its habits on the Lincolnshire sandhills, it will probably be extirpated as most undesirable on the golf links. The seeds must have been carried by birds from the few shrubs at Stert, as there is no land communication for very many miles, and that only in one direction, through Bridgwater itself, and a long barren island in the estuary completely prevents any cross set of current directly from one shore to the other. Fieldfares and thrushes, which feed largely on the yellow berries in hard winters on the east coast, have been the most probable vehicle.-C. W. WHISTLER.

AZOLLA CAROLINIANA.-About a week ago I was fortunate enough to find Azolla caroliniana fruiting abundantly in the open air, in a friend's garden at Ashford, Co. Wicklow. The plants were received by my friend about two years ago from France, with Nymphæas and other aquatics, and were placed in a pond in the open. They multiplied with great rapidity, and had to be cleared. out almost in cartloads, having become a perfect nuisance. were recently placed in a shallow, peaty pool, which with the dry weather has been reduced to a few inches in depth of water. Here every well-developed individual is producing microsporangia in abundance; the macrosporangia I have not yet detected.-GREENWOOD PIM.

Some

MIDDLESEX PLANTS.-It may be worth noting that Sagittaria sagittafolia and Potamogeton pectinatus are both exceedingly abundant this year in the Regent's Canal, near Cumberland Basin, Regent's Park. The locality is not mentioned for either plant in Trimen and Dyer's Flora of Middlesex.-ALFRED W. BENNETT.

RUPPIA SPIRALIS IN W. KENT.-This species, not given for either division of the county in Topographical Botany, was found in ditches at Port Victoria, on June 28th, by Captain Wolley Dod and myself. -EDWARD S. MARSHALL.

ERIOPHORUM GRACILE IN DORSET.-During a recent walk from Corfe Castle to Studland, in company with the Rev. E. F. Linton, we came across Eriophorum gracile in some abundance. The first specimen, found by Mr. Linton, was growing, as usual, in about two feet of water; a little further along the road, however, I found the plant in considerable abundance in a spongy bog which is usually too soft to bear treading upon, but which during the recent dry season has become sufficiently firm to walk across. The plant

was easily recognisable at a distance by its tall, slender stems and smaller tufts of hairs, which seem regularly truncate at the larger end, like an artist's badger brush. This is, I believe, the first record of the occurrence of the plant in Dorsetshire. On the slope of the chalk down between Corfe Castle and Studland I found the rare moss Seligeria paucifolia sparingly on loose chalk stones. This plant has not, I believe, been before recorded for this county. -E. M. HOLMES.

SPIRANTHES ROMANZOffiana in Co. Londonderry.— On July 17th I was greatly interested by receiving for identification from my correspondent Mrs. Leebody, of Londonderry, a fresh specimen of Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, collected near Kilrea, Co. Derry. In response to a request for particulars respecting this important find, Mrs. Leebody writes:-"On July 15th, while collecting plants on the Derry bank of the river Bann, near Kilrea, I was struck with the appearance of a plant which seemed to be one of the Habenariæ. A second glance showed me, however, that it was something with which I was unfamiliar, and I gathered the specimens, of which I saw six in flower, but took only one root. The flowers were most fragrant. The land in the vicinity of the place where I found the plant consists of worn-out and long disused bog, as is proved by the portions of bog-oak projecting into the river. It apparently has been little cultivated, but kept for pasture or meadow." The specimen which Mrs. Leebody sends is a full-grown example, some eight inches in height, and is in every way identical with the plants I found in Co. Armagh last year, except in having a somewhat more lax spike, and leaves with less inrolled margins, both of which characters would be caused by its growing in a less exposed position. The situation in which the plant grows in Derry-old worn-out bog-is precisely similar to that which it affects in Co. Armagh. The new station lies about 48 miles north of the Armagh locality, and both are situated in the watershed of the Bann. The plant should certainly be looked for on the bogs of North Tyrone and West Antrim.--R. LLOYD PRAEGER.

JUNIPERUS INTERMEDIA Schur. IN SCOTLAND.-Last autumn Mr. Duncan sent me, from the Island of Scarp, O. Hebrides, five gatherings of specimens of Juniperus. At once I saw they included J. communis L. and J. nana Willd., and the others I suspected to be J. intermedia Schur. Lately I have compared these gatherings at Kew with the Austrian Tyrol and Transylvanian plant, and consider they represent the same form. Wettstein (Sitzb. Wien Akad. math. nat. xcvi. p. 838 (1887)) considers it to be communis × nana; this may be, but it fruits freely, and I should be more inclined to put it as a variety to communis, as Nyman does in his Conspectus Fl. Europ. p. 676 (1881).-ARTHUR BENNETT.

DUMONTIA FILIFORMIS VAR. (p. 167).-In Mr. Harvey Gibson's paper on New Zealand Algæ apropos of Dumontia filiformis (Lynb.) Grev. var.? the following sentence occurs :-" Prof. Schmitz, to whom I sent a specimen, gave it as his opinion that it was near Nemastoma." Mr. Gibson wishes us to state that he misunderstood