24 R. A. PETOE — NOTES ON A PEOPOSED 



Erodium cicutarium. — Near Sherard's Wood, Watford Heath. 

 This seems to be scarce in the district, as it is also in Middlesex. 



Ulex ?iamis. — Bacher Heath ; Abbot's Langley ; Chorley Wood 

 Common ; Watford Eoad, St. Albans. There seems to be some 

 doubt about the Chorley Wood plant, and I fear that a weak form 

 of Europceus was mistaken for this near St. Albans. Professor 

 Babington appeared to consider that our plant was U. Gallii, but 

 I have seen only nanus proper in the County. 



Ononis spinosa. — Watford Heath ; Rickmansworth Common. Both 

 require confirmation. 



Medicago falcata. — Between Watford and Bushey Hill. This 

 rests on the authority of the accurate Doody, and there can be 

 little doubt as to the coi-rectness of the original record. It has 

 probably, however, long since become extinct. 



Melilotus alba. — Railway banks north of AYatford. 



Trifolium ochroleucicm. — Field by West AVood, Grove Park, 

 near Watford. 



Trifolium filiforme. — AYatford. All three standing in need of 

 confirmation, and the last perhaps only T. minus. 



Lotus tenuis. — Near AYatford Heath. This also requires con- 

 firmation. 



Vicia angustifolia. — Watford Eoad, St. Albans; and, apparently, 

 a second station, near Watford. 



Lathyrus Aphaca. — Near a chalk-pit in a wood at Grove Park. 

 Still there ? 



Primus domestica. — There is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium, 

 gathered by Mr. Bentham near the farm at Cashiobuiy in 

 1834. 



Alchemilla vulgaris. — Eickmansworth Common Moor, and near 

 Bushey. The variety suhsericea or montana is perhaps the com- 

 moner form. 



Comarum palustre. — Eickmansworth Common Moor. I have no 

 recent notice of this, and it is to be feared that it has perished 

 through drainage. 



For the last five-and-twenty years but little attention has been 

 paid to the fruticosc Eubi in Herts, and I have unfortunately been 

 unable to meet with any of the specimens collected in the County 

 by the late Eev. W. H. Coleman, to whose exertions almost all that 

 is known about them is owing. Professor Babington has kindly 

 gone through those in his herbarium, but I am quite uncertain how 

 far the names now given can be correctly transferred from the indi- 

 viduals there preserved to those others that had been associated 

 with them in the pages of the ' Flora Hertfordiensis.' The Eev. W. 

 M. Hind, who has contributed much valuable information on this 

 subject to the 'Flora of Harrow,' is, as far as I am aware, the only 

 other person who has atti'inpted any examination of the Brambles 

 of this neighbourhood. Much, therefore, remains to be accom- 

 plished before we can consider ourselves out of the wood ; and the 

 %'icinity of AYatford appears to be so rich in these troublesome but 

 instructive forms, that the labour of investigation is likely to be 



