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SIIORTs NOTES. 



[The .Mallow sent quite agrees with that coUecled about Gloucester 

 by Dr. St. Brody, and, like it, is probably an introduction. It differs 

 from the introduced Malva found about London (Journ. of Bot. 

 Vol. IV. p. 149, and Fl. Middx. 61), M.parvifloni, Greii. and Godr., 

 non L. ?, in having- a prostrate habit, downy carpels about half the 

 size, and a calyx which does not enlarge in fruit.] 



Botany at Clifton College. — We are forming a botanic garden 

 and herbarium for the use of the boys of Clifton College, and I shall 

 feel greatly obliged to any fellow-botanist who will help me by giving 

 a contribution of dried or living British plants. The great difficulty 

 in such a case is to make a good beginning, and there are many who 

 could aid our endeavours by giving a few common duplicates from a 

 herbarium, or some of the ordinary hardy plants, such as would illus- 

 trate Lindley's ' School Botany.' I shall be glad, after a time, to reci- 

 procate the favour from the rare plants with which this neighbourhood 

 abounds. — M, J. Barrington Ward. 



Arenarja ciliata, L. — Under the name Li/chds alsinoides parva 

 Jiore albo minlmo, there is a specimen of this plant preserved in 

 Buddie's Herbarium at the British Museum (vol. cxxiv. f. (5), col- 

 lected by Lhwyd near Sligo, and sent to Buddie by Dr. Eichardson. 

 It was probably gathered in 1699. Ur. Mackay, the supposed dis- 

 coverer of the species as Irish, found it in 1806, as stated in ' Cybele 

 Hibernica.' We are indebted to the Kev. W. W. Newbould for calling 

 our attention to Buddie's specimen. 



Flora of M.'^rlborough. — Having lately had through my hands 

 a portion of the Herbarium of the Marlborough College Natural His- 

 tory Society, I have entered in my copy of Mr. Preston's ' Flora of 

 Marlborough' (1863) such species as do not appear in- that work. I 

 have also added the new species recorded in the Keports of the Society 

 from 1865 to 1869. The following list of the plants so added may 

 be of interest to those who possess the original Flora, of which a new 

 edition is in contemplation. Those which I ha\^ seen are indicated 

 by an (!) after their names ; the remainder are from the Eeports 

 above mentioned. 



Ranunculus pseudoflui- Nupliar liitea ! Tlilaspi arvense ! 



R. peltatvis ! [tans! Papaver strigosum ! Viola Riviuiaua! 



R. Drouetii. Nasturtium palustre ! V. Rciclienbacliiaua ! 



R. trichopliyllus. N. sylvestre. [des ! Arenaria leptoclados ! 



Bcrberis vulgaris! Erysimum clieirantlioi- Montia fontana. 



