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same peculiarity ; there are no others at London, Paris, or Geneva. 

 It is, however, a peculiarity apparently specific ; not a single 

 example at Loudon, Paris, or Geneva of any other species has a 

 flower with more or fewer than three sepals and six petals ; there 

 is certainly not at Kewor in the British Museum a specimen of 

 Argemone with two sepals or four petals. The undue emphasis that 

 has been laid on this variabiUty, confined, as it seems to be, to a 

 solitary form in which it but rarely occurs, — which most taxo- 

 nomists have moreover insisted on treating as only a variety of A. 

 mexkana, — can be best combated by omitting the character from 

 the generic description ; it is certainly not in the slightest degree 

 characteristic of the genus. 



(To be continued.) 



EECENT ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF BRECONSHIRE. 

 By the Rev. Augustin Ley. 



Ten years have elapsed since Mr. W. Bowles Barrett published 

 in this Journal his ' Contribution towards a Flora of Breconshire.' 

 The workers in the field botany of the county have remained so few 

 that no large number of additions have been made. Enough, 

 however, of material has now accumulated to make it desirable 

 to ask for a place for its record in the Journal of Botany ; hence 

 these notes. 



Some of the following have already been published in a paper 

 written by the author for the Woolhope Field Naturalists' Society 

 [Transactions, 1890-2, p. 86), and of these a considerable number 

 was due to the industry of Mr. W. P. J. Le Brocq and some fellow- 

 workers of his in the neighbourhood of Brecon itself. Those records 

 now published for the first time are marked with an asterisk. 

 Where no other authority is quoted, the writer is personally 

 responsible for the records. His thanks are due to Mr. F. J. 

 Hanbury and the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers for much help in the 

 critical genera of Hieracium and Riibus, and to Mr. Arthur Bennett 

 for kindly criticising the list before publication. 



jHesperis niatronalis L. Near Brecon, "well naturalised"; Le 

 Brocq. 



Brassica Rapa L. var. *Briggsii H. C. Wats. Tillage-field near 

 Tal-y-bont. 



Lepidium *ruderale L. Pen-y-wyllt. — L. ^campestre R. Br. 

 Wall at Cefn Coed. 



* Hntchinsia p)etra:a R. Br. Limestone cliff at Dan-y-graig, near 

 Cefn Coed ; and at Craig Cille, plentifully. 



*Sapo7iaria officinalis L. Bank of the Usk, near Tal-y-bont. 

 '^^ Hypericum elodes Huds. Ditch at Blaen Taf-fawr. 

 '^Genista anglica L. Doldowlodd ; Cwm Taf-fechan. 

 Trifolium striatum L. Canal bank near Brecon ; Le Brocq. 

 Geum intermedium 'Eihvh. Fenni-fach, near Brecon; Le Brocq, 



