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were clustered a large number of anthers. These flowers also pro- 

 duced seed. I could not discover any difference in the fertility of 

 the seed. Plants came up freely from those of both forms. When 

 the large flowers appeared I easily made the plant out to be P. 

 hastata, indigenous in Australia. So unlike are the two forms of 

 flowers that this plant has not only been made into two species, 

 but placed in distinct genera. Unlike other plants which produce 

 clandestine flowers (generally I believe when they are exhausted at 

 the end of the flowering season), P. hastata is first covered with the 

 clandestine forms, and afterwards both are on the shrub together. — 

 Eobert T. Fitzgerald. 



Lepidium Draba L., in South Wales. — This plant was formerly 

 very abundant about Swansea, on the ballast banks by the river 

 side, a few hundred yards northward from the pottery, where I 

 observed it in 1839. On visiting Swansea in the month of August, 

 1852, Mr. M. Moggridge and myself noticed it in several spots a 

 little higher up the river, where it appeared perfectly naturalized. 

 The natural range of the species extends over France to the 

 Euglish Channel. L. ruderale L., was observed occasionally on 

 rubbish heaps about Neath and Swansea. — T. Bruges Flower. 



Carex tomentosa L., in E. Gloster. — Today, June 12th, I 

 gathered the above Sedge, in the locality near Fairford, discovered 

 recently by the Eev. E. H. Wilmot, which he was kind enough to 

 conduct me to. This is by no means a water or even a wet 

 meadow, but an ordinary pasture field on a slight eminence. The 

 plant was scattered over the field, but was especially fond of the 

 damper furrows. Associated with it were Carex fulva Good., C. 

 panieea, L., C. hirta L., C. flacca Schreb., and probably inland C. 

 distans L. Mr. Wilmot has also found it in two other localities, one 

 of them a roadside in the vicinity ; the latter locality behig within 

 two miles of the Oxfordshire boundary, in which couuty it will be 

 doubtless found, now our attention is called to more suitable situa- 

 tions for search than water meadows. How its extirpation could 

 have been referred to the drainage of the meadows I am unable to 

 conjecture, since the plant flourishes well in the Oxford Garden in 

 ordinary loam. The plate in E. B. gives little idea of the plant. — ■ 

 G. Claridge Druce. 



Kent Plants. — I have recently met with the following, which 

 are not given in the second edition of ' Topographical Botany,' 

 though some of them are very common, and must have been 

 frequently noticed by previous observers. E. Kent (v. c. 15) : — 

 Ranunculus trichophyllus & R. Drouetii. Between Deal and Sand- 

 wich. — Viola permixta. Near Martin Mill. — Cerastium tetrandrum. 

 Abundant near Queenboro', and between Deal and Sandwich — • 

 Rubus rusticanus. About Deal, Cranbrook, &c. — R. cmsius x Idoeus 

 (teste Babington). Ham Ponds. — Myriophyllum alterniflorum. Ham 

 Ponds. — Hieracium murorum. Lanes N.E. of Hawkhurst. — Ghiapha- 

 Hum uliginosum, var. pilulare (teste Beeby). Dry soil, Chiddenden 

 Woods, near Cranbrook. — Salix aurita. Chiddenden Wood. — Fes- 

 tuca rubra, var. pruinosa Hackel. Base of the cliffs, St. Margaret's 



