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Swete, Edward Horace (fl. 1854). Surgeon. Of Clifton, Bristol. 

 Lect. Bot., Bristol Med. School. 'Flora Bristoliensis,' 1854. 

 Pritz. 310; Jacks. 249. 



(To be continued.') 



SHOKT NOTES. 



Dkosera anglica in Hants. — Captain A. Steuart, of Ventnor, 

 has called my attention to the fact that Mr. Townsend, in his 

 ' Flora,' considers the occurrence of Drosera anglica doubtful in 

 Hants. In Watson's Top. Bot., p. 60, the record for Hants South 

 is also queried. I have found this plant on several occasions in the 

 New Forest, and forward a voucher-specimen for the British Museum 

 Herbarium. My first observation of it was in 1884, when in company 

 with Mr. A. E. Gibbs. It occurs in fan quantity in the wettest 

 part of the bog a short distance S.W. from Holmsley Station, being 

 most abundant in an open swampy spot amongst the alders. It is 

 associated with D. intermedia and D. rotundifolia, as well as Carex 

 limosa. I do not feel much hesitation in thus specifying the 

 locality, as it would require considerable enthusiasm or cupidity 

 to induce anyone to wade through the morass to the exact spot. 

 During the month of August of the present year I observed the 

 plant in the same station in fair abundance, and also one plant in 

 another bog in the New Forest. — J. Saunders. 



Bedfordshire and its Droseras. — In Watson's Top. Bot., 

 pp. 59, 60, Drosera rotundifolia, D. intermedia , and D. anglica are 

 all recorded for Beds. With reference to the latter two, the records 

 should be accepted with considerable reserve. In Journ. Bot. 1881, 

 p. 44, Mr. Pryor, in his ' Notes on the Herbarium of Abbot,' says: — 

 "Drosera longifolia, no specimen. D. anglica, correctly named." 

 On reference to Abbot's ' Flora Bedfordiensis,' it appears that both 

 these species, as well as -D. rotundifolia, are given for either 

 "Ampthill" or "Ampthill Bogs," and for no other station. 

 Assuming that by D. longifolia is intended D. intermedia Hayne, 

 I am fully persuaded that both this and D. anglica have been 

 extinct in the locality for forty or fifty years. From about 1840 to 

 184G the district in question was carefully worked both by the Rev. 

 Mr. Crouch and Mr. J. M'Laren, neither of whom succeeded in 

 finding any other sundew than D. rotundifolia. For the last ten 

 years Mr. C. Crouch and myself have made a minute examination 

 of the bogs near Ampthill and Flitwick, and no specimen of either 

 species has rewarded our efforts. The only species now to be found 

 in Bedfordshire is D. rotundifolia, and this but in limited quantities 

 in two small areas. — J. Saunders. 



Malta borealis in Kent. — During September last I found 

 Malva borealis Wallm. plentifully at Kingsdown, near Deal. Asso- 

 ciated with it was Setaria viridis and Hyoscyarmts niger. I have 

 since found M. borealis at Edenbridge, in West Kent ; and Cnicus 

 arvensis, c. setosus Bess, in waste ground at Four Elms, near 



