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NOTES ON THE FLORA OF SUSSEX. 

 By C. E. Salmon. 



Of late years little seems to have been put on record regarding 

 Sussex botany, but that it is a rich county containing many in- 

 teresting species no one can deny. The following notes are compiled 

 from specimens and lists kindly supplied by friends and from my 

 own observations, and I trust others may supplement them with 

 further information respecting the plants of the county. 



In 1875, Mr. W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., pubhshed in the 

 Journal of Botany "An Outline of the Flora of Sussex," with an 

 Appendix to the same in the following year. Twelve years after- 

 wards appeared the Rev. F. H. Arnold's Flora of Sii-ssex, necessarily 

 repeating much of the information given by Mr. Hemsley, but 

 strangely omitting some of his records with no very apparent 

 reason — for example, Hcilehorus viridis is omitted in the later flora, 

 in Division III., whereas Mr. Hilton tell me it still grows in the 

 locality of Borrer, which Mr. Hemsley quotes for that division. Mr. 

 Hemsley has kindly allowed me to take extracts from his private 

 letters and manuscripts relating to Sussex botany, and these have 

 supplied some interesting localities. A copy of Arnold's Flora, 

 once in the possession of Mr. F. C. S. Roper and annotated by him, 

 has also been the means of supplying some hitherto unpubhshed 

 localities, and also of correcting several misleading records to be 

 found in that Flora. 



I have endeavoured, in the following list, not to repeat localities 

 already to be found in print, and have rejected, as far as I was able, 

 any that can be found in the Journal of Botany from 1883 to the 

 present time, Syme's English Botany, 3rd edition, Watson's New 

 Botanist's Guide, W. Moyle Rogers's Handbook of British Bubi, or 

 W. B. Hemsley's " Outline of the Flora of Sussex." 



The warm South Coast seems to be particularly favourable to 

 many plants "that have but recently gained a footing in England, 

 and several are evidently on the increase there — as Fiapistrum, 

 Malm borealis, Melilotus arvensis, etc. Mr. S. T. Dunn has kindly 

 examined and named all these alien species ; and I am also greatly 

 indebted to the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, who has named all the 

 Brambles. Messrs. H. & J. Groves, W. H. Beeby, A. Bennett, 

 H. W. Pugsley, F. Townsend, and Revs. E. S. Marshall and E. F. 

 & W. R. Linton have also very kindly assisted in naming the more 

 critical forms. 



The following is the list of observers (whose initials appear 

 amongst the records) who have favoured me with notes and speci- 

 mens : — 



E.N.B. . Rev.E.N.Bloomfield. T.H. . . T.Hilton. 



A.J.C. . A.J.Crosfield. IW.B.H. . W.B. Hemsley. 



E.E. . . Rev.E.Ellman. I R. ... F. C. S. Roper. 



E.H.F. . E.H.Farr. jE.S.S. . E.S.Salmon. 



H.H. . . H.Hemmings. ' My own records have no initials. 



