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near Sidcot, Somerset. On March 20, by a road-side in Clifton, a small 

 Lime tree was green with leaves, already 1^ inch across; other Limes 

 in the neighbourhood have not bm-st their leaf -buds, except a short 

 row of young pollard trees which are beginning to do so. Silver 

 Birch catkins are now (March 21) showing their stamens; and a 

 Mountain Ash (P. Aucuparia) has leaves of five inches and good 

 racemes of flower-buds; a young Ash {Fraxinus) has been in blossom 

 some days. Shoots of White Bryony are from one to two feet long 

 in a thicket on Clifton Down. Near Axbridge, below the sunny 

 slope of Mendip, the vegetation is particulai'ly remarkable. On 

 March 20 Lithos^yermum furpureo-coeruleum shoots were quite ad- 

 vanced, and several in a secluded spot only a hundred feet above sea- 

 level had their red buds just waiting to open and turn ultramarine : 

 May until the end of June is the usual flowering-time. Near by 

 were Fragaria vesca, two plants in blossom, Bluebell heads already 

 blue. Garlic with well-developed leaves and unopened spathes If inch 

 long, Melic-grass with flowering-shoots a foot high and practically 

 " out," Gerastium arvense (very rare in Somerset) in bud, and 

 flowers of Potentilla verna spotted the ground of an upland slope 

 with yellow. I have no record of such precocious flowering during 

 my residence in the West of England prior to 1889, nor again during 

 the past six years. — H. S. Thompson. 



Rose Eecords. Col. WoUey-Dod has recently been so kind as 

 to name a large number of Roses from my collection. They were 

 gathered in various counties, chiefly in Gloucestershire. One group 

 of them have a special interest, for they were the last roses gathered 

 by Mr. Ley (1910). They had gone to Dingier, who owing to ill- 

 health was obliged in 1911 to return them without working at them. 

 The most interesting records are the following : Glamorgan, v.c. 41 ; 

 IRosa erronea Rip., Reuteri Godr., dumetorum var. sphcBrocarpa 

 (Pug.), and omissa Desegl. — Northants, v.c. 32 (all Ley's) : R.jac- 

 tata Desegl., Carionii Desegl. & Gill., Bothschildii Druce, insignis 

 Desegl. & Rip., Jiemitricha Rip., trichoneura Rip. — Hunts, v.c. 31 

 (Ley's), B. ramealis Pug. ; and Radnor, v.c. 43 (Ley's), R. sub- 

 cristata Baker. — Hereford, v.c. 36 (mostly my own gathering), B. 

 stenocarpa Desegl., tomentella var. ohtusifolia Desv., dumetorum near 

 var. spinetorum (Desegl. &Ozan.), Deseglisei Chr., incerta Desegl. — 

 E. Gloster, v.c. 33, B. omissa Desegl., tomentosa Sm. var. confusa 

 (Pug.), mucronulata Desegl., senticosa Ach., Lemaitrei Rip., erio- 

 styla Rip., nemophila Desegl. & Ozan., micrantha var. tricliocarpa 

 Rouy, Carionii Desegl. & Gill. — W. Gloster, v.c. 34, B. omissa Desegl., 

 tomentosa Sm., transitoria R. Kell., spliceroidea Rip., dumalis Bechst., 

 syntrichostyla Rip., Bousselii Hv^.. verticillacantha 'NLer., Lemaitrei 

 Rip., senticosa Ach., mucronulata Desegl., incerta Desegl., splicero- 

 carpa Pug., urhica Chr., Beuteri and its var. suhcristata Baker, 

 Carionii Desegl. & Gill., systyla f. leucochroa (Desv.). 



H. J. RiDDELSDELL. 



AsTRANTiA MAXIMA Pall. IN DuRHAM. During a botanical 

 holiday spent by us in Upper Teesdale, in July 1919, my sister 

 (Mrs. C. L. Wilde) discovered this species on the wooded slopes of a 

 beck near Middleton-in -Teesdale, v.c. QQ, to all appearance quite wild. 



