SUPPLEMENT TO THE FLORA OF SOMERSET 221 



principal additions or exclusions, whether of species or of dis- 

 tribution, should liave been specified ; and it would iiave been 

 well if the page of the original work had been indicated under 

 each species included therein and appearing in the present work 

 — the number of the species under each genus might, at any rate, 

 have been cited. One would have been glad to have had some 

 biographical matter, which is entirely lacking in Murray's Flora ; 

 and we think some distinction should have been made between 

 notes— e.(/. those on Berberis aristata and the hybrid Daphne — 

 which originally appeared in this Journal, and those which are 

 now first published. Other references might conveniently have 

 been added — e.g. to Plantago Coronopus var. sabrina — and one is 

 a little surprised to find no acknowledgement in the brief preface 

 of the evidently considerable help given by Miss Eivett and Miss 

 Roper. 



Turning over the pages, we note much matter of general 

 interest. There are many new localities for Aconitum, which Mr. 

 Marshall thinks (and those who have seen the plant in situ will 

 agree with him) a true native in Somerset : Dr. Stapf, we are 

 told, has " been unable to meet with exactly our English plant on 

 the Continent." The treatment of Viola in accordance with Mrs. 

 Gregory's monograph has led to numerous corrections and 

 additions, extending over seven pages. The " usual if not the 

 only Somerset plant" of the Alchemilla vulgaris aggregate is 

 A. minor Hudson {A. filicaulis Buser). Daucus gummifer, which 

 appeared in the Flora, is withdrawn, as also is Gentiana cam- 

 pestris. The treatment of Hieraciitm is greatly amplified, and 

 contains interesting notes ; the single Euphrasia of the Flora is 

 distributed among fourteen names, the result of observations pub- 

 lished since Mr. Murray's book was written. Mentha also has 

 undergone considerable amplification. It may be noted here that 

 Euphorbia LatJtyrus, which is given in the Flora for Steep Holm 

 as " not truly wild " and " naturalized," was found there by 

 Banks in 1773 ; his specimen in the National Herbarium is 

 endorsed by himself : — " I found this one plant among the 

 Ligustrum on the south side of the Steep Holmes Island, but 

 being hurried by the tide had not time to search for more." 

 There are interesting additions to Salicornia, represented in the 

 Flora only by S. herbacea ; and a long note on the Snowdrop 

 calls attention to the probability of its nativity in the county. 

 The " var. bracteata Druce " of Scilla nonscripta is supposed to 

 be " rather a form than a variety " ; a note to this effect 

 will be found in Journ. Bot. 1908, 200, where it is shown 

 that the authority for the name should be " Hort. ex Baker." 

 Wolffia is an interesting addition to the county list, and Asple- 

 nium germanicuvi was probably accidentally omitted from the 

 Flora. 



These are but indications of the valuable information 

 which render this Supplement, apart from the Flora to which 

 it relates, of interest to all concerned with the study of British 

 plants. 



