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find. But as, according to Hooker and Syme, the plant may be 

 looked for in meadows of the western counties from Argyle 

 southwards, this new station should, I think, be accepted as 

 natural and satisfactory. — Jas. W. White. 



Vaccinium Oxycoccos in Somerset (p. 277). — The Cranberry 

 is not new for this county, though very scarce ; in Topographical 

 Botany it is duly recorded for both vice-counties. It still grew 

 near Shapwick (v.-c. 6) in 1906 ! ; and Sir W. C. Trevelyan found 

 it, long ago, on the Brendon Hills (v.-c. 5). The Exmoor station, 

 however, is certainly a fresh one. — -Edward S. Marshall. 



It seems only right to say that before writing the note on 

 Vaccinium Oxycoccos I consulted the index to the Flora of 

 Somerset, in which the plant does not occur ; it appears in the 

 addenda. It is, however, in Mr. White's Flora of Bristol, to 

 which I should have referred, and there are various scattered 

 records. Dr. Moss writes that Miss Saunders's record is the 

 most southerly station for the plant, and indicates its probable 

 occurrence in Devon and Cornwall. — James Britten, 



Orchis hircina in Sussex. — During the past summer three 

 specimens of Orchis hircina have occurred in Sussex. I am 

 informed that two specimens in bloom were found amongst 

 collections of wild flowers which had been brought into the 

 annual exhibition held during the season at the Brighton 

 Museum. Unfortunately, the persons who brought them and 

 the localities are unknown. The third specimen occurred in 

 the Ouse district near Lewes, and was dug up by the finder. I 

 did not hear of the find until late in the season, but managed to 

 see the specimen after the flowering period while the seed vessels 

 still hung on the stem. A note of the first specimen which I found 

 in East Sussex is in Journ. Bot. 1911, 276. — E. J. Bedford. 



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