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taste of some nauseous drugs more completely than any other aromatic 

 employed for the purpose. As is the case with British Lavender and 

 Peppermint, the English oil of Coriander is of far more value than 

 that produced ahroad.] 



Viscum album L. The additional hosts and new localities that 

 follow have heen reported hy Miss Roper save where otherwise indi- 

 cated. A front place is given to the one of most interest^the 

 occurrence of Mistletoe upon the Oak {Q. intermedia Boenn.) in 

 Leigh Woods, S. See Joiini. Bot. 1916, 88. Only ten such trees are 

 believed to exist in England, and none had been previously observed 

 in Somerset. Crab Ap])le, Littleton on Severn, G. ; Chelvey Batch, S. 

 Ash, Barrow Gurney, S. Whitebeam, Brockley Combe, S. F. Samsoji. 

 Jlimalai/aii Birch (^Betiila Jacquemontii Spach), Tyntesfield Park ' 

 C Bitcknall. Hazel, Bourton Batch, S. Hawthorn, Westbur^^-on- 

 Trym, by the stream, G. Tortworth Park, G. Thornbury, G. 

 Oldburv-on-Severn, G. Ashton Park, S. Tyntesfield, S. West 

 Town, "S. Wrington Hill, S. Yatton, S. Chew Magna, S. Lime, 

 Old Down, G. Backwell, S. Bourton Combe, S. Barrow Gurnev, 

 S. Tyntesfield, S. West Town, S. Salford, S. Chew Magna, S. 

 Chew Stoke, S. Maple, Wrington, S. Kelston, S. Norwa}/ Maple 

 {Acer platanoides L.), Brockley, S. Suc/ar Maple {A. saccJiarinum 

 L.), Tortworth Park, G. Pear, Flax Bourton, S. Q. H. Wollastua. 

 West End, Nailsea. Ontario Boplar (P. tacamahaca Miller), 

 Littleton-on-Severn. Po&mm, Long Ashton, S. Tyntesfield, S. Wring- 

 ton, S. (three trees) ; Saltford Golf Links, S. Sycamore, Bourton 

 Combe, S. 



Galium Vaillantii DC. Still in St. Philip's Marsh, G., as a 

 casual, 1916 ; O. C. Bruce. Abundant in cultivations on the ]ieat 

 near Shapwick and Ashcott Stations, 1913 and subsequently ; Mar- 

 shall in Fl. Som.. Suppl. 



G. ereetum, Huds., G. Several patches in a pasture by the road- 

 side between Stapleton and Hambrook, conspicuous when in full 

 flower at the beginning of June. — S. Walton-in-Gordano ! Rev. F. 

 Fllman. 



X G. ochrolencum Syme. S. Furzy pasture between Gatcombe 

 Court and Providence, 1915 ! Miss Roper, lioadside bank on Ticken- 

 hamHill! C. Bucknall. Cheddar, 1917; II. S. Thompson. 



Valerianella carinata Loisel. On a Avail at Plax Bourton, 1917 ! 

 Miss Roper. 



\I)ipsacus fullonum L. Old lias quarry, Twerton, 1915 ! Herb. 

 Roper. Still there, 1916 ; Bruce in Rep. Bot. Fxch. Club.] 



B. pilosus L. A nvimber of fine plants along two hedgerows near 

 Clapton-in-Gordano, 1915 ! Misses Giindall. 



Scabiosa Columbaria L. In a plant of this Scabious found hy 

 Miss Roper in a quarry near Yatton the main axis was prolonged 

 through the flower-head into several short fltiriferous stems of smaller 

 size. I have a similar specimen gathered at Clifton by Mr. Testick. 

 Other examples, in a more exaggerated form, have been noticed by 

 Mrs. Bower near St. Michael's Home, Axln-idge. In these the florets 

 of the heads were in great part suppressed, their place being oecu])ied by 

 a number of weak, elongated secondary stems each bearing two or three 



