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flironiclers the plant was fonnerh' cultivated in Gloucestershire both 

 for the flowers and seed. The common people used the flowers instead 

 of saffron in their cakes and puddings and geese and turkeys fed upon 

 the seed.] 



Hypoclicpris glabra L. var. Balhlsii Lois. Berrow sand-dunes, 

 1915 ; Miss Roper. 



Taraxacum palustreJyC New to the district. Gr. Yate Common, 

 1914 ! C. Bucknall. The Ridings near Chipping Sodbury, 1915 ! 

 Id. Furzy field by Milbury Heath Plantation, 1915 ! Miss Roper.— 

 S. Barrow Hill ! Mrs. Sandwith. Sparingly on Rowberrow Warren ! 

 Miss Roper. Mr. Bucknall and I regard this as a good species. It 

 flowers only for a short time, being in full fruit at the beginning of 

 June and disappearing by the end of the month. For T. vdiim Jord. 

 we have another locality in the Long Bottom, Mendip ; Miss Roper. 

 If it be not distinct this seems to be better placed as a var. of 

 T. ojficinale than under T. palnsfre. 



Crepis biennis L. Hillside between North Nibley and Wotton- 

 under-Edge, 1912 ! C. BticknaU. Plentiful between Clevedon and 

 Kingston Seymour, S., L917 ; Miss Livett. The single plant noted 

 near Nailsea Station by Miss Roper in 1900 was the probable parent 

 of a multitude that now covers the whole embankment at the spot. 



[^Hieracium pratense Tausch. Established on walls at Brislington, 

 S. ! Miss Roper.] 



H. cacuminatum Dahlst. Site of old iron works, Ashton Gate, S., 

 1915 ! Id. 



Jasione montana L. See FI. Brist. 410. The square brackets 

 should be removed ; Mrs. Lainson's record was confirmed in 1912 

 by Mr. D. Williams, who then wrote that he had gathered Jasione 

 at Clevedon in 1908 and enclosed a specimen. Miss Livett tells me 

 that the locality described by Williams is now in great part built 

 upon. 



Gampamda patula L. All doubt as to the existence of tliis in 

 Glos. has been removed by Mr. H. W. L. Harford who forwarded 

 (Sept. 1914) a specimen from Horton. He found on the hillside in 

 that ])arish two plants in one spot and four in another nearly a 

 mile distant. In fair quantity on Ljaicombe Hill, Sandford, S., 1914 ; 

 Dr. J. Wigglesworth. 



Andromeda Polifolia L. I apologise to the author of Wins- 

 combe Sketches for imputing error to his mention of Andromeda 

 on Mendip ; and also for my rash statement (M. Brist. 414) that 

 the plant certainly did not grow in those upland bogs. In 1914 

 Mrs. Sandwith detected on Blackdown two tiny patches hidden under 

 tussocky grass and sedge, and a fortnight later she showed me a spi-ig 

 in flower. In the same autumn, after an interval of many years, I 

 saw the plant once more upon the pent between Shapwick and 

 Ashcott. There, too, it was small and difficult to lind under the 

 clumps of heather. 



V. Mi/rtillus L. Further consideration has led me to believe that 

 the Bilberr}^ may be- native on the Court Hill, Clevedon. It is 

 thought to have disappeared at Dur])in's Batch. In August 1SG5 



