•18 THE jour:s'al of botaxt 



J£ arvensisJj. Yur. agrestis Sole. At the date of publication this 

 was unknown in the district {Fl. Brisf. 471), but has since been 

 recognized on the peat of Catcott Burtle, S. 



Orir/foinm vulqare L. var. megastachyum Link. On Lvnconibe 

 Hill, Sandford, 8. ! 



T//.i/m//s C/iamcedri/s Fries. Is more frequent than was indicated 

 in the Flora. Mr. Bruce Jackson was entirely satisfied with gather- 

 ings from Failand, Cadbury Camp, Keynsham and Weston-super-Mare ; 

 and found several examples of the var. glaber among those forwarded 

 by Miss Roper. 



Melissa officinalis L. Roadside on the hill at Winterbourne, 

 G. ; II. S. Thompson. Waste ground by Cranbrook Road, Bristol ; 

 Id. Roadside between Congresbury and Churchill, very well estab- 

 lished for some yards ; Miss Gohhe. Between Clapton-in-Gordano and 

 Clapton Wick, on the north side of the road ; Id. Mr. Thompson 

 informs me that his locality " corner of roads near Leigh Woods " 

 communicated to Mr. Marshall {Joiirn. Bot. 1917, p. 187) is in fact 

 the one noted by the Misses Cundall in 1909 {Fl. Brisf. 476). 



Scutellaria minor Huds. Wet spots among heather and brush- 

 wood at Milbury Heath Plantation, G., 1914 ! 3Irs. Gordon. On 

 Glastonbury Moor with Hypericum elodes and Carex lasiocarpa, 

 sparingly in several spots, 1914 ! I think a first record for the peat 

 moors. 



Sfacliys alpina L. Found in 1913 on a hedge bank near Berry 

 Hill Farm between Damery Bridge and Charfield Station, G., by- 

 Mr. J. W. Haines of Gloucester. The finder went again a year later 

 and failed to rediscover the spot : he said there were six or eight roots 

 of the plant. The place would be about two miles from Wotton Hill, 

 the original station. 



Ballota ruderalis Sw. Alien. One clump on made ground at 

 St. Phihps, Bristol, 1915-16; Mrs. Sandwith and T. U. Green. 

 Growing on the poorest soil the plant is stvmted with small leaves, 

 but the calyx-character is unmistakable. It lacks much of the soft- 

 ness that marks my Swedish specimens, and in this accords with the 

 experience of Messrs. Groves who found " no correlation between the 

 shape of the calj'x-teeth and the hairiness of the plant." According 

 to N^anan the regions of which B. ruderalis is a native are Sweden, 

 Denmark, and Central and Southern Europe. In others it is not seen 

 unless introduced. But neither Syme, Hooker; nor Babington give 

 any indication that the plant is other than indigenous in Britain. 

 The last-named describes it as abundant in a Herefordshire locality 

 wdiere Baker, Purchas and Ley could find only the soft variations of 

 B. foetida that are known to most of us. This statement of Babing- 

 ton, with his italics, has been responsible for much confusion and 

 disappointment, giving rise to the idea that ruderalis was a native 

 species that might probably be found in like situations, and leading 

 the botanist to believe that when he came upon a softly hairy 

 Ballota he had got the subject of this note. Even Hewett Watson 

 and Bromfield, it will be remembered, mistook for ruderalis plants 

 subsequently proved to be forms of foetida. That B. ruderalis 

 occurs with us merelv as a casual seems tolerablv clear. We get its 



