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Erocliifm moschatum L'Her. G. Casual on Wapping Wharf, 

 Bristol Harbour, 1912!, and in St. Philip's Marsh, 1916! Miss Ro-per. 

 — S. Still on Hangstone Hill, Clevedon, 1916 ! Abundant about 

 quarried ground under the Cadburj range east of Clevedon Court, 1915 1 

 About bare rock near Providence, Long Ashton, 1915 ! ISLiss Roper. 



Euonymus europcBUS L. S. Two small trees by the Malago 

 stream in Crox Bottom, Bishops worth, bear w^hite fruit. These 

 were fii\st noticed by Mr. F. Samson in 1912, and are the onl}'' albino 

 spindle-trees I have met with. 



\_Staph/i/lea pinnnta L. Several tall bushes on the bank of a 

 stream to the north of Bishop's Hill Wood, Wickwar, Gr., at a long- 

 distance from any garden ; Capt. Gordon?\ 



\Iiliamnus Alaternus L. A small bush amid hawthorns and 

 brambles on Penpole Point, G. ; no other introduced plants being at 

 hand, 1916! H. S. Thompson. Of interest as being the second 

 Bi'istol localitv for this alien shrub.] 



Ulex Gal'lii Planchon. " Aug. 26, 1836. Noticed [at St. Vincents 

 Rocks] a JJlex that appears to be new. Mr. Forbes said that it exactly 

 resembled U. pr ovine ialis oit\\Q south of France." Memorials of O. G. 

 Bahinrjton, 57. This was written some thii-teen years before the 

 plant was described by Planchon. 



Genista anglica L. Yate Lower Common, Gr., plentiful in two or 

 three isolated bits of the original heathland. 



Medicaqo media Persoon {M.falcafo-sativa Rchb.). The Garden 

 (Sept. 1, 1917) contains an article on " Lucerne audits Colour- Forms " 

 by Mr. H. S. Thompson, who mentions the persistence of this hybrid 

 at Burnham where he first noticed it in 1906. 



M. arahica Huds. Border of Cleeve Wood, Hanham, Gr. for a 

 yard or two, 1916! A. W. Cottle. Hillside above Uphill, S. in 

 quantitv ; J. TV. Haines. Large patches in the churchyard, Axbridge, 

 1912 ! " 



31. minima L. As a casual sparingly at Newton St. Loe, S. ! Miss 

 Roper. 



Lotus tenuis Kit. Waste ground, Ci'anbrook Road, Bristol, 1917 ; 

 H. S. Thompson. 



Astragalus danieus Retz. Whatever doubt there may have been 

 on the existence of this plant in the district has been dispelled by 

 Mr. H. W. L. Harford of Horton, who sent me specimens in 1912 

 from two spots, half a mile apart, on Stinchcombe Hill, G. 



Vicia Orobus DC. Found by Mr. H. S. Thompson in a new 

 locality — a pasture between Lower Farm and Charterhouse on Mendip, 

 1915. 



Lathy rus Aphaca L. A large plant on waste ground at Shire- 

 hampton, G., 1914 ! Mrs. Sundwith. Persistent shice 1907 by the 

 Avon near Arno's Vale, S. ! An occasional weed at Failand, S. ! Miss 

 Agnes Fry. Two plants in Mr. Dunn's locality near Twerton, 1914 ! 



[L. liirsutus L. On inil)bish by the Avon at Brislington, S., 1912 !] 



Rrunus insititia L. Hedgerow between Northwick and the Old 

 Passage, G. ; Mrs. Sandtoith. Failand Hill, S. ! Winterhead-on- 

 Mendip ; Miss Roper. Hillside above Clapton-in-Gordano, S. where, 

 from five or six trees in a hedgerow, two friends and I gathered 55 lbs. 

 of fruit at the beginning of last September, leaving as mvich more on 

 branches that could not be reached. I suppose there had been some 

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