16 THE JOUKXAL OF BOTANY 



Sitgina tiodosa Fenzl. Very sparingly in three localities on 

 Mendip, viz. Charterhouse, 3Iiss Mojjer. Bunington Ham, M. ^. 

 Thompson. Shipham Bottom, C. BucJcnall. 



ArenarUt serpglllfolia L. var. viscidida Roth, {(/liifinosa Koch). 

 Mr. MarshiU records this from sandhills noi'th of Emmham and at 

 Berrow. Mr. H. S. Thompson hnds it in fine state on the coast to 

 the south of Burnham and on Purn Hill, Bleadon. He tells me that 

 Thos. Clark's specimens from 8teep Holm (1886) and from "Burn- 

 ham sand-tolls " (1886) come under this variety. 



Stellaria palusfris Retz. S. Nailsea Moor, extending a few 

 yards, 1913 ! Jifiss Boper. The non-glaucous form, with inter- 

 mediates, on peat near Edington Junction, new to the county; W. 

 Watson. The species is very variable. See C. E. Moss in JVew 

 Phytol. 1912, 899. 



Cerastium arvensr L. Abundtmt in a rough hillside pasture 

 near Axbridge, two ]iatches on and about exposed rocks, where the 

 plant must be undoubtedly native. 1915 ! H. S. Thomjyson. On 

 Lansdown, not far from the Grenville Monument, over a consider- 

 able area ; 1915 ! 3Irs. Reginald Price. 



i^perqularia ruhra Pers. Two plants on Vate Common, Gr. 191-1 ; 

 and several there in 1916 ; C JBiichnaJl. On a dry pennant bank by 

 the G.W.R. north of Keynsham, S. 1915 ! C. Biicknall. New to 

 N. Somerset. 



Scleranthns annii/iis L. G. In plenty for some yards on Bury 

 Camp near Moorend, July 1912 ! 



AlthcEa officinalis L. S. On the shore between Portishead and 

 Clevedon, 1915 ; Rev. E. Ellinaii. Banks of the Brue at Meare, 

 1912 ! One plant near Berrow, 1916 ; J. W. Haines. 



A. hirsuta L. Casual in St. Philip's Marsh Gr. One plant in 

 1915! C. E. L. Gardner. Several there, 1916; The Hisses Cobbe. 

 Still in Miss Peck's locality at Portishead, S. 1915 ; Miss Roper. 



Ht/periciiin elodes L. In June 1914 the late Canon Ellacombe 

 showed me his note, written in August 1878, of finding H. elodes in 

 the small bit of bog near Mangotsfield. He had thus anticipated 

 C. Withers by 14 j^ears. In August 1914 I at last saw thi^ plant on 

 the N. Somerset peat-moor — masses of it in an old turf-cutting 

 within two miles of Glastonbu^ry Tor. 



Geranium j^hceum L. S. In a hedge nearly o])posite the entrance 

 to Combe Lodge, Blagdon, 1916 ; ./. Westbroolc- Hedgebank in 

 Rickford Combe, Blagdon, 1917 ; //. S. Thompson. 



[_G. nodosum L. Now grows abundantly about the ruins of 

 Begbrook House, Frenchay !] 



G. pusillum L. S. In unusual plent}^ about exposed rock on 

 Cadbury Hill, near Yatton, 1916. A cool wet spring had been 

 favourable for small herbaceous plants on thin soil. 



G. Robertianum L. var. purpureiim. Vill. The true plant (gemii- 

 num Rouy) grows on rocks in Leigh Woods, S. First noticed in 

 1912 by Dr. Moss who thought it identical with one at St. Aubyns, 

 Jersey. That which I have from Newquay, Cornwall, has flowers 

 still smaller — about 6 mm. diam. against 9-10 mm. in Leigh Woods. 

 Dr. Moss suggests {Neiv Phytol. 1912, 402) that the Bristol plant 

 may have a hvbrid origin — x lucidum. 



