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narrow, lanceolate and coriaceous leave.? are produced ; and by that 

 time the early submerged leaves have decayed and disappeared. 

 Bauhin (1628) and Parkinson (1640) are among the few that refer 

 to the peculiantv here described. Bronilield (1856) gives an accurate 

 account in his Flora Vectensis, and in 1886 Mr. F. C. S. Roper of 

 Eastbourne read a note on the subject before the Linnean Society 

 (see Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 880). 



R. sardoi/s Crantz (R. liirsitfuft Curtis). In R/^p. Watso7i JExch. 

 Club, 191-4-191o, Mr. A. J. Wilmott comments on a plant collected 

 by Miss Roper in the mill-yai-d by Portishead Dock. S., and gives 

 reasons for believing her specimens to belong to the closely-allied 

 R. trilohus Desf., an alien species from the Mediterranean region, in 

 which the carpels are tubercular all over both faces, not merely with 

 a marginal ring of slight tubercles as in R. sardotis. An examina- 

 tion of my own examples from Bristol rubbish-tips and waste ground 

 reveals that some of them also are really R. trilohus. Por a positive 

 identification of these plants it is necessary to have them in good 

 fruit. 



Helli^horH-s vlrldis L. (i. One large clump in an old orchard on 

 Mitchell's Farm, Hallen Marsh, 1914 ! Miss Roper. Several on a 

 laneside near Bury Hill, north of Yate, and two tine ones in pasture 

 on the other side of the hedge, 1916 ! Miss Roper. — S. For some 

 yards on the edge of woodland above Clapton Court, 1916 ! Misses 

 Ciindall. Four or five cluiiips in underwood at the base of Lyn- 

 combe Hill ! 3Iiss Roper. No wilder spot could be imagined. 



In Journ. Bol. 1915, 118, Miss Roper enquired if anything was 

 known of a form of Green Hellebore having sepals blotched with 

 purple at the base. -She had noticed such plants in plenty at Winter- 

 head-on-Mendip, but in no other Bristol station for the species. In 

 reply Mr. C. E. Salmon reported one such occui'rence in Surrey ; and 

 Mr. Britten stated (loc. cif. 147) that none of the numerous speci- 

 mens in the British Herbarium, S. Kensington, showed the peculiarity : 

 nor is it mentioned in any available descriptive flora. 



TL. pxtidus L. G. Wood by the Gloucester i-oad. south of 

 Ridgeway, about 20 plants, 1915 ! Sparingly on the Hollywood 

 estate! — S. South side of Wavering Down above Compton Bishop; 

 plentiful, and cons[)icuous at a long distance when in flower ; 

 Dr. Wiglefiworth. 



Acnnifum Napelliis L. In Fl . Brist. 181, I quote an article 

 on Bristol Pharmacology, published in 1871, b\' the late W. W. 

 Stoddart, F.L.S. The author wrote of Aconite as growing luxuriantly 

 at that date in Glen Frome near Stajjleton G., and as no other 

 mention of the plant's existence in the locality had come under notice 

 it was hinted that Mr. Stoddart"s experiments on the roots may have 

 made an end of the colony. In June 1914, nearly half a century 

 later, Mr. W. H. T'ullin conducted me to a steejj wooded bank above 

 the Fromc where at least a dozen plants were flowering. Although 

 we could not recognize that any planting had been done in that part 

 of the domain, Mr. Stoddai't was no doul)t right in believing the 

 Glen Frome Aconite to have been originally introduced. 



Castalia speciosa Salisb. Tlie late l)r. H. O. Stephens was not 



