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or cultivation, 1917: a plant or two of J\\ major there also. Doubt- 

 less the woi"k of some misguided planter.] 



Galanthus nivalis L. Abundant in a stretch of woodland and in 

 an adjoining orchard on the hillside above Tickenham, S. The moss- 

 covered remains of ancient masonry suggested that, at a long past 

 period, the neighbouring farmstead had been a holding of greater 

 importance than at present, provided probably with shrubb(;ries and 

 gardens now overgrown and lost. 



Polygonatum officinale All. Wood on the east of llhodvate 

 Hill, S. ! In Asham Woods, S. 1917 ! Miss Roper. 



\_Asphodeliis Jistulosus L. On a tip at Eastville, G. 191G ! 

 Miss Hoper. Still at St. Philip's, Bristol, where I saw it in 1901 : 

 Miss Cobbe.'] 



Endymion nutans Dum. var. hracteata Hort. G. Combe Dingle, 

 1912 ! Miss Jacques. Hambrook ! Miss Jarvis. Bitton ! H. E. 

 Case. Ivory Hill ! F. Samson. S. Durbin's Batch, Failand ! Miss 

 A(jnes Fry. Tickenham Wood's ! 1915. 



Juncus maritimus L. The old record for Portishead, uncon- 

 firmed since its publication by Mr. S. Freeman in 1S41, is now 

 upheld by the Rev. E. Ellman,who has observed several plants of this 

 rush in a salt marsh on the coast. 



J. compressus Jacq. Salt marsh, Highbridge. S. 1915 ! II. S. 

 Thompson. And in another spot neai'er Burnham, 1916 ! 3Iiss liopi r. 

 — A " forma intermedia e/. compressi et J. OerarcW'' (Buchenauj, 

 = J. soj'anthics Schrank in Bull. Acad. Peterb. ii. p. 193 (lS-l.;j), 

 according to Mr. Bennett, has been gathered on the Channel shore at 

 St. Greorge's Whai-f, S. 1910 ! Miss lioper. 



J. tenuis Willd. Discovered (Aug. 191i) by Mrs. Sandwith on 

 grassy spots by the Avon "under Leigh Woods, extending a consider- 

 able distance along the riverside. Subsequently the plant was found 

 to continue up the adjacent valley into the wood and to occur along 

 several paths and tracks on the higher ground. M3' own opinion is 

 that this must be a comparatively recent intrvxUijtion, and its possible 

 origin has been indicated in Proc. Prist. Nat. Soc. vol. iv. (1915). 

 Those who desire to be informed on the general question of the 

 nativity of J. tenuis in Europe can be referred to Buchenau's Mono- 

 graph of the Juncace<JB ; Mr. Arthur Bennett's papers in Journ. Pol . 

 1895, p. 39, and Trans. Pot. Soc. Fdin. 1915 ; and to Mr. Lloyd 

 Williams in Journ. Pot. 1896, p. 201. 



Wolffla Miclielii Schleid. {JV. arrliiza AVimm.). The most 

 remarkable addition that has been made of late years to the Hora oF 

 North Somerset. Discovered by Mrs. Sand with, June 1915, in a 

 pool on Ashcott Heath. At the end of July it was found in a pond 

 near Brent Knoll Station and in another towards Lynipsliam by the 

 same lady with Mr. C. Bucknall. A week or two later Mrs. Sand- 

 with got it once more in a rliine between Catcott and Sha[)wiciv 

 Station, quite hidden under masses of duckweed. It sliowed itself by 

 adhering to tlie botanist's stick. In September it was found again 

 by Miss Koper in a pond and rhine by the railway between Middle 

 Burnham and Edith Mead {Journ. Pot. 1915, ^V- 311, 339). The 

 fact of this tiny phanerogam being detected within a few weeks in so 

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