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Mcesa lanceolata Forsk. 7250 ft. (Mts. of Trop. Africa). 



Olea chrysophylla Lam. ? 8000 ft. (Trop. Africa). 



Cuscuta planiflora Ten. 9500 ft. (Mediterranean). 



Mentha silvestris L. (Europe, N. and W. Asia, N. India, Temp. 

 Africa). — Otostegia scariosa Benth. 6000 to 7000 ft. (Abyssinia, 

 Arabia).— Micromeria bifiora Bentb. 6000 to 7000 ft. (Trop. Africa, 

 Arabia, India). — Lavandula coronopifolia Poir. 8000 ft. (Egypt, 

 and the East). 



Arnebia hispidissima Sieber. 9500 ft. (Trop. Africa, Arabia, 

 N.W. India). 



Withania somnifera Bum. 8000 ft. (Tropics of Old World). 



Linaria cegyptiaca Bum. forma. 9400 ft. (Egypt and S}Tia). — - 

 Veronica Anagallis L. (North Temperate). 



Stereospermum Kunthianum Cham. 5200 ft. (Trop. Africa). 



Hypoestes Forshalei R. Br. (Abyssinia, Arabia). 



Anthospermum pachyrrhizum Hiern. 8000 to 9400 ft. (Trop. 

 Africa). 



Campanula Schimperi Vatke. 8000 to 9400 ft. (Abyssinia). 



Lobelia sp., Sect. Hemipogon. 7300 ft. 



Vernonia amygdalina Bel. 7250 ft. (Trop. Africa). — Coni/za 

 si rid a Willd. forma. 8000 ft. (Trop. Africa to India).— Heli- 

 chrysum abyssinicum Sch. Bip. 8000 to 9000 ft. (Trop. Africa). — 

 Geigeria alata Benth. Common (Trop. Africa). — Centaurea\sene- 

 galensis BC. (Trop. Africa). 



HIERACIUM AMPLEXICAULE L. 

 By J. Cosmo Melvill, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



For a very long time this Hawkweed, of isolated position in the 

 genus, has been known to occur on some ancient walls at Oxford, 

 and, since the date of publication of the 3rd Edition of English 

 Botany in 1866, where Carrie Barns, Clun, is given as Bon's dis- 

 covery, several localities in various counties have been named for it. 

 Mr. S. T. Dunn, in his Alien Flora, mentions it as "thoroughly 

 established in several places in old villages"; and in the last (9th) 

 edition of Babington's Flora Hawes and Cleish Castle, Kinross, are 

 noted for its occurrence. 



In July 1895, Mr. Henry Hyde, of Manchester, noticed a large 

 growth of this plant on both sides of a bridge crossing theR. Mersey, 

 between Stretford, Lancashire, and Sale, Cheshire, the two counties 

 being divided by the river. Three years afterwards, on July 2nd, 

 1898, 1 was conducted to the spot by Mr. Hyde, and found a very 

 luxuriant growth, some specimens having even found a foothold on 

 the masonry of the bridge itself; I at once recognized it as H. <nn- 

 plexicaule, having only recently gathered it at Oxford, whence I 

 sent specimens that year to the Botanical Exchange Club (see B. E. C. 

 Report, i. 578, 1898). About ten years ago, I again visited the spot 

 and noted that the plant was thriving and increasing exceedingly. 

 From the parcel of plants collected in 1919. received from the Club, 

 I was interested to find that Mr. R. S. Adamson, of Manchester 



