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SOMEESET NOTES. 

 By the Eev. E. P. Murray, M.A., F.L.S. 



Since my last commimication to this Journal (p. 42) I have 

 been fortunate enough to find a few plants which seem of sufficient 

 interest to deserve notice, and I have now much pleasure in sub- 

 mitting the foUowiug notes : — 



Fumaria pallidijiora, Jord. — Two or three luxuriant plants by 

 the roadside between Cheddar and Axbridge. I think that this is 

 a new record for H. C. Watson's vice -county 6 (N. Somerset). 



Draha miiralis, L. — This plant seems to be much more 

 abundant on Mendip than has usually been supposed. The known 

 localities for it were E. Harptree, Emborough, and Mells ; but 

 during last spring I gathered it in many places, extending from 

 West Horrington, near Wells, to Chilwood, a village about seven 

 miles to the south of Bristol. In some localities it was most 

 abundant ; notably so at Stone Easton, where it covered nearly 

 every wall, almost to the exclusion of the usual common species. 



AJtIuca hirsuta, L. — This very rare plant still grows in the 

 locality indicated by Mr. Baker (Journ. Bot., 1875, p. 358) ; and 

 after examining the station I entirely agree with him in con- 

 sidering it " a true native." 



Trifolium maritimuni, Huds. — The interest of this plant centres 

 in its stations. Here, in Mid Somerset, it seems to mark very 

 curiously the position of the old shore -line, at the time when 

 Glastonbury Moor was still an arm of the sea. It grows in an old 

 lane about three miles west of Wells, where it was kindly shown to 

 me by Miss Livett. This lane runs along the side of a hill which 

 slopes somewhat steeply down to the moor. This station is about 

 twelve miles in a direct line from the sea. I find it also in the 

 parish of Barton St. David, marking the extreme limit of the 

 moor, at a distance of over seventeen miles from the sea. If I am 

 right in supposing " Barnwell," in the 'New Botanists' Guide,' to 

 be a misprint for " Banwell," this locality also will prove to be an 

 inland one. The species seems, to be fi-equently confused with 

 2'. ochruleucum, L. Other relics of the old maritime Flora may 

 probably be found in Apium graveolens, L., extremely abundant 

 about the further extremity of the moor, and in Scirpus waritimus, 

 L., which I have seen in King's Sedgemoor, fourteen miles from 

 the sea. 



Jjijthrum IJ II mi pi folia, L. — About fifteen months ago I had to 

 make up the garden paths at Baltonsborough Parsonage with 

 gravel brought h-om Wilts, and this summer I was much surprised 

 at finding two plants of this species come up on the new gravel. 

 I have not yet seen it actually growing at Wells. 



Many other interesting plants have passed under my notice 

 during the X)ast season, but I refrain from noticing them in this 

 place, as I am now engaged in collecting materials for a Flora 

 of Somerset. I need hardly add, that any assistance which I may 

 receive from fellow- workers in the same field will be most gratefully 

 welcomed. My address is 22, Chamberlain Street, Wells, Somerset. 



