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extreme east of England is certainly remarkable. R. pallidiis 

 W. & N. will take a place among the British Rubi ; and, as a 

 welcome consequence, the term j-xt^^zcZz^, as applied to a slight 

 variety of it!. lioehleri, should be relinquished. This bramble ap- 

 pears to have been mistaken for it!, humifusus Weihe, and is recorded 

 as such by the Rev. R. P. Murray in his ' Notes on Somerset Rubi,' 

 published in Journ. Bot. 1886. — J. W. White. 



POLYGALA CALCAREA P. Schultz IN CA:MBRrDGESHIRE. In JuHC, 



1885, I found a plant on Chippenham Moor, which I supposed to 

 belong to this species. Mr. A. W. Bennett, to whom a specimen 

 has recently been submitted, confirms this name, and so enables 

 us to add a new species to the Flora of Cambridgeshire. Interesting 

 as this addition is in itself, it is much more so from the very 

 remarkable locality in which it grew — a peaty moor covered with 

 such plants as Carex Jlliformis, Jimcus obtusijiorus and Schcenus 

 nigricans, with Epipactis palustris and Liparis Loeselii in the wetter 

 places. The substratum is a bed of the Lower Chalk, which is 

 here and there exposed by the overlying peat having been all cut 

 away by the turf-diggers ; on these denuded spots such plants as 

 Thymus ChamcBdrys, Blackstonia jjerfoliata. Orchis pyramidalis, and 

 Ophrys apifera grow freely, the drainage of the fen now permitting 

 the growth of dry-land plants where the soil is suitable. P. calcarea 

 is not recorded from the Ouse Province in * Topographical Botany,' 

 so in all probability it was brought to Chippenham Moor from some 

 distant locality ; the other " highland " plants being such as grow 

 on the surrounding hills. Now, with little doubt, seeds of P. cal- 

 carea brought by birds would have a better chance of vegetating if 

 deposited on a spot of ground from which the natural herbage had 

 been removed, and the bared chalky soil of which was unable to 

 support peat-loving native plants. I have repeatedly noticed that 

 such places, whether naturally or artificially denuded of their 

 surface -soil, are exactly the localities where plants which are 

 unknown to the surrounding districts are met with ; and are also 

 very attractive to flocks of migratory birds. Distribution of seeds 

 by birds is no doubt constantly going on, yet how rarely we find a 

 *' new species " to record. I think this is chiefly due to the newly- 

 imported seeds being unable to successfully struggle against the 

 already established vegetation. — Alfred Fryer. 



NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN PERIODICALS IN 

 BRITAIN DURING 1888. 



The periodicals cited in this list are, 'Annals of Botany,' 

 'Botanical Magazine,' 'Giirdeners' Chronicle,' 'Icones Plantarum,' 

 * Journal ' and * Transactions ' of the Linnean Society of London, 

 and this Journal. 



New genera are indicated by an affixed asterisk. We have 

 added in square brackets the publishers of certain names which are 

 cited from the MS. description or notes of those who stand by the 

 authority for them. 



