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No. 9, which includes Berks, Oxford, and Bucks. On reference to 

 Watson's * Topographical Botany,' ed. 2, it would appear that this 

 plant is still unrecorded for Hunts, which is apparently the only 

 county in the S.E. of England in which it has not been observed. 

 For Herts it is recorded in Mr. Pryor's * Flora ' of that county, 

 with the observation that it had been very rare lately. Nephrodiuni 

 Thelypteris Desv. was also shown me by Mrs. Tindall in July last, 

 growing in a boggy wood just within the borders of Bucks, where 

 it joins the county of Beds, near Great Brickhill. It was growing 

 in company with Chrysosplenium oppositifoliiun, which is a very local 

 plant in this district. N, Thelypteris is also a new county record. 

 — J. Saunders. 



Falcaria Kivini in Kent. — This plant is still to be found in its 

 old habitat, which it has retained for the last thirty years, so I 

 think it deserves to be noted as pretty well established in Kent. 

 I have in my herbarium a specimen gathered in the same place in 

 the year 1858 ; not being able at that time to make it out, I sent a 

 specimen to Dr. Lindley, but he refused to name an umbelliferous 

 plant without perfect fruit-seed. I therefore watched for the seed 

 to ripen, but it all died off without coming to perfection. The year 

 I first found it, it was growing in an arable field planted with 

 potatoes, which I learned were brought from Scotland. The 

 farmers in this neighbourhood use a spuddleing plough in their 

 fields soon after carrying the corn, and the plant was cut up, and 

 I thought destroyed, till I found it again in the same field in the 

 autumn of 1887, when the field was sown with peas ; it probably 

 meantime escaped observation, as it would not readily be detected 

 in the standing corn, coming up, as it does, late. For better 

 observation I planted some roots of it in my garden in 1887 ; it 

 blossomed last year, and is now again in full bloom. It does not 

 appear to have increased by seedlings, but it produces long fibrous 

 roots, which strike deep into the ground ; however, it is now very 

 vigorous, and came up early, and seems likely to perfect seed. The 

 Rev. A. L. Moore found the plant at Birchington in 1886 ( Journ. 

 Bot. 1887, p. 183). LepiiUum Draha, which I remember to have 

 been introduced into this parish some thirty-five years ago, has 

 greatly increased, not only here, but in all the eastern parts of 

 Kent, and is now one of the most troublesome of weeds ; the 

 Falcaria does not seem so prolific, perhaps from its not often 

 ripening its seed, and the field in which I first found it is the only 

 place where it grows in this neighbourhood, except in my garden. 

 The spot where it grows is in the neighbouring parish of Preston- 

 next- Wingham, in an arable field near the junction of the two 

 parishes, to the east of the footpath between them. — Geo. Dowker. 



Festuca heterophylla (pp. 216, 219). — It may be noted that 

 this plant was sent to the Botanical Record Club by Mr. Brotherston 

 in 1874. His note on the specimen (now in Herb. Mus. Brit.) 

 runs : — " Road-sides near Kelso, Roxburghshire, June, 1874. Most 

 likely introduced with grass-seeds, as I have seen it named in seed- 

 lists." — James Britten. 



