178 SHOUT notes. 



London BorAxr. — There is a vast quantity of young plants of 

 Lepidium ruderalej L., springing up nearly all over the waste open 

 brick ground of, say, twenty acres, which lies to the north-west of 

 Addison Road Station, Kensington. The species seems to have in- 

 creased greatly on this ground since last year. I should say each 

 plant there then was now multiplied by ten. The plant is clearly 

 only an alien in Middlesex, yet about West Drayton it has got even 

 into cereal crops as a copious weed. Last auiumn there was a fair 

 quantity oi Bromus arvejisis, L., on the Addison Road waste, and also 

 some Atriplex littoralis, h. marina. About three years back the same 

 ground produced a few plants of Tragopogon porrifolius, but this year 

 I can only light upon the common Goat's-beard — J. L. "Warren. 



Second Appendix to the '' Flora of Liverpool." — This is a 

 pamphlet of twenty -four pages, bearing date April, 1875. It is only 

 two years since the addenda to the Liverpool Flora were printed, and 

 it must be considered highly creditable to the Field Naturalists' Club, 

 under whose auspices it was issued, that so much additional material 

 has already accumulated. The activity of the Liverpool botanists 

 compares favourably with the Manchester societies, who have lately 

 helped on county botany scarcely at all, whilst Chester has, so far as we 

 know, done absolutely nothing. I'he list has been collated and prepared 

 by Mr. Robert Brown, an accurate local botanist, who has also contri- 

 buted a large number of localities ; but the principal contributors for 

 Cheshire plants are the Hon. J. L. Warren, whose forthcoming Flora of 

 that county is well advanced, and his coadjutor, Mr. F. M. Webb. Many 

 species have been added to the Liverpool list, Ranunculus Jiuitans, Bar- 

 larea stricta, Carduus nutans (perhaps introduced), Boronicum Parda- 

 lianches (introduced), Cuscuta earopcea, Mentha rubra, Stachys ambigua, 

 Atriplex deltoidea, var. triangularis, Rumex pratensis, Alisma natans^ 

 Carex diimlsa, C. axillaris (in at least seven or eight localities), and C. 

 fulva. The stations in Lancashire and Cheshire are carefully dis- 

 tinguished under each species. A list of plants about which further 

 information is required concludes this contribution to local botany. 



Plants near Cirencester — TJdaspi perfoliatum. On a bank near 

 Foss Bridge, and also close by, on some rough ground at the edge 

 of a quarry, on 28th April I had the pleasure of seeing for 

 the first time, as a native of Britain, this rare plant. The locality 

 is a new one for the county, and was kindly shown to me by Prof. A. 

 H. Church, who a few days before had discovered it in this spot. It 

 is interesting also as connecting the Oxfordshire locality at Burford 

 with those of Tetbury Road and Stow-on-the-Wold, in Gloucestershire. 

 On the same day we visited a small piece of down near Barnsley 

 Common, about six miles from Cirencester, where Prof. Church was the 

 first to notice some plants of Anemone Pulsatilla, and which we found 

 in great abundance on one part of the down, a locality quite distinct 

 from those between Colesbourne and Rendcombe. Here also I 

 gathered a few specimens of Cerastium pumilum. Curt. I do not think 

 it has been recorded for East Gloucestershire. Erophila verna is ex- 

 tremely abundant in this neighbourhood, both in the fields and on the 

 walls, which latter are of a very suitable character for its growth. It 



