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niiicli smaller than usual, ami lacking the ray florets. If it is an3'- 

 thing more than a lusits, the form deserves naming as a variety, 



Cynoglossum montanum L. A MS. note of F. Townsend's records 

 this note from "woods near Chastleton, but whether in Glos or 

 Oxon I know not." 



Verhascum nigrum X ThapsKS. I have this hybrid both from the 

 Sheepscombe and the Slad Valleys, near Painswick. 



Teucrium Botrys L. I saw this species again last August : it 

 v/as in great quantity and extended even into a second field. I am 

 not quite sure that it is exactly the spot to which I w\as taken some 

 years ago : if not, there are two large groups of the plant, within a 

 mile of one another, near Sapperton. 



Betula alha L. grows on the top of Haresfield Hill, and occurs on 

 the lower slopes, near the Edge-Pitchcombe Road, as small scrubby 

 bushes. It may be native here, but I doubt it. It so greatly prefers 

 wood on damp or even boggy soil that its appearance on these dry 

 calcareous slopes looks most unnatural. 



Cephalaiithera rnhra Rich, turns up in some fresh spot every 

 year. It is recorded from at least a dozen places, all within our dis-. 

 trict 6 {i.e. south of BirdHp). In most cases one or a fcAV plants 

 only are found. In only one case do I know of it in considerable 

 quantity, and I am told that even there it is diminishing. The felling 

 of a wood threatens to destroy it in one place, for the timber is left 

 lying on the very space where the plant grows. I have one record 

 for G. rnhra from district 7 h, but it is probably an error. 



Orchis liirciiia Crantz. Mr. Druce told me that he had seen a 

 1917 specimen from the Painswick neighbourhood, and I have since 

 seen the finder and been told Avhere it grew. Mr. Horwood wrote to 

 me of his good fortune in discovering it again in Suffolk that je-AW 

 The finder of the one Gloucestershire plant (v.c. 33) described the 

 peculiar behaviour of the open flowers, w^hich have the habit of 

 " following the sun round" during the day, so that they always face 

 it, in whatever part of the sky it is. 



0]iliri/s apifera Huds. var. TroVlii Reichb. fil. By no means 

 unfrequent, both in the Yale of Severn and on the hills. 



Juncus suhnodulosus Schrank. In v.c. 33 certainly, e.g. in the 

 Stroud water- valley, and at the Seven Springs on the R. Windrush. 



Potamogeton Friesii Rupr. occurs not only in the Stroudwater 

 Canal, but also in the R. Leadon : i. e., it is found in v.c. 34 as 

 well as 33. 



Scirpus co)npressus Pers. is a plant characteristic of the tops of 

 the Cotteswolds. Almost every wet grassy open j^asture produces it, 

 and many bogs in woods. Here it is entirely at home, though j)er- 

 haps it would, as a rule, be expected on lower ground in other areas. 



Erioplwrum lafifoJiiim Hoppe is being found more plentifully in 

 Gloucestershire, in both vice-counties. A bog on the hills near 

 Newnham has it. 



Carex tomentosa L. Buckman's record from the Cheltenham 

 district was for many years rejected. But the species is found near 

 the sources of the Colne at Withington. A sedge first known from 

 Marston Mevsev in Wilts, it turns out to be charactcristicallv a 



