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is no Lancashire record for it in Green's Flora of Liverpool, but 

 it was found many years a^o by Dickinson at Parkgate, in 

 Cheshire. It has long been known as a plant of West Lanca- 

 shire, where it was found near Bare by Mr. Newton, as recorded 

 by Eay in 1688 — the first British record. It probably still occurs 

 on the North Yorkshire coast, near Coatham, but it has long dis- 

 appeared from near the old pier at Scarborough, whence it was 

 recorded by Bean. — J. A. Wheldon. 



Tragopogon minus Mill, forma. — Early in July this year 

 there was a considerable quantity of this plant growing in the 

 turf on Selsley Hill, above Stroud, Gloucestershire. It is a very 

 much dwarfed form of compact growth. I was attracted to it by 

 the very large heads of pappus (If in. high and 2 in. broad) which 

 were growing at about the same height above the ground that one 

 sees dandelion clocks. I gathered a number of plants and 

 measured them from the ground level to the distal end of the 

 pappus. The great majority were 6 to 7 in. in height, the smaller 

 ones 5 in., and a few large ones reached 9 to 10 in. They had not 

 been nibbled by sheep. The stems were either simple and one- 

 flowered, or with a short secondary scape arising within an inch 

 of the base of the stem, and bearing one flower. This was usually 

 in bud or just opening when the first flower had ripened its seeds. 

 The flowers are rather shorter than the involucre, and the fruit 

 agrees with the description in Babington's Manual, ed. 9. I have 

 not met with this form before ; the ordinary roadside plant is 

 from 2 to 2| ft. high and much branched. — Eleonora Armitage. 



Ehinanthus monticola Druce in Mid-west Yorkshire 

 (v.-c. 64). — I found this plant in quantity on July 27th this year 

 near Malham, at about 1250 ft. It grows in the turf over a wet 

 moory area, about half a mile square, near the head of the Gordale 

 Beck, frequently in close association with Bartsia alpina. I do 

 not think the plant has been previously recorded for the West 

 Eiding. The specimens agree closely with the description given in 

 the article by the Eev. E. S. Marshall in this Journal in 1903, p. 297, 

 and are for the most part about four inches in height, exceptionally 

 reaching five and a half inches. The main stems bear from eight 

 to thirteen or fourteen pairs of leaves (excluding the floral leaves), 

 and from three to five flowers or fruits. The curious colouring of 

 the corollas, well described as "treacly yellow," attracts the eye 

 at once. Usually the whole plant was much bronzed, becoming 

 purplish bronze in the fruiting-calyx. — A. E. Bradley. 



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