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NOTES ON BEISTOL PLANTS. 



By James W. White, F.L.S., and David Fry. 



The following notes of plants observed since 1892, in the area 

 of the Bristol Coal-field (W. Gloucester and N. Somerset), are in 

 continuation of those which appeared in this Journal for 1893, 

 pp. 115-117. Species and varieties not yet recorded (so far as we 

 are aware) for vice-counties 6 or 31 are distinguished by an asterisk 

 before the name ; whilst G and S, after the localities, refer to vice- 

 counties 34 and 6 respectively. 



*Fiimaria densiflora DC. Cultivated ground. Wells, S. New to 

 Somerset. 



Nasturtium palustre DC. Bank of River Chew at Compton 

 Dando, S. 



'^'Viola Riviniana Reichb. var. f. villosa (Neum., W. & M.) {Jide 

 Mr. Beeby). Near Shipham, and in woods at Weston-super-Mare, 

 S. New to Somerset. 



*Cera8thon arvense L. Hillside at Loxton, S. New to Somerset. 

 Sagina ciliata Fr. Brandon Hill and Mangotsfield, G. Bris- 

 lington, S. 



'■^'Hypericum Elodes L. Mangotsfield Common, G. New county 

 record. It is remarkable that this widely distributed species has 

 not been recorded previously for any locality in the county of 

 Gloucester. 



MelUotus indica All. Plentiful in cultivated ground at Corston. 

 S. This appeared for several years in succession after it was first 

 observed. 



Vicia awjustifuUa L. var. b. Buhartii Koch. Plentifully at Con- 

 ham, G. 



Piuhus fissus Liudl. Abundantly in the Lords Wood, Hound- 

 street, S. This bramble, which the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers regards 

 as essentially fissus, has a remarkably different aspect from the 

 typical form, owing to its extremely luxuriant habit, the stems being 

 often six feet or even more in height, and the leaves frequently very 

 large — many of them septennate — with leaflets of a thinner texture 

 than usual, the terminal one recalling in shape that of Pi. suherectus. 

 The stem-prickles, though numerous, are fewer and less crowded, 

 and have much more dilated bases than in fissus, growing at a con- 

 siderable elevation, "which we have gathered in the Midlands. — 

 ■'■R. sulcatus Vest. Wood near the River Chew at Compton Dando, 

 and in the Lords Wood, Houndstreet, S. These two stations are 

 the only ones recorded, so far, for this bramble in the county of 

 Somerset.— /?. pUcatus W. & N. Near Wyck Rocks, G. ; only two 

 bushes, but very fine and characteristic. — ''R- nitidus W. & N. 

 Very plentifully in the Lords Wood, Houndstreet, S. Mr. Rogers 

 considers this thoroughly goodi nitidus ; but the stamens are remark- 

 ably short, and in general habit it seems to differ from the southern 

 type very much as i\\Q fissus, growing in the same wood, does from 

 the usual form of that species. New to Somerset. — R. dumnoniemis 

 Bab. Tate Common and Danory Bridge, O.—R. rhombi/ulius Weihe. 



