NOTES ON BRISTOL PLANTS. 125 



Vaceiniuin Oxycoccos L. Sparingly on Blackdown (Mendip), S. 

 Observed by Mr. W. F. Miller, and recorded in tbis Journal for 

 1896, p. 319. We are informed by Mr. T. Compton, of Winscombe, 

 tbat be and tbe late Mr. Hallam, of Axbridge, found V. Oxycoccos 

 on Blackdown in Aug. 1860 ; but since tben it appears to bave been 

 lost sigbt of at that locality until Mr. Miller rediscovered it in 

 May last. 



Statics auricuJa'foIia Vabl. var. b. intermedia Syme. Birnbeck 

 Island, Weston-super-Mare, S. 



Omenta Epithymum Murr. Railway embankment, Newton St. 

 Loe, S. Growing on various species of Compositce and Umhelliferfe. 



Linarid repens Mill. Growing between tbe metals on tbe 

 G.W.E., Saltford, S. Undoubtedly an introduction, but tborougbly 

 established, and constant for many years past. 



Euphrasia paludosa Towns, {jide Mr. A. Bennett). Peat Moor, 

 near Edington, S. 



Ohenopodium opulifoJium Scbrad. Bitton ; Clifton and Fish- 

 ponds, G. Bath and Corston, S. This alien is usually confined to 

 dust-heaps, being occasionally plentiful and constant. — O.Jici/ulium 

 Sm. Many plants on rubbish near Bath, S. Perhaps tbe same as 

 recorded by Mr. S. T. Dunn in this Journal for Nov. 1896. 



Sparyaniuin ramosum Huds. var. b. vncrocarpiim, Neum. {fide Rev. 

 E. F. Linton). Keynsham and Weston-in-Gordano, S. 



Eleocharis acicidaris E. Br. Abundantly in many places by tbe 

 edge of the canal between Bath and Cleverton, S. We believe that 

 this does not flower excepting when occasionally it becomes exposed 

 owing to the water receding from the mud. 



Scirpiis paiicifionts Lightf. Blackdown (Mendip), S. — .S'. Jiuitans 

 L. Blackdown (Mendip); also very abundantly in ditches in tbe 

 moor at Weston-in-Gordano, S. — S. Holoscluemis L. Berrow, S. 



Oarex acuta L. Bank of Avon at Hanham, G. Compton Dando 

 and Saltford, S. — 0. pallescens L. Woods at Compton Dando and 

 Marksbury, S. — 0. striyosa Huds. Woods at Compton Dando, 

 Houndstreet, and Marksbury, S. 



Lycopodixan clavatum L. Blackdown (Mendip), S. Detected by 

 Miss Gregory. We believe that the only other locality in N. 

 Somerset from which this has been recorded is a hill near Clevedon, 

 where it has been known for a very long period. 



Of the plants above recorded, tbe following — many of them of 

 great interest — were discovered by Mrs. E. S. Gregory, Fairleigh, 

 Weston-super-Mare : — Viola villosa, Oerastiwn arvense, liosa frondosa, 

 Orepis biennis, Statice intermedia, and Scirpus HoloscJueincs The (Jis- 

 covery of 8. Holoschceniis in Oct. 189G, at Berrow, on the shore of 

 tbe Bristol Channel, is the most important addition which has been 

 made to the flora of N. Somerset during a very long period ; and all 

 the more remarkable because the ground where the Srirpus occurs 

 has been diligently worked over for fully a century past by local and 

 other botanists. Whilst it can hardly be doubted that S. 1 Loloschienus 

 grew formerly at Watcbet, in S. Somerset, it is equally certain that 

 the plant has not been seen there recently; and it therefore seems 



