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carried on a ship's bottom and become naturalized. It is true tliat 

 briijartina Teedii is only found at Brixbam in Great Britain, but it 

 occurs also in Jersey, and apparently reaches its northern limit in 

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ScROPHULARiA ScoRODONiA IN CORNWALL. — On a reccut visit to 

 Fowey I found this plant growing abundantly on the stony slope of 

 the harbour close to the railway station. I had previously seen the 

 plant on the hills behind Towan Head at Newquay, but had never 

 met with it on the south coast of Cornwall, except at Penzance, 

 and believe the locality of Fowey is not recorded for it. The next 

 northerly point known to me for the plant is near Kingsbridge, in 

 Devon, where the late Rev. W. S. Hore told me he had discovered 

 it many years ago. Fortunately the Fowey locality is one where 

 the plant will not easily be destroyed, since it is almost impossible 

 to get the root from between the stones, and the plant grows 

 luxuriantly as if quite at home there. — E. M. Holmes, 



Sagina Reuteri Boiss. in Herefordshire. — I met with this 

 plant, growing plentifully, upon the garden walks of the Rectory, at 

 Tedstone Delamere, on July 22nd. Its previously recorded stations 

 are, — the platform of Great Malvern railway-station, where I first 

 gathered it on July 8th, 1889 (see Journ. Bot. 1894, pp. 181-2); 

 and the platform of Foregate Street (Worcester) railway-station 

 [Joitrii. Bot. 1896, p. 367), where it was noticed in 1896. Mr. G. 

 Claridge Druce, who contributed the first article referred to, has 

 kindly looked at the Tedstone plants, and compared them with a 

 Malvern specimen, and agrees with me in considering them identical. 

 Until meeting with the Tedstone examples, I had concluded that 

 the plant had been introduced with the ballast forming the platforms 

 of the two stations, which are situated on the same line of railway; 

 but its occurrence at Tedstone Delamere, which is four miles distant 

 from any railway, and about twelve miles from the nearest point 

 where it had hitherto been gathered, leads me to hope that it may 

 be a native, and to this view, I may add, Mr. Druce has all along 

 been inclined. The Tedstone plants are more robust than those 

 from Worcestershire, and this would naturally follow from growing 

 on open walks instead of between brickwork. I have sent specimens 

 to the British Museum Herbarium. — Richard F. Towndrow. 



FossoMBRONiA CRisTATA Liiidb. IN Ireland. — Tliis hepatic, whjch 

 does not appear to have been recorded from Ireland, was found by 

 me in October, 1890, growing abundantly on the shore of Lough 

 Bridan, Co. Down, and was mentioned in a paper I read shortly 

 afterwards before the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, which, how- 

 over, was not published in iheiv Proccediii(/s. The habitat was a 

 bed or Hat bank of a whitish stiff clay, which is usually covered by 

 water, but had that season been dry for several months. The tufts 

 were from half an inch to two inches in diameter, in the form of 

 little rosettes of a vivid green colour. The individual plants were 



