20 OCCURRKNCE OF MEDICAGO LAPPACKA IN llEDKOKDSniRE. 



Myosotis lingulata. Elstow. 



Tliymtis Cham(C(lrys, Bassmcad, Luton, Purvey. 



Polygonum arenastruvi. Caddington, &c. 



Rumex pratensis. Near Bedford. 



Atriplex erecta. Luton, Woburn Sands. 



A. deltoidea. Bedford. 



Salix cinerea. Harlington, Farndish. 



Orchis incarnata. Bassmcad. 0. latifolia is not certainly known 

 to occur. 



Habenaria cMorantha. Bassmead. 



Juncus acutiJJoriis. "Woburn Sands. 



Calamagrostis Epigejos. Bassmead. Abbot refers to " English 

 Botany," t. 402, under Arundo Epigejos of his Flora. As the figure 

 represents I'halaris arundinacea, there must be some doubt as to the 

 plant intended. C. Epigejos is really figured in t. 403, but that plate 

 is referred by Abbot to C lanceoJata {A. Calamagrostis of his Ylor&). 

 This last has not been rediscovered in the county. 



Glyceria Jluitans (true). Maulden. 



There are a few other plants of some interest which, although it 

 is some years since they were first noticed in the county, have never 

 yet found admission into any published record ; the present is perhaps 

 not an unfavourable opportunity for giving them a permanent position 

 .in the Flora. In the herbarium of tbe llev. B. H. Webb, of Essendon, 

 which has been kindly placed at my disposal, there is a 'Thalictrum 

 {T. mifius, Auct.) from Flitwick, which I am unable to determine 

 with certainty, but which is perhaps saxatile. Antennaria dioica 

 is also well represented from the Barton Hills. Of this last I possess 

 a specimen from another source, gathered near High Down, and pro- 

 bably in Beds. Both plants are new to the coimty list. In the same 

 collection, and also from Flitwick, there is a fine series of examples of 

 the narrow-leaved, laciniate form of Fimpinella magna. Mr. Webb's 

 plants were all collected in 1841. 



Another unrecorded species from Barton is in the Kew Herbarium, 

 Carex fidva, "v. speirosiac/iya." This is stated to have been collected 

 in 1846, but the writer of the ticket is unknown to me. 



Among those plants which are not strictly native, but which are 

 not unlikely to become established in the county, Diplotaxis muralis 

 and Lepidium Braha m.ay be noticed. Specimens of both, collected by 

 Mr. Conder in 1861, near Ampthill, and by the mill at Kempston re- 

 spectively, are in Professor Babington's herbarium at Cambridge. So 

 long ago as 1804 Lepidium campestre was observed by Abbot " on the 

 embankment of our river at Bedford, between Duck Mill and the first 

 sluice " (letter to Sir J. E. Smith, among Smith's JilS. correspon- 

 dence in the possession of the Linnean Society). It has apparently 

 not been met with since that date. In the same series of letters there 

 is a station given for liuscus aculcatus at Oakley ; the name also occurs 

 without any locality in Davis' *' History of Luton." 



We must look to the Bedford Natural History Society for con- 

 siderable additions to this catalogue. 



