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are sessile within the throat of the tube and enveloped by the 

 stiff hairs arising there, upon which the pollen is shed. The hairs 

 point upwards and inwards. In the bud the style has already 

 grown out, and is pressed firmly against the inner surface of the 

 tips of the corolla-lobes, emerging as the bud opens. Self-polli- 

 nation is thus avoided. 



Form c— In this form both anthers and stigma are in the 

 throat of the corolla. It is not an earlier stage of form h, as in 

 that form the style projects well beyond the tube in the bud. 



Form d. — Earlier in the season plant-individuals were seen 

 whose flowers bore long stamens bent horizontally outwards, 

 lying in the intervals between adjacent corolla-lobes. Later in 

 the season this form could not be found. It was at first supposed 

 this might be form ft at a different stage, but no confirmation of 

 this could be gathered. 



As to the number of lobes to the corolla ; the normal is five, 

 but there are sometimes four, sometimes six, in which last event 

 the stigma is trifid. 



In the Salisbury neighbourhood, P. rhodesiana is only found 

 growing in granitic soil. Monsonia biflora DC. is another plant 

 confined to the granite area. Monotes africana A. DC. var. deiiu- 

 dans Hiern (no. 1398), a small-sized tree, has like characteristic. 



EiCHAEDiA scABEA L. (no. 1397). Grows by the roadside, 

 with small white grouped flowers. Diameter of flower about 

 5 mm. Calyx of six pointed sepals, fringed wath reddish hairs : 

 accrescent in the fruit, to which it forms a star-like crown. 

 Corolla with an infundibuliform tube, normally with six lobes. 

 Stamens erect, springing from the rather wide mouth of the tube, 

 alternating with the corolla-lobes and equalling them in length. 

 Pollen-grains large. Dehiscence introrse. Style long, dividing 

 at the summit into three shghtly spreading branches, each branch 

 bearing a rounded, cushion-like lobe covered with stigmatic 

 papillae. No stylar brush. The stigmatic lobes are at the apex 

 of the bud ready to emerge as it opens. Dehiscence occurs before 

 the flower unfolds. There are a few hairs at the bottom of the 

 corolla-tube, none at the throat. Although small, these flowers 

 are visited by bees. 



(To be continued.) 



GLOUCESTEESHIRE RECORDS. 



By the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell. 



(Concluded from p. 230.) 



Vicia gracilis Lois. " 33. Flower sp.," To}). Bot. The real 

 position is as follows : — '''33. Hedge of field, Horcott Hill, Kemps- 

 ford! *34. Cornfields near Keynsham, Gloucester (1871, T. B. 

 Floioer, in lib. Wats.). Banks of the Hereford Canal, lib. Brodij, 

 1870. Keynsham itself is, of course, in Somerset ; but no doubt 

 Flower's specimen came from Gloucestershire, as he pointedly 



