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SOMERSET PLANTS : NOTES FOR 1909-10. 



By the Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



These collecting-seasons having been ungenial, opportunities 

 for field-work were considerably curtailed. Much, however, has 

 been accomplished in the north-western part of the county, in pre- 

 paration for the forthcoming second edition of the Flora of the 

 Bristol Coalfield ; and in a recent pamphlet Mr. J. W. White has 

 compiled an excellent " Sketch of a Year's Work." Among plants 

 apparently quite new for Somerset he mentions Chara contraria 

 Kuetz., Cratcegus Oxyacantha (nionogyna Jacq.) var. splendens 

 Druce, and Carex elata All. (stricta Good.). Mr. H. W. Pugsley 

 sends me a short list from the neighbourhood of Minehead, and 

 Mr. White has kindly handed on some useful notes made by Dr. 

 C. E. Moss near Bruton, as well as on the peat moor and the 

 Mendips. A walk with Major Wolley-Dod at Minehead yielded a 

 few critical Roses, and a ramble round Chard Reservoir with Mr. 

 W. A. Shoolbred somewhat increased our knowledge of its rich 

 and interesting vegetation ; I have also been fortunate in finding a 

 few things elsewhere which are either new or rare. Fresh vice- 

 comital records are starred ; districts 1 to 4 being in Watson's 

 v.-c. 5 S. Somerset, the rest (so far as this paper is concerned) in 

 6 N. Somerset. 



Baminculus Baudotii Godr. 4. Chard Reservoir, in profusion ; 

 a very uncommon plant, inland. I suspect that seeds of this and 

 other submaritime species which occur there may have been 

 brought from the coast on the feet of ducks or other water-fowl. — 

 B. Lenormandi F. Schultz. 2. Crowcombe Heathfield, in small 

 quantity. — B. sceleratus L. 3. Wiveliscombe. — B. auricomus L. 

 3. Hatch Beauchamp. — B. sardous Crantz. 2. Alcombe marshes, 

 Pugsley. 



Aconitum Napelhis L. 8. " In great abundance in Park Wood, 

 Redlynch ; in June, 1902, there were thousands of flowering 



spikes Near Cole — Bruton — as a stream-side plant, with 



Senecio sarracenicus," Moss. 



PajKiver Bhceas L. var. *stngosum (Boenn.). 2. Field at Al- 

 combe, with the type, Pugsley. I know of no previous record for 

 Somerset. 



Meconopsis camhrica Vig. 1. A frequent ornament of the 

 banks of the Exe, about Exton and Winsford. 



Fmnaria Borcsi Jord. 2. Dunster ; Wootton Courtney, Pugs- 

 ley. — Var. serotina Clavaud. 2. Alcombe, Pugsley. — F. Bastardi 

 Bor. {confusa Jord.). 2. Dunster, Pugsley. 



Badicula sylvestris Druce. 9. Banks of the Cheddar stream, 

 Hythe, Moss. — B. imlustris Moench. 9. Rhine banks, Kenn 

 Moor, Moss. — B. amphibia Druce. 3. Abundant in a ditch near 

 the Tone, Creech St. Michael. 



Cardamine impatiens L. 9. Foot of Callow Rocks, Moss. 



Draha muralis L. 8. Railway bank near Pink Wood, between 

 Bruton and Witham Friary, Moss. 



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