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I may take this opportunity of saying that in his Flora of 

 Berkshire Mr. Druce seems to attribute to me more responsibihty 

 for my little Contributions to the flora of the county than I am 

 disposed to accept. There are no doubt mistakes in it for which 

 I am to blame, but he seems to have overlooked my prefatory 

 caution that, except where a mark of certainty was attached, " the 

 names in the list stand simply on the authority of those who have 

 recorded them." In one instance (Fl. Berks, p. 79) Mr. Druce 

 says he " cannot reconcile " certain of my statements. His difficulty, 

 as I could at once have told him had he asked me, is caused by his 

 having understood "here" in the passage quoted as meaning 

 Buckinghamshire, whereas it referred to the British Museum Her- 

 barium, whence the note was written. — James Britten.] 



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Trifolium Molinerii in Dorset. — Early in June, Mr. H. W. 

 Pugsley found growing near Poole a plant which he and I at once 

 took to be this species. I forwarded a specimen to Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett, who writes : " I think the specimen sent must go to 

 T. Molinerii, though it is difficult to distinguish between white 

 incarnatum and that plant." Mr. Pugsley informs me that there 

 were not more than a dozen specimens of the plant, which was 

 growing on a grassy bank by the road ; but he hesitates to express 

 an opinion as to its indigenity or otherwise. In Herb. Brit. Mus. 

 there is a specimen labelled "Wareham, Dorset, May 1884, H. N. 

 Kidley & W. Fawcett," which I consider identical with the plant 

 found by Mr. Pugsley. — W. West, junr. 



Plantago media in Antrim. — Plantago media was found by me 

 growing at Benvarden, Dervock, in July last. This, I believe, is the 

 first record for Co. Antrim. I have also found it at Ardhea, 

 Co. Tyrone. — S. A. Brenan. 



Arenaria serpyllifolia. — In the last edition of the London 

 Catalogue the varieties of Arenaria serpyllifolia L. are given as 

 b. glutinosa Koch, c. leptoclados (Guss.), d. Lloydii (Jordan). It 

 appears that var. viscidula Eoth, Enum. 2, p. 318 (1827), is an 

 earlier name for b. glutinosa (confer Kouy & Foucaud, Fl. de France, 

 iii. 240, where A. splmrocarpa Tenore is considered synonymous 

 with it). The eglandular var. Lloydii (Jordan) occurs in all the 

 counties bordering the Channel, there being specimens in the 

 National Herbarium from Kent, Sussex, Hants, Isle of Wight, 

 Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall. There are also specimens from 

 Ireland, Co. Wexford, collected by Eev. E. S. Marshall. Mr. 

 WilUams, in his monograph (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxiii. 367), 

 retains A. leptoclados Guss. as specifically distinct from A. serpylli- 

 folia L. The forms of this, a scahra Kouy & Foucaud and P viscidula 

 Rouy & Foucaud, corresponding to the two similarly named forms 

 of A. serpyllifolia L., should be looked for in this country. Mr. 

 Williams does not mention A. serpyllifolia L. var. stricta Townsend 



