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Convolvulus arvensis (p. 37). — On a railway bank in 

 Wimbledon there is a plant of this which regularly produces fully 

 double flowers, with the corolla cut into segments nearly to the 

 base, so that the flowers have the aspect of small pink " La 

 France " roses. I first noticed the plant in 1914, and again in 

 1915 ; but last year it was unfortunately cut away in clearing the 

 bank just after it had commenced flowering. — H. W. Pugsley. 



Mistletoe on the Oak in Somerset. — The rarity of Mistle- 

 toe on an oak tree is sufficient to make it interesting that during 

 this winter I have found an instance in Leigh Woods, close to 

 Bristol. This is a new record for Somerset, and only ten such 

 trees are believed to exist in England, distributed in six counties. 

 The Avon gorge with its well-known suspension bridge is 

 crowned on the Somerset side by a fringe of ancient woodland 

 amongst which are many oaks, and one of these bears the parasite. 

 The tree is the species Quercus intermedia Boenn., of moderate 

 girth and about 50 ft. in height, probably more than a century 

 old, as the soil is shallow over the limestone rocks. The mistletoe 

 forms a large pendent bunch near the top. — Ida M. Koper. 



JuNCUs tenuis in Carnarvonshire. — When on a visit to 

 Capel Curig in the summer of 1914 I found this species in seven 

 or eight distinct places along the Bangor road, extending from the 

 Swallow Falls near Bettws-y-Coed almost to the highest point of 

 the road near Tryfan, and again in one or two spots by the roadside 

 towards Pen-y-gwryd. It is not easy to find among other Jtmci 

 and long grasses, but it often betrays its presence by its habit of 

 straying out into the road metal. It looks quite native, but of 

 course any roadside plant may be introduced with road metal or 

 by other means. The species is already recorded for the county 

 in Griffith's i^/ora of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire, with a reference 

 to Mr. J. Lloyd Williams's interesting paper on the plant in North 

 Wales published in this Journal for 1896, p. 201.— A. H. Wolley- 



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Phleum alpinum in England. — The 80th Annual Eeport of 

 the Bootham School Natural History Society (1914) says : " Far 

 the best all-round naturalist is G. S. Adair, who exhibits a collec- 

 tion of 650 plants, of which 220 are new this year. His most 

 interesting find is Fhleum alpimtm, from Helvellyn. This plant 

 has not been previously recorded from any English locality, though 

 Mr. G. C. Druce, of the Herbarium, Oxford, who has confirmed 

 Adair's identification, points out that it has been previously found 

 in the Grampians." Adair, who won a natural science scholarship 

 at King's Coll. Camb., in Dec, 1914, contributed an interesting 

 and thoughtful paper on " Plant Distribution in Teesdale " to the 

 same Report, which is incorporated in Bootham, the magazine of 

 this well-known school at York. — H. S. Thompson. 



