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Glamorgansh. On colliery debris. Glais (1908). A. Ley/'- — 

 Middlesex. Thames side between Kingston Bridge and Hampton 

 Court, 1912. C. E. Britton. 



Ireland. Waste ground, Straffan, Co. Kildare, 1904. 



Not uncommon, especially by stream-sides and in shady places, 

 but showing a tendency to pass by every gradation into the var. 

 campestris Fr. Frequent on the Continent. 



Var. TRANSiENS Druce, Fl. Berks. 44 (1897). 



Plant stout, robust ; lower stem leaves with oblong, cuneiform 

 terminal lobe, the lateral linear lobes well developed, up to five 

 pairs, exceeding the terminal lobe in width. According to Mr. 

 Druce this is a plant of dry situations, occurring on stiff clay soils 

 and barren ground. 



N. Somerset. Field border on the Welloway, three miles from 

 Bath, 1910. J. W. White.— Bucks. Bulstrode. Druce.— Suffolk. 

 Nazeland, 1896. J. D. Gray.— York. Clifton Ings, 1871. E. C. 

 Hunt {Herb. Keio.). — Salop. Shrewsbury, 1835. Leighton [Herb. 

 Mus. Brit.). — Anglesey. Banks of Pentraeth river. Davies [Herb. 

 Mus. Brit.). 



Mr. Druce also records it from near Chellow, Englefield, 

 Newbury, and Benham, Berks., and a similar form was gathered 

 in Hayling Island by Mr. Arthur Bennett. (See Eep. Bot. Exch. 

 Club, 1892, p. 353.) 



Barbarea vulgaris, in one or other of its forms, is found by 

 riversides, brook-banks, in ditches and moist hedge-bottoms, on 

 dry roadsides, in waste ground, and field borders on still" clay soils 

 in every English county except South Lincoln, and in all Scotch 

 counties except Westerness, East Koss, Outer Hebrides and the 

 Shetlands. It is frequent throughout Ireland, being recorded from 

 every county division. It ascends to 540 metres on the Grampians 

 of the Atholl district of Perthshire. It is generally distributed 

 over Europe, occurring also in West Asia and the Himalayas. In 

 America it is found only as an introduced plant in the Eastern 

 States. The records of B. vulgaris from Kamtschatka, China, and 

 S. Africa refer probably to other species. 



I have to thank Mr. Charles Bailey for the loan of a fine series 

 of specimens from his extensive herbarium, and also Mr. A. J. 

 Wilmott for many helpful suggestions. 



THOMAS WAINWEIGHT 



(1826-1916). 



North Devon has lost a local celebrity by the death at Barn- 

 staple on April 29th last of the Librarian and Secretary of the 

 North Devon Athenaeum, in the 91st year of his age. Born at 

 Leeds on April 7th, 1826, and educated as a boy in that city, 

 Wainwright, after a brief and uncongenial apprenticeship in a 

 commercial house there, left Leeds before his 20th year to take the 



• Identified as B. taurica DC. by Mr. J. E. Drummond (see Bot. Exch. 

 Club Rep. 1907, p. 273, and Wats. Exch. Club Rep. 1908-9, p. 174). 



