^96 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANY 



C. triviale, Arenaria serjoylltfolia, A. lejJtoclados, Hypericum hir- 

 sutum, H. perforatum, Lznwn catharticum, several seedlings with 

 one flower only, Geranium molle, G. BoherUamim, G. dissectum 

 and G. colmnhinum, Oxalis Acetosella, Vicia sativa, Spircsa 

 Ulmaria, Fragaria vesca, Buhus sp., B. idceus, Saxifraga tridacty- 

 lites, Epilobmm montammi, E. aiigustifolmm, E. tetragonum (very 

 frequent in N. Somerset), Angelica, Heracleum, Galium Mollugo, 

 Bellis perennis, Chrysanthemum Leucanthcmum, Achillea Mille- 

 folium, Lactuca muralis. Cardials acanthoides, Centaurea nigra, 

 C. Scabiosa, Crepis virens, Hypochcsris radicata, Leontodon his- 

 pidiim, L. autumnale, Lapsana communis. Campanula rotundifolia, 

 Myosotis collina, dried up, Ivy, Euphrasia sp., Scrophulana 

 nodosa, Veronica Chamcedrys, Cala?mntha Clinopodium, Nepeta 

 Glechoma, Me7itha sp., Thymus Serpyllum, Ajugareptans, Brunella 

 vulgaris, Lamium Galeobdolon, Buynex crispus, B. conglomcratus, 

 B. Acetosa, Euphorbia aynygdaloides, Mercunalis perennis, Urtica 

 urens. The only Sedge noticed was Carex contigua Hoppe, of 

 which there are also several huge clumps 2 ft. 6 in. high in the 

 brushwood near. 



This hst, which doubtless could be lengthened, is remarkable 

 for the number of woodland and meadow plants growing upon the 

 stonework ; and for the apparent absence of any Sedum, of 

 Ceterach, and Parietaria ramiflora, though the latter is somewhat 

 local and usually prefers the vicinity of old houses. 



Harptree Combe is one of the few places in Somerset where 

 Caynpanula patula grows. It was comforting to hear a child say 

 that her school-mistress had cautioned them against gathering this 

 beautiful and increasingly rare plant. This was told me after I 

 had failed to find it at Harptree. In the valley itself were hand- 

 some clumps of Dipsacus pilosus and the true Carduus acan- 

 thoides L., both seven feet high. Listera ovata was extremely 

 tine ; two specimens were more than two feet high with leaves 

 six inches long. The inflorescence of Twayblade is most varied. 

 Sometimes, especially in the Alps according to my observation, 

 the lower lip is reflexed so as to touch the rachis ; whereas in the 

 two largest Harptree specimens the flowers are so spreading that 

 the spike is 1| in. wide, for some of the lower lips are at right 

 angles to the main stem. A Twayblade gathered in June near 

 Mells, Somerset, has three alternate leaves, two being very small. 



Another rare and very beautiful plant (Vicia Orobus) was 

 found near E. Harptree in 1888; and it grows in captivating 

 clumps of white, mauve or purple, in several pasture fields — 

 soinetimes mown — a few miles away on the Mendip plateau. 

 Both in England and on the Continent it happens to have a 

 peculiar and somewhat similar distribution to 0. patula. The 

 centre of distribution seems to be neither N., S., E., -nor W. 

 Both plants are widely but sparingly spread over England and 

 much of the Continent ; and yet so local and uncertain are they 

 that I have never seen either species between Norway and the 

 Pyrenees ; and F. Orobus in only three places in England and 

 Wales. My friend C. E. Salmon saw it this year for the first 



