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beauty. Moreover one side of the valley belongs to Breconshire; and as she 
could not recollect the exact spot where it was growing, the admissibility of the 
plant upon our lists remained undecided. During the same or the following sea- 
son, I went three times to search for it, but all in vain; neither pratense nor 
sylvaticum seemed to exist in the whole valley. Last year I renewed my search ; 
and at last came upon a meadow, the hedges of which for 8 or 10 yards were quite 
bright with its blossoms—and in Herefordshire. But it seemed, like the Gymna- 
denia albida, confined to a single spot; for not another plant of it did I see during 
the whole day. 
Salix repens has been added to the county lists lately. The only wonder, 
with regard to this willow, is that it should be so rare as it really appears to be in 
Herefordshire. I found a few straggling bits last year on the ridge dividing the 
Cusop from the Craswall valleys. But it was confined to a single spot ; and I 
have never heard of its being found elsewhere in the county. 
I now mention one or two grasses which deserve a place in the present 
paper. One of these, Anthoxanthum Puellii, was I fear—whatever may be the case 
in other counties—with us a mere Casual: and I only mention it because it has 
appeared of late in the same sort of way in so many counties. It appeared in 
1878 in a sandy field in 8S. Weonard’s parish, which had recently been laid down 
in permanent pasture. But it did not appear again, for I have searched the field 
every season since without success. Two other grasses have more interest. _Alo- 
pecurus fulvus was first detected in this county by Mr. Purchas in 1875, in King’s 
Capel ; and it is to be seen at the same station in certain seasons ever since, but 
in the most fitful manner, disappearing during some seasons altogether, and in 
others plentiful, according to no rule that I have succeeded in discovering. Sub- 
sequently I found it in Moccas Park; and gathered it again there last year, in 
company with Sir George Cornewall. 
Gastridium lendigerum has still greater interest; Herfordshire being one of 
the few inland counties in which it is found. But in our county it turns up in so 
many scattered and unexpected places as to incline the balance of probability 
decidedly in favour of its being native. First found in 1854 in a recently cut 
coppice at Wareham, near Hereford, by Mr. E. Davies, I myself subsequently 
found it at Broomy Rise, in Clehonger parish, in 1875, where a tillage field was 
literally full of it: again in 1877, in a field near Upton Bishop on the extreme 
south of the county; and again in 1879 in a recently felled wood at Dinmore, in 
company with the Club. Members should keep a look out for this grass in other 
localities, especially in recently cut coppice woods, where it seems to spring up 
for a year or two after the coppice has been felled. 
Last, not least, in this list of rarities, I will place two ferns, forbearing for 
obvious reasons to say anything exact with respect to their localities. In the 
Ross district there is a wood which has been long known to contain—for those 
who knew where to find it—the rare Lastrea fenisecii. I am not one of those 
favoured individuals, and I have repeatedly searched for it in vain. But I was 
last year fortunate enough to find it in quite another spot, also in the Ross dis- 
trict, where there were several flourishing roots: and better still, in the same 
