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Trifolium filiforme. This was considered by Mr. Purchas one of our greatest 
rarities ; its authority for the county depending solely on a specimen gathered by 
him at Wilton. Of late years, since learning its distinctive habit and look, I have 
found it to be really much more frequent. Sellack, 8. Weonards, Hentland, 
Orcop, Whitfield, Breinton, do not exhaust the list of its localities as at present 
known. It appears especially partial to garden lawns. In Mr. A. Armitage’s 
lawn at Dadnor (and in many others) it forms a good part of the turf. Probably 
from this we may gather that it bears close shaving better than other clovers, not 
that it is sold in mixtures for lawn sowing, for it is by no means confined to lawns 
but is to be found elsewhere, on dry banks and ordinary meadow land. Besides 
the characteristic pods, when ripe, the deeper, more orange yellow of its scattered 
flowers, as compared with 7. minus, attract the eye to it at once when its look is 
once learned. 
Ornithopus perpusillus. This pretty little plant is given by Mr. Lees as 
“common on the Malvern Hills,” and I should be thankful for specimens, with 
exact localities and dates ; since, in every other part of Herefordshire, it is quite 
rare. I have never picked it in the county, though it is reported from two localities 
in the Ross district. I possess a specimen gathered by Mr. Crouch on Shobdon 
Hill; and another by Mr. Burton Watkins on the Little Doward. 
Rosa. In this genus, as in the Brambles, I must decline to entangle myself 
in the present paper. But I wish to ask for information accompanied by speci- 
mens, with regard to two or three well marked Roses. Rosa spinosissima is a 
common plant in the country lying to the east of Leominster (on Mr. Hutchinson’s 
authority), while absent as far as I know from all the rest of the county. Rosa 
Donniana is reported by Mr. Lees from ‘‘ the side of a wood near Cradley.” Rosa 
systyla reposes on the same great authority, for its station at Cowleigh Park and 
the “‘Pye’s Nest,” Ledbury. I have not seen county specimens of any of the 
three, and I should be very grateful for their communication by any botanists who 
have an opportunity of obtaining them this year—more especially in the case of 
Donniana and systula. 
Pimpinella magna. The occurrence of this plant in Herefordshire rests on 
two authorities—one, that of Mr. Lees; the other, a writer in the New Botanist’s 
Guide, in 1835. Both locate it ‘near Cradley,” where it therefore ought to be 
found if looked for. 
Geum intermedium. This hybrid is reported by Mr. Lees from the ‘‘ Upper 
Sapey brook.” It is very rare in Herefordshire, probably because its one parent, 
G. rivale, is so very local a plant with us. But a curions circumstance with regard 
to it is that last year a large flourishing plant of the hybrid grew in a hedge at S. 
Weonards, although G. rivale has never been known in any part of the south of 
the county. I can suggest no explanation, unless G. rivale had been cultivated in 
cottage gardens near (though I have never seen it cultivated). I have met with 
the hybrid, elsewhere in Herefordshire only near Eaton Bishop, where rivale and 
urbanum were growing together, the former in profusion. 
Epilobium angustifolium, var. brachycarpum. Will botanists keep an eye for 
this marked variety whenever they come across this showy plant? It is clearly 
