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tonsham,” Hereford—both quite old records—comprise the,whole that is at pre- 
sent known about it as a Herefordshire plant. 
Lamium incisum. This also rests upon doubtful evidence. Two old records 
exist of the plant occurring near Ross: and last year one specimen occurred as a 
weed in Sellack garden. Here however I believe I had myself introduced it some 
years before, from Mr. Purchas’ garden at Alstonfield, but I do not feel certain. 
Orchis ustulata. The evidence for this as a Herefordshire plant is sound 
and trustworthy as far as it goes; but there sadly needs to be more of it ; and as- 
suredly it must be one of our rarest orchids. In 1849 Mr. Wilmot found a single 
specimen growing in the Wye meadows at the base of Coppet hill. In 1877, I 
myself found another single specimen in meadows at the base of the Coldwell 
rocks—this was in Gloucestershire ; but only a short distance from Mr. Wilmot’s 
Herefordshire station on the other side of the river. Mr. Lingwood reports the 
plant from the Woolhope District, but no specimen of it exists in his herbarium. 
It would be very desirable that the eastern parts of the county should be searched 
for it. 
Keleria cristata. This grass was discovered upon Bircher Common, near 
Aymestry, by the Rev. Thos. Hutchinson, in 1860; and the original specimens he 
most liberally gave me for the County Herbarium. I have not heard of its oc- 
currrence since; nor do I know whether it has of late years been searched for at 
this its only known Herefordshire habitat. I trust that we shall be able to obtain 
fresh observations this summer to show whether it still grows there, and in what 
abundance. 
The last observations I wish to make in this paper will concern certain 
puzzling groups, upon which I do not venture to offer any critical remarks, but 
simply to ask the favour of the communication by brother botanists of well-dried 
sets for further study. 
The first of these groups are the Capreolate Fumitories. I do not myself 
know more than one, or at the most two members of this group in Herefordshire. 
The common form isa plant to which I had always attached the name of Borwi 
Jord ; but on transmitting specimens to Professor Babington, I was surprised to 
find some labelled pallidiflora, others muralis. Other specimens of this common 
form of ours were labelled ‘‘confusa” by Dr. Boswell (through the Botanical 
Exchange Club). I am now inclined to believe ‘‘confusa” is the right name of 
our common Herefordshire plant; that is of at least 99 out of every 100 Fumi- 
tories other than officinalis, which grow in Herefordshire. But other forms of 
this plant certainly exist with us. One, evidently different from the common 
one, Mr. Baker names muralis (rightly, I believe). Another, communicated to me 
by Mr. Purchas, from the neighbourhood of Ross, is, I think, good and undoubted 
pallidiflora. This I have never seen growing in Herefordshire. 
A Violet, common with us, next demands notice. The white variety of the 
common Sweet Violet is, everyone knows, a most happily common plant through 
the length and breadth of Herefordshire. The blue variety of the same plant 
seems On the other hand quite rare over the whole county. The Limestone 
Violet (V. hirta) I believe to be quite a local plant with us. It is abundant on 
