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went on to describe the methods adopted in capturing or other- 

 wise procuring hawks and falcons for the purpose of falconry, 

 and then concluded by giving an outline of some of the 

 processes adopted in training falcons, and in afterwards making 

 use of them in the field for hawking and falconry. 



52. — On Spabganium neglectum, s]i. nov., and other new 

 Surrey Plants. 



By W. H. Beeby. 



(Bead May 13th, 1885.) 



Plate I. 



I propose first to speak of the Sparf/anium, which I have the 

 pleasure of exhibiting this evening, and to conclude with some 

 brief remarks on other recent additions to our Surrey flora. 



This bur-weed, which I have called S. nefjlectum, was first 

 noticed at Albury Ponds, near Guildford, in October, 1888. 

 The plants then observed had the general habit of S. ramosum, 

 but attracted my attention by their much smaller heads of fruit. 

 On examination the small size of the heads proved to be due to 

 the fact that most of the fruits were abortive, but the few 

 partially ripe ones seemed to me to differ considerably from 

 those of ramosum. Although the Albury plants were considered 

 by those to whom they were shown to be merely an abnormal 

 condition of ramosum, I did not feel satisfied on this point, and 

 was thus led to investigate the matter during the past year. In 

 August I noticed, near Ockley and at Eeigate, plants that 

 seemed the same as the Albury one, and eventually, on obtaining 

 specimens at Eeigate, Blackwater, Byfleet, and various other 

 places in good ripe fi:uit, but small doubt was left that they 

 represented a species hitherto undescribed and unnoticed as 

 distinct from ramosum. This opinion has now been very 

 generally endorsed by nearly all the British and continental 

 authorities who have seen the plant, and I may mention that 

 when I showed specimens at a meeting of the Linnean Society 

 in December last, Mr. J. G. Baker, of Kew, stated that after 

 careful examination of the plant he considered it undoubtedly 

 distinct from all described species. 



S. nef/lectum has various characters in common with S. ramosttm, 

 and these two form a section very distinct from our other British 

 species, simplex, ajjine, and minimum, which also group naturally 

 together. S. ner]Jectum and ramosum are both invariably 

 characterised by a strikingly erect and rigid habit, and neither 

 in small, forms, nor when growing in running water, do the 



