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Society to DitcliHng Common in the spring, which was well 

 attended and appeared to give satisfaction to the Members. 



The Herbarium has made considerable progress, the number 

 of specimens having increased from about 900 to over 1,000 all 

 mounted and named. Most of the common plants having now 

 been collected, the number added each year will show a constant 

 diminution. We have again a considerable contribution sent by 

 Mr. Farr of plants from the Uckfield district — mostly Rubi — 

 several of them being new records for Sussex. Among those 

 added since last Report are the following : — 



Fumavia confusa. 



Silene conica (Striated Catchfly), Clympiug Sands. 



Sagina, ciliata, Chalk Downs. 



Potamogeton acutifolius, Pevensey Level. 



Scirpus carinatus, Amberley. 



Carex extensa, Fishbourne. 



Hypopithys multiflora, Stanmer Park. 



Spartina striata, Chichester Channel. 



Spartina alterniflora, Chichester Channel. 



Polypogon monspeliensis, Thorney Island. 



Geranium Robertianum, b. modestum, Clymping Sands. 



Erodium moschacum (Musky Storkbill). 



Vicia, Bithynica. 



Lathyrus, Aphaca. 



Statice rariflora, Chichester Channel. 



Mentha Puleguim, (Penny-royal) Chenopodium hybridum, 

 Salicoruia radicans, Rumex maritimus (Golden Dock), Rumex 

 palustris, Southease. 



Polygala ciliata, var. dunensis, of this plant Mr. Baker wrote 

 in the Journal of Botany. 



" Polygala ciliata, Lebel Forma. — A short time ago Mr. 

 Hilton brought to the Natural History Museum, South Kensing- 

 ton, a very interesting Polygala which he had gathered on the 

 Downs, near Brighton. The sepals are strongly ciliate, more so 

 than in some specimens we have of the Gogmagog plant, but it 

 does not quite agree with LebeFs original description (in Grenier 

 and Godron, Fl. de France, i 195) of his P. ciliata. Two points 

 of difference being, the racemes are often lateral ; (b.) the sepals 

 taken as a whole (I say taken as a whole, because they are not 

 always quite the same shape). We are fortunate in having in 

 the Herbarium specimens from Lebel of his P. ciliata, and I 

 notice the point he so emphasizes in his description, ' les grappes 

 terminales et jamais laterales' is not quite borne out by his 

 specimens, the racemes of which, though generally terminal, are 



