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English locality, but I am not aware of its having been found 

 there of late years. There are no specimens of it in Dr. S. P. 

 Woodward's Herbarium (about 1845) in the Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester ; but I believe Professor Btjckman found it by the 

 roadside below Sapperton village. Here I looked for it in vain 

 last spring (1876), perhaps on account of the opening of new 

 roadside quarries. From Professor Thiselton Dyer's (1869) 

 locality, 300 yards west of Tetbury Eoad Station however, I 

 traced it to the top of the shorter railway-tunnel at Sapperton 

 and eastwards nearly to Kemble — that is into Wiltshire, a new 

 county. It here then ranges in altitude from about 360 feet 

 above mean sea level to above 450 feet, estimated roughly. It 

 flowers about the middle of April, or rather later and lingers on 

 to the middle or end of May. It grows on bare, exposed spots 

 of limestone rubbish, and seems therefore capable of enduring 

 considerable cold. I doubt its occurring in pastures. 



Lepidium ruderale in the Cybele is mentioned from near 

 Bristol. 



Does Drosera rotundifolia occur in the county ? There seem 

 few likely spots for it. 



Dianthus Armeria is a local plant, the nature of its habitats is 

 noteworthy. 



The distribution of Lychnis vespertina and diurna is noticeable. 

 The former is common in X, but I have not noticed the latter, 

 though it occurs in Sapperton valley (in IX) and, I believe, at 

 Ched worth (in XI). 



Honkeneya peploides, a littoral plant, is said to be general in 

 the Cybele. What littoral plants have we in the county ? 



Does Linum perenne occur in the county? Mr. Lees 

 mentions it as in the province. 



Geranium sylvaticum occurs in Warwick and Worcester; 

 whilst G. pyrenaicum is not uncommon round Cirencester. Is 

 the latter an escape ? 



Erodium maritimum occurs in the province. 



Oxalis acetosella occurs at Blaize Bailey (in III), and, Mr. 

 Elton informs me, at Chedworth, (in XI). Where else? 



0. corniculata, a denizen, occurs somewhere in the county. 



