194 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF SUSSEX. 
Plant. vol. v. p. 253; S. pseudochina, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. ? ; 
Nomen. vernac. Hawaiense, teste Barclay, * Aka-ava "), collected in 
Oahu (Seemann! Macrae! Hillebrand!) and Atoi (Barclay !), where 
it is dien by the natives for tying the rafters of their houses. 
. P. Menziesii, Seem. (sp. nov.) (Tab. LXXXI.) ; caule teretius- ` 
i petiolisque dense aculeato; foliis ovato-oblongis, acuminatis, 7- 
nerviis, supra inermibus, subtus ad costas aculeatis; umbellis ¢ race- 
mosis, rachidibus inermibus bracteatis, bracteis ovatis acuminatis, 
pedunculis compressis ebracteatis, receptaculis globosis, perig. foliolis 6 
oblongo-linearibus ; umbellis 9 solitariis, pedunculis aculeatis. — Sand- 
wich Islands (Menzies ! in Herb. Mus. Brit. et Kew). 
A very singular species. The branches, petioles, peduncles of female 
flowers, and the ribs of the lower side of the leaves are covered with 
spines, much more minute and dense than they are in many species of 
Smilax. 
EXPLANATION -= Prare LXXXI., impr aid gem Menziesii, 
fig. 1 and 2 natural size, ‘all the pr tanga d. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF SUSSEX. 
By W. B. Hemstey, Esq. 
The following notes relate principally to those plants ial in 
the Supplement to Watson's * Cybele Britannica’ as of doubtful — 
rence in the county, with some additional species, chiefly “ seg gregates," 
little known or unpublished at the time the Supplement appeared. 
From the various contributions I have received towards my projected 
Flora of the county, and my own investigations, I can unhesitatingly 
exclude several species enumerated by Mr. Watson, some with and 
some without the sign of doubt, as growing in the county, and clear 
up the uncertainty regarding several other species, the authorities for 
which he considered insufficient to entitle them to a place in the Flora 
without reliable corroboration. It is desirable that this should be 
one now, as, in consequence of the drainage of bogs, enclosure of 
commons, conversion of woodland into arable land, and the depreda- 
