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The Rev. R. H. Webb, of Essendon, Herts, William Godley, Esq., 

 of Hallingford, Berks, and F. A. Gace, Esq., of Camberwell, were 

 elected members. 



Mr. Hewett Watson presented specimens of Jordan's Filago canes- 

 cens from Claygate, and Filago lutescens from Fairmile, both in Sur- 

 rey. These plants are two forms of the Linnean Filago Germanica. 

 The former is the commoner British form ; the latter of the two (F. 

 lutescens) probably answering to the Rev. G. E. Smith's F. apiculata, 

 although some parts of Mr. Smith's description of this plant seem 

 more applicable to F. Jussieei of Jordan. A plant scarcely distinguish- 

 able from F. Jussisei has been lately found near Walden, in Essex, by 

 Mr. G. S. Gibson. Other specimens of Filago were also exhibited 

 from Mr. G. S. Gibson, sent by that botanist as examples of F. Jus- 

 siasi and F. apiculata. Mj\ -Gibson's specimen of the latter, gathered 

 at Thetford, appears quite identical with Mr. Watson's specimens of 

 F. lutescens ; and Mr. Watson intimates that the form considered by 

 Mr. Gibson to be F. Jussisei (Coss. and Germ.) occurs in several places 

 about Esher and Thames Ditton, intermingled with the more usual 

 form of F. Germanica, which latter is the F. canescens of Jordan. 



Mr. Gibson also exhibited specimens of Apera interrupta, found by 

 the Rev. W. W. Newbould near Thetford, and of Orobanche Picridis, 

 found by the same gentleman at Comberton, near Cambridge. 



Mr. S. P. Woodward communicated a paper, being " Notes on the 

 Flora of Gloucestershire."— G. E. D. 



Notes and occasional Observations on some of the Rarer British 

 Plants growing Wild in Hampshire. By William Aknold 

 Bromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 213). 



Malva moschata. In various parts of the county and the Isle of 

 Wight, not uncommon in woods and hedges. Hay ling Island. About 

 Clan field. 



sylvestris. A rare and beautiful variety of this otherwise 



abundant plant grows on chalky declivities amongst corn-fields above 

 Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, at an elevation of some hundreds of feet 

 above the sea. The flowers are of a delicate, pale, nearly sky-blue 

 colour, much like those of Cichorium Intybus, but with a slight 

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