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root brings it near to Areuaria macrorhiza {Req.), from which, per- 

 haps, it may prove not to be specifically distinct ; while the same 

 character will separate it from A. rubra. 



Geranium striatum (Linn.). The name of this species was inad- 

 vertently omitted from the " Excluded Species " of the ' London Ca- 

 talogue,' where it might have been placed on the ground of the plant 

 having become in some measure naturalized in Cornwall. Mr. James 

 Ward sends some specimens from Aske Wood, near Richmond, in 

 Yorkshire, and labels them as "naturalized" in that locality, a cir- 

 cumstance which may be held to increase its claims to be recorded in 

 our lists of established aliens. 



Trifolium elegans (Saw). This clover was mentioned in my notes 

 on the Botanical Society's distributions of last year (Phytol. iii. 47), 

 as having occurred in two parishes in Surrey. Last autumn it was 

 found again, in a third locality, — a field of purple clover, in the parish 

 of Chessington, Surrey, very near the Church. Only two specimens 

 were found there, and consequently I could not obtain any for distri- 

 bution. But having removed a root from the Clay gate locality into 

 my garden, in 1847, I was thus enabled to dry a good supply last 

 summer, with a view of making the species generally known to bota- 

 nists, and thus enabling them to detect it in other places, if curious 

 to do so. As it appears to be imported and sown with foreign seeds 

 of the common meadow clover, and is soon again destroyed by the 

 ploughing of the ground for succession crops of grain, it can be re- 

 garded only as an alien of uncertain occurrence and duration. And it 

 will seldom be detected even in fields where it grows, unless sought 

 by pathways, or after the first mowing of the crop, when it is less 

 concealed by the taller meadow clover. 



Alchemilla conjuncta (Bab.). The specimens of this, also, are 

 from my garden ; dried and distributed for the same purpose of ren- 

 dering it familiar to botanists, in order that they may look for it in 

 the localities of A. alpina, and may thus prove it to be (if it be) truly 

 a British species ; the evidence for which, as yet, appears to me to be 

 extremely unsatisfactory, although four different localities have been 

 stated for the plant. I think Mr. Babington correct in describing it 

 as a true species, distinct from A. alpina ; as it possesses well-marked 

 characters, which are continued by seeds, without any gradual transi- 

 tion to A. alpina ; though the latter does occasionally exhibit a dis- 

 tant approach to A. conjuncta, by the adhesion of its leaflets at their 

 base, which is always the case in young seedlings, though disappear- 

 ing with age. 



