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and have been most kindly encouraged by that gentleman to study 

 the matter, and to publish the result of my inquiries, I feel all the de- 

 ference due to authority so high, and therefore much diffidence in de- 

 claring myself to be of an opposite opinion. 



J. B. BmcHAN. 



Manse of Banchory, 



October 4, 1842. 



Art. XCIII. — Additions to the List of Plants met with in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Swansea, (Phytol. 104, &c.). By T. B. Flower 

 and Edwin Lees, Esqrs. Communicated by J. W. G. Gutch, 

 Esq. 



38, Foley Place, March 31, 1842. 

 Sir, 



Through the kindness of my friends Mr. Edwin Lees, of 



Malvern, and Mr. T. B. Flower, I am enabled to send you the following 



addenda to my Swansea Flora, of plants which had escaped my notice. 



I am. Sir, truly yours, 



J. W. G. Gutch. 

 To the Editor of ' The Phytologist.' 



Ranunculus aquatilis, var, j3. pantothrix. Frequent in watery places ahout Swansea. 



' arvensis. In Cornfields about Newton, and also near Caswell Bay. 



auricomus. Frequent in the woods. 



circinatus. Cromlyn Burrows and about Neath. 



Ficaria. Frequent about the neighbourhood, with R. reptans. 



Delphinium Consolida. I have in my herbarium two specimens of this plant gathered 

 on the sandy shore of the bay, where it then appeared truly wild, — June, 1828; 

 (E. Lees). 



Papaver Argemone. In the cornfields, frequent. 



Chelidonium majus. On old walls about Neath and Britton Ferry. 



Fumaria officinalis. Common in cultivated ground and about hedges. 



Cardamine pratensis. Frequent. 



Draba verna. On old walls in the neighbourhood of Swansea. 



Sisymbrium Sophia. On the shore on the other side of the Ferry. This is very scarce 

 in Worcestershire ; (E. Lees). Waste ground about the Infirmaiy, and in ma- 

 ny other places. 



officinale. Common about hedge-banks. 



Viola canina. In the woods. 



odorata, var. /3. imberbis. Hedge-banks, frequent. 



Poly<jala vulgaris, var. ^. oxyptera. On the Downs near Pennard Castle, and frequent 

 in other places. 



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