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plants 1 found were destitute of hairs. 1 went again this year, and 

 found it in the same place, with a very slight hairiness. Does age or 

 cultivation render it hairy .? It did not flower this year, having been 

 mown down with the grass amidst which it grew. 



" Whilst wandering, last June, in this neighbourhood, in search of 

 plants, I found Vicia Bithyuica, sparingly scattered over a few yards 

 of ground, in a thicket at the base of Crookbarrow Hill, at a distance 

 of about two miles and a half from Worcester. I am induced to 

 mention this, on account of being informed by botanists, who have 

 resided here some years, that it has never been found so near this city 

 before. Mr. Lees, I believe, has found it at Malvern ; and another 

 habitat is given by Dr. Stokes (in Withering), at Clifton-on-Teme. 

 These are the only two places I have seen given as habitats for V. 

 Bithynica in this county. In August, while walking with a friend, 

 by the same thicket, he called my attention to Allium oleraceum, 

 which was growing in one spot only, three feet in diameter. One side 

 of Crookbarrow Hill yields Spiranthes autumnalis rather plentifully." 



Lycopodium inundatiim on Wimbledon Common. 



The President read the following note, from Mr. R. Heward, dated 

 Kensington, November 4, 1852 : — 



" In the ' Phy tologist ' for October (Phytol. iv. 698) I read a remark 

 relative to the disappearance of Lycopodium inundatum from Wim- 

 bledon Common, I am not aware whether it exists there at present ; 

 but 1 collected specimens about twenty years since, in a small ravine 

 near the windmill, where it was growing in small patches, and only 

 over a small space of ground." 



Gym,nogramma leptophylla in Scotland. 



The President read the following note, from Mr. W. Tanner, dated 

 Bristol, June II, 1852:— 



" I send the following memorandum, which I made when in Ma- 

 deira, respecting the habitat of the supposed Gymnogramma lepto- 

 phylla (but which I had mislaid), thinking it may be of some interest: — 

 ' On a stone wall in Aberdeenshire, south of Invercauld House,* and 

 east of Castletown.' " 



* " I have it written 'Invercauld Ho.,' which, I suppose, must have been intended 

 for House, but do not know whether there is any such house.'' 



