fruited LamVs Lettuce, found only once before in England by Mr. 

 E. Lees, in Worcestershire, in the year 1845, and supposed to 

 have been brought with foreign seed ; but the wildness 

 of Portland's rocky coast, on which I found it growing, leaves 

 no doubt as to its claim to be a British subject. Like Valeria- 

 nella dentata, the barren cells of the fruit are reduced to two 

 narrow converging ridges enclosing an oval space ; but it is at 

 once distinguishable by a persistent calyx-limb, nerved, 

 denticulate, and obliquely truncate. Valerianella Auricula, D. C., 

 Sharp-fruited LamVs Lettuce, rare, not truly British, but a 

 colonist, growing usually in cultivated ground. Mr. Darell 

 Stephens found it at Bradford Abbas. Crepis (BarkhausiaJ 

 taraxacifolia Thuill, Small Rough Hawtts-leard, also a colonist, but it 

 grows apparently wild from Yorkshire to Surrey. It is not 

 found in Europe north of Belgium. The Rev. W. M. Rogers met 

 with it at Woolland. Polypogon Monspeliensis (Lin.}, Annual 

 Sear d-gr ass. This beautiful grass grows abundantly on the 

 damp sands near Little Sea, between Studland and the mouth of 

 Poole harbour. It is a rare British plant, growing only in Hamp- 

 shire, Kent, Essex, and Norfolk. TJiere can be no doubt about 

 its being indigenous here, as the wildness of the district, and the 

 absence of anything like cultivation within a considerable radius, 

 places its casual introduction out of the question. The most 

 interesting restoration of a plant to our County Flora is that of 

 Euphorbia Peplis (Lin.}, Purple Spurge. The only county record 

 we have of it is in Dr. Maton's edition of Pulteney's Lists, 

 " among sand at Bridport by Mr. T. Sims, " where it was 

 found last year, after an interval of about seventy years, 

 by Mrs. J. Clark, of Street, and by whom it was submitted to 

 me for confirmation. There are only seven county records of this 



lant in Mr. Hewett Watson's Topographical Botany. Lycopodium 

 elago (Lin.}, Fir Club-Moss, is another restoration to our county list. 

 I found it last year on Bere Heath, between Black n ill and the 

 village ; probably the same locality indicated by Doctor 

 Pulteney. It is entered in his list as having been found " on the 

 heath beyond Bere, on the road to Woolbridge." Muscari 

 comosum (Mill.}, Panicum Crus-G alii (Lin.}, and Xanthium Struma- 

 rium (Lin.}, undoubted aliens, were met with last year in this 

 county. The first I gathered on a grassy launch on the southern 

 side of Portland ; it was in a healthy condition, the erect abortive 

 flowers on the summit, and the pendent fertile ones below, were 

 as well developed as I have ever seen them in their most favourite 

 resorts in Southern Europe. 



Two species of Volant Reptiles have been recently found 

 in the Kimmeridge clays of Kimmeridge. The evidence of 

 Pterosaurians from the Lias to the Great Oolite have been long 

 since established. In 1851 their remains were discovered in the 



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