298 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
Vicia Orobus.—One of the greatest ornaments to the banks and bor- 
ders of fields that Merionethshire produces, particularly abundant all 
_ along from Llaneltydd to Trawsfynydd and Ffestiniog, and by the old 
road, particularly towards Tommen-y-Mur. This year I noticed that the 
seeds had ripened in great plenty. Also, 
Orobus tuberosus was still even (August 25) in bloom, as wel! as abun- 
dantly in fruit; also we saw plenty of the narrow-leaved variety of it, viz. 
var. éenuifolius, almost as plenty as the ordinary one near 'Ty’-ny-Groes. 
Scolopendrium vulgare is rare in North Wales; we only saw it in one 
spot near Dolgelly. 
Polypodium Dryopteris was in great plenty as you cross the Berwyns 
between Llangynog and Bala; at the same place also was abundance of 
the Cryptogramma crispa. 
Cuscuta Trifolii(Bab.).—This plant appears to be spreading very much in 
Warwickshire and the surrounding counties, as the underwritten list of loca- 
lities in which I have found it during the years 1854—5 will show. On the 
24th of July, 1854, the Warwickshire Naturalists’ Field Club held their first. 
meeting at Wilmcote, and the Clover Dodder was one of their discoveries ; 
it was found in a field at Red Hill, between Stratford and Alcester. On 
the 24th I went to see it, and discovered another field with plenty of Cus- 
cuta at Miles’ Bush, two miles from Stratford ; on August 8, another field 
at Luddington; August 13, at Grafton; September 9, at Oak Farm, near 
Stratford-on-Avon ; September 24, at Crunhill Leys, near Bidford ; Sep- 
tember 30, three miles from Stratford, on the Warwick road, on clover 
planted this year (where it lived through the winter, and observed it in 
the field until September 30, 1855). On the 10th of September I visited 
the Red Hill locality, and found that it had spread entirely over the field, 
all but completely destroying the Clover, and had seized upon other plants 
erowing near it,—as Thistles (Cnicus arvensis), which were beautifully co- 
vered by the plant; on Coltsfoot (Lussilago Farfara) it was growing on 
each side of the leaf as well as on the leaf-stalk ; Daucus Carota, and 
Calamintha Acinos (Clairv.); on all which plants it was growing, not sup- 
ported only by the plant. I did not find perfect seeds until October 10, 
when at the same place again. In 1855 I met with it at Low Honeybourne, 
Gloucestershire, on the 27th of August ; at Churchill, Alderminster, Wor- 
cestershire, September 2; between Badsey and Littleton, Worcestershire, 
September 9; and in another field on the Warwick road, near Stratford- 
on-Avon, September 20. Has it ever been noticed to do more damage 
on any particular soil over others? It is my impression, from what I 
have seen of it, that it spreads much more on the lias limestone we have 
about here than on the old red clay, etc. I have not found it on light or 
sandy soils at all. 
Agrimonia odorata (Ait.) 1 discovered last year, at the edge of a wood 
near Stratford, called Snitterfield Bushes. 
Caucalis daucoides I also re-found last year in one of the localities 
mentioned by Purton, “in a field near Drayton Bushes,” from which it 
has been absent many years. W. CHESHIRE. 
Asplenium fontanum, Bern.—In the remarks on the claims of Asplenium 
Jontanum to a place in the British Flora (‘ Phytologist,’ p. 221), no notice 
