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lierlDarium about twelve months ago, Mr. Bennett found specimens 

 of this plant labelled, "Cornwall, Prof. Tempere." The specimens 

 are without date and locality, but Mr. Bennett thinks they were 

 gathered about the years 1875-1877, and that they most likely 

 came from the western section of the county. Before the plant 

 can be accepted as a genuine Cornish record, it must be re-found. 

 I record it here only as a possible addition to the county, and as a 

 hint to my co-workers to be on the look out for it. There is an 

 old and doubtful record for it for Devon. 



Silene nutans^ Linn. A few plants were found by Mr. Tellam 

 last summer among other introductions at Par. Por this also 

 there is a much disputed Devon record. 



Lychnis dioica x alha. Hybrids of the two species were found 

 at the Lizard Town, in 1902, by Mr. P. T. Eichards, and at 

 Palmouth Docks by myself during the past summer. They are 

 strikingly showy plants, prolific in flowers of a drliento pinkish- 

 white colour. 



Malope malacoides, Linn. In 1902 a single plant of this alien 

 was discovered by Mr. Clement Eeid on a roadside wall west^ of 

 Newquay, away from houses and gardens. It flowered again 

 last summer, but Mr. Eeid was unable to report the •••ipening of 

 fruits. 



Medicago lappacea, Lam. Of the more recent arrivals at 

 Falmouth from foreign lands, this is an interesting example. It 

 covered a good many yards of the eastern portion of the Docks 

 last summer, and ripened quite an alarming number of its spinous 

 burrs. One may safely predict that, like Matricaria discoidea, 

 another wanderer from foreign lands, it has come to stay. 



Geum rii-ale x urhanum [intermedium, Ehi'h.) Several plants 

 in a hedge-bank in Underlane, St. Thomas, Launceston ; growing 

 near both parents, 1902, W. JFise. 



Sedum rupestre, Linn. In her interesting book. Rambles in 

 search of Wild Flowers, Margaret Plues records this plant for the 

 cliffs around Looe. Mr. C. B. Allen also includes it in his list of 

 the plants of Penzance and neighbourhood, published in the 

 Annual Report of the Poyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 

 1871. After spending the summer of 1900 at Looe, I was able 

 to show that Miss Plues had mistaken Sedum. rejlexum for S, 



