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Hew Publications. 
English Local Floras. 
The recently issued ‘ Report of the Bury Natural History Society,’ from 
January, 1868, to December, 1871, contains a list of the plants observed 
within fifteen miles of Bury, compiled by the President, Mr. Randal H. 
Alcock. ‘The flowering plants are arranged according to Bentham's 
absences than for any rarities which occur. Among the genera which 
do not appear to be represented are Fumaria, Saxifraga, Dipsacus, 
Stellaria graminea, etc. Some of these may have been accidentally 
been thrown down: such are Lepidium ruderale, Senebiera Coronopus, 
_Feniculum vulgare, Solanum nigrum, Origanum vulgare, Mentha Pulegium, 
Ballota nigra, Verbena officinalis, and Chenopodium polyspermum ; other 
introductions from the same source are Malva verticillata, Scorpiurus sul- 
cata, Ammi majus, Artemisia Abrotanum, Lycopersicum esculentum, and 
laris canariensis. Saponaria Vaccaria has oceurred at Ainsworth in 
cornfields, and twice at Hudear as a garden weed. The Cireea alpina 
of the list is probably C. intermedia, Ehrh. : 
A much more interesting Flora is that of Winchester and seven miles 
round, as given by Mr. F. I. Warner in the ‘ Report of the Winchester and 
Hampshire Scientific and Literary Society’ for 1870-71. Considerable 
attention has been given to critical forms, and the plants enumerated 
introduced with foreign seed. Dabeocia polifolia has been found growing 
in waste ground at Bitterne, near Southampton, among other heath plants, 
and has also been received from Bournemouth. The Rev. C. A. Johns 
(President) has examined the former locality, but declined to express any 
pinion as to its being indigenous without further investigation. ‘Now 
Hampshire botany which have appeared from time to time, if IS d = 
yard to hope that the much-needed Flora of Hampshire wi 
ily put in progress. : Es 
„Tn the last Report of the Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists 
Field Club, a résumé of the botanical proceedings for 1871 is given, 
