132 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Retz., Bee ag edocarpa Andersson. 2. ‘Common enough on 
the moors, D. 
Milium effusum L. 2. Wood near Luxborough, W.-D. 
Phleum pratense ie var. *precox (Jord.). Scarce on the dry 
coast west of Stolford ; just like Kentish plants so named by 
Mr. Bennett. 
pena setacea Huds. 2. Common on Dunkery; seen also 
on the Brendon Hills, 
eager Hapa epigeios mo 2. ee beste Shurton. 
Aira precox L. ‘ Abundant on the m ’ W.-D. 
Hrvhaatharins elatius Mert. & Sach sist *bulbosum Koch. 
Sampford Brett. Doubtless often overlooked ; I aed noticed 
this through digging it up with the root of another plan 
teglingia decumbens Bernh. 2. Wootton Common ; eee 
Brendon Hills, W.-D. Coast, east of Lilstock. 
Molinia cerulea Moench. 2. Dunkery, W.-D. 
Catabrosa aquatica Beauv. 2. Lane below Ranscombe; near 
Bratton ; above Perriton; stream above Minehead Post-office, W.-D. 
Festuca Myuros L. 2. Roof at Alcombe; old Station, Roads 
water, W.-D.—F. elatior L. 2. Railside near Roadwater, W.-D. 
Nardus stricta L. 2. Wootton Common; Dunkery: ‘is, I feel 
sure, common on moors,” W.-D. ae hard Common, W. Watson. 
Phyllitis Scolopendrium Newman. 2. With bifurcated stripes, 
and much divided apex to fr eine Perriton Farm, W.-D. 
Polystichum aculeatum Roth? _“ P. lobatum 'Presl., according 
to my idea of it, is the only one I have seen. bout Timbers- 
combe and in the Roadwater valley it is almost, if not quite, as 
common as Lastrea Filiz-mas,” W.-D. 
HUMULUS AMERICANUS Nortatt. 
By E. 8S. Satmon & H. Wormaxp. 
In 1847 Nuttall, in his ‘‘ Descriptions of Plants Collected by 
William Gambel, eee in the Rocky Mountains and Upper 
California ’ (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. i. sec. ser., 
p. 181 Sot desorbed Hi pages americanus with the gave 
diagnosis : three to five-lobed, upper 
entire; inner abn Riis acuminate, dancauiats “slong 
the apex; scales of the cone ovate, acute, the lower ones acu 
nate. Hab.—Throughout the United States in alluvial A ae 
tions. I have also most luxuriant specimens from the borders of 
streams in the Rocky Mountains, near the line of New Mexico, 
collected by Dr. Gambel. I have ventured, as I think on sufti- 
cient grounds, re pe ions the Angee from the European h 
Found, as it i the uncultivated interior of the continent, 
beyond the fenek of inhabitants, our plant must necessarily 
indigenous. I have ee ak we present with the foreign plant 
with some attention, and I can in all gener reed. distinguish 
them by the foliage. In es hace n plant, whatever be the 
other variations of the leaf, the attenuated points are denticulated 
