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Hygrobiella lawifolia (Hook.), H. myrtocarpa (Carr.), Scapania irrigua 
(Nees), Jungermania exsecta Schmid., J. lycopodioides Wallr., J. gra- 
cilis Schleich., J. bicrenata Schmid., Fossombronia cristata Lindb.— 
W. H. Pzarson. 
Drasa muratis L. in Kent. — On May 21st I found Draba 
muralis growing on bare chalky ground at the edge of a wood near 
Olantigh Park, Wye. ‘The wood borders on the Downs, and the 
plant grows in considerable quantity just outside the wood and for 
a few yards inside. There is a specimen in the British Museum 
Herbarium from ‘“ Oxford,” with no fuller details of the locality, 
and another J Bedfordshi ire—presumably in both cases from 
chalk. Otherwise the nearest localities in which it has been pre- 
vndale ndHinall appear to be on limestone in Dorset and Somerset. 
—Crcit R. P. Anprew 
[The Oxford specimen to which Mr, dash refers is from 
Robert Pocock’s herbarium; Mr. Druce (Fl. Oxf. 84) says, on 
Baxter’s authority, that it was a weed in the “Oxford Botanic 
Garden in 1831. Bedford is queried in the first op of Top. 
Bot., and omitted from the second, but without reason: the figure 
in English Botany (t. 912) is taken from specimens ci pithob ed by 
the Rev. Mr. Abbot, in flower April 14 last [1801], on the Wardon 
Hills, near Barton-in-the-Clay, Bedfordshire,” as indicated on the 
original drawing and in the text accompanying the plate. The 
specimen in Abbot’s ee) is correctly named (see Journ. Bot. 
1881, 46).—Eb. Journ. 
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