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Atropa Belladonna L. A few plants in an ae omaniel part of 
Leigh Woods, 8. It seems as likely to be a e here as in many 
of the W. Gloucester woods, where it has ove tare regarded as 
truly indigenous. In July, 1897, we saw two or. three plants of the 
Atropa ing on shingle ‘by the shore of the Bristol Channel at 
Lilstock (Little Stoke), 5. Somerset, the station being that recorded 
for it in the New Botanist’s Guide by the late Rev. J. C. Collins, of 
Bridgwater. 
Verbascum ra ria Li. Frequent near the G.W.R. at Bris- 
lington and Corston, 8. Pointed out to us by C. Withers. 
robanche major i Several plants on broom, near Downend, G.; 
Miss Roper. 
Mentha sativa Li. var. b. age cme Plentifully by the river 
Chew at Compton Dando, S. its extreme form thi 8 
sufficiently distinct as a variety. ‘the plants at Compton Dando 
agree well with the descriptions and figures by Sole and others. 
us maritimus Lam. Sparingly in Berrow Marsh, 8. Th 
are none for the above locality, and, as it had not been observed 
anywhere recently, though often searched for, was suppos 
probably extinct in the county until it was found at Berrow in the 
autumn of 1897. 
Scirpus paucijlorus Light. Fairly abundant in Berrow Marsh, 8. 
Carex Leersii Schultz (var. pseudo-divulsa Syme). Wood near 
Dursley ; siabank ibis of — near Sneyd Park, G.—C. strigosa 
Huds. Wood near Dursley, 
Hordeum sylvaticun Huds. Westridge Wood, near Wotton- 
under-Edge; C. Bucknall. Woodmancote, near Dursley » Gs 
A QUESTION OF AUTHORSHIP. 
By tHe Eprror. 
Some years ago* we ventured to call attention to the inconvenience 
likely to result from the publication of botani cal 1 ati in the Kew 
Bulletin without the names of the auth ere informed in 
reply to this criticism that it was “ faeanible . assign the papers 
to single individuals” +; and although it seemed “strange that 
circumstances at Kew should be in this respect different from those 
“Flora of British New Guinea,” and containing , desoriptiens of 
ot cmboaare moet the desirability of ee attention, 
* Journ. Bot., 1893, 351. + 1 0, B82) 
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