62 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
SHORT NOTE. 
Coast Ginorneras (p. 82).—It may be well to put on eee : 
fact that both Cnothera biennis L. and (2. ee Jacq. 
well established on the coast of Somerset betwe P penhan fat 
rean Down, upon a stretch of sandhills very aise to that on the 
coast of Lance shire. (£. biennis, introduced from America, has 
long been naturalized on the sandhiils and on the roadside between 
urnham and Brean ; indeed, it is Vige a feature in the landscape. 
The first record of Gi. biennis on the Somerset coast appears to be 
in the Supplement to Mats sl s New Botanists’ Guide; 1887, where 
it is mentioned by the Rev. J. C. Collins (the friend of Thomas 
Clark) as ‘ naturalized on ihe sandhills between Burnham and 
Berrow for a mile or t now asennad north of Burn- 
eg i. odorata, 
mentions in his Flora of ag Bristol Coal-field, 
1887, ‘et seq., that it could not be found until a single specimen was 
seen on the sa at Berrow in 1883, though it occurred rarely 
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a. ett C. veal in 1882, issued his Outlines of si 
Guographical Dinvibaiten of British Plants, he inaugurated a n 
e in plant-investigation. It was, however, many ears 
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