136 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
from 1890 to 1904. It “occurs on the Lancashire side of the Mersey, 
in the grounds surrounding the works of Messrs. Mellard and 
Coward, Ltd., manfactarers Mr. [J. E.] McDonald first noticed 
it 2 this station five X years ago, and it has not only held its 
own amidst the sides: vegetation but has steadily increased its area. 
The plant was first o many years ago as growing outside 
the boundaries of the bleach- works, on the Stockport side, but last 
summer Mr. McDonald noticed it from the opposite bank of the 
, growing on a waste-heap on the west side of the bleach- 
n in the m 
several Stockport botanists, anera himself, without being able to 
ascertain its name, have had the plant under their observation for 
many years, and have gathered it in the ground beyond the bleach- 
works ; two of them gathered it in this station ten or twelve years 
Pp ing 
paragraph apply to plants gathered in the station to the east. The 
plant grows in clumps amongst the grass and other herbage for 
about fifty or sixty yards on the Stockport side of the works, as wel 
as on the waste-heap at the back of the works. There are abont 
twenty clumps in all, a dozen of which occur on the western side, 
and eight on the eastern side; two of the larger elempe would cover 
as of about six square yards each, The plan nt grows to a height 
of two or three feet, or even more, Its associates are Artemisia 
vulgaris, Cnicus arvensis, Urtica dioica, and s of Tragopogon 
and Scrophularia, all of them plants of a character Wapenan strong 
competition in its struggle for existence 
Tue Transactions of the Botanical Soviety of Edinburgh aes 
now at irregular and uncertain intervals, The la (vol. x 
Record of the Flora of re otland”’ is bation by Mr. James Stirling, 
« Notes on a Census of the Flora of the Australian Alps 
We are indebted ‘ the Daily sia for the i then oan that an 
“ oe nage ” ata recent R.H.S. Show “took the form of 
new specimen of orchid named the ‘ Brasso-cattlega-digbyano 
Gehtiliesiecticailen ile’ The flower,” says the Daily News, “ had 
a delicate blush tint’’—no wonder! 
Tue large arte wie erbarium of Mr. F. Arsbld Lees, which i 
especially rich a Yorkshire plants, has been acquired for the Cart- 
wright Hall Milas, B Bradford, 
Te National Herbarium has received an interesting collecti 
made in Eastern Mongolia by Mr. C. W. Cam ampbell, OM. G., “tk 
1902, during the journeys of which he published an an account, with 
ID ise ete Journal for November, 1908. 
Pror. - Orrvax and Major Prain have bee 
a Roya j' n elected Fellows 
