SPECIES AND VARIETIES 163 
Ehrh. I ought to have said so at the time, as Boll quotation of 
the Alien Flora name was given in inverted c 
RIDDELSDELL. 
The record for West Lancashire given by Mr. Wheldon and 
myself was taken from the Flora of Preston and Neighbourhood. 
Not having seen a specimen of the lant from the locality there 
and, 
of Bradford, has just favoured me with a fe apasincke of G. owioam 
Ehrh. from the sea-coast shingle of Bare, near perenne in the 
same vice- -ounty jeosaaeaag= in 1895.—A. 
GAGEA FASCICUL In HEREFORDSHIRE. ae Mr. R. F,. Town- 
drow segoreed (oumn, Bot. 1900, _ the occurrence of this plant 
from a small coppice near Leigh Sin ey eee rshire, I formed the 
opinion that it was highly pr iste pie would be found higher 
up on the brook that pint this sind On the Ist of April 
e a search with this end in view, and found several 
plants growing in a field on the borders of the same brook. The 
field is on the left-hand side of the road going towards Hereford, 
and about two iowobaie yards above the ‘ New Inn.’ The plant has 
s 
the west side of the Malvern Hills. uaa 
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