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only recorded from Biskra by Battandier & Trabut. I am in- 
debted to Prof. Hackel for the names of the grasses—G. CuarincE 
UGE. 
Hotosteum umBELLATUM L. in Surrey. — Early in April of this 
year, through the kindness of Mrs. Davey, of Cuckfield, I was sent 
or reasons only too obvious, it will be enough to state that it exists 
in fair quantity on old walls and in a field near by, in the westerly 
portion of the county. I have every reason to believe that the plant 
is native in this locality; in the sandy pasture where it grew it was 
associated with such plants as Krophila, Erodium, Myosotis collina, 
~Saxifraga tridactylites, Vicia lathyroides (sparingly), and various 
Cerastia. _Watson’s Top. Bot. entirely ignores H. wmbellatum 
(presumably on account of its predilection for walls); but the 
m 
London Catalogue includes it without a of suspicion, with 
a census hur Bennett tells me that th a 
25. Suffolk E. First notice, Eye, 1886; last, Hoxne Abbey, 1889 
0. . 
26. Suffolk W. First notice, Bury, 1778; last, Bury, 1855. 
27. Norfolk E. First notice, Norwich, 1765 (first "record also for 
England) ; last, Norwich, 1880. All the records, except one, seem 
to refer to walls and roofs only as the spots on which H. wmbellatum 
pert but it is snepire sad to note, in the face of its occurrence in 
a sandy pas n Surrey, that ae John Pitchford, who ae its 
first discoverer fe ag and, said it occurre o on old walls, 
and sandy cornfields about Norwich. I do not think H. dikkeltain: 
ia lately bees found in either Suffolk or Norfolk, but it may yet 
survive on some of the walls of private gardens i n No rwich or else- 
where. It may perhaps be overlooked in Sthet: aititalae localities, 
April 29—and is soon burnt up and disappears. It is widely dis- 
tributed in Europe—France, Belgium, 8. Sweden, Denmark, Ger- 
many, Spain, &c.—and there is nothing to hinder one from including 
it as a native of the British Isles; Richter Europ. 1899) includes 
England in the list, without comment. many parts of France 
it is not —— in sandy wed ora se vineyards, and on 
walls.—C. E. Sau 
MeEn PRATENSIS - Sol — The note on this in the Flora of 
Mibiasakie (ed. 2, 296) is 7 sient t misleading. The sentence 
pki ted t 0 Syme is really part of that quoted by him from Sole, 
us: “I found this plant in the year 1789, in wet places in 
the New Forest, Hants, particularly in a common (Alderbury com- 
mon) near the Roebuek, between Salisbury and Romsey” (Sole 
: comm year 
shewn by th who keeps the Roebuck the frie: the Mr. 
Sole found Mtg satacit which was n nothing more han a plant o of : 
