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Burry Port.—*Chenopodium ficifolium Sm. Alluvial field about a 
mile west of Pembrey ; locally abundant, with C. album var. viri- 
descens and a little C. rubrum: var. pseudobotryoides H. C. Wats. of 
the last-named occurs on the Burrows.—Spiranthes autumnalis Rich. 
Not uncommon in sand hollows (a curious place for it).— In 
damper ground Epipactis palustris Crantz. is locally plentiful, 
together with a great quantity of *Juncus obtusiflorus Ehrh. ; 
J. acutus L. being quite scarce.—* Asparagus officinalis L. At one 
spot, about a mile west of Burry Port; apparently native. The 
most Sena Sietasion on these extensive pr of blown 
sand i a biennis Li., which is here natu — in great 
profusion. ase ie D §. Mansmara. and W. OOLBRE 
UM RUGOSUM AND er site NIGRITUM IN oor — While 
on a botanical ramble in July, 1900, we spent two days in the 
neighbourhood of Benevenagh in the north of the County of Derry. 
the damp hollows of the audy soil.—H. W. Lerr snd 6. 
WandDELt. 
Duruam Intropuctions. — I am 1 sending specimens of Lathyrus 
APRS Coronilla varia, and Euphorbia Esula, all of which I found 
in July growing together by the railway near Prete Station 
(near Darlington). The aged officials say the two former have 
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