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ever, no right to brusquer les choses.as he does with regard to 
Anagallis arvensis. It is proverbially difficult to prove a negative ; 
and, while I admit his’ qualification to decide against it as regards 
lis own county, I must protest against his assumption that the 
deliberate judgement of other observers, perhaps not less experi- 
enced or less careful than himself, can be brushed aside by his 
jet k i ectio 
tempered with the swaviter in modo; and he was not by any means 
infallible—Epwarp 8. MarsHatt. | 
one hundred yar A new record for vice-co. 6.—Menchia erecta 
rin. The sole record for Gloucestershire rested hitherto on 
specimens gathered more than half a cen rs. Thwaites 
Common, about ten miles north of Bristol (v.-c. 34)—a pennant 
sandstone locality similar to that discovered in- North Somerset 
some years ago by Mr, David Fry.—James W. Wuitr. 
Lincolnshire) which seemed more thickly covered with flowers 
before, and have no doubt it would prove interesting to some 
