320 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY: 
: ut.in the case of Polygala vulgaris we have to deduct six from 
Mr; Bennett’s Additions, since 14 Sussex E., Kent E 
c Surrey, 49 Carnarv., 66 Durham, and 88 Perth M. are already in 
T y additions are 11 (Flora), 18!; 19 (Vict. Co. Hist.), 
39 (Flora) 50! 51!, 60 (Flora); 71 (Hiern), 7 (A. S.N. 
103); 78! 801, 81 (Evans), 86 (A H. (1898) 100), 87 (Journ 
is only fair to say that Mr. Bennett’s Addzizons are only up to the 
end of 1903, so that ‘es results of four years’ work have to ~~ allowed 
for. On the contrary, there are some instances in whi 
shows fewer numbers than in the Lond. Cat., e.g. Briza ea L. 
(which may ezeninelly be found in more counties) in my List has 
102, Lond. Cat. 111. 
ep. Bot. English counties. .  . 59 
_- Welsh and Scottish . . 385 
. vod 
Bennett 
- a jt aad 42 ten > nab Bot. Cage a; 1 Wigton! 
7 Wes ets: 1900), 39 102, 99 Dumbarton 
(Tradl “ 6: " (1907) 227) = ei08 Probably 101 [1] would have been 
= rit nab way of putting it, as in Orkney it is perhaps 
only ¢ 
With rec eaieh separated segregates the numbers are doubtless 
below that of their real distribution, and even with well known 
species records are constantly coming in, so that the figures in any 
list must be more or less provisional. My object was to give an 
idea of the listibution of the plant through Britain, and the com- 
pilation took more ‘time and labour than would be realized. I 
cannot hope to baie included all published records, but my thirty 
years’ field work in all the British counties and a fairly exhaustive 
study of British botanical literature pe results of which are duly 
entered in my copy of Top. Bot.) enabled me to give what I believe 
to a more complete and accurate comital census of British 
plants than has hitherto been published. - 
The comital numbers for Ireland are area those of the 
valuable Irish Top. Bot., and its addition by Mr, Pr raeger, and I 
take this opportunity of ‘acknowledging shies 
HEREDITY OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERS. 
By tHe Rev. E. A. Wooprurre-PrEacock, F.L.S. 
In 1896 I went late in the spring with a farmer to place some 
sheep in a seed-pasture or temporary lea. The field lies on the 
bank of the canalled river Ancholme, and is, as regards soil, 
shallow peat with a wide line of Oxford Clay, &c., along the new 
cutting. The flora was the ordinary local mixture of Lolium 
perenne, L. multiflorum, with here and there a plant of the true 
