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strong resemblance to a vetch from Bath (in Herb. Brit. Mus.) 
which Mr. Dunn collected and named J. varia, though he omits the 
species from his Alien Flora. Haléesy reduces V. varia Host to 
V. dasycarpa Ten., but as Host published his plant in 1827, = 
years before Teasro, the former should stand. In June, 1904, o 
waste ground near Kew Gardens Railway Station, I soning a Saini 
ful and large-flowered vetch, which is V. pannonica Crantz B pur- 
purascens DC. It is identical with a specimen in Brit. Mus. 
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came upon a mass of JV. villosa Roth, finer than I have seen it 
even in the South of France, where many plants grow twice the 
size i do in England. JV, melanops Sibth. & Smith = V. i iasiee 
. & ur. is another vetch not recorded in the Alien Flora, 
Streatham Common is a bush of Rubus laciniatus Willd., the fruit 
of which species is i go at one shilling a pound in London this 
autumn, and in a near by are plants of Amaranthus retroflexus 
. Lhave specimens in my herbarium of Rubus laciniatus from a 
‘field by St. Mary’s Church, Peckham,” collected in 1856 by 
Thos. Clark, jun. Mr. Moyle e Ro ogers gives only one need for it 
in his ‘* Rubi of the Ne ighbourho od of London” (Jo 
1903, 87-97), but he remarks that he has not sy in the habit of 
noting localities for this plant in England, which he cane: as & 
rule in gardens or in waste places near them.— H. Srvarr 
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