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spread thence into fields, &c.; just like Scleranthus annuus, the 
indubitably sacs form of which (8. biennis Reuter) becomes modified 
into the more slender, straggling state hitherto regarded as the 
type. “Bupha exigua, placed ‘by Watson as a colonist, would 
be so ranked by most observers; but Mr. Cosmo Melvill has this 
year ont to the ‘Boteniond Exchange Club a compact form eee 
to S. biennis) found growing in limestone erevices—not i aes 
land—between Rhés-on-Sea and the Little Orme’s Hea 2 
like a patie, Such i nees favour the contention that certain 
coe usually or ined pert should ae be retained among 
ur indigenous plants.—Epwarp § 
Kupnrasia Graciuis In Kent. — I fou at tsi in September, in 
small quantity in the woods about half a mile south of Offham, near 
Malling, in district 8 of the Flora of Kent. Mr. Townsend, to whom 
I am indebted for the name, says he has not hitherto seen specimens 
from the ite by only one locality i is cited for it in the Flora.— 
James Bri 
LAND Puants.—I spent a week end at Keswick in August 
for the tase: of searching for Orchis cruenta, but was unsuccessful ; 
but we were late in the season, and were met with a deluge of rain 
in Borrowdale. I found, however, in my walk Rubus Scheutzii and 
fi. silvaticus, new to the e county, also R. pulcherrimus and R. Selmeri, 
Or ‘chis ericetorum, Sedum album on the roadside near Grange; Sisym- 
leptoclados, near Ke swiok, new to Dist. a 
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milla vulgaris var. alpestris, Borrowdale, not in the Flora. Carex 
disticha, several places about Derwentw a C. elata All. (C. stricta 
,non Lam.); in the Flora this is ‘believed to have ve seen 
at Derwentwatet by Mr. W. Mathews”; I saw scores of it in im- 
mense tussocks in a marsh near the lower end of Dachenleiinn 
ephauasiaras um avenaceum, the type seen about Derwentwater, and 
also a sylvan form with fewer and pre distant spikelets. Melam- 
pyrum pratense var. hians, abundant near Keswick. Festuca rubra 
and the var. barbata, near erie vai type new 
Flora, and the variety not mentioned. Epilobium ong a 
curious form of this soabias ioe on slate débris in Bor 
inflorescence being much branched, with small flowers. 
Hayes showed me specimens of Cystopteris montana, brought many 
years ago from Skiddaw, not roe ae recorded for Cumberland, 
b e Westmoreland side of Hel- 
vi ih Falankoncwn aed e shores of Derwent- 
ecard where a 
1. — G. Carter 
a yRANTHES FLAVA Baker.—Mr. Baker’s account (Amar, yllid. 37) 
runs ;—* J. rrava Baker. Pyrolirion flavum Herb. P. aurewn fauce 
