410 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Kenr.—In this county the plant was first discovered in 1792 by 
J. Rayer, who found it in a cultivated field near Cobham,* in West 
Kent. In this locality it appears to have held its own from this 
date untilthe present time. In 1895 my brother and I met with it 
growing in the same spot, not very plentifully, certainly, but the 
Rev. K. 8. Marshall (Zora of Kent) reports that it varies in quantity, 
like so many annuals, from year to year. It grew on the rough 
ground one so often finds in and on the borders of fields that are 
let go out of cultivation on the chalk downs, and was associated 
with many of the usual plants of that formation, such as Echium 
vulgare, Oviganum, Ajuga Chamepitys, &e. We could see no obviously 
introduced plants near, but Salvia pratensis was in abundance not 
very far away. = 
A. hirsuta has also been reported from other Kent stations— 
(1) ‘‘Embankment near Chislehurst Station, but soon disappeared” 
(Fl. Kent, 7.c.). (2) A weed in the garden of a house at West 
Wickham, in 1888 (A. Bennett). (8) There is a specimen from 
Wouldham from Dr. Forbes Young’s herbarium (who received it 
that in which the plant occurs in Kent, excepting that, besides 
borders of fields, it grows in Somerset, Mr. E. G. Baker tells me, In 
Open spaces in woods. 
Mr. J. W. White tells me that in 1894 A. hirsuta came up spon- . 
GLoucrstersHine.—Mr,. W. E. Green, of Bristol, records A. 
hirsuta from this county in Science Gossip, 1877, p. 187. He de- 
scribes the plant accurately, and reports it as springing up round 
the stump of a beech-tree that had been felled on Pur Down, 
towards Stapleton, on the south side of the Down. It is perhaps 
extinct now in this locality, as Mr. J. W. White has been unable 
to detect it recently in that neighbourhood, although he tells me 
. that Mr. E, Wheeler has a specimen in his herbarium, gathered 
about 1880-2 from “ near Pur Down.” 
Herrrorpsurre.—In Pryor’s Flora of Herts (1887) three localities 
* Symons, Synopsis, 200. 
