THE STRUCTURE OF THE COTTON FIBRE 231 
some parts of the Oxlip area the plant has no local name, it may 
be worth while to aaa emt the eg! of the wood spoke of 
the plants as ‘primro . E. Mos 
_ CAREX VESICARIA IN  Wust —fecerenmtcnr —Whilst it 
ing on May 28th over a fresh district near Iron Acton, about nin 
miles north of Bristol, I observed Carex vesicaria growing in con- 
siderable quantity by the banks of the river Frome. It formed a 
patch about twelve feet i and the plants w n beauti 
fruiting condition. This is a new Sedge for the Bristol sig oa 
and has not been hitherto pedented for the vice-county of Wes 
Gloucestershire.—Ipa M. Roper 
ouTH Puants.—A new " gounky record for Monmouth- 
shire is Ranunculus eee L. Mrs. Griffith, of Machen Rectory, 
showed it to me on June 8th (Whit Monday). It is the form with 
very long and narrow leaves. The locality is far from the sea, and 
distinctly belongs to the hill district of the county ; a small marsh 
in some hay meadows at a point where the river valley opens 
slightly. The plant is apparently slowly disappearing ; the ground 
seems to be drying up. In Glamorganshire, not far from Rudry, 
that of y.-c. 41: and, though the evidence is ee such 
a rare plant must be placed on as mt record only on the 
surest Eee aaie J. RIDDELSDEL 
A OF FLINTSHIRE.—Mr. Dalim , in his very espa 
ee on ag Flora of Flintshire, Oy “the isolated port 
” In a new Flora o cronies 
out in a year or so e — carefully erasing records which 
occur for that area. If an excludes it, an ht ge 
rejects it, what is to be ‘ins sith that poor little bit of Flint? It 
would have been better if Watson had included it in v.-c. 40, but 
as he did not, I venture to think that as og be passin as 
part of Flintshire for botanical purposes.—W. P. HaminTo 
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