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NOTES ON BRISTOL PLANTS. 18 



H. stenolepis Lindeb. At Cheddar, with the laBt, E. F. T Anton. 



H. diaphanoides Lindeb. A plant allied to vuhjatum. Abundant 

 on the rocky bank at Mangotsfield Station, G., and first recognised 

 by the Eev. E. F. Linton. See Journ. Bot., loc. cit. 



H. ovarium Lindeb. G. Occurs in plenty on St. Vincent's 

 Rocks, and about the railway by the river-side adjacent; first 

 gathered and distinguished by Mr. Linton. See Journ. Bot., loc. cit, 

 On a wall at Sneyd Park, Clifton. On old colliery waste near 

 Kingswood. *S. On limestone, Leigh Down. 



Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. A very rare Bristol species, recorded 

 in the Flora only from Downhead Common. The Rev. W. S. 

 Browne, of Stanton Prior, however, has found at intervals during 

 the last ten years a single plant in Lord's Wood, Houndstreet ; and 

 in Aug. 1890, Mr. L. W. Rogers pointed out four specimens in a 

 wood near Weston-in-Gordano, where he had discovered the plant 

 in the previous autumn. The places named are all in N. Somerset. 



Bumex pahistris Sm. In N. Somerset. Not published in the 

 Flora. The plant and its near ally, mantimus, are quoted for vice- 

 county 6 in Top. Bot., on the authority of different observers ; one 

 standing as " Clark sp.," and the other, " Collins MS." It looks 

 as if neither botanist recognised them both. And. on the Somerset 

 peat-moors, where the two species undoubtedly grow intermingled, 

 it is certainly far from easy to make out the distinctive characters 

 of both at the same visit, chiefly because palustris flowers a month 

 later than its fellow, and is not in good fruit until maritimm is 

 withered and in bad order for comparison. Babington's Manual 

 gives July and August as the time for the latter, and July to 

 September for the former. In this district it has been found that 

 7?. palustris does not reach maturity before September. At that 

 period, although, as Dr. Boswell remarks, the whorls of palustris are 

 sometimes confluent as in the other, yet the greater size of its nuts 

 and much shorter setaceous teeth on the enlarged sepals make dis- 

 tinction plain. But anyone visiting the moors in July or August 

 could scarcely come to a satisfactory conclusion on the presence or 

 absence of the subject of this note. 



B. acutus L. G. Hanham. S. Corston. Keynsham. New- 

 ton St. Loe. Quite sparingly at all the localities, and usually 

 associated with B. crispus and Li. obtusifoliits. Dr. Boswell states 

 that he had never been able to find more than three or four nuts on 

 plants of acutus; but observations made with reference to this point 

 bear out Prof. Babington's remark that the nuts are produced in 

 abundance, although in the plants examined there appeared to be 

 more perianths in which nuts were not perfected than in the case 

 of 11. abtusif alius. The nuts of the latter are appreciably smaller 



than those of acutus. 



Carex montana L. An addition to the Flora. The discovery of 

 this sedge on the Mendip Hills, N. Somerset, by the Rev. E. F. 

 Linton, is described in Journ. Bot. 1890, p. 350. 



Apera Spica-venti Beauv. G. Casual on old colliery waste near 

 Kingswood, 1882 ; and on rubbish in St. Philip's Marsh, Bristol, 

 1888, 1889. 



