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Lecoqii Lamotte. Bank below the downs, about a mile north of 

 iShorncliffe Station. Viola Reichenbachiana Bor. Copses, &c, be- 

 tween Westenhanger and Folkestone ; moist copse at the north end 

 of Ham Ponds. Arenaria serpyllifolia L., b. glutinosa Koch. Plen- 

 tiful at intervals from Sandwich to Deal ; also near Walmer, on 

 shingle. Festuca ambigua Le Gall. In profusion upon several 

 parts of the sandhills from Sandwich to Deal ; also sparingly on 

 old walls in both towns ; doubtless overlooked from its withering 



early. Melampyrum prateuse L., b. latifolium (Syme). Abundant 



and well-marked in woods near Wye. In the ditches about Sand- 

 wich Carex stricta Good, is exceedingly variable. The flowers of 

 Polygala austriaca Crantz, are usually described as " blue;" " bluish- 

 lilac " would be nearer the colour of the Wye plant, which is recog- 

 nizable at once by its peculiar tint. — Edward S. Marshall. 



Elymus aeenabius L. in Doeset. — On September 10th, my 

 son and I had the good fortune to find this grass on the Dorset 

 coast, between Poole and Canford Chine. We saw three patches 

 near together, and in one of them several of the plants had 

 flowered. In the ' Flora of Dorset,' Mr. Mansel-Pleydell states 

 that Pulteney bad a Dorset specimen of it, but was not certain 

 whether it had been gathered at Weymouth or in Purbeck ; and he 

 adds, " Not confirmed since Pulteney's time." The present locality 

 is distinct from the two referred to, though at no great distance 

 from Purbeck.— W. Moyle Rogers. 



Rumex maritimus and R. palustris in East Sussex. — The only 

 existing specimen of Rumex maritimus from East Sussex, as far as 

 I know, is the plant in Mr. Borrer's herbarium at Kew, labelled 

 "West Dean, near Seaford, 1855 " ; and although I, as well as Messrs. 

 Unwm and Jenner, of Lewes, and Mr. Ellman, of Berwich, have 

 many times examined the valley of the Cuckmere in search of it, 

 it has never been rediscovered until last year, when Mr. Ellman 

 met with a single plant in the marsh between Charlston and the 

 Cuckmere. This year, however, it has appeared in considerable 

 quantity both at Charlston Pond and a pond at West Dean, where 

 tf orrer probably first found it. I also found one plant of R. palustris 

 by Charlston Pond. This occurs occasionally in the Lewes Levels, 

 but Mr. Jenner writes me it only seems to appear at intervals ; 

 ana the same thing applies perhaps to R. maritimus, as I have 

 many times been to Charlston Pond before, and could not have 

 iaued to see so conspicuous a plant as the golden heads of R. 

 mmdunns had it been there. It is the first time R. palustris has 

 been found in this district.— F. C. S. Roper. 



Hieracium tridentatum in Worcestershire. — I met with this 

 plant, on July 30th, growing with H. vulgatum and H. umbelhdum 

 (the latter a rare plant here) in a small wood at Powick, near 

 Worcester. It has not hitherto been recorded from this county, 

 ine station is in the Malvern and Teme division adopted by Mr. 

 Edwin Lees in his < Botany of Worcestershire.' - Richard F. 



