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Polygonum Ban Bab. (as maritinmm) . Shore, New Passage; 

 July, 1865. The presence of this plant in the county had never 

 been suspected. It is extremely doubtful if another specimen can 

 be found. 



Sparganmm nutans L. In the Berkeley Canal ; July, 1865. 



Juncus maritinms Lam. Marshes, New Passage; July, 1869. 

 The species is stated by Swete (Fl. Brist. p. 83) to have been seen 

 by himself in Shirehampton Marshes, West Gloucestershire ; but 

 St. Brody's specimens are the only ones I have met with from 

 the county. 



Phleum armarium L. Sandy shore, New Passage; July, 

 1866. Another plant that has almost certainly disappeared from 



Gloucestershire. 



There are a number of other interesting items of less impor- 

 tance in St. Brody's collection. A specimen of Salvia pratensis 

 from Wyck Cliffs, dated 1849, forms a curious confirmation of, or 

 coincidence with, Swayne's record for the plant at that place 

 nearly a century earlier. 



I cannot hear of any Somersetshire plants which this botanist 

 may have preserved when living at Weston-super-Mare in early 

 life. Could any such be found they would be most welcome. So 

 nomadic and needy a person, however, might not have burdened 

 himself with baggage of the kind. Several of the more unlikely 

 species stated by him to grow in North Somerset — Antennaria 

 dioica and Atriplex laciniata, for instance — have recently turned 

 up, and it seems to me that St. Brody's reputation for botanical 

 accuracy should stand much higher than some of us have been 

 accustomed to place it. 



Ina" Eeport of Progress towards the Completion of the Flora 



of Gloucestershire, 



Meeting 



Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, April 2nd, 1878, by G. S. 

 Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S., it is stated that prior to that date Mr. 

 Harker had made a thorough examination of "this grand collection 

 [of St. Brody's] , comprising 1036 species and 105 varieties, which 

 was meant to be the basis of a County Flora, but the plan was 

 abandoned, as was also a Flora of Clifton, commenced by Mr. 

 M. J. Barrington-Ward." I am not aware if any notes that 

 Mr. Harker may have made during his examination were ever 

 published ; or, indeed, if any further progress was made with the 

 projected County Flora. 



REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1906. 



By A. B. Eendle, D.Sc., F.L.S. 



The following additions have been made to the collections by 

 presentations :— 100 phanerogams from the Director of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Sibpur, Calcutta ; fruits of Lodoicea sechellarum, 

 from J. Stanley Gardiner, Esq. ; 468 phanerogams from Uganda, 

 from Dr. A, G. Bagshawe ; specimens illustrating the life-history 



