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at its original station in Portland Island. In 1902 I could not 

 find any of the plant, and reported its destruction as stated by 

 Mr. C. E. Salmon in these pages (1903, p. 68). Possibly I was 

 then a little too early, or I did not venture near enough to the 

 verge of the cliffs. I now find there remains a short space 

 between two quarries where the cliff-edge has not been cut away ; 

 and there, on the extreme overhang of undermined rock, the plant 

 maintains itself, although sadly reduced in quantity from the 

 display I remember to have seen thirty years ago before the demand 

 for Portland stone so destructively revived. — James W. White. 



Sagina Reuteri Boiss. — On the 11th August, 1906, I found 

 this plant on the bed of a very old pool, almost dried up, on Skip- 

 with Common, near Selby, in v.-c. 61, with no sign of alien plants 

 of any kind associated with it. Its companions were Mentha 

 Pulegium, ApiumnodiflommY&r. rejmis, Limosella aquatica, Bumex 

 maritimus, Veronica scutelkita var. hirsuta, and Biccia crystallina. 

 Additional evidence given by Mr. F. N. "Williams, who has ex- 

 amined the plant, points, I think, to its being a native plant. He 

 says : — " Although differing in appearance from the very glandular 

 forms of this plant you have previously sent me (vide Ex. Club 

 Rep. 1902), they belong to S. Beuteri, and are, indeed, more like 

 the original Portuguese specimens than the Lancashire plants/' 

 This was in reply to Mr. Wheldon, who sent Mr. Williams a speci- 

 men from me. The Skipwith Common plant is quite eglandular, 

 and only a few plants wex^e gathered, as it was thought at the 

 time to be *S. apetala.- — Wsr. Ingham. 



Vicia bithynica L. — I found this plant in August near Gur- 

 nard's Bay, Isle of Wight, close to the beach in rough grassy 

 ground. This is I believe the first record for v.-c. 10. The plant 

 was reported from near Gosport in 1899, which is the only record 

 for the mainland of Hants. — J. F. Rayner. 



Lachnea hirto-coccinea Phill. & Plow. — I found this plant on 

 Strensall Common (v.-c. 62) on July 6th, 1907. It was growing 

 on wet sand and on rotten wood on the border of a temporary 

 water-splash, and Mr. C. Crossland, one of the authors of the 

 Fungus Flora of Yorkshire, 1905, regards it as an interesting 

 addition to the county of York. — Wm. Ingham. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Flora of Glamorgan. Edited by A. H. Trow, D.Sc, F.L.S. 

 Section I. Thalamiflorae. Cardiff : Lewis, 1907. 8vo, pp. 43. 

 Price not, stated. 



It can have happened but seldom — if indeed the occurrence be 

 not, as we believe, unique — that two floras of the same county 

 should proceed concurrently, not only without reference to each 

 other, but apparently in ignorance of each other's existence. Gla- 

 morgan, however, is being thus favoured ; for simultaneously with 

 the publication in our pages of Mr, Riddelsdell's enumeration, 



