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19th and Oct. 4th, 1906. This plant is likely soon to become ex- 

 tinct in this locality, as the meadows by the embankment on 

 which it grew are rapidly being built over. It is now confined to 

 two fields, where it grows abundantly with Crocus vermis. — F. L. 

 Foord-Kelcey. 



Ornithogalum pyrenaicum L. Ursleigh Hill, North Somer- 

 set, April 18th and June 14th, 1906. Complete specimens may be 

 useful to those members who do not live within reach of the 

 growing plant, and who may not have seen its leaves. The long 

 flask-shaped bulb sends up in March a tuft of leaves something 

 like those of the bluebell, but which grow to a length of about two 

 feet. They are too weak to support themselves, and wither before 

 the flowers appear in June. It is therefore difficult for a stranger 

 to the locality to procure any unless he have marked down flowering 

 plants during the previous summer.- — James W. White. 



Gyperus fuscus L. On the mud of a partly dried-up pond on 

 Dorney Common, Bucks, in considerable quantity ; also sparingly 

 on the muddy margin of slow stream on the southern side of the 

 Common, and very sparsely by a pond nearer Huntercombe, 

 Bucks, August, 1906. A very interesting addition to the county 

 flora, and a notable extension of its range in Britain, this being 

 now its most easterly and most northern locality. Surely it will 

 be found in Berks. 1906 was a specially favourable year in the 

 Thames Valley for the observation of aquatics, owing to the pro- 

 longed drought ; many places were dried which normally are 

 under water. — G. Claridge Druce. " Little Chelsea, where it 

 used to occur, is more easterly than Bucks/ '— W. R. L. 



Agrostis verticillata Vill. Vale, Guernsey, July, 1906. New 

 to the Channel Islands, and not hitherto recorded for Britain. 

 Description : Stoloniferous, stem 6 in. to 24 in. high, geniculate- 

 ascending, leaves flat, glaucescent, liguie short truncate, panicle 

 compact thyrsoid-lobate, 1 to 4 in. long, whitish green or often 

 richly purple, the branches of the panicle short and covered with 

 spikelets to their base, glumes puberulent-scabrid over their whole 

 surface, pales equal obtuse. Last July, when in the company of 

 Mr. E. D. Marquand, at Vale, I saw a grass which I recognized as 

 distinct from any known British species, growing plentifully in the 

 excavated soil near the Vale Castle, and we afterwards found it 

 plentifully not only in such situations but also by the sides of 

 roads, and other dry bare places in the northern part of Guernsey, 

 and also extending westward to Vazon and the Grande Mare. On 

 my visit to Alderney I found it in Braye Bay, and about quarry 

 cUbris farther east. I have also detected a piece among some 

 plants I gathered at St. Luke's, Jersey, in the previous June, but 

 this was on some recently disturbed waste ground. In Corbi6re's 

 Nouvelle Flore de Normandie it is reported as a southern species 

 naturalized for upwards of forty years at Cherbourg. From the 

 fact of it not being a native of Western France it may be held to 

 be also adventitious in the Channel Islands, and in an area so 

 disturbed by the operations of man as these small islands it must 

 be difficult to decide upon the indigenity of the species. On the 



