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to live at Eedhill, removing two or three years since to Shepherd's 

 Bush, where Mrs. Pearless died on July 27th, 1893. 



At one time her literary labours received acknowledgment in 

 the shape of a sum of money from the Civil List. A short sketch, 

 written by Mrs. Wells, with an outline portrait, appears in the 

 Women's Penny Paper for 9th Nov. 1889. 



Jambs Bbitten. 



ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HEREFORDSHIRE. 

 Bv the Rev. Augustin Ley, M.A. 

 Moee than five years have elapsed since the publication, by 

 Rev. W. H. Purchas and myself, of the Flora of Herefordshire. 

 During that time a sufficient number of fresh facts bearing upon 

 * the county have been observed, to justify their 

 of the observations col- 

 ring before the readers of 



In the following notes the critical genus of Rubus has been 

 intentionally put aside, the alterations and additions in this genus 

 being sufficient to require separate treatment. Excluding this genus, 

 it will be seen that fifteen flowering plants, thirty-one mosses, 

 and thirty-nine fungi have been added to the county lists since the 

 opening of 1889— a number quite sufficient to show how far we are 

 yet from finality. „ 



My thanks are especially offered to the Rev. C. H. Binstead, 

 M.A., to whose well-trained eye a large number of the fresh records 

 of mosses is due ; and to Dr. M. C. Cooke, who has kindly revised 

 the list of fungi, and to whose diligence and that of his fellow- 

 workers in this field we are indebted for nearly the whole of the 

 additional records of fungi. The numbers placed in brackets refer 

 to the botanical divisions of the county as defined in the Hereford- 

 shire Flora. 



Cerastium arvense L. Native ? In a poor hilly pasture, very 

 rare. In a field near Labour-in-vain Farm, in Hope Mansel parish 

 (2) , in some quantity, 1892 and subsequent seasons ; Miss E. Gee ! It 

 must remain uncertain for the present whether the plant can be 

 considered native at this station ; there is nothing in the situation 

 or circumstances to preclude its being so. 



Pynis intermedia Ehrh. ; Eng. Bot. ed. 3, Supp. p. 166. Native, 

 in limestone woods, very rare. In the Lord's Wood, Great Doward 

 (2), 1882 ; Ley. Wood at Symond's Yat (2), near the mouth of the 

 tunnel, just within the county, 1894 ; Ley. The Doward specimens 

 were referred by the late Dr. Boswell to P. Aria Sin., variety ; 

 there can, however, I think, be no doubt that they are P. intermedia 

 Ehrh. Judging from Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouth- 

 shire and Breconshire specimens which I have gathered, there can, 

 I think, be no doubt that P, intermedia is a native plant. 



