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for Worcestershire in Topographical Botany. It is curious that 
Lees, in his Botany of Worcestershire (1867), not only omits this 
plant from the flora of the county, but includes it in a short list. of 
plants ‘‘native to Herefordshire and not known as indigenous to 
Worcestershire’; he had probably found out that his former de- 
termination was erroneous. So far as I know, the only other 
records of its occurrence in the county are—(Aug. 1893) a single 
plant near Madresfield (R. F. Towndrow), and (July, 1900) a single 
plant at Malvern as a garden weed.—S. H 
Aurama uirsuta (Journ. Bot. 1902, p. 400).—I gathered this 
on Eastern Green, Penzance, July, 1894, a locality where both rare 
British plants and aliens grow; and h i i 
specimen labelled “ Frizinghall nr. Bradford, Yorks. July, 1888. 
J. Beanland.” —E. Armirace. 
In July, 1894, Rev. R. P. Murray and I gathered this species 
in Charente-Inférieure, West France, growing on rough ba o 
the coast, far from houses. It had every appearance of being truly 
wild, and is stated by Lloyd to be common in the Department. 
the top of a bank that formed the boundary. The spot was about a 
quarter of a mile due south-east from Bredhurst Church. Early this 
year a few seedlings were found. Three drawn-u lants were found 
later on in the season, but they look not likely to perfect their seed 
in the long grass.—I know a single plant of Salvia pratensis in the 
adjoining parish of Hartlip, two and a half miles from Bredhurst. 
I have watched it dwindle, I am sorry to say, these six years. It is 
in too conspicuous a situation, and the children cannot resist tearing 
away its blue flowers, and I have found a labourer sitting on it at 
dinner.—Ajuga Chamepitys I can generally depend on finding in 
this parish, with slight change of locale and much difference in 
robustness.—Joun Masters. 
otch firs; in Surrey, at least, they are raised from seed by 
nurserymen in large quantities, and are transplanted when about 
three years old. Its occurrence among heather, mentioned by 
Mr. Spurrell (pp. 825-6), is greatly in favour of its being native ; 
thence it would readily spread to the more congenial fir-planta- 
tions. Another theory of origin is possible, viz. that the seeds, 
being so numerously produced, minute, and light, may have been 
wind-borne from northern stations.—Epwarp S. MarsHatu. 
Corrections.—In Journ. Bot. 1901, p. 267, I recorded Fumaria 
pallidiflora Jord. and F. muralis Sonder from mainland, ¢ ry: 
Mr. H. W. Pugsley has since kindly revised my fumitories ; he 
