290 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
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Perth ; : 
_. The above history of Campanula persicifolia gives no sufficient 
authority for the inclusion of it among our native plants; though 
now, however, to communicate a habitat where the 
species seems to have strong claims to being considered indigenous. 
It was found by the Rev. H. P. Reader, O.P., in July last, on dry 
slopes between Nailsworth and Dursley, remote from houses, 
amongst Brachypodium pinnatum, Campanula glomerata, Blackstonta, 
&e., at an altitude of about 700 ft. The flowers were blue in 
en one remembers that Stachys alpina is in the same area, 
although not actually near this spot, I think that it will be sith 
that the chances of this being a really native situation | for 7 e 
Sh Pe - i] - bay > | i 4 BE satr1hntion 
practically unexplored. 
Father Reader, it will be remembered, was the discoverer of the 
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considered to be a variety of L. alpinum ; this, however, is nearly 
if not quite extinct in its Gloucestershire locality. 
* See Journ. Bot. 1882, 321, t. 233. 
