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THE FLORA OF STEEP HOLMES. 
By tae Rev. R. P. Murray, M.A., F.L.S. 
may be ere to prefix to this List the following 
extracts from Lightfoot’s MS. Journal of a Botanical Excursion in 
Wales in 1775, hoe is preserved in the Botanical Department of 
the British Museum. 
ne Batarlay., yaty 3. Upon the Steep Holmes the following :— 
Smyrnium Olusatrum and Ligustrum vulgare are the predominant 
plants upon the top of the island, which totally cover it. A little 
of the Conium maculatum is mixed wi ith it 
‘‘Upon the rocks on the south ade grow Inula crithmoides, 
Crithmum maritinum, Statice Limonium, “Aiton marinum; Lava- 
tera arborea in inaccessible places near the op of the rocks 
‘« Allium Ampeloprasum: near the stone gateway at the landing- 
lace. Euphorbia Lathyris: Mr. Banks found one plant of it upon 
the island. es anium (Er odium) maritimum not so plentifully as at 
the Flat Holm 
Banks visited the island in 1773, as is shown by a specimen of 
Inula crithmoides collected by him, bearing that date in the Britis 
Museum Herbarium. For this, of course, Mr. Murray and his 
friends were too early.—Ep. Journ. Bor.]. 
The following list is the result of a short visit ena four peer 
paid to the Steep Holm in June last. The botanists who took part 
in it were the Rev. T. Allin, Rev. R. Pp. Murray, and Mr. James W. 
ite. As a record of the existing Stirserereid of an islet seldom 
visited by botanists, we think that the list will not be without in- 
terest. We have noted no plant which we did not actually see 
growing on the island. Our list, therefore, cannot be a complete 
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officinalis, Brassica oleracea, Lavatera arborea, Coriandrum sativum 
ciatnzalized), Inula crithmoides, oom occidentalis, and es setts 
bia Lathyris. For most of these species we were ppg er 
satis nor did we see ee ys nine ‘a, which is said by 
to be very common. ably the entire vegetation of the island 
pec 
—- The peony seemed to be confined to one spot, at the 
edge of a precipice. We were told that plants now and then spring 
up elsewhere, and one or two were seen at a little distance from the 
main patch. Probably the whole number is under twenty. 
were in fruit, each with from two to four wal aovateeed follicles. 
p a deserte 
Cheiri, on rocks. Erophila meron Cochlearia picinals s, Sisymbrium 
officinale, [Brassica Rutabaga] , B. Sinupis, Diplotaxis mura is Ca sete 
