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Wootton. My specimen from this station has been submitted to 
Prof. Babington, who, after comparison with specimens in Herb. 
Genévier, gave me the following synonyms :—tenuiarmatus Lees ; 
rivalis Genév. ‘* Whitchurch (Rev. W. H. Painter, fide Rev. W. H. 
Purchas)” (‘Flora of the Bristol Coal-field’). « 
Claverton,” near Bath (Bab. in ‘ Brit. Rubi’). Mr. Baker finds the 
“var. degener, a form differing from corylifolius mainly by its 
ascending sepals, not uncommon” about Somerton. 
Rh. corylifolius Sm.—Generally common throughout the county. 
Noted at Dunster, Quantock, Taunton, Wellington, Yeovil, Somer- 
ton, Pen Selwood, Mendip, and Witham; in these cases var. a. 
sublustris. In some other cases, as about Bridgwater and Norton, 
T have only noted the agoregate. Mr. White records “ corylifolius”’ 
m Ken, Clevedon, and Leigh Wood. Prof. Babington records 
Var. y. purpureus from Bath in ‘ Brit. Rubi 
under RF. dumetorum, var. tuberculatus of Warren? It is evidently 
” 
> Cesvus ) oe and generally distributed throughout 
the county, perhaps less so in the extreme west. The record of 
Var. pseudo-ideus in the ‘Flora of the Bristol Coal-field’ is an error. 
R. saxatilis L.— Very rare. I found this interesting species for 
the first time in Somerset in May, 1888. It grows finely, and in 
Some plenty, in one part of Asham Woods, a few miles south of 
tome; possibly also in other parts of the same extensive woods. 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF ST. KILDA. 
By R. M. Barrineton, M.A., F.L.S. 
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islands and rocks. On f f these vegetation exists, namely, 
rocks nm four o g tose 
Journal,’ 1842, p. 47); and it is oo that in this list there 
are at least eleven species not observed by me :—-ira cristata, 
