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ADDITIONS TO PART I. 



113.* Dianthus deltoides, L. Maiden Pink. 



Native ; fairly abundant in a pasture between Bris- 

 lington and Keynsham, S. One plant has lilac 

 petals ; and a small patcli, with pni'e white llowers 

 aTid very pale foliage, may hv. J). Olaucus, L. iPimt 

 noticed by Mi'. David Fry, in May, 1886. The 

 plant is recorded ior North Somerset in Topogr. 

 Botany, on the authority of Dr. Thwaitos, but his 

 locality remained unknown. Very possibly Mr. 

 Fry has rediscovered it. 



MoencMa erecta, Sm. in Somerset. See page 32. Prior 

 to May, 1886, our claim to possess this little plant 

 rested entirely upon the specimens contained in the 

 Stephens' Herbarium. As far as we know no one 

 living had seen it growing in the Bristol district. 

 Wo wore therefore extremely glad to receive fi'om 

 Mr. David Fry a specimen which he had gathered 



■ on the coal-measures a short distance from Keyn- 

 sham. Sliortly afterwards we examined tlie locality, 

 and found the plant disti'ibuted in tolerable cpian- 

 tity over a rather limited area. It was associated 

 with Trifolium suhterraneum, T. filiforme, Ornithopus 

 perpusillus, Myosotis versicolor, Aira prmcox, and, to 

 our great satisfactioii, with Scleranthus annuus. 

 One of Dr. Stephens' records is thus confirmed; 

 and on consideration of the situation and surround- 

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