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Lcmimm Galeobdolon Crantz. 3. Wiveliscombe ; Buncombe 

 Wood, near Kingston. 



CJienopodium rubrum L. 2. Farmyard near Dunster Station, 

 with C. murale L. 



Atriplex deltoidea Bab. 2. Minehead ; pointed out to me by 

 Dr. C. E. Moss. 



Salicornia europma L. {anmia Sm.), forma '''pattila Moss. 

 2. Minehead. This is the plant recorded in last year's notes as 

 S. ramosissima ; perhaps owing to the peculiar conditions (being 

 flooded only by unusually high tides), it often simulates that 

 species, in this station, but is distinguishable by its obtuse and 

 stouter branches, &c. I think that my no. 3138, a small state, 

 from a muddy ditch on the Dunster side of Blue Anchor (Oct. 20th, 

 1906), must also be placed here; Dr. Moss and I found that the 

 great gale of December, 1910, had buried the locahty under tons 

 of soil, and killed out the plant. — "S. prostrata Pallas. 2. Mine- 

 head ; apparently a new British record, though a specimen which 

 I gathered on the shore of Poole Harbour, near Hamworthy, 

 Dorset, on Sept. 14th, 1891, seems to be this, in a more typical 

 form. Eecorded and distributed last year as S. appressa Dumort., 

 though after much hesitation (my no. 3546) ; but Dr. Moss and I 

 paid a special visit to Minehead on Oct. 7th, 1911, and could find 

 no true S. appressa there. This is a stouter form of S. prostrata 

 than he had previously seen. Only three species were observed 

 here, including S. Smithiana Moss, to which my nos. 3548 and 

 3549 (a remarkably large, stiff-growing, quite prostrate form or 

 state) are referable ; but a great many intermediate plants grew 

 with them, which I firmly believe to be hybrids ; thus my 

 no. 3547 (October, 1910) is almost certainly S. europcea, forma 

 pattda X prostrata. 



Polygonum Bistorta L. 1. Plentiful in a meadow by the Exe, 

 below Bridgetown, in Exton parish. 



Ulmus scabra Mill, [montana Stokes). 3. Wiveliscombe. 



Betula pubescens Ehrh. 2. Hills between Dunster and 

 Timberscombe ; clearly indigenous. 3. Western border of Bun- 

 combe Wood. I omitted to take specimens, and cannot say 

 confidently whether or no these are the type ; but I think that 

 the plants of the Dunster district were that, those which I 

 examined being decidedly hairy. 



Populus tremula L. ' 3. Near Croford Bridge, between Milver- 

 ton and Wiveliscombe. 



Spiranthes spiralis Koch {autumnalis Eich.). 3. Pasture, 

 between Wiveliscombe and Bathealton, in plenty. 



Helleborine longifolia Britten & Eendle (Epipactis palustris 

 Crantz). 3. Locally abundant on the wetter part of Clean Moor. 

 ■''Orchis incarnata L. 3. Clean Moor, in good quantity : the 

 true Linnean plant, with bright green, concolorous leaves, distinctly 

 hooded at the tip (rather narrow, in this station) ; up to fifteen 

 inches high ; spike rather narrow, oblong ; flowers rather small, 

 the lateral lobes of the crimson-spotted labellum mostly reflexed, 

 varying from flesh-coloured to carmine, witli some admixture of 



