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its occurrence ; in fact, this species needs refinding in several 

 recorded counties before it can be accepted for them. — Arthur 

 Bennett. 



Orchis hircina in Kent. — This plant was found this year on 

 the downs near Shoreham, Kent, during an ecological excursion 

 of the members of the School Nature Study Union. The plant 

 was in bud, but the unfolding of the lowest bud of the inflores- 

 cence showed unmistakably what it was. It was growing some 

 yards from the edge of a wood and, unfortunately, only a couple 

 of feet from the footpath. The plant was photographed in its 

 then condition and left for further development. It may, on 

 account of its nearness to the footpath, be taken by any passer by 

 merely as a curiosity. — Egbert Paulson. 



[A specimen from Great Chart, near Ashford, in the same 

 county was collected on June 19 by Mr. A. E. White, of Ashford, 

 and sent to the National Herbarium. It was recorded by Edward 

 Newman from " betw^een Shoreham and Farningham " in 1852 

 (see Phytologist, iv. 417). — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



TrIGONELLA ORNITHOPODIOIDES DC. IN HEREFORDSHIRE. Mr. 



A. J. Crosfield sent to me, on June 21st last, a plant of this 

 species, gathered in the parish of Colwall, just within the Here- 

 fordshire boundary, and on the following day pointed out several 

 others growing there. This discovery is of considerable interest, 

 as for several years it has been sought for unsuccessfully in Here- 

 fordshire, although occurring abundantly on the commons at the 

 eastern bases of the Malvern Hills, and, in smaller quantity, on 

 the flank of the Herefordshire Beacon, but within the Worcester- 

 shire boundary. I think that it has spread from the plain upwards 

 and passed into Herefordshire by the gap which occurs at this 



point. ElCHARD E. TOWNDROW. 



Eanunculus ophioglossifolius Vill. IN Gloucestershire. — 

 This plant, which is now extinct in its one Jersey station, and 

 which was recorded from East Gloucester (near Cheltenham) in 

 this Journal for 1890, p. 282, was there in excellent condition this 

 year, though I believe not in the original station. Can further 

 light be thrown on the Eev. W. E. Linton's locahty " by the Severn," 

 or on Messrs. Groves's Hampshire station ? — G. C. Druce. 



Lythrum Hyssopifolia IN Eutland. — This little county has 

 a rich flora. I have lately received a specimen of Lythrum 

 Hyssopifolia L., collected in 1910 by the Eev. E. E. Walker, of 

 Brookleigh, Barrowden, Stamford, in that parish on the flats by 

 the Welland Eiver. — E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock. 



SciLLA CAMPANULATA Ait. (1789) (p. 216). — Under its earlier 

 name >S. hispanica Mill (1768) this is recorded in Journ. Bot. 1910, 

 200, from Cothill, Berks. It occurred under the hedge of a small 

 pasture near the mill, and in a hedgerow in the vicinity, where 

 I found it in 1909.— G. C. Druce. 



FUMARIA DENSIFLORA DC. IN WORCESTERSHIRE. — I met with 



this species in the parish of Welland, near Malvern, on June 25th 



