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purple-flowered form of AnagaUis arvensis, and interesting forms 

 of Scleranthus anmms, Polygonum avictdare, and Juncus hufonius 

 also occur. In the adjacent woodland Lady Davy pointed out to 

 .me Helleborine media and Pyrola minor. I saw true Veiwiica 

 aquatica Bernh. in the vicinity. I may add that last autumn, at 

 the Eidgway, Shore, I noticed about some artificial water a 

 quantity of Equisetum hyemale pushing through the turf ; this is 

 probably a relic of the original flora, since of course it had not 

 intentionally been introduced. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Sagina procumbens L. — Some interesting specimens of this 

 plant have been collected on Leith Hill, near Dorking, and 

 forwarded to Kew^ by Mr. J. F. Duthie. The plants have the 

 habit of typical S. procumbens, but all the flow^ers are completely 

 "double." Each flower has four green sepals and up to twelve 

 more or less alternating W'horls each of four white petals. The 

 sexual organs are either entirely absent or represented by the 

 merest rudiments. That this abnormality is not uncommon is 

 shown by several previous records, e.g. Gard. Chron. 1883, i. 

 p. 796, and Wigand, Botanische Hefte, ii. Marburg, p. 119, 1887. 

 A curious feature of Mr. Duthie' s specimens is the development 

 of a long conical receptacle which bears the white petals almost 

 to its apex. — W. B. Turrill. 



Orobanche purpurea Jacq. in Monmouthshire (v.-c. 35). — 

 At the end of last June, a lady who lives about a mile west of 

 Chepstow sent me some plants to name, one of which was 

 0. piuyurea Jacq. The last record I can find of its having been 

 found in this district is by Dr. Hort in the Phytologist for 1852, 

 p. 640, " in a lane S.W. of Chepstow." I have frequently 

 searched for this plant in the district, but this is the first fresh 

 specimen I have seen ; it occurred, I understand, not far from 

 the finder's house. — W. A. Shoolbred. 



Kirkcudbrightshire Aliens. — On July 21 I saw Impatiens 

 parviflora in some abundance at Southwick. On the following 

 day I observed Matricaria suaveolens in very great abundance in 

 the village of Duncrennan, extending along the roads leading out 

 of it. I do not know w4ien this was first recorded in England, 

 but I have a perfectly distinct recollection of having seen it on 

 waste ground at Kew in 1863, although it does not appear in the 

 list published that year in the first volume of this Journal, p. 376 : 

 I fancy I then regarded it as a rayless form of Anthemis Cotula. 

 Its distribution seems almost universal : I found it in July at the 

 top of Syon Lane, near Brentford, facing the entrance to Osterley 

 Park ; on Aug. 18th I found it in some quantity in the village 

 of Sneem, Co. Kerry. On July 22 I saw^ Oxalis europcea Jord., 

 very tall and large, as a weed in the grounds surrounding the 

 Catholic church at Dalbeattie. — James Britten. 



Galinsoga parviflora in Herts. — I have found a specimen 

 of Galinsoga parviflora growing as a weed near Harpenden. — 

 Ruth Gimingham. 



