130 BRISTOL FIELD-BOTANY IN 1901. 
hirsutus having been thence erroneously recorded in the third 
edition of Withering' s British Plants, pubUshed 1796, on the 
authority of Swayne, who mistook V. hithynica for L. hirsutus, 
a species which has only been found in Essex and Surrey. 
This error, repeated by Babington {Suppl. Fl. Bathon. 1839), 
on the authority of T. B. Flower, who is stated to have redis- 
covered L. hirsutus in 1838 at both the locahties near Pensford 
referred to by Swayne, has been widely disseminated, not only 
in local Floras, but also in works of more general importance, 
as Bentham's Handbook of the British Flora, where L. hir- 
sutus is cited as a Somerset plant. We have only one locality 
for V. hithynica in Gloucestershire, viz., by the roadside 
between Winterbourne and Patchway, where it was noticed 
by Mr. Bucknall. 
Lathyrus Aphaca is permanent on hcdgebanks near Uphill, 
and L. palustris on the peat-moor near Edington, at the 
southern limit of the district. 
Aliens sometimes met with are Medicago falcata, Coronilla 
varia, Vicia lutea, V. hybrida, and Lathyrus tuberosus. 
ROSACEiE. 
Prunus domesfica. This ratlier unsatisfactory species 
appears to be a httle " wilder " than is sometimes judged. A 
large number of trees of various sizes grow along the Channel 
shore on a low chff between Woodhill Bay and the Black Nore, 
and more of them form a loose hedge at the Nore. There are 
likewise plum-trees in the ancient hedges on lias above Corston. 
If these be all cultivated plums that have escaped, it is hardly 
credible that they should be always of the same variety, or 
that different varieties should have everywhere run down 
exactly to the P. domestica of the books. We may at any rate 
conclude that the trees of our district, growing in several 
places with as much semblance of being truly wild as the 
vegetation with which they are associated, may quite correctly 
