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that Epilobium hybrids do not and " cannot " produce fertile 
seeds. The negation however has been plentifully disproved. 
As in Viola and Kumex, so in Epilobium , although only a very 
small proportion of the seeds from hybrids is good, yet seedlings 
are often found, and have been raised in the second generation. 
UMBELL1FER.E. 
Erymjium campestre still exists at Weston-super-Mare, on 
a hillside above the town, but latterly has not flowered. This 
is certainly not the spot where the plant was discovered in 
1843 by the late Mr. G. S. Gibson [Phytol i. 757). That has 
no doubt been built over. 
Gicuta virosa. The late Mr. T. B. Flower showed me several 
specimens of Cicuta gathered on Burtle Moor, July, 1859, 
and told me further that he had a memo, of having seen the 
plant in a canal near Highbridge at a later date, when he did 
not gather any. In July, 1888, Mr. Harold Thompson also 
found some in a peat-ditch near Shapwick Station. 
Oenanthe pimpinelloides L, has been observed in two or 
three adjoining meadows between Keynsham and Compton 
Dando. This is much nearer Bristol than the previously 
recorded stations. Oe. fluviatilis Coleman is an addition to 
the Flora. It is abundant in the canal between Midford 
and Combe Hay. I fear that Oe. sUaijolia Bieb. must be 
struck out of the hst. The Yatton specimen proves to be 
only Silaus, while some doubt attaches to the Gloucestershire 
records, which have not been confirmed. 
Leycesteria formosa, a Himalayan species, grows in the middle 
of a large wood at Shutshelve, near Axbridge, where it has 
been an oKject of interest to gamekeepers and others for many 
years. Its origin is unknown ; but when I record that a 
fair-sized cactus was, in June last, discovered flourishing in 
the cleft of a rock on Callow Hill, Mendip, one should cease 
to feel surprise at the occurrence in the district of ahen plants 
