BRISTOL FIELD-BOTANY IN 1901. 
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W. F. Miller, who in July 1900, found a large tuft near Wins- 
combe, where I afterwards saw it. 
Rhynchosfora fusca has been gathered on Burtle Moor as 
lately as July 1888, by Mr. Harold Thompson. 
Eleocharis acicularis Sm. was unknown in this district or 
in Somersetshire until found by Mr. D. Fry at the edge of the 
canal at Bath, when the water had been lowered. 
Scirj)us fauciflorus Lightf. is an addition, now known in 
three localities : on Blackdown, Mendip ; the peat-moor ; and 
in damp sand at Berrow Marsh. S. ffuitmis L. also has three 
stations in the district : the peat-moor, ditches near Weston- 
in-Gordano, and a bog on Blackdown. S. cernuus Vahl. 
{S. Savii S. & M.) was added to our hst in September 11)00, 
from the peaty valley near Walton-in-Gordano, where it 
grows on the banks of several ditches. S. Holoschwnus L. 
The discovery of this great rarity in October 189(), on the 
shore of the Bristol Channel, by Mrs. Gregory, perhaps the 
most important addition to the flora of N. Somerset that has 
been made in our time, aroused much interest among botanists 
throughout the country. See Journ. of Bot., 1897, p. 124. 
S. Taherncemontani Gmel. has been seen so far in four moor- 
land ditches near Nyeland and on Kenn Moor. These ditches 
are periodically cleaned out by the spade, and so this plant, 
with others, must then disappear for a while until it can 
re-estabhsh itself from surviving portions of rootstock. aS'. 
Garicis Retz. was found in 1888 by Mrs. David Fry by a pond 
among the sandhills near Burnham, growing plentifully. It 
still occurs in abundance at the old Hampton Rocks station 
near Bath. These locahties differ entirely in soil, aspect, and 
general climatic conditions, and the distribution of the plant 
in N. Somerset is certainly very remarkable. 
Garex muricata L. var. fseudo-divulsa Syme =■ G. Leersii 
F. Schultz (C. virens Koch) is frequent about the wooded 
hills near Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge, and grows also at 
the base of a railway embankment under Sneyd Park. G. 
