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Aconitum Napellus L. For another most interesting confirma- 
tion we are indebted to Mr. W. H. Pullin who found the Aconite 
still growing in Glen Frome where, it may be remembered, Mr. 
W. W. Stoddart had described its occurrence nearly half a 
century before. In June last, when I visited the spot with Mr. 
Pullin, there were at least a dozen stems on a steep wooded 
bank above the Frome, in a part of the domain where one could 
not detect any evidence of planting. 
Castalia speciosa Salisb. The late Dr. H. O. Stephens was not 
accustomed to date his specimens, but we know that the White 
Water-Lily from Tickenham Moor in his herbarium would not 
have been gathered later than 1870. In all the years that 
followed, oddl}^ enough, I do not remember that anyone has 
mentioned the plant's presence on the moor. Yet it still exists 
in one of the main rhines, as reported last season by Mr. F. 
Samson. 
[Roemeria hybrida D.C. This elegant and fragile little poppy 
is invariably of alien origin with us— introduced with foreign 
corn — but its rarity and beauty always arrest attention. Six or 
eight plants were seen by Mr. Ivor W. Evans on a fowl-run near 
Baptist Mills ; and during the past summer others came up upon 
a peculiarly productive dust-heap in another direction. At the 
latter place a number of rare and curious visitors accompanied 
the Roemeria, viz., Trifolium resupinatum, Heliotropium 
europceum, Artemisia Absinthium, Onopordum Acanthium, and 
Chenopodium olidum.] 
Reseda alba L. On waste ground near the Palace, Redland, 
Sept., 1914 ; Ivor W. Evans. 
Hypericum elodes L. Last August I had the satisfaction of 
at length setting eyes on a mass of this pretty bog plant, hitherto 
so elusive, on the Glastonbury peat-moor. Mr. T. W. Green 
had detected it in one or two old pits, probably the locality of 
Sole and Clark, " towards the eastern end of the moor." 
Lathy rus palustris L. As a return in kind for the service just 
mentioned, I gladly led Mr. Green to the station for this lovely 
vetchling which I had not visited for many years. As in old 
days, a number of the plants were barren and bore the broad 
blunt leaflets described by Mr. D. Fry in my Flora. 
Saxifraga granulata L. Quite a large patch on a bank of the 
G.W.R. near Keynsham was observed and identified from the 
window of a train by Mrs. K. P. Sandwith. A very remarkable 
instance of plant dispersal by railway traffic. Although a rare 
species in Gloucester and Somerset it is common in Berkshire 
and grows there on railway banks, so we may reasonably infer 
that it has travelled to us from the east. My friend Mr. H. S. 
Thompson tells me that he has seen it too on a railway bank 
near Stevenage, Hertfordshire. A capital photograph of the 
plant as it occurs near Keynsham has been taken by Mr. Ivor 
W. Evans. 
