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BRISTOL BOTANY IN 1914. 
Mr. Edwin Wheeler found one or two plants " in an open glade 
of Leigh Woods." No other person seems to have observed it 
in Leigh Woods until 19 14 when a specimen was brought thence 
by Mr. Noel Sandwith, also from an open glade. 
Car ex filiformis L. In August last, under the guidance of 
Mr. T. H. Green, I saw this slender-leaved sedge in abundance 
over a small area in the locality recorded by the late Thos. Clark 
sixty years ago, and only a short distance from the Hypericum 
elodes. The peculiarly restricted occurrence of these and other 
species is a striking and perplexing feature of the peat-moor 
flora. 
[Hordeum jubatum L. This handsome grass, of North 
American origin, has been gathered on rubbish-tips in St. 
Philip's Marsh by Mrs. Sandwith, and near Brislington by Miss 
Roper. It had previously been observed in Kent and Oxford- 
shire] . 
Asplenium lanceolatum Huds. In my account of this rare 
fern (Fl. Brist. p. 685) I ventured to anticipate that it would be 
found in other spots along the course of the Frome. Through 
the explorations of Mr. W. H. Pullin this has actually proved to 
be the case. Mr. Pullin has pointed out two spots, higher up the 
valley, where A. lanceolatum grows in fair quantity on precipi- 
tous sandstone rocks above the river. 
Botrychium Lunaria L. On Barrow Hill, not far from the 
Jubilee Stone, about a dozen plants of Moon-wort have been 
shown me by Mrs. K. P. Sandwith. 
I regret that this recital of many acquisitions must be accom- 
panied by a tale of losses through the destruction of the old coal 
canal that formerly conveyed barges from Camerton by way of 
Radford and Dunkerton to Midford and the Avon. A new rail- 
way has lately been constructed along that route and part of its 
course runs actually in the bed of the old canal. Remaining 
portions of the canal that still held water have been cut and 
drained, and are now filled with a rank dry- ground vegetation. 
The effect of these alterations, unfortunately, is that we are 
robbed of three good species, viz., Oenanthe fluviatilis, 
Potaviogeton Friesii, and Chara contraria. The two latter may 
possibly be discovered elsewhere, but there can be little or no 
hope of the Oenanthe. 
In conclusion I take the opportunity of correcting an error that 
crept into my Fifty Years of Botany in Bristol, recently published 
by the Society. I was led to say that Lunularia vulgaris had 
fruited abundantly about our city, whereas I am now informed 
that this Hepatic, though by no means rare in the district, has 
not yet been found in fruit. Mr. E. H. Read tells me, moreover, 
that the Cathedral Close is now " so delicately swept and 
garnished that no Hepatic can keep its footing there at the 
present day." 
