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BRISTOL BOTANY IN 1915 AND 1916. 
the flowers instead of saffron in their cakes and puddings, while 
geese and turkeys fed greedily upon the seed. 
Carduus acaulis Willd., hybrid. Gathered in a rough pasture 
at Failand, North Somerset, by Miss Roper. The Rev. E. S. 
Marshall reports on this that allowing for differences of date 
and locality, and noting the intermediate foliage and short spines 
at the tip of many of the phyllaries, it comes very close to a 
plant found near Monmouth in 1903. Both are to be con- 
sidered C. acaulis x arvensis ; though not entirely without doubt, 
as the seeds of Miss Roper's plant appear to be well developed 
and hybrid thistles are very generally sterile. 
Taraxacum palustre DC. Further localities for this interest- 
ing Dandelion are:— Barrow Hill, S., Mrs. Sandwith ; Milbury 
Heath, G., and Rowberrow Warren, S., Miss Roper; and the 
Ridings near Chipping Sodbury, G., C. Bucknall. 
Erythrcea pulchella Fries. Recorded from Leigh Woods by 
J. Poole in New Bot. Guide Suppl., 1837, and not heard of after- 
wards until October, 19 16. But it is still there in fair quantity 
on a broad mossy track. 
Campanula patula L. We are indebted to Dr. J. Wiglesworth 
for a new locality. He reports this rare Bell-flower as fairly 
plentiful in the wood on Lyncomb Hill, S. 
Rhinanthus major Ehrh. var. platypterus Fries. The 
aggregate species has been recorded twice or thrice, at intervals 
of years, as one of the rarest plants of the North Somerset peat 
moors, and is not known to us in any other region. The past 
summer must have been unusually favourable for it as the Rev. 
E. S. Marshall (Journ. Bot. LJV., p. 101) "came across it in 
profusion, towards the end of August, near Edington Junction ; 
and also a little to the south of Shapwick Station but in 
smaller quantity All the specimens examined be- 
longed to the var. platypterus Fries ; they were glabrous with 
broad seed-wings. This confirmation of the old records is most 
satisfactory." 
Centunculus minimus L. A most important addition to the 
local flora. The discovery had been anticipated (Fl. Brist. 
p. 36), but the actual detection of this beautiful little species 
was reserved for the Rev. E. Ellman, who found it in a position 
he wishes me to describe as " between Pill and Clifton Suspen- 
sion Bridge, S." 
Atriplex laciniata L. Has been observed very sparingly on 
the sandy shore near Berrow and (one plant) in Kewstoke Bay, 
by Mrs. Sandwith and Mr. C. Bucknall. The latter occurrence 
may well confirm another of Dr. St. Brody's statements in 
Fl. Weston. 
