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Moore, at Lough-on-nare, Donegal.’ The scrap sent was insufficient 
to enable me to come to any decision about it, but as there were some 
ripe seeds, I sowed them and raised some plants. I think they 
must be referred to S. vulgaris , but are not the same as the Channel 
Island rayed variety. In the Irish plant the rays are much longer 
and broader, and are at first flat ; but afterwards become revolute. In 
the Sarnion plant the ray is minute and revolute from the first, as in 
S. sylvaticus. In all other respects the Irish plant is like ordinary 
vulgaris .” John T. Boswell, June, 1875. 
Petasites fragrans, Presl. “ Banks and Meadows near Yentnor 
and Bonchurch, Isle of Wight.” — B. S. Hill, February, 1872. “ The 
specimens sent were collected by my friend the late R. Southey Hill, of 
Basingstoke, near Yentnor, in the Isle of Wight, in the beginning of 
February last. He informed me that the plant was common and perfectly 
established in many of the banks and meadows about Yentnor and 
Bonchurch. — F. J. Warner. Also in a hedge at Pencraig, Hereford- 
shire, January, 16, 1873, Augustin Ley; and copse near Forest Hill, 
Kent, Feb., 1873, W. R. Hayward. 
Crepis tectorum. “ Roadside near Kelso, Roxburgh. This seems 
to be wild, at least it is not a ‘ wool ’ plant, being out of reach of the 
river ; but it may have been introduced with grass seeds. It is 
almost impossible to say with certainty in a highly cultivated district 
like this, whether a plant is native or not. — A. B. P.S. I might 
have had plenty of it ; but Prof. Babington to whom I sent it from 
the same station two years ago, thought it was only a form of the 
‘polymorphous C. virensd ” — A. Brotherston, 1874. 
Crepis sp. “ Species of an introduced Crepis , found in considerable 
quantity with sown grass in a field at Buckland Monachorum, S. 
Devon, in June, 1874.” — T. R. Archer Briggs. “ This is C. nicceensis, 
Balb., of which a specimen is also sent from the neighbourhood of 
Kelso, by Mr. A. Brotherston.” — -John T. Boswell. 
Xanthium spinosum, L. “ This grew in some quantity on and about 
a manure heap in a field close to the town of Plymouth, in the 
autumn of 1874. Erodium moscliatum and Medicago denticulata 
occurred with it.” — T. R. Archer Briggs. Also from waste ground 
at Kenilworth, Warwickshire (H. Bromwich) ; and on ballast 
Birkenhead, September, 1874 (H. Fisher), and from Kelso, Rox- 
burghshire, 1874, about which station Mr. Brotherston sends the 
following note “ Introduced with wool; it is to be found in most 
suitable places (gravelly spots liable to be flooded) between Gala and 
Kelso. As this plant does not seed here, there must be a fresh sup- 
ply of seed annually, as there are always some plants to be found 
every year.” — A. Brotherston, 1874. 
