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plant which I take to be this from the neighbourhood of Plymouth, 
where it is now often to be seen in fodder fields.” — T. R. Archer 
Briggs. “ This is often abundant at Balmuto, Fife, in clover fields, 
introduced in the foreign seed.” — J. Boswell Syme. 
“ Lotus hispidus, Desf.(a very small form, with heads almost exclu- 
sively one- or two- flowered) studs the short turf of the cliffs on several 
points of the coast, in the Lizard district.” — "W. M. Rogers, 1874. 
Lathyrus hirsutus, L. “The Surrey locality (viz., a bank at 
Warlingham, six miles from Croydon) is, I believe, a genuine one. 
The plant occurs somewhat plentifully on a rather steep bank above, 
and at the top of a sloping cornfield, growing with Poterium, Lotus 
corniculatu8, and other plants that grow in similar situations on chalky 
banks in a rather secluded valley among the chalk hills, below 
Wormsheath. It may have escaped from the cornfield, but I only 
found two plants at the edge of the corn, and these seemed rather to 
have come from the bank above than to have been sown with the corn ; 
altogether, I think it may justly be entitled to be called a wild 
Surrey plant, if not indigenous. First found by Mr. Robinson, of 
Croydon, in July, 1873.” — A. Bennett. “ On a second visit to the 
locality for this plant I am convinced it is undoubtedly wild. I found 
it at intervals for about a quarter of a mile beyond the original station 
among bushes on the steep bank running along the top of the fields, 
in a similar situation to which I have gathered it near Hadleigh 
Castle, in Essex ; and the bank is so steep that it is impossible for 
such seeds as the Lathyrus to blow there, and as the wheat, &c., 
cultivated in the fields is taken down from the station to the farm 
(Halleloo) and, not up the bank, the seeds could not have been so 
placed there. My friend, Mr. Beeby, of Croydon, in a note to Mr. 
Watson (quoted in ‘ Typographical Botany’) is mistaken in the plant 
being first found in the cornfield. Mr. Robinson found it on the bank 
above the field. The difference in the size of the specimens sent is 
from some being collected among the bushes and some among the 
short herbage, and those of this year no doubt partially from the very 
dry season.” — A. Bennett, July, 1874. 
Potentilla reptans, L. “ Specimen or two of a densely villose 
variety, probably the sericea of Brebisson in ‘ Flore de la Normandie.’ ” 
— T. R. Archer Briggs. 
Rubus adscitus, G. Genev. ; R. mutabilis, G. Genev. “Two Rubi 
forms from the neighbourhood of Plymouth, that seem to be sufficiently 
distinct to be regarded as ‘ species ’ in the Babingtonian sense. R. adsci- 
tus is widely dispersed and abundant in the neighbourhood of Ply- 
mouth. R. mutabilis is local, for whilst it figures as one of the com- 
