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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1916 
A new cotton grass has been added to East Gloucestershire — Eriophorum 
latifolium — found in a well-known bog, and observed twice in I9i5* It may 
have been passed over in old days ; or it may be a new comer, brought by 
birds. The commoner E. polystachyon has been known there for many years. 
Mr Greenwood found a scarce figwort, Scrophularia alata, in two localities 
near Cheltenham. The Water dropwort, CEnanthe silaifolia, recorded by 
E. Lees from the neighbourhood of Forthampton, has been found in quantity 
close to Gloucester ; and its near relative, (En. pimpinelloides, is exhibiting 
a far wider range than was expected. The grass discovered a few years ago 
in the old brick pit on Maisemore Ham, Poa palustris, extends for many miles 
above and below Gloucester, but has not yet been found on the true west 
bank of the river. A new variety of A rabis hirsuta has been found on Symonds 
Yat, a pansy only known in Kent, Viola cantiana, has been traced by Mr Green- 
wood on the Cotteswolds. Many interesting aliens — not all near Docks ! — 
have occurred ; Echinops sphoerocephalus, Artemisia biennis, Lepidium neg- 
lectum, are some of them. The orchid, Epipactis atroviridis , which I reported 
a year or two ago to the Club, has apparently been found in East Gloucester- 
shire ; and Mr Butt in 1915 certainly sent me specimens of it from Monmouth- 
shire. The dodder, CusciUa x europcea, is turning up in a number of places ; 
and the hybrid Mullein, V erbascum nigrum-T hapsus was found near Sheeps- 
combe. Mr Trump, of Cheltenham, sent me a broomrape from Leckhampton, 
which I think must be Orobanche Picridis. New localities for Cerastium 
pumilum (Snowhill), Viola calcarea (E. and W. Gloucester), Cynoglossum 
montaniim. Thymus Chamcedrys (in E. Gloucester) and the bulrushes Scirpus 
Taberncemontani (in E. Gloucester) and S. maritimus are recorded. The 
Filmy Fern, Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, has been found in nice quantity 
and good health near Staunton ; when first discovered there, it seemed near 
extinction. Other interesting points are : i, The flora of the heathy di.strict 
noticed by Mr Knight in Todenham parish. There occur the heathland furze 
Ulex Gallii, Viola canina, the rush Juncus squarrosus, Heaths and Heather, 
and the little willows, Salix repens and S. ambigua, etc. ; 2, The fast growing 
numbers of records for Salviapratensis, the great blue meadowSage, both in East 
and West Gloucester. Some of the specimens sent me seem, however, to be 
distinctly intermediate between S. pratensis and 5 . Verbenaca. They may 
eventually prove to be hybrid forms ; 3, The desirability of finding once 
again old recorded plants, e.g., the Club Moss Lycopodium Selago, from 
Birdlip ; the Marsh Cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, which may occur in the 
Forest of Dean ; Drosera anglica from the Forest ; the rare thistle Cnicut 
tuberosus from the railway near Stonehouse ; Melittis from Puckham Wood 
the western mint, Mentha gentilis, from near Cirencester ; and many more. 
These and many like points will appear clearly in the Preliminary List. 
