VOL. XIX. (3) 
LOCAL NOTES 
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My botanical excursions lliis year have almost been 
confined to the Ouedgley Munitions Factory and the Sneed- 
ham’s Green shooting range. There is, or was, quite a good 
bog on the latter (1 helped to drain it !), but it was not very 
productive. CEnanthe pimpinelluides grows at both these 
places, and round the Ouedgley factory I found a few un- 
common plants such as Stachys arvensis, Aspcrula cynanchica, 
and Galium tricorne. I have found the autumn dog’s mercury, 
Mercurialis annua, in an office garden on the main street of 
Newnham, and traces of it in other parts of the town. Bidens 
cermia was particularly fine round a large pond at Sandhurst 
this summer. Silene noctiftora was another Newnham find. 
Parts of the forest round Upper Soudley grow good quantities 
of the not very common St. John’s Wort, Hypericum dubium, 
indeed it seems the prevailing kind, just as Hypericum pulchrum 
is in other parts. In the same neighbourhood Ornithopus 
perpusillus is to be found growing to almost unusual height 
and size. Haresfield Hill grew plenty of the flea-bane, Erigeron 
acris, this year, and a fair quantity of the pretty little pearl- 
wort, Sagina nodosa. 
J. W. Haines. 
Some of my observations this year are as follows ; — On 
the 13th June. I found in a corn field on Hewletts’ Hill, near 
Cheltenham, a number of plants of Carum Bulbocastanum 
(Koch), the great Earth-nut, a plant of the Eastern Counties, 
which has never, I believe, been recorded previously for 
Gloucestershire. Mr H. H. Knight also found it there almost 
at the same time. It may be hoped that it will establish 
itself in the locality. 
On the 17th July I found at the base of the My the 
Cliffs, Tewkesbury, some plants of Anchusa officinalis (Linn.), 
the ‘ common ’ Alkanet, a rare plant, recorded in Druce’s 
" Flora of Oxfordshire ” as a casual in that county, but not, 
I think, known hitherto in Gloucestershire. In the same 
vicinity Dianthus Armeria (Linn.) was in good bloom in some 
quantity ; also Astragalus glycyphyllos (Linn.) and Cardamine 
impatiens (Linn.), the last I had not seen there before. 
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