REPORT FOR 1885. 13! 
1885. New record. — E. F. Linton. “I should call this acanthoides” 
C. C. Babington. 
Carduus , sp. Marshy places, near Roundstone, Galway W. This 
thistle struck me as varying much from C. pratensis , Huds., to which 
it is nearly allied, in its stiffer stem, more glabrous heads, and 
moderately tuberous roots. In the last two respects it approached 
C. tuberosus , L. The heads, however, which had gone over, seemed 
to have matured no fruit ; and gave the impression of being a hybrid. 
E. F. Linton. “Very like my specimen of tuberosus from Boyton. 
I suppose the soil at Roundstone must have been wet. Can it be a 
form of pratensis ? ” — C. C. Babington. 
Matricaria inodor a, L., var. salina. Roundstone, Galway, August, 
'1885. — E. F. and W. R. Linton. Freshwater Gate, Isle of Wight, 
Sept., 1884. — E. A. Lomax. “Some of Mrs. Lomax’s specimens 
should be referred to the type.” — J. G. 
Cotula cor onopi folia, L. In a ditch between Moreton and Leasowe, 
near Birkenhead, Cheshire, 18th August, 1885. Coll. Messrs. Searle 
and Bottomley ; and 29th August, 1885, coll. Charles Bailey. 
This plant was discovered by one of our members, Mr. Henry Searle, 
in a ditch about half a mile east of the lighthouse at Leasowe, about 
four miles from Birkenhead. An account of the occurrence of this 
plant, which I published in September last in the “ Manchester City 
News,” elicited information that this alien had been established in this 
part of Cheshire (not necessarily, however, in the Leasowe station) 
for the last eight or ten years. It is difficult to account for the occur- 
rence of a plant in Cheshire which is found in Scandinavia and in the 
Mediterranean region ; in North Africa and in the Cape of Good 
Hope ; in South America and in the Brazils ; in Australia and Van 
Diemen’s Land; and in New Zealand in both the northern and 
middle islands; but from information given me by Mr. Edmund J. 
Baillie, it is possible that it had been introduced, unintentionally as I 
should consider, by a former resident at Leasowe Castle, viz., the late 
Lady Cust, whose habit was to bring home foreign plants for cultiva- 
tion in the grounds surrounding the castle, whence it has strayed to 
the neighbouring ditches. — Charles Bailey. 
Achillea nobilis , L. On old colliery debris, near Kings wood, W. 
Gloucester, July, 1885. — J. W. White. 
Gnaphalium pilulare , Wahl. Holmwood Common, Surrey, July, 
1885. — W. R. Linton. 
G. luteo-album , L. Near Wells, Norfolk, July, 1885. — W. R. 
Linton. 
Senecio squalidus , L. Waste ground, Osney, Oxford, July, 1885. 
Form with much more entire leaves than the type. S. squalidus , 
growing on walls, is fairly constant in character, but when it grows on 
waste ground it is extremely variable. — G. C. Druce. 
S. Jacobcza, L., var . flosculosus, Jord. Roundstone, Galway, Aug., 
1885. — W. R. Linton. “What I have referred to without name 
under JacobceaP — C. C. Babington. 
Solidago Virga-aurea , var. angustifolia , L. Erwood, Radnorshire, 
Aug., 1885. — A. Ley. “Hardly; angustifolia is a state scarcely 
worthy of attention.” — C. C. Babington. 
