VOL. XX. (i) 
BOTANICAL NOTES, 1918 
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BOTANICAL NOTES, 1918 . 
BY 
J. W. HAINES and H. H. KNIGHT. 
This year was in some ways a strange flowering year. I 
found a great quantity of Caltha palustris in full bloom on 
August 27th at Bilson and no less than eighteen flowering plants 
at Newnham on the last day of the year, including such unlikely 
plants as Hcracleum sphondylium and Anthriscus sylvestris. I 
found white specimens of Orchis mascula at Rodborough 
and of Knautia arvensis at Charlton (Seven Springs). There 
was a great quantity of Lepidium latifolium in at least two 
streams in its old district of Westbury-on-Severn this season 
and more than usual of the beautiful Althcea officinalis at 
Fretheme. Of the Sundews Drosera rotundifolia and D. 
Ion gi folia still both grow near Drybrook and -the latter in great 
quantities in a speedily drying bog near the Plump. Drosera 
rotundifolia grows too on May Hill and definitely on the 
Gloucestershire side of it. Hottonia palustris was this year 
abundant on Walmore Common and Cuscuta Europcea turned 
up for the fourth consecutive year at Hucclecote. Marrubium 
vulgare is to be found, apparently, native on many of the patches 
of common land in the Forest of Dean, especially in the 
neighbourhood of Yorkley. Leonurus cardiaca, which I first 
found near Nailbridge in 1917, is still there in even greater 
quantities and a smaller patch grows near Cinderford also. 
Herminium monorchis was absent from at least one of its habitats 
last year, but grew on Painswick Beacon right down to the level 
of the Cheltenham Road. I found it also on a fresh spot at 
Crickley Hill, facing west. 
Blysmus compressus I found in a bog between Crickley 
and Shurdington Hills as well as on Crickley itself. I came upon 
