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the knowledge of which I owe to Miss Beales, it occurs in consider- 
able quantity in a pasture field, which is not near houses, and where, 
as I have pointed out on p. 483 of my ‘ Berkshire Flora,’ it has been 
known by the village people for nearly a century. In this locality 
the Crocus has a wide range of colouring, varying from the darkest 
violet-purple to white. But there is also a form not alluded to in our 
British text books, in which the inner perianth segments are beautifully 
veined with darker lines, the dark primary veins, and a large number 
of small secondary ones, crossing one another obliquely from the 
margin. This feathered form is figured in Maw’s ‘ Monograph of the 
Genus Crocus .’ F)r. Boswell Syme, in ‘ E.B.,’ ix., p. 153, ‘describes 
the perianth-segments as being darker towards the base, but all that 
I have seen are darker at the apex. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Sisyrinchium californicum , Aiton. Rosslare, Co. Wexford, Ireland, 
15th June 1897. The specimens sent last year were mostly in fruit. 
This season was later, and I found the plant in good flower.— E. S. 
Marshall. “See ‘Journ. Bot.,’ 1896, p. 494, for a plate and 
description of S. californicum , Dryand., in Aiton’s ‘ Hort. Kew,’ iv., 
136 (1812). It would be an astonishing fact in phyto-geography if 
this plant of the western side of America should be native on the 
eastern coast of Ireland.” — G. C. Druce. 
Gladiolus illyricus , Koch. New Forest, Hants, June 1884.— 
G. Claridge Druce. 
Simsthis bicolor , Kunth. Branksome Park, Dorset, 24th May 
1897. — W. Moyle Rogers. 
Allium oleraceum , Linn. Canal side near Long Eaton, Derby, 
3rd July 1897. — W. R. Linton. 
Lilium pyrenaicum, Gouan. Near Mollond, South Devon, 
August 1896. Long over flower. Plentiful in a deep lane on 
both sides of the road, and in considerable quantity. The finest 
specimens grew among the bushes on the steep bank. There is a 
farmhouse within a quarter of a mile, but it is separated by a field 
from the lane. Inquiry in the neighbourhood failed to elicit any 
evidence to show that it had been introduced; but from its occurrence 
by a road, and from its being apparently confined to this one locality, 
I am afraid we cannot claim this fine species as a native plant of 
Britain. The lily is, I think, extending itself by means of its bulbs. 
Unfortunately, just as I got to the locality, a labourer had been 
cutting the plant down; but this, I hope, will not injure the plants for 
another season. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Lilium Marlagon, Linn., ‘ Sp. PI.’ (1753), 303. Near Kingston 
Bagpuze, completely naturalised in a small wood not far from the 
Manor House, June 1896. In this case I suspect the plant may 
have been originally grown in the garden, and either intentionally or 
accidentally introduced to the present locality. The wood contains 
