512 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Mediiago scutellata , All. This and several other aliens, communica- 
ted to the Club, were growing among a dense vegetation of weeds on 
extensive cinder deposits at Tiverton, near Bath. It may have been 
introduced accidentally from the Mediterranean region where it is 
indigenous, but more probably from a garden. It was common in 
English gardens in Miller’s time, 1748 (cf. ‘Gard. Diet.’), and may 
still survive. Previously recorded as an alien from Wandsworth by 
Irvine (Brewer’s ‘ Flora of Surrey,’ p. 315). — S. T. Dunn. 
Trifolium striatum , L. ; var. erectum , Leight. A wire fence which 
divided long grass from short, also divided this var, from typical 
T. striatum , L. The erect habit would therefore seem to be due, in 
this case, to competition with the hay crop. — S. T. Dunn. “This is 
not the case near Croydon, where erectum grew on a wall, under shade 
of trees, partially, however.” — A. Bennett. 
Astragalus alfinus, Linn., ‘ Sp. PI.,’ 760 (1753). In great plenty 
and profusely flowering on the grassy slopes of Creag na Dala Bige, 
South Aberdeenshire, 29th June 1896. The flowers are quite sweet 
scented, and large numbers of the rare alpine Burnet moth were to be 
seen upon the blossoms. — G. Claridge Druce. “ On his labels 
Mr. Druce calls this hill ‘ Little Craig in Dal.’ Is it not better to 
keep the old, well-known name? The other might pose as a new 
locality.” — A. Bennett. 
Fragaria muricata , Miller, ‘Gard. Diet.,’ ed. viii., 1768. F elatior , 
Ehrh., ‘ Beitr.,’ vii., 23. In a hedgerow bordering an orchard nearly 
opposite the whitening factory at Warren Road, near Crazey Hill, Berk- 
shire, May and June 1896. The plant may have originally escaped 
from the orchard, but I did not see it inside, and, at any rate, is now 
quite naturalised in the hedgerow, and is also found in the scrubby 
common which borders one side of the orchard. On this common 
it is associated with F vesca , and I believe hybridizes with it. — 
G. Claridge Druce. 
Rubus fssits, Lindley. Lord’s Wood, Houndstreet, North Somerset, 
June and August 1895. This is the only station for the species in 
North Somerset, or in the whole of the Bristol district. The plants 
are of unusual size compared with northern fssus. The barren shoots 
attain a height of six feet ; and in some respects deviate towards 
R. suberectus. There was a cold, late spring in 1895, but this bramble 
was in full flower at the middle of June. In 1896 it was quite ten 
days earlier. — Jas. W. White. “See ‘Journ. Bot.,’ 1897, p. 123, 
for Mr. White’s note on this plant. To very handsome specimens of 
it in my herbarium I have added ‘ f. umbrosa ’ to the specific name. 
It goes off from type towards R. suberectus and R. Rogersii , though 
still, I think, in all essential characters, R.fssus.” — W. Moyle Rogers. 
R. sulcatus , Vest. (1) Lord’s Wood, Houndstreet, North Somerset, 
15th June and 26th August 1896. Not known in the county, or in 
the Bristol district, until discovered by Mr. David Fry at Compton 
