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Anthriscus Cerefolium, = {Cerefolium sativum, Bess.). 
Rubbish heap, Eton, Bucks, August 1901. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Seseh Libanotis, Koch. Cherry Hinton, Camb., July 1899. — 
G. Claridge Druce. 
Selinum Carvifolia, Linn. From the well-known locality at 
Chippenham Fen, Camb., August 1903, in company with Mr. 
Druce. The plant extended over the rough damp meadow adjoin- 
ing the fen for a considerable distance, and right into the very heart 
of the fen. I came across it several times (not in flower, however) 
when 50 to 75 yards distant from the edge of the fen and wading in 
18 inches or 2 feet of' water. The resemblance to tall luxuriant 
Daticus Carota is of the closest, in fact it required a careful look at 
the involucre to make sure of its identity, when I first saw it. We 
were passing within three yards, when I was led to look closely 
at the plant, solely because I knew it must be near at hand. It is 
quite conceivable and probable that botanists, even careful and 
keen-eyed men, may have overlooked it time after time. There 
seems to be no good ground, upon score of its late discovery, 
to refuse to recognise it as a native in this locality. — H. J. Rid- 
delsdell. This was the first time I saw the plant in England, and 
I agree with Mr. Riddelsdell in saying that as it appears now, there 
was nothing in its growth in the ten to suggest its being a recent 
introduction, or indeed an introduction at all; but Mr. Fryer and 
Mr. Bennett, wlio saw it some years ago, I believe formed a 
diflerent opinion. But Selinum appears to be a very unlikely 
plant to be accidentally introduced, and I can readily understand 
its being passed over as Daucus, the prevailing form of which in 
this locality mimics it very closely in appearance. Few botanists 
would pass it by for Pencedanum palustre, which has a different 
growth. That it could have been brought with any of the plants in 
an adjacent plantation I consider most improbable. — G. C. D. 
Galium boreale, Linn. 60 West Lancashire. Banks of Lune, 
near Caton, alt. 50 feet (possibly originally brought down by floods 
from 27 miles higher up tne river, where it occurs in Westm jrland), 
July 1903. — Albert Wilson. 
Galium insubricum, Gaud. Origin Tretire, Herefordshire, gar- 
den, 28 July 1903. The same plant as that sent by me in 1897 
as G. erectum, Huds., see note of Herr Freyn in Report, 1897, 
p. 549. — Augustin Ley. I cannot think that this is Gaudin’s 
Galium insubricum which he described in ‘ Flora Helvetica,’ vol. i. 
p. 421, as having ‘folia tenuia, neuticam carnosa, uninervia, venu- 
losa, fere semiuncialia, latiuscula, obovata, vel obverse lanceolata, 
obtusa, sed subito apiculato-mucronata. Earn plantain, fortasse cum 
Galium Molluginis varietatibus latifoliis et tenuifoliis hucusque 
confusam.’ Nor is it G. datum, var. insubricum of Syme, which has 
‘ Leaves usually 6 in a whorl, obovate.’ It diflers from G. 
