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and Portishead. The plant is not a conspicuous weed, 
and seems to occur only in small quantities ; it may there- 
fore be readily overlooked. Still, the characters that 
distinguish it from B. vulgaris and B. prcecox — between 
which species it is intermediate — are well marked and 
sufficient. The leaves are all pinnatifid ; the flowers are 
smaller and of a deeper yellow than with the congeners ; 
the pods short, thick, crowded, erect, with short conical 
points. The original description by Boreau (Flore du 
Centre de la France) is to be preferred to those given in 
works on British Botany. Although rare in Britain, I 
expect to hear that this new member has been detected 
in other localities. 
There will have been remarked in Swete’s Flora Bris- 
toliensis a paragraph relating to the occurrence of Tri- 
folium resupinatum in a meadow east of Shirehampton, 
where it was gathered by a Mr. Drummond many years 
ago, and whence it speedily disappeared. The circum- 
stance received more attention than it deserved in several 
publications. For this clover has no claim to be con- 
sidered a British plant. It is an ahen, and is only found 
in this country as an introduction with corn, seed, or 
foreign forage. As such, a plant or two from time to 
time has been noted about Bristol, at St. Philip’s, Conham, 
and Portishead Dock. But during the past summer a 
very unusual quantity appeared upon our Downs. Mr. 
C. Wall drew my attention to at least nine patches grow- 
ing among the turf, one of them a long way from any path, 
the others close to a roadside. This was a curious in- 
vasion, and it will be interesting to see if the plants sur- 
vive our winter or be reproduced. About the same time 
Mr. Wall discovered Sclerochloa loliacea near the Severn 
Passages, thus making a new record for the county of 
Gloucester. This grass was known in the district pre- 
viously only from Weston-super-Mare and Burnham. 
