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REPORT OF MEETINGS. 
The whole plant is stiffer and more slender — in general, less than two 
feet high. 
Polygonum Raii. A specimen gathered near New Passage in 1865 
by the late Dr. St. Brody has been found in his herbarium at 
Gloucester. I fear it is not likely to be again met with in that county, 
but the Rev. E. S. Marshall has detected a small colony at the other 
extremity of the Bristol district, among low sandhills near the mouth 
of the river Brue. Thus we now have records for this Polygonum from 
both divisions. 
Aceras anthropophora. Strong evidence that the Green-man 
Orchis formerly grew on the high ground — Weston Lodge Farm — 
between Weston-in-Gordano and the sea has been furnished by Mr. 
A. E. G. Way, who cultivates in his “wild garden” plants derived 
from roots obtained from the ridge some fifteen years ago. The ground 
has been repeatedly searched since without result. 
Littorella lacustris. We owe the recognition of this tiny aquatic to 
a Surrey botanist, Mr. C. E. Salmon, who saw it last year submersed 
in a Mendip pool. After a month’s drought in July last the water had 
fallen so low that several specimens flowei'ed upon the margin. They 
were only one inch high. We must go back to the seventeenth 
century for the last local notice of this plant, then recorded from near 
Glastonbury by Ray. 
Eriophorum latifolium was added to the Somerset Flora by Mr. 
Salmon on the same occasion. He found only a small quantity of it in 
a Blackdown bog, and I have not 3 mt been fortunate enough to hit 
upon the spot. It is very remarkable that last July Miss Roper and 
her brother discovered this rare cotton-grass — never before suspected 
to grow in Gloucestershire — in a secluded valley among the southern 
spurs of the Cotswolds. There is about an acre of it in a lovely 
locality, but just two miles outside our district I regret to say. 
Schoenus nigricans, Mr. Leo H. Grindon’s discovery on the coast 
between Portishead and Clevedon is described with fair detail — if rather 
ornately — in the pages of the old Phytologist. Many of us, from time 
to time, have vainly endeavoured to identify his pleasant “bubbling 
spring,” but it was not until sixty-four years had gone by that Miss 
Livett’s persistence was rewarded. When she conducted me to the 
place I saw that we had often passed within a yard or two of the one 
little clump, so happily hidden, that survives. Still, there it was, 
seated in a chink of the wet limestone rock, producing about a dozen 
flowering stems yearly. The spring no longer bubbles, it barely 
trickles now, for fresh-water is less plentiful than formerly along that 
line of coast. 
Carex divisa, a submaritime species absent hitherto from the 
Gloucestershire lists. An increasing patch of it has for some years 
been under observation in St. Philip’s Marsh, not far from the tidal 
Avon. Its foliage and stems are well developed to a height approaching 
two feet, but the spikes are unusually small, owing possibly to poor 
nourishment afforded by the dry ashes into which the plant’s roots 
have now spread. It may be that the sedge is of alien introduction, 
but I am rather inclined to look on it as a survival from the ancient 
