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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Botany. 
Hertfordshire Plant-Records , 1886-89.—The following list of 
flowering plants observed in Hertfordshire during the last four 
years is compiled from Miss Selby’s annual reports, the records of 
Mr. A. E. Gibbs, and my own reports of our field meetings in the 
fourth and fifth volumes of our ‘Transactions.’ "With one exception 
I have only given localities which do not appear in the late Mr. A. 
B. Pryor’s ‘ Flora of Hertfordshire,’ published by our Society in 
1887; and I have not included lists of species which have appeared 
in our ‘Transactions,’ but only isolated records. Lists of flowering 
plants collected or observed at our field meetings in 1886 to 1888 
will be found in these volumes as follows:—1886, Yol. IY, pp. xxv 
and xxxii; 1887, Yol. 1Y, p. li; 1888, Yol. Y, p. xxii. There is no 
list in the reports for the year 1889. In the sequence of species 
and in the nomenclature the ‘ Flora of Hertfordshire ’ is followed, 
and the pages of that work are referred to. 
Hellehorus viridis, L. (pp. 12, 497). Lea. —Green Wood, Fair¬ 
field’s Farm, Sandridge, 1889.— Gibbs. 
Aquilegia vulgaris , L. (p. 14). Colne. —Chandler’s Cross, Wat¬ 
ford, 1888.— Transactions , Yol. Y, p. xx. 
Pent aria bulbifera, L. (p. 30). Colne.— Chandler’s Cross, Watford, 
1888.— Transactions , Yol. Y, p. xx. 
Viscaria vulgaris , Boehl. (p. 59). Colne. —In a field close to 
Badlett Church, in splendid flower and in a very viscid condition, 
early in July, 1886; also in 1888.— Selby. This is an alien in 
Herts but a native in Scotland and North Wales. 
Silene nutans , L. (p. 62). Colne. —On the branch railway 
between Harpenden and Bedbourn, 1888.— Transactions , Yol. Y, 
p. xxv. The only previous record in Herts is on a garden-wall in 
Dagnall Lane, St. Albans, from which the plant is believed to have 
long since disappeared. 
Cerastium arvense, L. (pp. 67, 565). Colne. —In a field between 
Aldbury and Tring Station, 1887.— Transactions, Yol. IY, p. xlix. 
On the branch railway between Harpenden and Bedbourn, 1888.— 
Transactions, Yol. Y, p. xxv. 
Alsine tenuifolia, Crantz (p. 73). Colne. —On walls at Harpenden 
Hall, 1889. — Gibbs. 
Linum catharticum , L. (p. 77). Lea. —Bailway-bank, Leasy 
Bridge, Wheathamstead, 1889.— Gibbs. 
Erodium cicutarium , L’Herit. (pp. 91, 499). Colne. —On railway- 
bridge, Cross Lane, Harpenden Common, in a very curiously dwarfed 
form, 1887.— Gibbs. 
Trifolium subterraneum , L. (pp. 110, 500). Colne. —Sandpit 
Lane, St. Albans, 1888.— Transactions, Yol. Y, p. xxi There are 
previous records of the plant in this locality for the year 1844.— 
Cf. ‘ Flora of Hertfordshire,' 1 p. 110. 
Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, L. (pp. 174, 502). Colne. —Beech 
Bottom, St. Albans, 1886.— Transactions , Yol. IY, p. xx. 
