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2l8 SHORT NOTES.
were clustered a large number of anthers. These flowers also produced
seed. I could not discover any difference in the fertility of
the seed. Plants came up freely from those of both forms. When
the large flowers appeared I easily made the plant out to be P.
Imstata, indigenous in Australia. So unlike are the two forms of
flowers that this plant has not only been made into two species,
but placed in distinct genera. Unlike other plants which produce
clandestine flowers (generally I believe when they are exhausted at
the end of the flowering season), P. Jiastata is first covered with the
clandestine forms, and afterwards both are on the shrub together.
Robert T. Fitzgerald.
Lepidium Draba L., in South Wales.—This plant was formerly
very abundant about Swansea, on the ballast banks by the river
side, a few hundred yards northward from the pottery, where I
observed it in 1839. On visiting Swansea in the month of August,
1852, Mr. M. Moggridge and myself noticed it in several spots a
little higher up the river, where it appeared perfectly naturalized.
The natural range of the species extends over France to the
English Channel. L. ruderale L., was observed occasionally on
rubbish heaps about Neath and Swansea.— T. Bruges Flower.
Carex tomentosa L., in E. Gloster. — To-day, June 12th, I
gathered the above Sedge, in the locality near Fairford, discovered
recently by the Rev. R. H. Wilmot, which he was kind enough to
conduct me to. This is by no means a water or even a wet
meadow, but an ordinary pasture field on a slight eminence. The
plant was scattered over the field, but was especially fond of the
damper furrows. Associated with it were Carex fidva Good., C.
panicea, L., C. hirta L., C. Jiacca Schreb., and probably inland C.
distans L. Mr. Wilmot has also found it in two other localities, one
of them a roadside in the vicinity ; the latter locality being within
two miles of the Oxfordshire boundary, in which county it will be
doubtless found, now our attention is called to more suitable situations
for search than water meadows. How its extirpation could
have been referred to the drainage of the meadows I am unable to
conjecture, since the plant flourishes well in the Oxford Garden in
ordinary loam. The plate in E. B. gives little idea of the plant.
G. Claridge Druce.
Kent Plants.—I have recently met with the following, which
are not given in the second edition of ' Topographical Botany,'
though some of them are very common, and must have been
frequently noticed by previous observers. E. Kent (v. c. 15) :—
Ranunculus trichophylhis & R. Drouetii. Between Deal and Sandwich.—
Viola permixta. Near Martin Mill. Ccrastium tctrandnun.
Abundant near Queenboro', and between Deal and Sandwich
Rubus rasticanus. About Deal, Cranbrook, &c. R. ccBsius x Id/cus
(teste Babington). Ham Ponds. Myrloplujllum. alterniflonim. Ham
Ponds. Hieracium murorum. Lanes N.E. of Hawkhurst. Gnapha-
Hum uliyinosum, var. pilulare (teste Becby). Dry soil, Chiddenden
Woods, near Cranbrook. Salix aurita. Chiddenden Wood. Festuca
rubra, var. pruinosa Hackel. Base of the cliffs, St. Margaret's