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 172 MONTGOMERYSHIRE NOTES. By William Whitwell, F.L.S. I HAVE during 1896 received specimens of the following plants from my correspondent Miss E. Jones, of Montgomery, which have not hitherto been recorded for Montgomeryshire : — Fumaria ojici- nalis. Weed in garden. — Trifolium hybridum. Churchstoke Road. — Adoxa MoschateUina. Kerry 'Roo.di.—Apium nodifiorum. Near Stalloe. — Cornus sanguinea. Churchstoke Road. — Galium verum. Road past the Castle. — Calystegia sepium and Scrophularia Balbisii. Way up to the Castle. — Mimulus luteus. Stalloe Cottages brook ; apparently established. — TJrtica urens and Hordeum murinum. Castle grounds. Finding, on examination of Top. Bot., ed. 2, so many usually common species "wanting" for this county, I was led to look through my own collections and note-books with special reference to these. During the years 1862-1869 I frequently botanized in North Montgomeryshire, and I can vouch for the existence at that period of the following plants : — Scolopendrium vulgare. Guilsfield ; 1862. — Lastrea Oreopteris. The Garfawr, Guilsfield ; 1862. — Poly- stichuma7iyal(ire. The Rallt, near Welshpool; 1862. These three ferns were sent to me by Mr. A. F. Field, then of Guilsfield. L. Oreopteris was plentiful on hills near Llanfyllin. — Polypodium Robertianum. On the sides of a disused mine-shaft on the upper portion of Llanymynech Hill, not far from the well-known " Ogo " Cave; Aug. 2nd, 1864. A. F. Field had met with a manuscript note in a book in a library at Welshpool stating that this fern grew on Llanymynech Hill. We devoted a long afternoon to a search for it, seemingly fruitless, until I proposed as a last chance to examine the abandoned mine- shafts, and on the sides of one of these I soon found it in some plenty, just within reach of my arm. We met with it in the one shaft only. The fronds were small, smaller than ordmary P. Dryopteris. In 1865 I saw it still there, but a few years later it had disappeared, as well as a solitary plant which had for some time been known on a bridge near Oswestry : exterminated, I was told, by a Shropshire ''florist." The subsequent notes are of species all collected or observed by myself: — Saponaria officinalis. River-side below bridge, Llan- santffraid-yn-Mechain ; 1864. Plentiful a little higher up the stream, in the mill-grounds, and no doubt originally from the garden there, but thoroughly established. — Cheiranthus Cheiri, Plentiful on Montgomery Castle ruins in 1868 ; the true yellow- petalled " wild " form. Miss Jones reports it still there. — Malva rotundij'olia. Llansantffraid-yn-Mecham ; about 1866. — Erodium cicutarium. Just below Rodney's Pillar, on the Breidden Hill; 1866. — Trifolium arvense. Railway-side, near Llansantffraid-yn- Mechain; 1867. — Valeriana dioica. Top of Allt-y-gader (1000 ft.), near Llanfyllin ; 1866. — Tragopogon pratensis (var. not noted). Mount Pleasant, near Llanfyllin ; 1866. — Epipactis latifolia (true latifolia I am certain). Llandrinio ; 1865. Meconopsis cambrica Vig. South side of Pistill Rhaidr; 1864. The south side is in Denbigh. This is named in Top, Bot, for