INTEODUCTIO1S'. 25 



Buxus sempervirens, on Box Hill, Surrey, where this 

 beautiful evergreen truly adorns the chalky heights. 

 If indigenous any where in Britain it is here. 

 Various Orchidice are found in the vicinity. 



Teucrium Hotrys also grows at Box Hill. 



Scheuchzeria palustris, only in England, at Bomere 

 Pool, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire ; and Lakeby 

 Car, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. The former is 

 a beautiful little lake, with abundance of Sphagnum, 

 amid which the SclieucJizeria grows. 



Orchis hircina, only known in the vicinity of Dartford, 

 in Kent, but not recently gathered. A corres- 

 pondent of the Phytologist (Mr. "W. PEETE) says, 

 respecting its station here, that " in consequence of 

 the rapacity of collectors, it is now nearly, if not 

 entirely, eradicated. It was to be found to a 

 certainty near Puddledock and Stanhill, in "Wil- 

 mington parish, about twenty or thirty years ago, 

 in hedgerows ; also at Truling Down, in the road 

 to Grreenstreet Green." Here Mr. PEETE says he 

 has gathered it, and considers it may still be met 

 with. This statement was made in 1843. O.fusca 

 is another beautiful Kentish plant, more easily 

 found; and the Spider and Drone Orchises, 0. 

 aranifera, 0. fucifera, and 0. arachnites, are also 

 natives of the chalky pastures of Kent, chiefly near 

 Deal. 



Cypripedium Calceolus, in Castle Eden Dene, Durham, 

 almost the only place in England where the Lady's 

 Slipper can now be found. 



Allium Ampeloprasum, on the Steep Holmes Isle, in 

 the Severn Estuary. Not to be found elsewhere in 

 England. Pceonia corallina grows upon the same 



