Localities of some rare British Plants, 85 



I believe that persons of extensive experience among 

 plants, whether observers in a botanical mode or otherwise, 

 do not find instances of symphysis in plants of extremely rare 

 occurrence, reckoning instances of every mode of this, one of 

 which is 



a double cherry, seeming parted, 



But yet a union in partition, 



Two lovely berries, moulded on one stem." 



Mids. Night's Dream. 



I have observed an instance in the hawthorn analogous to 

 that described of the beech ; and I have observed an in- 

 stance of a branch that had crossed, having grown together at 

 the crossing, with the part beyond alive, in the apple and the 

 elm ; with only that part of the branch present which inter- 

 vened the branch out of which it had grown and the branch 

 into which it had grown, in the sycamore and the yew; and 

 have been told of instances of symphysis observed in the yew, 

 the beech, and the hornbeam. In gardening, inarching, in- 

 grafting, and budding, are modes of artificially putting parts of 

 plants in conditions favourable to the issue of symphysis. — J. D. 



Art. VI. A Notice of the Localities of Habitats of some rare 

 British Species of Plants. By W. A. Bromfield, M.D. 



Fe v dia Auricula Dec. — This, which is the true Auricula 

 of De Candolle, grows along with the ordinary dentata of Bri- 

 tish authors (F eriocarpa Dec. ?), in various places amongst 

 corn around Hastings, and in profusion in an old clover field, 

 with jEuphorbz'a platyphylla (stricta of Smith), JLinum angusti- 

 folium, &c, near Valebrook Farm, a short mile from that 

 town. I communicated specimens to Mr. Borrer, under the 

 impression of its being a species new to Britain, or at least 

 very rare, when that accomplished botanist kindly favoured 

 me with the synonymes of this and other indigenous species 

 of the genus, when I had the pleasure of pointing the plant 

 out to him in his visit to Hastings in July last (1835). De 

 Candolle has given excellent dissected figures of the fruit both 

 of his Auricula and eriocarpa, and which admirably agree with 

 the seed vessels of our two Hastings plants. Mr. Babington 

 found our Fedia Auricula in the west of Ireland this season, as 

 appears on a comparison of his own with my English speci- 

 mens. The Cornish plant sent to Mr. Borrer by Mr. Bree, 

 as Fedia dentata, differs but slightly, as I am told by the former 

 gentleman, from our Auricula. 



