Habitats of some British Plants, 117 



Pentaldsmis striata Leach, with Peduncles more than 2 ft, 

 long, — At a meeting of the Zoological Society on Nov. 1 2. 

 1833, Captain Belcher laid on the table several specimens of 

 a barnacle, the Pentalasmis striata Leach, remarkable for the 

 great length of their peduncles, which exceeded 2 ft. (The 

 London a?id Edinburgh Phil, Mag, New Series, vol. iv. p. 299. 

 April, 1834.)] 



Plants. — [The following notices had been intended to 

 follow those in the lower portion of p. 90., but the typo- 

 graphical arrangement beyond this point excluded them 

 there.] 



On the comparative Scarcity of certain Species of British 

 Plants, Changes in their Habitats, and Introduction, by Man, 

 of Species exotic to Britain, into British Localities, see Mr. 

 Lees and others in IV. 437 — 442., and Mr. Bree in V. 197 

 —200.] 



A'jaga Chamce'pitys has disappeared, temporarily at least, 

 from one of its Habitats, — In 1832, an old botanist, for 

 many years resident in the neighbourhood, showed me this 

 somewhat rare plant growing, in considerable abundance, in 

 a gravelly field on the banks of the Severn, near Welch Pool. 

 He had never seen it there previously, nor in any other part 

 of the neighbourhood ; nor could he discover any other trace 

 of it, after ransacking the country for full ten miles round. 

 Last year (1833) it was altogether lost: there was not a single 

 specimen to be found ; neither is there, at least as yet, any 

 appearance of it this year, although the ground has not been 

 ploughed, nor otherwise interfered with. — J. Jones, Gelly, 

 Llanfair, Montgomeryshire, March 28. 1834. 



ILycium, not any Species of, is wild in Britain : so Jar as I 

 know. — I have felt surprised at this. The plant of one species, 

 at least, is often to be seen about cottages; and its roots 

 sprout forth young plants so vivaciously, and it bears fruit, 

 which is fleshy, so plentifully, and this includes, I presume, 

 perfect seeds, that one might expect plants to be established 

 wild, either from birds feeding on the fruit and thence dis- 

 seminating the seeds, or from cottages being rased and the 

 rootstock of the iycium being left, and liable to sprout at 

 Nature's bidding. I have seen the blackcap feed heartily on 

 the ripened berries of a garden honeysuckle. — J, D, 



Liilium Martagon grows wild in Surrey, (III, 153.) — 

 Would Alpha [Mr. George Penny, A.L.S., nurseryman, 

 Milford, near Godalming, Surrey] oblige me, and corre- 

 spondents in general, by indicating, more precisely than he 

 has done in III. 153., the exact locality, at Woodmanstone, 



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