388 On the Indigenousness of certain Plants 



draining, and other agricultural improvements [V. 197 — • 

 200.] — W. T. Bree. Allesley Rectory, March 6. 1835. 



The Snowdrop wild in Dorsetshire. — Our correspondent 

 John Reynolds Rowe, Esq., of Wimborne, Dorsetshire, has, 

 in a contribution to the Magazine lying by us, dated Jan. 24. 

 1 834, this notice of a Dorsetshire habitat of the snowdrop. He 

 has noted the phases exhibited by certain species of plants at 

 Woodstock, about six miles to the north-west of Wimborne, 

 and on the skirts of a wood in a chalky district, on Jan. 3. 1834 : 

 in the short list of those seen flowering there then, are " a 

 few specimens of Galanthus nivalis, though near a garden, 

 apparently wild. On enquiring of the cottagers respecting 

 these last, I was told that, on a hedge-bank two fields offj 

 they grew in abundance. I considered myself amply repaid 

 for a dirty and slippery walk, by finding the place pointed out 

 to me thickly studded with those beautiful and elegant flowers. 

 From the disposition of the ground immediately around, I 

 think there must formerly have been a cottage there, though 

 no remains of it are now discoverable ; nor could I ascertain 

 that such was the case from those living near. — \J. R. Rowe."] 



\Vr is fcetidissima. (p. 386.)] — "Near these [the first- 

 observed few specimens of Galanthus nivalis] were numerous 

 plants of the 2 ris fcetidissima, with their green sword-shaped 

 leaves and open capsules ; some empty, but the greater number 

 loaded with their rich orange-coloured seeds." — {J. R. Rowe.~] 



[In the Gard. Mag. for July, 1835, are published some 

 notes, by the Conductor, on gardens and country seats visited 

 by him. It is noted, in p. 332. of the No., that " jPris 

 fcetidissima is abundant by the road side " from Wimborne to 

 Bland ford, both in Dorsetshire.] 



Geranium pyrendicum is deemed by Mr. Bree (p. 387.) not 

 aboriginally British. Mr. William Scott, foreman in the 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden, once, in 1830, showed me plants 

 regarded as of this species, apparently truly wild, in a habitat 

 two or three miles or so about south-east of Cambridge. 



Camellna satlva. — In 1833, and, perhaps, the end of 1832, 

 the turf was pared off parts of Kensington Gardens* that a 

 better turf, or better state of turf, might be induced over these 

 parts. That pared off was reduced to soil, some of it by 

 burning, and some of it by packing it into heaps, and mixing 

 with it mud out of that part of the Serpentine River which 

 is in the gardens. The soil obtained was spread down over 

 the bald places, on which were sown seeds for the production 

 of fresh turf. In the crop present to sight in 1834, plants of 

 the white-flowered clover (Trifolium repens) were the more 

 numerous : here and there was a plant of Camellna sativa, in 



