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ranean stock a place in the list of natives, since, at the very 

 least, it now appears to have become naturalised on our shore, 

 and at any rate may, with as much propriety, be considered 

 a British plant, as many others whose claims have been ad- 

 mitted. My intelligent informant very justly remarks that 

 " there are no gardens or houses under the cliff between 

 St. Margaret's and Dover, nor are there any in that direction 

 above near the cliff;" so that it is not likely the stock in 

 this situation should have been the mere outcast of a garden. 



While on the subject of Kentish botany, I take the oppor- 

 tunity of stating that Miss Harvey finds the beautiful 



(Sphrys fucifera in great ]yrqfiision at particular spots be- 

 tween Walmer and St. Margaret's. In a letter accompanying 

 some fresh specimens in flower, received in May last, she 

 remarks : — " Two years ago I found five specimens, and 

 thought myself fortunate : within the last week I have gathered 

 three hundred, and yet have left an abundance. They seem 

 more prolific than any of the orchis tribe. The specimens vary 

 very much in the number and colour of the flowers, and in 

 the size of the leaves." (See Catalogue of rare or remarhahle 

 Phcenogamous Plants collected in South Kent^ by G. E. Smith.) — 

 W* T, Bree. Mesley Rectory, Oct, 11. 1833. 



Alyssum maritimum Lam. is another plant abundant on the 

 shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and supposed to have arisen 

 on the shores of Britain from seeds borne hither, on the waves, 

 from the former place. Mr. Winch has, in some one of his 

 published works, enumerated all those species of the plants 

 called British which he conceives to be not aboriginally so, 

 and has traced the first appearance here of some of them to 

 the importation of ballast, and to other adventitious sources. 



Trichonema BulhocMium Ker grows wild, in great abund- 

 ance, among turf, in a dry sandy soil, on the Warren (a 

 sandy tract) between Dawlish and Exmouth, Devonshire. 

 The exact spot is on the left of the old road from Exeter to 

 Dawlish, before you ascend the hill to Mount Pleasant, and 

 almost in front of the small cottages there : it extends, at 

 intervals, to the ferry. My friend W. C. Trevelyan, Esq., 

 of Wallington, Northumberland, and myself, found it there, 

 on March 24. 1834, in full flower: its ribbed corolla, of a 

 purplish blue colour, is strikingly beautiful. Trichonema 

 (/xia) Bulbocodium has never before been found wild in 

 England. It is well figured, in English Botany, as a native 

 of Guernsey; and it abounds in the south of Europe. — Mm 

 Milford. Coaver House, near Exeter, 



Asperula arvensis L. was not, in the summer of 1832, dis- 



