474 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Phalaris utriculata, L. 
This pretty grass (the Alopecurus utriculatus of Persoon 
and Kunth) has been recently detected by James Hussey, 
Esq., in a field near Swanage, Dorset, extremely abundant in 
one corner of that field. Mr. Hussey thinks it next to im- 
possible it should have come by ballast, but that it is barely 
possible it may have been imported with foreign corn or 
agricultural seed of some description. It is a native of 
France and Germany; and it is not a little singular that . 
Kunth, in his * Agrostographia," gives * Anglia" as one of 
its localities. 
Allium spherocephalum, L. 
This rare plant, which had been only bitherto found wild 
in the Channel Islands, was discovered this summer by 
H. O. Stevens, Esq., of Bristol, on St. Vincent's Rocks, 
though in small quantity. : 
Simethis bicolor, Kth. 
The old Phalangium bicolor (Simethis, of Kunth), as has 
been already mentioned in a recent number of the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle,* has been detected apparently wild near Bourne- 
mouth by Miss Wilkins, to whom we are indebted for a 
specimen. It is too southern a plant to be expected to be à 
native in such a locality; yet, on the other hand, not being 
à com plant, it is the less likely to be imported with 
seed. The writer in the Gardeners’ Chronicle is di 
to attribute its introduction to ballast. 
i: Ps Trifolium strictum, L. in Cornwall. _ a 
__ The Rev. C. A. Johns, of the Grammar School, Helston, — 
~ has recently had the good fortune to discover this rare - 
= © * Where the name of Watkins is a misprint for Wikis © 
