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Flora Hantoniensis (p. 160). — There seems to be now some like- 

 lihood that the long-desiderated ' Flora of Hampshire ' will, at no distant 

 date, be taken in hand. Early information (not given, 1 think, in Dr. Brom- 

 field's fiiie contribution to the subject) could be collected by the carrying 

 out of some such plan as I have sketched out in the Journal, Vol. VIII.- 

 p. 158. I have not paid much attention myself to the connty in my 

 reading, except as regards such matter as bore upon the Isle of Wight ; 

 so that, besides references to Gerarde, T can only, at present, give the 

 bllowing scant information: — Lobel, ' Illustrationes Stirpium ' (1655), 

 '. 85; Johnson's ' Mercnrius Botanicus ' (1684), pp. 21, 23, 59, pars 

 Itera (1641), p. 30; Parkinson's ' Theatrnni Botanicum ' (1640), 

 )p. 640, 1167, 1485; and Kobson's 'British Flora' (1776), p. 161.— 

 Robert Tucker. 



Trichomanes radicans in England. — In a recent number of 

 ' Nature,' (vol. iii. p. 509,) Mr. E. F. im Thurn gives a locality for this 

 species in Cornwall. He states that he found it " on a rock overhanging 

 the water about a quarter of a mile below the fall " at St. Knighton's 

 Kieve, on the northern coast of the county, in August, 1867. In the 

 succeeding year, during a hurried visit, he was unable to see it. In the 

 next number of ' Nature,' (vol. iv. p. 8,) Mr. W. P. Dymond, of Fal- 

 mouth, corroborates the fact, and adds that the Fern was first recognized 

 at the spot by Mr. R. W. Fox, in 1866. Mr. iin Thurn has kindly 

 communicated to me some additional details. The waterfall in question 

 is about two miles from Tintagel Castle, and the same distance from 

 Boscastle ; a single patch only was seen, and the fronds were probably 

 not much over two inches in height. He has no doubt of the identity of 

 the plant, but, being separated from his herbarium, is unable at present 

 to submit the only frond he gathered to my examination. With reference 

 to the probabilities of its introduction at the fall, Mr. im Thurn writes: 

 - — " The rocks about the waterfall are exactly of the kind on which the 

 Trichomanes usually grows, and if there is any one in the neighbourhood 

 with a taste for the cultivation of Ferns they may, of course, have tried 

 the experiment of introducing the plant. Again, the waterfall, which is 

 romantic enough to attract many visitors, is, with a certain amount of 

 ground round it, enclosed, and let to a man who makes a show of it. 

 The Ferns of other species growing about the fall are remarkable for 

 their great luxuriance, and are much admired l)y visitors, A smattering 

 of fern-lore being so common amongst tourists, it is by no means impos- 

 sible that the lessee of the waterfall may have attempted to add to its 

 attractions by planting rare Ferns. Notwithstanding all this, my own 

 impression is that it was not an introduced plant, for which opinion my 

 reasons are as follows : Firstly, the plant was not growing close to the 

 waterfall, the part generally visited, but some little way down the stream, 

 almost, if not quite, beyond the range of ordinary visitors. Secondly, it 

 is scarcely probable that a man who has to repay himself for a heavy rent 

 by the fees obtained from visitors during the short suunner season would 

 be able to expend much in plants as rare, expens've, and insignificant as 

 the TrlcJtumnnes, especially since it would be passed unnoticed by all but a 

 few of his customers. Thirdly, and lastly, the plant showed no visible 

 signs of introduction, and was of the wild form, and not of that slightly 

 different form which it assumes under cultivation." Under these circum- 



