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pretty abundant. It gTows amongst low, thick oak underwood, and long 

 rank grass, the place being a moist one, and near a small running stream 

 which comes from the direction of the New Forest. There is a small 

 cottage and garden near the edge of the wood, about 100 j'ards from the 

 place where the Siy/rinchiiim is found to the northward, the prevailing 

 wind being W.S.W." I have not been successful in obtaining any fur- 

 ther information tlian that a specimen of the plant, alleged to have been 

 collected in the locality, was sent to the editor of the ' Chronicle.' If it 

 prove a native in Hants, it will be a very interesting addition to the flora 

 of a remarkable district of England, which is rich in rarities, and contains 

 the only British locality for another Irish species, the Simethis bicolor, 

 Kunth. By the way, botanists rarely write the name of this species cor- 

 rectly. Its old name (Dillenius's) was Berriiudiayia gramlnea fore minore 

 cisrideo, and Linnaeus, as was frequently his practice, adopted the previous 

 appellation as a specific name (Sp. Plant. 1353). A parallel case is 

 Lythrmn HyssopifuHa, L, ; here, as in the Sisyrinchinm^ the trivial name 

 is not ail adjective term, but a substantive, and the original name of the 

 plant. — Henry Trimen. 



British Plants under Culture. — Few persons have any concep- 

 tion of the ornamental capabilities of many of our indigenous plants. It 

 is remarkable, however, how much can l)e done with them, if they are 

 grown with a little care. At the Ilorticulturjil Society, July 19tl), Mr. 

 Parker took the first prize for a group of hardy perennials grown in 13- 

 inch pots. Several of the plants were natives, sucii as Armeria planla- 

 ginea, Centranthus ruber, var. albiis, and Potentilla reptatis, flore pleno. 

 Others, such as Veronica maritima and Betonica hirsMta, could probably 

 be equalled in effectiveness by native species allied to them, such as Fe- 

 ronica spicata and BetonJca officinalis. The plants were about 18 inches 

 tlirough, and under 2 feet in height, clothed with foliage to the pots, and 

 covered with flowers. Many exotics look far less attractive than these 

 wild plants. It was curious to notice how cultivation had restrained and 

 toned down coarseness of growth, and given that air of unweed-like 

 refinement characteristic of all garden-grown plants. — W. Thiselton 

 Dyer. [At the last show of the Royal Botanic Society, I was equally 

 struck with the elegant and beautiful appearance of a tall-growing, white- 

 flowered form of Campanula rotuncUfoIia grown in pots and in profuse 

 blossom.— HiiNRY Trimen.] 



Surrey Casuals. — In April this year I found in a field of Clover and 

 Grass, about a mde south of Gomshall, Surrey (between Guildford and 

 Dorking), Fero)dca Iriphyllos, Gamelina saliva, and Alyssum calyriuuni. 

 Tiiis Veronica has not, 1 think, been noticed before in Surrey ; only one 

 specimen was found. All were, doubtless, introduced.— F. Eversiied. 



Galium tricorne, L. — I enclose a specimen of this species, which I 

 gathered on the bank of the new road through the brickfields, behiryl St. 

 Augustine's Church, Stoke Newington, at the beginning of this month, 

 July, 1871. — Frederick J. Hanbury. [This c.uinot be regarded as 

 other than a casual in this locality, although more than one plant was 

 found ; it has not, however, been previously observed, or at all events 

 recorded, in ]\Iiddlete\. — II. T.] 



