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was worked in the middle of the thu'teenth century for sandstone. 

 The place has heen used from time immemorial as recreation 

 ground by the inhabitants of the town, and the portions on which 

 the Crocus grows were let off as pasture-land, but are now mown. 

 They grow under the lime trees on the margin of the public walk. 



WiLLIAJI PmLLIPS. 



Festuca ambigua in Suffolk. — I enclose a si^ecimen which I 

 think must be referred to F. amhigua. I gathered it on Lakenheath 

 High Warren, near Wangford, Suffolk, June 10th, 1878, and had 

 placed the plant on one side for future examination. The note in 

 the 'Journal of Botany' last month (p. 186) recalled the specimens 

 to my mind. Another specimen from Guernsey will, I beheve, 

 also in-ove to be same iDlant. — A. Bennett. [I have no doubt that 

 the Suffolk specimen sent is F. ambir/ua. It is a more tufted and 

 smaller plant with more spreading habit than the Isle of Wight 

 specimens. Mr. Townsend has also seen and passed the plant as 

 F. amhiyua. — Ed. Journ; Bot.] 



Festuca ambigua in Dorset. — Attention being just now specially 

 called to this grass by Mr. Townsend's paper, I was led to search 

 foi- it m the very suitable locality of Studland Bay, Dorset, where, 

 on June 17th of this year, I had the pleasure of the company 

 and guidance of Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, the botanographer of the 

 county. It proved to be very abundant, especially at South Haven 

 close to the mouth of Poole Harbom-, and on the sandhills below 

 the ascent to the village of Studland, at the southern end of the 

 bay. Many of the specimens were very much depauperated — 

 reduced m some cases to merely one or two spikelets, and none 

 were so fine as those from the Isle of Wight : the characteristics 

 of the species were, however, in all cases well preserved, and 

 presented no variation whatever. Both F. Myurus and F. hromoides, 

 both usually very dwarf, grow along with F. amhiyua ; but we did 

 not see F. uniylumis, which is given in the 'Flora of Dorset' for 

 the locality. — Henry Trimen. 



The Chinese Fontanesia. — Under the name of Foyitanesia 

 chinensis, Dr. Hance describes in the current volume (p. 136) the 

 Oleincous shrub mentioned by me in vol. v., n. s., 1876, p. 208. 

 I was wrong in assuming, even then, that it was an un described 

 plant. It appears to have been first described by Carriere, ' Eevue 

 Horticole,' 1859, p. 43, fig. 9, under the name of Fontanesia 

 Fortunei. In 1875 Dr. M. 0. Debeaux published a Fontanesia 

 ■philhjraoides, var. sinensis, in the ' Actes de la Societe Linneenne 

 de Bordeaux,' vol. xxx., reprinted imder the title of ' Florule de 

 Shang-Hai.' This is taken up by Maximowicz in his recent 

 ' Ad florae Asias oriontalis cognitionem nieliorem Fragmcnta.' 

 Debeaux is of opinion that Ids plant differs from Carriere' s 

 /'. Fortunri, but the only difference he has been able to discover 



