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years, as it was seen there by L'Obel before 1576 (See his 

 ' Sth-imimHistoria,' 194). It was also seen there by Thorn. Johnson 

 and his friends in 1634, as stated in his ' Mercurius Botanicus,' 

 which I have before me. I beheve that I was the first to call 

 attention to it in my ' Fl. Bathoniensis ' in 1833, and the late 

 Edw. Forster wrote about it in ' Linn. Trans.', xvii. 523. The 

 old authors say that it is found " by a wood-side some miles south 

 of Bathe." And L'Obel adds that it was '* in sylva de Joannis 

 Coltes i^rope Bathoniam " that he found it. I have seen it in what 

 is in all probability the same wood, as well as in the lane where it 

 is usually looked for. I may also refer to my ' Fl. Bath. Sup^Dl.' 90, 

 for the statement of the same facts. I venture to think that we 

 ought not to exclude a plant of 300 years' standing without show- 

 ing some reason, and that a valid one, which is not done in the 

 ' Student's Flora.' — C. C. Babington. 



A NEW Locality for Teucrium Botrys. — We are indebted to Mr. 

 H. Peirson for specimens of this very rare British species, collected 

 by him in August last, in a locality a little distance to the south of 

 Addington, in Surrey, near the Kentish boundary. This is at a 

 considerable distance from the Boxhill station, to which it is quite 

 similar in character, namely, a very diy barren field on the slope 

 of a valley on the chalk. Perhaps some of our Surrey or London 

 botanists may already know of this locality, but it has not, we 

 beheve, been previously recorded in print. 



Ch^toceros armatum, T. West. — This filamentous Diatom was 

 found by me on the Norfolk coast at Scratley, near Yarmouth, in 

 1851, and was the subject of a paper by Tufien West, which appeared 

 in the 'Trans. Microsc. Soc.', with a'^ figure, vol. viii. pi. 7. There 

 was some doubt expressed as to the nature of this Diatom, as 

 some naturahsts considered it to be the case of an Annehd, but the 

 paper referred to has, I think, settled the question. It has been 

 found on various parts of the coast since. Last July I met with it 

 in great abundance at Hunstanton, Norfolk. — Hampden G. Glass- 



POOLE. 



Urtica pilulifera, L., used to be found growing pretty freely at 

 Lowestoft, Suffolk, some years ago. This season only three or 

 four small plants were to be seen in the old locality by the side 

 of a wall on the lower road between the sea and the town. — 

 Hampden G. Glasspoole. 



