NOTES AND QUERIES — REVIEW. 



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on the Bradford-road, in a charm- 

 ing spot, surrounded by most 

 beautiful scenery. Striking across 

 a footpath at the back of the New 

 Inn, and crossing the hill, we ar- 

 rive at the place where once stood 

 Longwood House, and its gardens. 

 The old house was taken down some 

 years ago, and a new one erected a 

 short distance from the place. 

 Since then a portion of the gardens 

 have been destroyed by delving for 

 stone, and in this place, among 

 stone and debris, L. purpurea is 

 found growing. I have been over 

 the ground to-day, Sept. 21st, and, 

 along with the Linaria, I observed 

 the following plants : — Armoracia 

 rusticana, Horse Eadish ; Matricaria 

 parthenium ; and several others 

 which it is useless to mention. I 

 think this quite sufficient to convince 

 any one as to what claims L. purpurea 

 can have as a British plant in this 

 locality. If some of Mr. Darwin's 

 disciples were to see these plants 

 growing here, they might say they 

 were struggling for existence, but 

 surrounded by difficulties. — W. 

 Guthrie, Fixby Park, Sep. 21. 



Asplenium marinum. — Do any 

 readers of the " Naturalist " know of 

 any inland habitat for this beauti- 

 ful fern ? Hooker, in his Flora, 

 says " in rocks and caves by the sea 

 side." It has been found growing in 

 a quarry, near Warrington, and in 

 two rocks on Overton Hills, near 



Frodsham, Cheshire — both localities 

 far removed from the sea side. 

 Perhaps some may be inclined to 

 think there must be a mistake, but 

 upon comparing it with specimens 

 found on rocks by the sea side, and 

 with the descriptions given in our 

 floras, it is found to correspond in 

 every particular. — J. F. R. 



" The Flora of Harrow, ci-c." hy J. C. 

 Melville. London : Longman, 

 Green, and Co., 1864. 



We hail with pleasure the ap- 

 pearance of another addition to our 

 Local Floras, in the one standing at 

 the head of the present notice. 

 These local lists (particularly when 

 got up with the same care as the 

 " Flora of Harrow,") are undoubtedly 

 the best means of delineating the 

 geographical range of our British 

 plants, and we heartily wish that 

 similar lists may soon be published 

 of all the counties or districts in the 

 kingdom. The little work before 

 us is " entirely drawn up by Harrow 

 boys, of whom four are still mem- 

 bers of the school, and one has re- 

 cently left it." 



It contains, besides the Flora by 

 J. C. Melville, notices of the birds 

 of the neighbourhood (by the Hons. 

 F. C. Bridgeman and G. O. M. 

 Bridgeman, and of the butterflies 

 and moths by C. C. Parr and E. 



