ISO THE NATURALIST. 



in English Botany does not seem to agree with R. alpestris of Linnaeus, 

 remarks " Can the Clova plant be R. Traunfellneri, Hoppe, a specimen of 

 which (from Croatia) in my herbarium, is well represented by the E. B. 

 figure ? " 



R. gramineiis, L. " Specimens brought from North Wales, by Mr. 

 Pritchard," With. Arr. ed. 4. m.496. " The locality has been reported " in the 

 neighbourhood of Llanrwst, " but botanists have vainly sought the pre- 

 sent species in that neighbourhood." Cyh. i. 85. " We have been informed 

 by Mr. Baker that this plant has recently been found by Mr. Etheridge, 

 of Bristol, in Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel." Pliyt. i. 190, N.S. 

 As this latter announcement was never confirmed, we may suppose it to 

 have been erroneous. In both cases, perhaps, small states of R. Flammula, 

 such as occasionally occur on the Surrey commons, were mistaken for R. 

 gramineus. From the New Botanist's Guide, p. 299, it appears to have been 

 recorded, in a work devoted to local information, as having occurred near 

 Southport, Lancashire. 



R. muricatus, D.C. Appears from an essay by Mr. N. J. Winch, " On 

 the Geographical Distribution of Plants through the Counties of Northum- 

 berland, Cumberland, and Durham," to have occurred on the "ballast 

 hills of Tyne and Wear." These hills are among the richest localities for 

 exotics which are to be found in England ; this will be observed from the 

 frequent reference made to them in these pages. R. muricatus is also re- 

 corded doubtfully by Mr. Irvine from the waste ground at Wandsworth 

 steamboat pier. {Phyt. Hi. 334, N.S.) It is a native of the south of Europe. 

 R. trilohus, Desf. and R. cordigerus, ? L. are reported by Mr. Irvine 

 from the Wandsworth waste ground : the former in Phyt. Hi. 334, N.S. ; 

 the latter doubtfully in H.B.P., 787. 



Deljphinium Ajacis, L. Considerable doubt has been expressed as to 

 whether this be not the species supposed to be a native of this country. 

 Mr. Baker, in Phyt. ii., 376, N.S., states that his own impression is " that 

 this is the plant of ' English Botany.' " but Professor Babington, in his 

 Manual ed. 5, distinctly informs us that the British species is D. Consolida. 

 D. Ajacis is stated by Mr. Baker, as above, to have been " collected by 

 Hort in Cambridgeshire, and Mr. Mudd and myself in Yorkshire." The 

 Rev. W. Pv. Crotch, as reported in Phyt iii., 185 N.S., remarks, " The 

 specimens of Delphinum in my herbarium, one sent to me by Professor 

 Henslow, from Cambridgeshire, one gathered by me in Davenport Wood, 

 near Bridgenorth, Shropshire, and one near Greenwich, were all labelled 



