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THE NATURALIST. 



the Chelsea Botanic Gardens.' " Cyh. Hi., 399. '* Battersea and Wands- 

 worth " {H.B.P. 745) ; it has not frequently occurred in this neighbour- 

 hood. A native of Italy. 



M. parvlflora, L. Is recorded " from a heap of manure near North 

 Sandwich, Kent," by Mr. J. T. B. Syme, in the Beport of the Tliirsk 

 Botanical Exchange Club for 1863, p. 10. A native of Barbary. 



M. verticillata, L. *' Near Llanelly, South Wales {Bab. Man. ed. v. p. 

 56) /where it appears to be completely naturalised. " When I first ob* 

 served it, there were many hundreds of specimens scattered over three 

 fields, though most abundant in one : last autumn we could only obtain 

 five specimens, but this year [1847] it has appeared again in considerable 

 abundance. I have procured about a hundred specimens, besides leaving 

 quite as many, being anxious that the plant should not be exterminated. 

 I have found several specimens in an old quarry adjoining the field." 

 James Motley, in Phyt. ii., 973. O.S. No clue has as 3'et been obtained as 

 to its introduction to this locality. A native of China. 



M. crispa, D.O. Is stated in Irvine's London Flora, p. 304, to be 

 " apparently naturalised," but no locality is given. It has occurred in 

 Essex, where it " was found Sept., 1799, near Low Leyton, and drawn for 

 Eng. Bot., but not published, because it had no claim to be considered a 

 a native plant." Floj-a of Essex, p. 53. " In the field at Llanelly, with 

 M. verticillata." |G. S. Gibson, in Phyt. ii., 935. O.S. It is occasionally 

 cultivated for culinary purposes : and may be but a form of the last-named 

 species. A native of Syria. 



M. ambigua, Guss. M. microcarpa, Kehb. ? These two are reported 

 by Mr. Irvine from the Wandsworth steamboat pier, in H.B.P. , 745, the 

 latter doubtfully. Both are natives of Europe. 



{To be continued.) 



Accrington Naturalists' Society. — 

 The monthly meeting of this society 

 took place on Saturday evening, 

 Nov. 12th, the president, Mr. Wil- 

 liam Naylor, in the chair. After the 

 usual routine of ordinary business, 



the president exhibited an extensive 

 series of coleopterous insects, col- 

 lected by him principally at Lytham 

 and Whalley, a few of which are 

 here noticed : Pyrochora rubeus, Hi- 

 piphorus paradoxus, Cleonus sulciros- 

 tris, Otiorhynchiis picipes, O. rugifrons, 

 Strangalia melanura, Saperda popid- 



