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Asjilenium marinum, a few plants. 

 Thymus- Serpyllum, alDuiiclant. 

 Statice Armeria, abundant. 

 Empetrum nlg^^um, not uncommon. 

 Carlina vulgaris, not common. 

 Myrica Gale, very local. 

 Hypericum Immifusum, few. 

 Sagina maritima, not uncommon. 

 Comarum palustre, frequent. 



On Sallx Davalliana and Salix 

 petroea in " Salktum Britannicum 

 Exsic:'' Leife. — I beg to observe for 

 the benefit of the possessors of the 

 Salictwn Britannicum, Leife, that the 

 leaves of No. 74, S. Davalliana, have 

 been by mistake placed with No. 84, 

 S. p)etraia, and the leaves of JSTo. 84 

 have been put with the amenta of 

 74, thus causing much confusion in 

 the two — hence, perliaps, the remarks 

 of Mr. Borrer on the labels of both 

 these two species, or rather varieties 

 according to Dr. Anderson, of Salix 

 phyllci folia. — James Ward, Pdch- 

 mond, Yorkshire. 



Monstrosity of Linaria spmria. — 

 Might I enquire if any of the readers 

 of the "Naturalist" have ever noticed 

 any monstrosity of the smaller species 

 of Linaria, (besides L. vidgaris, var. 

 peloria, which is so well known.) 

 Last summer, when in Essex, where 

 L. spuria grows abundantly in the 

 corn fields, I found one plant mtli 

 all the flowers departed more or less 



from the normal type ; one flower for 

 instance had two spurs, another three. 

 I should be glad to know if this is 

 often the case. I searched in vain 

 for another plant of L. sjmria having 

 this peculiarity. — J. C. Melvill, 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, March, 

 1865. 



Flora of Buckinghamshire, 

 (To the Editors of the Naturalist. ) 

 Gentlemen, — ^Will you allow me 

 a short space in your columns to ask 

 for assistance in compiling a work 

 on the above subject 1 The Flora of 

 the county of Buckingham is, I am 

 sure, from the comparatively small 

 attention which I have been able to 

 pay to it, an extremely rich one : and 

 it is a singular fact, that, with one or 

 two trifling exceptions, no one has 

 botanised in it to any extent. The 

 lists given for Buckinghamshire in 

 the Botanists' Guide, and in Mr. 

 Watson's later edition of the same 

 work, are remarkably meagre: all, 

 or nearly all of the localities there 

 given being confined to one or two 

 districts. A copious list of Marlow 

 plants in the old series of the Pliyto- 

 logist, and sundry smaller articles in 

 the new series of the same, complete 

 the printed information which I have 

 been able to collect relative to the 

 botany of the entire county : this 

 will show how much yet remains to 

 be done. I have no doubt that many 



