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states : — " This variety seems exceedingly rare, only a single record having been discovered," but I 

 am certain that sev<Tal specimens have been gathered near Wye before, and I have seen some. 



Mr. Rhodes, of (.'anterbnry, repoi-ts having taken the Frog orchis in White Hill Wood, in the 

 Parish of Hardros. I am hoping to see this next summer, for although I have, with other botanists, 

 hunted over all the old stations given for East Kent, we have never been able to find it. 



Lyme grass. FJymus orenarius, has been reported more than once from the Sand Hills along 

 Pegwell Bay, but mistakes have so oft.-n bt-en made over this grass that it would be well if botanists 

 would again search the Sand Hills in order to verify this find. 



W. H. HAMMOND. 



South Hill, Canterbury. 



BOTANICAL NOTES FROM DOVER. 



The following are the most noteworthy plants I came across during my botanical peregrinations 

 last season : — 



Hicracinm auranfiacum, found on a garden wall beside the puldie road at Eythome. I got per- 

 mission to examine the garden with the view of finding out whether or not the plant had been a 

 recent garden escape, l»ut it was not growing in the garden. The gardener said it had lieen growing 

 ou the garden wall during the six years he had been employed there. My identification was confirmed 

 at Kew. A remarkable coincidence is that I found this plant gi-owing pretty abundantly at Zermatt, 

 Switzerland, last August. 



Gcntiana omarella, found above the south of Kingsdown, all the way along to Dover. The re- 

 markal)le thing about this " find " is that the variety with the fom--lobed calyx and corolla is almost 

 AS common as the fivo-lobed variety. This fact, it seems to me, explains why it is stated in the 

 "Floni of Kent" tliat several botanists had reported that they had found Gentiana campestris, 

 which is a fom-lobed spetues. My identification was confirmed by the Regius Keeper of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden. Edinburgh. 



Asparagtts officinalis, found on the left bank of the Stour, a short distance north of Stouar. Here 

 the plant is well-established. Mr. Sidney Wel.ib and I counted twenty pLmts in a comparatively 

 small space of gTOund, and I Iiave found it here in former seasons. 



Sihne con ica, found behind sand dunes close to the beach east of Sandwich. I found a good many 

 specimens, but only in thn one place. 



MeUIotim nihil, neiir the left liank of the Stoiu-, about a quart er-of-a-mile north of Stonar. I con- 

 sider it well-estal>li.slii-d hi-re. for I have found it at the same place several seasons. 



MijriophyUuiii spicatmii, in a dyke north-east of Sandwich. 



Cerasiium arvense, between Sandwich and Deal. 



Vicia bithynica, between Sandwich and Deal. 



CephaJniithcra palleus, near Frogham. 



Neottia nidus-avis, Fredwell. 



Atptiletjia vulgaris, near Frogham. 



Hahenorin chlofo-leuca, near Frogham. 



Marruhuim vnhjore. The Warren. 



Lathijrus nissolla. Sandwich Golf Links. 



Genista angllrn. Gibbon's Brook. 



Pedicularis stilvttiica. Gibbon's Brook. 



Scirptis syh'iiticHs, near Gibbon's Brook. 



Lathyrvs sylreslris, at side of road, about half-a-mile north of Shepherdswell. 



Spirsea JilipetHlula, between Shepherdswell and Eythorne. 



Linaria repeus, close to the shoi'e at Walmer, 



JOHX TAYLOR, M.A., B.D. 

 1, Guilford Lawn, Dover. 



HON. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. 



In placing his annual report for the year 1907, the jubilee yeai' of the Society, before the Com- 

 mittee and nieinl;ei.s. the Hon. Librarian is very pleased to report that good use has been made by 

 members and othcj-.s of the Society's valuable collection during the past year. 



It is also gratifying to state from personal observation, that niiiny of the young men of the City 

 are showing more interest in the study of Nnture. and other Scientific pursuits. Wany also, of they oun*T 

 scholars from the pul»lic and other .schools in the City are availing them.=elves of the opportunities 

 afforded them by a* < ess to such a valuable scientific library. 



It may not be known generally by the members, more Cf^peeially by the newer ones, that books from 

 the Society's library can bo borrowed or exchanged on any week-d;iy from 10 a.m. till 9 p.m. The 



