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Additions to the Wycombe Fora, —1869. 
EK have not many additions to the Flora of our district to 
chronicle this year. The Common Gromwell (Litho- 
spermum officinale), which has not before been observed nearer 
than Bisham Wood, was discovered by Miss Chandler growing 
in some plenty near Abbey Barn Farm. The Deptford Pink 
(Dianthus Armeria) has been found sparingly by Dr. Bowstead 
near Wheeler End Common, and as it seems to have disappeared 
from the Little Marlow road, where Mr. Mill fouud it in 1843, 
this may be looked on as the only locality where it exists at 
present in our district; the plant found on Green Street by 
Mrs. B. Lucas, which was recorded last year (ii., 62) as D. Armeria 
proves to have been only the Centaury (Zrythrea Centaurium). 
The Scaly Spleenwort ( Ceterach officinarum) has been observed in 
small quantity by Dr. Bowstead on a wall at Downley. The 
Hound’s-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale) and Night-flowering 
Catchfly (Silene noctiflora) I found by the roadside between Lane 
End and Marlow. The Oxtongue (Helminthia echioides) has 
occurred plentifully in fields on the Marlow Hill, by the footpath 
to Marlow. 
JAMES BRITTEN. 
Huckinghamshive Botany. 
A VERY interesting branch of local botany is that which 
traces out, as far as possible, the history of a plant, as far 
as a certain district is concerned. At one time in local flora, 
this was much neglected, and the result was, that, while the 
modern botany of a county was well worked, the historical 
interest which might have been excited by a reference to the 
older writers, was omitted. Now, however, a better arrange- 
