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met with it in cultivated ground near Woodstock ; but, although 

 he searched the spot in several after years, he never saw it 

 there again, nor had I any better success on visiting the place 

 with him. For Gloucestershire many localities have from time 

 to time been recorded, Mr. Btickman met with it in the 

 neighbourhood of Sapperton;* it occurred in "old quarryings" 

 over both the north and also the south end of the railway 

 tunnel. Other localities given by Mr. Buckman in the North 

 Cotteswolds are Eyeford, Stow-on-the-Wold, the Seven Springs, 

 and Bourton-cn-the-Water ; ISTaunton may be added on the 

 authority of Dr. BoswELL-STMEjf and Upper Slaughter, where 

 it was gathered by Mr. Boreee.J 



In 1869 I myself met with a small patch of the Thlaspi 

 growing on a rather bare bank by the roadside just outside the 

 village of Sapperton, and afterwards in great abundance on 

 the embankment, and even on the ballast between the rails of 

 the Great Western Eailway near Tetbury Eoad Station, towards 

 Hailey Wood. 



TJilaspi perfoUatum like a few other of our native Crucifers, is a 

 very early plant, svich as Erophiloe verna and Teesdalia nudicaulis. 

 On the 1st of May I found the seeds fully formed and the plant 

 almost out of condition for collecting. 



Britain possesses no plant peculiar to it, and therefore no 

 spot which is the object of pilgrimages to foreign botanists, 

 hke the mountain side in Carinthia, where alone in the whole 

 world the splendid Scropliulariacea, Wulfenia carinthiaca, Jacq., 

 conceals the ground with its mag-nificent assemblage of flowers 

 of gorgeous blue. The Thlaspi, for example, though so local 

 in England extends through Middle Europe to Western and 

 ISTorthern Asia, and southwards to Northern Africa. 



The neighbourhood of the Cotteswolds produces a few other 

 plants very local in Britain. Arahis strida, Huds., confined 



* See Pi-oceedings, vol. i., p. 109, and Api^endix, p. 4 ; also the Pliytologist 

 for 1850. p. 942. 



t Eng. Bot., Ed. iii., vol. i., p 204. 



X There are specimens in the British Mnseuni Herharinm. 



