314 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Of very local Germanic species which grow in Surrey in abundance, 
we have instances in Polygala calearea, Phyteuma orbiculare, Buxus 
sempervirens, Aceras anthropophora, and Herminium Monorehis. - Of 
other very local austral species which the county yields, there are Zæ- 
‘nunculus tripartitus, Elatine Hydropiper, Actinocarpus Damasonium, 
"Oyperus fuscus, Eriophorum gracile, Carex depauperata, Scirpus triqueter, 
and S. carinatus; and Mr. Brewer now claims also for the county two 
of the species recently figured by Mr. G. S. Gibson as special Essex 
plants, Lathyrus hirsutus and Bupleurum falcatum. In Cardamine im- 
patiens we have a unique instance of a limestone-loving plant of some- 
what boreal range that reaches Surrey. | 
- Mr. Brewer speaks modestly respecting the claims to be ranked as 
indigenous plants of the only two species at all likely to be really wild 
-which Surrey can claim as peculiarly her own, so far as Britain is con- 
'eerned, Teucrium Botrys aud Lilium Murtagon. The writer of this no- 
tice is acquainted with the Surrey localities of both species, and for tlie 
“Teucrium has not any doubt that it is really indigenous. Upon the 
Continent it is tolerably plentiful in the limestone districts of Belgium, 
and passing through Northern Germany, penetrates into the interior of - 
is ten degrees lower. The plant grows in Surrey amongst the enr 
rough herbage of the steeply-sloping eastern bank of a ravine in the 
heart of the chalk downs, and is associated with Polygala calcarea 
and Hypnum abietinum. It was unusually plentiful this summer, owmg 
no doubt to the unusual dryness and warmth of the spring Le 
favoured its development. In the western portion of the Continent 
reach Belgium. Proceeding eastward, it attains the Palatinate and 
Silesia, and in Russia penetrates to the central provinces, the clin - 
of which has just been indicated. In the Surrey station it p 
considerable plenty over a space of several hundred yards in à —-— = 
wood consisting principally of Hazels ; and though it is a plant shee "E 
commonly cultivated, and a road passes through the wood, we GI 
sce anything in the manner of its growth and the plan the 
it was associated, to indicate an alien origin, and should, po” 
cim be disposed to think it more likely to be truly wild than into" — 
uced. a 
