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88 CORRESPONDENCE. 
Leucojum vernum a probable British Plant. 
118, Embden Street, Hulme, Manchester, February 5, 1866. 
Last autumn an acquaintance of ours brought, from near Bridport, Dorset, 
- a number of bulbs of a plant well known to the rustics of that pastoral neigh- 
bourhood by the name of “Butter and Eggs;” the locality was described as 
an old neglected hedgerow, overrun with brambles, etc., and it was further 
stated, that for generations back the plant had been known as a favourite wild- 
wer on account of its beauty, sweetness, and appearance in the early spring. 
The bulbs were planted in a belt of wood, and the plant turns out to be 
Leucojum vernum, which is described as occurring in similar situations in Ger- 
many, etc., and I make this communication with the view of directing the atten- 
tion of botanists who may happen to visit the neighbourhood to it, in order 
that the locality may be further examined. 
Yours, etc., J. HARDY. 
Bougainvillea spectabilis in New South Wales. 
Sydney, New South Wales, December 19, 1865. 
The Bougainvillea, an ornamental and sħowy evergreen climber, a native of 
the lowlands of Peru and Bolivia, is now naturalized in New South Wales, 
great perfe 
months of September, October, and November, displaying a mass of rich and 
illiant rose-colour, or rather a hue closely resembling the new and delicate 
colour called mauve; this beauty of colour is imparted by the floral bracts, 
among which, on examination, the small, i t flowers are found. This 
elegant shrub continues full two months in bloom. Isawa magnificent ved 
men at the end of October in full bloom at the rear of the residence of Willi 
Byrnes, Esq., at Paramatta, forming a gorgeous show, the tree being abd 
in a “perfect blaze of dowam,” extending by meenen to the length of 
47 x 12 feet, forming 564 superficial feet. The trunk at 
extent, and trained in its praci position, a 
and has continued to 
the Bignonia venusta, with its puso festoons of orange-coloured blossoms, 
and the Wistaria Si €t with a profusion of pendulous clusters of delicate 
blue flowers, all in bloom at the same time, imparting their rich and bright 
DEA P xat eels of the houses, or trailing over the trellis 
in the gardens, Yours, ete., 
Groner Bewnert, M.D. 
