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way, for example, Scrophularia aquatica, in dry chalk-pits, Orchis 

 conopsea, in wet marshes, and many others. With regard to Ob^-nan- 

 the peucedanifolia, surely "denizen" must be a slip of the pen, for it is 

 impossible to think that this is a naturalized plant, not indigenous. 

 Of GEnanthe Lachenalii I should say with Hudson, " in paludihus 

 maritimis frequens ;" it scarcely deserves a particular habitat. 



Edward Forster. 



Woodford, December, 1845. 



WorcestersJiire hahitat of (Enanihe Lachenalii. By Robert J. N. 



Streeten, M.D. 



V^ouR correspondent, Mr. Lees, to the general accuracy of whose 

 description of the species of Qj^nanthe I have pleasure in bearing tes- 

 timony, will find Q^nanthe Lachenalii growing in considerable plenty 

 in the muddy ditches on Defford Common, in this county, and espe- 

 cially in the vicinity of the salt spring. I gathered the plant in this 

 locality in the year 1840, considering it to be, at that time, the CE. 

 pimpinelloides of the ' English Flora.' Soon after the publication of 

 Mr. Babington's Manual, and the papers by Mr. Ball and others in 

 the ' Annals of Natural History,' I satisfactorily ascertained the Def- 

 ford plant to be the same as that described under the name of CE. 

 Lachenalii, and requested Mr. Reece, the intelligent sub-curator of 

 the Worcestershire Natural History Society, to collect specimens for 

 the Society, having myself again previously visited the locality and 

 obtained specimens of the plant, though too early for the fruit. Some 

 of Mr. Recce's specimens collected in September, 1844, are now in 

 the herbarium of the Society. The Defford plant, like Mr. Lees' 

 plant on Welland Common, is accompanied by Helosciadium nodi- 

 florum. 



Robert J. N. Streeten. 



Worcester, December, 1845. 



Correction of some errors in the papers on the species of (Enanthe, 

 in the Phytologist for January, 1846. By H. C. Watson, Esq. 



Some errors, either of the pen or of the press, occur in my own 

 paper on the species of Q^nanthe, in the Phytologist for this month. 

 I beg leave to coiTect those errors, because they alter and vitiate the 

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