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Notice of ^A Flora of Tunhridge Wells, being a list of indigenous 

 Plants within a Radius of Fifteen Miles round that Place. By 

 Edward Jenner, A.L.S, 



This Flora appears to have been founded upon the original ' Flora 

 Tunhrigensis'' of the late Mr. T. F. Forster, but is by no means an 

 idle copy of that work. Most of the species and stations have been 

 verified afresh, while many others are added to those previously 

 recorded in the work of Mr. Forster. The additions seem partly at- 

 tributable to the more extended space over which the present Flora 

 is made to range ; but several of the more recently discovered plants 

 and localities are within the more narrow circle of the earlier work. 

 The volume is of portable size, neatly got up, and well calculated to 

 be serviceable to botanical collectors who may visit Tunbridge or its 

 neighbourhood ; besides supplying a very full list of species to those 

 who may have occasion to make use of such a list at a distance. The 

 discovery of Carex montana, the most interesting novelty of the Flora, 

 has been already recorded in the ' Phytologist ' (ii. 289). 



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Notices uf North of England Plants. By W. Borrer, Esq., F.R.S. 



Instigated by a perusal of Mr. G. S. Gibson's 'Notes' in the 'Phy- 

 tologist' of the present month, (Phytol. ii. 373), I send a few notices, 

 chiefly of my own want of success in some recent botanical researches 

 in the same parts of England. 



At Helmsley, May 28, 1844, I was more fortunate than Mr. Gibson. 

 The weather was fine, and James Spence, the gardener who showed 

 Mr. Woods " the hole from which the last specimen of Cypripedium 

 was dug in May, 1834" (Comp. to Bot. Mag. i. 192), guided me up 

 the beautiful valley of Birkdale to the same spot, where was now 

 coming up, weakly and with no sign of flowering, the only plant, as 

 he stated, that he had found since Mr. Woods' visit. He had shown 

 it in 1843 to a botanist, whom he had permitted to cut off the flower- 

 ing stem, but, mindful of Mr. Woods' threat of an Act of Parliament 

 to hang him, he had not allowed the root to be disturbed. Hellebo- 

 rus viridis (as remarked by Mr. Woods) and Actaea spicata abound in 

 the wood. The old man who so carefully guards the Orchideae on 

 the Rievaulx terrace from the sythe, by marking them with sticks, 

 told me that he had once found a single specimen of Cypripedium. 



