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it. At the upper end of the village stands the mill ; and behind the 

 mill is a long, narrow slip of meadow land, bounded on one side by the 

 river, and on the other by a hanging wood. Between the wood and 

 the meadow runs the mill-race, or artificial channel which conveys 

 the water to the wheel. The country beyond is of a remarlvably wild 

 and sylvan character. I was told by a gentleman residing in Congle- 

 ton, that in the spring of last year he found a blue-flowered anemone 

 in this meadow ; that he carried the plant home to his garden, where 

 it perished during the winter. My informant does not profess to be a 

 botanist, and therefore could not say whether the plant was, or was 

 not, A. apenuina ; but to this extent he was quite sure, that it was 

 not one of the common purple-tinged varieties of A. nemorosa. The 

 colour of the flower was a clear azure blue. During the present year 

 I have repeatedly searched the adjoining woods and fields for another 

 specimen, but without success. On the last occasion I observed Ri- 

 bes rubrum in half-a-dozen places along the mill-race, and the recol- 

 lection of Dr. Bromfield's interesting paper led me to examine it with 

 some attention. I was unable, however, to detect any of the charac- 

 ters mentioned by your correspondent, except that the perianths were 

 slightly tinged with brownish purple. 



May I call the attention of your readers to a form of Myosotis, 

 which occurs not unfrequently in damp meadows ? It belongs to the 

 group with small flowers and short pedicels, and has hitherto, I be- 

 lieve, been referred to M. versicolor, which in many respects it resem- 

 bles, but has the calyx much less deeply cleft, and the opening flower 

 white instead of yellow. It also begins to flower about three weeks 

 later. From M. collina it is effectually distinguished by its closed 

 calyx; besides that the opening flower in that species, as in all the 

 other British Myosotides, is pink. When Smith and Hooker speak 

 of M. versicolor as occasionally found in wet meadows, there can be 

 no doubt that they allude to the plant of which I am now writing, 

 though they give not a hint of any difference in colour or structure. 

 You shall have specimens as soon as I can procure them. 



Last summer I observed Oxalis corniculata growing as a weed in 

 the rectory garden, at Astbury. It seemed to grow as freely as Vero- 

 nica polita, or any other garden weed. I was rather surprised at this, 

 having always understood that the plant was confined to the Channel 

 counties. I could not learn whether it was of annual occurrence. 



Going through one of our woods a few days ago, I met with a cu- 

 rious state of Tussilago Farfara, which was new to me, though per- 

 haps it may not be so to your readers. The peculiarity consisted in 



