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eradicated. T may here state, for the benefit of botanists who visit 

 Ilfraconibe and may wish to obtain the fern, that a young man 

 of the name of John Cutlilfe, who resides at Heale, about a mile 

 from Ilfracorabe, knows the plant, and where to find it, and is 

 ready to procure it when required. Of course he expects to be rea- 

 sonably remunerated for his time and trouble, and, indeed, deserves 

 to be so ; for it is a service attended with labour and some risk : the 

 ladders required for the occasion have to be carried a mile, and con- 

 veyed down the cliff by a very awkward, if not dangerous path, and 

 afterwards over the rugged rocks on the shore. J. Cutliffe and his 

 father were both drenched to the skin in procuring the fern for me. 

 T have to apologize for these rambling remarks chiefly about what 

 is not found in a particular locality of North Devon. You are, of 

 course, at full liberty to make any use of them for the pages of the 

 ' Phytologist,' or to reject them as you may think proper. Tome, 

 however, the subject is by no means without interest. 



W. T. Bree. 



Allesley Rectory, 



December 10, 1846. 



Occurrence of Lythrum lnjssopifolium near Manchester. 

 By R. W. M'All, Esq. 



Almost on the day of my return from a vain search, in which I 

 believe I had been preceded by others, hapless as myself, on the in- 

 viting banks of Trent, by rural Wilford, in sight of merry Nottingham, 

 for the retiring and transitory hyssop-leaved loosestrife [Lythrum 

 hyssopifoUum), said once to have flourished there, I was not a little 

 surprised to meet the very object of my pursuit where T least expect- 

 ed ii. It had been gathered for me in the month of August, at Rus- 

 holme, near this town, in a damp field, by a narrow watercourse, 

 amidst the rush-clad clay beds, and close by the iron-railed enclosures 

 which abound in our vicinity. The specimens were few in number, 

 but of average size and well developed. Thsy grew in a retired cor- 

 ner which, though within a short space of busy scenes, seemed to 

 have been long undisturbed. As the plant is rare and local, and par- 

 ticularly infrequent in this part of England, it may be interesting to 

 your readers to know that it belongs to the Flora of Manchester. The 



