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Note on Cynodan dactylon at Keiv Green. 

 By Thomas Meehan, Esq. 



In an early number of the * Phy tologist ' I observed Kew Green 

 noticed as a station for Cynodon dactylon. Many botanists to whom 

 I mentioned the circumstance expressed doubts as to its being really 

 indigenous there, or that it was anything more than an escape from 

 the Botanic Garden. I had an opportunity of examining the given 

 station personally last autumn, and found the plant confined to about 

 a square yard of ground, in the east corner of the Green, where I 

 have no doubt it springs from a stray plant or seeds at no very dis- 

 tant date. 



From the creeping nature of its roots it will doubtless soon spread 

 over a good extent of ground, and if left undisturbed, become fairly 

 naturalized. 



Thomas Meehan. 



Kew, April 7, 1847. 



On Medicago denticulata. By Mr. J. W. Lawrence. 



It may be interesting to those botanists residing near London to 

 know that Medicago denticulata iWilld.) grows rather plentifully 

 near the great metropolis. In June last I gathered a quantity of 

 specimens from plants growing in a field between Turnham Green 

 and Acton. 



John W. Lawrence. 

 Royal Gardens, Windsor, 

 April 2nd, 1847. 



Occurrence of British Plants on the Mediterranean Coasts. 

 By A. J. Hamburgh, Esq., F.G.S. 



During a cruise on the coasts of the Mediterranean in the summer 

 of 1843, 1 took much pleasure in noting down, as often as I happened 

 to meet with them, every old acquaintance familiar to me as a plant 

 indigenous to Britain. 



I know not whether you would deem this catalogue worthy of a 

 page in the ' Phytologist, but thinking that perhaps it might be of 



