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overlapping lowermost pair of leaflets of the barren stem ; the zigzag 

 growth of the flowering stem; the panicle consisting generally of two 

 or three elongated axillary branches, with a dense crowded terminal 

 cymose extremity ; the congregation of the prickles on the upper 

 portion of the internodes of the rachis, and the peculiar appearance 

 assumed by the flowers in consequence of the stamens and pistils 

 becoming persistent after the fall of the petals, resulting from the 

 fruit being very generally abortive or consisting only of two or three 

 large grains. 



[To be continued]. 



W. A. Leighton. 

 Luciefelde, Shrewsbury, 

 May, 17th, 1848. 



List of Habitats of Plants recorded in MS. in a Copy of Blackstone''s 

 1 Specimen Botanicum? (Communicated by W. Pamplin, Esq.) 



I send you the following extracted from an interleaved copy of 

 Blackstone's 'Specimen Botanicum,' London, 1745. I think these 

 old MS. records of localities of interesting plants are generally speak- 

 ing acceptable to your readers, as it enables those who live in, or 

 who may have the opportunity to visit, the neighbourhood indicated, 

 to search for them, and many times too with good success, as I have often 

 in years past proved to my no small delight : for instance, I well re- 

 member when I first noticed the Geranium Robertianum fiore albo in 

 the lane between Chiselhurst and Bromley, where it is recorded as 

 growing in the time of Ray, and many other instances. 



The accompanying habitats are inserted, neatly written, in an 

 interleaved copy of Blackstone's 'Specimen Botanicum' in my 

 possession. The volume formerly belonged to Stainsby Alchorne, 

 Assay Master of the Mint, the friend and cotemporary of Hudson, 

 Warner and Jacob ; it is most probable that these notes are his own 

 (Alchorne's) . 



Alchemilla vulgaris. In a wood just below Chesham Bois church, 

 Bucks, 1752. 



Alsine paluslris fol. tenuiss. (Spergula nodosa). Uxbridge Moor, 

 abundantly. 



Althcea officinalis. By the Thames side, at the Isle of Dogs, just 

 before you come to the ferry for Greenwich. 



