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" Lilium Martagon. I think I never shall forget the extreme plea- 

 sure 1 experienced when, in 1826, I first saw this beautiful plant 

 growing in a little coppice to the right of the lane leading from 

 Mickleham to Headly, in Surrey. The coppice was overshadowed 

 by oak trees of considerable size, and the underwood had been cut 

 during the previous year, so that the tall racemes of the lily stood up 

 nobly and conspicuously above the brushwood, and it would have 

 been difficult for any passing observer not to have noticed them. — 

 Edward Newman ; August 13, 1841. 



" [At the end of June, 1840, in a delightful excursion which we 

 believe some of the party will not soon forget, we had the gratifica- 

 tion of seeing Lilium Martagon growing in the greatest profusion in 

 the station last mentioned. In some parts of the coppice the plants 

 were so crowded that the flowers produced a perfect blaze of the 

 richest colour among the young trees. — Ed.~]" Phytol. i. 62. 



" Lilium Martagon. In addition to your stations for Lilium Mar- 

 tagon, I may mention Ash, near Wrotham, Kent, where it grows 

 plentifully in a very wild situation on an estate belonging to Mr. 

 Gladdish. — A r . B. Ward; Wellclose Square, September I, 1841." 

 Phytol. i. 76. 



After careful inquiry respecting the woods or copses in which 

 Lilium Martagon has been found, I have ascertained that no record 

 exists in either instance of the planting of such woods or copses : it 

 may therefore be supposed that these are of considerable antiquity, 

 and as the roots of the lily are so deep in the earth, and so protected 

 by a net-work of the tough roots of oak, hazel, maple, &c, as almost 

 to preclude the possibility of getting them out entire, it may be fairly 

 assumed that they also are denizens of some antiquity. It is in di- 

 rect opposition to well-established facts to treat such plants as the 

 temporary occupants of " some lonely rubbish heap ;" such is not the 

 locality in which they are recorded as occurring. — Edward Newman]. 



On the Occurrence of Botrychmm Lunaria in New Localities. 

 By the Rev. W. T. Bree, M.A. 



Mr. Bloxam records the fact (Phytol. iii. 183) of his having found 

 Botrychium Lunaria this summer for the first time near his residence 

 in Leicestershire. Now I can fancy that my friend, pleased, as no 

 doubt he must have been, at the discovery of a new locality for so in- 



