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botanical ardour. ' Turpe est in patria vivere et patriam ignorare.' — 

 Linn. Fauna Suecica, Ed. 2 (1761), p. 544."— (R. H. W.). 



Bromus tectorum, Linn. " Near the new mill at Hoddesdon. 

 This is the first notice of the plant which has appeared in England. 

 Our zealous correspondent, Mr. Henry Williams, observed it in the 

 above given locality in the summer of 1847, and again in 1848. He 

 sent it to us, named B. diandrus, but not feeling satisfied about its 

 identity, we referred it to Mr. Babington, who has determined it to 

 be the true B. tectorum, and has kindly undertaken to describe it." 



" Since the above paper was written, we have learnt that the 



station is nearer the 'New Mill' than we had supposed, and that the 

 plant was found in company with Setaria glauca, which circumstances 

 render it not improbable that it may have been introduced with im- 

 ported seed like other plants before-mentioned which have been found 

 in a similar situation." 



Digitaria sanguinalis, Oplismenus Crus-galli, Setaria viridis, Se- 

 taria glauca, Panicum (Setaria) verticillatum. " With the excep- 

 tion of Digitaria sanguinalis, which has probably been imported 

 with soil from the continent, all the preceding grasses have doubt- 

 less been brought with flax and cole-seed to the Oil Mills." 



Gastridium lendigerum. "A piece of heavy land on the east side 

 of Bayford-wood, formerly ploughed, but long fallow and worthless as 

 pasture, was ploughed up and sown with acorns and ash-keys, in the 

 spring of 1841. In the following autumn appeared a plentiful crop 

 of the present grass, which we have never noticed elsewhere in the 

 neighbourhood. It had nearly disappeared in the autumn of 1842, 

 and we have not seen it since." 



Epipactis purpurata. " In Box-wood, Stevenage ; apparently 

 parasitical on the stump of a tree. Mrs. Harding, of Walkern ! 1840. 

 By the kindness of Mrs. Harding we possess the only specimen which 

 was found in this station, as well as a coloured sketch of the recent 

 plant. The specimen is too young to afford any character, none of 

 the flowers being expanded ; but Mrs. Harding's sketch represents 

 the plant as wholly of a pale lilac colour, except that the flowers are 

 yellowish. We have little doubt that our plant is that described by 

 Smith in E. F., from a specimen received from Abbott ; and quite 

 distinct from the plant of Forbes, figured in I English Botany,' t. 2775, 

 under the name of E. purpurata. This latter appears to be a mere 

 form of E. latifolia; indeed, the figure is a better representation of 

 the ordinary Herts form, than the E. latifolia, figured at t. 269 of the 

 same work." 



