555 



Occurrence of Stereocaulon tomenlosum in fruit. 

 By W. M. Ogilvie, Esq. 



While botanizing with ray friend Mr. Gardiner on the South Ferry 

 Links, Fifeshire, on Saturday last (5th), among other rarities collected 

 was Stereocaulon tomentosum, which we found in various places, in 

 considerable abundance. After reaching home and beginning to lay 

 out my day's collection, I found I had got a greater rarity than I an- 

 ticipated — some of the Stereocaulon being in fruit. As this is the 

 first time, so far as I am aware, in which the fruit has been found in 

 Britain, 1 think it worthy of record in the pages of the ' Phytologist.' 



W. M. Ogilvie. 



20, Castle Street, Dundee, 

 May 11,1849. 



A Catalogue of the Plants growing wild in Hampshire, with occa- 

 sional Notes and Observations on some of the more remarkable 

 Species. By William Arnold Bromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 536). 



Ligustrum vulgare. In woods, thickets, hedges, bushy places, and 

 on banks, over a great part of the Isle of Wight, most abundantly. 

 Plentiful everywhere about Ryde, and throughout the tertiary or fresh- 

 water formation, constituting a considerable proportion of the brush 

 or undergrowth of our woods and hedgerows. Profusely in most of 

 the chalk districts, rarer on the greensand, and a great ornament 

 where it abounds, loading the air on a hot day in June or July with 

 the sweet but somewhat cloying fragrance of its beautiful milk-white 

 flower-spikes, and decking copse and tufted hedgerow no less in 

 autumn with its pyramidal clusters of polished purple-black berries. 

 Less universal, I think, in mainland Hants than in the Isle of Wight, 

 yet very abundant in many parts of the county, particularly on the 

 chalk. Everywhere about Andover and Appleshaw, in plenty. Abun- 

 dant in Bordean Hanger. Maindell chalk-pit. Farehara ; Mr. W. 

 L. Notcutt !!! and many other places. The leaves with us are partially 

 persistent, and with various species of Rubus give a welcome tint of 

 green to our hedgerows in winter. The long straight shoots of the 

 privet, from their toughness and pliability, are used in tying up small 



