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a metropolitan county. It is far from any human habitation. The 

 plant is not one ever grown in gardens ; nor was that part of the hill- 

 side ever previously known to have been under cultivation, so that it 

 could not have been introduced with the crops ; though I have since 

 heard that a portion of it has been ploughed up. I visited the spot 

 several times in the course of that autumn, and sent a living plant still 

 in flower as late as the middle of November to the Secretary of the 

 London Botanical Society. I left that part of the country before the 

 following season, and have never had the opportunity of visiting it 

 since. I grew several plants from seed the following year, but they 

 all went off without coming into bloom. 



One of my objects in this communication is to ascertain, if possible, 

 whether G. S. Gibson's is identical with the spot where we first found 

 the plant, or a new locality. Knowing the "piratical tendencies" of 

 some botanists, though gladly supplying specimens to all my friends, 

 I resisted the communication of the exact spot to any but one parti- 

 cular friend. Our locality answers precisely to the description of a 

 rough, stony, steep hill-side ; and the plant was scattered pretty plen- 

 tifully, varying much in the size and growth of the specimens, over a 

 considerable space, but none at the bottom nor very near the top of 

 the side of the hill or rather ravine; and it was not properly on a part 

 of Boxhill, being on the eastern or Reigate side of the ravine, in a di- 

 rect line between the village of Brockham and Headley Lane, and 

 more correctly a part of Brockham or Headley Hill. That somewhat 

 local plant, Ajuga Chamaepitys, grows in great profusion in the fields 

 at the base of Boxhill, on the southern or Brockham side ; or rather 

 grew ; for a railroad now cuts them all through. 



William Bennett. 

 London, 17th of 11th mo. 1849. 



Occurrence of Car ex Persoonii in an unrecorded Locality in York- 

 shire. By John G. Baker, Esq. 



Perhaps it may be interesting to some of the readers of the ' Phy- 

 tologist ' to know that in the beginning of the summer of the present 

 year I gathered a few examples of Carex Persoonii {Sieber) in Snailes- 

 worth, the most western of the dales which intersect the group of hills 

 situated in the north-east of Yorkshire. 



The station was in a rather boggy wood near the source of the 



