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congenial to its spontaneous growth at very slight elevations above 

 the sea, or at the level of the ocean itself, is it likely that the same 

 temperature so appropriate to the well being of the beech would 

 equally suit the chestnut, which on the mountains of Italy and Spain 

 is always found inhabiting a zone of elevation quite distinct from and 

 subordinate to that occupied by the beech ? The proper region of 

 these trees is essentially different, and furnishes, I think, a good ad- 

 ditional argument for rejecting the claim of the chestnut to aborigi- 



nality in Britain. 



Wm. A. Bromfield. 

 Eastmount, Hyde, Isle of Wight. 



(To be continued.) 



On the Locality for Tulipa sylvestris at Bitton, Gloucestershire. 

 By T. B. Flower, Esq., F.L.S. 



I think it necessary to mention in the pages of this journal, that 

 the locality given for Tulipa sylvestris at Bitton, on the authority of 

 the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, is an error, as I have been informed by 

 that gentleman, — the plant having been traced from his garden into 

 the meadows near the church. The locality being now destroyed, but 

 mentioned in the last edition of Withering's ' Arrangement of British 

 Plants,' I have been induced to send the present communication, for 

 scarcely a season passes without some botanist being disappointed in 

 not finding it, and also to prevent the propagation of the error. 



T. B. Flower. 



Seend, Melksham, Wilts, 

 March 6, 1850. 



Contents of the ' Botanical Gazette? No. 15, March, 1850. 



On Proliferous Heads of Trifolium repens. By Robert C. Austen, 

 Esq. With a lithographic plate. 



Description of a New Botanical Drying Apparatus. By T. Twin- 

 ing, Jun., Esq. [A sort of trellis-work or open railing is substituted 

 in place of the usual boards, both externally and between the strata 

 of paper internally ; thus insuring a free circulation of air ; although 

 at the sacrifice of that more complete uniformity of pressure which is 



