10 ADDRESS OF THE EDITOR. [Januaj'y, 



maining two plants, the Drosera and rhe Lycopodium, which will 

 not bear transplantation. 



The most important plant next to Lathyrus tuberosus and 

 Sonchus palustris, for which a new station has been reported, is 

 Maianthemum bifolium {Convallaria bifolia, Linn.). The plants 

 wherewith this rich and rare gem of Flora's coronet was asso- 

 ciated, are genuine natives [omnium consensu) and their station, 

 which is that of the Maianthemum, would have increased our list 

 but for their accidental publication in a local guide. 



This fact is a weighty proof of the importance of local lists, and 

 an encouragement to those who avail themselves of their utility 

 to give them a wider circulation than that for which they were 

 originally compiled. How many of our readers have seen this 

 Scarborough list, or even heard of the Forge Valley? Still 

 these are facts, whether ignored or admitted* in certain quarters. 

 It is true that there is such a place as Scarborough ; many of us 

 have seen the town, and " seeing is believing." I believe there is 

 a locality near Scarborough called Forge Valley, because I have 

 been told that there is a place there known by this name. I 

 further believe that in a wood somewhere in Forge Valley, in the 

 neighbourhood of Scarborough, Maianthemum bifolium grows, 

 because I was informed of the fact, and received, with the infor- 

 mation, a specimen of the plant. This fact was previously un- 

 recorded, and the growth of Actcea spicata, Trientalis europcea, 

 Pyrola minor, etc. (see vol. iv. p. 232), was recorded only in a 

 local list, and these additional facts were probably unknown to 

 two-thirds of the Yorkshire botanists. 



Lastrea remota,f discovered some time ago in the latter dis- 

 trict, was announced for the first time during the last summer. 

 (See ' Phytologist,' vol. iv. pp. 137, 227.) As its credentials are 

 indorsed by Mr. Thomas Moore, the most eminent of British 

 pteridologists, there is no doubt about the propriety of its ad- 

 mission among the discoveries of the past year. 



* We wish our obliging correspondent Mr. Eeynolds would take the trouble 

 of writing out a list of the rarer plants about Scarborough, for publication in this 

 periodical. 



+ Has Lastrea remota passed muster as a species and as a British plant ? It is 

 suspected that Chenopodium Botrys must be put in the same class as the Wands- 

 worth .plants. It was collected at Hagley years ago ; but, like many other and 

 more valuable things, it did not meet with a famed historian to transmit its claims 

 to posterity. Sic transit gloria ! 



