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Ornithognlum pyrenaicum has been reported as observed grow- 

 ing abundantly in some of the woods at East Ilsley, in Berkshire. 

 (See vol. iv. 270, and Index.) 



The confirmation of a previous discovery, viz. that of Gentiana 

 Pneumonanthe near Chobham, in Surrey, and the detection of a 

 new station iov Schmnus nigricans ouBagshot Heath, appropriately 

 appear as a conclusion to the local botanizing of the season. 



The new stations for rare plants recorded by Mr. Sim are, as 

 usual, very numerous, and more than usually important. Vero- 

 nica peregrina, hitherto unknown as a British plant, although 

 j)reviously recorded in the ' Phytologist ' as a true Irish species, 

 is among the most important of the new discoveries about Perth. 

 The newly recorded stations, or the confirmations of some hitherto 

 dubious localities, are far too numerous to be entered here. We 

 have only room for the following, viz. Anchusa semjiervirens in 

 woods near Dunkeld. Our correspondent expresses in strong 

 and unmistakable terms his belief in the nativity of this plant. 

 It was seen by ourselves in Roslin woods, and it appeared to be 

 quite as much at home there as Myosotis sylvatica and Geranium 

 sylvaticum, only it was not nearly so plentiful as either of these 

 species. 



It is believed that Fife is a new station for Verbascum Lych- 

 nitis ; not new in the strict sense of new, viz. that the plant 

 never grew there before ; but it is believed to be a newly dis- 

 covered locality, one not known before the visit of our corre- 

 spondent to the ruins of Lindores Abbey. 



Mr. Sim has very recently informed us that the station where 

 he finds Cynoglossum sylvaticum is not in the Carse of Gowrie, 

 the station where it was seen by George Don, and reported in 

 Hooker's ' Flora Scotica ;' hence he infers that there may be two 

 stations in Perthshire for this rare species. 



Our Perth correspondent has discovered, in an island in the 

 river Tay, the noblest of all Scotia's noble rivers, a new station 

 for Lathyrus sylvestris. This rare Scottish plant is probably not 

 quite a new discovery to the botanists of Scotland, but none of 

 them have observed it previously so far north. Indeed, like the 

 shepherd, sung so pleasantly by Horace, who wandered far from 

 home, " Ultra — Terminum curis expeditus," this fine plant has 

 wantonly transgressed the laws and leaped far over the limits 

 assigned as its legitimate bounds, careless [curis expedita) of the 

 disquietude it thereby causes to phyto-geographers. 



