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decided enemies of contention, and we now desire to bid adieu 

 to all hostilities, both literary and scientific, henceforth and for 

 ever. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 

 Wahlenbergia hederacea. 



{From a Correspondent.') 



In reference to the above-named plant, about which you request infor- 

 mation, I cannot say that it was ever either collected or seen by me on 

 Keston Common ; but I was told by the late Mr. Peete that it grew on 

 the bog below the springs which are generally known as the source of the 

 Eavensbourne. These springs are opposite to the gate of Holwood Park, 

 and not above one hundred yards from the road. Inside the gate of the 

 park there are the remains of both the rampart and fosse of a Eoman 

 encampment. 



In looking over my notes and an interleaved copy of the ' New Bo- 

 tanist's Guide,' or rather the Botanist's New Guide, to the localities of 

 rare British plants, I perceive that in June, 1834, I found this elegant little 

 plant in a bog in Epping Forest, at High Beech, between Loughton and 

 Epping. I have heard that it has been seen in several other parts of the 

 Forest, but I have not seen it. 



In Waterdown Forest, adjoining Groombridge, in Sussex, I have seen 

 it veiy plentifid. 



It also abounds in St. Leonard's Forest, near Horsham, and in TUgate 

 Forest, on the left of the Brighton road, near Peaseponidge Gate, a little 

 bevond Starvemouse Moor. 



Here it grows in sbghtly moist places, similar to those where you and I 

 saw it on the table-land of the Berwyns, on the left of the road between 

 Bala and Llangynog ; but in St. Leonard's Forest it grows most abun- 

 dantly on the dry soil in the wood, about the mouths of the rabbit-holes. 



It is not nliginal in that part of St. Leonard's Forest ; neither does it, 

 by its distribution, evince any preponderating partiality for the west of 

 our island ; and in Europe it is found on the eastern shores of the Adriatic. 



Its altitude on the Berwyns, where it grows, as above-mentioned, not 

 more than two miles from Llanderfel, is probably more than one thousand 

 feet. W. P. 



A New Material for the Manufacture of Paper. 



The following exceedingly interesting communication on a novel kind of 

 straw paper is based upon an article in the colmnns of the ' Breslauer 

 Gewerbeblatt,' September, 1860: — 



" Among the many endeavours that have been made, both in ancient and modern 

 times, to procure a fit substitute for paper, one at length has been crowned with 

 success. Recent experiments have proved Indian Corn to possess not only all the 

 ordinary quahties necessary to mate a good article, but to be in many respects 

 actually superior to rags, hitherto the only material found to be really avaUable 



