1861.] KENTISH PLANTS. 71 



lustrated Handbook of the British Plants/ the soiith of England 

 is given with a note of interrogation as a station for this species. 

 Will not the fact of its being found near Folkestone help to 

 settle the question ? 



LEGUMINOSjE. 



Lotus major. Little wood on the Folkestone Road. July. 

 Ervwn tetraspermum. 



Trifolium striatum. By the roadside at the foot of the cliffs^ 

 between Sandgate and Folkestone. Jnne 23rd. 



Lathyrus sylvestris. West Langdon^ near Dover. July. 



COMPOSIT.'E. 



Pirns hieracioides. 

 Sonchus arvensis. 



Helminthia (Picris) echioides. Between Dover and Folke- 

 stone. August 1st. 

 Cichorium Intybus. 

 Centaurea Calcitrapa. On the beach near Folkestone. Aug. 1. 



UMBELLIFERiE. 



(Enanthe Lachenalii (Gmel.) . Salt marsh at the foot of Ab- 

 bot's Clift'. August 1st. — I have only been able to determine 

 this species from dried specimens collected and sent to me by 

 the young relative who accompanied me in my botanical rambles 

 during my stay at Dover ; bxit the long pedicels of the florets, the 

 reflexed calyx, the tapering achenia, not inserted on an enlarged 

 corky disk (Babington and Bentham), and the fact of its growing 

 in a salt marsh, induce me to believe that I have named it cor- 

 rectly. 



In my first list I inserted Cramhe maritima, but expressed a 

 doubt whether it might not be merely an escape froin cultivation. 

 I hesitated about admitting its spontaneous growth on a pebbly 

 beach, as most of our Floras give sandy seashores as its habitat. 

 My doubts have, however, been removed by finding in the ad- 

 denda (p. 126) to Jacob's ' Plantse Favershamienses,' 1777, a 

 copy of which has lately come into my possession, " Cranibe ma- 

 ritima, Stj Margaret's at Cliff', — uncommon." I fell in with it 

 just about halfway between Walmer and St. Margaret's, and 

 have since received specimens collected between Dover and Folke- 

 stone ; so that South Kent would seem to be a long-known and 

 well established station for the Sea-kale. 



