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Crepis biennis, which we never saw but in Kent, is stated by 

 Stowell (see ' Phytologist/ n. s., p. 103) to be plentiful in this 

 neighbourhood wherever the chalk crops out. 



But the pride and the glory of the Faversham Flora is the 

 Peucedanum officinale, a plant in these our isles, almost exclu- 

 sively confined to Kent ; and this is the better known of its 

 two Kentish reported stations. We hesitated about going to 

 Whitstable in search of it, but ultimately concluded that our 

 time would be better spent in searching the coast further south. 



This rare species still grows plentifully on the high bank 

 whicli skirts the creek on the Faversham side of the river. If 

 the tourist goes on straight to the harbour, and then follows the 

 dike towards the east, leaving the creek on his right, he will soon 

 see plenty of this plant. 



Here also grow Allium vineale, Juncus cosnosus, Triglochin pa- 

 lustre, much relished by cattle, Juncus maritimus, Glyceria fScle- 

 rochloaj distans or G. Borreri. These plants constitute the prin- 

 cipal herbage of these grassy banks and salt meadows. Aster 

 Tripolium and Statice Limonium grow luxuriantly on the mud- 

 banks within the sea-wall (dike?). Rumex Hydrolapathum and 

 Potamogeton pectinatus grow in the water. 



Our intention is not to make out a fourth list of Faversham 

 species, but merely to notice and record the changes that have 

 been observed since the publication of the last printed list (about 

 four years ago : see ' Phytologist,^ vol. ii. p. 103), and to record 

 with these newly-observed plants a few of the prominent and rarest 

 of the others, for the convenience of those who may follow in our 

 track. 



There is a plant new to the Flora of Faversham, viz. Lepidiicm 

 ruderale, to be entered as a species belonging to this locality. 

 The rarest species of this genus, viz. Lejndium latifoliuni, was a 

 Faversham plant when Dr. Jacobs compiled his Flora. It had 

 disappeared when Mr. Cowell published his very complete and 

 systematic localized lists. Another species, L. campestre, an agri- 

 cultural weed, was detected by the Rev. H. A. Stowell and pub- 

 lished in the 'Phytologist' for 1856, vol. i. p. 254, n. s. We 

 have the pleasure of reporting the above-mentioned plant, an- 

 other member of the genus, not previously recorded as growing 

 in this part of Kent. 



Lepidium ruderale is a plant of migratory tendencies, but it 



