118 BOTANY OF THE CHILTERNS. [ApHl, 



Remarlcs on the Botany of the Chilterns. 



By CHAS. Jos. ASHFIELD. 



I notice, in the first volume of the ' Phytologist/ some notes 

 of plants found near Tring, Herts. I have botanized on the 

 Chiltcrn Hills at different times, from Whiteleaf Cross, in the 

 parish of Monks Risborough, to the other side of Tring, and 

 can add my testimony to that of your correspondents (vol. i. 

 pp. 105, 331), as to the botanical poverty of the district. Early 

 in September 1850, I found some fine specimens of Atropa 

 Belladonna, at the foot of the hill on which the Bridge water 

 Monument stands, and on the hills in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood an abundance of Gentiana Amarella. Dianthus Armeria, 

 Malva moschata, and one or two of the Linariie — I believe 

 spuria, for one — are to be met with in the hedges and fields in 

 the neighbourhood. In July 1850, I had several rambles in 

 the neighbourhood of Chequers and "Whiteleaf Cross. The 

 greatest rarity, perhaps, that I met with, was Iberis amara, a 

 great quantity of which grew in a cornfield at the foot of tlie 

 hill on which the Cross is cut. In the woods' in the neigh- 

 bourhood, Ophrys Nidus-avis and Prenanthes muralis, together 

 with an abundance of AlchemiUa vulgaris, Asperula odorata, 

 Galeobdolon luteum, and Sanicula europcea, are to be found. 

 Helianthemum vulgare grows plentifully on the higher parts of 

 the hills, especially on the top of King Cunobelin, the highest, 

 I believe, of the Chiltern range, and some dwarf specimens of 

 Campanula glomerata, from one to two or three inches high, 

 grew in the space occupied by the Cross, and on hills in the 

 neighbourhood. 1 also -met with a few specimens of Ophrys 

 apifera and Orchis pyramidalis. Galium Mollugo is plentiful 

 in tli€ hedges at the foot of the hills about Monks Hisborough, 

 etc. Buxus sempervirens grows on the sides of the hills about 

 Velvet Lawn. Sedum acre and Poterium Sanguisorba are not 

 uncommon in the same neighbourhood. Geranium pratense is 

 plentiful and fine about Great Hampden House and church. I 

 may have met with a fcAV other plants which I cannot call to 

 mind at present, but I have a distinct recollection of those I 

 have mentioned, and, indeed, have specimens of some of them. 



You ask, in vol. i. p. 108, if Habenaria chlorantha, Bu- 

 pleurum rotundifolium, Ajuga Chamcepitys, Spiranthes autumnalis, 



