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" AnagalUs tenella (Bog Piniperiiel), with its lovely rose-coloured blos- 

 soms, Samoliis Valerandl (Water Pimpernel), and Epipactis palustris 

 (Marsh Helleborine) are frequently to be met with in the most marshy spots 

 among the sandhills. Orchis latifolia (Broad-leaved Orchis) and Sper- 

 giila nodosa (Knotted Spnrrey) are not unfrequent neighbours of the three 

 last, but prefer rather drier habitations. From half-a-dozen to a dozen 

 plants of Asparagus officinalis (Common Asparagus) are to be found upon 

 one of the sandhills, and how they came there is rather a mystery. 



" Agrimonia Enpatoria (Common Agrimony) is not unfi'equently found 

 upon the sandhills, while CocJdcaria Danica (Danish Scurvy-Grass) and 

 Sisymbrium Sophia (Flixweed) abound on the dry banks and copses in the 

 neighbourhood. The rare Euphorbia Paralias (Sea Spurge) and Silene niari- 

 iinia (Sea Campion) must not be omitted from our list, the former an in- 

 ha])itant of the higher part of the hills and the latter of the shore, within 

 a few yards of the base of the hills. There are many other plants, more 

 or less rare, to be found within three miles of Lytham, chiefly on or about 

 the sandhills ; but I think those whose habitats are above given are suffi- 

 ciently numerous to show that Lytham offers qidte as many attractions to 

 the botanist as to the valetudinarian and pleasure-seeker." 



We shall be well pleased to see more of these lively sketches 

 of scenery, local history, and botany, especially higher up the 

 river, in the direction of Settle, Penighent, etc., with which part 

 of Craven and Lancashire we are better acquainted than we are 

 with the portion between Preston and the Irish Sea. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUEEIES. 



To the Editor of the ' Fhytologist.^ 

 Will you, or some readers of the ' Phytologist ' learned in Willows, in- 

 form me Avhy no use is made (in any description that I am aware of) of 

 the different colour of the anthers to distinguish between some at least of 

 the different species or varieties of monandrous Salices ? I find two kinds 

 in this neighbourhood, which, with much doubt, 1 have assigned respec- 

 tively to S. TFoolgaria)in and S. Helix. In the one which I have taken for 

 S. TToolgariaiia, with lighter twigs, the catkins are larger, their scales more 

 downy, and the anthers at first invariably crimson. In the other, which I 

 have called S. Helix, with darker twigs, the catkins are smaller, their scales 

 less downy, and the anthers invariably orange. Babington (Manual, 

 ed. 4) describes the whole group, Furpurece, as having " anthers purple, 

 ultimately black." These both become ultimately black, but at first they 

 are very distinct as crimson and orange. 



