1861.] KENTISH BOTANY. 177 



The following is in jNIerrett's Herbarium : — Medicago detiti- 

 culata, first, it is believed, distinguished from M. minima or 

 M. niaculata by the Rev. G. E. Smith, and published in his 

 account of the plants of South Kent, is in the above-mentioned 

 collection, vol. ii. p. 68. Also MelUotus vulgaris, under title 

 M. germanica. This proves that the white Melilot is not a re- 

 cent acquisition to our Flora. 



This Herbarium contains branched examples of Botrychium 

 Lunaria. H. 



KENTISH BOTANY. 



Notes and Observations made during a Week's Botanizing in 

 South Kent. By a Correspondent. 



The indigenous plants of some of our English counties have 

 been well investigated and ascertained, and Cambridge, Hert- 

 ford, Devon, Bedford, Oxford, Hampshire, Shropshire, and Sus- 

 sex may be quoted as examples. Some smaller districts have 

 also been well searched, and Manchester, Reigate, Liverpool, 

 and Eaversham are among the number of these favoured loca- 

 lities. The county of Essex is no longer to be a terra incognita 

 to the botanists of other parts of the kingdom. 



The county Flora of Surrey is still in abeyance, waiting for 

 some enterprising, zealous member of the fraternity to enter into 

 and complete the unfinished work of the late lamented Mr. Sal- 

 mon, who effected more for the elucidation of the plants of his 

 adopted county than any local botanist within the range of our 

 acquaintance. 



The metropolitan counties, with the exception of the fore-noted 

 one, viz. Essex, are still waiting for their local botanical his- 

 torians to record and publish their native productions. There 

 are, it is believed, some manuscript materials on the Floras of 

 the home counties, as they may be called, but they are at the 

 present time unavailable for scientific purposes. 



Isolated and distant portions of Kent have been searched, and 

 lists of these districts have appeared ; for example, of the Black- 

 heath hundred, by the Greenwich Natural History Society ; also 

 the plants of Faversham, published by Jacobs in 1777, and again 

 by Cowellin 1839, and again by Stowell in 1856. 



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