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KENTISH BOTANY. 



Walk from Deal to Folkestone, through Walmer, under the Cliff to 

 Kingsdoivn and St. Margaret's, along the Downs by the South 

 Foreland, Dover, Lydden Spout, and Eastwear Bay. 



At Deal we refreshed and rested for tlie night ; and next 

 morning, the 6th (see ' Phytologist/ vol. v. p. 213), set out by 

 Walmer, Kingsdown, the South Foreland, etc., to Dover. This 

 is not the nearest way to Dover from Deal, but the direct road 

 neither affords the fine views nor the rare plants which we had 

 the pleasure of collecting on this our fourth day's excursion. 

 There are not so many plants to report as on the previous days' 

 botanizing, but the following are of far greater interest than the 

 majority of those which had hitherto been observed. 



About Walmer, on the beach, or between the road and the 

 sea, Reseda lutea, Diplot axis mur alls, Onopordon Acanthium, 

 Trifolium fragiferum, T. scabrum, and the much rarer T. suffo- 

 catum were collected. Linum" angustifolium was very plentiful, 

 among which a broad-leaved form was seen, which may have 

 been mistaken for L. perenne, a species recorded as occurring in 

 these parts. 



Marrubium vulgare was seen here for the first time during this 

 botanical tour. Chlora perfoliata, Anthytlis Vulneraria, Foeni- 

 culum vulgare, Chenopodium murale, and Linaria spuria abounded, 

 and several were, notwithstanding the sterility of the soil, very 

 luxuriant. Centranthus ruber, and Linaria Cymbalaria were 

 well established on the beach in shingly depressions ; a situation 

 in which we had never seen either of these two plants previously. 

 The plants selected, in all probability, these stations for them- 

 selves. Their establishment there could hardly have been ef- 

 fected by human agency."^ 



* A remark on some plants in this country, usually found only on walls, will 

 not here be inappropriate. 



The Sedums are usually mural plants in the south-east of England. Sedum 

 album, S. dasyphyllum are seldom or never found here growing on the ground. 

 They grow on rocks in Scotland, and probably, one of them at least, in the west of 

 England, also on rocks. Rocks in the south of England are as rare as brick walls 

 in Scotfand ; and these and several other plants are necessarily restricted to what 

 are called artificial erections. But the plants are not necessarily indebted to 

 human agency for these artificial locaUties ; in all probability they selected these 



