256 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [AugUSt. 



fields belonging to Colonel Mason, and sparingly at Little Cressingham. 

 All the above-named places are in the county of Norfolk, and the fields 

 where this rare plant grows are on gravelly hills, and it was injlpwer 

 before the end of June. I have no personal records of its occun-ence in 

 the adjoining county of Suffolk. W. Winter. 



TlLL^A MUSCOSA AND ScRGPHULARIA VERNALTS. 



Sir, — As I am not aware that the occurrence of Tillcea muscosa and 

 Scrophidaria vernalis in Devonshire has been hitherto recorded, it may in- 

 terest some of the readers of the ' Phytologist,' to hear that on the 13th 

 May, 1861, I found the former of these phmts growing on slaty soil near 

 an old quarry on Colwell Estate, not far from the Plym, in the parish of 

 Egg Buckland. On the 18th May, I was delighted to find a few plants 

 of the rare Scroplinlaria vernalis in full flower, growing in a hedge-bank in 

 a shady situation below Ham Wood, near the haralet of Weston Mills, a 

 few miles from Plymouth. T. K. AucHEU Bkiggs. 



Arctic Plants 

 'Now on Sale hy Mr. Brocas, Botanist, 25, Hart Street, Bloomshury, W.C. 



These specimens, which are in a very good condition, wei'e collected in 

 1860, by a gentleman who visited Greenland on professional business and 

 for scientific purposes. These Arctic species, besides being well dried and 

 pressed, and consequently in excellent preservation, are indorsed by Mr. 

 Bennett of the British Museum, by Mr. Watson, and other competent 

 judges, as most valuable things of this kind, of exceeding rarity, and of 

 special interest. 



Some of these specimens are examples of genera and species determined 

 by the late Mr. Eobert Brown, and published in his Appendix to the 

 History of Arctic Discovery imder Captain Parry. There is an account 

 of some of them in the Eeport of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, held at Aberdeen in 1859. 



Another attractive feature is added to these Arctic species, viz. tickets 

 which contain a more than ordinaiy detailed account of the localities where 

 they were collected, such as latitude, longitude, soil, elevation, etc. 



Mr. Brocas showed the Editor of the ' Phytologist' a sample of the 

 collection, and he has much pleasure in reiterating the testimonials given 

 in their commendation by the eminent botanical authorities above men- 

 tioned. 



Comrmmications have been received from 



John Lloyd ; W. Pamplin ; J. S. M. ; E. Y. Brocas ; B. M. Watkins ; 

 Sidney Beisly ; John Sim ; G. Macfarlane ; Archibahl Jerdon ; W. 

 Eichardson, Junr. ; W. P. ; H. Boswell ; T. Johnson ; G. C. Oxenden ; 

 H. C. ; W. Eichardson ; Harriet Beisly ; Dr. Windsor ; E. B. W. WHiite ; 

 Professor Babington ; C. J. Ashfield. 



