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On the imdercliffs surrounding or enclosing Eastwear Bay, a 

 most productive locality, we observed many of the plants which 

 had been previously seen and collected in other parts of our 

 journey, and we only report specimens of the following as actu- 

 ally collected, viz. Juncus obtusiflorus, Iris fcetidissima, — which 

 to us bore no disagreeable smell, although its name denotes as 

 much as if it stunk like asafoetida, — (the odour of that to which 

 the smell of this plant is compared would have been anything 

 other than offensive to our olfactory organs, for we had not yet 

 broken our fast, and our digestive apparatus wanted some object 

 whereon to operate : roast beef is not procurable in Eastwear 

 Bay, nor roast mutton either,) — T7'ifolium striatum, and T. me- 

 dium : the latter Professor Bucklaud demonstrates to be identical 

 as a species with T. pratense ; the learned Professor does not tell 

 us on what evidence, axioms, or postulates his demonstration is 

 founded ; is it proved ou a priori or on a posteriori principles ? 



Eastwear Bay also produced Lithospermum officinale, Lactuca 

 virosa, and Potamogeton oblongiis or natans. This fine aquatic was 

 far beyond our reach ; it might have been procured by swimming. 

 Most of the remaining rare plants of this locality, and they are 

 numerous, had been previously observed, except Rosa rubiginosa, 

 which was scented at a considerable distance on this fine morn- 

 ing, when the dew hung long on the luxuriant vegetation of this 

 undercliff. Here were also noticed gigantic specimens oi Hippo - 

 pha'e rhamnoides, more than six feet high. 



This locality will well repay the expense of a visit, in the month 

 of June or in the beginning of July ; we were here a couple of 

 months too late. In ordinary seasons very little would have been 

 seen worth collecting so late as the 7th of this month, but this 

 year the weather and the state of vegetation were exceptional, 

 and the vegetation of August was still existing in September, y 



On the face of the steep cliff, on our way to the Spout, Brassica 

 oleracea again appeared, and in a fissure down which trickled a 

 tiny rill, there was seen Scolopendrium vulgare. Ferns were by 

 no means common in the course of our tour. At the base of the 

 cliff Papaver somniferum, appeared quite at home, very far from 

 a cottage or garden, but probably not very far from a cornfield."^ 



* There is some cultivation on the cliff here and ttere, and we passed through 

 a field which is not probably more than a mile from Eastwear Bay. We did not 

 see Papaver somniferum during cm' long walk from Canterbury, through Sandwich, 



