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part of the season ; and there are certain parts, both of the coast 

 and in the interior of this county, not visited by us, but which 

 we are firmly persuaded woukl amply repay the labour of investi- 

 gation. 



Of the first class of localities, viz. on the coast traversed by us, 

 that part of the undercliff between Kingsdown and St. Mar- 

 garet's should be explored about Midsummer or at the beginning 

 of July. The same may be said of the extensive undercliff of 

 Eastwear Bay, which possesses greater variety of soil, and pro- 

 bably bears a richer Flora, than the cliff at Kingsdown, which is 

 entirely formed of the debris of the incumbent chalk. That at 

 Eastwear Bay possesses ponds, and has rills of fresh water trick- 

 ling here and there down the cliff. 



But besides these there is the shore, and the ditches of Romney 

 Marsh, unexplored probably for a century. This would be a 

 somewhat monotonous sphere of botanical labour, but it would 

 not be entirely unproductive. 



We observed no rare forms or species of Atrij^lex. At the first 

 blush we imagined that we had detected A. laciniata, A. rosea, 

 and A. Babingtonii. After a careful comparison, all the three 

 above named were easily reducible under one description, viz. A. 

 Babingtordi, with which description they all agreed passably well. 

 A. rosea, as we called it, was a little more frosted than A. Babing- 

 tonii, while A. laciniata had its leaf a little more elongate and 

 more toothed than either of the two other forms. Its stem dif- 

 fered entirely from what is called A. laciniata by Continental 

 botanists. 



There are also some inland localities celebrated in the annals 

 of botany worth visiting, viz. Elham and its environs, especially 

 the Roman road between Hythe and Canterbury. In woods or 

 copses not very far from Hythe or Cranbrook, Cyclamen hedera- 

 follum was said to grow, and it would be very gratifying to be 

 able to confirm this tradition, for it is little more. If it had been 

 found there in recent times, it would have been entered in the 

 Rev. G. E. Smithes work on the plants of this district, which was 

 within a few miles of his residence, or by the careful author of 

 the ' Faversham Flora,' Mr. Cowell. 



There is another rarity recorded as having been met with, by 

 Mr. Oxendon, between Charing and Walmer, a rather indefinite 

 locality. Charing is on a range of chalk hills some miles from 



