34i PLANTS NEAR TURViLLE, BUCKS. [November, 



Ashford^ which is very accessible by the South-Eastern Railway. 

 See * Phytologist/ n.s. vol. iii. p. 268. 



These two rare plants, viz. Cyclamen hedercefolium and Orchis 

 hircina, with other pickings, would well repay a journey to South 

 Kent. 



PLANTS NEAR TUEVILLE, BUCKS. 



In the ' Phytologist' for June last, your correspondent on the 

 Botany of Burnham Beeches says, — " Buckinghamshire has the 

 reputation of being rich in vegetable rarities/' and he wishes 

 some correspondent to make a note of them. I have not seen 

 the Botanists' Guide for this county, and cannot say whether 

 this notice of mine may be worth insertion, but such as it is I 

 send it, that you may know what plants can be seen by any one 

 who will walk three miles in this district, and use his or her eyes 

 in looking for them. The country for some miles round this spot 

 is on the chalk, and abounds in scenery of the most beautiful 

 and picturesque character ; high hills and long deep vales, mostly 

 covered with beech-wood, intersected by cornfields, heaths, and 

 pastures. Some of the valleys are from five to six hundred feet 

 deep, very spacious, with gentle sloping sides, affording extensive 

 views from the hills, but no streams run through them. In 

 these fields and pastures I found in blossom the Iberis amara in 

 great abundance ; Fumaria capreolata spreading its full size ; 

 Sinapis arvensis covering broad acres with its golden blossoms ; 

 Viola tricolor plentiful ; Linum catharticum, Myosotis arvensis, 

 and Spergula nodosa in great abundance ; Reseda lutea and Tra- 

 gopogon pratensis (John Go-to-bed-at-noon) fast asleep ; Sangui- 

 sorba officinalis, and Poterium Sanguisorba. In the woods grows 

 the Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris, which I now believe to be the 

 plant which Izaak Walton called Culverkeys, and which one of 

 our early poets, George Chapman, calls " a thankless flower." 

 It was this flower Ophelia gave to the King of Denmark in her 

 madness upon the death of her father Polonius. Near to this 

 grows the Pyrola media, Habenaria bifolia, Paris quadrifolia, 

 Oxalis Acetosella out of bloom, Orchis maculata, Arctium Lappa 

 stout and tall, Lysimachia vulgaris plentiful, Tamus communis, 

 Bryonia dioica (rhe English Mandrake), Epipactis rubra, Vibur- >' 

 num Opulus, etc. Mrs. Beisley gathered specimens of most of . 



