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Orchis j)yramidalis (L.), Bank, and in a small pasture on the 

 Yealmpton roacl^ about three miles from Plymouth. In great 

 plenty in July^ 1S58, since which the field has been in cultivation. 

 On rubble-heaps, and in Avaste ground near Orestou Quarries ; 

 sparingly , 



Narcissus biflorus (Curt.). In an orchard, and on a hedge- 

 bank at Goosewell, Egg Buckland. 



I have not named some other uncommon plants which occur 

 in this neighbourhood, as I am aware their localities have been 

 previously given by Mr. Ravenshaw and others. For a like 

 reason I have also omitted other localities of some of the fore- 

 going. 



I have noted the following additional localities, in this neigh- 

 bourhood, of Arichusa sempervirens, Barbarea pracox, and Ge- 

 ranium rotundifolium : — 



Anchusa sempervirens. Crabtree ; near Saltash, on the St. 

 Stephen's Road ; Thornbury ; Egg Buckland. 



Barbarea preecox. On a bank by Tamerton Creek ; between 

 Tothill and Laira; by the tram-road, near Marsh House, Egg 

 Buckland. 



Geranium rotundifolium. Between Tothill and Laira ; abun- 

 dant. Near Plympton St. INIary Church, by the Plyrapton 

 road ; sparingly. Catdown ; Plyrastock. Between Torpoint 

 and Antony, Cornwall. 



Flymouth, August, 1860. 



KENTISH BOTANY. 



Notes and Recollections about the Botany of North Kent, between 



Dartford and Bexley. 



Our object in visiting this comparatively little-known tract was, 

 first, to settle some doubts about Fumaria parvifiora, which this 

 summer (July, 1861) was abundant in a turnip-field near Daren th, 

 and to procure specimens of Arnoseris pusilla and of Senecio vis- 

 cosus, which is plentiful at Bexley Heath. 



The train by which we travelled left the London Bridge ter- 

 minus at 9.20 A.M., and conveyed us comfortably to Dartford in 

 less than an hour. 



Botanists seldom walk as the crow flies, or, in other words, 



