372 KENTISH BOTANY. [December, 



rarely take the direct line between two points. Our course on 

 this occasion was more than usually devious. To give an exact 

 description of the places of interest which we visited would be 

 impossible, unless we had travelled with the Ordnance map in our 

 pocket and marked the spot where we found a rare plant. 



We soon found the Fumaria, which is in a sloping field on the 

 left-hand side of the Dartford and Sevenoaks road, about a mile 

 from Dartford. The field was then doubly cropped, with peas 

 and turnips, the former nearly ready for gathering, the latter were 

 only coming forward to take the place of the peas when removed. 



While here we observed to the south-west the heights near 

 St. Mary Cray, and decided on going thither the best way we 

 could improvise ; and adopted the valley of the Darenth for part 

 of our route. We were induced to go this way in hopes of seeing 

 Epipactis palustris ; but this proud beauty did not condescend to 

 gratify two of the most ardent of her admirers. 



Orchids were scarce this season; they were remarkably so in 

 the vale of the Darenth, which surely produces Orchis latifolia, 

 though we did not see it. 



We saw only 0. maculata. The river yielded Ranunculus 

 fluitans and Zannichellia palustris ; and the ditches and mea- 

 dow drains produced Potamogeton pusiUus with Lysimachia Num- 

 mular'ia and other commoner plants. The only thing we observed 

 which by stretching our liberality may be called rather rare, was 

 Thalictrum flavmn, not far from the viaduct of the London, 

 Chatham, and Dover Railway, which here crosses the valley which 

 lies between the Crays and Farningham. 



Before reaching the table land betAveen Sutton and Chisel- 

 hurst, we met with a few small plants of Hypericum montanum. 

 One of us remembered seeing it more than thirty years ago on 

 the same banky tract, but nearer Farnborough, or, more correctly, 

 on the hill between Eynsford and Farnborough. 



Our road or path led us on past a solitarj'^ farm, of which the 

 name is forgotten, but it lies between Sutton and a new church 

 building, in a part of the country where there is not a house in 

 sight. From this new church we descended one hill and ascended 

 another in the direction of Bexley, and in a cornfield on the 

 ascent, just one example of Adonis autumnalis was seen, and 

 probably a dozen of Bupleurum rotuadifolimn. In a cloverfield 

 on the same acclivity we looked for Orobanche minor, which we 



