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did not see, but saw plenty of Ajuga Chameepitys. The only 

 noticeable cornfield plants seen in our walk, besides the above, 

 were Poppies. Papaver hybridum and P. somniferum were very 

 abundant, the latter particularly plentiful. 



Dartford Heath, which we crossed, supplied us with Cuscuta 

 Epithijmum; this was only, at this early period of the season, 

 making its appearance. From the north end of this large tract 

 of elevated open space, a path led us through fields to Bexley 

 village, and another path led us through what may have once 

 been Bexley Heath, but it is a heath no more. The land is now a 

 great strawberry-bed, and between the rows of these plants, which 

 bear the finest of our native fruits, grow the plants of which we 

 were in quest. In one of the fields both the Arnoseris and the 

 Senecio were quite eradicated, a consequence of careful cultiva- 

 tion. In the last of the fields crossed by the pedestrian coming 

 from Bexley village to Bexley Heath, there is plenty of Senecio 

 viscosus as well as S. sylvaticus ; and in the last field but one there 

 is no lack of Arnoseris pusilla. 



"We had now walked, since leaving Dartford station, a consider- 

 able way, and had been on foot nearly seven hours, viz. from 

 about ten a.m. to five p.m., and when at Bexley were only two or 

 three miles from Dartford, where our walk began. Probably we 

 were, even when most remote, not more than four or five miles 

 from the station. Judging by the time spent, our walk probably 

 exceeded fifteen miles. 



We had now completed our botanizing but not our walking, 

 for we had from seven to eight miles further to trudge ere we 

 reached home. 



The easiest way by which the London botanist c^n reach 

 Bexley Heath is by the North Kent line ; and he may either 

 go to Dartford or leave at Erith. Probably the distance from 

 Dartford is less than it is from Erith ; but the walk is neither so 

 pleasant nor is the scenery so good as between the latter place 

 and Bexley Heath. The heights above Erith are as picturesque 

 as any part of North Kent ; they equal the best of the scenery 

 between Greenwich and Gravesend. 



When he reaches Bexley Heath, he should inquire for the path 

 across the fields to Bexley village ; and after leaving the great 

 road from London to Dover, in the first field, now in strawberry 

 culture, he will find the Senecio viscosus between the rows, and in 



