1861.] KENTISH BOTANY. 375 



twenty years), simply for the purpose of mentioning its presence 

 in a hedge bounding some meadows between Brockley and Lewis- 

 ham. I am not aware whether this is one of the recorded 

 stations for this plant or no ; all I can say is, that I have speci- 

 mens gathered by myself, at the spot in question, some two or 

 three summers since. To the noticeable plants at Richborough 

 may be added the Tansy [Tanacetum vulgare), which I gathered 

 there in September, 1856, and which is probably still to be found 

 there. Growing plentifully on Kingsdown beach, intermingled 

 not unfrequently with the Sea Pea, is a form of Solanum Dulca- 

 mara, which may be worth noticing. The branches are prostrate, 

 spreading on the beach in all directions, so as to form a circular 

 patch ; the bark of a dark olive-green or of a rich purple hue ; the 

 leaves small, lanceolate, few of them showing any tendency to 

 become lobed at the base ; the flowers occasionally destitute of 

 the spot at the base of the lobes of the corolla. The same plant, 

 further on in the undercliflF, assumes its ordinary appearance, 

 so that the variety on the beach would seem to be due to the 

 peculiar circumstances under which it grows in the last-named 

 situation. Brassica oleracea, so common along the cliffs near 

 St. Margaret's Bay, and the stalks of which, eaten au naturel, 

 were esteemed such a luxury in our school-boy days — what will 

 not school-boys eat ? — is mentioned, as last year, perhaps from 

 the unusual amount of rain, numerous instances were found 

 wherein the lowermost flowers of the cluster were absent, and 

 their place supplied by a tuft of green leaves — a cabbage in 

 miniature. This was the case all along the chalk range from 

 Kingsdown to Eastwear Bay, and is certainly not so common in 

 all years, at least so far as our observation goes. 



At Lydden Spout, one of the most noticeable plants found on 

 a visit, in August, 1860, was the Hippocrepis comosa, at that time 

 bearing in profusion its singular pods, which at once suggest the 

 idea that they are formed on the model of a pinnate or of a pin- 

 nately divided leaf. 



Eastwear Bay I what naturalist, what geologist, what lover of 

 beautiful scenery does not rejoice to find himself there ? It ' 

 matters not whether he roam along the summit of the lofty chalk 

 hills, and gloat over the splendid prospect before him; whether 

 multo cum labore he scale the chalky walls themselves, thread the 

 intricacies of the Warren, cautiously tread the steeps of Copt 



