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coasts of the Isle of Wiglit. The paper made from it is, as we have said, 

 like straw paper, and hence not very white in colour, and more like India 

 paper in that respect ; but perhaps great improvements in the bleaching 

 may yet be effected in the manufacture of such paper." — Builder. 



Mr. Hartnell's paper, made of the new material, Grass Wrack, may be 

 superior to the common straw paper now so extensively used ; but unless 

 the fibrous matter be in great plenty as well as of excellent quality, it will 

 scarcely answer the purpose. 



We fear the economical element is absent ; for the natural supply would 

 be soon spent. Would any material, to be used exclusively in the paper 

 manufacture, pay the expense of cultivation an-d yield a fair profit to the 

 cultivator ? 



TlLL^A MUSCOSA. 



In ' Phytologist,' vol. v. p. 356, Tlll(2a miiscosa is recorded as being 

 recently discovered near Plymouth, in Devonshire. It is a Dorsetshire 

 plant, according to the late Dr. Bell Salter's list of plants growing wild in 

 that county. (Where is this list to be seen or had ?) In ' Cybele,' vol. i. p., 

 395, there is the following statement about this rare species : — " Through 

 cultivation as a botanical curiosity, it has become naturalized in places near 

 London ;" (what places ?) " but I know not of any truly native habitat in 

 the province of Thames ?" Does any reader of this note, know any habitat 

 in said district, either native or natm'alized ? 



DiPLOTAXIS MURALIS. 



Another county, at least, should be added to the county census of this 

 plant, on the authority of Ravenshaw's ' Flora of Devonshire,' and also on 

 that of a list of early-flowering plants published in the ' Phytologist ' for 

 August, 1861, p. 254. 



SCROPHULAUIA VERNALIS. 



Some grave doubts have been communicated in reference to the genuine- 

 ness of the Plymouth locality for S. vernalis ; and we beg to ask our 

 readers to supply us with stations where it is apparently a true native. 

 The Mitcham station, now, it is to be feared, no more, is or was not one 

 without exception. 



Probably the Scottish localities recently published are genuine. We 

 have seen JncJmsa sempervirens truly wild in Scotland ; but we have not 

 yet seen it in England, in any place where it could be regarded as other 

 than only spontaneous or naturalized. Is Scrophularia vernalis to be 

 placed in the same category in England ? We have seen Lamium macii- 

 latmn thoroughly naturalized. Is this species to be added to this class of 

 unacknowledged, or but partially acknowledged, natm'alized plants ? 



" Naturalized Aliens." 



Accustomed as I have been for some years past, to botanize in the wilds 

 of Derbyshii-e, I often meet with plants said to be aliens, which I am per- 



