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From Sydenham several interesting plants have been received, 

 most of them suspected aliens, but none of them were ever 

 mentioned before last summer as growing there. 



Among these may be noticed — Hypericum calycinum and 

 Vinca minor, growing together, not very plentiful, but long 

 established ; and not far off from them, Euphorbia Cyparissias 

 in great profusion, but evidently the descendants of garden 

 plants. 



Verbascum Lychnites grow plentifully on a large heap of 

 shingle, or gravel, or ballast, brought from Stoat's-nest, below 

 Croydon, to cover the roads. This plant will not probably grow 

 long there, because the material will be required for another 

 purpose. 



The most interesting addition to our knowledge of localities 

 for rare plants in this quarter (Sydenham) is the discovery of a 

 situation for Sedmn sexangulare, a plant which has not been 

 observed growing spontaneously in England for a great many 

 years. The only recorded locality near Sydenham is " south 

 wall of Greenwich Park, on the west end, Curtis'' Probably 

 this is also the latest recorded account of the locality of this rare 

 Sedum, It may be said that the locality is not genuine (wild), 

 for there it may have been planted. True; but it may have been 

 planted on the rotten walls of " Old Sarum,^^ and on other 

 walls, as well as that of Greenwich Park, where it has been un- 

 challenged. 



Veronica peregrina is reported from the Channel Islands; 

 the second reported locality in the British dominions. It was 

 first found in Ireland by the Rev. W. M, Hind, who kindly 

 communicated his discovery to the ' Phytologist.' It is to be 

 wished that Mr. Wolsey and the other discoverers of rare plants 

 would imitate his example ! 



Juncus pelo carpus, by some united to /. lamprocarpus as a 

 variety, has been reported from the Tyne province ; also Fumaria 

 Vaillantii from North Yorkshire. 



The discoveries in the neighbourhood of Perth have been 

 neither few nor unimportant. The only new plant reported is 

 Arenaria balearica, a species confined to the shores of the Me- 

 diterranean. There is no evidence at present forthcoming to 

 account for the plant's being produced on the top of a shed or 

 garden tool-house. The only fact certainly known is that it 



