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When at the Bog, in June last, T visited the station where 

 grows the rare Tumtis glabra. I could only observe two plants; 

 I gathered one, leaving the other to seed. I then made for the 

 Railway Station, near to which, on the roadside, I procured a 

 few specimens of Cerastium arvense and Erodimn cicutarium. 1 

 afterwards got into the railway carriage, and in a quarter of an 

 hour was in Perth city. 



I had another walk to the top of Craigie Hill, and discovered, 

 in the corner of a plantation, several plants of Sanicula Europaea, 

 the first I have seen in this neighbourhood; and near Craigie 

 village, under a hedge, two plants of Cnicus Eriophorus ; one had 

 been in flower but destroyed, the other only had leaves. I saw 

 another plant of it near Barn hill, but being also on the roadside, 

 it will likely share the fate of its Craigie relative. 



Bridge End, Perth. 



HUDDEESriELD PLANTS. 



The following notes have been just received from Mr. C. C. 

 Hobkirk, the author of the ' History, Antiquities, etc., of Hud- 

 dersfield,' being remarks and explanations about the botany of 

 the district : — 



" With respect to the aliens, I fear we shall lose many of 

 them, as the shoddy has been spread over the fields, and whe- 

 ther the plants will be able to grow under this change remains 

 to be seen. Your assumption of the area of the district in ques- 

 tion is about twice its actual dimensions — thirty miles will be its 

 extent — and further, the whole district lies between 300 and 

 900 feet above the sea-level, and the geological character of the 

 soil is wholly shale and sandstone, without any of the mountain 

 limestone." 



We supposed the dimensions of this district round Hudders- 

 field to be about sixty-four square miles, which would be only a 

 distance of four miles from the town on all sides. Knowing 

 that the space between Huddersfield and the places where the 

 plants are said to grow, viz. from six to eight miles, the diame- 

 ter of the surface of the surrounding district must be at least 

 twelve or sixteen miles, and therefore the area will be double of 

 our estimate. If the superficial extent be only thirty square 



