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hybrida, Phyteuma orhiculare, Hyoscyamus niger, Veronica Buw- 

 baumii, Linaria minor, and L. sj/uria. Our authoress states 

 that there is no representative of the genus Mentha on the 

 downs. Some may be rather shy of adopting this report of 

 the absence of so common a plant as Mentha arvensis. The 

 Orchids in this district are numerous. Would some of our 

 obliging correspondents send us a specimen of the Spider Orchis 

 which grows about Piecorabe, though not so common as the bee 

 and fly, Ophrys apifera and 0. muscifera ? The other rare spe- 

 cies of these curious plants found here, are Orchis ustulata and 

 0. fusca. Orchis incarnata is also reported as a species which 

 flourishes about Hurst. We do not profess to know this as a 

 British Orchis, unless it may be a synonym for 0. latifolia. 

 Herminium Monorchis, another rare gem in Florals crown, is also 

 a production of these downs. A more startling novelty in this 

 order is Orchis laxiflora, which is placed among the Orchids in 

 the catalogue of plants, p. 200. We hope the compiler of this list 

 will excuse the intimation of a doubt about this plant, and also 

 about some of the above-mentioned, as to their being really natives 

 of the downs of Sussex. They may be there, however, though 

 this locality is not generally accredited by botanists as producing 

 Orchis fusca and 0. laxiflora. 



The Ferns are said not to be numerous, but two of them are 

 very interesting, being rarely found so far east and at so low an 

 elevation in the latitude of Sussex. " Ceterach officinarum grows 

 about Fulking, Lastrea Thelypteris at Albourne, and a single 

 plant of Asplenimn viride was once found growing on Danny 

 House, but is now lost." We are further informed, that " the 

 variety of plants found growing wild in this neighbourhood is ac- 

 counted for by its having formerly been the residence of Ray, the 

 naturalist." This will probably be news to some of our readers. 

 It is so to us, and a list of the rarities about Danny House 

 would be particularly acceptable. Some will consider the variety 

 of plants apocryphal, and others will remember that although 

 Eay the great naturalist did occasionally visit his friends living 

 in places considerably distant from his own humble abode, he 

 never enjoyed a residence so dignified as Danny House, the resi- 

 dence in his time of Mr. Courthorpe, with whom Mr. Ray spent 

 some small part of the years 1667 and 1668. This time, viz. 

 the end of 1667 and the beginning of 1668, was spent partly in 



