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form surely ever seen, for it far overtopped the long, unmown 

 grass. Some of the specimens were at least four feet long. Crow- 

 Garlic also abounded in this meadow. So did the hedges abound 

 in the lovely Vicia Cracca, of the intensest blue ever beheld. The 

 banks produced Salvia verbenaca and Cichorum Intybus. Can 

 any one acquainted with the economy of this plant tell the writer 

 if the cultivated form or variety of this plant be a perennial or a 

 biennial ? The river in many places was partly covered with the 

 broad leaves, and ornamented with the flowers of that queen of 

 British aquatics, the white Water-lily, together with her yellow 

 sister the Brandy-bottle-plant. 



Between Staines and Ashford fine large plants of Trifolium 

 striatum, and equally large forms of Ornithopus perpusillus were, 

 in sportsman's phrase, ' bagged.' On the roadside, just under the 

 wall of Ashford churchyard, a single specimen of Potentilla ar- 

 gentea was detected ; the only one seen during the day. 



This ended our botanizing in this quarter, on the day before 

 St. Swithin's. 



ADDITIONS TO THE FLOEA OF SYDENHAM. 

 By H. B. 



This season, July, 1860, most of the shingle-mounds on which 

 Verbascum Lycmiitis grew so plentiful last summer have been 

 removed, and only a few specimens of the rarest of our British 

 Verbascums remain. On the old brick wall at Lower Sydenham 

 the rarest of the British Sedums, Sedum sexangulare, still grows. 

 The severe long winter of 1859 and 1860 did not aflect materi- 

 ally its condition. In addition to this, one of our rarissima, Se- 

 dum album, grows in close proximity to its much rarer relation. 



In the Ravensbourne, between Lower Sydenham and the Lon- 

 don, Chatham, and Dover railway, the troublesome American 

 waterweed, Anacharis Alsinastrum, grows everywhere, in dense, 

 large masses. Not far from the foot-bridge which crosses the 

 little brook, the rare Scirpus sylvaticus appears, but in no great 

 quantity. Does any reader know if this plant has ever been de- 

 tected in Surrey ? It used many years ago to grow plentifully 

 in a wood between Hampstead Heath and Finchley. The re- 

 cently introduced Trefoil, T. resupinatum, is still spreading, and 



