270 CAMPANULA RAPUNCULUs. [^September, 



tensively dispersed in the British Isles. On the Continent it 

 occurs in Italy^ Dauphiny, Germany, and in some places in the 

 north of Europe. It appears to be intermediate between Vero- 

 nica Anagallis and V. serpyllifolia, much smaller than the former, 

 but larger than the latter, with a more erect habit. It is an an- 

 nual ; but some of our annual weeds are very difficult to subdue. 

 The gardeners informed me it was a very troublesome weed. I 

 am not the original discoverer of this plant ; it was detected by a 

 botanical friend of mine a few days before, but he did not know 

 its name. I went and gathered it myself, and found it to be 

 V. peregrina, but to dissipate all doubt about it, sent a speci- 

 men to Mr. C. Babington, who kindly replied, confirming, by his 

 superior knowledge, my own opinion. He told me he had ex- 

 amples of it from Belfast and the Channel Isles. 



Bridge End, Perth, July, 1860. ' 



CAMPANULA RAPUNCULUS, ETC. 



The following remarks on the botany of Hampshire are ex- 

 tracted from a kind correspondent's note to the Editor, June 13, 

 1860 :— 



" I beg to say that Aldershott is not a new station for Campa- 

 nula Rapunculus ; it was published some years back in the ' Bota- 

 nical Gazette,' and, I think, in the 'Phytologist' also?^ I was with 

 Dr. Bromfield at Headley in 1850, and showed him the Chryso- 

 splenium alternifolium and some other plants which he wished to 

 see, but we were unfortunately too early for the Campanula. 



" Is it known that Ornithogalum pyrenaicum is abundant in 

 ■ i, some of the woods at East Ilsley in Berkshire? I was staying 



tsm^'-' there two months ago; it was then just coming up with Blue- 

 bells, etc. etc., and appeared to be equally plentiful. I am not 

 sure if I should have known the plant in the stage it was th^ 

 in ; but before I left, a friend gave me a small piece which was 

 gathered last year, and enabled me to recognize it immediately. 



"w. w. E.'^ 



* Our correspondent thinks rightly. Dr. Bromfield, in ' Phytologist,' vol. iii. 

 1091, observes : "At Aldershott Campanula Eapunculus grows in veiy consider- 

 able plenty on hedgebanks and borders of fields, as intimated to me by Mr. W. 

 Eeeves last year, etc." This agrees exactly with what Mr. A. G. More states in 

 reference to this plant, vol. iv. 81. — Ed. 



