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greatly extended, to remunerate the proprietors for tlie increased 

 extension of expense and labour bestowed on this synopsis of the 

 genera and species of Ferns. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



To the Editor of the ' Phytologist.^ 



Sir, — It may be of some interest to botanists to be informed, tbrough 

 your pages, that the grass Phalaris pai'adoxa, which stands in the 

 ' British Flora' as an impeifectly naturalized species, still grows in consi- 

 derable abundance (this year among Barley), in the field near Swanage, in 

 Dorsetshii'e, where I first observed it in the year 1847. As it has now 

 survived the culture of difi'erent crops upon a piece of arable land for at 

 least thirteen years, this grass may be considered established in that 

 locality. As far as I could observe during a brief visit of a few hom-s 

 oidy, it does not appear to have spread over the arable land lying 

 around it. I saw it nowhere but in its old station. Erom some unas- 

 certained cause, plants are frequently confined within a ver}' narrow sjDace 

 upon land which for miles round seems to be equally well suited to their 

 growth. Erica ciliaris, upon the neighbouring Wareham Heath, one strip 

 of which alone it occupies, and SimetJds bicolor, growing in one single 

 spot between Bournemouth and Poole, may be instanced as examples. 



Before closing, I would mention that in the middle of last month I 

 ol)tained specimens of Malaxis paludosa in the i)oggy valley above 

 Bournemouth, where it had been noticed by Mr. Borrer, but subsequently 

 sought in vain by the late Dr. Bromfield. (See ' Phytologist,' vol. iii. 

 p. 916.) James Hussey. 



Salisbury y Se^t. 4. 



Sir, — Looking over Camden's 'Britannia' this afternoon, I lighted on 

 the following note about Eryngiiim campestre : — " On the rock which you 

 descend to the Ferrey from Plimouth over into Cornwall. This plant 

 probably groweth not wild any where in England save here, near Da- 

 ventry, in Northamptonshire, and on the shore call'd Friargoose, near New- 

 castle-upon-Tine." 



It would be interesting to know whether the plant stdl exists in these 

 spots, and I sent Camden's note in hopes some of your readers may be 

 able to tell us. 



Tlie exact " Plimouth" station is, I fear, no more, but the plant still is 

 to be found near DevU's Point. T. F. Eavenshaw. 



Peivsey, Aug. 22. 



Sir, — Can you tell me if Trifolnim hybridum has been noted of late 

 in any of the British Floras or local list of plants. Withering gives it in 

 his 'Arrangement' (ed. 4, 1801), as occurring in "moist places near 

 Peckham and Battersea," on the authority of Hudson. Since then, as far 

 as I know, it has been passed over. Bentham, however, states that it is 

 general on the Continent. It grows in several places in this neighbour- 

 hood, e.ff. on the Sandhills, at Crosby, and near Aitow Brook, Cheshire : 



