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when or how it came there it is impossible to say, but I have been told 

 that in some places it is sown instead of the common Clover. If such be 

 the case, doubtless some of your correspondents have noticed it elsewhere. 

 I may mention that Mr. Fisher hrst determined it from the first-named 

 locality, and it was detected in the second by that gentleman and myself 

 in July. 



I have just been looking over your list of Wandsworth plants in the 

 ' Phytologist' for November last, and it may interest you to know that 

 several occur with us on a piece of waste gTound near the Birkenhead 

 Docks, together with Ornlthopus compressus, not entered as with you. I 

 send a specimen herewith, as also of the Trifolium and of Erytlircea lati- 

 foUa and Viola sabulosa (Boreau). Fked. M. Webb. 



Claiighton Village, near BirTcenhead, Sept. 6. 



Sir, — In compliance with the wish expressed by the writer of the 

 Eeview of ' The Flora of Devonshire,' in the August number of the 

 ' Phytologist,' I beg to send you a statement of the height of the prin- 

 cipal mountainous elevations of the county of Devon. The authority is 

 the ' Histoiy of Devon,' by the Eev. T. Moore : — 



Above the level 

 of the sea. 



Extreme elevation of Dartmoor 2090 feet. 



Mean elevation 1782 



Cawsand Beacon, near Oakhampton 2090 



Haytor, or High Tor 1600 



Eippon Tor 1540 



Salsburry Castle, in High Bray 1500 



Chapman's Barrow, near Challacombe 1200 



Butterton Hill, near Ivybridge 1200 



Black Down, near Tavistock 1160 



Hoardown Gate, three miles fi-om Iliracombe 800 



- Great Hangman Hdl 800 



Great Haldon and Black Down 800 



Little Hangman HiU 600 



Two Bridges 1148 



Source of the Erme 1131 



St. Mary Tavy 648 



MonvellDown 700 



EurlandHiU 589 



Brighton, Aug. 19. Mary P. MerriFEILD. 



ScropJmlaria vernalis, on the slope above the landing-place, Lundy 

 Island, Eev. Chas. Kingsley, may be added to the Devon list. 



Important to Botanists. 



Any botanist in Great Britain or Ireland who wishes to possess speci- 

 mens of any or all of the following plants, will be supplied with the same 

 by writing to me, and enclosing two postage- stamps to defray expenses : — 

 Circcea alpina ; Moneses grandijlora ; Claytonia alsinoides ; 8cheuchzeria 

 palustris ; Trientalis europcea ; and Carex limosa. 



