334 GENTiANA PNEUMONANTHE. [November, 



who were gathering wild -flowers near Chobham, three or four 

 years ago. I was shown some of the withered plants, and on 

 inquiry learned the precise spot where they grew. This was 

 subsequently published in the ' Phytologist/ and it was to prove, 

 or rather to see, this station, that we started from London via 

 Chertsey on the day above stated. Gentle reader — all botanical 

 readers are gentle, and some of them courteous — do not surmise 

 that the big-looking pronominal word we is editorial ! It is the 

 representative of two bond fide botanists who both saw and tes- 

 tify to what was seen. Although the record or report is neces- 

 sarily made by one, the plant was seen by both. 



The easiest or plainest directions to this station are as follow. 

 If from London, first go to Chertsey by rail. Next go on the 

 Chobham road a mile or two, and then inquire for Squire 

 Tringham's. The cottagers or dwellers about the roadside will 

 direct the inquirer to a small beer-shop^ or rather a small shop 

 for the sale of beer, or, better still, a small house licensed to sell 

 beer to be drunk (not drunken) on the premises. The tenant or 

 landlord of this house will show the seeker where Mr. Tring- 

 ham^s private stand stood, whence he and his friends viewed the 

 military evolutions when the camp of Chobham occupied several 

 miles of these extensive, heathy tracts, in 1853, a year or two 

 before the Crimean war. The stand was almost opposite the 

 gable end of the beer-shop, and between the latter place and the 

 site of the former there is a wet, grassy, rushy part of the 

 common or heath, which, like a tongue, stretches or extends be- 

 tween the plantations. The solitary beer-shop is at one end of 

 a wood or plantation, very near the summit-level of the rise, and 

 the site of the stand was at the upper extremity of the opposite 

 plantation, also near the ridge of an opposite hill. Between these 

 two plantations is the rushy part of the common as aforesaid. 

 The Gentiana is not here, viz. between the beer-house and the 

 site of the stand, but it is in the much more extensive and wider 

 part of the heath, viz. behind the plantation opposite to the end 

 of the beer-shop, which is on the left of the road when going to 

 Chobham from Chertsey, and both the plantations are on the 

 left side of the road, and the Gentiana is beyond the second 

 plantation, on the same side of the road as the beer-house is. 



TJie part of the heath where this rare plant grows, or where 

 we saw it, is very extensive, and if the visitor come from Chertsey, 



