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not say have usurped — but have taken its place. Our hearts 

 were gladdened, and our eyes sparkled, when we discovered a 

 second station where this floral gem may grow and blossom 

 again unseen for many generations. The improvements in this 

 quarter will probably be an increase of plantations, and the 

 Black Bog-rush may thrive there unmolested by the surrounding 

 trees. 



The place where we saw the plant is not half a mile from the 

 Guildford road, and about a mile from the village of Bagshot ; 

 and if the directions and indications above given be well followed, 

 the seeker can hardly miss finding the object of his search. 



We must, in conscience, enter a caveat against making too 

 free with the Gentiana at Chobham, because in some years — 

 this, for example — it is not very abundant. There will be no 

 harm done to future generations even though you fill your vas- 

 culum with the rare plant of Bagshot Heath ; the tumps of this 

 rare Bush would load all the carts and waggons of Bagshot, and 

 probably leave enough to fill those of Frimley. There is no risk 

 of impoverishing this locality. 



This and the Gentiana are not the only rare plants of this ex- 

 tensive and barren part of West Surrey. There were other 

 scarce species, and probably are still, about Windlesham, Bag- 

 shot, and Frimley, but we had no time to look for them. We 

 were not much less than five miles from the Farnborough station 

 of the London and South-western Railway, and had only one 

 hour and forty minutes remaining, and had some rough ground 

 to pass through ere we reached the main road. 



Agrostis setacea is the only grassy herbage between the Schoenus 

 Hollow and the ridge, but there is plenty of that to form a fine, 

 soft, elastic sward, wherever grass will grow. 



The most remarkable plants observed by us, chiefly on the 

 hedge-banks by the waysides, were Hypetntwm boreale, of extra- 

 ordinary luxuriance ; on one specimen we counted 104 flowers 

 and flower-buds. This is the headquarters of this plant. 



Hieracium umbellatum, in its most typical form, viz. with rather 

 broad and tapering, soft leaves, and with the flowers in true 

 umbels ; not with the rigid habit, and very narrow and numerous 

 leaves, and often with but one flower, its common form on Hayes 

 Common, in Kent. A one-flowered example cannot be the normal 

 form of H. umbellatum. 



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