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Hypericum calycinum was very well naturalized in two places. 

 One was between Chertsey and Chobham — perhaps about half- 

 way between the railway station at Chertsey and the place where 

 the Gentiana grows. The other is near Windlesham. It is not 

 difficult to account for their appearance in both these localities. 

 Near Windlesham Silene anglica was seen growing in the ditches 

 by the roadsides, and Apera Spica-venti on rubbish. The fields 

 far and near were flaming with the bright-yellow flowers of the 

 corn Marigold. 



If this part of the country were visited at an earlier period of 

 the season, when the days are longer and brighter, a richer booty 

 might be acquired on these hills, heaths, and Sphagnum-hogs. 

 But Agrostis setacea, though long past its season when we were 

 there, Schoenus nigricans, and Gentiana Pneumonanthe, are no 

 inconsiderable acquisitions, and especially when made at the 

 autumnal equinox. A. 



EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 

 Notice of a few of the Rarer Plants of Horton, Bucks. 



Does this name appear in the annals of botany for the first 

 time ? If it has been hitherto neglected by the amiable brother- 

 hood, it must not be blamed, for it is not without its -own pecu- 

 liar attractions. It is situated on the right of the London and 

 South-western Windsor line, about twenty miles from London, 

 two from Datchet, and three from Windsor, on the road between 

 Slough and Stanwell, on a very rich alluvial soil, with the river 

 Colne passing close by its doors. It is distant about a mile from 

 the Wraysbury station of the above-named railway, and is only 

 a short hour's ride from the Metropolis. 



If Horton be not the prettiest village in England, — and there 

 are many candidates which advance a claim to this honour, — it 

 certainly is one of the quietest and the least pretentious of all 

 our sequestered rustic nooks and corners. Its only public edi- 

 fices are its church and its little inn. Every village has a church, 

 or should have one, but. every village has not an inn. Horton 

 has an inn and a beer-shop too, but shop of any other kind your 

 reporter saw none. He will not affirm that there is no shop in 



