342 EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE, [November, 



when despatched by the sender, was nearly dead before it reached 

 the receiver. Another plant, or example, or specimen, would be 

 most thankfully received. I unfortunately have neither the name 

 of the kind correspondent who sent the example above men- 

 tioned, nor his address either. But if this fortunately happens 

 to meet his eye, he will remember the sending of the plant, and 

 probably the address of the person to whom it was sent. 



The few plants observed at, or very near Horton, may be 

 deemed the first-fruits of the Mora of Bucks; and they are 

 pledges of a plentiful harvest remaining to be gathered in by any 

 botanist who has the time and the opportunity of investigating 

 the productions of this county, almost a terra incognita to Eng- 

 lish botanists. 



There is an Impatiens at Deuham, near Uxbridge, a plant 

 known by a single incomplete specimen, and by imperfect re- 

 ports which have been more or less current for some years, and 

 it would be very desirable to have this doubt cleared up. 



Marlow, not very remote from the before-mentioned localities, 

 has a rich Flora, as several of the examples chronicled in some of 

 the earlier numbers of the Old Series of the ' Phytologist' abun- 

 dantly prove. It is earnestly to be wished, for the sake of the 

 progress of British botany, that local botanists may again be 

 found in these respective parts to search out and record the 

 native productions of this county. 



The list of plants communicated with these remarks is but a 

 short one, and it is humbly submitted rather with the view of 

 inducing botanists to visit such comparatively unknown or un- 

 noticed places, than to tell them what grows there. English 

 botanists, like those of every other country, — for human nature is 

 the same everywhere, only modified by circumstances, — follow 

 each other^s tracks, as sheep follow the bell-wether ; they seldom 

 hunt up the productions of new localities. But if novelties are 

 still discovered on such well-trodden stations as Meikleham, Box- 

 hill and Reigate, may not some rarities be expected on the south- 

 ern part of Bucks, on the neutral ground, on the transition series 

 of deposits between the chalk and the diluvial drift, with its allu- 

 vial deposits ? 



A naturalized exotic, for it is well established in many parts 

 of England, and it is reported as thoroughly wild in Ireland, and 

 probably wild in Scotland, viz. Hypericum calycinum, is pretty 



