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Yorkshire, as I have gathered it ou the maguesian limestone near Tadcaster, and Mr. 

 Ibbotson finds it at Castle-Howard. Dr. Greville, too, informs me that he noticed it 

 last autumn in various parts of Craven. — Id. 



133. Mosses near Castle-Howard. After my visit to Wliarfedale, I passed a short 

 time in the neighbourhood of Castle-Howard ; but the continuance of the storm pre- 

 vented me from botanizing to any extent. I had, however, the pleasure of discover- 

 ing, in company with Mr. Ibbotson, Hypnum Blandovii and Bryum aiSne,* in the 

 same bog where he had a short time previously gathered Leskea dendroides (in fruit) 

 and Hypnum nitens. Pursuant to a suggestion from Mr. Wilson, we intended to 

 search further in the same locality for Bryum squarrosum, which Mr. W. discovered 

 in Cheshire accompanying the plants above named, but were disappointed by the set- 

 ting in anew of the frost and snow. A letter however from Mr. Ibbotson, dated 28th 

 February, contains the interesting intelligence that he has found Hypnum nitens and 

 Bryum affine coming copiously into fruit ; and, more than all, the wished-for Bryum 

 squarrosum in equal abundance ! To use his own words, — " there is a space of not 

 less than an acre, on which this and Hypnum nitens are the chief plants." — Id. 



134. Trifolium incarnatum. Although Trifolium incarnatum has been intro- 

 duced into some of our later botanical catalogues as an indigenous production, it 

 does not appear to be often met with. Mr. Peete, and another experienced botanist 

 whom I have consulted, have never seen it, except as a cultivated plant, in the fields. 

 It may not, therefore, be uninteresting to mention, that I met with a very fine cluster 

 of it, in fuU bloom, about the beginning of last June, on a piece of waste land at Nor- 

 wood, in Surrey, quite away from any fields where the plant was likely to have been 

 sown for agricultural purposes. I have no doubt at all of the identity of the flower. 

 In Martyn's ' Flora Eustica ' Trifolium incarnatum is said to vary in the colour of the 

 spike, from bright to very pale red ; the colour of my specimens was a very beautiful 

 bright red. If it should be practicable to visit the same spot this year, at the proper 

 time, I shall see whether the plant has maintained its position there. I do not doubt 

 at all that it would be most proper to consider the plant which I found as an acciden- 

 tal occupant of the soil ; but, when we find that this elegant species of Trifolium has 

 been seen in such sterile spots as the Lizard Point in Cornwall, by the Rev. Mr. Hore; 

 on the sands, in two separate places in Jersey, by Mr. Babington ; and again, on the 

 gravelly soil of Norwood ; — we may yet hope to meet with its bright silky flowers in 

 sufiicient abundance materially to enhance the charms of our English Flora. — Wil- 

 liam Ilott ; Bromley, Kent, March 7, 1842. 



135. Neio localities for Carex elongata. Will you allow me, through the medium 

 of your valuable and excellent little journal ' The Phytologist,' (for the institution of 

 which the botanical world owes you a lasting debt of gratitude), to make known to 

 you and your readers the discovery of no less \h.<mjive additional habitats for one of 

 the most rare and beautiful of our British Carices; — I allude to Carex elongata, Lin. 

 This species, as you are well aware, for many years had only one authentic station in 

 this countiy, first recorded by the late Mr. Jonathan Salt, who found it on the banks 

 of the Don, near Shefiield. It was afterwards gathered at Colemere, in Shropshire, by 

 the lamented J. E. Bowman, Esq., of this place, who obligingly furnished me with a 

 specimen from that locality. My friend Mr. Wilson, of Warrington, also discovered 



* Frequent near York, in moist situations. 



