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confined to the northern counties. — Henry Oxley Stephens ; 78, Old 

 Market St., Bristol, September 29, 1843. 



387. Note on the Weymouth locality of Vicia Icevigaia. In refer- 

 ence to Mr. G. S. Gibson's list of the rarer plants observed by him 

 at Weymouth during the present year (Phytol. 735), 1 beg leave to 

 state that I was staying at Weymouth for a month in the autumn of 

 the year 1837, and that I then most carefully examined the coast and 

 Chesil bank for miles, in search of Vicia laevigata, but was wholly un- 

 successful. I am perfectly satisfied that it does not now exist in that 

 locality. I found most of the plants mentioned in Mr. Gibson's list, 

 and also Vicia bithynica in hedges on the east side of the Backwater, 

 but sparingly. Lathyrus Nissolia, Polycarpon tetraphyllum &c. were 

 not found by me> — A. Bloxam ; Twy cross, October, 1843. 



388. Surrey localities for Linaria spartea and Senebiera didyma. 

 About a month ago I observed numerous plants of Linaria spartea 

 extending over a space of four hundred square yards, in a stubble 

 field opposite the Walton station-house, on the south-western railway. 

 Though the plants had been cut down with the corn, many of them 

 still produced flowering-branches from the lower part of the stems, 

 and five hundred specimens might have been collected. This ground 

 was part of Walton heath before the formation of the railway, but has 

 since been inclosed and brought under cultivation. I had not previ- 

 ously been on the exact spot where the Linaria was found, although 

 I had crossed the heath on different occasions while the railway was 

 in progress, without having observed any specimens of the plant; and 

 T should deem it highly probable that the seeds had been introduced 

 by some means within the last three or four years. Senebiera didyma 

 was found at West end, near Esher, by the side of the road which 

 runs from Esher bridge to the Portsmouth road, on Winter downs ; 

 there were a score or two plants of it, on a spot where I had seen gar- 

 den refuse thrown a few years ago, and where I feel very confident 

 the plant in question did not grow before the year 1840. Both these 

 species are likely enough to maintain their ground by seed, and on 

 this account it appears desirable to put on record their appearance 

 (probably quite recent) in these localities. Three plants of the gar- 

 den form of Hyoscyamus niger (?) with a clear yellow flower, destitute 

 of black lines, were growing with the Senebiera. I should add that 

 the Linaria is the ornamental plant cultivated in gardens under the 

 name of Antirrhinum sparteum ; but whether or not it is also identical 

 with A. junceura, I cannot say with certainty. — Hewett C. Watson ; 

 Thames Ditton, October, 3, 1843. 



