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full four feel, high, I had the good fortune to meet with in June last, 

 at the hamlet of Bush by Cuxton, growing near the copse or shaw by 

 the foot-path, just beyond and leading from the street of Bush, over 

 the meadows and cornfields, towards Hailing on the Medway. My 

 plant is identical with authentic specimens collected near Cambridge 

 a few seasons ago ; and likewise with others from near Twycross, Lei- 

 cestershire, kindly contributed to my herbarium by the Rev. Andrew 

 Bloxam. — Edward Edwards ; Bexley Heath, Kent, August 6, 1844. 



507. Silene Armeria. Of this interesting plant, formerly noticed 

 " on the banks of the Dee near Chester, and by the Ribble beyond 

 Settle, Yorkshire," but now no longer to be recognized in those loca- 

 lities, I obtained several good specimens last year from a veiy wild 

 station near the Medway, towards Yalding, far from house or garden ; 

 and a few others this season, from the same spot, although (probably 

 from the excessive drought with which we were so long visited), of 

 dwarfish growth. — Id. 



508. Dianthus Armeria. Mr. Babington marks this species as 

 " rare," (Manual, 40). It occurs in many places near here. It affects 

 chalky and gravelly wastes and banks. I have noticed it in abun- 

 dance this season at Crocking-hill, between St. Mary Cray and Fara- 

 ingham ; at Stone, beyond Dartford ; and in numberless other localities 

 in the cross-country lanes between Farningham and Gravesend. — Id. 



509. Plants at Erith, 1844. To the town-immured student, whose 

 opportunities for botanical strolls, being few and far between, render 

 of value the merest hint as to the locality of an interesting plant, — I 

 beg to observe that I have noticed this season at Erith, growing about 

 the marshes and wastes, within the shortest distance from the newly- 

 erected pier, among numberless more common species, — Polypogon 

 MonspeliensiSj Apera Spica-venti, Barkhausia taraxacifolia (very abun- 

 dant), Petroseliuum segetum, Onopordum Acanthium, Sisymbrium 

 Sophia and Carduus tenuiflorus ; the three last named most plentiful 

 and luxuriant. — Id. 



510. Plants at EltJiam, 1844. Hutchinsia petrrea still retains its 

 old haunts about the walls of the church-yard. I gathered fine spe- 

 cimens from thence in April last. This is the only recorded station 

 for Hutchinsia near the metropolis ; which, if the plant be truly indi- 

 genous here, is a very interesting fact. Misgivings have arisen among 

 botanists as to the possible introduction of its near neighbour, Cen- 

 tranthus calcitrapa, which has located itself on the same and adjoining 

 walls ; but I am not aware that the truthfulness of this station for 

 Hutchinsia has ever been questioned. Ceutranthus calcitrapa also 



