This slight sketch of a few days' October's botanizing would not be 

 complete without stating what we did not find. We walked at least 

 five and twenty miles about the neighbourhood of Truro, and from 

 Falmouth through Penryn, towards Carclew, which are the given 

 localities, in search of Erica ciliaris, but without success, probably 

 fi-om being without sufiicieutly specific directions, for we can hardly 

 think but that it must still have held out its terminal whorl of large, 

 purple bells, still less that we should have overlooked it. We 

 searched incessantly for the rare Trifoliums of the Lizard district, or 

 any remnants of them, but without being able to detect any unrecog- 

 nized relics. This we reconciled with the lateness of the season, by 

 apprehending that they may all dry away early and disappear. We 

 could not discover even the remains of Asparagus oflScinalis on the 

 island in Kynance Cove, but had previously found a few prostrate 

 stems in the locality near Cadgewith. We were struck with the 

 great scarcity of Lastrea Oreopteris, having seen it but in one spot, 

 and that very poor and dwarfed, over a large extent of very likely 

 ground, and likewise with the entire absence of Cystopteris fragilis, 

 and of Polypodium Dryopteris and Phegopteris fi'om all the rocky, 

 watered glens and valleys, and also of Asplenium Trichomanes and 

 Ruta-muraria, as far as we observed, though the three latter, I believe, 



grow in the county. 



Edward T. Bennett. • 



London, November 16, 1850. 



Worcestershire Habitat for Villarsia nymphceoides. 

 By George Reece, Esq. 



I HAVE much pleasure in sending you a Worcestershire habitat for 

 this rare aquatic plant. I met with it in the river Avon, between 

 Pershore and Eckington, in the month of June last, in some abun- 

 dance, but not in the best condition, the river having been subject to 

 a flood only three or four days previously. 



George Reece. 



Worcester, October 16, 1850. 



