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a place in our native flora, while Eranthis hyemalis, Petasites fragrans, 

 Melissa officinalis, Atriplex bortensis, Kumex scutalus, &c., as well 

 as^those before mentioned, some of wbich are as mncb established as 

 the Tulipa, are designated as having " no claim " to be enumerated 

 in a British flora. Some of the above are really in more natural posi- 

 tions than Petroselinum sativum, which appears without scruple, though 

 scarcely of older date upon old walls. 



These observations are not made with the slightest view of carping 

 unfairly at the labours of learned botanists, but are thrown out as ten- 

 drils of thought, or little burs of reflection, under the hope that some 

 better general understanding may be come to as to marks of introduc- 

 tion and naturalization, which are at present altogether incongruous 

 and conflicting, productive indeed rather of vexation than information. 



Edwin Lees. 



Cedai- Terrace, Henwick, Worcester, 

 Februaiv 8, 1851. 



Botanical Notes for 1851. 

 By George Stacey Gibson, Esq., F.L.S. 



Having spent a short time last summer at Dunoon, a small but 

 beautifully-situated watering-place on the west coast of Scotland, 

 much frequented by residents at Glasgow and the neighbourhood, I 

 enclose a list of some of the rarer plants met with, as 1 do not remem- 

 ber having seen any notice of this district in the ' Phytologist.' It is 

 not by any means particularly rich, but there are a good many bog 

 plants, with some maritime and mountain species. 



Of the former, viz., the bog or mai'shy-ground plants, one of the 

 commonest is Carum verticillalum, which is more plentiful than any 

 other umbelliferous plant, and met with in all such localities. Malaxis 

 paludosa is found rather sparingly on the spongy sides of the hills, 

 but may easily be overlooked from its small size and inconspicuous 

 colour ; it is accompanied in greater quantity by Pinguicula lusita- 

 nica. Osmunda regalis is not uncommon in moist woods. Oxyria 

 reniformis grows by the sides of mountain rills. Besides these, may 

 be enumerated Q^^nanthe crocata, Helosciadium inundatum, Habe- 

 naria bifolia and chlorantha, Crepis paludosa, Comarum palustre, 

 Narthecium ossifragum, Hypericum dubium, Saxifraga aizoides. 



