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yet it inay be fairly doubted whether the one is not as generally dis- 

 tributed as the other, and perhaps more so. 



Diplotaxis mura/is, D.C., was growing in quantity among the rub- 

 bish at the side of a bricli-field in Riven Hall last autumn. The 

 situation appeared a very suitable one, for the plant attained a large 

 size, and might perhaps have been hastily referred to D. tenuifolia, 

 but it proves to be a mere annual, and in other respects agrees with 

 the specific characters of D. muralis, as given by Smith and Babing- 

 ton. In what may be considered its natural size, D. muralis occurs 

 about the docks at Ipswich, accompanied by Mercurialis ambigua, 



Viola catiina, Sm. The white-flowered variety of this plant, which 

 Sir J. E. Smith says is not frequent, grows on a bank at Riven Hall. 



DianiJnis Armeria, L., stated in the 'British Flora' to be not 

 uncommon in England, will require to be sharply looked after, for it 

 is variable in its places of growth, as is correctly stated in the 'Cybele 

 Britannica.' In this neighbourhood are several localities in which the 

 plant may in some seasons be found, as among wheat by the side of a 

 field at Kelvedon, and the outskirts of Lady Wood, at Tey. On a 

 hedge-bank by the road-side at Messing, D. Armeria grew for some 

 years, but it has now disappeared, 



Hypericum Androscemtim, L. Not very unfrequent under hedges 

 to the south of Kelvedon, where the subsoil is strong. Hypericum 

 Androsajmum is mentioned as an Essex plant by Gerarde, who says 

 it grows at Rayleigh, but it is not noticed as a plant of this county by 

 the authors of the ' British Flora,' though Norfolk, Herts, Kent, Sur- 

 rey, Bucks, Devon, Hampshire, and Cornwall are recorded as pro- 

 ducing it. H. Androsaemum apj^ears to be very widely distributed in 

 Great Britain, but to record half the counties in which it is known to 

 be found, and to omit the remainder, seems more likely to mislead 

 than to instruct the student. 



Geranium pyrenaicum, L. On banks by road-sides about Kelve- 

 don, but not in meadows and pastures, as mentioned in the ' British 

 Flora.' " Road-sides and pastures," which are Mr. Babington's habi- 

 tats, give a more correct idea of the place of growth of this plant, at 

 least so far as my limited knowledge allows me to form an opinion. 



Triyonella ortnthopodioides, D.C. It may be interesting to record 

 that this plant is still to be found in the habitat mentioned by Ray in 

 the ' Synopsis,' edit, tertia, p. 331 : — " Mr. Newton, in our company, 

 found it on the sandy banks by the sea-side at Tollesbury, in Essex, 

 plentifully." 



