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Festuca pratensis. Ascends to 400 yards (44 deg.), in meadows 

 near Langdou Bridge. 



Brack t/podium piunatum. The High-Force Wood, in which this 

 species is reported as growing (Phytol. i. 114), is not, from its geolo- 

 gical character and elevated position, a very likely locality to pro- 

 duce it. Possibly the next species, which is conspicuous there, may 

 have been mistaken for it. 



Triticum caninum. Ascends to 350 yards (45 deg.), in High-Force 

 Wood, Durham. 



Lastrea glandulosa, Newm. In company with the ordinary form 

 of dilatata (multiflora, Newm.), amongst the debris below Holwick 

 Scars, Yorkshire. 



Equisetum variegatum. Ascends, with E. palustre, var. alpinum. 

 Hook., to 500 yards (43 deg.), on Widdy Bank, Durham. 



John G. Baker. 



Thirsk, North Yorkshire, 

 August 6, 1853. 



Notes of a Botanical Excursion down the Wye. 

 By T. W. GissiNG, Esq. 



Probably the following notice of a few plants found during an 

 excursion, in the early part of June last, down the Wye, may not be 

 uninteresting. 



I will first observe, that at Stroud, Gloucestershire, Juniperus com- 

 munis and Atropa Belladonna were growing very abundantly ; and 

 that, in passing through Gloucester ; I saw several plants of Diplo- 

 taxis tenuifolia, on an old wall near the cathedral ; I afterwards 

 found this plant again, very sparingly, on an old wall about a mile 

 from Clifton. Cynoglossum officinale is very common by the road- 

 side all the way from Gloucester to Ross ; in fact, it was very com- 

 mon in all the parts of Herefordshire that I visited. At a village 

 called Pencraig, a* short distance from Ross, one starved specimen of 

 Hyoscyamus niger was growing ; and near Goodrich Court, that over- ^ 

 looks the truly serpentine Wye, several tufts of the beautiful Saxifraga / 

 hypnoides peered from amidst the grass, in full flower. The river-' 

 banks yielded Armoracia rusticana. Thlaspi arvense flourishes in 

 great profusion in fields about the old ivy-covered ruins of Goodrich 

 Castle. On the Caldwell rocks, part of that wooded ridge crowned 

 by the far-famed Symond's Yat, I observed a i^w poor fronds of 

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