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Trifolium patens near Ashhy-de-la-Zouch. 



" I send you a specimen of Trifolium patens, Schrehei-, which my 

 friend Coleman lately discovered, growing on the embankment of 

 the Burton and Leicester Railway, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It has 

 probably been introduced with seeds from abroad, about four years 

 ago, when the embankment was made. A quantity of Crepis setosa 

 was growing near it, and also on other parts of the embankment, some 

 distance from the spot ; but there was only one rather large patch of 

 T. patens. It is, I believe, a denizen of Germany, and other parts of 

 Europe." — Andrew Bloxam ; Twycross, Atherstone, August 25, 1853. 



Adiantum Capillus- Veneris near Bath. 



" I found three plants of this fern, growing in the air-shaft of a 

 stone-quarry, some thirty feet below the ground, at Combdown, near 

 Bath. Master Millett has also found another Cornish locality, about 

 two miles from the well-known one at St. Ives. My plants of this 

 fern, grown in pots, surprise most botanists, from their attaining a 

 very large size, some fronds being a foot long. They are grown in a 

 very rich soil, having plenty of leaf-mould, and the pots kept in a 

 cool greenhouse. A plant has kept alive for three years, in our 

 fernery, without protection." — E. J. Lotve ; Ohservatory, Beeston, 

 near Nottingham. 



Fungus in the Heart of an Oak-tree. 



" The very day that I had been reading Prof. Quekett's account of 

 a fungus in the heart of a living oak (Phytol. iv. 945), I happened to 

 be superintending some bark-peelers ; when my attention was directed 

 to an oak, which was partially decayed at the centre, towards the root, 

 and the decayed wood mottled all over with patches of a white fun- 

 gus. The tree was quite sound all round the circumference, and 

 exhibited no marks of decay externally ; and I had no suspicion of 

 its being faulty, when I marked it for falling. Here there is another 

 instance of a fungus in the heart of a living oak, which, Prof. Que- 

 kett thinks, has never before been recorded. 1 enclose a specimen." 

 — W. T. Bree ; Allesley Rectory, Coventry. 



Udora Canadensis at Stafford. 



" This interesting but unwelcome stranger has found its way here, 

 within the last two years. The men who have charge of the river first 

 observed it last year ; and now it forms huge banks of vegetation in 



