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Claytonia ALSINOIDES. 



Extract from Correspondence. — I have to tell you of another station for 

 the Claytonia alsinoides, which grows in the woods of Murrayshall, about 

 three miles east from Perth city ; it is also about three miles in a direct 

 line (south-east) from the Station, in the wood of Scone, where the plant 

 abounds. We have now in Scotland, and near Perth, two well-authenticated 

 localities for this succulent plant, and one in England. What can be said 

 against its being a true native of "British soil"? 



Perth. John Sim. 



[Can any reader of the above answer our correspondent's question ?] 

 The Isle of Man. 



Clematis Vitalba and Convohulus sepinm are both wanting in our 

 Manks Flora. The Primrose in spring, the Foxglove in summer, the 

 Heath in autumn, and the Furze or Gorse " with golden baskets hung" all 

 the year round, are pretty well the only flowers sufficiently massed to make 

 much of a show. Here, upon our wild storm-beaten cliffs, Hypericum 

 jjulcl/riim and Hypericum humifunum exist in tolerable abundance, while 

 both Hypericum perfoliatum and Uirantum ai'e entirely wanting. S. 



Eare Plants or Bedfordshire. 



(From GougKs ' Camden.^) 

 A)iemo7ie apeimina, Mountain Wood Anemony : in a wood near Luton 

 Hoe (see Abbot's Fl. Bed. 119). Adragalns arenarius, Purple Mountain 

 Milkwort: on both sides of Barton Hills, four miles from Luton. Bu- 

 pleurum teniiifolium , Least Hare's-ear : in meadows and pastures near 

 Eltelsley, in the road from Cambridge to St. Neots. ConvaUaria majalis, 

 Lily Convally, or May Lily : in woods near Woburn, from whence the 

 London markets are in general sup])lied with this plant.* Diauthus del' 

 toides.. Maiden Pink : on Sandy Hills, not far from the Koman camp. 

 (xentiana Amarella, Autumnal Gentian, or Fellwort : on Barton Hills, 

 not far from Luton, and upon a waste chalky ground as you go out of 

 Dunstable towards Gorhambury HiUs. Hippocrepis comosa, Tufted Ilorse- 

 slioe Vetch : on chalky hills everywhere. Melampyrum cristatum, Crested 

 Cow-wheat: in woods, particularly near Bluuham, in Wixamtree Hundred. 

 Monotropa Hypopithys, Bird's Nest, smelling like Primrose roots : in woods. 

 Timplnella major, Great Burnet Saxifrage : in woods and hedges of a 

 limestone soil. Rihes nigrum., Black Currants, or Squinancy berries : in 

 wet woods and banks of rivers; at Bluuham and elsewhere. Serapias 

 lonyifolia (jrandifiora, White-tlowered Bastard Hellebore : in woods fre- 

 quent. TrjJ!olium ochroleucum-, Yellow-tlowered Trefoil : in chalky mea- 

 dows and pastures; Potton, Evertou, Clapham (Abbott, 162). 



ViCIA OllOBUS. 



This plant, which grows so plentifully in many parts of Merionethshire, 

 especially round about Bala and between Dolgelly and Traws-fynydd, " was 

 observed by Dr. Burgess in great plenty on a bank facing the Tweed, on 



* Aspley Wood, rare, (Abbott, 76). Can any reader inform us if the rarer Br. 

 epecies, ConvaUaria bifolia, grows in either of these woods? — Ed. 



