273 EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. [^September, 



for February, 1862). Mr. W. writes, "It is hardly likely that 

 Trifolium repens, Dutch Clover, was introduced into Ireland so 

 early as St. Patrick's time.^' 



Another writer states that none of the Trefoils are indigenous 

 in Ireland nor in Scotland either ; and though botanists in their 

 descriptive catalogues or floras give but uncertain information 

 on this head, I, judging from observation, am disposed to ques- 

 tion the nativity of both red and white Clover in the north- 

 eastern parts of Scotland. 



I remember having seen T. medium growing wild in Aber- 

 deenshire, as well as in other parts of Scotland ; and I have often 

 seen T. repens naturalized on commons and bushy open places, 

 whither it was conveyed in the stomachs of sheep and cattle, and 

 dropped Avhere they lay down to ruminate. 



Both red and white Clover were, and probably are still, agrarial 

 products. The seeds were usually sown with barley after turnips ; 

 and the crop of Clover grown with Ray Grass was mown the first 

 year and grazed the second. 



I am aware that there is considerable difference between the 

 climate of the south and west, and that of the east and north, of 

 Scotland. In the Rev. G. Gordon^s ' Flora of Moray,' T. pratense 

 is marked doubtfully wild. I never saw this species wild in the 

 Garioch district of Aberdeenshire, though I have often seen 

 T. repens wild here and there, as above stated. Both of these 

 plants were treated by the farmers as agrarials, viz. like Rib 

 Grass, Ray Grass, and other grass and fodder plants. I have 

 never seen the white Clover cultivated in the south of England, 

 where it is unquestionably wild. — Alpha. 



Rare Plants about Henley, O.von. 



"... In the woods chiefly north of Lord Cadogan's house, etc., 

 were the most plenty of rare, beautiful, and, as the botanists say, 

 polite plants, of any part of the kingdom. Not one mentioned in 

 that district." — Letters of Mr. Daniel Prince, August 13, 1781, 

 from Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes,' vol. iii. p. 695. 



"Mr. D. Prince, an Oxford bookseller, died in his eighty- 

 fifth year." — Nichols's Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 685. 



In one or two places in this part of Kent, Broome Park, eight 

 miles from Canterbury, on the Dover road, " Adder's Tongue," 

 Ophioglossum, is found, but not very common. " Paris quadri- 



