288 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [September. 



Odoriferous Plants. 



(See ' Phytologist,' vol. vi. p. 189.) Some of the foreign Violce are sweet, 

 but without the peculiar fragrance of our violet. Several sp. of the Mint 

 family seem to have different odours in different localities. The common 

 Primrose, so deliciously fragrant in England, is scentless in Italy and Ger- 

 many. Oxalis ceniua, fragrant in Italian gardens, is without perfume here. 



Cyclamen heder^folium, Clusii. 



(See ' Phytologist,' vol. vi. p. 189.) This, the true G. hedercefolimn, is 

 a Southern, spring species, with deep-pink, long-segmented, fragrant 

 flowers, scarcely to be found native north of the mountains of Spoleto in 

 the Apennines (where many other Southern plants cease to appear), and 

 tender in England. The supposed English species (autumnal) is not the 

 europceum of the Alps. A summer species, rather slow of cultivation. 



Einding that you are.preparing a New London Flora, and are desirous 

 of procuring local information from the districts around London, I have 

 put down a few plants which I have met with at various times. I may 

 mention that Anemone apennina was flourishing in its old position in 

 Wimbledon Park, in April last. — 1. Linaria repens : Streatley, Berks. 2. L. 

 purpurea : old wall, at Petersham, Surrey. 3. L. Cymhalaria : plentiful 

 on old walls at Kichmond. 4. Scutellaria galericulata : Richmond, Surrey 

 side of river. 5. Cynoglossnm officinale : Richmond Park. 6. Chlora per- 

 foliata : railway-cutting near Wey bridge. 7. Antirrhinum Orontiuni: fields 

 near Croydon. 8. Epilobium angustifuUum : Ilolmwood, Dorking, in a thick 

 shady part of the wood; also railway-cutting near Weybridge, observed for 

 the first time last Monday, July 28th. 9. Thalictrmn flamim : river-side near 

 Petersham. 10. AquiUgia vulgaris : top of Bluebell Hill, near Aylesford, 

 Kent. 11. Phytetima orbiculare : Denbies Park, Dorking. 12. Melilotus 

 officinalis : railway-cutting close to the Anerley station on Croydon railway. 

 13. M. vulgaris : top of Park Hill, Croydon. 



I am very desirous to find the localities where the Anemone ranunculoides 

 and Teucrium Botrys grow. The former is said to grow near King's Lang- 

 ley, Herts, and Wrotham, Kent ; the latter, on or near Box Hill, Surrey. 

 If you could give me any information respecting these two plants, I should 

 be much obliged. Sir W. Hooker was not aware of any one finding the 

 Anemone in the localities named. J. W. C. 



Communications have been received from 



John Sim ; Sidney Beisly; H. Beisly ; W. Pamplin ; Hampden Gr. 

 Glasspoole ; J. W. Chapman ; John Peers ; C. J. Ashfield ; H. C. ; E. 

 Walker; H. Trimen; Walter Gait; B. M. Watkins ; M.A.Walker; 

 Dr. Windsor ; M. F. Crepin ; T. R. A. Briggs. 



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The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist. 



Notes sur quelques Plantes rares ou critiques de la Belgique, par 

 Monsieur Frangois Crepin. 



