1862.] BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES^ AND QUERIES. 349 



"15. Antirrhinum Orontlum. Waste ground near Chelsea College. 

 July, 1861. 



" 16. Veronica Bnxhanmll. Wimbledon and other Commons, waste 

 ground. July, 1862. 



"17. Sllene noctiflora. Waste ground in Chelsea College. 1861. 



"18 Achillea Ptarmlca. Wimbledon Common. July, 1862. 



" I will not trespass further on your valuable space this month except 

 to ask one or two questions : — • 



" Is the Brosera rotundlfoUa still found on Wimbledon Common and 

 Hampstead Heath ? 



" Can any one inform me of any habitat of the Villarsla nymphceoldes 

 in the neighbourhood of London? 



" I would just mention that I have found Epllohlnm angnstlfolium this 

 year in considerable abundance near Scarborough, Yorkshire, and about 

 Caistor, in the North Wolds of Lincolnshire ; 1 have also seen it in woods 

 in the neighbourhood of High Wycombe, Bucks. ; so that it need not be 

 cousidered a rare plant. About High Wycombe I have found the following 

 rare plants in profusion : — Linarla minor, L. Elatine, and L. spuria ; Epi- 

 pactls latifolia ; Iberls amara ; AuagalUs ccerulea ; and Gentiana Amurella. 

 The Daphne Laureola grows abundantly in the woods about Little IMarlow, 

 but I have never seen D. Mezuretim there. "J. Britten," 



" When you were here you said something about publishing a list of the 

 metropolitan species. Should you ever do so, some of our Southgate loca- 

 lities may be worth insertion, as of Crocus vernns, Convullarla majalis, 

 Vacclnlum Myrtillus, Aduxa MoschateUina, etc., of which I can give you 

 more particular descriptions should you wish. " F. W. 



^^ Amos Grove, Southffaie." 



5. Euphorbia Esula. — Several weeks ago, our friend and correspon- 

 dent " W. P." informed us that he had seen the above-naniQd Spurge, 

 E. Esiila, on the north bank of the North London Eailway, at the station 

 near Kilburn, about two miles beyond Hyde Park Corner, on the Edg- 

 ware Eoad. The plant is there still, and likely to remain, for, like E. Cy- 

 parlsslas, when it gets a good hold of the ground it is not very easily ex- 

 tirpated. 



It is recorded here, not because it has any claim to be regarded as a 

 British plant, — though, like many other unsuspected aliens, it has got a 

 footing in the floras of our native land, — but with the object of asking the 

 many botanists who read the ' Phytologist,' if they or any of them know 

 any genuine locality for this interesting stranger. Note. Monastic ruins, 

 abbey walls, and railway banks are not generally accepted as reliable ha- 

 bitats, but all such will be recorded ; the plant may be and is doubtless 

 of spontaneous growth, though its nativity be justly questioned. 



Both Gerard and Parkinson describe and figure this species: — "12. 

 Esula major (jermanlca. Great Marsh Spurge, Park. 188, fig., p. 189. The 

 twelfth groweth in many places of Germany, and as Lobelsjjith in his Ob- 

 servations, in a wood nigh unto Bath, very plentifully." -f .^ ''^\, 



Smith's description of E. Esula is very fair, only he describes' the root 

 as l)eiug " woody." Tlie fruit is slightly rough, and with four lobes. 



In Dr. Johnson's ' Flora of Berwick,' vol. ii. p. 289, E. Esula is briefly 



