1863.] REVIEW. 441 



The botanists of Scotland, where the plant is said to grow, are 

 supplied with Northumbrian examples to represent this species 

 in their herbaria. 



These remarks are not published with the slightest intention 

 of decrying the only work we possess on this interesting and 

 important subject, but solely with the view of saving our readers 

 from the influence of a strange delusion, viz. that of believing a 

 plant to be a native which does not appear in any local British 

 Flora, and in the great work of Sir J. E. Smith rests on no 

 authority whatever. 



The species Inula Helenium, Vinca tninor, and Sambucus Ebulns 

 may be safely considered as British plants, if we are to trust the 

 most competent authorities, viz. local botanists, while, on the 

 contrary. Euphorbia Esula has no local authority. It would not 

 have been unseen by the late Dr. Johnston, if it had been even 

 a well-established alien about Coldstream. Qui vis. 



The Banffshire Journal for Tuesday, September 2nd, 1862. 



The above-named copy of a Scottish newspaper has been trans- 

 mitted by our obliging friend and correspondent, Mr. John Sim, 

 of Perth, and the following notices of rare plants and their loca- 

 lities are extracted for the information of our readers in general, 

 and especially for such of them as are acquainted with the 

 ' Northern Flora,' an unfiuished work on the botany of Scotland, 

 north of the Tay. 



The lively author of this entertaining and instructive history 

 of a botanical excursion from Banff to Dufftown, etc., tells his 

 readers that he and his companions started by rail, on a Monday 

 morning, after seeing Sagina maritima, and one or two species 

 of Atriplex, on the seashore. 



Several interesting plants grow on the Knock, a round conical 

 hill, which is visible from several parts of Aberdeenshire. On 

 this land and seamark there grow the following rare plants, viz. 

 Lister a cor data, Drosera rotundifolia, and D. anglica. Other 

 Knock plants which every collector delights to see, are Rubus 

 Chamcemorus, Genista anglica, Hypericum humifusum, Orchis 

 maculata, etc. 



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