510 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [April, 



the above ruins ? This was a week ago, and some of the corollas had 

 fallen. As I have just returned from the Moss, I enclose a bit of Andromeda 

 poUfolia, to show you its state. Ranunculus Ficaria is also in flower." 



Our Preston correspondent wrote the following on the 21st February: — 

 " As a proof of the earliness of the season here, I enclose two specimens 

 of Gagea lutea, gathered by myself, in our only Preston habitat(this after- 

 noon, Feb. 21st). I have observed the plant for eight seasons in succes- 

 sion in the habitat referred to, and it is earlier in blossoming this year, by at 

 least a month, than I have ever yet known it. I have observed the common 

 Primrose in blossom for several weeks, and a fortnight ago I observed the 

 Snowdrop, apparently wild, in great abundance and in full blossom, in a 

 wood about four miles from Preston. To-day I have gathered, for the first 

 time this year, Ranunculus Ficaria." 



About London the Mezereon has been in blossom for at least a week 

 (Feb. 28th), the Pi/riis japonica for probably as long, and the tips of the 

 buds of the Almond-tree are assuming their pink colour. 



Mr. Britten has very kindly sent a communication about the locality of 

 Anemone apennina. Would he be so good, either in person or with the 

 help of his Wimbledon friends, as to give us a guide to its locale in 

 Wimbledon Woods? 



A good and accessible station for Anemone ranunculoides is wanted. 



To the author of the "Letters from Argyleshire," our most grateful 

 thanks are due, and are hereby tendered. It is hoped that the printer will 

 find room for some more of his communications in our next month's issue. 



Our obliging correspondent at Campbeltown, Argyleshire, has sent a 

 newspaper, the ' Argyleshire Herald,' in which the locality of a rare Fern 

 is announced, viz. Asplenium Ruia-maria, growing at Kildalloig, in that 

 district {Kintyi'e). Will Mr. L. be so kind as to tell us on what medium 

 this rare Fern grows, — on a wall, roof, or on a rock ? We should be 

 obliged to him for any information about the localities of the much rarer 

 Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, the true Maiden-hair Fern, on the western 

 coasts of Scotland. 



Our estimable correspondent who lives at Kouen has sent us seed of a 

 Verbasciim, which, with the foliage of V. Lychnitis, has flowers of a deep- 

 yellow colour, and larger than those of V. thapsiforme. 



To " E. M. A.," the same correspondent. We have received answers to 

 the following queries, viz., — "Are there any localities for Villarsia nym- 

 pkaoldes near London ?" It grew not long ago above Hammersmith 

 Bridge, on the left-hand side of the towing-path ; it probably grows there 

 still. Also between Shepperton and Walton Bridge, in several places. 

 In the latter places it is still to be found. 



" At page 337 of the November number of the ' Phytologist' for 1862, 

 you ask — ' Where is the natural Kentish locality of Buxus senipevirens T 

 Abundance of Box grows at Box Bush, in the parish of Barming, near 



