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to judge^ viz. the resident botanists of Lancashire and West 

 Yorkshire^ have no doubt about the genuineness of this plant as 

 a native production. 



This fact teaches us^ or should teach us^ that it is dangerous 

 to generalize. Tor example^ the writer has never seen the Myrrh 

 truly wild in Scotland, though it may be so for all that. It has 

 been reported as once existing wild in Essex ; but this is rather 

 a wide leap for a plant to take. It is wild in the north-west of 

 England. This example is given as a warning that though 

 Myrrhis odorata be a very suspicious native in Scotland, and a 

 suspected alien in some parts of England, it is truly wild in the 

 Craven district of Yorkshire, Westmoreland, Lancashire, etc. ; 

 and it is not impossible nor incredible that it may have been 

 wild in Essex. 



W^e hope our excellent correspondent will either himself settle 

 the nomenclature of the Lytham (Enanthe, or help us to iden- 

 tify the plant which grows on these sands. 



The rare Meum athamanticum, the Highlanders' tobacco, has 

 been discovered by Mr. Ashfield in a pasture-field at Piethorn, 

 in Butter worth, very abundant. Mr. Grindon has also the 

 honour of having published another station, viz. Whiteley Dean, 

 a moor near Milnrow. (See Mr. L. Grindon's ' Flora of Man- 

 chester.') 



A hitherto unrecorded locality for the Lily-of-the-Valley is 

 recorded in this third part of the Preston Flora. The above 

 hitherto unknown (?) locality is in a ravine near the Heald, 

 Barnacre, or in a plantation in Calder Vale, near Milnrow. 



A still rarer species of Convallaria, viz. C. multiflora, has been 

 seen by our author " in a hedge near Milnrow, with every ap- 

 pearance of being wild." A plant of the same species was dis- 

 covered many years ago in a hedge at Albury, near Guildford, 

 Surrey, and this plant had some appearance of being wild; but 

 appearances sometimes mislead observers. This species has been 

 long cultivated, both for ornamental and useful purposes, and its 

 claims to wildness are modified by circumstances. Where this 

 plant abounds, as it does in Hampshire, it grows in woods, and 

 its wildness is there unquestionable. But a straggler now and 

 then appearing far from its proper site is liable to be deemed a 

 suspected introduction. 



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