184 BOTANICAL SKETQHES. ' [June, 



also on Kinnoul Hill a few plants in flower of Myosotis collina. 

 The cliffs of this hill are at present literally yellow with the fra- 

 grant blossoms of the Cheiranthus Cheiri ; the atmosphere is quite 

 perfumed with its delicious odour. I wonder what those bota- 

 nists who doubt its being a native would think if they saw those 

 huge cliff's at present ; to the extent of a mile it adorns these in- 

 accessible bulwarks of Nature in great abundance. I may also 

 state the same in regard to another cruciferous plant, the Hespe- 

 ris matronalis ; it is really most abundant throughout the entire 

 southern slope of the hill, not like the Cheiranthus confined solely 

 to the rocky ramparts of this hill, it is abundantly dispersed 

 throughout the wood. The wild Teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris, is also 

 in greater quantity in this wood than I at first considered it to be. 

 I see on further search that it is in great quantity in another locality 

 in the wood, on the southern slope of the hill. I was looking at the 

 old stems of last year, some of them six feet in length. The Lac- 

 tuca virosa is widely and pretty liberally distributed also in this 

 wood, and in one locality the Conium maculatum, but not in great 

 quantity. Truly Kinnoul Hill contains many rare plants, and if 

 I had more physical strength, I might yet detect some rarities. 



Peculiar growth of the Flowers in a grafted Laburnum. 



The gardener at Dunster Castle showed me in June last a 

 yellow Laburnum-tree which he had grafted with the pink 

 variety ; some of the flower-clusters of which, instead of hanging 

 in long leafless bunches, were arranged in sessile groiaps of threes 

 and fours, intermixed with tripartite leaflets, something in the 

 manner of a Cytisus. These sessile flowers were pink in'colour, 

 while the yellow bunches on the same bough were in clusters of 

 the usual form and size. I could not discover that the tree was 

 unhealthy, nor could the gardener at all account for the peculiar 

 disposition of its flowers, and mixture of different-coloured^clus- 

 ters on the same branches. The stock M'as grafted in the usual 

 manner, and he expected that the blooms would have been of 

 the pink variety alone. J. Gifford. 



