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widely dispersed over the chalk country as the Anemone Pulsa- 

 tilla and Astragalus hypoglottis. The Muscari of the gardens 

 in and about Cambridge is, so far as I have been able to observe, 

 a different species.' " 



He also exhibited specimens of Asperula arvensis and Ama- 

 ranthus Blitum, two introduced species^ collected by Mr. Heb- 

 blethwaite in the neighbourhood of Camphill, North Yorkshire; 

 and of Veronica peregrina, cultivated at Camphill from seeds 

 stated to have been procured from wild Guernsey examples of 

 that species. This latter is a plant of France, and respecting 

 its occurence in the Channel Islands it may therefore be worth 

 while to seek further information. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 

 Plants of Moncrieffe Hill. 



Taking a walk the other day on Moncrieffe HlU, I obsei'ved the follow- 

 ing rare plants, viz. Borouicmn pluntag'meum, D. Fardalianches, and An- 

 chusa semper virens. Doronicuui j^lantagineum and D. Pardalianches are 

 both found generally growing together, the former by far the more abun- 

 dant of the two. They occupy secluded situations under the shade of the 

 trees, prefening a dry and somewhat sandy soil. These plants are widely 

 and plentifully distributed all over the hill, and are undoubtedly truly wild. 



Anclmsa sempervirens is very abundant all along the foot of the hill, 

 growing in situations shaded or exposed indiscriminately. 



John W. Crowe, Gardener. 



Moncrieffe Gardens, June, 1859. 



New Brighton Violet. By F. M. Wehh. 



This Violet seems to be rather plentiful on the sand-hills, growing gene- 

 rally on those parts which are more or less carpeted with Galium verum, 

 Anthyllis Vulneraria, Thymus Serpyllum, etc. : the roots penetrate a great 

 depth into the sand. In several plants out of the few I have as yet col- 

 lected, a small hole is eaten, by some insect, into the spur, the hole (or 

 sometimes two) being at the tip or end of the spm*. 



Description,. Roots (underground stems) very long, branching and jointed, 

 throwing out fibrous radicles from the joints. Stems branched and leafy, 

 springing fi-om the rhizome. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, crenated or toothed, 

 rigid, thick, quite smooth, on long stalks ; stipules lanceolate, ciliate, with 

 long teeth. Elowers axillary, lateral, alternate, on long peduncles, with a 

 pair of small linear-lanceolate bracts near the top of the flower-stalk. Se- 

 pals entire, lanceolate, tapering, rounded at the base. Spur thick, bhmt, 

 . yeUow, considerably longer than the sepals (twice as long as the part of a 



