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less branched plant than the Barkhausia. It can at once be told 

 by the ripe seeds. The ' Flore de la Normandie ' says it is dis- 

 tinguished at sight from the Barkhausia by its pedicels bristling 

 with blackish hairs^ and by its stem being scabrous on the angles 

 in the upper part. Both plants grow at Barming, near Maid- 

 stone, the Barkhausia very common, and the Crepis near the 

 little gate in a small shaw, a little below Burming bridge, where 

 I have seen it more than five feet high. The picture of Crepis 

 biennis in English Botany, though not good, is much more like 

 it than the Barkhausia ; the achene is too much narrowed up- 

 wards, and more like the achene of the Barkhausia) ; Hieracium 

 murorum (maculatum) ; Hypochoeris glabra ; Tragopogon orien- 

 talis (distinguished by the florets being much longer than the 

 scales of the involucre, by the external achenes being covered 

 with small scales, and by their being longer than the stalk to the 

 pappus, I am not sure that these characters can be relied on. 

 T. minor was common in Burming and by the river : it varied so 

 that sometimes I could not distinguish it from pratensis. I 

 have also seen porrifolius in a garden, with the florets longer than 

 the scales of the involucre) ; Thrincia hirta ; Arnoseris minima ; 

 Phyteuma spicatum, common in woods; P. orbiculare; Cam- 

 panula Bapunculus, very common; Vincetoxicum oflScinale; 

 Chlora perfoliata; Pulmonaria angustifolia ; Atropa Belladonna; 

 Verbascum thapsiforme; V. phlomoides (I am not quite sure 

 that I can always distinguish the plants of the last two species ; 

 perhaps I do not know the latter, which is, however, said to be 

 the commoner near here. I have not yet seen the Thapsus, also 

 said to be common. Thapsiforme is a very handsome plant, and 

 notwithstanding Bentham's opinion, I think it differsfrom Thapsus. 

 I sowed its seeds in three gardens in England, in very different 

 soils ; in all of them it came up afterwards self-sown, and never 

 could be confounded with Thapsus. Hudson must have made a 

 mistake about its being common in Kent. The Thapsus is there 

 abundant) ; Verbascum pulverulentum ; V. Lychnitis ; V. ni- 

 grum; V. Blattaria (there are also some other showy sorts I 

 could not make out ; I believe they are considered hybrids, and 

 are very handsome plants. I saw no ripened seeds) ; Digitalis 

 lutea, common : Linaria Cymbalaria; S. spuria; S. supina; S. 

 stricta; S. minor; Veronica Teucrium, a very handsome plant; 

 Oi'obanche E-apum; O. cruenta, and var. citrina; O. minor (I 



