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Sydenham Plants. 

 From Harriet Beisly. 

 It may be interesting to some of your readers to know that 

 within a short distance of the Crystal Palace there may be 

 gathered, in their season, the following plants : — Sedum sexangu- 

 lare, on a wall, Lower Sydenham, with the spotted variety of 

 Hieracium vulgare and Linaria Cymbalaria ; Verbascum Lych- 

 nitis, Lawrie Park ; Euphorbia Cyparissias, Lawrie Park ; 

 Atropa Belladonna, Lawrie Park; Chenopodium polyspermum, 

 Lawrie Park ; Linaria minor, Lawrie Park ; Achillea Ptarmica, 

 Lawrie Park. Trifolium resupinatum, Lawrie Park ; Nymphcsa 

 alba, pond, Lawrie Park;"^ Nuphar luteum, Lawrie Park. 



I had a specimen of Trifolium resupinatum left at my house 

 some years ago. It was brought by a gentleman who gathered 

 it near the Crystal Palace, and was uncertain about its identity. 

 As he was chary about communicating the locality, this notice 

 was never published. It is so plentiful that all the botanists of 

 London, — I may say, of England, — can now be supplied with 

 specimens, and there will still be a large stock for future increase. 

 I am not certain that Mrs. Beisly's station is the same as that 

 communicated to me privately by my careful correspondent. 



A.I. 



WANDSWORTH PLANTS. 



A Notice of some Exotic Plants which have been collected about 

 Wandsworth, Battersea, Chelsea, and Pimlico, from 1851 to 

 1859 inclusive ; with some remarks on their origin and dis- 

 tribution. By the Editor. 



" Botanical aims are the practical and the practicable, or, in 

 other terms, the useful and the possible. Any person of ordinary 

 information may tell where plants grow, and under what cir- 

 cumstances they were observed, but in many assignable cases it 

 will be impracticable for the best botanist or the most learned man 

 to tell positively how they came there, to point out precisely the 

 vnde or the quo loco. He may suppose or infer ; but science is 



* On the bank above this pond, Hypericum calycinum and Vinea minor are well 

 established. 



