364 Dr.G. A. Walker-Arnott on Hypericum Anglicum. 
Dr. Balfour’s localities are three in number :—banks of the 
Crinan Canal, Argyleshire, Sept. 6, 1827; Culross, Perthshire, 
July 1833; and Galway in Ireland, Aug. 6, 1838. His speci- 
mens are very imperfect, but are doubtless specifically the same 
as mine; their pedicels and peduncles do not appear to me to 
be winged. The first of these stations I examined with great 
care during the month of August of this present year, but found 
nothing at all resembling the plant of which I was in quest ; but 
as there are some small gardens there (which, however, I did not 
search), I am now convinced that it had been cultivated. The 
second locality is known to abound in ornamental foreign shrubs 
planted throughout the Valleyfield grounds by the gardener. 
Of the nature of the third locality I am not qualified to speak. 
My friend Dr. Dickie of Belfast (now Professor of Botany in 
the University of Aberdeen) having informed me that he had met 
with what he supposed to be H. Anglicum in the woods at Donard 
Lodge, at the base of Slieve Donard, near Newcastle, co. Down, I 
proceeded immediately to Belfast, and accompanied him to the 
place on the 26th of Sept. Several large bushes of it, some with 
a woody stem an inch or two in diameter at the base, occurred at 
a low elevation ; but there were many smaller ones about 500 feet 
higher up. It had obviously been planted, but whether brought 
down from the mountain or from a distance remained doubtful 
until we met the old forester, who assured us that there had been 
neither a tree nor a shrub there except the Ulex nanus, var. Gallit 
(which was everywhere), until he himself planted them, and that 
he had brought all from a small nursery he had at Castlewellan, 
a few miles distant. We still clung to the idea that it might 
have been introduced by him to his nursery from the Slieve; 
but he as positively asserted that he had procured it, with many 
others of the ornamental shrubs we saw, about fifty or sixty 
years ago, from Dickson’s gardens at Edinburgh. The Donard 
plant quite agrees with my specimen marked H. elatum, also with 
Dr. Balfour’s specimens named H. Anglicum by Mr. Babington ; 
and it also accords with the figure of Androsemum grandifolium 
of Reichenbach (Fl. Germ. vi. p. 70, t. 352. f. 5193). Reichen- 
bach mentions that his specimens had been collected in a thicket 
or shrubbery at Sion in Switzerland, where it must have been 
cultivated, and also in “ Arran, Buteshire.” This last, in all 
probability, had been taken by some tourist from the grounds 
about Brodick Castle—a place well adapted to it on account of 
the mildness of the climate, but where it must have been 
planted. 
I have some doubts about its being the H. grandifolium of 
Choisy or Androsemum Webbianum of Spach; but I have not 
authentic specimens from the Canary Islands to decide that 
