BOTANY 



a ballast plant. Smyrnium Olusatrum, L. (Alexanders) is frequent and 

 native near tidal waters. Bupleurum rotundifolium, L. (hare's-ear) has its 

 chief range on the chalk in district 2 ; B. tenuissimum, L. being a fairly 

 common littoral species. Falcaria vulgaris, Bernh., a denizen or alien, 

 grows in chalky fields at Birchington and Wingham. Sium latifolium, 

 L. has disappeared from many of its old localities, but remains fairly 

 common in and near Romney Marsh. Pimpinella major, Huds. [magna, 

 L.) is unusually plentiful in Kent (both type and var. dissecta, N. E. Br.). 

 Crithmum maritimum, L. (samphire), frequent from Deal to Folkestone, is 

 also recorded from Halstow and Romney. (Enanthe silaifolia, Bieb. (easily 

 overlooked), grows at Chiddingstone, Sarre, between Sheerness and 

 Queenborough, and between Seabrooke and Appledore ; (E. Lachenalii, 

 C. Gmel. (in salt marshes) and CE. Phellandrium, Lam. (especially in the 

 Weald) occur freely ; but CE. fluviatilis, Coleman is restricted to streams 

 in east Kent. Peucedanum officinale, L., lost from the Thames marshes 

 since Ray's time, can still be obtained about Faversham, Whitstable and 

 Heme Bay. The localities for Daucus gummifer. Lam. are in Thanet, 

 and at Dover and Folkestone. Caucalis daucoides, L. occurs sparingly in 

 district 2, and was formerly found between Rochester and Maidstone ; 

 C. arvensis, Huds., though not very common, grows in all the districts. 



Caprifoliace^. — Sambucus Ebulus, L. (dwarf elder) is reported in 

 over twenty locaHties ; and S. nigra, L. (var. laciniata, L.) in eleven. 

 Lonicera Caprifolium, L. (probably bird sown) grows at Bromley, Short- 

 lands, Knockholt and Upper Hailing. 



RuBiACE^. — Rubia peregrina, L. (wild madder) appears to be con- 

 fined to the south coast, about Dover, Folkestone and Hythe. Galium 

 erectum, Huds. has been observed sparingly in seven districts ; while G. 

 uliginosum, L. is rare, except in district i. G. anglicum, Huds. is (or 

 was) found at Eltham, Bromley, Dartford, Crayford, Cobham, Farming- 

 ham and Lydden Spout (near Dover) ; G. tricorne, Stokes being rather 

 common in chalky soil. 



Valeriane^. — Valeriatia dioica, L., rare in the dry chalk districts, 

 is not unfrequent elsewhere. V. Mikanii, Syme, hitherto known for cer- 

 tain only about Hailing and Wye, should prove to be more frequent in 

 copses on the chalk. Centranthus ruber, DC. (spur valerian) is abun- 

 dantly naturalized ; but C. Calcitrapa, Dufr. may be extinct at Eltham. 

 Valerianella carinata, Loisel. seems to be native, at least in some of its 

 stations, which are as follows : between West Wickham and Keston, 

 Upper Deal, between Wrotham and Ryarsh, Sutton Valence, and Bough- 

 ton Quarries, Linton. V. rimosa. Bast. {Auricula, DC.) has only occurred 

 in cornfields about West Wickham, Keston and Hayes, near Cobham, 

 and between Oare and Sheppey. 



Composite. — Filago spathulata, Presl and F. minima, Fr. are both 

 rather uncommon. F. gallica, L., formerly found about Dartford, was 

 probably introduced with the crop. Gnaphalium syhaticum, L. is gene- 

 rally but locally distributed. Inula Helenium, L. (elecampane), a very 

 doubtful native, occurs quite rarely ; /. crithmoides, L. (golden samphire) 

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