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sex and in the adjoining county. <A part of Garrett Wood is 
in Hertfordshire, and a part m Middlesex. The Wild Cherry 
abounds in Hertfordshire, and it is very probable that the Tooth- 
wort is not confined to the woods about Harefield. It may here- 
after be detected in woods in Buckinghamshire, and it is not un- 
likely to extend further into Hertfordshire. The fear of poachers 
has shut up every wood in this neighbourhood. Every place 
where a pheasant breeds or feeds is carefully tabooed; notices are 
nailed up, and the gentle fraternity, who would no more disturb 
a pheasant than they would wantonly destroy a rare plant, are 
treated as wilful trespassers, and threatened with all the pains 
and penalties in such cases made and provided. The London 
botanist who visits Harefield in search of simples, had need of 
“ silver in his pocket, or have silk on his tongue ;” if he be un- 
provided with one or both of these requisites, he should content 
himself with such botanizing as he can get on Hampstead Heath, 
Barnes Common, Battersea fields, or such open places. 
The subjoined list of plants is extracted from Blackstone’s 
‘ Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harertexp sponte nascentium, with 
a few from the new edition of the ‘ Botanists’ Guide.’ 
Artemisia Absinthium, Moor Hall. Acorus Calamus, ponds 
near Harefield Church. Asplenium Ruta-muraria, Pinner church. 
Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, lane between Harefield and Rick- 
mansworth. Allium ursinum, Gulchwell (we noticed this plant 
near the Harrow station). Aquilegia vulgaris, Harefield woods, 
rare. Chenopodium olidum, Harefield, but not common.  Lis- 
tera ovata, Whiteheath Wood and Scarlet Spring, Harefield. 
Polygonum Bistorta, near Uxbridge. Verbascum Blattaria, near 
Harefield Mill. Cardamine amara, river-side near Harefield. 
Carla vulgaris, old chalkpit, Harefield. Prunus Cerasus, 
woods about Harefield, plentiful: Blackstone’s account is “in 
sylvis sed rarius ;”’ 1t has increased since his time. Vinca major, 
near Harefield church. Vinca minor, Little Grove Wood, near 
Breakspears. Pulicaria vulgaris, watery places. Cuscuta eu- 
ropa, Dodder, or Hell-weed: “ satorum pestis est,” says Black- 
stone. Dentaria bulbifera, Old Park Wood, abundantly: we are 
able to verify this, and further to inform our botanical friends 
that it occurs plentifully in Garret Wood, a mile from the other 
known station. Lathrea Squamaria, shady lane near Hare- 
field. Dipsacus pilosus, about More Hall. Sambucus Ebulus, 
