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famed Box Hill, but much more extensive. For example, the 
rich Vale of Aylesbury, with its town, villages, rich meadows, 
and cornfields ; also the towns of Leighton, Tring, Ivinghoe, etc., 
with the beautifully crowned heights of the once ducal domain 
of Bridgewater ; the canals, reservoirs, and last, not least, the rail- 
ways, formed a picture not easily forgotten. 
Note by the Editors of the Phytologist. 
We beg leave to ask our readers a question or two on the 
subject-matter of our obliging correspondent’s communication. 
Ist. Are there any readers of the ‘ Phytologist’ in or near Tring, 
or Wendover, or Aylesbury, or Ivinghoe, or Leighton Buzzard ? 
or rather, are there any botanists in these ancient towns or in 
the lovely villages which our contributor saw from the top of the 
Chiltern Hills? and if this be answered in the affirmative, as we 
trust it may be, we believe that they are readers of the ‘ Phyto- 
logist,’ and will, for the credit of their country, vindicate its bota- 
nical renown. We ask again, if our correspondent is to blame 
for not seeing chalk-plants, or is the lateness of the season to 
blame? Does the Bee Orchis display its loveliness before mid- 
summer in ordinary seasons in Buckinghamshire? Does not 
Habenaria chlorantha grow in the woods which he visited? Is 
Paris quadrifolia a scarce plant there? Do not the cornfields 
yield Bupleurum rotundifolum, Ajuga chamepitys, Linaria minor, 
etc., as well as crops of wheat and rye? Do not the downs 
produce Gentiana Amarella, Spiranthes autumnalis, Campanula 
glomerata, and similar chalk-plants? We want information on 
these and similar subjects; and as only resident botanists can 
supply us with this, we apply to them, and we will thank them 
cordially for whatever intelligence they can conveniently supply : 
we will make use of it for the general benefit of our readers, and 
for the promotion of science in general. 

A Catalogue of certain Plants growing wild, chiefly in the envi- 
rons of Settle, in Yorkshire, observed by W. Curtis, in a Six 
Weeks’ Botanical Excursion from London, made at the request 
of J. C. Lettsom, M.D., F.R.S., in the months of July and 
August, 1782. 
(Continued from page 87.) 
AS. Allium arenarium 2 Sand Garlic. 
