156 BOTANICAL NOTES 
being a common plant in England; indeed the only specimens 
that I have seen are from Sussex (Framfield) and Suffolk (St. 
Peter’s, Southelmham) ; and it appears to be totally unknown to 
the majority of English botanists. The more common Tvragopo- 
gon is, I thmk, the 7. minor of Fries, as was pointed out several 
years ago by Mr. Leighton.—C. C. Babington, St. John’s College, 
Cambridge, Oct. 16, 1841.” 
This is the only station for Trag. pratensis that we know. It 
is a little beyond the village of Cobham, on the outskirts of the 
park, half a mile before the pedestrian botanist, vid Cobham, 
reaches the station where Salvia pratensis and Althea hirsuta 
grow. 
Some Botanical Notes made during a Tour through a part of 
Ireland in June and July, 1855, with occasional Remarks on 
Scenery, etc., in a Letter to the Editor. By JoserpuH Woops, 
F.L.S. 
(Continued from page 127.) 
On the 29th we took a carriage to Castletown Berehaven. 
There is a mail car, but as there were five of us, we took our own 
time and a more convenient carriage. I had a letter to Dr. 
Armstrong, and Mr. Allman was personally known to him, but 
unfortunately he was out. We imagined that if there were a- 
druggist in the place we might perhaps learn from him the situa- 
tion of Spiranthes cernua. There was no druggist, but a person 
attends twice a week at the dispensary to furnish drugs and make 
up prescriptions. I found afterwards that this is a common ar- 
rangement in the Irish villages and smaller towns, the attendance 
being sometimes two, or frequently three times a week. At 
Glanbeigh there is, in addition to the times of attendance, a 
notice that persons who attend will be vaccinated ; whether with 
or without their own consent it does not say. We walked a little 
way along the shore on the same evening, and found on a grassy 
point Ophioglossum vulgatum. 
Dr. Armstrong called upon us in the evening, and the next 
morning took us to the station of Spiranthes cernua. It is not 
ina saltmarsh, as has been said, nor near a saltmarsh, for there is 
no such thing in the neighbourhood, but on a meadow sloping 
towards Berehaven. The soil is somewhat springy and some- 
what peaty, as is witnessed by the presence of Hydrocotyle vul- 
