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BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
Kentish Plants—There are few districts that can afford more features 
of novel interest to a botanist from the inland counties, than such a salt 
marsh as may be traversed between Whitstaple and Seasalter, in Kent. 
Here there are some acres of black, boggy mud, containing much iron in 
its composition, and thickly covered with Salicornia herbacea and its pro- 
cumbent variety. Aster Tripolium is here abundant, its flowers being 
more generally than not destitute of rays; also Arenaria marina (Lepigo- 
num marinum, Wahl.), Statice Limonium, and less abundantly 8. rariflora, 
Drej., easily recognized at a distance from its congener by its more lax 
and branched inflorescence ; a closer inspection reveals differences-in® the 
shape of the leaves, although it seems probable that it may be no more 
than a variety of S. Limoniwm. 'Those who attach so much importance 
to the physical state of the soil, as determining the growth of certain 
plants, will perhaps explain how it is that the Statice Limonium grows so 
abundantly in two soils of such opposite degrees of consistency as the 
chalk in the cliffs about Dover and elsewhere, and the soft mud in which 
it thrives at Whitstaple. The visitor to the latter place must have a su- 
preme disregard for dirty boots, and should conduct his research when 
the tide is out ; his zeal will then be rewarded by culling the above-men- 
tioned plants, as well as Atriplex portulacoides, Chenopodium maritimum, 
Triglochin maritimum, Rottbellia meurvata, Spartina stricta, Zostera ma- 
rina ; and many other plants (novel to an inland botanist) would doubt- 
less repay a more diligent search than the writer was able to make. Along 
the beach beyond this salt-marsh are to be found Glaucium luteum, Silene 
maritima, Lathyrus Nissolia, Foeniculum officinale, Peucedanum officinale, 
Artemisia maritima, Eryngium maritimum, Glau maritima, Plantago ma- 
ritima, P. Coronopus, Hyoscyamus niger, Salsola Kali, Beta maritima, Hor- 
deum maritimum, etc. etc., while the neighbouring ditches furnish Scirpus 
maritimus, Apium graveolens, Hydrocharis Morsus-rane, and in the marshes 
Althea officinalis and other marsh plants are to be met with. 
Maxwe.u T. Masters. 
Sir,—On glancing over Mr. Gissing’s Botanical Notes from South 
Devon, pp. 25-29 of No. II. of the ‘ Phytologist,’ I put down (from me- 
mory) a few of the Babbicombe plants that seem to have escaped his ob- 
servation, probably from the backwardness of the season in June last and 
the shortness of his stay. The Opdrys is rapidly diminishing, from the 
number of roots taken up by collectors, but Neottia is abundant. 
BABBICOMBE : Ophrys apifera, Spiranthes autumnalis, Diotis maritima, 
Viburnum Opulus et Lantana, Linaria.spuria, Scilla autumnalis, Calamintha 
