292 PLANTS OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS. 
It is due to the memory of the amiable and philosophic Vaucher, 
who first noticed these organs in the Vaucherie, to state that he 
declares his conviction of the hornlets being the anthers of the 
plants. 
This notice of a most interesting discovery is brought before 
the readers of the ‘ Phytologist’ with the hope of exciting some 
of them to undertake similar investigations, with the view of dis- 
_ covering the co-operation of these respective organs in the act of 
impregnation, more especially in the Lichens. Nature often re- 
veals her secret operations when least expected, to the persevering 
student. 
On some Uncommon Plants observed at and near to Tunbridge 
Wells, Kent, in 1855. 
A short residence at Tunbridge Wells during the past summer 
afforded the opportunity of collecting a few scattered observa- 
tions on the Botany of the neighbourhood; and while no doubt 
several of the species here mentioned will appear as so many 
additions to the last-published Flora of the place, still the writer 
does not wish to claim as his own discovery any part of them 
which may have been noticed by others during the long interval 
which has elapsed since the date of Jenner’s Flora (1846), espe- 
cially when it is recollected how many other Botanists must have 
been among the visitors to this well-known watering-place. 
It is perhaps to be regretted that the district selected by the 
author of the ‘Tunbridge Wells Flora’ should have been so ex- 
tensive and artificial ; some indeed might think that in any case 
a radius of ten miles would give a Botanist as large a surface of 
ground as could be thoroughly explored; but what I more parti- 
cularly wish to protest against in this instance is, that the chalk 
hills, at the distance of eleven or twelve miles, should have been 
included. This appears to have led to two unfortunate results: 
first, because in consulting the book we expect to find a complete 
account of the Flora of the chalk, which however can hardly be 
the case so long as such species are omitted as Fedia Auricula, 
the three Fumarias, F. micrantha, F. parviflora, and F. Vaillantii, 
Anemone Pulsatilla, Cineraria campestris, Astragalus hypoglottis, 
