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PLANTS OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS. 293 
Thesium, ete., most of which probably occur in one of our richest 
botanical provinces. A second disadvantage arises from the au- 
thor having indicated in too general a manner the localities of 
certain plants, which, although they be frequent enough upon the 
chalk, are by no means equally dispersed throughout the district. 
LT allude to Linaria spuria, Plantago media, Verbascum nigrum, 
-and some others. Then again, the chalk plants once admitted, it 
has no doubt been found difficult to determine a limit, and so a 
further point has been stretched to accommodate apparently a 
few of our rarest species (e.g. some of the well-known Cuxton 
plants) which have not yet found place in any separate Flora; and 
this, I believe, illustrates the danger of extending the boundaries 
for the sake of adding to a list a few scarce plants at the risk of 
leaving the larger district less perfectly explored in proportion to 
its size. For my own part, while I gladly acknowledge the great 
assistance which as a stranger I derived from a local Flora, still I 
cannot help thinking how much more interesting and satisfactory 
would be a complete and accurate account of the Botany of the 
“Sand” round Tunbridge Wells, or even of the whole “ Weald,” 
either of which would offer a most natural and well-marked field 
of observation. 
In order to preserve the same sequence as was followed in the 
Flora, it has been thought best to distinguish the species of the 
following list by three separate letters, indicating respectively— 
A. Additions to the published Flora; s. Those plants for which 
localities have been found nearer to Tunbridge Wells; c. Old 
localities given doubtfully with brackets or asterisks in Jenner’s 
Flora, but which have been verified this season. 
A. Veronica scutellata, B, parmularia. Camden Park, i company 
with the ordinary form. 
A. Veronica Buxbaumii. Ina hop-garden at Tunbridge, plentifully. 
A. Glyceria plicata, 8, pedicellata. Broomhill. 
B. Poa compressa. Roadside near Riverhead; also in greater 
quantity by the road across Morant’s-court Hill. This grass 
appears to be attached to a calcareous soil. 
c. Festuca elatior. Hedge-bank in Brightridge lane. 
. Bromus commutatus. Riverhead, ete. 
. Bromus secalinus. Amongst barley, by the windmill near 
Fisher’s Castle. 
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