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BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 301 
to have introduced many plants, and them extensive collections formed 
the nucleus of the Ashmolean Museum. If the mound of broken stones 
in Wyre Forest were examined carefully, perhaps some light might be 
thrown on the nature of the building which appears to have existed near 
the tree. It is much to be desired that a series of good photographs of 
old trees to which interest attaches were taken; many venerable relics of 
this kind are fast mouldering away, and in a few years will have entirely 
disappeared. I cannot help thinking that many botanists would be glad 
to possess such records of these oldest living examples of our Flora. 
Stafford, January 14th, 1856. Roper C. Dovuetas. 
A List of the rarer British Plants found in the immediate neighbourhood 
of Chiselhurst, Kent; the figures 1, 2, 3 denoting that they occur within 
those number of miles, and 3* just over. (I wish the specific name of 
Blechnum to be spelt spicans, not with a ‘t, as it is an evident mistake in 
type or otherwise, and I do not like propagating errors when they are 
evidently such; also the capitals to be used in such names as Geranium 
Pyrenaicum.) 
1 Fumaria claviculata. 
3 Hutchinsia petrea. 
1 Drosera rotundifolia. 
2 Dianthus Armeria. 
3 Hypericum montanum. 
ii 5 Elodes. 
2 Geranium Pyrenaicum. 
1 % molle, var. album. 
1 
1 Radiola Millegrana. 
1 Linum angustifolium. 
1 Potentilla argentea. 
2 Lathyrus Nissolia. 
1 Sedum Telephium. 
1 Adoxa Moschatellina. 
3 Centranthus Calcitrapa. 
2 Campanula Trachelium. 
3 Vinca minor. 
2 Cuscuta Trifolii. 
1 Verbascum Lychnitis (very rare). 
a nigrum. 
3* Lathrea Squamaria. 
2 Linaria spuria. 
1 Scutellaria minor. 
1 Marrubium vulgare (very rare). 
2 Lysimachia vulgaris. 
1 Centunculus minimus. 
1 Euphorbia platyphylla. 
2 Salix pentandra. 
2 Paris quadrifolia. 
3 Orchis latifolia. 
1 Spiranthes autumnalis. 
3* Epipactis latifolia. 
2 Convallaria multiflora. 
1 Tulipa sylvestris. 
1 Alium ursinum. 
3* Sparganium simplex (rare). 
Chiselhurst, December 13th, 1856. 
55 Robertianum, va. album. 
1 Scirpus palustris. 
SD) peas sylvaticus. 
1 Carex ovalis. 
3 ,, Pseudo-cyperus (rare). 
1 Triodia decumbens. 
1 Polypodium vulgare. 
if var. serratum. 
2 var. auritum. 
3% Lastrea Thelypteri is (very rare). 
2) ” 
i a montana (very rare). 
if of) Filix-mas. 
1 BY Lass var. incisa. 
2 if Pseudo-mas. 
1 e spinosa. 
2 5 var. strigosa (pro- 
bably exterminated). 
1 “a multiflora. 
1 Polystichum aculeatum (rare). 
3* . angulare (very rare). 
3 Cystopteris fragilis (rare). 
1 Athyrium Filix-foemina. 
1 ee 55 > var. icisum. 
1 » var. irrigum. 
1 Asplenium Adiantum- -nigrum (rare). 
1 5 Trichomanes (exterminated 
some years). 
2 Amesium Ruta-muraria (very rare). 
1 Scolopendrium vulgare (a solitary 
plant, 1854). 
1 Blechnum spicans. 
1 Pteris aquilina. 
1 Pa var. multifida. 
2, Osmunda regalis (exterminated 1853). 
1 Botrychium Lunaria. 
1 Ophioglossum vulgatum. 
2 Lycopodium imundatum. 
