BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. Bal 
future ; at all events we are obliged to the Society for the plea- 
sure of reading ¢his portion of their Proceedings. 
BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
In the Descriptive British Botany, publishing in the ‘ Phytologist,’ it is 
stated, under the initials of Mr. Irvine, that he has never observed Jsatis 
tinctoria (except an occasional straggler) on the west side of the river Wey. 
It will be agreeable to this accurate and trustworthy investigator of loca- 
lities (by whose indications many others as well as myself must have been 
often guided to rare plants) to be informed that this fine plant grew in the 
utmost profusion in 1849 (and doubtless grows still) in the great chalk- 
quarry near Compton, on the south side of the Hog’s Back, a place easily 
overlooked by a passing botanist from being masked by a Larch-wood in 
front. 
Tt is also stated that Jderis amara grows in fields in Berkshire—Pang- 
bourne and Streatley. The range of this very local plant is considerably 
wider than these words would import, as it is also found in Oxfordshire 
and Buckinghamshire ; especially, and most plentifully, in the range of 
country north of the Thames, from Henley to Maidenhead. 
My experience agrees with that of your Tring correspondent (p. 105) 
as to the botanical poverty of the Chiltern Hills, a fact the more remarkable 
as the southern portion of the same chalk district is one of the richest in 
the midland counties. dlchemilla vulgaris however grows in the woods of 
Chequers; and I have found Paris guadrifolia in a woody ravine adjoining 
Stokenchurch Common. Buxrus sempervirens helps to adorn the steep 
chalky declivities near Ellesborough, and grows also on the hills between 
Tring and Dunstable. Pyrola minor I have gathered on the same range 
of hills, further south, near Nettlebed ; and in great profusion im various 
parts of the woody region towards Wycombe and Marlow. 
As you have thought it worth while to print a new Surrey locality for 
Lycopodium Selago, which has been found in that county by several bo- 
tanists, you will perhaps allow me to mention one which I believe not to 
be generally known. The Lycopodium grows in considerable abundance on 
the east side of a sort of pass through and over Chobham Ridges, leading 
in the direction of Frimley. The path goes directly through the large field 
which Mr. Watson, some years ago, pointed out as a habitat of Arnoseris 
pusilla; and in the same field J found, in October, 1849, a moderate quan- 
tity of Linaria purpurea, a plant of which the indigenousness has been 
doubted, but this situation closely resembles the continental localities of 
the plant. 
The ‘ Phytologist’ very judiciously directs much of its attention to the 
geographical distribution of plants. On this subject much may be learnt 
by the careful examination of a single county, and there are counties and 
even smaller districts in England which deserve particular notice as forming 
the transition between two distinct botanical regions, or combining por- 
tions of both. The Isle of Wight is an example of the first kind, Surrey 
