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- with many others which I had not detected. I had however 
the good fortune of finding some which have escaped even Mr. 
Brewer. Of one of these (Catabrosa aquatica) I have observed 
a new station, much nearer to Reigate, even since the publica- 
tion of Mr. Brewer’s work, viz. in the swamp at Whiggey, on 
the west side of the Brighton road, at a very short distance from 
the stile: so difficult is it to exhaust this rich botanical dis- ; 
trict, in which I do not believe there is anywhere a square quar- | 
ter of a mile not containing one or several rare plants. 
Might I take the liberty of asking Mr. Brewer, through your 
journal, whether Alchemilla vulgaris is set down as growing in 
“‘damp meadows on the banks of the Mole, and in other places 
in the neighbourhood of Dorking,” from his own observation, or 
on the authority of Luxford’s Flora? I have always suspected a 
mistake on the part of Mr. Luxford’s informant, not as to the 
plant, but the locality, as I can hardly imagine that a plant so 
conspicuous, and incapable of being mistaken for any other, can 
exist in some abundance in that neighbourhood without my 
having seen it in thirty-five years’ botanical knowledge of the 
locality. Rosa hea A Nagi ee 
Permit me to ask a similar question respecting Carex teretius- 
cula near Whiggey, which has been suspected to be an error of 
Mr. Luxford. 
Mr. Brewer locates Caregx ovalis in “ damp situations on Rei- 
gate Heath and Redhill.” To these may be added Earlswood 
Common, which is at present covered with it. 
In my list I omitted one of the habitats of Sagittaria sagitti- 
folia—near the Merstham ponds. 
Has any of your correspondents attended to Veronica with the 
variegated corolla of V. agrestis and the large flower of V. Cha- 
medrys? It is not very uncommon in Surrey, and I last year 
observed it in great abundance in cornfields on the heights over- 
topping Smitham bottom, between Croydon and Beggar’s Bush. 
Is this a permanent variety of agrestis? and is it not often mis- 
taken for V. Buxbawmii, reports of which are now starting up 
everywhere, though wanting not only the uniformly blue colour 
of Buxbaumii, but the broadly divergent lobes of the fruit ? 

