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glabrous or subhirsute leaves.” I sent the plant to another botanist, re- 
marking that I could not see mention of it except in the London Cata- 
logue. ” He replied, ‘‘Sir J. E. Smith, like Sir W. Hooker, ignores the 
plant. Babington gives as a characteristic of the ‘ Var.,’ dit and leaves 
glabrous.” The leaves of my plant are glabrous, but not the stem. We 
found Aquilegia: vulgaris, Columbine, of course out of flower, last week 
beside a running stream in a boggy field; also Polygonum minus, with the 
pretty white var. of P. Persicaria, which, with the white var. of Hrythrea 
Centaurium, we find very frequently. CANO? 
Galway, September 10. 
[The fair discoverer of this Irish rarity authorizes us to mention that 
she will gladly give specimens on application by letter. For address in- 
quire at the office of this Journal.] 
Common Plants.—As it is only by the accumulation and comparison of 
evidence, derived from a great number of localities, that your List of 
“Common Plants” can be perfected, I am induced to send you the fol- 
lowing remarks, which apply to the neighbourhood of Canterbury and to 
that of Oxford. I have adopted your plan of considering those species as 
rare, “‘ the individuals of which are few, and their occurrence infrequent,” 
in the districts mentioned. The followimg can scarcely be considered 
“common” in either locality enue hederaceus, Genista anglica, 
Anthyllis Vulneraria, Ornithopus perpusillus, Orobus tuberosus, Rosa spi- 
nosissima, Peplis Portula, Saxifraga granulata, Enanthe crocata, Vaccinium 
Myrtillus. As ‘‘rarities”? about Oxford I cull from your List—Spergu- 
laria rubra, Spartium scoparium, Tanacetum vulgare, Solidago Virga-aurea, 
Digitalis purpurea, Lastrea Oreopteris, Asplenium Trichomanes, A. Ruta- 
muraria, A. Adiantum-nigrum, Lycopodium clavatum, while Drosera ro- 
tundifolia and Lycopodium Selago have, 1 fear, vanished entirely. Near 
Canterbury the search for Drosera rotundifolia, Achillea Ptarmica, Pin- 
guicula vulgaris, Lastrea Oreopteris, Lycopodium clavatum, and L. Selago, 
would be a vain one; nor do I think that any of the following are to be 
found within five miles of either town—Radiola millegrana, Hypericum 
dubium, Comarum palustre, Erica cinerea, HE. Tetralix, Utricularia minor, 
Iittorella lacustris, Myrica Gale, Narthecium ossifragum, Eriophorum va- 
ginatum. 
I see no notice, in Mr. Stowell’s List of Faversham Plants, of Osmunda 
regalis and Utricularia minor. I have specimens of the former from Perry 
Wood, gathered several years ago. Is it extinct in that locality ? 
Botanie Gardens, Oxford, Sept. ‘1b. Maxwei T. Masters. 
Plants on Barnes Common, May 30th, 1856.—In flower, Trifolium sub- 
terraneum, Chelidonium majus, Genista anglica, Hyacinthus nonscriptus, 
Berberis vulgaris, 11 a shrubbery, Ranunculus sceleratus, Teesdalia nudi- 
caulis, in fruit and in flower, Polygala vulgaris, Veronica arvensis. The 
common Yellow Broom was coming into flower; the Furze was in full 
flower; the Hawthorn flower fading and falling off. Several plants usually 
deemed the rejectamenta of gardens grow here and there; among them 
the following are pretty well established :—Onopordon Acanthium, Del- 
phinium Consolida, Hyoscyamus niger (this grows on several other parts of 
