518 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
the Common, as well as on rubbish-heaps). 4corus Calamus and Hydro- 
charis Morsus-rane, which grow at the bottom of the Common, were not 
of course in flower. J. A., Chelsea. 
Orobanche rubra.—In September, 1854, I gathered a tuft of what I 
took at the time to be this plant, growing among straggling bushes of 
Prunus spinosa, on some low rocks about a mile from the town of Settle. 
It was apparently parasitical on the fine fibrous radicles of Thymus Ser- 
pyllum, and widely different in “facies” and habit from the Orobanche 
Hedere of the ivy-covered sea-cliffs of South Wales and the West of 
England. ; J. Harpy. 
Hulme, Manchester. 
Drosera anglica.—Sir,—Your correspondent “ Q.” (p. 439) asks about 
Drosera anglica in Devonshire. It is mentioned as occurring near Sid- 
mouth, in the ‘ Flora of Sidmouth,’ by Dr. Cullen; and a friend of mine 
assured me she had seen it herself in a bog near Axminster. I have looked 
for it in vain in many places where, if anywhere, it ought to be found—on 
Dartmoor and on Woodbury Hills. As to its range on the Continent, I 
have found it in Bergenstift, in Norway. pea! A 
Hypericum hircinum.—Sir—In your number for September, 1855, 
(p. 117) there is a notice of Hypericum anglicum having been found about 
Falmouth Harbour. When residing at Falmouth in 1845, 1 gathered Hy- 
pericum hircinum in that neighbourhood, and pointed out the station to 
my friend Miss Warren, a lady whose thorough acquaintance with the 
botany of her native country is well known; in her opinion this Hype- 
ricum was not truly wild,—it would appear however that it is now quite 
naturalized in that locality. In a recent communication Miss Warren 
observes: “The idea of Hypericum anglicum bemg a Cornish plant is 
now, I think, entirely set at rest. It has proved to be H. hircinum in 
every locality in this neighbourhood where found by all the explorers, 
and the same as yours, which still keeps its station at Swanpool.” The 
enclosed is a branch from a specimen obtained by me in 1845. 
J. GIFFORD. 
(Our kind correspondent does not give us any address, and this has 
prevented our writing privately to J. G. Any further particulars about 
the other localities for Hypericum hircinum will much oblige us. We 
are aware that it is not a British plant; but it is a fact that it is in a fair 
way of establishing itself as a naturalized foreigner. } 
Can any of your correspondents inform me if Bupleurum fruticosum, 
Lin., has established itself on the beach near Ramsgate? A small portion 
of a plant, which I suppose to be the above, has been forwarded to me by 
a lady, who informs me that it is growing plentifully at Ramsgate. 
W. M. Hinp. 
Viola.—In Greek, tov, from is, vis ; unde Viola, the plant of strong or 
powerful scent. : G. 
Helianthemum vulgare.—Hooker and Arnott, Br. Fl. 7th ed., ix re Heli- 
anthemum polifolium, Pers., state the following :— Flowers white. In 
gardens all intermediate states may be observed between this and the 
last, H. vulgare, of which, with about fifty other supposed species, it is 
