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BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



Plants growing on and near Blackheath. By J. S. M. 



Torilis nodosa. — On the gi-assy slope above Hyde Vale. 



Trifolium striatum. — Very abundantly along the road crossing the heatV 

 diagonally towards Morden College, and the prolongation of that road into 

 Blackheath Park (June, 1856). 



Trifolium (or TriffoneUa) ornithopodioides. — Veiy scantily by the same 

 road, in front of the Paragon, in 1853. Not seen since; but Blackheath 

 being one of the recorded stations of this small inconspicuous plant, it 

 probably still exists on some other part of the heath. 



Tragopogon porrifoUus. — In some abundance in a comer of a meadow 

 by the prolongation (akeady mentioned) of the diagonal road into Black- 

 heath Park. The plant has been completely established in the locality for 

 some years past. There is nothing to show its origin ; but it is to be feared 

 that the progress of building will shortly root it out. 



Senecio viscosus. — A weed on the glebe-land at Lee, in profusion (1851). 

 The land is now covered with houses, but the plant has survived this peril, 

 being still found in considerable quantity by the roadside. 



Rare Plants of Herts. 



I have an unpublished chapter of additions to the ' Flora Hertfordi- . 

 ensis,' of my own making, but this is not in a tangible shape for publi- 

 cation just now. Indeed, although it shall be for the ' Phytologist ' even- 

 tually, I should like to send it to the reverend author of the ' Herts Elora ' 

 first. 



You doubtless know this neighbourhood. We have several interesting 

 plants, but very few near at hand, that Babingion (' Manual,' 4th edit.) 

 would mark as " rare." The Valley of the Lee, between here and Brocket 

 HaU Park, yields Metigantkes, Orchis latifolia, the lovely Parnassia by 

 thousands, and several scarce Hertfordshire plants ; but I do not recollect 

 a single kind more valuable to a botanist than JDianthus Armeria, which 

 occurs here. Galantlms is abundantly toild, if not indigenous in the neigh- 

 bourhood. In the famed Devil's Dyke (an earthwork of the contests 

 before the Norman conquest) PolysticJmm angulare abounds ; and on No- 

 Man's-Land Common Gentiana campestris occurs. We are very scant of 

 grassy fields, but wherever we have pasture, there old Abbott's favom-ite, 

 the exquisite Alchemilla vulgaris, appears. On the nearest chalk, Iberis 

 amara is often abundant ; but I do not think that we have anything more 

 likely to be interesting to collectors than such generally distributed kinds 

 as those I enumerate. E. E. 



Drosera intermedia. 



Fi'om 'Die Botanische Zeitung," llth October, 1856. 



In this species, as well as in D. rotundifolia, the flower-stalk is not axil- 

 lary, but terminal, as the author of this paper, Th. Irmisch, had previously 

 suspected. The leaf-stalk, in both, springs from the axil of the uppermost 

 leaf, which consequently subtends the base of the stalk (scape). Branch- 



