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amongst limestone rocks at Gordale Scar, near Malham, gathered 

 by myself in the autumn of 1855. The stem is erect, firm, 

 flexuose, and striated, rather longer than in the slender, erect 

 form of minus, but shorter than in any of the others, with the 

 leaves, as in minus, not descending to its base, and also becoming 

 much diminished before they reach the panicle ; in substance the 

 segments of the leaves are thicker than in the others, in shape 

 moderately broad and blunt in the lower leaves, narrower and 

 sharper in the upper ; the auricles of the stipules are short and 

 adpressed ; the panicle is moderate in size, its branches in fruit 

 comparatively short and stiff, the lower spreading from the stem 

 at an angle of about forty-five degrees ; the carpels are small, in 

 shape about twice as long as broad, slightly compressed and ob- 

 lique. In some of my British specimens the leaves are glandular 

 on the under surface ; in an example collected by M. Bourgeau 

 on the Sierra Nevada, labelled T. pubescens, Sclireb., the stem 

 and leaves are thickly covered with glands. 



With T. saxatile I have not had the good fortune to make an 

 acquaintance, except through the medium of descriptions; but 

 these stamp it as a plant which there is not much risk of con- 

 fusing with any of the others; its tall, rigid, scarcely striated 

 stem, leafy to the base, and short-ovate, equally rounded carpels, 

 furnish excellent diagnostic characteristics. 



BOTANICAL SKETCHES. 



To the Editor of the ' Phytologist.' 



As I believe short accounts of botanical trips are generally ac- 

 ceptable to the ' Phytologist,^ I have thought that although my 

 excursions did not extend far last year, yet as I met with some 

 interesting plants, the present brief sketch might be not alto- 

 gether without interest. 



SUNNINGHILL, EGHAM, ETC. 



In the beginning of July last I passed a few days at Egham 

 Hill, Surrey, where, in company with Mr. Whale, the florist, of 

 Egham, and a young friend, I made an excursion to Sunning 

 hill Bog. On leaving the Ascot Station, which is situated on 

 the bog, we turned to the right, where, amidst elegant plumes 



