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mum arvense, Polygonum Fagopyrum, Galeopsis Ladanum, and 

 Papaver hybridum. 



SOUTHEND, ETC. 



Towards the end of August I went for a week or two to 

 Southend, whose botanical attractions are far greater than I had 

 expected. 



On the sandy beach to the east of the town, I found abun- 

 dance of Salsola Kali, Eryngium maritimum, Arenaria peploides, 

 Glaucium luteum, etc. etc., as well as of several Atriplices and 

 Chenopodia ; while the ditches a little removed from the beach 

 abounded in Ulva and Enter omorpha, and were fringed with 

 Statice Limonium, A triplex portulacoides, Artemisia maritima, 

 Bupleurum tenuissimum, Scirpus maritimus, etc. 



In one of the ditches also I found a fine specimen of Triglochin 

 palustre, and, nearer the town, the banks of a large muddy ditch 

 were covered with Aster Tripolium, most of whose flowers how- 

 ever wanted the florets of the ray. The marshes themselves 

 yielded Dianthus Armeria, Silaus pratensis, Ti^ifolium fragiferum, 

 etc. etc.; and both the marshes and the grass between them and 

 the beach were covered with tufts of Juncus maritimus. It was 

 in these tufts that I had the pleasure of finding, on the last 

 morning of my stay, several very elegaat-jpeciniensjDf iV^^ 

 spiralis. ^- , , XXI. A.*f"o ' 



^Dn the bu^hy cli:fe^west of the town, I found Lathyrus Nis- 

 solia and Lathyrus Aphaca, Lactuca, abundance of Foeniculum 

 vulgare, and, l)est of all, oVLinum angustifolium. 



In the parish of Southchurch, not far from Southend, I found 

 Veronica Buoebaumii growing so abundantly that I wondered 

 how any doubt could be entertained of its being a native. I also 

 met with Trifolium fragiferum in a hedge near Southchurch. 



CLIFTON. 



In concluding my summer rambles by a visit, at the end of 

 October, to Clifton, I found some plants of Chlora perfoliata on 

 the Somersetshire side of the Avon, on the muddy shores of 

 which I noticed Salicornia herbacea and Apium graveolens. 



On St. Vincent's Rocks I found Veronica spicata, Geranium 

 sanguineum (off" flower) , and plants of Grammitis Ceterach, which, 

 with Asplenium Trichomanes and Ruta-muraria, abounds on walls 



