1858.] BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 357 



that Mr. Sowerby, to whose family and to himself we are indebted for the 

 only complete illustrated Flora in existence, will be so obbging as to sup- 

 ply the deficiency. It is true that there is no illustration of Crepis biennis 

 in any British publication. If any Kentish botanist will send us a living 

 plant of the genuine species, we will nurse it until it is in a fit state to 

 be engraved, which we have no doubt Mr. Sowerby will gladly undertake 

 to do, and thus increase the obligation British botanists owe to him 

 and to his family.] 



Allium Babingtonii. 



During a recent visit to the South Isles of Arran, county Galway, made 

 in company with a party having a very diflFerent object from botany, and 

 during which I was therefore u.nable to pay much attention to that science, 

 I saw plenty of the A. Bahingtonii growing in the deep crevices of the. 

 limestone rock of which the islands consist. It seems to flourish espe- 

 cially in the damp climate of that district. It is a remarkable fact that 

 this Allium wiR not grow in the hot and dry soil of the Cambridge Bota- 

 nical Garden, where its allies A. Anipeloprasum and A. Forrum flourish. 

 In that garden it wiU not grow without the shade of trees, which render 

 the soil constantly damp. This seems to me to show that the plant is 

 probably a distinct species from those of its allies. I much doubt the 

 correctness of the statement that A. Ampeloprasum is native to those isles 

 of Arran. C. C. Babington. 



SONCHUS PALUSTRIS. 



As is stated by Mrs. Uussell, I saw the specimen of Sonchus palustris 

 gathered by Mr. T. Butler in the marshes near to the river Waveiiey, and 

 have no doubt of its being the true plant. TMr. Butler very properly kept 

 the exact station of so rare a plant secret. C. C. Babington. 



Cyclamen hedeb/efolium. 



All the specimens which I have seen of Cyclamen from the borders of 

 Kent and Sussex, belong to the 6'. hedercefoUum. I know nothing of the 

 Nottingham plant mentioned by Q. in page 380 of the ' Phytologist.' 



C. C. Babington. 



Geranium molle. 



" The herbage has a perceptible musky fragrance on a warm day, in addi- 

 tion to its usual rather strong odour, and which is retained for some time 

 after the plant is gathered. 



" Geranium pusillum so very closely resembles the preceding as to be 

 easily overlooked for that species. The following characters wiU be found 

 to distingtiish O. pusillum : — Stems generally redder in colour, the pubes- 

 cence far shorter, finer, and more or less deflexed ; leaves more deeply cleft ; 

 flowers much smaller, except in var. /8 of G. molle, more inclining to blue 

 or purplish, their pedicels, I think, rather longer in proportion to the pe- 

 duncles, and more suddenly bent or at a more acute angle immediately 

 beneath the flower than in G. molle, in which the curvature is lower down 



