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as also in many parts of Devonshire and Cornwall. It is also plentiful 

 in the west of France and in Portugal, but in the Isle of Wight it has 

 almost reached its eastern limit, having hitherto been detected in only one 

 spot in Sussex, and abundantly in Surrey, on Bagshot Heath, which is its 

 most northerly well-ascertained limit." — BromfieWs 'Mora Fectensis.' 



MOLINIA C(ERULEA. 



A large proportion of the grass in Parkhurst Forest consists of this 

 species, which, under the trees in the extensive plantations (principally 

 Fir) in that enclosure, becomes far less rigid, with larger leaves, and with 

 little or none of the usual violet or deep purple of the plant in more open 

 situations. I presume this to bethe 3foL {Enodium) cceruleum, var. atro- 

 virens, of Dumortier. Like Catabrosa aquatica, this plant has been the 

 sport of system, having been a Melica, Aira, Festiica, Poa, Arundo, from 

 its affinity to all, uniting itself completely with none, and hence properly 

 made a genus apart. — BrowfieUV s ' Mora Fectensis.' 



Inteuesting Plants of Perthshire. 



(From ' Notes on the Flora of Perth,' by W. L. Lindsay, M.D., extracted 

 from Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.) Scheuchzeria palustris, Mo7iesis grandi- 

 Jlora, Teucrium Cliamoedrys, Turritis glabra, Corallorhiza innata, Epipactis 

 latifolia, Ceplialantliera grandiflora, C. ensifolia, Neottia Nidus-avis, Paris 

 quadrifolia, Erigeron alpinus, Leonurus Cardiaca, ScropJiularia vernalis. 



SCOTICDS. 



In answer to your correspondent "A." (Phyt. vol. ii. p. 384), I beg 

 to say that Teucrium Cham(Bdrys grows plentifully on a hillock in an 

 unworked quarry, and that I have never found it in more places than one, 

 which certainly looks, to say the least of it, suspicions. The nearest 

 habitation is within a quarter of a mile. W. Fowler. 



Plants in flower near Eltham and Chiselhurst, on or before March 21, 

 being within ten days after the breaking up of the frost (the first three 

 were well in flower on the 14th). — -Ranunculus Ficaria, Draba verna, 

 HutcJiinsia petrcea, Capsella Bursa-pastoris, Stellaria media, Ulex euro- 

 pceus, Potentilla Fragariastriim, Tussilago Farfara, Bellis perennis, Senecio 

 vulgaris, Taraxacum officinale, Primula vulgaris, Feronica agrestis, F. 

 Buxbaumii ?, Lamium album, L. purpureum, Mercurialis perennis, Corylus 

 Avellana, Ulmus campestris ?, Poa annua. 



Communications have been received from 



W. F. Buist; Sidney Beisly; J. Jones; M. J. H. ; S. B. ; B. C. ; 

 J. G. Baker; A. G. More, F.L.S.; Kev. E. H. Webb; M. H. ; Benj. 

 Carrington, M.D. ; John Barton; William Fowler; Charles C. Babing- 

 ton, F.E.S. ; William Sutherland, A.M. ; A. 



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