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BOTANICAL SKETCHES. 



[September, 



Spai'ganium simplex, Huds., 17. 

 Typha latifolia, L., 14. 

 Typha angustifolia, L., 12. 

 Khynchospora alba, VaM, 17. 

 Scirpus sylvaticus, Z., 16. 

 Carex sylvatica, Suds., 15. 

 Carex hirta, L., 15. 

 Carex cui'ta. Good., 16. 

 Carex muricata, L., 15. 

 Carex acuta, L., 15. 

 Cares intermedia, Good., 14. 

 Carex pendula, Huds., 15. 

 Carex Pseudo-cyperus, L., 11. 

 Carex riparia. Curt., 14. 



Alopecm'us agrestis, L., 11. 

 Arundo Epigejos, L., 16. 

 Avena flavescens, L., 13. 

 Melica uniilora, Retz, 15, Sh. 

 Glyceria aquatica, Sm., 14. 

 Glyceria rigida, Sm., 14. 

 Poa nemoralis, L., 16, I. 

 Festuca elatior, 15. 

 Bromus sterilis, L., 15. 

 Poa compressa, i., 15. 

 Hordeum murinum, L., 13. 

 Hordeum pratense, Huds., 12. 

 Equisetmn Telmateia, Ehrh., 16. 



BOTANICAL SKETCHES. 



Account of a Bay's Botanizing on Boxley Hills, Kent, 

 the Mst May, 1858. 



Several botanists of some considerable experience prefer Kent 

 as affording the best botanizing ground in England. Compari- 

 sonSj as we learn from the common adage, are odious, — not 

 " odorous/' or pleasant, as Mrs. Malaprop would say, — yet there 

 is some reason for this preference. No English county affords 

 more Orchids, — nor better cherries, an epicure would say. There 

 is no county, probably not excepting Yorkshire itself, which 

 boasts a richer Flora, or, in other words, produces a greater 

 number of species. To the writer of this sketch it is interesting, 

 because he does not know it quite so well as he knows some dis- 

 tricts. Omne ignotmn pro magnifico is an axiom in the botanical 

 as it is in the political world. 



A party started from the north or Middlesex side of the 

 Thames on an early morning, the last of May, to visit this gar- 

 den, or, rather, orchard of England. It is both, and it yields 

 some grist to the miller besides. It is not exclusively cultivated 

 with currant, raspberry, and strawberry plants, but it bears 

 abundantly the staff of life. 



As our party was rather large, viz. four, two veterans and 

 two neophytes, the plural we may be assumed. A genuine 

 botanist would never go out alone if he could get a mate. 



We enjoyed "the breezy call of incense-breathing morn'' 

 among the hawthorns of St. James's Park, then in the fulness 



