598 BOTANICAL NOTES^ NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [October, 



wall, and Hip^iiris vulgaris. I next went to the Isle of Sheppey, wliere 

 I enriched myself with Liula crUhnoldes, a plant I never before saw 

 growing. I saw also Sparthia stricta, and I should like to consult you 

 on an erect Chenopodiaceous plant. I cannot even tell if it is an Atriplex 

 or a Chenopodimn. The enlarged calyx has not yet appeared, but perhaps 

 it is not sufficiently advanced, though it sheds small, flat, dark-coloured 

 seeds in abundance. When passing Strood, I went down to the old 

 place by the river and found Lepturus, which. I never happened to find 

 in England before. The place is sadly cut up, not only by the railway, 

 but still worse by brickmaking : however, there is still abundance of aU 

 the plants that used to be there — even Glaiix maritima — except Juncus 

 maritimus, which I did not see. I shall be happy to send you specimens 

 of Peucedanum or Inula. Very truly yours, J. S. M. 



August 11, 1858. 



I hasten to inform you that in one of our botanical rambles on 

 Satm-day afternoon last (August 21), to Whitley Willows, about three 

 miles fi-om here, we gathered, on some marshy ground near a shallow 

 stream, the rare Polypogon monspeliensis and Phalaris paradoxa, neither of 

 them in very great quantity, but still sufficient to afl^ord a few duplicates 

 without eradicating the species. Medicago deniimdata and M. minima 

 are also growing near the same locality, the former moderately plentiful, 

 and a single plant of LytJirum hyssopi folium was gathered there a week 

 ago. If any of your correspondents would like a specimen of the three 

 first-named species, we shall be most happy to exchange with them for 

 species of equal rarity wliich we do not akeady possess. 



Chas. Hobkirk, 

 Hon. Sec. Huddersfield Literary and Scientific Society. 



P.S. A friend of mine brought me a specimen of Potentilla fruticosa 

 which he had gathered in Bretton Park a few weeks ago. 

 Huddersfield, August 23, 1858. 



Antirrhinum majus. 

 At page 530 of the ' Phytologist ' for August, 1858, the query is 

 put, relative to this plant, " Is it found wild anywhere ?" I reply, Yes, 

 on the fortifications in the island of Malta, abundantly; no escape there, 

 or outcast from gardens. I was five years in Malta, and never saw it 

 in a cultivated state. There it grows and there it luxuriates with other 

 min-al plants during the insupportable heat of June, July, and August, 

 when every other herbaceous form of vegetation seems to be actually 

 burnt up. My botanical dictionary, which contains generic and specific 

 descriptions of all the known Phsenogams in the world, up to 1820, 

 confirms my statement, viz., "Antirrhinum majus, native of the southern 

 countries of Europe, growing on rocks, under hedges, and on ruins." 

 If the writer should ever visit Malta, he will find my statement to be 

 no exaggeration. It is so abundant that there is no dread of its extir- 

 pation. Linaria Cymhalaria, its congener, is too abundant in Ireland to 

 be either a fugitive or outcast ('Phytologist,' p. 531). — Wallflower 

 {CheirantJms Cheiri). At page 532 this plant is stated to be exclusively 

 confined to walls, roofs, and ruins. This I deny. On the inaccessible 



