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MoLoru AN. — Green Gage, Kirke’s, Coe’s Én instance have been the first to express a doubt as to | insufficient evidence, is inclined to consider the Acorus 
Golden Drop, ot Magnum Bonum, Victoria. | the nativity of Acorus Calamus. He says :—‘‘I have | a native of Britain, Dr, Syme, in Anglish Botany 
M. Dunn, e siara apioa that the Sweet Flag may not be | (1869), says :—“‘ It is difficult to say in h y of 
ri to Brite: . 
ow many o 
NORFOLK. — Gre Coe’s Golden Dro aboriginal to Britain. Neither Gerarde nor Parkin- | its stations it is native, Bentham believes it to be 
Oñeans, Goliath, Victoria, gn hee William Gioie. son speak of it as known to them in a wild statein | “‘indigenous only in some of the eastern counties of 
Hail. eir time, nor is it once alluded to by Turner in his | England ;” while Dr. Hooker Pro abing- 
PI are plentiful everywhere. ton admit it as an unquestionėd native of England. 
s Seedling is a great favourite in this neighbour- References to the older British writers have been 
s the Vic nd Warn A i “W, dn 
Turner, although hi e does not mention it in his Herbal, 
1 says in his Mames of Plants (1548), ‘* Acorus groweth 
n Gage, Jefferson, New not in Britain,” Its first mention as British is that given 
gnum Bonum, Victoria, Goliath, 
en Drop, Wine-Sour, &c. Y. Worraker, Milton, 
| are told th “found by Dr. Brown near Lyn, 
horo | and by . Bro Oxford, near Hedley, in 
gin RSET. eae Mussel, and Green Gage. | Surrey.” Ray, in- 1670, states that he had seen 
Scott, Merrio | ne ch ten before, reports it as 
SaarroxD, or early Prolific, Victoria, Jefferson p | abundant and wild in ire, Its present distri- 
Orleans, Coe’s Golden Drop, Nectarine, Green n Gage. | bution in Britain, summarised by Mr. tson i i 
= Sinion, Vr ottesly, Yo rhampto | Topographical eth indicates its oc nce i 
—Victoria, Violette Hative e, and Fa er- twenty-five English counties and vi 
seni to A more kee ee any others. D. 7; mark of s ing added in three cases), while 
yee Hardwick thirteen other counties are given to which the A 
is su ve been introduced, or in which its 
occu is ‘* insufficiently vouched.” aa t 
Sweet Flag w anted in some of its localities is 
THE SWEET, aeie certain. Dr. Trimen says: ‘‘ Dr. J. E. Gray, of the 
THE oe article at p. 135 of the P piesi British P piena tells me that the late Mr. Vheeler, 
Chronicle ra es the Aer estion of the kikiy of Aco 
e ake a fesihive 
of the Apothecaries’ Company, planted it extensi 
about 
view of f the case. The discussion is not perhaps so 
London, ‘al that Dr Gray himself saw this 
at the well-known locality at Lord Mansfield’s , 
Fic, 48,—PLANS OF CARPET-BEDS IN VICTORIA PARK, 
been supposed, as it was raised by Trimen | Heréa/. Yet had it been as common in the days of 
‘published ba her o cr Dooa for | these writer as it is, or was till lately, go 
Paper containi Se er chief towns of England, it is 
t the plant is not a native of w dificult to Ap gee a plant then much esteemed 
following remarks, partly ater from medici y, and the roots of which were an 
ty be useful as supplementing the article fox ries from the Levant, could 
Be Watna 
