tin Dorsetshire, and a station for it in 
| more northern county has been commu- 
icated to me, but this is not so satisfacto- 
h the “ « quite southern plants,” we have 
yet no sufficient authority to question, not- 
withstanding several localities have been 
intended. 
1450. The list of plants, “ which do 
| reach the middle of the kingdom, and 
] below the south of Scotland," now re- 
ires modification. Acorus Calamus, 
E ixifraga Hirculus has also been disco- 
vered i in Scotland ; and, together with Cy- 
England (Durham, or its borders), and the 
Stratos Butomus, Clematis, &c. are 
reason to believe them not indigenous 
The very abundant Teucrium Sco- 
ern appears to have slipped in acci- 
i y for some other plant. Scilla bifo- 
t ud Vella annua can scarcely be called 
British plants, in any sense. These exam- 
will suffice to show how very uncertain 
st yet be our attempts to point out the 
to the extension of — even in 
l-botanized Britain 21 
~ 1458, 1459. Very dn n 
the LO local ones) can be exclusively 
bir, Warwickshire, and Hampshire, 
ll divide England into eastern and west- 
halves. this division, above a 
eepal faund as far north as York- | 
Bowman.—Ep. 
REMARKS ON THE BOTANY OF BRITAIN, 
hundred species are limited to the eastern 
counties, and between sixty and seventy 
to the western coun- 
half of these being peculiar to single coun- - 
ties, and the greater part of the rest occur- 
ing in only two or three counties, they 
cannot, with any sense of fitness, be taken 
as illustrations of distribution connected — 
with longitude. Omitting such as these, 
and introduced species, we have few left. 
According to the evidence afforded by the 
ew Botanist's Guide, out of species ex- 
tending into four or more counties, not ten 
are exclusively western, nor twenty exclu- 
sively eastern species; and some of these - 
extend quite into the midland counties, as 
Oxford. and Warwick. A considera 
number of species, however, are more 
abundant near the eastern or western coasts 
respectively; and some few of them, which. 
do cross the middle line, fail to reach the — 
opposite coast, as is the case with Pingui- — 
cula lusitanica from the west, and probably 
. Actinocarpus Damasonium from the east 
coast. With respect to a few of the spe- 
cies mentioned in the Encyclopedia—Lu- 
zula Forsteri appears to be as frequent in 
the western as in the eastern counties. 
Lithospermum maritimum is not included 
in Flora Devoniensis ; but the authors of _ 
that work appear not to have seen Turner - 
and Dillwyn's Guide. A remark, no doubt. 
intended for Lobelia Dortmanna, as to it — 
not being limited to the west of Scotland, | = 
has been misplaced to Lobelia urens in 
printing. Is not Primula farinosa rather 
an eastern and inland, than a western spe- — 
cies! It is mentioned as “ most saana ed 
in Cumberland." Doubtless it does occur — — 
in the county ; though I have rambled a 
good deal in the — parts without. ever 
New Botanist's Guide. 
occurs in Wales and (according to t 
ves 
n saute iensfolia appears to w an: 
