18 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Jersey Prants.—Mr. Piquet, well known to have an intimate 
pons of Sabie Botany, has sent two plants of great = ales 
from the west coast of Jersey. Centaurea paniculata, L., which wa 
abundance. Few botanists have seen specimens me Jersey (see the 
Floras of Babington, Boswell Syme, and J. D. Hoo eels The locality 
is a very desolate spot north of St. Ouen’s Pond, on barren sandy 
hillsides, where it is so abundant as to render the. place literally 
purple with its flowers. So unpromising vi these hills look, that 
foot of the very hills where the plant is now so abundant, so that, as 
he riguebig it is very strange that in the long interval he had never 
with it. He adds, ‘‘ It appears to me that the plants I 
Sse eighteen years ago must have come from seeds wafted 
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arundinacea, Euphorbia Portlandica, &c.; Centaurea Isnardi is also 
common there. With C. paniculata Mr. Piquet has also forwarded 
specimens of : Scabious, which was found growing with the Centaurea. 
This ap to be S. maritima, a plant which has not been, so far as 
I know, ever cubase g in western rm France, though it occurs in Portugal 
the flowers, oe best authors consider S. maritima as specifically 
. atro-purpurea s0 Common in gardens, which may 
be considered fe a ‘cultivat ed race, of which S. maritima is the wild 
weight. With reference to C. paniculata, there is great room for 
difference of opinion as to whether it can be indigenous to the 
Channel Islands, though it is more. probably so than S. maritima. 
—Henry Troven. 
Mancuestzr Prants (vol. x., p. 376).—I do not see that there is 
any ground for surprise that a given plant should be plentiful fifteen 
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as papa ever to be observed. There are plenty of examples of 
plants occurring in a meadow upon one side of a watercourse, and 
tae absent from the field on the contrary side, in consequence prob- 
ably of pas considerable difference in the soil, Not far from where 
