806 -THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
hybrida in the greatest abundance. = anium pa Rubia 
gy Hypericum montanum, Pot istus hirsutus 
uds. [Helianthemum marifolium Mill. ] plentifully but out of nny 
It flowers in June alictrum minus, Scrophularia verna in 
a near the Gate, just before you come to Gloddaeth sedi 
nway. 
Cyperus longus found in the marshes by the Sides of the Ditches 
near Harding in Flintshire {v.-c. 51] going from thence to Chester 
by Mr. Cheffield and Williams. [n.c.r. Perhaps the two persons 
mentioned are the discoverers. This is, with the exception of 
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C. longus is known from Cornwall West, Somerset North, Wilts 
South, Dorset, Wight, Kent East, and Pembroke, and reported 
(apparently i in error) from E. Norfolk and Stafford. It has thus, 
according to its ascertained distribution, a distinctly Southern, or 
i ohogeint range in at Britain. It occurs neither in Scot- 
land nor Ireland, “‘ but is abundant in the Channel ig If we 
exclude v.-c. 27 and 89 as erroneous, the occurrence in Flintshire ig 
a remarkable extension of the known range of C. longus. The 
ev. G. C. Joyce of “Harding,” ¢.e., Hawarden, whom I have con- 
sulted concerning the locality, writes to me that in 1773 “ there 
were marshes between Hawarden and Chester, after wands reclaimed 
by the embankment of the Dee. I presume that the boun ony 
between the counties ran then where it does now. In that case 
and judging that what is now low-lying flat ground was then 
marsh—by aS the greater part of the marshes was in Flint..... 
There are no longer marshes between Hawarden and Chester, but 
marshy (irra covers a good deal of space lower down the river. 
It i is covered with water at spring tides.” The drains and ditches 
of the reclaimed land, and the unre ‘a marsh lower down the 
Dee, may still reward the search for C. longus.] 
Friday Aug. 13. 
Search’d the Banks of the pte below Chester [yv.-c. 58] in 
Mind es! the Silene armeria said to grow there. I think this plant 
ought to be eras’d out of the British bere [Ray, Syn. ed. 8, 
p- SA, pees it on Dr. Richardson’s authorit 
earch’d Horseley Hill near Beeston Castle in Cheshire for the 
Malamryran arvense and the cornfields there about but could find 
no other than the M. sylvaticum some of the Flowers of which were 
not 
ting’d with red. Q. Did Mr. Vernon mistake this for M. 
arvense? [Lord de Tabley,. te Pr retacgh pp. 218-220, oe M. 
pratense L. alone from this locality and indeed from Cheshir 
Common Parsley in a aecate at the foot of Horseley Hill = ee 
fully, on the side next Beeston Castle. 
‘he gardener at Shugburgh shew’d us the Euphorbia amygda- 
loides as the only kind of Euphorbia growing on the Mill Dam in 
mag te Park [y.-e. 39 Staffs] where the Euph. characias was said 
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