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mentioned Gnaphalium dioicum, still lingering on the north 

 sides of a few of the hollows, and Aceras anthropophora, Yerbascum 

 nigrum and Atropa Belladonna, frequent in the more recent 

 quarries : about a mile from Southorpe is Wittering Marsh, caused 

 by a little stream running out of the Whitewater. Car ex pan iculata, 

 Junms obtusiflorus, Ertophortm angustifolium, E. latifolhnn, Epipactis 

 palmtns, Gymnadenm conopsea, Pinguecula vulgaris, Carduus pratensis, 

 and Menyanthes trifoliata may still he found. Prom Stamford an 

 old Koman road now covered with grass leads to Oundle, and 

 altorc some uncommon species, Astragal* hypoglottis, Hippocrepis, 



terastium arvense Orchis pyramidalis, Gentiana Amarella and 



campestns, &c. ; bordering this road are the woods of Bedford 

 ^urheus where Convalhnia, Aquilegm, and Melica uniftor* are 

 abundant. I wo miles west of Stamford are Colly weston quarries, 

 Tvnere Aeeras anthropophora and Arabis hirsuta are plentiful, and 

 Orchis ustulata and Origanum vulgar* also occur. 



Harleston Firs, frequently quoted, are some fir woods on the 

 sand, and yield many interesting plants, rare or absent on the 

 oolitic districts of the county. Up to comparatively recent times 

 tne locality was a sandy common, and then yielded several species 

 now extinct. 



Foxhall Bog is situated on what was once Oldfield, about five 

 miles from Kettering ; it is now converted into sheep farms, and 

 pne bog recently planted with sallows will soon cease to deserve 



its name: Gymnadenia conopsea, Cardials pratensis, Piw/uicula, 

 AnagaUss tenella, Pedicularis palustris, Valeriana dioica were formerly 

 abundant here. - 



Badby Woods, four miles from Weedon, on the greensand, are 

 also rich, Vieia sylratica, Equisetum sylvaticum, Lathyrus sylvestiis, 



^ysimachut nemorum, Hicracium boreale behncr nlnntifnl 



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of «5 l2 l\ MAXIMA > £•> IN Jeesey. — This conspicuous grass, a native 

 rL\5? ! n Euro P e especially in the Mediterranean region, is 

 MRTof t mmg nat uralised in Jersey. During the last summer 

 of tli ■ 1 notlced ifc in tllree distinct places in the N., S.W., and E. 

 cav and res P ecti vely, namely, at Plemont, by the celebrated 



dverns ; at La Haule, near St. Aubin's, most plentifully, close by 

 iie station for Ranunculus charophyllus, L. ; and in St." Saviour's 

 win i J he N,E - of St Helier's. The late Dr. M. M. Bull, 

 most • last Au S ust has deprived the Channel Islands of its 



that } ene f getic . botanist, informed me, with reference to this grass, 

 Waa v first ODScrv ed it six or seven years ago, and that it 



native i* 0a r lg year by year * Br '~-" >" ayima is > I believe, in its 

 f tJi °w~*7 (i.e., the Azores, Madeira, Canaries, and the whole 



CW).° e ditcrraiieaii region) nearly always associated with 

 v »t(ms echinatus, L„ and B ramus nuu-imus, Desv. Both these 



