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have made up their minds to play a waiting game. The Valerianella, 
on the other hand, feared the extinction of its race unless it could 
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I have sporen above & plants which I have gathered in some 
all the common autu sei weeds, such as Jasione montana, Senecio 
erucefolius, Centaurea Scabiosa, Erythrea Centaurium, &.—C. B. 
CLARKE. : 
ONCHUS PALUSTRIS IN OxrorpDsHiRE. — About four years ago the 
Rev. H. Elwell, while visiting —— told me he thought he had 
he 
seen eft palustris in the county when he was an undergraduate 
about 1867. He remembered the locality, and conducted me to 
it, at he was not absolutely certain if he it upon the exact 
deep ditch by a high hedge in a sequestered part of the county, far 
from habitation, where he first saw it. Our a was unsuccessful, 
and I am bound to say my own opinion was that a form of S. 
arvensis had been mistaken for it. The sooality. though damp, was 
not quite my idea of the place to find S. palustris, and the record 
remains unconfirmed. Recently Mr. Riddelsdell told me he thought 
S. palustris occurred in a certain district, which at once reminded 
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rita thirty plants of the true S, palustris in what I have no doubt 
a native station. It is a relic, probably, of a paludal vegetation 
‘dich drainage and cultivation have nearly or are Mt hesitate, 
for obvious reasons, to localise it precisely —_G. Ciarmex Druce. 
YGALA oxyPTERA Reichb. mv 8S. Han ge el s. Linton 
and sayeall’ met with this plant on May 8rd, between Holiday and 
Sway. It is recorded for Wight and N. Hants. We also pg 
Eriophorum grec ee at SReewet which appears to be a 
station for it.— rp 8. Mar 
UBUS SPECTABILIS NATURALIZED. Lie it worth while warning the 
young botanists coming on, or to come on, that Rubus spectabilis 
Pursh is not really a native plant? In a wood near Hythe (Sand- 
mo 
ling), Kent, s a d ince, it was even 
commonly diffused rag ys the wood than R. Ideus. How i 
got there I do not know; it may have been planted as cover for 
game, or for the sake of its feats as food for pheasants, or it may 
have been thrown out originally with garden refuse, or sown by 
i There is, however, no garden very near at and. The 
n.—Max 
ONICERA ae ww West Kent (p. 158). — On May 23rd 
Capt. Wolley Dod kindly took me to his station for this were! 
which was already past the prime of its flowering. I am quite o 
his opinion as to its not having : 
prima facie objection to its ren a true nati 
ut cjmen occurs there. No introduced plant wai 
excepting some larches lower down the hill, with which it had 
