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S. palustris L. Sp. Pl. A bbe 1666. ‘In the medows 
betwixt Woolwich and Greenwich by the banks of Thames.”— 
Merrett, 115. “Th. Willisellas fevers ad sh eg Tamesis fluvii non 
longe a ‘Grenvico. "Ray, 1677). 
ragopogon pratensis L. Sp. Pl. 789 (1753). 1548. 
Ly Geoweh in the fieldes abet London per tai "Turn. 
ames, B y. 
Lobelia Dortmanna L. Sp. Pl. 929 (1753). 1677. ‘Ina 
Pool or _ called Hullswater that divides Westmorland from 
Cumberlan miles from Pereth plentifully.’’"—Ray, Cat. ed. 2, 132. 
L. ure . Pl. 981 (1758). heroes * a eo 
Common inte Axminster et Honiton. D.N ry.”’—Hud 378. 
Jasi ee L. ie Pl. 928 isd). "1629. J Pa ee 
montana natin .”—John ent, 9. 
Wahienbergia hederacea Reichb. Ic. Bot. v. 47. 1633. 
‘‘ First discovered to grow in Boe gland by Master George Bowles 
Anno 1682, who found it HA ontgomerie shire, on the dry bankes 
in the high-way as one rideth from Dolge 88 a pa ts cae e- 
mans house called Mr. Francis Herbert, unto a market 
called Mahuntleth, and in all the way from thence to the sea ae 
—Ger. em. 452 
' (To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
ArtiriciaL Epretwetss. — Some enbespriaing persons have hit 
Peseta of Kdelweiss, which at the same Gaia saves the trouble of 
growing and rearing them. The white woollen felted material of 
military coats, worn chiefly by Austrian soldiers, when cut into 
of the plant, more a iarianacle of course when the colour is s 
what mellowed by exposure and the natural ibet 2 wearin a 
the material t the happy thought has suggested itself 
of buying up quantities of these discarded military coats, and 
8 i or 
this year by a resident in Lucerne 
dispose satisfactorily of his garden-stock, owing to ae papi ers 
in the rival method of production making the plant a dru 
I therefore bought a oS and on Sssesting it with 
sp 
complete.—F. N, Wi 
Los URENS. — be J uly 20th I was taken to the habitat of 
this cant, a aie (Devon). It may interest your readers 
