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localities, but there is nothing of the kind to account for its oceur- 
rence in the above station. Tt f occurs in abundance . Hunstanton, 
and probably in other localities about the Wash, but the nearest 
possible station in acl to the sea would be at least forty miles 
distant.—H. N. Dix 
Witp Frowers ar a Ramway Sration.—It may interest some of 
your readers to know that while waiting for a train at an important 
station in Cornwall on September 7th, 1901, I counted fifty-two _ 
species of flowering plants and ferns, in flower or fruit, without 
going beyond the platform on either side. The fact that the station 
n a cutting, with a good deal . bare or nearly bare rock expos 
ategaaibe for the presence of most of the ferns (eight species) and 
many of the other plants. es g the more interesting plants 
on were—Dianthus Armeria (Gntecdtieed many years ago), 
Epilobium lanceolatum (frequent in the district), Spirea salicifolta 
(of course planted), Solidago Virgaurea, Jasione montana, Ser ophularia 
& 
nodosa, Stachys arvensis, Teucrium Scorodonia, Luzula sylvatica, Pterts 
aquilina, Lomaria Spicant, Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, Athyruum 
Filix-femina, Scolopendrium vulgare, Lastrea Filia-mas, L. dilatata, 
and Polypodium vulgare. There is reason to believe that all fifty- 
two, except the Dianthus and Spirea, are of spontaneous growth ; an 
it may be mentioned that Linaria viscida, which I have seen growing 
between the metals in many parts of England cat — Continent, 
was conspicuous by its absence.—H. Sruarr — 
Romus Maximus Desf. in West Lancasut re peapags 
October 31st last, Mr. Charles ers pioneered me to the place 
on the sandhills to the south of St. Anne’s-on-Sea, where Ambrosia 
artemisi@folia L. was found by him to ‘be so well astablisticl. Hard 
by, a large and very tall green tuft or two of a handsome Bromus 
attracted us both simultaneously, and recalled at once to my mind 
the appearance of B. maximus Desf. in a similar lonely situation at 
Millbrook, St. Aubin’s Bay, Jersey. Upon Poesaryes this surmise 
has proved to be a correct one.—J. Cosmo Mutvr 
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