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before or since. In Oxfordshire, where it is recorded as having 
occurred at Wychwood dua I believe it has not been found 
for many ae —James Bri 
ED PLants. — . mar that Prof. Thiselton Dyer 
as far akin as 1871 Falied attention in this Journal to the plants 
observed on the site of the Exhibition of 1862, amongst which he 
mentioned Epilobium angustifolium. Since then I have frequently 
noticed that this plant has a remarkable tendency to hold its 
ground wherever it once obtains a footing. On the railway rind 
from Whitchurch to Ellesmere, which crosses an extensive bog 
known as Whixall in. it lines both sides of the road, aia pe ea 
I passed pet last week formed a very showy and ited dpe 
object. I noticed the same plant on Shawbury Heath, ing an 
extensive bed. en wandering up a retired “alley of iy Long- 
mynd recently, near Church Stretton, I was much surprised to find 
Mimulus moschatus in vigorous growth by the side of a ittle 
distates up, and found it passed a cottage eset, no doubt 
their gardens, and poss ssibly at some future time other instances 
of naturalisation may be observed in out-of-the-way spots.— 
PHILLIPS. 
Myosurvu , Native or Cotonist ?— This plant, extinct 
in wiokeer Ontabieidgad ital still grows abundantly about Chatteris 
and gravelly highland loams, rarely extending the 
back coil of the fens. It is usually found only in wheat-fields, as 
it is an early plant, and itepet Pe destroyed by the spring 
tillage necessary for other Thus it has the appearance of a 
wth have been aa by cultivation. A more natural 
habitat is under trees growing on old highland pastures at Woods 
End, near Chatteris, Where the soil is bared by the stamping of 
cattle which congregate for shade and to resist the attacks of flies. 
permanent atbicee = the field. Our turbaries ‘ive evidence of the 
abundance of wild cattle in pre-historic times, so that we may fairly 
assume that Myosurus did not then lack the ‘‘cultivation’’ which 
seems necessary for its growth, and it may therefore be truly 
native. Has anyone seen it growing in “ waste places” ?—ALFRED 
Fryer. 
ToLyPELLA on Leonh. iw Linconnsuirze.— While botani- 
zing in Deeping Fen, South Ra TS at the end of July last, 
I observed the Sieve plant in two places. It was rather frequent 
in one drain in the Fen, and I eats a single specimen in another 
drain about four miles distant. Its occurrence in the various 
have been cleared of weeds. Rare even as a European plant, it is 
not known to have been gathered in England since the time of the 
