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which, although recorded upon good authority as natives of Cam- 
bridgeshire, have not been found there for very many years.” 
Ray, in his Cat. Pl. Gare 1660, p. 154, gives as localities for his 
Senecio hirsutus viscidus major odoratus, ‘‘on the Fen banks 
almost in the Isle of Ely’; and again in his deen Pl. Angliz, 1670, 
‘on the Fen-banks in the Isle of Ely, plentifully.” In Relhan’s 
Flora Cant., ed. 1 (1775), p. 315, the localities given for Senecio 
viscosus are ‘‘ Gamlingay, Mepole : Chatteress” ; — in the 8rd ed. 
in the 1st edition) as occurring at ‘‘ Hi sph on the Furze Hills.’ 
In Babington’s ‘ Flora of Cambridgeshire ’ we find the localities i 
this latter species are—‘‘1, Furze Hills, Hildersham; 8, Gam 
lingay,” both given on his personal authority. aie eight years! 
careful search with a view to rediscover Senecio viscosus, I hay 
failed to find it on or about the fen banks or other ancient josalifen 
given by Ray and Relhan for the Isle of Ely; but Senecio sylvaticus 
has occurred eee in the parishes of Mepal, mienatte prin 
Benwick, ington, Manca, an arch, in Dist th 
Flora of Gain s., and more rarely in Witcham Fen, in a Dhiba 6. 
The question naturally arises—Has the one plant died out and ise 
replaced by the other in the same cMratete only, or was there an 
error in the older records ?—Aurrep Fryer. 
UBUS SAXATILIS IN a eciem — My friend, the Rev. Ernest 
Ellman, has shown a dried piece of Rubus saxatilis which he 
gatherod i in the Fe ‘of the East Lyn, near Brendon, North Devon, 
early in June last. He informs = that the plant oceurs there in 
fair quantity.—T. R. Arcuer Brice 
Kast Cornwauut Piants.—On nae 14th Mr. ky and I were 
at Bude, and on Summerleaze Down found over a dozen small 
plants of Hrigeron acris, a species which in “Topographical Botany’ 
(ed. 2) is not reported for East Cornwall. Earlier in the same day 
he had found on the other side of the bay about half a dozen patches 
of Carduus acaulis, recorded in this J Siena! for 1878, p. 89, by the 
Rey. Dr. Hind from ‘‘ Bude,” but not treated as a Cornish plant by 
Watson. In the same locali ty were a large number of plants of 
Gentiana Amarella, which appears not to have been before met with 
anywhere further east in the county than the mesoglea of 
"bil (see Keys’ ‘Flora of Devon and Cornwall’). — W. MoyLe 
OGER 
A Suecrstion.—Will you allow me to suggest that it would be 
well for those who record new, “critical,” or rare sp<cies of British 
plants in the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ to send confirmatory specimens 
to be placed in the National Herbarium at the British Museum ? 
The pursuance of this plan would not only afford additional security 
against false records, but it would enable those botanists who are 
unable or unwishful to avail themselves of Mr. F. A. Lees’ able 
censorship to establish, on occasion, their right to priority of record. 
I have set aside and will forward to you for the National Herbarium 
specimens of such plants as I have recorded in your pages, and on 
