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may mention that I have seen fourteen specimens of this barnacle attached to a single 

 examiile of Caryophyllia Smithii that was dredged in Plymouth Sound, by Mr. T. H. 

 Stewart.— £. W. H. Holdsworlk ; 26, Osnaburgh Street. 



Botanist's Corner. 



British Cyclamen. — I can partially assist Mr. Clark (Zool. 6952) in his desire to 

 determine the species of the British Cyclamen, being myself a native of Sandhurst, 

 the Kentish locality in which the plant is found, and having for a long period taken 

 a great interest in it. The Sandhurst Cyclamen blossoms in September, though 

 occasionally a few llowers may come forth in August ; others of whom I have inquired 

 confirm my own persuasion, that it has never been known in bloom at any other 

 season. The original and only spot in Sandhurst where Cyclamens were found is (or 

 was) a narrow strip of coppice upon a farm on the norihern side of the parish, which 

 farm was once the residence of one of the small country gentlemen formerly so nume- 

 rous, but the Cyclamen wood is too far from the house to render it very probable that 

 the plant had by some accident found its way thither from the garden. Both the 

 white and the pink varieties grew there, and that they throve is most certain. I am 

 not aware that any restriction was placed upon persons supplying themselves at plea- 

 sure, and the existence of the plant in that locality was very generally known. I 

 remember to have heard, and can quite believe it to be true, that a small nursery- 

 gardener, long in business at Sandhurst, had during his time forwarded bushels of 

 Cyclamen roots to one of the large gardeners in the neighbourhood of London. At 

 the Eectory we possessed the plant in great abundance, and, when in full blossom, a 

 a bed of the two colours intermingled presented a splendid appearance. That the 

 Cyclamens are very prolific we had plentiful evidence, and that if the ground around 

 the beds had been left in a state of nature it would have been covered with them. 

 That they are likewise very hardy I can testify, having myself tried them, and known 

 them to have been tried by others, in a great variety of soils where they have always 

 increased rapidly, when properly managed, the grand secret being to leave them 

 perfectly undisturbed, without permitting a tool of any kind to be used in the spot 

 devoted to them. I have no doubt that long before this time many persons, perhaps 

 some strangers as well as natives, have been puzzled by finding Cyclamens in many 

 places in and around Sandhurst beside that where they were originally discovered. 

 The fact is that lest they should be extirpated from their native (?) settlement pains 

 were taken, partly by myself, to propagate them both by plants and seeds elsewhere, 

 and I have often, when walking or riding, carried a supply of seed-pods, which I have 

 scattered in the woods I passed through or by. I regret that this notice will be so 

 long before it can possibly reach Mr. Clark's eye, but I was quite unequal to preparing 

 it at the time I wished to have done so. — Arthur Hussey ; Rottingdean, June iQ, 

 1860. 



