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destroyed. I did not find it, nor have any recent visitors to the 
spot, as far as I am informed. It is quite clear that the plant once 
grew there, and it will probably be found in some similar locality 
in S. Wales. Mr. Holcombe seems to have been the Pembroke- 
shire botanist of the middle of the last century, and to have shown 
Sir Joseph Banks and others many of the plants recorded under 
their names. For instance, he claims to have ‘‘ had the honour of 
discovering Sison verticillatum [our Carum verticillatum] first to be 
an English plant,” and informed Sir Joseph Banks of it through 
Mr. Lightfoot, by whom it was mentioned to Hudson, who inserted 
itin the ‘ Flora Anglica’ (Ed. 2, p. oy: on the authority of Sir J. 
s. No one says mee about Mr. Hole ombe, and so I hope 
that this note may be worthy of publication, to add his name to 
the accurate students of British Botany, who have never them- 
selves SE the results of their studies. "s. C. Basinerton, 
HELLEBORUs FeTIDUS IN GLAMORGANSHIRE.—Except in the south 
and ea" of England, thie: plant j is generally considered as an escape 
from cultivation. It is recorded from Glamorgan in Top. Bot., with 
doubt as to its nativity. I found it in August last, i the upper 
end of Three Cliffs Bay, Gower, ey the bay 2 gee into a 
bushes, and the appearance of the plants themselves, all scons a 
long period in which the soil had been undisturbed by the spade, 
and the nature of the groer i a6 and its surroundings ededan the 
idea of any other mode of cultivation there.—Joun F. 
Carruness Borany (see Journ. Bot. 1885, 333). — I was exceed- 
ingly sista to see the record of work done in Sutherland and 
Caithness by Rev. H. Fox and Mr. F. J. Hanbury. I am very 
well acquainted with the latter county, and when I botaniz 
part of it in 1888, I added some new records, a few of which 
i efore speaking 
Reseda Luteola, Leontodon hispidus, Oden incarnata, and Scirpus 
uniglumis, can claim that honour,* all the others arate been 
previously discovered by myself and other local botanists; some, 
as Pyrus Aucuparia, Rhin pinta otey eee: and Salix ei nered, 
so common that their omission from the ‘Cybele’ must have 
been accidental. Caithness is almost erly devoid of trees, and . 
montana and Sambucus nigra, as well as Pyrus Aria and a few — 
others, are very foe at From ae Sirti on of the little 
natural wood now rem ning, I was then led to conclude that 
Populus tremula, Pyrus ENN, Betula alba and Corylus Avellana, 
* [Our correspondent does not, we ae notice that Messrs. Fox and Han- 
bury only stated that the plants not recorded in second edition of 
‘ Topographical Botany.’ ’’—Ep, Journ Bony, 
