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are made to the woods. My last illustration, the Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis J 

 called also Fair Maid of February, is a doubtful native of this country, being 

 usually found in orchards, or in meadows near houses. It is not very 

 uncommon in these situations, though by no means frequent in the Wycombe 

 district. Last Spring, however, a friend informed me that wild Snowdrops 

 grew at Knotty Green, to which place I went on the 2nd of March, a cold, 

 bleak, gusty day, and found it in the greatest abundance on a bank adjoining 

 an orchard, where it was at any rate, thoroughly naturalised. It also occurs 

 sparingly in meadows near Bradenham." 



The paper was illustrated by coloured plates and also by dried specimens : 

 the Mezereon was shown in flower. A discussion then ensued on the question 

 of native and naturalised species, and further information was elicited as to 

 localities. 



MORE NOTES ON THE OAK-LEAVED WOODBINE. 



Bi James Britten. 



As a supplement to Mr. Kidd's remarks on this plant * may I make 

 one or two extracts and observations with reference to its past and present 

 history ? Gerarde and Parkinson do not appear to have known of its 

 existence ; and it was first brought into notice by Merrett, who in his 

 Pinax (1667) p. 92, mentions it, under the name of Periclymenum fol, 

 quercinis, as having been found by Mr. Jenner not far from Oxford, this 

 locality is quoted in Dillenius' edition of Bay's Synopsis, and a second is 

 added on the authority of Mr. Knowlton — " on the way from Hitchen to 

 Wembly". Here it is named Caprifoliiim non perfoliatiim foliis sinuosus. 

 Blackstone in his list of Harefield plants, recorded it under the same name as 

 occurring in White Heath wood near Harefield, plentifully. In the 4th 

 Edition of Withering's " Arrangement" (1801), vol. ii. p. 2 13, the Oak- 

 leaved Woodbine is mentioned as " Yar. 2, Leaves indented" of the Com- 

 mon Honeysuckle, and the locality of Sir J. Woodhouse's Woods, 

 Norfolk," affixed on the authority of Mr. Woodward. From an article on 

 the suiiject in vol. vi. of the new series of Phytologist, p. 317, it a^^pears 

 that Baxter recorded it fjom the counties of Oxon, Berks, Warwick, and 

 Norfolk. In the Flora Bertfordiensis, (1849) p. 132, it is stated to occur 



* "NaturaHst," Vol. ii. 293—4. 



