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Variety. 



Partridge. A beautiful variety of this bird was sbot on the 15th of 

 ISTovember, at Southwood, by Mr. Darby ; the whole of its plumage was of 

 a cream colour, mottled with small patches of pale chesnut brown, the pale 

 chesnut brown patch of its face and throat Avas the same as in ordinary 

 specimens. I exhibited this bird at a meeting of the Norwich ITaturahsts' 

 Society. See Naturalist vol. iii, page 136. 



3, West Potter gate, Norwich. 



WILD PLANTS AT WOODGEEEN, LONDON, N. 



By G. Munby. 



I am glad to observe from time to time in the Naturalist, the mention 

 of localities of plants in the neighbourhood of London, as from the increase 

 of house building the records of their locahties will soon be historical facts. 

 I have not visited Hampstead Heath for a great many years, but I should 

 not fancy it exactly the place to make a botanical excursion to, how much- 

 soever I might be tempted by the habitats of rare plants, given by Eay in 

 his Synopsis. The day is gone by when Mr. Doody invited Ray to his 

 garden in the Strand, to observe the Cup-mushrome growing, or when 

 these old gentlemen were used to take a stroll, to enrich their herbaria, 

 with plants found at Chelsea or Chiswick. Nor shall we, I hope, ever 

 see again an abundant crop of Sisymbrium Irio, growing near London 

 Bridge, as it did after the great fire of London. I myself, found in the 

 Seven Sisters' road at Hollo way, the CEnantlie Pliellandrium, only three years 

 ago, and I suppose the locality is already covered with modern semi-detached 

 villas. I am induced to record at Woodgreen, and its neighbourhood, the 

 existence of the following species, which I hope may be interesting to some 

 of your botanical readers, not perhaps from their rarity, but rather from 

 their having been hitherto passed over, and from their poor chance of keeping 

 a footing in this suburb of London, which will very shortly possess nothing 

 but the name of its original title ; the " wood," only exists in tradition, and 

 the green" is fast disappearing under the accumulation of bricks and mor- 

 tar, and the rapacity of encroaching landlords enclosing the common lands 

 which constituted the " Green Lanes," of former times. 



