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THE NATURALIST. 



Algeria, and I believe generally in Europe. Barrelier gives a very fair repre- 

 sentation of it in his Icones Plantarum, pi. 20. Ray also gives a good des- 

 cription of it in his Synopsis 2nd edition, p. 269, under tlie name of " the 

 lesser spiked grass with a long interrupted ear." 



Hypericum tretrapteriim, Fries. This plant is not uncommon by the 

 sides of ditches at Woodgreen. I follow the opinion of Koch and other con- 

 tinental writers, in [referring this species to the denomination of Fries, in 

 opposition to Sir J, Smith, and Mr. Babington, who refer it to H. quadran- 

 gulum,, of Linnseus, which last named plant I conceive to be identical with 

 II. duhium, of Leers' Flora Herbornensis, p. 169, and is found generally in 

 in mountainous districts, and near Geneva reaches the height of several 

 thousand feet, as the top of the Jura, &c, 



Sison Amomum, L. Common in hedge bottoms. 



CEgopodium Podagraria, L. Road side, near Alderman Sidney's 

 house. 



Anemone nemorosa, L. Colney Hatch railway tunnel. 



Scilla nutans, L. Common under hedges about Woodgreen. There are 

 few plants which have been more bandied about from genus to genus than - 

 the species under consideration. There is no valid reason for changing the 

 old Linnsean name of Hyacinthus non-scriptus, except by making a genus 

 specially for it, as Dumortier has done by calling it Endgmion, or Link, by 

 giving it the name of Agraphis. It certainly has not got the patent starlike 

 perigone of the genus Scilla, but it has the campanulate perigone of Hyacin- 

 thus. This plant was called in Ray's time (end of the 18th century,) 

 Harebells, which name the Campanula rotundifolia, or Bluebells of Scotland, 

 seems to have usurped at the present day. It is common almost all over 

 the continent of Europe, and has been found once in Algeria at the height 

 of 3000 feet. 



Sparganium simplex, Huds. 8. ramosum, L., var. p. This plant is 

 found sparingly in the old cut of the ISTew River, being able with great diffi- 

 culty to obtain a place on account of the Anacliaris Alsinastrmn, or 

 American pond weed, which actually dries up the water to such an extent 

 that perch are found lying dead by dozens in the summer months. 



Malva moschata, L. This very pretty little flower is not uncommon 

 by the roadsides. There are doubtless other interesting plants in the neigh- 

 bourhood, but my short sojourn at Woodgreen has not enabled me so far to 

 detect any other species worthy of observation. 



Laivn Villas, Woodgreen, November, 1865. 



