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progress of vegetation is rapid or slow, in proportion to the 
prevalence of the latter or the former. 
But, “as soon as the golden sun has completely vanquished 
the winter, and opened up the sky with the light of summer/’ 
Flora then leads out her whole family, rejoicing in their new 
health and vigour, and vying with each other, as it were, in 
the beauty and the variety of their dresses. 
During several months of the summer, indeed, upwards of 
two hundred species may be gathered in flower, about 
Warley Common, in the space of one day. 
Amongst the most abundant ornamental flow T ers on the 
common, besides the beautiful Ulex, are, patches of Veronica 
officinalis, Erica Tetralix, Trifolium subterraneum, Anagallis 
tenella and caerulea, Ornithopus perpusillus, Drosera rotun- 
difolia, Menyanthes trifoliata, and Polygala in all its varied 
beauties. 
Doronicum plantagineum, Borago orientalis, and Linaria 
bipartita, have not, I believe, been elsewhere in England 
noticed growing apparently wild, certainly in this situation 
spontaneously. 
At the conclusion of the paper, Dr. M. remarked, that he 
had collected, in conjunction with a friend, 205 species in the 
neighbourhood of Warley, in one day’s excursion. 
DECEMBER 15th. 
J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Dr. Mac Intyre communicated some further remarks relative 
to the spontaneous vegetation of the vicinity of Warley, Essex, 
after which Mr. Dennes read the results of his excursions in 
the neighbourhood of Deal and Walmer, in which he princi- 
pally confirmed the stations for the rarer species given in 
Mr. Watson’s New Botanist’s Guide. The following are the 
principal localities : — 
Lathyrus pisiformis . Stony Beach between Walmer and 
Kingsdown, August, not common. 
Silene conica . . . Heath near Sandown Castle, very 
scarce, and not in flower in August. 
