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grew there, but I am doubtful if it can now be found there.— Vinca minor. Tox- 
teth Park, and in profusion at the Nut Woods, near Hale. Dr. B. I should 
doubt if it was really wild in the first-mentioned locality.— Statice limonium. 
Garston. Dr. B.— Nai'cissus pseudo-narcissus. Bank Hall. Dr. B. Mr. Tudor 
says this is a very suspicious locality, and that it has the appearance of once being 
a garden.— Chrysosplen him oppositi'folium. Gateacre. Dr. B.— Cotyledon um¬ 
bilicus. On old walls about Liverpool. Dr. B.— Sedum villosum. Bootle. Mr. 
James Roscoe. — Rosa tomentosa. Bootle. S.— Nuphar lutea. In the river Alt, 
by Formby. S. This I have never seen in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, or in 
Cheshire, though the White Water-lily (W. alba.) is very common.—* Ranun¬ 
culus parvijlorus. Bootle. Dr. B. Crosby. S.— Orobanche major. Near Aller- 
ton Hall, on the road to Liverpool. R. Roscoe. —* Geranium sanguineum. 
Sand hills, north shore. Dr. B.—* Trifolium scabrum. Tide Milldam. Dr. B. 
This is destroyed.—T. B. Hall, Woodside , Liverpool , May 4, 1838. 
Clinopodium vulgare. —At p. 27 of The Naturalist , I stated that Clinopodium 
vulgare was mentioned in the New Botanists’ Guide , but I find that it is an 
error on my part, as it is not mentioned there. I discovered my mistake on read¬ 
ing Mr. Watson’s Geography of British Plants , where it is included in the 
catalogue of species occurring in twelve local floras, and consequently excluded by 
Mr. Watson’s test.— Id. 
Possibility of cultivating Tea in Northern Countries. —In a letter from 
the Abbe Voisin to M. Stanislas Julien, we find a statement which proves that 
the Tea-tree may be cultivated in our northern climates. The former has resided 
twelve years in China, near the frontiers of Thibet, in which country all the spe¬ 
cies of Tea are successfully cultivated in the plains, as well as on the mountains ; 
although the degree of cold there much exceeds that of our winters, and the snow 
never melts before the end of April. Twenty-four treatises concerning Tea have 
been composed in China from the seventh century to the present time, and which 
contain all the requisite instructions for the culture and preparation of this plant, 
and which will be translated by M. Voisin, if required in Europe.— Athenaeum, 
May 26, 1838. 
Cultivation of Vanilla in France. — M. Charles Morren has succeeded in 
raising the Vanilla in France, and making it produce fruit. He placed the plants 
in Coke, strewn with the remains of rotten Willow-wood. In this situation the 
same plant bears fruit only every alternate year, and twelve months elapse between 
the fecundation of the flower and the maturity of the fruit.— Id. 
Power of Lightning. —A very fine Oak-tree, in the park of the Duke of Buck¬ 
ingham, was shivered into shreds by lightning, lately; every particle of the outer 
bark was torn off the trunk and larger branches, and scattered to a distance of 
sixty yards from the tree. The fibres of the wood itself were separated into 
