This rare and beautiful British plant is now in flower on many of the Dorsetshire heaths. Last week I found it very abundant about two miles from Corfe Castle, some acres of ground being thickly sprinkled with its large blue flowers. Although the plant generally has but one or two flowers on a stem, I found many with five or six, and one magnificent specimen with seven fully opened flowers and four buds. I also found some very dark and some pale blue varieties, one almost milk-white, and one root with several stems, all bearing double flowers. This district is evidently one of the head-quarters of the species, yet its distribution is very erratic, and you may walk for miles over some of the heaths without finding a specimen, although there is no apparent difference in the soil or the surrounding vegetation. Where it grew most luxuriantly was not boggy or even damp, but a rather dry sandy loam, a fact which may afford a hint for its successful cultivation.

--A. R. W., Parkstone, Dorset.