Keats, writing to his brother some days after the event, tells him he had been to see Kirkman, who had not recovered of his bruises. A FRAGMENT OF THE FLORA OF HAMPSTEAD. In the reigns of Elizabeth and James the herbalists appear to have had Hampstead Heath very much to themselves. The laundresses must have had light feet, and children have been comparatively few. Otherwise they did not wander so far as Bishop’s Wood, or the old Target Bank, where the lilies of the valley grew so plentifully in Johnson’s time. Johnson was the pupil of Gerard, and the editor of a new edition of his master’s work, the ‘Great Herbal.’ To this lover of Nature, an apothecary by profession, is due the honour of having prepared the first catalogue of local plants ever published in England, the locality of these plants being the Heath and the Woods of Hampstead; many of the plants have survived the predatory habits of London flower-vendors, and still flourish in their old habitats. Of the survivors, we are glad to give the following list from personal acquaintance with them: _March and April._ COMMON DAISY (_Bella perennis_).—Perennial everywhere. We gathered it on the East Heath January 26, 1874. BLACKTHORN (_Prunus spinosa_).—Upper and West Heath. MARSH MARIGOLD (_Caltha palustris_).—The borders of the old watercourse at the back of Jack Straw’s Castle. This watercourse is now extinct (1895). PASQUE FLOWER (_Anemone Pulsatilla_).—On a bank at the edge of the Upper Heath. A small bed of it amongst the whitethorn-trees going to the Leg of Mutton Pond. DANDELION (_Leontodon taraxacum_).—In grassy places. East and West Heaths, everywhere. WOOD CROWFOOT, GOLDYLOCKS (_Ranunculus auricomus_).—Amongst the trees beyond the red viaduct, Lower Heath. We look in vain for the primroses which adorned the hedgerows and overspread the woods in Gerard’s time, and the cowslips ankle-deep in the meadows between Kilburn and the Heath. Like the lilies of the valley, the orchids and ophreys, they have long since been exterminated by mendicant root-vendors, or buried under the foundations of modern streets. _May._ WILD HYACINTH, BLUEBELL (_Hyacinthus non-scriptus_).—Plentiful on the grassy banks beside the New Road leading to Child’s Hill. SPEEDWELL GERMANDER (_Veronica_).—In the same neighbourhood. WOOD SORREL (_Oxalis acetosella_).—Under the shade of some old thorn-stocks, south side of the watercourse, Upper Heath. BUTCHER’S BROOM (_Ruscus aculeatus_).—Bushy places about the neighbourhood of the pond, near the red viaduct, Lower Heath. SHEPHERD’S PURSE (_Bursa pastoris_).—Common by roadsides everywhere. CRAB APPLE (_Pyrus malus_).—On the right hand of the watercourse behind Jack Straw’s Castle, descending the Heath, near the pond. HAWTHORN, HAGTHORN, MAYBUSH (_Crategus oxyacanthus_).—In the same neighbourhood, right and left.