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XXVI. On several new or impérfectly understood British and European Plants. 
By CnuanuEs C. BasinGton, M.A., F.L.S. F.G.S., &c. In a Letter to 
Epwarp Forster, Esg., V.P.L.S., &c. &c. 
Read December lst and 15th, 1835. 
My DEAR Sir, 
IF the following observations on a few newly discovered or imperfectly 
understood British and European plants appear to you worthy of being com- 
municated to the Linnean Society, I should feel much obliged by your sub- 
mitting them to that body at an early meeting. I may be allowed to add, that I 
am indebted to our mutual friend W. Borrer, Esq., F.L.S., &c. for drawing my 
attention to the subject, and granting me the use of his library and extensive 
herbarium in its elucidation. 
I am, &c. 
CHARLES C. BaniNGTON. 
St. John's College, Cambridge, 
October 13th, 1835. 
To E. Forster, Esq., V.P.L.S., &c. &c. 
l. Herniaria hirsuta. Linn. 
Caulibus herbaceis prostratis pilis patentibus hirsutis, foliis ovali-oblongis, 
florum sessilium glomerulis axillaribus. 
H. hirsuta. Linn. Herb.; Sp. PL 317. Huds. Fl. Angl. i. 109. Engl. Bot. 
1379. DeCand. Prodr. iii. 367. Pers. Syn. i. 292. Sm. Engl. FI. ii. 9. 
Bot. Gall. i. 197. Hooker, Brit. Fl. ed. 3. 144. 
Hoary Rupture-wort. Petiv. Herb. x. 10. 
Densely hairy throughout ; stems covered with straight spreading hairs, giving 
the plant a grey tinge; flowers large in comparison with the following 
species, but fewer in number in each cluster; calyx covered with strong 
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