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Vellosie, their nearest relations, cover whole plains in different 
latitudes in the interior; never in the forests. They give a 
singular and strange character to the landscape, not to be 
represented but by the pencil: they resemble some Dracene. 
The Melastomacee are found every where, and in every sitaa- 
tion. The Vochisiacee are numerous, and many are most 
beautiful flowering-trees, and afford excellent timber; they 
also affect various localities, as likewise do the Myrtacee. 
The Laurinee are numerous, particularly to the southward; 
but in Para are species producing the finest Cinnamon, and a 
kind of Nutmeg is also found there.” 
OBSERVATIONS ON SOME BRITISH PLANTS, 
PARTICULARLY WITH REFERENCE TO THE 
ENGLISH FLORA OF SIR JAMES E. SMITH.— 
Bx W. WILSON, Esq. 
[Continued from Vol. I. p. 339.] 
14. Scirpus cespitosus.— Cheshire, May 8, 1827.—1I do 
not find the 6 bristles at the base of the seed to be forked. 
The stem is always slightly compressed, and strongly striated. , 
15. Scirpus pauciflorus.— Wales, June 19, 1826.— Bristles 
with deflexed spines. The roof sends out jointed runners. 
Stems often 6 or 7 together, from the crown of each root. — 
16. Scirpus fluitans.—July 4, 1828.—Stem alternately 
branched, compressed, each branch. with a sheathing leaf; 
inclosed in a 2-ribbed, membranous, ovato-lanceolate sheath, 
at first tubular nearly throughout, but subsequently torn. 
Seed obovate, compressed, scarcely, if at all, keeled on the 
back, covered with a beautifully reticulated skin: embryo at 
the base of the seed, immersed ip the albumen ; no bristles. 
. Style deciduous, very short; outer glumes generally, if not 
always, abortive. | : 
. Vi. Scirpus lacustris.—Anglesea, July 26, 1826.— Fruit 
