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XXI. Remarks on Hypnum recognition, and on several nezv 

 Species of Roscoea; in a Letter to William George Mat on, M.D. 

 F.R.S. V.P.L.S.,from Sir James Edward Smilh, M.D. I.R.S. 

 Pres. L.S. 



Read December 5, 1820. 



My dear Sib, 

 Permit me to offer you a few remarks, relating to Botany, 

 made last summer in the course of a journey to Liverpool. 



I was happy to find the Botanic Garden there in a very flou- 

 rishing state, and a taste for the scientific study of plants be- 

 coming more and more prevalent. The greatest curiosities in 

 that collection perhaps were Nepenthes dcstillatoria, raised, in 

 great plenty, from East Indian seeds, and beginning to show the 

 singular appendage to its leaves ; as well as a new Cypripedium, 

 and the Paris polyphylla, Rees's Cyclopaedia, vol. 26, both brought 

 alive from Nepal. Serapias Lingua from the south of Europe 

 was scarcefy less rare or interesting. 



The garden is peculiarly rich in hardy perennial plants, espe- 

 cially of the natural orders of Composite and Caryophyllece. 1 

 never before met with the true Arenaria saiatilis, either in a 

 living or dried state, except in the Linnaean Herbarium ; what 

 Mr. Hudson and many others have taken for this species being 

 nothing more than A. -cerna. 



Among the greenhouse plants I was shown a line bush of 

 JVilldenovia teres, in full flower, a plant hitherto unknown to 

 some of my most learned friends in the metropolis, of which I 



inclose a specimen. 



The 



