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as upon supposed minute characters, this is described as a very distinet 
species, under the name of Z. Griffithiana. The geographical principle 
disappears entirely when we know that all the plants labelled as above 
were from Dr. Voigt's collection made in the Botanie Garden of Se- 
rampore, and consisted of the plants cultivated there, with a few of the 
garden weeds. We have several specimens of this Zoysia from the same 
source and with the same label. It is the common sea-coast plant, 
starved apparently in the Serampore garden for want of its genial 
maritime air. Some of our fragments correspond to C. Müller's de- 
scription, but they are accompanied by a larger specimen (most pro- 
bably from the same tuft), in which almost all his characters disappear. 
We have not seen Dr. Müller's fifth specimen, gathered in Java by 
Zollinger, which he calls Z. aristata, but both the locality and the cha- 
racters are within the ordinary range of Z. pungens. 
If we had never seen our Poa annua growing, and if we were working 
in some remote corner of the globe (if such there be) where it does not 
grow, only possessing in our herbaria a half burnt-up hard fragment 
from the hot Mediterranean coast, a luxuriant specimen of the brightest 
green, with broad leaves, from some of the rich pastures of central 
Europe, a purplish-tinted Tom-Thumb specimen from one of our dry 
downs, a stunted compact one from the cold subarctic regions, and a 
strong one from the United States or some distant part of Siberia, could 
not we readily find microscopical and phytogeographical characters 
to distinguish them as so many species ? 
Tue PuvroLoorsT: a Botanical Journal. New Series. Nos. 1 and 2, 
May, June, 1855. London. W. Pamplin. 8vo. 
We are glad to sce this new series of ‘The Phytologist’ with the 
respectable name of “W. Pamplin” as the publisher. This is a sufficient - 
guarantee for the character and respectability of the journal, even io 
there were no such pledge given in the Introductory Address of the : 
editors as the following :—“ We are unbiassed by the views of parti- — 
cular schools, scientific coteries, and the like, and hence we call no man — 
our master. Again, as truth is our object, we will not be influenced 
by authority, however eminent, to swerve from verity. -On the other - 
hand, we will sedulously avoid giving any cause of offence to collabo- E 
rateurs in the great cause of science. Our aim will be to disseminate 
