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of (E. Phellandrium, both in form and proportion, have added a 

 satisfactoiy character to those previously observed. 



P.S. I should add that QL. fluviatilis, removed to such a pond 

 as (E. Phellandrium grows in, has preserved the character of its 

 submersed leaves for twelve months, but has not flowered. 



Christ's Hospital, Hertford, Dec. 7, 1843. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IIL 



Fig. I. Submersed leaf of (Eiianthe fluviatilis. 



— 2. Upper stem, leaf and umbel of do. 



— 3. Ripe fruit. 



— 4. Section of tmripe fruit. 



— 5. Ripe fruit of CE. Phellandrium. 



— 6. Section of unripe fruit of do. 



Note. — Mr. Borrer has observed (E. fluviatilis in several parts 

 of England, and when a young botanist, and unacquainted with 

 Cicuta virosa, he mistook it in the young state for that plant, and 

 it is published on his authority as such as growing at Canterbury 

 and Ashford, in Turner and Dillwyn^s ^ Botanist^s Guide.^ I have 

 seen what I believe to be the same plant, but without flowers, in 

 a brook at Cheriy Hinton and in the river Cam at Granchester, 

 Cambridgeshire. — C. C. B. 



XXVI. — The Musci and Hepaticse of Teesdale. By Richard 

 Spruce, Esq., F.B.S.* 



There is not perhaps in the British Islands a lover of wild plants 

 who has not heard of Teesdale, and who does not presence in his 

 herbarium, as objects of especial interest, some, at least, of its 

 many rarities ; and there are not many, with the means in their 

 power, who have denied themselves the exquisite pleasure of see- 

 ing these " gems of Flora '' in their native wilds, and of gather- 

 ing them with their own hands. Yet half a century ago no 

 botanist had set foot in Teesdale, and it is little more than thirty 

 years since " old Binks, the miner,^^ discovered Gentiana verna, 

 " doomed '^ till then " to blush unseen,^^ though existing in the 

 greatest profusion. To this beautiful plant he and his friend the 

 late Mr. Oliver of Middleton shortly afterwards added the no less 

 rare Saxifraga Hirculus ; and within the space of a few years they 

 had become acquainted with nearly every flowering-plant and 

 fern known to gi-ow in Teesdale at the present day. A district 

 so fertile in uncommon Phanerogamous plants might reasonably 

 be expected to produce an equal abundance of Cryptogamia, and 

 a reference to the second volume of Hooker^s ^British Flora' will 

 show that it has been very successfully explored for lichens, 



* Read before the Botanical Society at Edinburgh, 11th Jan. 1844. 



