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duit, rcmotis ; cyniis breve pedunculatis, paaciflork ; flovibus parvis, co- 

 riaceis ; corollas laciniis intus prope apicern barbatis, disco leprosis. 



Campelepis viminea. 



Nab. passim in Bactria Inferiore, prope Peshawur, Attock, &c. 



April 5. — R. Brown, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 

 Read the commencement of " A Catalogue of Spiders, either not 

 previously recorded or little known as indigenous to Great Britain, 

 with remarks on their Habits and Economy." By John Blackwall, 

 Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



FILAGO GALLICA, LINN. 



The Rev. W. L. P. Garnons, F.L.S., has had the good fortune to 

 rediscover this plant in Essex. In the autumn of 1841 he gathered 

 a single individual, and on the 12th of last October met with a con- 

 siderable number of specimens in fields at Bere Church near Col- 

 chester.— C. C.B. 



NEW BRITISH CARICES. 



Through the kindness of their respective discoverers, I have been 

 favoured with specimens of two species of Carex, which have not as 

 yet found a place in the catalogue of British plants. 1. C. paradoxa 

 (Willd.), found in Ireland — the exact place not stated — by D. Moore, 

 Esq. : it is closely allied to C. paniculata, from which I believe it is 

 to be distinguished by its much more strongly ribbed fruit, and by 

 the convex faces of its triquetrous stems. It also is very similar to 

 C. teretiuscula, from which it is separated by its strongly ribbed fruit, 

 and the bulbous base of its style. 2. C. Boenninghausiana (Weihe), 

 discovered near Hertford by the Rev. W. H. Coleman : closely 

 allied to C. remota and C. axillaris, but easily distinguished from 

 them by having the edges of its fruit fringed with minute teeth 

 from the end of the beak quite to the base of the fruit itself. 



I may take this opportunity of stating that C.irrigua ("Sm." 

 Hoppe), which was first detected by Mr. John Thompson at Muckle 

 Moss, Ridley, Northumberland, has also been found at Terregles 

 near Dumfries, by Mr. P. Gray. It is probably a common plant on 

 quaking bogs, having been overlooked as C. limosa, to which it is 

 very similar in appearance, differing by its broader leaves, scarcely 

 striated fruit, and glumes without a central longitudinal green band. 

 — C.C.B. 



PUS-LIKE GLOBULES OF THE BLOOD. 



Although the pus-like globules found in the blood of patients af- 

 fected with various severe inflammatory and suppurative diseases are 

 very like the pale globules now so well known as belonging to healthy 

 blood, it often happens that the former globules differ manifestly 

 from the latter. 



In inflammatory affections the pus-like globules of the blood are 

 generally rather larger, more irregular in size and form, and some- 



