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Short Communications. 



Paris quadrifblia, — In addition to 

 Professor Henslow's table (in V. 431.) 

 of the conditions of this species, I 

 supply the following, observed in plants 

 of it at Bath, in June, 1832 : they note 

 one new variety, No. 39. 



Charles C. Babington. 

 St, JohrCs College^ Cambridge^ 

 May 13. 1834.. 



Are Potentilla reptans, and Tormentilla r^ptans, distinct 

 species P (VI. 251.) — In this neighbourhood Tormentilla rep- 

 tans has five petals in, I would at a rough guess say, three 

 cases out of every four ; and hence it is extremely difficult to 

 distinguish between it and Potentilla reptans. The calyx of 

 Potentilla reptans itself is, too, sometimes 8-cleft; and, when 

 this circumstance is coupled with the former, I cannot con- 

 ceive any imaginable specific distinction between it and Tor- 

 mentilla reptans. Indeed, I am inclined to believe that they 

 are only varieties of one species, dependent on differences of 

 soil. — J. Jones. Gelh/, Llanfair^ Montgomeryshire^ March 28. 

 1834. 



Art. XII, Short Communications. 

 Mala CUIUS bipunctdtus Babington is not M. rufkollis Pan- 

 zer, (p. 178.) — " Plate 8. fig. 2.", or, as is probably intended, 

 Part 8. No. 2., of Panzer, quoted by Mr. Dale (p. 178.) is 

 Scolytus ae^neus, the Diaperis se^nea of Panzer's Index Ento- 

 mologicus, and of more modern entomological works ; an in- 

 sect of a totally different section of the Coleoptera, of which 

 /ig. 49. fl is a correct outline. Malachius rufficoUis (as Panzer 



Dk ,rv 



spells it). Part 2. No. 10., is correctly copied from his figure 

 in d; and my figure b is a very good representation ofM. 

 bipunctatus described by me in this Magazine (V. 329.). — 

 Charles C. Babington. 



