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Cucubulus behen ; Silene rupestris ; Alsine rubra ; Sedum 

 anuum; Sorbus scandica ; Rosa collina; Potentilla norve- 

 gica; Tormentilla recta; Anemone hepatica, A. vernalis; 

 Geranium Bohemicum ; Corydalis bulbosa ; Orobus vermis ; 

 Viciavillosa; Trifoliumagrarium,T. hybridum; Scorzonera 

 humilis; Filago montana ; Neotna repettis ; Calla palustris ; 

 Carex chordorrhiza ; C. leporina ; C. heleonastes C. loliacea ; 

 C. canescens, C. livida; C. globularis; Salix limosa; Blech- 

 num spicant ; Onoclea struthioptens ; Botrychium rutace- 

 um ; Lycopodium inundatum. — (Kongl. Vet. Acad. Hand. 

 1831, 171.) 



Dr. Al Bunge has given a list of about 600 plants collec- 

 ted by him in 1831, principally between the great wall of 

 China and Pekin, in the Petersburg Memoirs (ii. 75.) 

 Among them we observe many new genera and species, and 

 likewise a considerable proportion indigenous to Great 

 Britain, as the Papaver rhaeas ; Chelidonium majus ; Capsella 

 bursa pastoris ; Sisymbrium sophia ; Lepidium ruderale ; 

 Raphanus rhaphanistrum ; Medicago lupulina and sativa; 

 Pisum sativum ; Pyrus malus ; Epilobium hirsutum ; Daucus 

 carota ; Apium petroselinum ; Pyrethrum parthenium ; Cicho- 

 rium intybus ; Hyoscyamus niger ; Solanum nigrum ; Mentha 

 piperita ; Glaux maritima, Sfc. 



Fossil plants in the calcareous green sand of Skania. — Nilsson 

 describes the remains of four dicotyledonous plants in this 

 formation. : — 



1 . Phyllites (Acer? Cretaceum) folio quinquinervi? venoso. 



2. Phyllites (Salix? Wahlbergii) fol oblong vel elliptic 

 integerr, subundatis costati venosis, venis alternis petiolo 

 mediocri. 



3. Phyllites (Almis ? Friesii) fol osubrotundato elliptico ? 

 subcrenato costato, venoso, venis alternis frequentioribus. 



4. Phyllites (Comptonia ? antiqua) folio sinuato venoso, 

 in petiolum fere attenuato, lobis integerrimis Monocotyle- 

 donous. 



5. Cannophyllites septentrionalis fol lanceolat? undato 

 nervis frequentissimis e costa parallele exeuntibus, et an- 

 gulos acutos formantibus. 



6. Cycadites Nilssoni fronde pinnata pinnis 5-6 long lin 

 lanceolat integerrimis marg subrevolutis ? unnervibus 

 canaliculato carinatis e petiolo basi dilatato, oblique unila- 

 teraliter exeuntibus. 



