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from these three localities cannot be taken into consideration 

 in the present inquiry. The result of the most careful and 

 painstaking scrutiny of specimens from other stations in the 

 district, and comparison with authenticated examples of the 

 two species, is to establish satisfactoril}-, I think, the accuracy 

 of my former conclusions, and in this I may say Mr. Stewart 

 concurs. 



Several of the Galia are known to be ver}^ precocious. 

 G. Aparine, annual though it be, in the first week of January 

 of the present year, was observed with stems six inches long, 

 and G. verum and G. pahistre, in sheltered places, were seen 

 in February. G. Mollugo is also very early. In its North 

 Yorkshire localities, where Mr. Foggitt has had it under close 

 observation for me, he informs me that it was above ground 

 early in January, and he has sent me vStems, some of them 

 fully twelve inches long, gathered in the early part of February 

 of this year. Though it might have been supposed that its 

 near ally, G. erectu77i, might have been looked for about the 

 same time, it is relatively much belated, and, as a matter of 

 . fact, in none of its Yorkshire stations, where m.y friend sought 

 for it, was it visible until the 20th of April, more than three 

 months later than G. Mollugo. It may be of interest to state 

 in this connection the approximate times of the up-springing 

 of our northern plants in those localities of which I have 

 information. At Aghaderg, Co. Down, 30th March (Rev. 

 H. W. Lett) ; Saintfield, Co. Down, 24th April (Rev. C. H. 

 Waddell) ; CuUybackey, Co. Antrim, 21st May (Miss Knowlesj ; 

 Whitewell, Co. Antrim, ist May (Mr. Stewart) ; and Glenmore, 

 Co. Antrim, where the situation is much exposed, 17th May 

 in one patch, and the 24th May in others. The variation in 

 the times of its first showing, in these places, it may be 

 assumed is to be set down to difference in soil and situation. 

 The great disparity in time of the springing up of the two 

 species, which, roughly speaking, is about three to four months, 

 is remarkable, and may be regarded as a distinctive feature not 

 without value. This was unknown to me until after m}'' first 

 notes were written, or it might alone have been suificient to 

 have justified a strong suspicion that our plants were different 

 from G. Mollugo. In the meadow at Glenmore there have been 



