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spicata, which was detected three years ago at Mayfield and Waldron, 

 in the same rich botanical county, by Mrs. Price. 



Our excellent friend the Rev. Mr. Henslow, Professor of Botany 

 in the University of Cambridge, has been fortunate in meeting with 

 many rare British plants ; and one, that is quite new to the " English 

 Flora,;" and that too in such abundance that it seems surprising 

 it should not yet have found a place in works descriptive of British 

 Plants. I mean the AltJma hirsuta. 



The last (and we regret to say the concluding) Numbers of the New 

 Series * of Flora Londinensis contain two plants, which we little ex- 

 pected would be found in so southern a latitude as Ireland ; Papaver 

 nudicauh, and Ledum palmtre : both of which the eminent Minera- 

 logical Professor, Giesecke of Dublin, detected there, in the north- 

 west corner of the island. In the midland counties of England, 

 Mr. Purton still zealously follows up the study of the Fungi : and 

 Dr. Howitt has ascertained a new station for that most rare and 

 curious of all Mosses, the Schisfostega pennata, as mentioned in the 

 second edition of the Muscologia Britamiica : whilst Mr. Jowet has 

 diligently explored the botanical riches of the environs of Nottingham, 

 and has published an interesting account of them, in a series of letters 

 signed // Rosario, in the Nottingham Journal. 



Scotland too, notwithstanding the numerous discoveries of Dick- 

 son and the elder Don, is still frequently rewarding her sons, as well 

 as the stranger who visits her mountains, with some new productions ; 

 especially among the class Cryptogamia. Greville, Arnott, and 

 Drummond have recently added largely to her Flora ; but chiefly the 

 late lamented Carmichael has enriched the catalogue with many spe- 

 cies, which none but one gifted with his acute eye and his discrimina- 

 ting mind could have detected. Many of these novelties have ap- 

 peared, either in the Flora Scotica, the Flora Londinensis, or the 

 Crijptogamic Flora of Scotland by Dr. Greville f : the rest we trust 

 will soon be described in the new edition of the Flora Scotica, which 



* The New Series of the Flora Londinensis is now concluded, with 216 plates of, 

 mostly, the rare plants of Britain : and the new edition of the Old Series is also 

 completed in three volumes, with 432 plates. 



f This gentleman, we are happy to learn, has made an arrangement with a 

 bookseller for the publication of a work on the Marine Alga: of Britain. 



