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British bees in general, " Amongst the early-blooming flowers most in 

 request with the bees, and which therefore seem to be great favourites, 

 we find the Chickweed, the Primrose, aud the catkins of the Sallow." 

 (Brit. Bees, p. 14.) — T. K. Archer Briggs. 



Du. Bromfield's Herbarium. — At p. 88 of this volume I have 

 stated that there are two herbaria, collected by the late Dr. Bromfield, 

 in existence, one being at Kew. I find, however, that this herbarium 

 is not preserved there as a distinct collection. There appears to be 

 a considerable number of Dr. Bromfield's specimens laid into the 

 general collection, but the vast extent of the latter practically precludes 

 their examination. The only herbarium of British plants at Kew is 

 that of the late Mr. Borrer, which was left upon the condition that 

 it should remain intact. — Fbed. Stratton. 



Bromus serotinus, Beneken. — In the i-eport of the Botanical Ex- 

 change Club for 1867 (Journ. of Bot. Vol. VI. p. 71), it is stated that 

 Herr von Nechtritz, of Breslaii, recognized specimens of "-8. asper,'^ 

 from Derbyshire, as this plant, and that plants from North Yorkshire 

 must be referred to the same subspecies. It appears that B. serotinus 

 is the plant usually called B. asper by British botanists, and that the 

 restricted B. asper is a plant of great rarity in this country ; indeed, 

 the only English specimen of typical B. asper I have seen, is one in 

 Sowerby's herbarium at the British Museum, collected at Camberwell, 

 Surrey, where it may perhaps have been an introduction. A paper on 

 the synonymy and characters of these plants will shortly appear in this 

 Journal. — Henry Trimen. 



Callitriche truncata. — A slight error in my paper on this 

 plant (p. 155) requires correction. Dr. Hegelmaier has seen the 

 species from only one locality in Algeria ; — Bona, where it was collected 

 by Steinheil. — Henry Trimen. 



Botanical Terms. — As improvements in botanical terminology 

 appear to me by no means unimportant, I suggest the following : 

 — The old terms ' monosepalous ' and ' monopetalous,' as applied to 

 a calyx and corolla, the parts of which are more or less united at 

 the base, are now generally discarded in favour of ' gamosepalous ' and 

 ' gamopetalous,' under the impression, I presume, that the former convey 

 to the mind an incorrect idea. The new terms have, however, always 

 seemed to me almost as objectionable ; inasmuch as the prefix ' gamo- ' 

 implies, etymologically, a sexual union. At the same time, the terms 



