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fifteen miles of one another; this Val di Fiemme, Monte Castellazo, 

 the Monte Civita, where I have myself collected it, and the Val Caldiera, 

 near Borgo, east of Trient. — G. C. Churchill. 



SiSYRINCHIUM BeRMUDIANA, L., A NaTIVE IN IRELAND. — Dr. 



Perceval Wright has recently paid a visit to Woodford, Galway, and 

 has satisfied himself that the Sisi/rluc/iinm, which is there abundant 

 over several square miles of country, is a native of the district. There 

 seem, indeed, to be no very good reasons for the suspicion of being 

 an alien which has attached to the plant ; yet Mr. Bentham is the 

 only author on British botany who has considered it a native species 

 (see his ' Handbook,' ed. 2, preface, p. vii. and p. 466). H. C. 

 Watson, in his ' Cybele Britannica ' and ' London Catalogue,' Babing- 

 ton in his ' Manual,' and Boswell Syme in ' English Botany,' all speak 

 doubtfully of its claims to be an Irish native, and Dr. Hooker, in the 

 recently-published ' Students' Flora,' follows the ' London Catalogue,' 

 and brands it as introduced. Even the authors of the ' Cybele Hi- 

 bernica ' are cautious not to speak decidedly on the point, though they 

 quote the opinion of Mr. Lyuam, the original discoverer of the plant, 

 that there is no probability of its cultivation in the neighbourhood. 

 Dr. Wright has promised to give some details in a future number ; 

 the settling of the question in the affirmative would be of importance 

 in relation to the connection between the American and Irish floras. 



LuzuLA ARCUATA IN ABERDEENSHIRE. — At p. 129 of this Vo- 

 lume, in a report of Dr. Buchanan White's paper on the botany of 

 Mamsoul, read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, it is stated 

 that the above-named plant was new to Aberdeenshire. This is not 

 the case; it was collected on that mountain in July, 1836, by the 

 Kev. Dr. Gordon, Mr. Stables, and the late Mr. Anderson, and re- 

 corded in the ' Flora of Moray.' The information was sent to Mr. 

 Watson at the time, and the species is duly entered as a native of the 

 county in the ' Cybele Britannica.' — John Roy. 



Leefe's ' Salictum Exsiccatum.' — The second fasciculus of 

 this set of dried specimens of Willows has been distributed. Its 

 contents are as follows, the specimens being nearly all of them from 

 the author's salicetum at Creswell, near Morpeth, where he now re- 

 sides : — 26. S. Borreriana, Smith; a long-leaved form of S. bicolor, 

 Ehrh. 27. S. acuminata, the true plant of Smith, female flowers 

 and leaf. A handsome plant, clearly known to few, the alliance of 



