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We have also a plate referring to Salix aegyptiaca, giving a re- 

 production of Alpini's " Calaf, et Ban," side by side with a half-tone 

 figure of the Hasselquistian specimen. The longest comment is on 

 this puzzling and doubtful species ; the author says " Index Kewensis 

 identitiziert sie mit * 8. Safsaf Forsk. = 8. suhserrata Willd. Diese 

 Identitizierung ist 'ganz falsch, Linne's Art gehort naralich zur 

 Gruppe Diandrse, Willdenow's zu Pleiandrse." It is difficult after a 

 lapse of twenty-tive years to recall the reasons for a special reduction, 

 but it seems from reviewing the matter, it arose most probably from the 

 hazy statements of Willdenow from Forskal, and Andersson in DC. 

 Prod. xvi. ii. 190, though the latter suggests its identity.with S-iJedicel- 

 lata Desf. which Boissier (Fl. orient, iii. 1190) had already proposed. 



The pamphlet under review is naturally much smaller than the 

 same author's Plant (e Thunhergianod already noticed in this j^ear's 

 Journal of Botang (p. 220), but is a very welcome addition to our 

 knowledge of the botan}^ of the Linnean period. 



From the same volume we have to thank Prof. Tullberg for an 

 extract entitled Linne's Hammarhg, in which is related or summarised 

 the known history of Linne's country house, seven English miles 

 from Uppsala. We have reproductions of plans and maps of different 

 dates, and views without and within, and some of the cherished 

 memorials preserved inside. Catalogues of these are provided — first, 

 that drawn up by Prof. T. M. Fries in 1902, and, second, that of 

 Prof. Tullberg in 1917 ; the latter shows a photograph of the Chinese 

 porcelain tea-set, with the Linncea horealis fired into it, which has 

 so often been mentioned by Linne and his successors. Since the year 

 1878, the estate has been national property, and its maintenance is 

 therefore guaranteed. Prof. Tullberg in the above gives a condensed 

 account of the estate from 1337, from Klingspor och Schlegel, 

 " Uplands Herrgardar," 1878, to the time when Linnaeus bought it, 

 in 17(52, and its occupation till 180G by his widow. An interesting 

 account of a visit to the place by two Swedes in 1834, translated by 

 Loudon from a (xerman version, is printed in his Gardener' s Magazine^ 

 xiv. (1838) 99-101. 



B. D. Jackson. 



THREE IRISH PLANTS. 

 Br THE Editor. 



The following notes, relating to two plan"ts and a name which 

 find mention neither in Cgbele Hihernica nor Irish Topographical 

 Botany, although of little importance, may as well be put on record. 



" JuNcua EFFUSUS SPIRALIS." This curious plant forms the sub- 

 ject of a short paper (with figure) by James M'^N'ab in Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edinb. xi. 502 (1873). It was then in cultivation in the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Garden, where it attracted the attention of the British 

 Association in 1871. Mr. M'-Nab writes: " This remarkable variety 

 was originally found in the North of Ireland by the late David 

 Bishop, while Curator of the Botanic Garden at Belfast. As far as I 

 can recollect, only one plant was discovered, which has been per- 



