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observed by Mr. J. Pristo in G-urnet Bay, in 1868, the species lias 

 not, to my Imowledge, been recorded as native in the Island. This 

 month I found it in plenty on the sandy and gravelly shore imme- 

 diately east of Burnt Wood, between Newtown and Thornes Bays. 

 The ground suited for its growth is about 200 yards in length, 

 and throughout this distance the plant flourishes, with every 

 appearance of having occupied the spot for any length of fme ; so 

 that, unless some record exists of the species having been inten- 

 tionally introduced, it must henceforth rank as a native of the 

 Isle of Wififht. — F. Townsend. 



PiMPiNELLA magna IN SussEx. — Tiio earliest and only reliable 

 statement of Piinpinella ma<ina having been found in Sussex is that 

 contained in Turner and Dillwyn's ' Botanists' Guide,' published 

 in 1805, which contains a notice from Mr. Borrer of " a single 

 plant on Silver Hill, near Robertsbridge, which is all I have seen 

 in Sussex." Mr. Hemsley, in his ' Outline Flora of Sussex,' pub- 

 lished in the ' Journal of Botany' for 1875-6, mentions Pimpinella 

 magna from the East Bother district, on the authority of Mr. Borrer ; 

 but there is no specimen in his herbarium now preserved at Kew. 

 The record m Mr. Watson's ' Topographical Botany' of " F.mat/na, 

 Sussex East, Hall Cat.," I have ascertained is an error; Miss Hall 

 having marked this plant, instead of Seseli Lihanotis, almost equally 

 rare, which was found amongst furze-bushes on the downs near 

 Seaford, at a field-meeting of the Eastbourne Natural History 

 Society, in 1873 or 1874. It is therefore seventy-five years since 

 we have any record of Pimjnuella magna as a Sussex plant. I was 

 consequently highly pleased on having some specimens brought 

 me from Jevington at the end of July by Mr. E. Elmore, of Ber- 

 wick, and on visiting the spot on my return from the country 

 at the end of August I found the plant growing in tolerable 

 abundance in a copse at Jevington Shott, about half a mile west 

 of the church. — F. C. S. Roper. 



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OFFICIAL REPORT FOR 1878 OF THE DEPARTMENT 



OF BOTANY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



By William Carruthers, F.R.S. 



The work of incorporating plants in the General Herbarium 

 has been actively carried on during the past year. In its progress 

 the plants belonging to the following Natural Orders have been 

 greatly increased, and more or less completely re-arranged : — 

 MeliacecB, LeijiiminoscB, Loranthacem, AraliacecE, Ritbiacea, Gesneracea, 

 Nepenthacerp,, Smilacem, IlcstiaceiV., Filices, and Fungi. 



The following collections have been either entirely or in part 

 incorporated in the General Herbarium : — The plants collected in 

 Central Africa by Oudney and Clapperton ; of Malaya, collected by 

 Lobb ; of the Samoan Islands, collected by the Rev. S. J. 

 Whitmee ; of Brazil, collected by Warming and others ; of the 



