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seems to vary in habit a good deal. There are two very distinct wall 

 forms, one of which approaches very nearly E. hrachycarpa, Jord., 

 both in its shorter and more spreading pedicels, and also by having 

 shorter pods and fewer seeds than in the usual examples of E. verna. 

 Saxifraga tridactylites is a very common companion of the Erophilu 

 on the tops of the walls. I have had frequent opportunities of 

 noticing its fly-catching propensities by means«f its thick coveiing of 

 gland-tipped hairs.' The same fact has been lately noticed by l[r. G. C. 

 Druce, in a letter to the Pharmaceutical Journal. It is interesting 

 also in this plant to notice the order in which the ten stamens approach 

 the stigmas. The outer row are the first to shed their pollen, and 

 advance one at a time in regular order to touch the stigmas, after 

 which they fall back between the petals, and allow the inner row to 

 come forward in a similar way. Ranimctilus tricJiophylluSj Chaix., is 

 common in some of the ponds about here, but does not seem to have 

 been recorded for East Gloucestershire. — J. F. Duthie. 



I DO not remember seeing any record of the occurrence of Tdra- 

 gonolohiis siliquosus, E-oth., in Britain. It is growing with every ap- 

 pearance of being well established on a grassy strip of land by the side 

 of an arable field belonging to Forest Farm, a very se(j_uestered loca- 

 lity among the Downs, some miles west of Winchester, where, in 

 company with Mr. F. I. Warner and other members of the Win- 

 chester and Hampshire Scientific and Literary Society, I observed it 

 on the 17th of May. The same plant I saw last summer in a similar 

 locality in the Rhone Valley. — Fred. Stratton. [_Lotus {Tetragono- 

 lohus) siliquosus has a very wide Continental range from South Sweden 

 to Rome, from Spain to the Crimea. It grows in Belgium and 

 Holland, and is common near Paris. — jE'^.] 



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OFFICIAL REPORT FOR 1874 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 



BOTANY IK THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Br 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 

 following Natural Orders have been greatly increased, and more or less 

 completely re-arranged : DilleniacecBf MagnoUacece, MenispermacecB^ 

 Berheridecd, Cruciferce, Rutacecs, SapindacecE, Saxifragacece, Cucurbi- 

 tacece, Ruhiacece, Composites, Solanacece, Labiatce, Acanthacece, Scropha- 

 lannecBf Orchidacecc, ZiliacecB, Marantace^, AniargllidacecB, CgperacecBy 

 Graminece, Lycopodiaccce^ Filices, Lichenes, and Fungi. 



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