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found. Pyrola minor, altliough essentially a northern plant, has been 

 found in East Kent, according to Mr. Watson's " Topog. Bot.," and is 

 also recorded from Surrey by Mr. Brewer. Dr. Boswell Syme, in the 

 new edition of "English Botany," states that it is rare in the south 

 of England, but rather common in the north, and in Scotland. Grrenier 

 and Godron, in the "Elore de Prance," report it from the north-west 

 of that country and also from the Alps and Pyrenees, and Mr. Watson, 

 in the ** Cyb. Brit.," records it from Greenland, Iceland, Siberia, and 

 Kamtschatka. It is described as Pyrola rosea in the first edition of 

 " English Botany," t. 2543, and it is probably the P. minor of Ray, 

 Syn., p. 363, edit. 1724. Dr. Greville, in '' Flora Edinensis," reports it 

 from four localities in Scotland, and Allioni, in the " Flora Pidemon- 

 tana," states that it occurs in the Alps of Chamouny, and in several 

 places in the mountains to the north of Lombardy. The distinctive 

 characters of P. media and minor are not very strongly marked, but 

 they appear to differ slightly in the shape of the leaves being more 

 orbicular and in the calyx segments being less broadly ovate in P. 

 media ; whilst the petals are cream-coloured in that species and tinged 

 with pink in P. minor. The chief difference, however, is in the style, 

 which is bent down, much longer than the stamens, slightly exceed- 

 ing the petals and terminating in a stigma with an indistinct blunt- 

 edged, elevated ring, above which are five erect lobes in P. media ; 

 whilst in P. minor the style is not bent down, only slightly exceeds 

 the stamens, is rather shorter than the petals, and has a large peltate 

 five-lobed stigma, and is destitute of any ring. The occurrence of 

 this ring at the base of the stigma is clearly shown in the specimens 

 which I have examined in the Herbarium of the British Museum, 

 though it appears to be ignored in De Candolle's " Prodromus," 

 where both species are described as '''' exannulatoy The discovery of 

 Pyrola minor in this division of Sussex adds another to the rare 

 plants recorded from the district, which already contains Phyteuma 

 spicatum, Sihthorpia europ<2a, Buyleurum a/ristatum, and Seseli Libanotis. 

 It is also remarkable that Solidago canadensis occurs in one spot on 

 the Downs far removed from any habitation, whilst Rapistrum rugosum 

 grows on the shingle beach, at some distance from the town, and I 

 have lately had a specimen of Limnanthes Douglasii brought me from 

 a road-side ditch between Hurstmonceux and Ashburnham. — F. C. 



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FLORA OF THE FAROE ISLANDS. 



This list is extracted from an extensive paper by E. Rostrup, in the 

 Danish " Botanisk Tidsskrift," for 1870 (vol. iv., pp. 5—109). The 

 author, in company with C. A. Feilberg, spent the summer of 1867 in 

 the group for the most part in the islands of Stromoe and Syderoe, 

 whence excursions were made to all the others, none even of the 

 smaller islets being omitted. The inquiry was undertaken under the 

 auspices of the Botanical Society of Copenhagen. 



