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the lower end of tlie meadow o^DiDosite the farm-house in question, 

 and on our way to the sjDot I noticed, and called Mr. B.'s attention 

 to, this E2iJ)}is, as being one which I could not identify. Mr. 

 Bloxam said that he could not name it, and in fact that it was 

 new to him. We each took specimens, and on his return home 

 Mr. B. wrote me, on Sept. 8, 1876, as follows : — '* I have carefully 

 examined the Eiibm growing near B. Jissus. It seems nearer allied 

 to R. (jlamJulosus, subv. dcntatus, of Babington, p. 249 of his 'Eubi,' 

 than any other Ihihiis that I know. It has the zigzag rachis of the 

 (hmtatiis, but it is much stronger in its armature. This may arise 

 from its growing in an open situation, whereas the plant near 

 Twycross is in a plantation." I next sent a si^ecimen to the Hon. 

 J. L. Warren, with a request for his opinion. In his reply, dated 

 Sept. 10, 1876, he says : — "I fear I cannot help you in regard of 

 the plant you now kindly enclose from Alstonfield. I think very 

 likely (with Mr. Bloxam) that the form is uiidescribed, and I do 

 not know at present any foreign name suitable. If I had to put it 

 under a British one, it would go in my mind, with great doubt, to 

 li.fusco-atcr." After communicating this oi)inion to Mr. Bloxam, 

 he (Mr. B.) wrote thus on Sept. 30, 1876 : — " I can make nothing 

 of the Piiibus at present near you. It is a remarkable form ; the 

 upper part of the rachis is very glandular, but not so on the lower 

 portion or on the barren stem. I have seen hundreds of specimens 

 of \fusco-att'r,' but I feel assured it has nothing to do with that. 

 I shall call it at present li. Piirchasii, unless I can make it out 

 under some continental form or name." I will only add that 

 there is very little of the i^lant, and that last year it was so cut in 

 pruning the hedge that I could get no specimens. I hoi^e to learn 

 more of it hereafter. — W. H. Pukchas. 



ACERAS ANTHROPOPHORA, B)'., IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Thc Only 



reliable habitats for this plant hitherto have been the quarries of 

 Barnack and Southorpe, where it is very abundant. I was pleased 

 to find it, in last i\Iay, on the quarries of Colly weston and Easton 

 veiy plentifully, where it is associated with Arahis hirsuta, Hippo- 

 cirpis .roiiiosa, and Genista tinctoyia. The two latter are new records, 

 and the Arahis is marked ? in ' Topographical Botany.' Colly weston 

 is nearly six miles N.W. from Barnack, and is dramed by the 

 Welland ; Southorpe being in the Neiie system. — G. C. Druce. 



Kottct$5 of ISoofts auU ilttmoivs, 



The Student, s Flora of the British Islands. By Sir J. D. Hooker, 

 K.C.S.I., C.B., &c. Second Edition. London: Macmillan. 

 1878. (Pp. 540.) 



The eight years that have elapsed since the publication of the 

 first edition of this useful Elora, have, so far n,s P>ritisli botany is 

 concerned, been less prolific in close and critical work among our 



